| Raum | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Tangerine Dream |
| Cover: | Tangerine Dream - Raum.png |
| Recorded: | 2021 |
| Genre: | Electronic |
| Length: | 68:35 |
| Label: | Kscope |
| Prev Title: | Quantum Gate |
| Prev Year: | 2017 |
Raum is a studio album by Tangerine Dream, released on Kscope on 25 February 2022. It is the group's second studio album since the death of founding member Edgar Froese in 2015.[1] It was created by Thorsten Quaeschning, Hoshiko Yamane, and Paul Frick, using Froese's archives from 1977 to 2013, with access to his Cubase arrangements and tape recordings.[2] It topped the UK Dance Albums Chart.
Paul Simpson of AllMusic commented that "As Tangerine Dream's influence seemed more prominent throughout electronic music during the 2010s than it had since the group's heyday, the existing lineup produced the band's most inspired work in ages." He added, "Raum feels a little bit more like a transitional work than the unexpectedly solid Quantum Gate, but that album seemed like more of an overt revisit of the band's classic sound, while Raum finds them taking more chances and exploring fresh ideas." Parker Desautell of PopMatters stated that Raum is "every bit as spacey and floaty as you'd expect a Tangerine Dream album to be, but it doesn't fall into the wallpaper-music trappings that a lot of their work falls into." Ben Cardew of Pitchfork wrote, "Its unashamed drift and scale pay a tribute to a world where music is huge, omnipresent, and never ending."
Credits adapted from liner notes.[3]