BEST AMBIENT OF 2021
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2021
curated by @holsgr
#100 : Robert Takahashi Crouch - Jubilee (Room40)
#99 : Xu & Darren Harper - Arising & Ceasing of Things (Rottenman Editions)
#98 : Tim Linghaus - Memory Sketches II (Schole Records)
#97 : Hauschka, Rob Petit & Robert MacFarlane - Upstream (Sonic Pieces)
#96 : Ross Gentry - Prism of Dust (Polar Seas Recordings)
#95 : Will Samson & Message To Bears - Flow State Mosaic (Human Chorus)
#94 : Land System & Mara - AKIN (Spirit Level)
#93 : Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco (Quiet Time Tapes)
#92 : Oliver Patrice Weder - The Pool Project (Spitfire Audio/SA Records)
#91 : Ian Hawgood & Stijn Hüwels - Voices (Home Normal)
#90 : Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog (Prequel) (Ghostly International)
#89 : Federico Mosconi - Dreamers and Tides (Dronarivm)
#88 : Zensō - Kyūjōshō (Self-Released)
#87 : Grabek - Tiny Melodies (Interpret Null)
#86 : Zaké & Marine Eyes - Unfailing Love (Past Inside the Present)
#85 : Jakob Lindhagen & Dag Rosenqvist - Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound)
#84 : Andrew Tasselmyer - Impulses (Home Normal)
#83 : Danny Scott Lane - Caput (Schematic Music Company)
#82 : Ian Hawgood - 朝 (Home Normal)
#81 : Arushi Jain - Under The Lilac Sky (Plancha)
#80 : Lone - Always Inside Your Head (Greco-Roman)
#79 : Allred & Broderick - What The Fog (Dauw)
#78 : Danny Lubin Laden - Through Our Time (Slow & Steady Company)
#77 : Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises (Luaka Bop)
#76 : Fabio Perletta - Un Fiocco Di Neve (901 Editions)
#75 : Bendik Giske - Cracks (Smalltown Supersound)
#74 : Robert Farrugia - Voicemail (ARCHIVES)
#73 : James Bernard - Matrices (A Strangely Isolated Place)
#72 : Ai Yamamoto - Love Me Tender (Past Inside the Present)
#71 : Ffion - Unfurling (Third Kind Records)
#70 : Enrico Coniglio - Alpine Variations (Dronarivm)
#69 : Cities Last Broadcast - The Umbra Report (Cryo Chamber)
#68 : Headlock - Dragged Away (Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
#67 : Jason van Wyk - Threads (n5MD)
#66 : Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa - Between The Leaves (Facture)
#65 : Roxane Métayer - Éclipse des Ocelles (Morc Records)
#64 : Whettman Chelmets - For... (Self-Released)
#63 : Picnic - Picnic (Daisart)
#62 : Minotaur Shock - Chaff Probes (Bagatelle)
#61 : Lea Bertucci - A Visible Lenght of Light (Cibachrome Editions)
#60 : Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Snowmelt (12k)
#59 : We Dream of Eden - Deeper Still (Echoes Blue Music)
#58 : Patrick Ellis - The Deserter (FLAU)
#57 : Andrew Heath - New Eden (Disco Gecko)
#56 : Dead Melodies - Fabled Machines of Old (Cryo Chamber)
#55 : N Chambers - Spectrum Garden (Self-Released)
#54 : Hania Rani - Music for Film and Theatre (Gondwana Records)
#53 : Jonas Margraff - Drown in ur Presence (Ōtium)
