by C-poots Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:41 pm
I still listen to a ton of Ambient music, but I tend to cycle through the same artists.
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline: This is my favorite ambient album. I enjoy all of their records I've heard but this one takes the cake. December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface is a classic track.
A Winged Victory for the Sullen - S/T: Another enjoyable album very much SotL inspired. Atmos was pretty good but for strings playing tones, this is a really good jam.
Eluvium - Lambent Material & Talk Amongst the Trees: Both enjoyable distorted tonal albums. He has some good stuff on later releases too but none that play through front to back as well as these IMO
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs & Multiples & Lisbon: The former is the king of 'tones', very peaceful and interesting. Multiples has Stereo Music for Yamaha Disklavier Prototype which is a pretty cool blend of Steve Reich polyrythmic musical repetition and tonal love making. Lisbon is a good mix of the two played live.
Fennesz - Venice: While I think Endless Summer is a better album, Venice is more 'ambient' and plays really nicely when falling to sleep, sans that one track where there is singing which has actually woken me up multiple times.
Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe: Ambient singing. The Harbinger is my favorite track on this long player.
I think there are other albums on the cusp of Ambient but I tried to throw some late night relaxing could fall asleep to or become totally engaged in Ambient. Not stuff like Tim Hecker or Radicalfashion or Machinefabrik or even Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, who all have some great albums that get grouped into this genre often.