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One Life

Malibu

2019

One Life

Album Summary

Malibu is a French electronic musician whose work sails between ambient and ethereal. Forever inspired by soft reverbed vocals and melodic chord progressions, Malibu’s sound is immersive, like a sea of synthetic strings and choirs. Every month she tackles the same ideas in her radio show United In Flames, with the help of various guests. “One Life” is Malibu’s first EP and most matured work, released in November 2019 on both Joyful Noise Recordings and UNO NYC. ‘It might just be, as it was for Barwick, the most beautiful music you’ve ever heard. The gorgeousness of it is almost overwhelming‘ – Pitchfork ‘On the startling title track, cellist Oliver Coates meets Malibu’s floating drones with heart-wrenching cinematic strings and the result is as magical and mysterious as any fairytale. This one’s for the crybabies.’ – FACT ‘In just five tracks and 28 minutes, Malibu has delivered the best ambient record of 2019.’ – Discogs One Life was one of the best albums of 2019 according to Pitchfork, FACT, Discogs & Gorilla vs Bear. source: https://earth-agency.com/artist/malibu/

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2.87

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Sep 23 2025
4

Hey this is an ep :( It's really nice though :) 4

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Sep 25 2025
4

Sitting on an infinite beach staring into the oceans of time

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Oct 30 2025
3

One Life is the debut EP of Malibu. It is only 4 tracks long. The songs are atmospheric sound shapes sound pleasant, but can also disappear in the background if you don't pay close attention. It's ok, but does not add anything and is quite forgettable.

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Oct 17 2025
5

Technically an EP but anyway, it is great. One Life is the best track and I would also recommend the Evian Christ mix. I hope some more electronic albums will appear in the user album list.

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Oct 03 2025
4

Música electrónica. Relajante. Un 4, venga.

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Oct 08 2025
4

Could have listened to a full album's worth of this. Very relaxing. Good to work to.

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Oct 18 2025
4

Very relaxing

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Nov 01 2025
4

Interesting little EP. I enjoy the vibes of it and like the ambient nature of it (especially because it is short). However I don't think it's doing anything really that groundbreaking or different from similar albums. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

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Nov 04 2025
4

Checkpoint reached November 4, 2025

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Sep 23 2025
3

Rating: 6/10

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Sep 25 2025
3

I too have listened to Eno’s music for Airports

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Sep 30 2025
3

I’ve been listening to a lot of ambient music lately. I’m finding that it works as an effective salve to treat the soul crushing and unrelenting barrage of bullshit that constitutes life in America in 2025. It’s a warm and enveloping escape from reality - an audio narcotic, if you will. I enjoyed this EP quite a bit. It washed over and temporarily quieted my racing mind on yet another Monday that’s come too soon.

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Sep 30 2025
3

Not really my thing, but it's all right. 3 stars.

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Oct 13 2025
3

Pretty

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Oct 16 2025
3

Lovely lush ambient electronica.

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Oct 18 2025
3

That is surely some ambient. I actually liked this kind of thing, I'm just not sure it belongs in precisely the same category as music. I would listen to more though.

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Oct 28 2025
3

Good ambient EP

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Sep 25 2025
2

It’s fine, well constructed and executed but just too ambient and wandering in its short runtime to generate any interest.

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Sep 23 2025
1

This is what I listened to in 1995 when I was playing Myst. It’s pretty, but I didn’t think it needed an album in this century.

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Sep 23 2025
1

This made me wonder if this album is what it’s like when you pass out from heroin and have that moment of bliss like in Trainspotting. Of course, I can’t relate to that and found this album to be soothing noise and not much of an album I enjoyed. 3.0/10

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Sep 30 2025
1

OK. Let's forget about the technicalities here. I'm wondering why John Tesh hasn't been on this list... I appreciate that someone would like to share this with me. Sometimes, recommendations just don't hit the mark. For those who rated this as a 5, would you be comfortable giving this EP out as a Christmas present? Would you like to receive it as a present?

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Oct 17 2025
1

I'm usually a sucker for this kind of stuff, but this just felt so empty and meaningless and weightless. Also, I thought user albums had to have a Wikipedia page attached to them? There are so many albums I love and would have submitted without Wikis.

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