Songs

After resisting the band Animal Collective based on some reviews, I have to take back what I thought--they have an interesting, chaotic ambient sound. Try 'Visiting Friends' or 'The Softest Voice'. I love the idea of playing them on the sound system while driving cross country on a meandering trip.

A lot of ambient music reminds me of the first Silent Hill video game. It had a great ambiguous, eerie backdrop of sound/noise. The tv show Hannibal's composer Brian Reitzell writes great music in this vein--like his 'Wendigo Quintet'.

Though the soundtrack/score of the 2006 Peter Mayle's book-based film A Good Year was more upbeat and French, there are some parts with slow, rainy music.