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Drift into the depths of sound with our carefully curated list of 22 ambient releases exploring the far reaches of mood, texture and tone. From glacial drone meditations and dusty lo-fi loops to brooding dark ambient pieces and atmospheric cinematic compositions, these albums push boundaries while pulling listeners inward. Whether you’re drawn to experimental soundscapes or seeking a moment of stillness to dissolve into, this list is a guide through the quiet, the strange and the beautifully unresolved.
Part 1 features LPs and EPs arranged by their Release Date as they were published between the start of January and the end of June, 2025. A bonus track is also included, highlighting the Romanian Street Art cultural program.
1. Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy – Heal [PSY X Records]
Berlin-based ambient musician Pavel Milyakov teams up with UK-based visual artist Lucas Dupuy to present “Heal” on PSY X Records, an hour-long electroacoustic ambient album influenced by the ’90s New Age movement. It all started with a selection of synthesizer experiments by the British artist, combined with field recordings captured during his time in Japan. These materials were handed over to Milyakov, who processed them using Quantum, a custom-built software instrument engineered to produce unexpected transformations through intricate modulations and erratic signal flows. Much like Dupuy blending scanning technology with painting, Milyakov took on the roles of editor and composer, guiding a synthetic ensemble that seemed to operate with its own will, creating a vibrant, meditative sonic experience.
Format: PSY 011 / CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 01.01.2025
2. New Mexican Stargazers – Patient Floral Arrangement [Sweet Chunk]
“Patient Floral Arrangement” is a 90-minute dive into real-time ambient, drone, lo-fi and experimental jams signed by Carter Eggert aka New Mexican Stargazers from Nashville, Tennessee. Published via Philadelphia-based record label Sweet Chunk, the album incorporates the artist’s distinct indie and psychedelic sound while rendering an emotional depth based on everyday contemplations. Cover artwork and tape design by Magdalene. Two bonus tracks are exclusive to the cassette version.
Format: SCK012 / 2 x Cassette ltd, Digital
Release Date: 03.01.2025
3. Heavenchord & Infinity Dots – Forever Drone [Secret Domain]
Once again, Heavenchord and Infinity Dots join forces for another outstanding collaboration, brought forward in the form of “Forever Drone” EP, released via Secret Domain early in January this year. Each track invites the listener on a vibrant journey through inner and outer worlds, coming together to form a cohesive, organic experience, driven by meandering ambient textures and psychedelic sound design.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 07.01.2025
4. William Basinski & Richard Chartier – Aurora Terminalis [LINE]
William Basinski and Richard Chartier return to LINE with “Aurora Terminalis”, their first new collaborative work since the “Divertissement” LP, released via Important Records in 2015. Combining the minimal aesthetics of ambient with rhythmic and liquid stances of contemporary electronic music, the material delivers a spiralling sound that steadily fades away from the main focal point to a specific background landscape. The artwork represents a detail of “Glass Eye” by James Elaine (acrylic and house paints, razor cuts on canvas, 2024).
Format: LINE_157 / Digital
Release Date: 10.01.2025
5. U.e. (Ulla Straus) – Hometown Girl [28912]
Exploring a deep and emotive fusion of ambient, jazz and lo-fi recordings, the mysterious Ulla Straus drops “Hometown Girl” under her U.e. alias on her freshly founded record label 28912. Warm and steady, each track flows into the next, like paint on a canvas, but in frames. Introspective and outspoken at the same time, the LP is designed with several layers of instruments that easily transform into a mesmerising and melancholic journey.
Format: 28912-1 / Digital
Release Date: 16.01.2025
6. Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano – Split Scale [Thrill Jockey]
When the Brueder Selke duo, consisting of brothers Sebastian on cello and Daniel on piano, meet with the versatile Japanese artist Midori Hirano, we get “Split Scale” published via the American imprint Thrill Jockey. The artists chose a simple concept, following a western scale from beginning to end, and from this created a suite of sublime, synesthetic soundscapes and cinematic movements. The vivid tapestry of sound and color is luminous and emotive, perfectly matching the artwork signed by Daniel Castrejon.
