Building Bubblegum Castles in the Sky: Critical Ambient Pop

By Jim Allen

You're soaking in it: the dreamy, drifting-in-the-stratosphere sound of ambient pop, where heavenly musical murmurs are matched with a sugar-coated pop sensibility for maximum bliss-out potential.

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Flying Saucer Attack Red Beach Lullaby
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Building Bubblegum Castles in the Sky: Critical Ambient Pop

High Places

A Sunny Day In Glasgow

The Depreciation Guild

School of Seven Bells

Air

Blind Man's Colour

Caribou

Album Leaf

M83

Brian Eno

Flying Saucer Attack

Sigur Ros

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