Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 1

 

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, with links to each album:

1. Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight

2. Almost An Island - Almost An Island

3. Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes

4. Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring

5. Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan

6. Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange

7. Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness

8. Dictaphone - Unstable

9. Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time

10. Erik M - Soft Wish

11. Florian TM Zeisig - A New Life

12. Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima

13. Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky

14. M. Sage - Tender / Wading

15. Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6

16. offthesky - form.radio

17. offthesky - Nocturnas

18. Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson

19. Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms

20. Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path

21. Six Missing - Without Mind

22. Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky

23. Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations

24. Xu - Murmurs of the Machine

25. Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky

26. 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!

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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