#52 : Valgeir Sigurdsson - Kvika (Bedroom Community)
#51 : Joachim Spieth - Ousia (Affin)
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#50 : Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You And Me? (Smalltown Supersound)
#49 : Taennya - Natural Serenity (Stereoscenic)
#48 : Burning Pyre & Canadian Rifles - The Snipe & The Clam (Eastern Nurseries)
#47 : TIBSLC - Delusive Tongue Shifts Situation Based Compositions (Sferic)
#46 : Tony Anderson - Nuit (Self-Released)
#45 : Sleepsang - Beyond (INTERWORLD)
#44 : Sascha Rosemarie Höfer - Le Traviate (Lontano Series)
#43 : Amulets - Blooming (The Flenser)
#42 : The Broken Cradle - You Are Here and I Am Yours (Self-Released)
#41 : A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities (Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing)
#40 : G.S. Schray - The Changing Account (Last Resort)
#39 : Takuma Watanabe - Last Afternoon (SN Variations)
#38 : Arovane - Reihen (12k)
#37 : Kajsa Lindgren - Momentary Harmony (Recital)
#36 : Lowering - Find Me In The Earth, Beneath The Weeds (Disintegration State)
#35 : Coeden - Oblivia (HIDE)
#34 : Maps and Diagrams - _Modulus (Handstitched)
#33 : Landon Caldwell & Flower Head Ensemble - Simultaneous Systems (Moon Glyph)
#32 : David Shea - The Thousand Buddha Caves (Room40)
#31 : Jacob David - Mursejler (Moderna Records)
#30 : Erik Schilke - Synthesis (Hymen Records)
#29 : Byron Westbrook - Distortion Hue (Hands In The Dark)
#28 : Romain Azzaro, Sacha Hladiy, Paul Behnam, Ruth Mogrovejo, Nicolai Johansen - Colours of Now (Rouge Mécanique Musique)
#27 : Theodore Wild Ride - Theodore Wild Ride (Icarus Records)
#26 : Sébastien Guérive - Omega Point (Atypeek Music)
#25 : Onsy - MetaConc (Quiet Time)
#24 : Animated Matter - Selkie (Self-Released)
#23 : Gaspar Claus - Tancade (InFiné Éditions)
#22 : Wil Bolton - Cumulus Sketches (Home Normal)
#21 : More Light - Casual Dragon (Dancing Eagle Records)
#20 : Landtitles - Your Voice In Pieces (Slowcraft Records)
#19 : JARR - An Echo In Her Skin (HushHush Records)
#18 : Stray Theories - This Light (n5MD)
#17 : Daniel Herskedal - Harbour (Edition Records)
#16 : Gray Acres - Dreams and Phantoms (ARCHIVES)
#15 : Matt Rösner - No Lasting Form (Room40)
#14 : Viktor Orri Árnasson - Eilífur (Pentatone)
#13 : Christine Ott - Time To Die (Gizeh Records)
#12 : Ian Nyquist - Endless, Shapeless (Laaps)
#11 : ILUITEQ - The Loss of Wilderness (n5MD)
#10 : Nebel Lang - Hand In Mine (Whitelabrecs)
#9 : The Vernon Spring - A Plane Over Woods (Lima Limo Records)
#8 : Parallel Highway - Dream of Electric Sheep (Self-Released)
#7 : That Which Is Not - The Basic Sharpness of Emotions (KrysaliSound)
#6 : Arkadiusz Salwowski - Distance (LOŻA)
#5 : William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void (Lost Tribe Sound)
#4 : Hugh Small & Brian Allen Simon - The Side I Never See (Melody As Truth)
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#3 : Simon Goff - Vale (7K!)
