BEST AMBIENT OF 2020
the 100 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS of 2020
curated by @holsgr
#100 : Tomas Jirku • Touching The Sublime (Silent Season)
#99 : Drew McDowall • Agalma (Dais Records)
#98 : Euglossine • Blue Marble Agony (Genot Centre)
#97 : Domenique Dumont • People on Sunday (The Leaf Label)
#96 : John-Robin Bold • Demonstrations (Quanta Records)
#95 : This Valley Of Old Mountains • This Valley Of Old Mountains (12k)
#94 : zakè • Orchestral Studies Collectanea (Past Inside the Present)
#93 : Monoiz • Collider (Detroit Underground)
#92 : S.hel • Disconnect (Whitelabrecs)
#91 : Glåsbird • Norskfjǫrðr (Whitelabrecs)
#90 : Botany • End the Summertime F(or)ever (Western Vinyl)
#89 : Jeannine Schulz • Ground . The Gentle (Stereoscenic Records)
#88 : Sophia Loizou • Untold (Houndstooth)
#87 : William Basinski • Lamentations (Temporary Residence Limited)
#86 : KMRU • Opaquer (Dagoretti Records)
#85 : ARROWOUNDS • The Loneliness of the Deep Sea River (Lost Tribe Sound)
#84 : Lingua Lustra • Omni (Exosphere)
#83 : Slow Dancing Society • The Disappearing Collective Vol. I (Past Inside the Present)
#82 : Christopher Bissonnette • Wayfinding (12k)
#81 : Tomotsugu Nakamura • Literature (Laaps)
#80 : Yui Onodera • Ray (Serein)
#79 : Gyða Valtýsdottir • Epicycle II (Sono Luminus)
#78 : Ned Milligan & John Atkinson • Call Me When You Can (Facture)
#77 : Jonathan Fitoussi • Plein Soleil (Transversales Disques)
#76 : Joda Clément • The last place they thought of (Glistening Examples)
#75 : Zoltan Fecso • Daylight In An Empty Room (Whitelabrecs)
#74 : Aukai • Game Trails (Aukai Music)
#73 : Ricardo Donoso • Content (Denovali)
#72 : Fossil Haunting Collective • Vacancy (Ambientologist)
#71 : Stefan Węgłowski • What Is Hidden (Silesian Museum)
#70 : Akira Uchida • Sasanami (IIKKI)
#69 : Minimal Drone GRL • Ancestral Origins (Bricolage)
#68 : An Moku & Joel Gilardini • Maya Deren (Bullflat3.8)
#67 : BLOMMA • BLOMMA (Moderna Records)
#66 : J. Wiltshire • Resa (Musar Recordings)
#65 : Alva Noto • Xerrox Vol. 4 (NOTON)
#64 : Ian Wellman • The House That Ate Itself (Room40)
#63 : Sparkle Division • Feel Embraced (Temporary Residence Limited)
#62 : Echium • Disruptions of Form (Sferic)
#61 : Warmth • Life (Archives)
#60 : Mary Lattimore • Silver Ladders (Ghostly International)
#59 : Degoya • Fragmenta (Liburia Records)
#58 : Ben Lukas Boysen • Mirage (Erased Tapes)
#57 : Dronny Darko & ProtoU • Metta (Chryo Chamber)
#56 : Valance Drakes • Freedom Is Its Own Kind Of Salary (Laaps)
#55 : Mathieu Karsenti • Bygones (Slowcraft Records)
#54 : Pawel Pruski • Between (KrysaliSound)
#53 : Guy Andrews • Permanence (Houndstooth)
#52 : Matt Christensen • Mo Pussyfooting (Self-released)
#51 : Still Harbours • Armature (Lontano Series)
#50 : Jogging House • Companion (dauw)
#49 : David Cordero • Honne (本 音) (Dronarivm)
#48 : Rafael Anton Irisarri • Peripeteia (Dais Records)
#47 : T.R. Jordan • Just For You (Past Inside the Present)
#46 : Margins • I Tired For Hours (Facture)
#45 : Shuta Hiraki • Voicing In Oblivion (Rottenman Editions)
#44 : Private Mountain • Stratumi (СТРАТУМИ) (Élan Vital)
#43 : Ocoeur • Everything (n5md)
#42 : René Aquarius • Universe (Moving Furniture Records)
#41 : Ezra Feinberg • Recumbent Speech (Related States)
#40 : Murials • Stems (Infinito Audio)
#39 : Snowdrops • Volutes (Injazero Records)
#38 : Wanderwelle • A State of Decrepitude (A Strangely Isolated Place)
#37 : Niklas Paschburg • Svalbard (7K!)
