Best Ambient Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
19	In a Silent Way - Miles Davis	1969	90	84.6	100	88.9	88.2	93.8	86	88.6
37	Silent Hill 2 (Original Soundtracks) - Akira Yamaoka	2001	89.3	85.4	90	92	92.4	96.2	78	90.8
39	Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! - Godspeed You Black Emperor!	2000	89.2	85.4	87	93.2	90	92.8	86	90
57	F♯ A♯ ∞ - Godspeed You Black Emperor!	1997	88.7	83.4	95	89.6	86.6	92.4	84	89.8
71	The Glow Pt. 2 - The Microphones	2001	88.3	83.6	93	90.6	86.1	94.4	83	87.2
81	Low - David Bowie	1977	87.9	82.6	95	87.8	84.8	90.6	86	88.8
82	Blade Runner (Original Score from the Motion Picture) - Vangelis	1994	87.9	83	90	88	89.3	93.6	83	88.6
115	Tunes 2011-2019 - Burial	2019	87.4	83.4	95	87	85.4	93.2	80	88
118	Kid A - Radiohead	2000	87.3	85	79	90.3	86.7	92.4	89	88.8
123	Selected Ambient Works 85–92 - Aphex Twin	1992	87.3	82.2	91	87.6	86.1	94	83	87
175	Minecraft - Volume Alpha - C418	2011	86.5	84	80	92	93.1	93.6	79	83.6
188	Another Green World - Eno	1975	86.4	80.2	99	84.5	81.6	90.8	83	85.6
201	Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Rós	1999	86.3	81	84	87.8	86	91.8	86	87.4
211	Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada	1998	86.2	80.6	90	86.1	84.2	93.8	82	86.6
256	"Heroes" - David Bowie	1977	85.8	80	92	86.9	83.7	89.4	83	85.4
278	The Dance of the Moon and the Sun - Natural Snow Buildings	2006	85.6	80.8	86	88.6	89	92.2	78	84.6
284	flood - Boris	2000	85.6	81.6	80	87.9	88.8	94	81	85.8
292	Untrue - Burial	2007	85.5	80	92	85	82.4	94	80	85.2
341	Get Up With It - Miles Davis	1974	85.1	81.8	89	87	86.7	91.2	80	80
368	Geogaddi - Boards of Canada	2002	84.9	81.2	83	87.1	85	91.6	80	86.6
411	Disco Elysium - Sea Power	2019	84.7	83.4	70	89	92.1	93.2	75	90
413	Future Days - Can	1973	84.7	82	86	84.9	81.9	91	82	84.8
444	And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid	2007	84.5	78.6	87	84.3	86.2	93.4	77	85.2
474	The Blue Notebooks - Max Richter	2004	84.4	73.4	89	82.1	92	92.8	79	82.6
500	Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2016	84.2	76.8	91	84.5	84	88	82	83.4
522	Before and After Science - Brian Eno	1977	84.1	78.8	94	83.5	81	89.6	80	82
546	Promises - Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra	2021	84	79	88	85.7	85.9	92.6	79	77.6
591	Pop - GAS	2000	83.8	76.8	97	80.7	79.8	93	78	81.4
603	KID A MNESIA - Radiohead	2021	83.8	78.2	90	82	84.4	92.8	79	80
639	Meddle - Pink Floyd	1971	83.6	79.6	80	84.1	83.2	90.6	84	84
659	Hex - Bark Psychosis	1994	83.6	77	90	82.4	80.7	92	79	83.8
669	Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin	1994	83.5	79.2	82	86.1	84.3	92	79	82
698	A I A : Alien Observer - Grouper	2011	83.4	78.6	81	84.4	84.3	92.4	80	83
711	Harmony in Ultraviolet - Tim Hecker	2006	83.3	78	86	84.8	81.8	92.6	75	85.2
718	Takk... - Sigur Rós	2005	83.3	75.8	83	85.9	83.9	89.4	82	83.2
737	Ambient 1: Music For Airports - Brian Eno	1979	83.2	76.2	90	82.7	81.7	90	80	82
753	Hosianna Mantra - Popol Vuh	1972	83.2	76.6	88	80.8	81.8	90.6	80	84.4
773	The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails	1999	83	80.2	71	87.6	86.3	92	79	85.2
775	Neu! '75 - Neu!	1975	83	77.6	93	81	78.3	89.4	80	82
792	The Social Network (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross	2010	83	77.2	76	86	92.6	90	77	82.2
805	Hvis lyset tar oss - Burzum	1994	83	77	90	78.9	79.8	93.2	76	85.8
828	Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker	2011	82.9	77.6	84	84.3	84.2	91.8	77	81.4
872	Virgins - Tim Hecker	2013	82.8	78.4	83	85.2	83.7	89.8	77	82.2
890	Lifeforms - The Future Sound Of London	1994	82.7	73.4	92	80.6	83.1	93.2	73	83.8
904	OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES - SOPHIE	2018	82.7	77.4	85	85.9	86.7	92.6	77	74
921	Lost Weekend - Phoebe Bridgers	2026	82.6	72.4	91	83.6	82.2	96.4	76	76.8
927	Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You - Ethel Cain	2025	82.6	75.2	83	84.5	83.7	96.2	76	79.6
963	Radio Amor - Tim Hecker	2003	82.5	78.8	81	84.9	82.3	93.2	77	80
991	The Disintegration Loops III - William Basinski	2003	82.4	74.4	95	80.9	82.3	89.2	75	80
