Amulets’ new album,
Blooming, is both the product and the beneficiary of a recent bull market for ambient music. After COVID-19 forced everyone’s lives into a holding pattern for months on end, lots of people emerged from quarantine with a newfound appreciation for music that finds beauty and truth in stasis. As if to match this, 2020 also saw an impressive crop of quality releases from nearly every facet of the genre, from
Youth Lagoon frontman
Trevor Powers using his own health problems as a jumping-off point for an album of formless, alien fever dreams to
Tomer Baruch finding viral success combining modular bleeps and bloops with nature documentary footage in