12 tracks. Running time 40:02 Tor Lundvall is another new artist to me. Apparently he's a painter and has also been recording music for many years, having started with pop songs his style evolved into ambient – or what may be described as “ghost ambient”. Empty City is a work of many short tracks (the longest is only a tad over four minutes) which viewed as a whole create a unique atmosphere by combining industrial elements with formless ambience. The opening track “Scrap Yard” is fairly representative of the musical and sonic style on the album. Various knocking and hammering kind of sounds convey a sense of industrial activity and form a rhythm of sorts while spectral washes and constant whooshing effects are heard in the background. Sometimes indistinct snippets of voices and ethereal wordless vocals add to the ghostly atmosphere. Many of the tracks contain similar elements put together in different proportions and intensity. Whereas the washes in some pieces are at the ethereal end of the spectrum others are deeper and more droney. Often the hammering sounds are present like the ghosts of machinery which hasn't been used for a long time. The album could be thought of as a soundtrack to a nocturnal journey through deserted parts of a city where the human and mechanical voices are remembered. I found Empty City to be an interesting work, though a little unsatisfying due to the similar nature of most tracks. Saying that, a fair amount of detail is lurking and waiting to be appreciated by careful listeners.