Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes
Vast subterranean sub-bass rumbles, glacial tape loops, and bottomless deep-ocean silence.
Essential & sibling bands
Bands that share this sound. Each one opens a search on Spotify or YouTube.
- Tim HeckerSpotify search for Tim HeckerYouTube search for Tim Hecker
- Stars of the LidSpotify search for Stars of the LidYouTube search for Stars of the Lid
- William BasinskiSpotify search for William BasinskiYouTube search for William Basinski
- GrouperSpotify search for GrouperYouTube search for Grouper
- LoscilSpotify search for LoscilYouTube search for Loscil
- Mary LattimoreSpotify search for Mary LattimoreYouTube search for Mary Lattimore
- Geinoh YamashirogumiSpotify search for Geinoh YamashirogumiYouTube search for Geinoh Yamashirogumi
Species in this vibe
American Black Bear
A bear whose sense of smell is about seven times stronger than a bloodhound's.
Andean Condor
The world's heaviest soaring bird: tracked condors flapped for just 1% of their flight time.
Antarctic Icefish
A Southern Ocean fish with no working red blood cells, whose nearly clear blood carries oxygen dissolved in plasma, along with its own antifreeze.
Antarctic Krill
A crustacean about 6 centimeters long, so abundant it can turn the sea reddish-brown, that most larger Antarctic animals depend on, directly or indirectly.
Arctic Fox
Feet kept just above the point where living tissue freezes, a coat color set by one gene, and satellite-tracked treks of up to 40 kilometers to hotspots on the sea ice.
Australasian Ghost Shark
The deep-sea chimaera described from New Zealand seamounts with glowing tapetum eyes and tooth-crushing plates.
Australian Lungfish
An air-breathing fish with a single lung, a body that still resembles fossils over 100 million years old, and a genome known to be the largest of any animal.
Barn Owl
A heart-faced hunter that is completely silent on the wing and, in tests, found prey in total darkness by sound alone with an error of under one degree.
Barramundi
A fish that mostly matures as a male and switches to female as it grows, on its way to a maximum length of 200 cm.
Bobcat
A spotted, short-tailed stalker that steps its back feet into its front-foot prints to cut the noise of the hunt.
Calanus Copepod
A small North Atlantic copepod whose oil sac fuels a winter sleep in deep water.
Common Earwig
The garden insect whose mother grooms her eggs like a hen and may go as long as 7 months without feeding.
Common Frog
The frog that lives as far north as the Arctic Circle and sits out winter under rocks or buried in pond mud.
Common Starfish
A headless starfish that pries open mussels with its suction feet, then pushes its stomach inside the shell to digest them.
Dumbo Octopus
Ear-like flapping fins, webbed umbrella arms, and among the deepest-living of all known octopuses, some living as deep as 7,000 meters (23,000 feet).
European Eel
A river fish thought to spawn only in the Sargasso Sea, after a 5,000 to 10,000 km migration, though its spawning has never been observed.
Fisher
A fox-sized relative of weasels that climbs trees, hunts porcupines and whose females spend almost all of their adult lives pregnant or nursing.
Giant Clam
The largest living bivalve gets most of its nutrients from algae living in its flesh.
Giant Huntsman Spider
A spider found in caves in Laos, with a leg span of up to 30 cm.
Giant Oarfish
A silver ribbon reliably documented to 8 meters, with a red dorsal fin along its whole length, seen swimming upright in the open ocean.
Glass Frog
See-through belly skin that shows off a beating heart, green bones, and a liver that can hide most of the frog's red blood cells.
Goblin Shark
A deep-sea shark with slingshot jaws and skin that looks pink because blood vessels show through it.
Greenland Shark
The longest-lived vertebrate known to science, growing under a centimeter a year, with females not sexually mature until at least 156 years old, give or take 22.
Hydra
A small freshwater polyp whose death rate in lab studies stayed flat as it got older.
Japanese Giant Salamander
Up to five feet of living river boulder that breathes through its skin, hunts by smell and vibration, and gives off a peppery smell when stressed.
Lion's Mane Jellyfish
Often called the world's longest jellyfish, with tentacles speculated to trail up to 120 feet through Arctic and temperate seas.
Potto
A slow, silent nocturnal primate that can hold still on a branch for long periods without fatigue, and presents predators with a shield of elongated neck-vertebra spines.
Three-Toed Sloth
A slow-metabolism canopy dweller whose fur hosts its own community of moths and algae.