#36 : Phil Struck • Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen (Séance Centre)
#35 : Robot Koch • The Next Billion Years (Modern Recordings)
#34 : Max Ananyev • Midday (Whitelabrecs)
#33 : Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin • Elephant (Posh Isolation)
#32 : Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij • Ezra Feinberg & John Kolodij (Whited Sepulchre Records)
#31 : Art Crime • Thightening Knots (Radio Sygma)
#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer • Associative Mechanisms (Self-released)
#29 : Ecovillage • Arrived (Dronarivm)
#28 : Jacaszek • Music For Film (Ghostly International)
#27 : Ital Tek • Outland (Planet Mu)
#26 : Christine Ott • Chimères (Pour Ondes Martenot) (Nahal Recordings)
#25 : Radosław Kurzeja • Ogród Botaniczny w Palermo (Nasze Nagrania)
#24 : Jan Wagner • Kapitel (Quiet Love Records)
#23 : Niksen • Invisible City (Touch)
#22 : Toàn • Volta No Vento (IIKKI)
#21 : Gidge • New Light (Atomnation)
#20 : Andrew Lang • Momentary Senses (Rusted Tone Recordings)
#19 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Chasing The Present (Moderna Records)
#18 : Endless Melancholy • A Perception of Everything (Sound In Silence)
#17 : From Overseas • Home (Past Inside the Present)
#16 : ju ca • Chasms (Angoisse)
#15 : Tropic of Coldness • Human Kindness (Whitelabrecs)
#14 : Thisquietarmy • Kesselhaus (Thisquietarmy Records)
#13 : Mark De Clive-Lowe, Andrea Lombardini & Tommaso Cappellato • Dreamweavers (Mother Tongue Records)
#12 : Patricia Wolf • Lament (Fallen Moon Recordings)
#11 : Corrado María De Santis • A Dark Mist (Bullflat3.8)
#10 : William Ryan Fritch • The Letdown (Lost Tribe Sound)
#9 : Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong • Harbors (Room40)
#8 : A Home For Ghosts • Hireath (Rusted Tone Recordings)
#7 : David Cordero & Miguel Otero • Salinas (Archives)
#6 : Tapes and Topographies • A Pulse of Durations (Past Inside the Present)
#5 : Bedroom • A Thousand Harmonies In Silence (Past Inside the Present)
#4 : Gary Husband & Markus Reuter • Music of Our Times (MoonJune Records)
#3 : Marek Kamiński & Piotr Michałowski • Luna (N_Coded Records)
#2 : Havenaire • Movement (Polar Seas)
#1 : Aho Ssan • Simulacrum (Subtext)
the 50 GREATEST EP's of 2020
curated by @holsgr
#50 : Aeoi • Ioeth (TAR)
#49 : Distant Animals • Everyday Violence (Engram Recordings)
#48 : Kyle Bobby Dunn • They Have Always Been Within (Self-released)
#47 : kj • Grace (Self-released)
#46 : John Wall • M - [ B ] (Self-released)
#45 : 0comeups • Creek Don't Rise (Slagwerk)
#44 : Sarah Haras • Storm (Self-released)
#43 : Nexcyia • Crawl (Alien Jams)
#42 : Darren Harper • Summer Loops (Self-released)
#41 : Michel Banabila, Stijn Hüwels & Cok Van Vuuren • One Moment In Time (Tapu Records)
#40 : Glia • QIBE (Self-released)
#39 : Thys & Amon Tobin • Ghostcards (Nomark)
#38 : etller • Dysmal (TAR)
#37 : IHHH • The Magical Ratio (ZABRA)
#36 : Iskra Strings & Pablo Nouvelle • Manor House (1631 Recordings)
#35 : Francis M. Gri • Roots (The Slow Music Movement)
#34 : Filalete • The Weekend Was Modern (Perfect Aesthetics)
