#22 Top Releases in Downtempo

Blue Ringed Baby & Kami unveil their debut album Forever Chemicals, arriving via London imprint Goddezz. The record made up of nine original tracks, accompanied by three remixes, marks the culmination of a year spent building an ethereal sonic vision through their single releases Endless Brainspill, Salt Eyes and molten / CPU Maxxing. The sound of Forever Chemicals is tender, intimate and liberating, carrying a lasting emotional resonance. The album drifts between ambient jungle, trip-hop, art-pop and shoegaze, merging these forms into something luminous and fluid. There is a sense of purity and gentle catharsis that flows through each piece like waves of memory. Kamis soothing, enchanting vocals rise over Blue Ringed Babys playful, organic production, forming an eternal dialogue between voice and rhythm. Together they conjure a sound that feels weightless, suspended between fragility and the eternal. Remixes from pioneering and genre-defining artists Placid Angles (John Beltran), Stone, and Love Spirals Downwards expand this world even further. Each artist reimagines the duos sound through their own lens: Placid Angles channels the deep, emotional pulse of early ambient jungle; Stone reinterprets the duos dreamscapes into balearic trip-hop bliss; and Love Spirals Downwards brings a lounge-inspired and ethereal sensibility that shaped the 90s ambient electronica era. Their presence weaves a lineage between generations of sound explorers, bridging past and present through shared textures of nostalgia and reinvention. In an era of overstimulation and algorithmic noise, Forever Chemicals offers a rare refuge: a space to drift, daydream and float forever. Through its glowing soundscapes and celestial intimacy, the album completes a vision of renewal and one that celebrates vulnerability as strength, and stillness as transcendence.

Kami, Blue Ringed Baby, bbsanii

#86 Top Releases in Electronica

Blue Ringed Baby & Kami unveil their debut album Forever Chemicals, arriving via London imprint Goddezz. The record made up of nine original tracks, accompanied by three remixes, marks the culmination of a year spent building an ethereal sonic vision through their single releases Endless Brainspill, Salt Eyes and molten / CPU Maxxing. The sound of Forever Chemicals is tender, intimate and liberating, carrying a lasting emotional resonance. The album drifts between ambient jungle, trip-hop, art-pop and shoegaze, merging these forms into something luminous and fluid. There is a sense of purity and gentle catharsis that flows through each piece like waves of memory. Kamis soothing, enchanting vocals rise over Blue Ringed Babys playful, organic production, forming an eternal dialogue between voice and rhythm. Together they conjure a sound that feels weightless, suspended between fragility and the eternal. Remixes from pioneering and genre-defining artists Placid Angles (John Beltran), Stone, and Love Spirals Downwards expand this world even further. Each artist reimagines the duos sound through their own lens: Placid Angles channels the deep, emotional pulse of early ambient jungle; Stone reinterprets the duos dreamscapes into balearic trip-hop bliss; and Love Spirals Downwards brings a lounge-inspired and ethereal sensibility that shaped the 90s ambient electronica era. Their presence weaves a lineage between generations of sound explorers, bridging past and present through shared textures of nostalgia and reinvention. In an era of overstimulation and algorithmic noise, Forever Chemicals offers a rare refuge: a space to drift, daydream and float forever. Through its glowing soundscapes and celestial intimacy, the album completes a vision of renewal and one that celebrates vulnerability as strength, and stillness as transcendence.

Kami, Blue Ringed Baby, bbsanii