![]() | Raising Your Voice..Trying To Stop An Echo by Hammock
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £8.98 It really is just a joy to listen to, no words will ever do it justice. Beyond brilliant, beyond classification, and I'll never get tired of it.
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![]() | Copia by Eluvium
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £5.70 Another 'relatively simple, yet stunning' album. I picked Copia for the overall balance that it has, but any of his albums will do the job. Verging on perfection.
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![]() | Dream Signals in Full Circles by Tristeza
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £5.45 Unfairly listenable, generally a similar tone throughout, but each song is distinctly different from the others. A masterclass in band-ambience.
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![]() | Echoes: The Einaudi Collection by Ludovico Einaudi
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £6.56 Einaudi's compositions, whilst usually fairly simple, border on being classified as an addictive substance. Proceed with caution!
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![]() | Together We're Stranger by No-Man
Buy used from: £9.95 Just about nicking into the top 5, a progressive affair that tackles a wide variety of soundscapes - the vocals are incredible. Highly underrated duo.
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![]() | Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
Buy new: £7.08 / Used from: £5.95 Impeccable album that started off 'ambient music' as a whole. Four tracks, all so different, all so magnificent.
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![]() | Things Buried by Richard Barbieri
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £7.01 Porcupine Tree's keyboardist gives a stunning outing on this album, lovely variety of tracks and melodies, top notch.
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![]() | Submers by Loscil
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £36.37 Definitely an acquired taste, supremely minimalistic and chilled-out. Advised try before you buy, here.
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![]() | Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.50 They were always going to be on this list. Scandinavian synths and haunting vocals dominate the sound of this band. Arguably the most popular on this list.
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![]() | Lightdark by Nosound
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £7.99 Bet you've never heard of them, have you? Italian post-rock band with a softer side, both their albums are winners.
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![]() | The Blue Notebooks by Max Richter
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £21.09 Top class. Solo piano for the most part, very sombre tone, amazing despite being liberally 'artsy'!
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![]() | Nah und Fern by Gas
Buy new: £15.98 / Used from: £16.42 Organic soundtrack set to tempered beats and swirling drifts, great price for all four CDs, too.
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![]() | Shenzhou
Buy used from: £31.85 Either this or Substrata is sublime, at the very peak of minimalistic ambience.
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![]() | Molotov and Haze by Steven Wilson
Buy used from: £28.83 A Porcupine Tree side-project, slightly tilted towards drone, but still a well-polished album.
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![]() | The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 The best vocal harmonies I've ever heard, wonderful song construction and highly listenable. Watch out for them in 2009!
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![]() | Sakura by Susumu Yokota
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £6.69 Very varied album of different sounds, synths, drumbeats, loops and outright ambience, it's all here.
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![]() | Beyond Even by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £6.50 Leaps and bounds from track to track like a superhero of the mind, great record from a fantastic pair of composers.
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![]() | Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.73 This is probably the best of theirs, very electronica-inspired ambience, instantly recognisable.
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![]() | Faithful Anchor by Unwed Sailor
Buy used from: £6.23 More guitar-orientated music, very gentle and serene.
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![]() | And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: £15.98 / Used from: £7.50 The worst of the list, but that doesn't mean it's bad. A little samey, but highly chilled loops and melodies. Unique sound.
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