Composer Harold Budd always resented the term "ambient," with which his music had been saddled since his pioneering collaborations in late 70s and early 80s with Brian Eno. One can imagine the thoughtful, genial Budd being positively exasperated with the even more niche tag "dark ambient." And yet, Budd's haunting and uncharacteristically bleak 1984 album Abandoned Cities was dark ambient before the term existed. One of the lesser-known works in Budd's discography, its synthesizer drones and blighted landscapes seem to speak prophetically to the crisis of our present moment . . .
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