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 it a feeling of grief or sorrow and a kind of unresolved presence. It’s music like this that reminds all of us 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.

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

A beautiful album. Would absolutely recommend it.