Best(favorite) Ambient Albums of 2021 part 2

A few things I noticed from my year-end list - no berlin-school music, very little what I would call 'space' music, a fair amount of dusty, loop music like Maps & Diagrams or Tapes & Topographies, several guitar based albums like Dave Depper, Dave Nelson, SUSS, and Devendra Banhart, and lastly, a lot of modern classical/modern composition albums from Mastrokristo & Alapastel to Max Richter and Viktor Orri Árnason and Glåsbird.

That collection of favorites is nothing new for me. I've been a big fan of that dusty, noisy, loop-based style for a long time & as modern composition has grown over the years, so has my interest. Although, I may need to dive back into spacey, droney ambient like the stuff in the stargazing mixes.

I guess there's not much else to say for this post other than here is part 2 of my favorite ambient albums of 2021.

Cheers!

 

T R A C K L I S T :

• 00:00    Ben Seretan - Cicada Waves 1 [Cicada Waves on NNA Tapes]
• 05:45    Sonmi451 - Lampenfiber [Seven Signals in the Sky on Laaps]
• 10:10    Bombay Dub Orchestra - Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) Part 3 [Cultivating Compassion (Instrumental Version) on Six Degrees]
• 15:08    Glåsbird - Last Ritual [Siberia on Whitelabrecs]
• 24:26    Sailcloth - Red Woods [Woodcut on Lost Tribe Sound]
• 27:00    Dave Nelson - Easy and Preferred Answers [The Act of Vanishing]
• 29:52    Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson - Three Gates [Refuge on Dead Oceans]
• 33:25    Jens Pauly, Stijn Hüwels - The Leaves Will Fade [When The Night Ends on Vaagner]
• 39:36    Dirk Serries - Recloose(excerpt) [Recloose]
• 48:26    anthéne - Winter Sun [maritime on Ambientologist 2021]
• 53:17    Wil Bolton - Unraveling [Cumulus Sketches on Home Normal]
• 59:05    Jeannine Schulz - River [Luminous on Polar Seas]
• 63:17    Just a Human - Revive(Outro) [Hibernate]
• 65:25    Enrico Coniglio - Everything and Nothing [Alpine Variations on Dronarivm]
• 68:50    Asc & Inhmost - Obscured Form [Dimensional Space on Auxilairy]
• 75:07    Peter Gregson - Over [Patina on Deutsche Grammophon]
• 76:51    end