Some music is ambient from the bottom up, built from the barest of musical gestures, and the gentlest of interventions; For All We Know sounds as though it was huge and epic, and then everything fell away until we were left with this core of emotional abjection. The music pulses like the sea-swell of a distant storm, felt across a vast ocean; the rain, the wind, the thunder and lightning are all vanished and forgotten, but this immersive, immensely powerful movement remains. The music uses glimmering synth pads, glitchy drones, piano, subterranean bass, concrete elements, dolorous strings, and on one occasion it lurches into a rhythm of wide beats and howling guitar chords. Its atmospheres are beautifully gloomy, but it’s far from one-dimensional, and there’s a good deal of light and shade to it; the production is both inventive and painstaking, with a good sense of the balance between allowing each idea the space to breathe, and moving on before its meanings are over-determined. This is calm music, but too rigorous to be completely comfortable, or easy listening; instead it demands that its listeners find their own beauty in its deep and stirring aesthetic landscape. Wonderful stuff.- Oliver Arditiwww.oliverarditi.com