Best Drone Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
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
67	Everywhere at the end of time - The Caretaker	2019	88.4	78.4	100	90	88.6	91.8	82	88
85	Soundtracks for the Blind - Swans	1996	87.9	83	93	88.7	86.1	93	83	88.4
89	Deathconsciousness - Have a Nice Life	2008	87.8	82.6	90	90.9	88.2	95	81	87
229	To Be Kind - Swans	2014	86	81.2	88	88.6	85	92.6	82	84.6
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
295	Structures from Silence - Steve Roach	1984	85.5	78.2	100	84.2	81.4	93.8	77	83.8
296	Mount Eerie - The Microphones	2003	85.5	80.8	93	88	85.3	92	79	80.2
314	The Seer - Swans	2012	85.3	80.2	86	88.2	86	91.6	81	84.2
414	The Ascension - Glenn Branca	1981	84.7	79.4	92	84.7	82.9	90.6	79	84
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
500	Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	2016	84.2	76.8	91	84.5	84	88	82	83.4
572	The Glowing Man - Swans	2016	83.9	80	80	89.5	86.7	91	81	79
591	Pop - GAS	2000	83.8	76.8	97	80.7	79.8	93	78	81.4
649	Microphones in 2020 - The Microphones	2020	83.6	79	85	85.6	87	92.2	78	78.4
669	Selected Ambient Works Volume II - Aphex Twin	1994	83.5	79.2	82	86.1	84.3	92	79	82
696	Dronevil -Final- - Boris	2006	83.4	76.8	80	89	88.8	90.8	78	80.4
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
730	Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 6 - The Caretaker	2019	83.3	75.4	88	84.7	87.1	92.8	77	77.8
828	Ravedeath, 1972 - Tim Hecker	2011	82.9	77.6	84	84.3	84.2	91.8	77	81.4
843	Consume Red - Ground-Zero	1997	82.9	79.2	90	84.6	83.2	90.2	74	78.8
891	Desertshore - Nico	1970	82.7	77.6	90	82.4	81.8	88.2	77	82
914	SINNER GET READY - Lingua Ignota	2021	82.6	77.4	86	86	85.5	91	77	75.6
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
1001	The Disintegration Loops II - William Basinski	2003	82.4	74	90	81.7	82.4	90.2	78	80.2
1046	Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill - Grouper	2008	82.2	76.8	82	82.6	83.7	92.4	78	80.2
1059	Faust IV - Faust	1973	82.2	77.2	91	80	75.1	90.2	80	82
1076	Dead Magic - Anna von Hausswolff	2018	82.2	77.4	78	85	86.8	91.2	76	80.8
1097	This Heat - This Heat	1979	82.1	76.8	91	79.1	79.7	92.2	76	80
1125	ICONOCLASTS - Anna von Hausswolff	2025	82.1	75.2	87	82.3	81.3	92.4	76	80.2
1159	'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - God's Pee	2012	82	75.8	83	86.5	81.5	87.4	80	79.6
1225	Bad Timing - Jim O'Rourke	1997	81.8	77.6	80	82.8	84.3	89.8	78	80.2
1270	A Rainbow in Curved Air - Terry Riley	1969	81.7	74.4	96	78.8	75.8	89	78	80
1305	94diskont. - Oval	1995	81.6	73.4	100	77.3	78	87.8	76	79
1350	Irrlicht - Klaus Schulze	1972	81.5	73.4	100	76.3	76.1	88	77	80
1404	The Lamb as Effigy - Sprain	2023	81.4	74	85	82.3	82.2	95.6	77	74
1415	Weighing Souls With Sand - The Angelic Process	2007	81.4	76	80	83	81.6	91.6	72	85.6
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
1505	Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You! Black Emperor	2002	81.2	77.8	75	86.3	83.2	88	80	78
1642	Plays The Music of Twin Peaks - Xiu Xiu	2016	80.9	76.4	76	83.8	85.4	88.6	77	79.2
1691	A I A : Dream Loss - Grouper	2011	80.8	74.2	79	79.7	80.8	91	79	82.2
1710	Night Palace - Mount Eerie	2024	80.8	76.8	82	83.2	79	93.6	75	76
1725	"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor	2024	80.8	77.8	78	85.7	82.7	92.2	77	72
1746	All the Pretty Little Horses - Current 93	1996	80.7	75	80	79.7	82	91.8	73	83.6
1831	The Marble Index - Nico	1968	80.6	76.4	85	80.7	79.7	88.2	76	78
1852	Birthing - Swans	2025	80.5	76	84	81.1	78	92.6	75	77
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
1903	Tarot Sport - Fuck Buttons	2009	80.4	73	81	81	79.6	87	81	80.4
