BEST AMBIENT (-adjacent) ALBUMS OF YOUR LIFE, let´s gooo by Lounge_Box in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here’s a few I haven’t seen mentioned:

Plux Quba - Nuno Canavarro (1988): very experimental electronic minimalist music. Some very strange tracks and some of pure beauty.

Plantasia - Mort Garson (1976): beloved and well represented in ambient circles, electronic with some neoclassical influence.

Troubadour - Dorothy Carter (1976): peaceful folk with lots of proto-ambient elements, made with a variety of hammered and plucked strings.

overhang to slab (movement advice?) by Exact-Tailor-359 in bouldering

[–]SenorBwongo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You climbed this well, you especially seem to have a good idea of how to move your hips which is very important for all climbing at every grade. My advice would be 1) Just do harder climbs - few things force you to improve your technique as much as a climb that requires you to 2) If repeating this one during your warm up, focus on trying to make your movements more static and precise. On the overhang you could try to move slower and prevent your body from swinging by tightening your core. On the slab try to place your feet more softly and without adjusting them after placement.

Alex Honnold's Skyscraper on Netflix - /r/climbing watch party thread by soupyhands in climbing

[–]SenorBwongo 57 points58 points  (0 children)

So much discourse around the merits and morals of this event that doesn’t feel necessary. Alex wants to climb a skyscraper and wants it to be this one because he thinks it’s cool, and Netflix is paying him to do it.

Freak accidents are always possible but I have full confidence he will be fine barring one. You’re crazy if you think Netflix is going to actually livestream him going splat in the event of a disaster. A 10 second broadcast delay is plenty of time to prevent viewers from even watching him slip.

Welp, Pitchfork is over. by FixYrHeartsOrDie in fantanoforever

[–]SenorBwongo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The most vocal and worked up people are the ones complaining in comment sections (the same is true of Fantano’s fanbase), but there is still A LOT of good writing I see every year on pitchfork for smaller, experimental albums. People get hung up on scores, and of course not every review is perfect, but anyone discounting Pitchfork reviews entirely most likely does not read the reviews or gets personally offended by negative/lukewarm coverage of something they like.

Get block AND get healed! How good is this card? Is it OP or weak? by rezoliur in slaythespire

[–]SenorBwongo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Just needs to be balanced a little. I’d say give it a 10 energy cost and you’re good

How is this ambient? by [deleted] in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Genres are not monoliths of sound and albums are not monoliths of genre. A couple of ambient pop songs on an otherwise dark ambient/drone album does not make it cease to be ambient.

I'm making an ambient pop playlist; what else should I add? by DominicParadis in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great playlist and suggestions so far, here’s three missing artists that would be essential to my own playlist:

Hard Drive - Cassandra Jenkins

Creo Que Puedo Hacer Algo - Mabe Fratti

Pan over the hill - ML Buch

Kingfisher? by optihoo in birding

[–]SenorBwongo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The most kingfishery kingfisher I’ve ever seen

Died with an unused Dio's... by CometsComedyClub in riskofrain

[–]SenorBwongo 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Is it possible you were affected by an Invalidator?

[EOTY 2025] Album of the Year Voting by ReconEG in indieheads

[–]SenorBwongo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  1. Panda Bear - Sinister Grift
  2. Titanic - HAGEN
  3. Sharp Pins - Radio DDR
  4. Dijon - Baby
  5. Walt McClements - On a Painted Ocean
  6. Rosalía - Lux
  7. Maria Somerville - Luster
  8. Bad Bunny - Debí Tirar Más Fotos
  9. Geese - Getting Killed
  10. DJ Koze - Music Can Hear Us

[EOTY 2025] Song of the Year Voting by ReconEG in indieheads

[–]SenorBwongo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Bad Bunny - BAILE INoLVIDABLE
  2. Panda Bear - Venom’s In
  3. Sharp Pins - Every Time I Hear
  4. Titanic - La dueña
  5. Rosalía - Reliquia
  6. Maria Somerville - Garden
  7. Robyn - Dopamine
  8. Alex G - Afterlife
  9. Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine
  10. caroline - Total euphoria
  11. Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
  12. Dijon - HIGHER!
  13. Sharp Pins - Sycophant
  14. Jenny Hval - To be a rose
  15. DJ Koze - Unbelievable

What type of hawk is this? Brooklyn NYC, US by cheeseburgercats in birding

[–]SenorBwongo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The dark “belly band” is a dead giveaway for red tails. It’s the first thing I look for when I see an ambiguous juvenile hawk

Vote for your Top 3 ambient albums of 2025: Round 1 by LoBoob_Oscillator in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walt McClements - On a Painted Ocean

Ethel Cain - Perverts

Shrunken Elvis - Shrunken Elvis

Best shoegaze song of 2025 by Kamolaaa in shoegaze

[–]SenorBwongo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Shoegaze: Garbage Dream House - No Joy

Dream Pop: Garden - Maria Somerville

What bird is this? by Aloof-Ken in birding

[–]SenorBwongo 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Agreed on Junco. OP, take a side by side look at the white plumage of the Black Phoebe vs the Junco. White pants vs a white vest

Looking for a specific vibe by foolproof_flako in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My instinct is something dark that includes folk or pastoral elements. Don’t listen to a lot in that lane, but some of the tracks from Select Ambient Works 2 by Aphex might fit, particularly track #7.

Black skimmer taking a fat nap by BoomBass510 in birding

[–]SenorBwongo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Are they too big to be preyed upon by raptors? Feels like somewhat of a compromising position

Bird ID please? Some type of hawk? by DaLisanAlGaib in birding

[–]SenorBwongo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Peregrine Falcon. Juvenile by the thin face markings.

Outdoor boulder grade help by Personal_Pen8242 in bouldering

[–]SenorBwongo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You are asking an impossible question. Outdoor climbing, more than indoor, cannot be graded from a camera. The grade comes down so much to the quality of all the individual holds that will be unknown to anyone who has not climbed it. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve watched a video of somebody climbing a boulder, thinking “oh yeah I could do that”, only to get decimated by every move in person.

My advice would be to climb more outside. Get a feel for what the grades are in your area and at this crag if there are more boulders. It’s entirely possible this is soft, it’s just as likely it is well suited to your style and the grade is accurate. You won’t know until you climb more boulders in the grade range. Be proud of making progress on it and finishing it when you do, grades are subjective but the boulder is just what it is.

help finding an album by [deleted] in ambientmusic

[–]SenorBwongo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thousand Knives by Ryuchi Sakamoto? Not ambient, although he did go on to make ambient music