Pop Ambient 2011 [coll] – [Kompakt Schallplatten]

humana   2/26/2011   12-inch, A Library

The songs on this album are as soothing and lovely as the rose depicted on the album sleeve, right down to the pastel pink of the petals and soft green of the leaves. Starting with ANBB and ending with Jens-Uwe Beyer (although the enclosed CD has an added track by Thomas Fehlmann), this offering is a wash of ambient calm, soothing like a space-age ocean. We should expect nothing less from Kompakt. Indeed, BVDub has it right with its apt song title: ???Make the Pain Go Away.??? That???s just what this album does.