998	Garbage - Autechre	1995	82.4	75.8	90	79.2	78	92.6	79	82
1001	The Disintegration Loops II - William Basinski	2003	82.4	74	90	81.7	82.4	90.2	78	80.2
1033	Inferno - Boards of Canada	2026	82.3	76.4	82	81.3	79.6	95.2	78	83.4
1046	Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill - Grouper	2008	82.2	76.8	82	82.6	83.7	92.4	78	80.2
1051	In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - Boards of Canada	2000	82.2	79	77	81.7	82.2	93.6	80	82.2
1076	Dead Magic - Anna von Hausswolff	2018	82.2	77.4	78	85	86.8	91.2	76	80.8
1080	Neu! - Neu!	1972	82.2	75.2	95	78.2	78.2	90.6	80	78
1098	Ghosteen - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	2019	82.1	72.6	93	80.9	82.1	89	79	78.2
1142	76:14 - Global Communication	1994	82	75.8	83	81.2	84.2	95.2	73	81.8
1162	Immunity - Jon Hopkins	2013	82	75.4	84	83.1	81.7	91	77	81.6
1244	Chill Out - The KLF	1990	81.8	75.2	82	81.1	82.1	94.2	76	81.8
1251	Zauberberg - GAS	1997	81.8	74.4	89	79.2	79.3	93.4	77	80
1267	An empty bliss beyond this World - The Caretaker	2011	81.7	74.4	81	83.6	83.6	94.4	77	78
1270	A Rainbow in Curved Air - Terry Riley	1969	81.7	74.4	96	78.8	75.8	89	78	80
1278	Rubycon - Tangerine Dream	1975	81.7	75	90	79	76.5	87.4	80	84
1305	94diskont. - Oval	1995	81.6	73.4	100	77.3	78	87.8	76	79
1337	He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms… - A Silver Mt. Zion	2000	81.6	76	83	84.1	81.2	87.6	78	81
1362	New Age of Earth - Ashra	1976	81.5	75.4	90	80.4	79.1	89.8	76	80
1371	Substrata - Biosphere	1997	81.5	75.8	77	81.1	82.2	95.4	76	83
1415	Weighing Souls With Sand - The Angelic Process	2007	81.4	76	80	83	81.6	91.6	72	85.6
1425	OM - Negură Bunget	2006	81.4	73.2	85	80.4	82.9	92.6	73	82.6
1438	The Pavilion of Dreams - Harold Budd	1978	81.3	76.6	75	82.1	82.9	91.8	79	82
1443	cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD	2001	81.3	73.4	85	79.7	78.3	91	80	82
1452	///CODENAME: dustsucker - Bark Psychosis	2004	81.3	76.2	81	80.6	81	91.2	78	81.2
1469	A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen	2011	81.3	72.6	81	80.9	83.8	91.6	78	81
1478	Filosofem - Burzum	1996	81.2	77.4	80	77.8	81.5	93.4	75	83.6
1501	Endless Summer - Fennesz	2001	81.2	73.8	93	79.6	79.4	90.6	76	76
1512	Sakura - Susumu Yokota	2000	81.2	73.4	87	80	80.5	93.4	76	78
1516	Loud City Song - Julia Holter	2013	81.2	75.4	83	83.1	82.7	86	78	80
1582	Rival Dealer - Burial	2013	81	76.8	80	82.9	84.6	88	77	78
1583	async - Ryuichi Sakamoto	2017	81	74.4	84	79.5	85	91.4	76	77
1586	The Campfire Headphase - Boards of Canada	2005	81	77	76	83.9	81.3	90.2	79	79.8
1614	"X" - Klaus Schulze	1978	81	77.4	80	79.9	83.3	88.2	76	82
1628	Ambient 4: On Land - Brian Eno	1982	81	74.8	84	80.8	79.7	89.4	78	80
1629	Gone to Earth - David Sylvian	1986	81	75	78	81.4	85.7	88.8	74	83.8
1671	Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror - Harold Budd & Brian Eno	1980	80.9	76.4	82	82.1	81.6	90	78	76
1688	Big Science - Laurie Anderson	1982	80.8	74.2	88	79.7	80.2	85.8	78	80
1691	A I A : Dream Loss - Grouper	2011	80.8	74.2	79	79.7	80.8	91	79	82.2
1719	Space 1.8 - Nala Sinephro	2021	80.8	73.4	89	79.9	82.2	94	73	74
1736	Deluxe - Harmonia	1975	80.8	74.2	93	76.7	78.8	89.6	75	78
1743	Replica - Oneohtrix Point Never	2011	80.7	77	79	83.3	81	89.4	76	79.4
1762	"Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward" - The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band	2001	80.7	73.4	85	83.1	83.6	86.2	75	78.6
1766	Phaedra - Tangerine Dream	1974	80.7	74.8	87	80	73.2	87.8	78	84
1809	Autobahn - Kraftwerk	1974	80.6	74	90	79.4	74.8	88.2	78	80
1868	Going Places - Yellow Swans	2010	80.5	77	80	82.6	80.1	90.2	74	79.6
1872	Ruins - Grouper	2014	80.5	74.8	80	80.8	80.5	90.6	78	78.8
1877	A Lonely Sinner - samlrc	2024	80.5	74.4	91	83.7	81.7	91.6	73	68
1881	Musik von Harmonia - Harmonia	1974	80.5	72.6	88	75.8	76.2	90.8	80	80
1942	Königsforst - GAS	1998	80.3	74.4	81	78.3	81.3	93.4	75	79
2004	Zuckerzeit - Cluster	1974	80.2	72.8	90	75.1	77.5	91.2	77	78
2015	Beat - Bowery Electric	1996	80.2	74	84	80.9	78.5	92	76	76

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