#33 : Ital Tek • Seraph (Just Isn't Music)
#32 : Perila & Ulla • Transparent Waters of Deep Blue (Self-released)
#31 : Lorn & Dolor • Zero Bounce (Wednesday Sound)
#30 : Andrew Tasselmyer & Anthéne • Distant (Hibernate)
#29 : Max Cooper • Earth (Mesh)
#28 : r beny • The Dashboard Cast a Spectral Glow (Past Inside the Present)
#27 : Jordane Tumarinson • Printemps (1631 Recordings)
#26 : John Bence • Love (Thrill Jockey)
#25 : Black Brunswicker • Tall Trees (Stereoscenic)
#24 : Digital Selves • <?/?body> <?!?-?- language -?-?> (Self-released)
#23 : Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma • Torch Songs (Self-released)
#22 : Mathieu Karsenti • Downstream Blue (Slowcraft Records)
#21 : Taylor Deupree • Canoe (Longform Editions)
#20 : The Green Kingdom • Shinrin-yoku (Hibernate)
#19 : Symbol • Lifted (Mystery Circles)
#18 : User Friendly • Sickle (1094322 Records DK2)
#17 : Alex Braga • Spleen Machine (7K!)
#16 : Shida Shahabi • Lake on Fire (FatCat Records)
#15 : Liam Mour • Ode To Youth (Ode To Youth)
#14 : Bawskùw •  Escape! (Self-released)
#13 : Snorri Hallgrímsson & Oliver Patrice Weder • Hallgrímsson - Weder (Les Editions MR)
#12 : Rinnovare • Aperturia (Sounds Suspicious)
#11 : Wintergarden • Phase In (1631 Recordings)
#10 : 't Geruis • Que tu es belle, au revoir en douceur (Lost Tribe Sound)
#9 : Green-House • Six Songs for Invisible Gardens (Leaving Records)
#8 : Bby Eco • Gen (Slagwerk)
#7 : Lucy Gooch • Rushing (Past Inside the Present)
#6 : Slow Meadow • By The Ash Tree (Self-releaed)
#5 : Nick Malkin • A Thing in Middle Distance (Self-released)
#4 : ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ • W.S. (Self-released)
#3 : Lensk • Unseen, Uncertain, Whole (TAR)
#2 : Glass • L.U.C.A (Santé Records)
#1 : Snorri Hallgrímsson • Landbrot I (Moderna Records)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
William Ryan Fritch - Solidum
J. Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen - Neuzeit
Tyresta & Ruan - Elements Return
Ana Roxanne - Because of a flower
Lauge - Nothingness
FRKTL - Excision After Love Collapses
thme - That's What It Will Be Like
Carlo Giustini - Colla
Omni Gardens - Moss King
KMRU - Peel
Forest Robots - After Geography
Francis M. Gri - The Ropes
Phil Tomsett - The Sound of Someone Leaving
Christian Kleine - Touch & Fuse
Autechre - SIGN
Gallery Six - Blue In The Midsummer
Alessandro Cortini - Memorie I
Bad Stream - Sonic Healing
Perko - Galerie
Helios - Domicile
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Another Flower
Mattew Halsall - Salute to the Sun
Constantine Skourlis - Eternal Recurrence
Pepo Galán & Sita Osthermeier - Contact
LCM - Signal Quest
Ivano Pecorini - Barons Court
Carlos Ferreira - Six Postcards and Other Stories
Monogoto - Partial Deletion of Everything (Vol. 1)
Echo Collective - The See Within
Matt Atkins & Slow Clinic - Enfolding
Skin Graft & John Wiese - Accessible World
Vieo Abiungo - At Once, There Was No Horizon
Andrew Tasselmyer & Anthéne - Progressions
Thugwidow - A Figure of Speech
Lauge - Oceanography
Mute Branches - The Detective Is Dead
