Roger Ebert used to argue that wall to wall action is boring. Explosions are what you came to an action movie to see, but you have to use discipline and curation to create contrast or you've got white noise.
The argument works in the opposite direction: you want your ambient album to be ambient, but you can take it too far and leave the entire thing totally blank, moving you into art music territory. Art music sucks.
So call me a philistine, but I think ambient should evoke emotion, or place, or time, or create sensation somehow. This is the summer blockbuster of ambient, trying to out-nothing itself so hard that it ends up losing sight of what all that restraint and silence and endless reverb was supposed to achieve 2.5/5
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