Muttley's 20 favourite ambient albums of the year

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In no particular order, my 20 favourite ambient releases I enjoyed listening to in 2013 - some new, some old:

01. Hakobune - Watching The Prescribed Burn

http://acloserlisten.com/2013/04/01/...escribed-burn/

02. Foci's Left - Grumpy Love

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/09/focis-left/

03. ASC - Time Heals All

http://shop.silentseason.com/album/t...als-all-sscd14

04. Secret Pyramid - Movements Of Night

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/10/secret-pyramid/

05. Slow Walkers (Grouper & Lawrence English) - Slow Walkers

http://boomkat.com/downloads/814173-...h-slow-walkers

06. Dirk Serries - Microphonics XXI-XXV

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/11...onics-project/

07. Steve Roach - Soul Tones

http://www.ambientblog.net/blog/2013...lf-ultra-tribe

08. Futuresequence - Sequence 7

http://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/releases

09. EUS - Sol Levit

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/10/eus/

10. Various Artists - Piano By The Sea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzvX2nz4zLQ

11. Ateleia - Formal Sleep (my favourite LP of all time, in any genre)

http://boomkat.com/cds/28386-ateleia-formal-sleep

12. Isnaj Dui - After The Flood

http://isnajdui.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-flood

13. Faures - Continental Drift

http://acloserlisten.com/2013/12/02/...inental-drift/

14. The Seaman And The Tattered Sail - Light Folds

http://www.fac-ture.co.uk/The-Seaman...il-Light-Folds

15. The Angling Loser - Author Of The Twilight

http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/10...-the-twilight/

16. Jon Hopkins - How I Live Now OST

http://www.justmusic.co.uk/store/TAO...y-jon-hopkins/

17. How To Disappear Completely - Still

http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com/2...pletely-still/

18. Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid

http://boomkat.com/downloads/167604-...ars-of-the-lid

19. Foci's Left & Geoff Brooks - Hypnosis Session 1: Dreams

http://focisleft.bandcamp.com/album/...-november-2013

20. 36 - Heather Spa

http://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandc...36-heather-spa


Check one, or two, or whatever Smile
http://rogermartinez.bandcamp.com/

this is by far my favourite ambient album of the year, and there has been many many good ones this year Smile
I've heard two or three of those Wave
I'd been meaning to check that cube! Thanks for the reminder.
Statto Wrote:I've heard two or three of those Wave

That's because you have impeccable taste Kisskiss
Forgot about (but haven't listened in full to) Robert Haigh - Darkling Streams. Is it good?
Btw, will try and tone down my excessive posting and bumping of threads seemingly evident this last week or so on the main board.
Muttley Wrote:Forgot about (but haven't listened in full to) Robert Haigh - Darkling Streams. Is it good?

Yes

but it isn't an ambient album
How would you classify it?
Muttley Wrote:How would you classify it?

piano music Smile
Statto Wrote:
Muttley Wrote:How would you classify it?

piano music Smile

Woah there poindexter, don't get too technical on us.
Hahaha

From what I heard, it's pretty ambient - soporific tone, dreamy texture, droney tempo, melodically concise, no beats, et al.
cube Wrote:http://rogermartinez.bandcamp.com/

this is by far my favourite ambient album of the year, and there has been many many good ones this year Smile

Listening now...this is damn good. Simple, repetitive in the best way possible, then complex as a soundscape in complete euology of itself.
Had to decide if I was going to shell out for it. It's a more time-consuming process to cut up the tracks (it's essentially a suite of sounds). But the lavish drones between 50min-1h especially convinced me. Thanks again Bobby, always a pleasure to hear your best discoveries (even though Busdriver still won't shut up every now and then in my mind).
Nice, I've heard a couple on that list. Smile

Also, Central Industrial - "Tuned to a Dead Channel" is damn good, although I think the first track has some words, but I can't remember for sure...
Heres a couple of my top ambient type albums of 2013;

Phil france - the swimmer
http://www.the-swimmer.co.uk/

Ian O'Brien - poems
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-1-16-Ian-O...rien+poems
John Foxx – Cathedral Oceans III - one of my all time faves

http://www.quietcity.co.uk/discog/cathed...ans_3.html
Will check those Chris, thanks. Incidentally been meaning to get into your Jazz & Funk Album Of The Day thread for a minute. John Foxx's "Raindust" is lovely. Can't remember which album it came out on.

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