My (50ish) favourite ambient releases of 2024
Hello friends! It's that time of year again, and instead of waiting til the end of December like I usually do I decided to do this a little early this year before all the other year end lists completely overwhelm me and make me rethink everything. Looking back on last years lists I think things got a bit skewed by that and don't want to add a whole bunch of things last minute, though there are admittedly a couple last minute additions that I thought more than worthy.
There are essentially 3 tiers in my lists: My top 3, usually pretty solid. The rest of the top however many (this list has a top 20 cause I couldn't narrow it down lol, but my electronic list which I will also share was 15 for example) which are largely interchangeable on any given day, and then the honourable mentions which I still very much love but are ones I could trim down if I was absolutely forced to.
It might still seem like a ton of music to anyone who is not me but it's everything I realllly want to remember, and primarily these lists are for myself, so there it is. 2024 was filled to the brim with beautiful sounds and this is my way of giving back a little bit. Hope you find something you love!
- Olli Aarni - Yö näkyy
- Rod Modell - Music for Bus Stations
- mu tate - Wanting Less
- Ulla & Ultrafog - It Means a Lot
- Austyn Wohlers - Bodymelt in the Garden of Death
- Infinite Body - My Bright Abyss
- TKB - Wasp / Xcanoe
- NUG - Bong Boat
- Angel R - Mossed Capable Of Being Observant / Aaliyah Enyo & Angel R - Selkie Reflections
- Igor Dyachenko - Tracked
- Bug Bus Piano - Out Under Streets
- Theodore and Natalia - Since Last /
- Zaumne - Only Good Dreams for Me
- Tim Koh & Sun An - Salt and Sugar Look the Same
- Angelo Harmsworth - Without Blinking
- Bartosz Kruczynski - Dreams & Whispers
- Perila - Intrinsic Rhythm
- Ana reme - Key
- Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.5
- Mount Shrine - Mount Hibiki Tapes
Honorable Mentions
- Chantssss - Shyness
- Civilistjavel - Brödföda
- C.L. Lobbestael - Intimations of Glamour
- Dronny Darko + protoU - Acoustics of Shaodow
- Erik Mowinckel - blinds / Dust sill / Root system / This too will change
- Feltro - Disambiguations
- Fennesz - Mosaic
- feth - feth dub volume 1.
- Harry Gorski-Brown - Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats
- Ike Zwanikken - Greed Gave Me a Lily
- Klara Lewis - Thankful
- Lussuria - Broken Porcelain of the Dining Interior / Under Crumbled Stairs
- Mark Templeton - Inner Light
- Moss Garden - Understanding Holy Ghosts
- Nexciya - Exodus / Endless Path of Memory
- Not waving & Romance - Wings of Desire
- Pelican Daughers - It’s Time My Friend
- Piper Spray & Lena Tsibidova - Debtors of Presence
- Rec - we’re all we have
- Samuel Reinhard - Movement
- Scott Monteith - The Lichen Diaries Vol 1
- Slowfoam - Transcorporeal Portal
- Stereometrix - half-dub
- Suso Saiz - Distorted Clamor
- Theodore Schafer - Uncanny
- Unt - Life is Play
- Variant - Cosmic Currents
- Voyage Futur - Inverted Land
- Windy and Carl - Heavy Early & the Creation of Venus
- Yosuke Tokunaga - 5 Doubs / 5 Occurs