Format: THRILL626 / Vinyl ltd, CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 24.01.2025
7. Makunouchi Bento – Saloane SCRUM [self-released]
Romanian artists Felix Petrescu and Valentin Toma aka Makunouchi Bento return to their Bandcamp page with an exquisite independent realase titled “Saloane SCRUM” which offers a collection of five immersive pieces that merge ambient, IDM and leftfield electronica into a cinematic affair with an experimental touch. Rooted in poetry, the album highlights the duo’s creative powers once more, as it unleashes a complex, organic soundscape with strong psychedelic influences.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 28.01.2025
8. Ocean Moon – Ways To The Deep Meadow [Music From Memory]
Jon Tye aka Ocean Moon presents “Ways To The Deep Meadow” on Dutch record label Music From Memory, inspired by the poem “Universal Solar Calendar” written by poet, mystic, shaman and visionary Angus Maclise, who played with the Velvet Underground before moving to Nepal, where he wrote and published an impressive collection of poetry and music. Side A was created at a time when Tye had been exploring ideas around Artificial Intelligence, while Side B consists of two long-form pieces, one composed for Janine Rook’s “Made In Dreams” exhibition and the other for Vix Hill Ryder’s “Wild Edges” film. Sleeve art and design by Michael Willis.
Format: MFM073 / Vinyl ltd, Digital
Release Date: 31.01.2025
9. Sara Persico – Sphaîra [Subtext Recordings / Multiverse LTD]
In October 2022, Italian artist Sara Persico was visiting Beirut and took the time to head north to Tripoli and explore the UNESCO World Heritage site aptly named Experimental Theatre, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer between 1962 and 1967 for the Rachid Karami International Fair. The acoustics there produce a unique effect that allows visitors standing on opposite sides of the building to hear each other even when whispering. Inspired by the location, she took on singing, screaming, moving objects and producing sound with metal plates that hung from the roof of the structure, sketching out every corner of the theatre into “Sphaîra”, which later received production upgrades assisted by Belgian sound designer Koenraad Ecker. Additionally, Persico embarked on an adventurous audio-visual collaboration with Mika Oki, opening a meditative dimension to this experience and inviting the audience to explore the edges of perception and presence.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 04.02.2025
10. Park Jiha – All Living Things [Glitterbeat / Tak:til]
The acclaimed Korean composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha presents her 4th studio album “All Living Things” via German label Glitterbeat and its sub-label Tak:til. All tracks are a tender and profound meditation on the miracle of life, evoking the feeling of belonging in the universe. Using traditional instruments like the piri, yanggeum and saenghwang alongside bells, flute, glockenspiel, electronics and her voice, Park creates a dynamic flow of textures and rhythms that blend ambient music with sonic experimentation and contemporary sound design. The graphic design for the artwork is signed by Post Poetics.
Format: GBCD 165 / Vinyl ltd, CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 14.02.2025
11. Toki Fuko – Phantom Scripts [spclnch]
The Dutch electronic music label spclnch (short for Spacelunch) presents the first chapter of their SPCLNCH BLACK series with Toki Fuko at the controls delivering four immersive ambient tracks in the form of “Phantom Scripts” EP. The concept aims to bring even more flavour to the imprint’s extended catalogue by exploring a sonic realm where sound becomes a gateway to the unknown, where minimalism, depth and mystery unfold through music. Here, weaving patterns of sparse drums, grainy background atmospheres, ghostly pads, randomised chords and glitched effects create a surreal soundscape that seems to carry messages from the void and vibrations beyond reality. The mastering was provided by Pheek.
Format: SPCLNCH-BLACK-01 / Vinyl ltd, Digital
Release Date: 12.03.2025
12. 400 Lonely Things – Subdivisions [Unexplained Sounds Group / Dissipatio]
Craig Varian aka 400 Lonely Things returns with another memorable album titled “Subdivisions” published in collaboration with Raffaele Pezzella’s Unexplained Sounds Group and Nicola Quiriconi’s Dissipatio. The album marks a departure from the project’s conceptual and thematic approaches of the past. For the first time, there is no overarching narrative, no predefined agenda, just music existing in its purest form as it incorporates ambient, dark ambient and experimental vibes with a cinematic edge. Each track functions like a memory of a memory, a fleeting impression untethered to any specific story or framework. These pieces are nebulous journal entries, capturing the essence of a time, a place and a mood.
