Ambient Music Thread Genre

if there is already a related thread, forgive and direct me.

otherwise i'm looking for some good albums to sleep to. i sleep every night with headphones in since my wife snores and it stresses me out.

pretty much lately just basinki's disintegration loops, hammock, and max richter.

what else should i be checking out?

 

jake jenkins listened to tim hecker on spotify

 

Stars of the Lid is the obvious answer

regardless of genre or intent, some of the most sublime and powerful music ever created


besides that, well... there's a world out there:

Eno's Music for Airports or Discreet Music are classics - leaning to the classical (and classic) side
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (composed while sleeping (lucid dreams!) for sleeping)
Gas - Pop (for a beat)
Biosphere - Substrata (a genre classic)
Grouper is great for rainy evenings
Susumu Yokota has very smooth stuff too
Eluvium if you're into classical music
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distorion: a monument, an immense work of art - trance inducing (careful with the last track, it will wake you up); his noise shit is epic too
Kyle Bobby Dunn for some Stars of the Lid worship

and then there's the dronier/noisy side of things, don't know if you can sleep to this but I can

Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet is my fav from him
Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph: his masterpiece - it drones and clacks and hisses but it is also beautiful
Yellow Swans - Going Places: noise-ambient monster
Belong - October Language: power ambient? kind of a more straight up Tim Hecker
Ian William Craig - my favorite artist working today, regardless of genre - check everything, but A Turn of Breath is the best album I've heard in a long minute - looping of voices and drones, beautiful
Rafael Anton Irisarri


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there's also Max Richter's Sleep, which is an 8 hr composition designed for sleeping - not really ambient, but really good for listening intently or sleeping


there's so much stuff out there - tell me what you like and I can point you in the right direction

EDIT because my spelling sucks

 

thanks, i've been listening to sleep since it came out and it's absolutely unreal. also really liked gas's pop (forgot about that one). never liked stars of the lid but maybe i'll give it another try.

definitely a lot of stuff here to check out. much appreciated

 

the last two SotL albums are in my top 10 works of art ever - do try getting into them, I swear they will heal your soul, when needed

I love all things ambient/noise/drone, so feel free to ask whatever, I love talking about it

finally, catch Basinski live if you get the chance - seriously deep

 

Jacaszek - Treny
Deaf Center - Pale Ravine
Leyland James Kirby - Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

 

The American Dollar is really good for that sort of thing

 

i like you.

 

i'd also recommend julianna barwick. any of her albums should do.

 

i think i'm getting a stars of the lid tattoo next week

 

im such an asshole for not mentioning this album. this is one of the greatest albums of all time. absolutely haunting

 

Great suggestions in here.

The Caretaker, Gas, Stars of the Lid, Hecker . . . All some of my favorite albums ever. Will definitely follow up on everything else posted.

 

I've been thinking about doing so myslef for a long minute

what would you get?

 

Nothing too wild. Likely just the artwork for And Their Refinement...I'm meeting with an artist on Thursday to talk about it.

 

post some pics!!

listened to some Sean McCann last night - amazing, everyone get to Ten Impressions

 

you can stream the new Ian William Craig @ Rolling Stone (wtf)

Hear Ian William Craig's Gorgeous Decaying-Tape Symphony 'Centres' | Rolling Stone

album of the year?

 

So excited for that. A Turn of Breath is one of my favorite albums ever.

 

I know, right?

let's be friends

 

i really really enjoy that ian william craig album

 

I think you ambient kids might be interested in this:

The Quietus | News | LISTEN: New Set Fire To Flames

 

I've never heard of this guy but the first song on here is so good even if I wouldn't really call it ambient.

 

Wow seriously this song is something else. I hope the rest of the album is as good.

 

ambient, drone, noise, tape-looping... all those genres are very closely related

but yeah, IWC blowing minds yet again - easily my favorite active artists right now

 

yeah no after track one it definitely sounds way more like what i expected and it's incredible so thank you.

ugh I'm gonna have to go through this guy's disco.

 

happy you liked it - more people need to listen to/support Ian

: )