"[A]mbient music is more a way of listening, an umbrella term for attitude, rather than a single identifiable style" (62)
or 57: "the 1960s'/70s'/80s' retro future rolled into a package too open, loose and scruffy to be anything other than a manifestation of real commitment and enthusiasm [...] no shared musical visions: simply an idea that the environment for listening to music could be different"