Format: USG102, DISS031 / CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 12.03.2025
13. Marco Shuttle – Sonidos Y Modulaciones De La Selva [Astral Industries]
Italian artist Marco Shuttle debuts on Astral Industries with “Sonidos y Modulaciones de la Selva”, an alluring and evocative album inspired by the artist’s journey deep into the Amazon rainforest. Seeking to capture its power and vastness, but also its impending destruction, Marco used both audio and visual documentation as source material, with most of the field recordings taken in the Tupana Arü Ü nature reserve in the Amazon region of Colombia, between Leticia and Puerto Nariño. The seamless interplay between nature and the machines sees them merge into a mysterious dance, forming a liquid sequence of scenes that shimmer with flora, fauna and the unmistakable aliveness of the jungle. A procession of cavernous pulsations, sprawling biologies and hidden mysteries, the jungle as an entity, a spirit, begins to emerge.
Format: AI-39 / Vinyl ltd, Digital
Release Date: 14.03.2025
14. Whatever The Weather – Whatever The Weather II [Ghostly International]
In just over five years, London-based artist Loraine James has become a defining voice in experimental electronic music, known for her intricate programming and emotionally charged compositions. Under her alias Whatever The Weather, she explores a more introspective, atmospheric sound rooted in ambient textures and abstract rhythms, processed through a variety of digital and analogue methods. Her latest release on Ghostly International, a 12-track carefully crafted session titled “Whatever The Weather II”, deepens this approach, shifting between immersive ambience, fragmented beats and field recordings, guided by an intuitive sense of emotional temperature. Trusted collaborators include Josh Eustis (aka Telefon Tel Aviv) on the mastering, photographer Collin Hughes and designer Justin Hunt Sloane.
Format: GI-446 / Vinyl ltd, Digital
Release Date: 14.03.2025
15. bvdub (Brock Van Wey) – Oak and Divisadero [self-released]
Brock Van Wey aka bvdub has been around for quite some time now, always delivering mind-bending sounds for ambient, IDM and leftfield music lovers out there, publishing over 50 LPs and EPs through labels like Night Drive Music, 2600 Records, Quietus Recordings, Darla, Home Normal, n5MD, Apollo, Glacial Movements, AY and Millions Of Moments, to name a few. Self-released in March via his Bandcamp page, “Oak and Divisadero” unfolds six tracks from a journey through his archives, one focused on and inspired by a short but intense relationship he had back in 1999 with a mysterious girl who definitely left a mark deep within him. One again, his work is a testament to music’s power to channel personal experience into universal emotional depth.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 20.03.2025
16. Nomad (Miron Ghiu) – Spaces between spaces [New Romanian Weird]
Miron Ghiu is no stranger to the contemporary art and music scenes, with 15+ years of experience under his belt, either working solo on his intimate projects or as part of Nava Spațială duo alongside Claudiu Chihăescu. His intrinsic sound explorations are rooted in raw noise, delicate ambient textures, pure experimental sessions and everything in between and beyond. At the start of April this year, he dispatched “Spaces between spaces” on New Romanian Weird record label under the alias Nomad, putting forward two extended tracks featuring his signature sound and a one-hour-long ambient edit of “Deconstruction of Sounds from Angola”, which feels like an ethereal moment suspended in time. The artwork design is signed by Atouck.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 03.04.2025
17. •:• – Artifacts (Part 1 & Part 2) [Floating Vestibule]
Rare, minimalist and truthful to the combination of ambient, lo-fi and psychedelic, both parts of “Artifacts” brought forward by an unknown artist through the ASCII code •:• symbols via Colorado-based abstract music powerhouse Floating Vestibule definitely hit the spot. From hazy synth impulses and grungy drones on the 1st part to low-slung soundscapes on part 2, the journey delves into melancholia and some sort of retro-futuristic vaporwave with a pinch of psychedelia.
