When end-of-the-year list season began I wasn't sure if I was going to do a favorite ambient albums list. I wasn't as locked into ambient as much this year as in the past. I spent most of my listening time in indie, jazz, and berlin-school. I had several ambient albums that would for sure make my list so I started with those and the next thing I knew - I had a list of 26 albums that are my 2025 favorites.
Here are my favorite ambient albums of 2025, in alphabetical order:
- Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight
- Almost An Island - Almost An Island
- Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes
- Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring
- Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan
- Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange
- Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
- Dictaphone - Unstable
- Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time
- Erik M - Soft Wish
- Florian T M Zeisig - A New Life
- Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima
- Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky
- M. Sage - Tender Wading
- Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6
- offthesky - form.radio
- offthesky - Nocturnas
- Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson
- Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms
- Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path
- Six Missing - Without Mind
- Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky
- Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations
- Xu - Murmurs of the Machine
- Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky
- zakè - Silentium
I made two mixes so it will be a little easier to digest. This post is for part one. I hope you enjoy this look back at 2025.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T :
- 00:00 Erik M. - Tall as Grass (Soft Wish)
- 03:55 Offthesky - Poised Above A Place (Nocturnas)
- 08:06 Rod Modell - Snowstorm In Munising (Snowstorm In Munising)
- 13:40 Emily A. Sprague - Osaka (Cloud Time)
- 19:23 Florian T M Zeisig - Earth Loop (A New Life)
- 21:00 M. Sage - Fracking Starlight (Tender / Wading)
- 26:18 Dictaphone - 122 (Unstable)
- 29:50 Six Missing - Sit Down and Play (Without Mind)
- 35:38 Peter Gregson - Prism (Peter Gregson)
- 38:37 Clarice Jensen - From A to B (In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness)
- 44:05 Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight: Stanza XXIII-XXXII (Chapter Eight)
- 49:15 Martin Sturtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6)
- 55:30 Yorkshire Modular Society - Beneath the Hanging Sky (Beneath the Hanging Sky)
- 01:09:28 end