Ausklang - Chronos
Steve Roach - Back To Life
John Monkman - ASRIEL
Reid Willis - Mother Of
Luis Berra - On Silence Act I & II
Chronovalve - Light
offthesky - Psalm of Solum
Crystal Thumbtac - Jazzosism
Jörgen Kjellgren - Invisible Summer
Skarv - A Memory Like Any Other
Bartosz Dziadosz & Tomasz Mrenca - Black Lake
Hainbach - Light Splitting
Selvedge - Bloom In Rust
Max Loderbauer - Donnerwetter
Stuart Chalmers & Alan Courtis - Rtuals of Cmmon Lnguage
Teruyuki Kurihara - Echoes CatalogIII
Koji Itoyama - I Know
Marc Ertel - [Overtures]
Claire Deak & Tony Dupé - The Old Capital
Ben Frost - Dark: Cycle 3 (Music from the Netflix Original Series)
V/A (Touchtheplants) - Breathing Instruments
Bentley - Ford Pliner
Ólafur Arnalds - some kind of peace
Christina Giannone, zakè & Tyresta - Vision Transmissions
Simon Posford - Flux & Contemplation: Portrait of an Artist in Isolation
Pun Collins - Dying Together
Ishmael Cormack - The Sunday Project
Daniel Herskedal - Call For Winter
Shinpal - Momentary Disappeared Memory
Lionel Marchetti - Planktos
Tim Koch - Scordatura
Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle
Baldruin - Die halluzinierte Welt
Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell
ABADIR - Liminal
Attilio Novellino - Strangar
Fire-Toolz - Rainbow Bridge
Noise Trees - Paper Songs
Maze & Lindholm - A River Flowing Home to the Sea
Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Det Var Folk Dar Ute. Dom Ar Borta Nu.
Jeremy Bible - Human Savagery
Paul Schütze - Without Thought
Rutger Zuydervelt & Bill Seaman - Movements of Dust
Saåad - Elijah
Frans De Waard & Miguel A. García - Interior Sounding
HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT - The Place of The Crossing
TIBSLC - A Shell-like Object
Pina - Buit
Michel Banabila - All Connected
Resilience -Forgotten World
Madeleine Cocolas - Ithaca
Ludovico Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen - Kroksjø
John Wall - SC Editions 2
Deathbed Convert - Debris of Echoes
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Still Life
FFT - Total Self-Fufilment
...From The Benthic Zone - Fjord Genus
Henrik Meierkord - Refuge
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - slowdance,lowtide
Ancient Loops - An Abandoned City
Nils Frahm - Empty
JC Leisure - Mutations For
Corey Fuller - Sanctuary
Sam Gendel - Satin Doll
Jan Bang & Eivind Aarset - Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes
36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds For Long?-?Distance Space Travel
Aria Rostami & Daniel Blomquist - Sketch for Winter VIII: Floating Tone
Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman - Last And First Men
Sary Moussa - Imbalance
Martina Bertoni - All the Ghosts Are Gone
The Alvaret Ensemble - ea
Nyx Nótt - Aux Pieds de la Nuit
Simone Gatto - Harmonic Resonance System 432 Hz
Oliver Coates - skins n slime
Klara Lewis - Ingrid
Ben Bondy & exael - Aphelion Lash
Halftribe - Archipelago
Jocelyn Reyes - Overland: Biomes
Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly
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