Bleep

First impressions will find a listener struggling to place Air Space Ark’s All Rivers Lead in a subcategory of contemporary ambient, but the truth is more complicated than that. Just as all rivers eventually arrive at the ocean, each individual strain of All Rivers Lead are individually divergent — ambient, lo-fi hip hop instrumental, downtempo — the destination is always blissful to the utmost. Calm waters are dispersed by rhythmic choppiness, an unseen horn sounds, but the whole of All Rivers Leads is bigger than the sum of its parts.