Album Reviews

With UTQC, it's clear that Ellison wasn't intent simply building upon what he'd achieved with Cosmogramma. No, he dialed things back to zero, bringing with him what he'd learned and built from that period, instead. Ellison has turned to the sounds of pop, soul, fusion, and psychedelia from the 1960s and '70s for inspiration and re-contextualized them within a framework that has little to do with beat music anymore.

Four years, seventeen releases. Such is the life of an ambient musician. You know the ones who release...