Harold Budd – Lovely Thunder (VG+/E) – LP, UK 1986

Lovely Thunder is an LP by Harold Budd from 1986 released on the Editions EG label.

About this album

Lovely Thunder is a quietly luminous ambient album that deepened Harold Budd’s reputation for minimal, emotionally resonant soundscapes. Issued in 1986, it finds Budd refining the hushed piano phrases, sustained tones and spectral harmonies that made his work so influential in electronic and ambient music. The record balances serenity with unease, moving through pieces such as The Gunfighter, Sandtreader and Ice Floes In Eden with a meditative stillness that feels both intimate and expansive. Part of the artist’s enduring 1980s run, it helped confirm Budd as one of ambient music’s most distinctive and poetic voices.