Format: FloatingVestibule077, FloatingVestibule078 / Digital
Release Date: 22.04.2025
18. marine eyes – quiet circle [self-released]
Los Angeles-based Cynthia Bernard aka marine eyes blends ambient, shoegaze, drone, field recordings and dream pop into a sonic narrative born in the present moment yet intertwined with lessons from her past. She regularly finds herself lost and found, exploring the healing qualities of sound and cementing important moments she has experienced while welcoming stillness in nature. Inspired by a memory fragment, “quiet circle” is all about carving out space for our silent moments in life, when everything else appears to be moving fast and with no direction.
Format: Digital
Release Date: 25.04.2025
19. Loscil – Lake Fire [Kranky]
Vancouver-based artist Scott Morgan aka Loscil has constantly shaped the ambient music landscape with his emotionally resonant, electroacoustic soundscapes. Blending digital minimalism with organic textures, his work evokes a deep sense of place, memory and atmosphere, transforming silence into sonic architecture with each release. Built around gentle synth pulses, meandering textures and subtle harmonic shifts, “Lake Fire” continues his exploration of ambient music with a focused, meditative intensity, evoking both the stillness and volatility of nature. Like most of his timeless releases, the album is published via Kranky, the iconic Chicago label founded in 1993 by Bruce Adams and Joel Leoschke.
Format: KRANK247 / 2 x Vinyl ltd, CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 02.05.2025
20. Cole Pulice – Land’s End Eternal [Leaving Records]
Combining electroacoustic and ambient elements with the saxophone and dissonant electric guitar tones has never been so comforting until Oakland-based artist Cole Pulice brought forward “Land’s End Eternal” on Leaving Records. The notion of a bridge between worlds is a connective thread that runs through all tracks. The real Lands End is a park in San Francisco, a beach with a rocky shoreline and the capacity to evoke the sensation of an edge. It’s the hidden nook of the album’s centrepiece, an actual place transformed into an astral plane where two instruments can orbit one another without end. The artwork and design are signed by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin.
Format: LR276 / Vinyl ltd, Cassette ltd, Digital
Release Date: 09.05.2025
21. Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe – Luminal / Lateral [Verve Label Group / Opal Limited]
With their albums “Luminal” and “Lateral”, ambient music legend Brian Eno and conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe deliver two projects that are as independent as they are interconnected. According to press notes, the second record led by Eno is “Space music”, while the first, headed by Wolfe is “Dream music”. This mesmerising collaboration was set in motion when the two artists met in 2022 at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. In a conversation titled “Art & Climate”, the duo discussed the role of art and design in addressing the climate change crisis while exchanging their views on various subjects, with an emphasis on music being a conveyor of feelings. The two albums are now available via Verve Label Group and Opal Limited in all formats, including BioVinyl.
Format: Vinyl ltd, CD ltd, Digital
Release Date: 06.06.2025
22. Cosmin TRG x DYL – Manevre [Detach Recordings]
Romanian artists Cosmin TRG and DYL team up for “Manevre” EP, delivering four futuristic “manoeuvres” alongside Dutch DJ and producer Tammo Hesselink on remix duties. Coming up on Czech label Detach Recordings, the material delivers an inspiring combination of IDM, ambient and leftfield electronica, with subtle drum & bass and techno influences, moving fluidly between tempos and atmospheres. The mastering is provided by LXC at Wattasound, while the artwork is signed by Neil Johnston and Ivan Sikyr.
Format: DET008 / Vinyl ltd, Digital
Release Date: 23.06.2025
Bonus Track: Paul K (soundtrack) & Homeboy LDJ (mural) x Romanian Street Art
Following the work created in Iasi by Pisica Pătrată and Harcea Pacea, in Cluj by Ma.tei and the multidisciplinary interventions by Sunshiners (mural) & Cezar Lazăr (soundtrack), Delia Cîrstea (mural) & Kozo (soundtrack) in Bucharest, the 5th artistic intervention in the multi-annual Romanian Street Art program features Paul K at the controls for the soundtrack designed for Homeboy LDJ‘s upcoming mural.
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Words by: AndreiB
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