The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time

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Wallpaper music? None here. These are the albums that have shifted moods and created new worlds.
Brian Eno
1/1
Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Aphex Twin
#3
Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works, Volume II
William Basinski
Dlp 2.1
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
Terry Riley
A Rainbow in Curved Air, for electric piano, dumbak & tambourines
Terry Riley
Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
Stars of the Lid
Piano Aquieu
Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
Oval
Do While
Oval
94 Diskont
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis
Suiren
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis
Deep Listening
Tim Hecker
Dungeoneering
Tim Hecker
Harmony In Ultraviolet
Laurie Spiegel
Patchwork
Laurie Spiegel
The Expanding Universe
Brian Eno
An Ending (Ascent)
Brian Eno
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Terry Riley
Performance Two - Part 2
Terry Riley
Riley: Persian Surgery Dervishes
Alice Coltrane
Jagadishwar
Alice Coltrane
Translinear Light
Stars of the Lid
The Evil That Never Arrived
Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement of the Decline
Oneohtrix Point Never
Sleep Dealer
Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica
Grouper
She Loves Me That Way
Grouper
A I A: Alien Observer
Fennesz
Made In Hong Kong
Fennesz
Endless Summer
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Feedback Zwei
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Playthroughs
Brian Eno
The Lost Day (Remastered 2004)
Brian Eno
Film Music: Europa - EP
Folke Rabe
What??
Folke Rabe
What??
Iasos
Cloud Prayer
Iasos
Inter-Dimensional Music
Oneohtrix Point Never
Hyperdawn
Oneohtrix Point Never
Zones Without People
Pauline Oliveros
Rattlesnake Mountain
Pauline Oliveros
Accordion & Voice
David Behrman
On the Other Ocean
David Behrman
Late Night Tales: Belle and Sebastian, Vol. 2 (Sampler)
Julianna Barwick
White Flag
Julianna Barwick
The Magic Place
Ashra
Deep Distance
Ashra
New Age of Earth
Steve Roach
Reflections in Suspension
Steve Roach
Structures From Silence
Windy & Carl
Set Adrift
Windy & Carl
Depths
Tim Hecker
Live Room
Tim Hecker
Virgins
Biosphere
Poa Alpina
Biosphere
Substrata
Suzanne Ciani
Concert at Phil Niblock's Loft (Live)
Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975 (Live)
Clarice Jensen, Ben Russell, Yuki Numata Resnick and Max Richter
Dream 13 (minus even)
Clarice Jensen , Ben Russell , Yuki Numata Resnick and Max Richter
From Sleep
Brian Eno and Harold Budd
A Stream With Bright Fish
Brian Eno and Harold Budd
The Pearl
Eluvium
New Animals from the Air
Eluvium
Talk Amongst the Trees
Microstoria
Endless Summer NAMM
Microstoria
Snd
Huerco S.
Lifeblood
Huerco S.
For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Edgar Froese
Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
Edgar Froese
Solo (1974-1983): The Virgin Years
36 Songs, 5 Hours, 51 Minutes

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