![]() ![]() Okay, so this is stretching the definition of “ambient,” but it’s still about the furthest thing from a toe-tapper as you can get. A horror movie soundtrack without visuals, Excavation might be the only album that requires a nightlight to make it through with your soul intact.ĭifficulty Level: Riding a rollercoaster and realizing the screws on your shoulder harness are loose as you’re about to go down the hill. From its opening seconds, the album is creepier than a sleepover in a crypt, and wastes no time plummeting the listener into a harrowing thrill-ride filled to the brim with eerie soundscapes and psychoacoustic skullduggery. Personally, if the afterlife sounds like anything like Excavation, I want nothing to do with it. This 2013 album from electronic maestro and Bjork-collaborator Haxan Cloak (aka Bobby Krlic) is supposedly a concept record about an individual’s journey through the afterlife. If you can make it through all two-and-a-half (!!!) hours of this thing in one go, you may want to seriously reevaluate your life.ĭifficulty Level: Popping two Nyquil and trying to fall asleep while listening to The Beatles’ “ Revolution 9” on repeat. In the age of Spotify, though, the scariest thing about it might be its runtime. James was heavily inspired by his lucid dreams while making the album, because god knows what someone who looks like this must dream about. Don’t be fooled by serene cuts like “Rhubarb” or “Blue Calx,” listening to SAW II mostly feels like dropping acid and running through a hall of funhouse mirrors, and not in a good way. Rightly hailed as a genre landmark, the grand poobah of modern ambient music is less-frequently remembered for also being creepy as shit. Bonus spook: the album’s spoken-word centerpiece is a combination time-paradox sci-fi poem/political manifesto that seems like it was written by the type of guy who complains that Gravity’s Rainbow is “too accessible.” Yikes!ĭifficulty Level: Sitting patiently as your TA explains his entire thesis to you in minute detail. Music for the Quiet Hour is, in fact, a single enormous composition that sees the British producer deftly weaving through a labyrinth of weirdo sound design, with his nimble programming often sounding like a zombie version of the Cantina band from Star Wars. ![]() ![]() You’d be hard-pressed to find a Shackleton release that wouldn’t qualify for this list, but this 2012 offering is his most spine-chilling work by far. Enough said.ĭifficulty Level: Reading one too many Creepypasta’s while waiting on your own for the bus. Remember Salad Fingers? Y’know, from 2007? Those videos were littered with Geogaddi snippets. Don’t miss the part where a guy recites a Satanic incantation as a woman screams in the background - in reverse! If this album had come out during the Satanic Panic, you bet your sweet bippy that Tipper Gore would have flipped her lid. For an hour, the Scottish IDM duo drag the listener through an eerie dream world filled with disembodied voices, Russian number stations, and subliminal occult references. Enjoy!ĭon’t let the sunny cover art, and downtempo vibes fool you, Geogaddi is pure menace. If you make it to the bottom of this thing, you’re a certified trooper. As a courtesy to the faint-hearted, this list is scaled according to difficulty, from easiest to hardest. ![]() But fear not (or do), The Gateway is here to ensure your Halloween naptime is sufficiently spooked out with this collection of creepy ambient albums guaranteed to give you the chills while you chill out. This means that on the day itself, you’re more likely to be holed up in bed trying to recover from exam stress than going out and painting the town red. This year, Halloween has the misfortune of falling on that most bummer of days: Monday. ![]()
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