#2 : Bremer/McCoy - Natten (Luaka Bop)
#1 : Atli Örvarsson - Wolka (INNI Music)
the 30 GREATEST AMBIENT EP's of 2021
curated by @holsgr
#30 : Snorri Hallgrímsson - Landbrot II (Moderna Records)
#29 : Benoît Pioulard - Silencer (Disques d'Honore)
#28 : Botany - Portal Orphanage (Western Vinyl)
#27 : Jeroen Dirrix - A Hidden Place (Moderna Records)
#26 : JAB - Currents (Joon Dada Records)
#25 : Conor C. Ellis - Cutting Out My Shadow (Self-Released)
#24 : Perila & Ulla - Memories of Log (VAAGNER)
#23 : Molly Lewis - The Forgotten Edge (Jagjaguwar)
#22 : Edward Sikorski - Basic Colours (Oscarson)
#21 : Richard Skelton - The Hollows (Aeolian)
#20 : Lee Yi - Perception of Invisible Forms (Rottenman Editions)
#19 : Daigo Hanada & Yoko Komatsu - Sayuru (Moderna Records)
#18 : Lucy Gooch - Rain's Break (Fire Records)
#17 : Lee Gamble - A Million Pieces of You (Hyperdub)
#16 : Naemi - A Week's Notice (Self-Released)
#15 : Present Guests & Marcus Nero - Losing Stream (Current Every)
#14 : Carmen Villain - Sketch For Winter IX: Perlita (Geographic North)
#13 : Bénédicte - When It Binds (Blueberry Records)
#12 : Clarice Jensen - Ainu Mosir (FatCat Records)
#11 : Jupi/ter - Islands, Pt.2 (Ambientologist)
#10 : Ekin Fil & Ella Zwietnig - Far Within Reach (Self-Released)
#9 : Endless Melancholy - Landmarks (1631 Recordings)
#8 : Frieder Nagel - The Arrival (InFiné)
#7 : Hiroco.M - Still (Moderna Records)
#6 : Michel Banabila - Descending The Mountain (Tapu Records)
#5 : Didacte - Revenir (Piano and Coffee Records)
#4 : Theatre of Delays - Súton (Rottenman Editions)
#3 : Joe Harvey-Whyte - Flatland/Spaceland (None More Records)
#2 : Erot - Gneiss (Ultimae)
#1 : Marek Kamiński - Tumult (Self-Released)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Grasscut - Haunts
Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
Mary Lattimore - Collected Pieces II
Thme - Silesco
KMRU - Logue
Taylor Deupree - Mur
Tyresta & Ruan - Already Complete
Jake Muir - Mana
Faith Coloccia & Philip Jeck - Stardust
Manja Ristić - Kairos & The Dwellers
Nils Frahm - Old Friends New Friends
Arca - kiCK iiiii
The Lifted Index - Sanctuary
Growing & Mary Lattimore - Gainer
Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves
Clariloops - Sun//Rain
Jos Smolders & Jim O'Rourke - Additive Inverse
Hiatus - Distancer
Peter Gregson - Patina
Ryan J Raffa, Nico Rosenberg & The Svara Ensemble - Velā
Matt Robertson - Enveleau
John Thayer - Supermundane
Maenad Veyl & The Sarcasm Ensemble - Comfort in Misery
Eduardo Briganty - Entelequia
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris - Florence
Henry the Rabbit, Beatrice Morel Journel & Semay Wu - Songs of The Marsh
Olec Mün - Vögel
MastroKristo - Departures
Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - Shiki
David Allred - Driving Through the Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day
Awakened Souls & From Overseas - Keep the Orange Sun
Lauge & Perry Frank - Selvascapes
Robert Scott Thompson - As First Star Wakes, She Wanders There
Madre Vaca - The Elements
T.Griffin - The Proposal
Shinpal - Blue Stories
Stefán Halfsteinsson - Heima
France Jobin - The Fluidity of Time Does Not Exist
Forest Robots - Amongst a Landscape of Spiritual Reckoning
Mike Lazarev - Out of Time
Fancisco Sonur - Morning Trials
Sabled Sun - 2149
Henrik Meierkord - Kval
Havana Swim Club - Havana Swim Club
Relaxer - Concealer
Woulg - Bubblegum
FRKTL - Azimuth
Holy Similaun - Ansatz
Feral - The End
Plague Mother - Carrying Your Halo
Milio - Ave
Slow Meadow - Upstream Dream
Celia Hollander - Timekeeper
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Proem
Mario Batkovic - Introspectio
Szymon Kaliski - Gaze Into The Sun
Tomonari Nozaki - waves
Past Palms - Empyrean
Demetrio Cecchitelli - Ruins
BEWATER - Inside Sea
Anthéne - Held
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