Air Vent Lullabies by Silent Collision is a quiet, inward-looking ambient record built from the sounds we usually tune out. Instead of composing over silence, it listens to the room itself — the hum in the walls, the low mechanical breath of a space at rest — and treats that atmosphere as music.

Much of the album is built directly from sampled recordings of an air vent, stretched, filtered, and shaped to capture the exact tones and rhythms that create a feeling of calm and stillness. The result isn’t about melody or spectacle, but about presence: steady, unassuming, and deeply calming. The compositions unfold like a series of held moments, shaped from everyday noise into something intimate, reflective, and gently human.

What’s also particularly interesting is that nearly every track is built by sampling the artist’s own previous works, pulling fragments from earlier compositions and reshaping them into something quieter, more inward, and deeply reflective. silent collision turns to his own corpus not just as a source of material, but as a way to reconnect with himself and create an interwoven narrative across the record. He notes that several of these samples come from his debut record, released on July 18, 2025.

The opening track, “Look at the Sky,” samples A Light Emerges from that debut, and immediately evokes a sense of a vortex or tunnel of light — reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch’s Ascent of the Blessed, with its swirling depiction of souls rising toward the light. The filtered and subtly distorted textures create an uncanny, almost supernatural atmosphere, inviting the listener to seek the unreal within the familiar. At the same time, this is not purely celestial or divine; the composition is firmly grounded by a steady, decidedly modern-sounding beat, which provides an earthy counterbalance to the seemingly eternal, ethereal quality of the soundscape. This tension between the transcendent and the grounded makes the track feel both timeless and immediate, and exemplifies the album’s approach to transforming personal memory into immersive, meditative music.

In contrast to the previous track, “Exhale, Inhale” opens up into a vast, unbounded soundscape, with no walls or confines. Yet, despite its openness, it suggests a subtle human presence within the frames of perception. The textures are alive with the barely intelligible hum of voices, like echoes of memory lingering at the edge of awareness. Its brevity reinforces this effect, making the track feel like a fleeting glimpse of a remembered moment.

“With the Stars” is another painting in sound. The track carries the listener across an open mountain plain at night, with wind wandering freely through the landscape. Distant, low sounds emerge and fade like tiny fires flickering in the dark, or like whispers of mysterious presences that only music of this kind can capture. Above it all, millions of stars seem to watch silently — perhaps even humming slowly and tremulously, like the ventilation that once filled silent collision’s room while he lay staring at the ceiling, imagining and dreaming up this vast nocturnal landscape.

“Empty Hallway, 4:14am” is perhaps the most striking and barebones track on the record, capturing the album’s purest essence. Built directly from recordings of an air vent, its core hum is left unadorned, filtered and shaped only to bring out grounding, resonant tones. The result is minimalistic and unflinching — a fly buzzing at the edge of your sight and hearing, powered by technology. The track inhabits a liminal, haunting space, a moment so suspended that it feels as if you might be lost forever, forgotten by gods and demons alike, wandering the vast corridors of our work and our lives, in this world we inhabit — one fragile realm among countless others.

“Air Vent Lullaby” is the logical continuation of that journey. Technically, it remains minimalistic, but emotionally it feels subtler, offering more space to sink in and explore its delicate inner worlds — gently dissolving the worries and puzzles of everyday life.

“Darkness Within Darkness” introduces a sombre piano into the album’s sound world, adding a new layer of emotional weight. The underlying hum here is more persistent and insistent than on other tracks, taking on a tonal quality that recalls the droning resonance of bagpipes, haunting and almost ritualistic. The composition is enveloped in darkness — dense, brooding, and unrelenting — yet there is a strange beauty in its severity. Unlike the lighter, more airy tracks, this piece demands attention, asking the listener to dwell in its shadows and confront the depths it conjures.

Taken together, Air Vent Lullabies moves through intimate, introspective spaces, balancing stillness with subtle tension and fantasy with the textures of everyday life. The album finds its power in presence taken to the extreme, bathing in the resonance of overlooked sounds and magnifying the quiet moments that linger in the mind. Perhaps most captivating is the way the artist samples his own previous tracks — a practice that, if carried on over decades, could grow into an ever-expanding, layered chronicle of his creative world. It’s a journey we’ll be following with quiet anticipation.