Ambient Music Thread Genre • Page 105

Went back through the thread to check if this had been posted. Only just discovered it.

The best new ambient record I've heard all year.

 

The Best Ambient Music of 2023

Pretty sweet list. A few I haven’t checked out yet, but the Loscil/Lawrence English, North Americans, Imaginary Softwoods, and Purelink albums are all dope. The North Americans record is def making my ambient top 10.

I’ll draft up my list soon. Curious about everyone else’s as well.

 

The North Americans and Purelink albums are in my top 10 of 2023, regardless of genre.

 

Fully sending it on ambient music this year. Currently listening to William Basinksi's El Camino Real.

 

20 fav ambient albums of last year, in no order

Jonny Nash - Point of Entry
Marta Mist - Eyes Like Pools (and the Slowly EP)
Shinsuke Honda - Silence
M. Sage - Paradise Crick
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
Powers / Pulice / Rolin - Prism
Rod Modell - Ghost Lights
Rod Modell & Taka Noda - Glow World
Wayne Robert Thomas - Poe
Greg Foat, Gigi Masin - Dolphin
Alaskan Tapes - Who Tends A Garden
Patrick Shiroishi - Evergreen
North Americans - Long Cool World
Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music for a Cosmic Garden
Loscil & Lawrence English - Colours of Air
Purelink - Signs
Theodore Cale Schafer - Our Blood for S
Toki Fuko - Spirit Medicine
mu tate - they're with you always
Hollie Kenniff - We All Have Places That We Miss

 

I've always said I'd make a separate list for ambient music (even though many albums do find their way into my normal list). Much like the above, in no order:

TALsounds - Shift (more -adjacent, definitely in my general top 5)
Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes
M. Sage - Paradise Crick
M. Sage and Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram
Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye Hotel Arkada
Patrick Shiroishi - I was too young to hear silence (more -adjacent but I'm counting it)
cinchel - slowly toward disaster
Sachi Kobayashi - Melodies in the Garden
Siavash Amini - eremos
Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel
Tim Hecker - No Highs
Hiroshi Ebina - Silver Lining
Sarah Davachi - Selected Works I & II
Eluvium - (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality

 

Nice, I'll be looking into some of those for sure.

Favorite ambient albums for winter? There's finally some snow on the ground here!

 

I feel like ambient is a wintry genre, too many to name haha.

I'm currently listening to other 2023 ambient lists for things I missed. right now checking out this beauty

 

Everything in Geographic North's Sketch for Winter series but Carmen Villain's in particular:

 

probably a ton more I'm forgetting

Araceae - Lunae Semita (actually all their albums but this one is my preference)
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Helios - Caesura
Windy & Carl - Antarctica
Eluvium - Pianoworks
Susumu Yokota - Symbol (+ Love or Die)
Roedelius - Lustwandel
Biosphere - Substrata
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 - most of their discography
Yagya - Rhythm of Snow
Deepchord/Echospace - The Coldest Season
Pariah - Here From Where We Are
Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer (+ A I A: Dream Loss)
Warmth - Parallel
Hammock - discography
2814 - 新しい日の誕生
Jóhann Jóhannsson - all his non-film albums basically
Max Richter - all his non-film albums as well
Earth House Hold - When Love Lived
Blush to the Snow - discography
Kyle Bobby Dunn - discography
Paperbark - Inhaling Mist (+ Barely Lit)
GAS - Nah Und Fern
Skee Mask - Compro
Belong - October Language
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Music for Nine Postcards
Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift (+ The Gathering Dawn)
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Fennesz - Cendre
Ryuichi Sakamoto - BTTB
Pausal - Melatonia
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol 1+2

 

Been a fan of Grouper, t e l e p a t h, and 2814, but the rest are new to me! It's definitely time for me to check out Boards of Canada.

 

Surprised you haven't heard some of these, esp Hammock and Helios if you're a fan of the others.

Boards of Canada are amazing, amazing, amazing precursors to a ton of what you hear today in the genre. probably better to start from Music Has the Right to Children and go chronologically.

 

Yeah, there's not a chance that you won't like BoC.

 

Added a bunch more to my wintry ambient list lolz.

 

Immersing myself in these at work today.

 

New Ben Frost record on March 1st.

 

Definitely bordering on not-ambient but new Nailah Hunter album just dropped

 

This is pretty wild. A full album is coming out.

 

Not sure how we feel about film scores on this forum but the All Of Us Strangers score is very beautiful. I've been using it a lot as background music while writing this film script and I think it's been indirectly influencing the path my story goes. Highly recommend!

 

good release day today!

Cowboy Sadness, the ambient The Antlers/Bing & Ruth/Port St. Willow project, is out today

new Benoît Pioulard / Offthesky album out today

and new Billow Observatory!

 

New Astral Industries out.

 

been DEEPLY obsessed with listening to these sessions at work recently. they're really putting me into focus mode.

 

Can't stop listening to Susumu Yokota right now.

 

Love these