{"id":536,"date":"2026-03-08T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:42:56","slug":"2026-02-28-take-effect-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"2026-02-28 &#8211; Take Effect (Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/takeeffectreviews.com\/february-2026-5\/2026\/2\/27\/ambient-den\">https:\/\/takeeffectreviews.com\/february-2026-5\/2026\/2\/27\/ambient-den<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambient Den<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desert Comb, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8\/10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Australian trio who take inspiration from the \u201870s, Ben Craven, Tim Bennetts and Dean Povey, i.e. Ambient Den, pen a cinematic concept album with this debut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFuture History Part 1\u201d opens with a soft ambience of exploratory qualities and cozy guitar from Craven, and \u201cFor All Mankind\u201d follows with Bennetts\u2019 buzzing synth before Povey\u2019s thumping drums enter the melodic prog-rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTerraforming\u201d occupies the middle spot and uses mature piano from Bennetts\u2019 amid the heartfelt acoustic guitar as dense waves enter the sonically expressive rock, while \u201cFuture History Part 2\u201d recruits playful funk fun and soulful singing that\u2019s got grooves and will get you on the dance floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last 4 tracks are bonus material and serve as \u2018single edits\u2019 of earlier songs. \u201cEarthrise\u201d offers pretty textures surrounding the lush and dynamic interaction between the trio, and \u201cTerraforming\u201d is more concise version that showcases Craven\u2019s meticulous guitar, Povey\u2019s agile drumming and Bennetts\u2019 multi-faceted key prowess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All 3 members sing, and their combined talents create an excellent first album of space rock that\u2019s not short on atmosphere, storytelling and layering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/takeeffectreviews.com\/february-2026-5\/2026\/2\/27\/ambient-den Ambient Den Desert Comb, 2025 8\/10 An Australian trio who take inspiration from the \u201870s, Ben Craven, Tim Bennetts and Dean Povey, i.e. Ambient Den, pen a cinematic concept album with this debut. \u201cFuture History Part 1\u201d opens with a soft ambience of exploratory qualities and cozy guitar from Craven, and \u201cFor All Mankind\u201d&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/?p=536\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026-02-28 &#8211; Take Effect (Review)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambientden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}