released February 24, 2023

''...a somber and vaguely apocalyptic vision of a dark and desolate world. The music moves like a thick slow-moving fog that gradually envelopes the lost lonely wanderer who finds themself far away in a strange and isolated place. The solemn majesty of these songs penetrate deeply and invoke feelings that often go unchecked, and linger long after the final notes have faded into a misty oblivion...
A beautifully haunting and deeply immersive album from an artist who never disappoints.'' - Fog Songs

''...the feeling of being wrapped in a desolate landscape surrounded by nothing but your thoughts comes to mind.
With this album, you can expand beyond the borders of your individual and ultimately celebrate the potential harmony of inner darkness. And the moment when you experience a painful plight when your world is broken apart, and if it seems that there is no more hope, “Ghost Town Burning” will comfort you, will be a beacon of light guiding you through your suffering...
One of the strongest and most honest albums I’ve ever listened to'' - CVLTARTES

''...a surreal album of wildly deep and subtly nuanced dark ambient music.
An auditory sedative, this music sneaks up on you like an odourless gas, unsuspectingly whacking you into a stupor...the uncomplicated listen demands little from the listener yet rewards them with unequivocally gentle music.
Gentle, but not harmless. There's an ominous core to these searching pieces. They mimic heaven and hell with ethereal environments permeated by cloudy darkness.
Murray imbues his recordings with a spiritual earthiness that feels like old souls embalmed in the bog, howling out music into an empty landscape.'' - No Transmission

''...Though 'Ghost Town Burning' is a downbeat ambient experience, it is a deep sorrow that has had years to fester. That spectral horror that one may feel at the site of some great tragedy that happened centuries ago. The Lonely Bell works heartbreak, grief and loneliness into the very air that surrounds the listener. The resultant feeling is one of shock and concern, but not of action or immediate emotion. Instead, the listener is left to explore ruins as gossamer figures and flames seem to fill the heavy air.'' - Listen Corp

''...spectral and distant drone passages that lay like a haunting fog over anything that could be identifiable...
There's this constant feeling of remoteness and intangibility, hands feeling their way through the darkness or eyes roaming the twilight for signs of life and home.'' - HearFeel

''...the two 20-minute pieces breathe the same beautiful desolation. It may be dark and ‘unheimisch’ (uncanny), yet it’s a pleasure to dwell around in it and discover its barely hidden structures. It’s a comforting kind of darkness.'' - Ambientblog

''...these sounds which feel like ghosts trying to break through. Everything is so calm and hypnotizing that it's difficult not to hear these sounds coming through. It really feels like there are these spirits trapped back there and the longer you listen the more you feel like they could be set free.'' - Raised By Cassettes

''...a human surrounded and awed by the ancient endurance and strength of the natural world: sprawling mountain ranges, snow-capped and freezing, unwilling to suffer the noise of anything but their own eternally immovable silence...Someone lost in a landscape of staggering grandeur'' - Heresiarch Reviews

''...beautiful, bewitching...gloomy and austere, Ghost Town Burning can’t help but pull the listener into its sighing void.'' - Avant Music News

''...a dark yet somehow comforting cloud of sound, the tension of a approaching storm tinged with both anxiety and excitement...'' - Terrascope

"...veiled in thick ambient fogs, beautifully desolate, in which mysterious echoes of the vastness tremble like deep pain. There is comfort in the unfolding waves.
Music as incantation, evocation, excavation, catharsis… that draws one into deeper states of attention, feeling, and potential, where spirits are most alive." - Luminous Dash

''...two twenty minute pieces of dark, dense intrigue. Hypnotic, bewitching, inviting, reassuring, cathartic maybe? Rather beautiful in a darkly positive kind of way. Music that doesn’t really need words.'' - Organ Thing

''...beautiful stuff, just wonderful...'' - Kate Bosworth, Dark Train (radio)

''...music on a slow drift...music slowing down time.'' - Vital Weekly

''...a beautiful and melancholic drone soundscape.'' - Labandzi

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All music written, performed, recorded, produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Ali Murray on the Isle Of Lewis in the north of Scotland using home recording equipment.

Cover Artwork : Greg Nunn
Contact : thelonelybell@hotmail.com