1942	Königsforst - GAS	1998	80.3	74.4	81	78.3	81.3	93.4	75	79
1980	Public Strain - Women	2010	80.3	75.4	78	80.2	82.7	90.2	76	79.4
2015	Beat - Bowery Electric	1996	80.2	74	84	80.9	78.5	92	76	76
2095	Black One - Sunn O)))	2005	80.1	72.6	90	78	76.4	90.4	77	76
2161	Wind's Poem - Mount Eerie	2009	79.9	74.2	84	81.9	78.2	87.2	76	78
2172	Below the House - Planning For Burial	2017	79.9	72.2	85	79.9	79.7	91.6	75	76
2216	HEY WHAT - Low	2021	79.8	74.2	82	79.3	76.9	90.8	78	77.6
2255	Double Negative - Low	2018	79.8	72.2	83	79.3	78.8	89.4	77	78.6
2271	Hole in the Heart - Ramleh	1987	79.7	76.6	80	79.2	79.1	93.2	72	78
2275	False Lankum - Lankum	2023	79.7	74.2	87	76.4	75.9	93.2	74	77.4
2314	Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 4 - The Caretaker	2018	79.7	73	76	82.3	83.3	90	77	76
2360	Love Is a Stream - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma	2010	79.6	74	80	78.7	78.1	91.4	74	80.8
2392	The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull - Earth	2008	79.5	72.8	82	77.3	77.8	90.8	78	78
2464	Venice - Fennesz	2004	79.4	73.4	81	79.8	77.1	88.4	78	78
2484	In den Gärten Pharaos - Popol Vuh	1971	79.3	74.6	85	78.6	71.4	90.8	77	78
2520	Public Castration Is a Good Idea - Swans	1986	79.3	75.6	77	75.9	78.5	90	76	82
2523	If You're Into It, I'm Out of It - Christoph de Babalon	1997	79.3	74.6	75	80.4	79.1	91.2	73	81.6
2555	The Curtain Hits the Cast - Low	1996	79.2	76	75	81	80.6	89.8	74	78
2592	Monoliths and Dimensions - Sunn O)))	2009	79.1	73.2	85	79	75.3	90.4	77	74
2597	The End... - Nico	1974	79.1	73.8	80	81.9	78.3	85.8	76	78
2618	Mirages - Tim Hecker	2004	79.1	74.4	80	78.7	80.5	91.8	74	74
2655	Melancholia - William Basinski	2003	79	72.8	77	76.8	79.2	91.2	76	80
2716	The Narcissist II - Dean Blunt	2012	78.9	74.8	76	79.6	79	93	76	74
2789	Zeit - Tangerine Dream	1972	78.8	73.8	85	77.2	73.7	86.8	75	80
2844	Playing With Fire - Spacemen 3	1989	78.7	70.6	91	75.9	67.3	91	77	78
2856	Clear Moon - Mount Eerie	2012	78.7	72.2	81	80.4	75.8	86.2	77	78
2947	G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor	2021	78.5	72.2	82	78.6	75.9	89.6	77	74
3042	Excavation - The Haxan Cloak	2013	78.3	70.4	84	78.2	76.5	90	73	76
3142	Living Torch - Kali Malone	2022	78.1	73	80	75.1	78.9	91.6	74	74
3203	The Man Who Died in His Boat - Grouper	2013	77.9	69.4	80	78.4	79.9	88.8	75	74
3244	Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno	1985	77.8	71.6	86	77.7	78.6	86	73	72
3250	The Unnatural World - Have a Nice Life	2014	77.8	72.8	70	81.6	79.8	89.6	73	78
3260	Shaking the Habitual - The Knife	2013	77.8	71.4	80	79.7	78.1	83.4	74	78
3261	Bloweyelashwish - lovesliescrushing	1993	77.8	71	80	76.4	74.8	90.4	76	76
3275	The Beggar - Swans	2023	77.8	73.2	77	80.3	77.3	88.6	76	72
3287	Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never	2010	77.7	71.6	82	78.1	74.9	86.6	75	76
3566	Perverts - Ethel Cain	2025	77.1	74.8	78	78.6	74.2	91.2	71	72
3568	Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 5 - The Caretaker	2018	77.1	70.8	70	77.9	82.1	91	74	74
3625	Konoyo - Tim Hecker	2018	77	71.4	78	75.7	75	87.2	74	77.6
3675	Motherfucker, I am Both: "Amen" and "Hallelujah"... - Shearling	2025	76.8	70.6	81	75.7	78.6	95	67	70
3747	goodbye, world! - miffle	2025	76.6	72.2	80	78.4	75.5	93.4	73	64
3775	Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method - Earth	2005	76.6	70.8	78	71.5	71.6	91.2	75	78
3946	Glitch Princess - yeule	2022	76.1	69.4	82	75.9	73.7	89.6	70	72
3972	On Avery Island - Neutral Milk Hotel	1996	76	73	72	77.8	76.1	85.2	78	70
3981	No Highs - Tim Hecker	2023	76	72.4	72	76.5	73.2	88.8	73	76
4024	All Thoughts Fly - Anna von Hausswolff	2020	75.9	70.2	77	74.8	76.2	89	72	72

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