Gravitational Pull vs. the Desire for an Aquatic Life is the second studio album by ambient drone music group Stars of the Lid.

The album features short, medium and long minimal, droning compositions created from heavily treated guitar, horn, piano and other classical instruments.

Nitsuh Abebe, writing for AllMusic, stated: Even more so than most ambient projects, the Stars create an atmosphere that's akin to a sensory deprivation tank, reducing everything to pulsating waves of sound — Gravitational Pull... is consistently effective at this, and is even less dense, at points, than some of the group's other releases.

Following the vinyl issue from Sedimental in 1996, the album was released on CD in October 1997 on Kranky, and this reissue contained the extra track "Jan.

[3] They wrote,[4] After approving the test pressing for the original vinyl release, the 709 copies showed up on our doorstep with distortion, giant pops, and surface noise louder than the recording.