Harmony / Balance – Ibukun Sunday (2024) – Album Review

Album: Harmony / Balance

Artist: Ibukun Sunday

Release Date: September 20, 2024

One of the enduring qualities of ambient music is its ability to remain timeless; you can always dust off an ambient album and feel that pulse – that feeling. It’s resistant to time. Ambient music comes in many configurations, but once you hear you that sound – that particular and peculiar sound – it functions less as a fixed genre and more as a set of dialects, each carrying its own vocabulary while still speaking to a shared emotional language.

It’s that feeling of grief or sorrow – a sense of unresolved presence. It’s music like this that reminds you that grief is just love that has no where to go. I believe that love is in music like this. Ibukun Sunday has tapped into that grief with this beautiful album. It’s one part melancholy and two parts wonder. The music becomes a vessel for emotions that linger without clear resolution, turning absence into sound. It’s a fragile tension and it acknowledges melancholy without fully succumbing to it.

The result is a listening experience that feels simultaneously inward-looking and expansive. Sunday’s marvelous contribution reaffirms one’s unique power to hold difficult emotions with dignity, while also reminding us that withing grief lies the echo of love.

A beautiful album. Would absolutely recommend it.