Two Acorns Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Even by the standards of ambient artists, Celer AKA Will Long is insanely prolific. It's why he's already been the subject of one must-have box set (Smalltown Supersound's five-disc "Memory Repetitions"), and can easily make his new album, "Future Predictions", a sprawling, four-disc affair. As those familiar with his work will attest, few are capable of crafting works of such stunningly swelling beauty. All four extended pieces here - all of which were created by layering tapes loops of instruments to give the effect of a live ensemble, with added processed field recordings and sound effects - are breath-taking, delivering the kind of emotive, immersive ambience that provides a meditative distraction from the stresses of everyday life.

Review: Ambient legend Celer tops up his repertoire of simple-artworked, endlessly-unfurling LPs with a new floorer, It Would Be Giving Up. Reminiscent of some of the material heard on his standout album - and probably the introductory album for most - Xie Xie, but extending the same looping tropes to surreally long timescales (closer 'An Evening, Elsewhere' lasts for 45 minutes), the overtone is lachrymose and gargantuan, evocative of gazing out over huge sublime mountainscapes and/or peaks scaled as salves for grief.