Editing Ambient music (section)

=== Ambient pop ===
Ambient pop is a style that developed in the 1980s and 1990s contemporaneously with [[post-rock]]; it has also been regarded as an extension of the [[dream pop]] movement and the atmospheric style of [[shoegaze]]. It incorporates structures that are common to [[Indie rock|indie music]], but extensively explores "electronic textures and atmospheres that mirror the hypnotic, meditative qualities of ambient music", which is also central to [[Electronic music#Indie electronic|indie electronic]] music.<ref name="allmusic-ambientpop">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/style/ambient-pop-ma0000012263| title= Ambient Pop | work=[[AllMusic]] | access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref> Ambient pop utilizes the musical experimentation of [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]] and the repetitive traits of [[Minimal music|minimalism]], [[krautrock]] and [[techno]] as prevalent influences. Despite being an extension of dream pop, it is distinguished by its adoption of "contemporary electronic idioms, including [[Sampling (music)|sampling]], although for the most part live instruments continue to define the sound."<ref name="allmusic-ambientpop"/>

[[David Bowie]]'s ''[[Berlin Trilogy]]'' with ambient music pioneer [[Brian Eno]], both of whom were inspired during the production of the albums in the trilogy by German ''kosmische Musik'' bands and minimalist composers,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-invention-of-ambient-music| title=The Invention of Ambient Music| magazine=[[The New Yorker]] | last=Abramovich | first=Alex | date= 20 January 2016 | access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref> was regarded as influential on ambient pop. The track "Red Sails" from the trilogy's third album, ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]'' (1979), was retroactively described as a "piece of ambient-pop" by the music journalist David Buckley in ''David Bowie: The Music and The Changes'', as it prominently incorporates a [[motorik]] drum rhythm, electronically processed guitars and a simplistic melody.<ref>{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=David|title=David Bowie: The Music and The Changes|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|year=2015|isbn=9781783236176|page=60}}</ref>

Dream pop band [[Slowdive]]'s 1995 album ''[[Pygmalion (album)|Pygmalion]]'' was a major departure from the band's usual sound, heavily incorporating elements of ambient [[electronica]] and psychedelia with hypnotic, repetitive rhythms,<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/pygmalion-mw0000887091 |title=Pygmalion – Slowdive |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=10 July 2017 |last=Abebe |first=Nitsuh}}</ref> influencing many ambient pop bands and subsequently being regarded as a landmark album in the genre;<ref>{{cite web| url=http://spectrumculture.com/2015/08/06/holy-hell-pygmalion-turns-20/ | title=Holy Hell! Pygmalion Turns 20 | work=Spectrum Culture | author=Korber, Kevin | date=6 August 2015 |access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref> [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] critic Nitsuh Abebe described the album's songs as "ambient pop dreams that have more in common with post-rock [bands] like [[Disco Inferno (band)|Disco Inferno]] than shoegazers like [[Ride (band)|Ride]]".<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11841-just-for-a-day-souvlaki-pygmalion |title=Slowdive: Just for a Day / Souvlaki / Pygmalion |publisher=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=28 November 2005 |access-date=10 July 2017|last=Abebe |first=Nitsuh}}</ref> The genre continued to stylistically progress in the 2000s with bands including [[Sweet Trip]], [[Múm]], [[Broadcast (band)|Broadcast]], [[Dntel]] and his project [[the Postal Service]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Indie Electronic Music Genre Overview |url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/indie-electronic-ma0000012275 |website=AllMusic |access-date=9 September 2023}}</ref>