Favorite Ambient Albums of 2025 Part 1

When end-of-the-year list season began I wasn't sure if I was going to do a favorite ambient albums list. I wasn't as locked into ambient as much this year as in the past. I spent most of my listening time in indie, jazz, and berlin-school. I had several ambient albums that would for sure make my list so I started with those and the next thing I knew - I had a list of 26 albums that are my 2025 favorites. Here are my favorite ambient albums of 2025, in alphabetical order: Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight Almost An Island - Almost An Island Andrew Heath - Signals and Codes Anthéne & Simon McCorry - Wellspring Bill Brennan and Andy McNeill - Dreaming In Gamelan Byron Metcalf - Spiral Exchange Clarice Jensen - In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness Dictaphone - Unstable Emily A. Sprague - Cloud Time Erik M - Soft Wish Florian T M Zeisig - A New Life Lab's Cloud and Flavio Salvaje - Kalima Loneward - Musings of a Painted Sky M. Sage - Tender Wading Martin Stürtzer - Nexus-6 offthesky - form.radio offthesky - Nocturnas Peter Gregson - Peter Gregson Rod Modell - Northern Michigan Snowstorms Seabuckthorn - A Path Within A Path Six Missing - Without Mind Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky Taylor Deupree & Zimoun - Wind Dynamic Organ, Deviations Xu - Murmurs of the Machine Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee - Beneath the Hanging Sky zakè - Silentium I made two mixes so it will be a little easier to digest. This post is for part one. I hope you enjoy this look back at 2025. Cheers! T R A C K L I S T : 00:00   Erik M. - Tall as Grass (Soft Wish) 03:55   Offthesky - Poised Above A Place (Nocturnas) 08:06   Rod Modell - Snowstorm In Munising (Snowstorm In Munising) 13:40   Emily A. Sprague - Osaka (Cloud Time) 19:23   Florian T M Zeisig - Earth Loop (A New Life) 21:00   M. Sage - Fracking Starlight (Tender / Wading) 26:18   Dictaphone - 122 (Unstable) 29:50   Six Missing - Sit Down and Play (Without Mind) 35:38   Peter Gregson - Prism (Peter Gregson) 38:37   Clarice Jensen - From A to B (In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness) 44:05   Alexander Knaifel - Chapter Eight: Stanza XXIII-XXXII (Chapter Eight) 49:15   Martin Sturtzer - Nexus-6 (Nexus-6) 55:30   Yorkshire Modular Society - Beneath the Hanging Sky (Beneath the Hanging Sky) 01:09:28   end