Empty City

by Tor Lundvall

Empty City cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 2006
  • Label: Strange Fortune
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 55:47
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utilizing synthesizer textures to paint a vivid picture of urban desolation, 'Empty City' is a masterclass in isolating dark ambient. Tor Lundvall captures the cold, mechanical hum of a metropolis devoid of human life during the quietest hours of the night. It is highly regarded for its subtle, immersive, and deeply melancholic tone.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, ambient, droning, bleak, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Scrap Yard (3:55)
  2. Platform #3 (3:12)
  3. Running Late (3:10)
  4. Night Work (2:30)
  5. Early Hours (3:53)
  6. Grey Water (4:05)
  7. Buildings and Rain (2:58)
  8. Wires (3:03)
  9. Empty City (2:58)
  10. Open Window (3:51)
  11. 2: 00 Am (3:26)
  12. Clearing Sky (2:55)
  13. Machinery (3:47)
  14. Sunset (3:53)
  15. Scrap Yard (String Version) (4:09)
  16. Early Hours (Vocal Version) (3:53)

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