Ambient music is all about the in-between—the space where sound melts into feeling, where time stretches and everything gets a little blurry. This month’s picks drift from cosmic synth voyages to hushed piano meditations, from hazy guitar loops to weightless drones.
Whether you’re after something to soundtrack a foggy morning, a late-night stare at the ceiling, or just a deep exhale, we’ve got you covered. Plug in, zone out, and let these 15 tracks take you somewhere else—wherever that may be.
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MK Velsorf, Aase Nielsen, Laurel Halo – House In The Hills
Opening Night is a set of minimalist instrumentals by MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen, performed live at the New Theater Hollywood’s gala. Blending e-guitar, e-piano, and loops, it drifts between ambient warmth and quiet tension. Echoing Erik Satie, Arthur Russell, and Michael Mann’s moody soundscapes, it’s groovy yet sparse—perfect for getting lost in.
DOVS – Ancient Rivers
DOVS—aka Vienna’s Johannes Auvinen (Tin Man) and Mexico City’s Gabo Barranco (AAAA)—return with Psychic Geography, a deep dive into beatless, shape-shifting ambient music. Unlike their acid-driven 2019 debut, Silent Cities, this LP ditches the drums entirely, letting liquid synths and shifting tones take center stage.
Puma Blue – decater bells
Puma Blue, the alias of London-born, Atlanta-based artist Jacob Allen, surprised us with the release of his third album, antichamber, last month. Recorded during a two-week period of isolation in his Decatur home, Allen initially intended these deeply personal tracks to remain private, akin to journal entries. The album features nine songs and four ambient pieces, including a cover of Low’s “In the Absence of You.” The minimalist production highlights Allen’s vocals and guitar, creating an intimate atmosphere that reflects his emotional state during recording.
Chihei Hatekayama – End Of Summer
Chihei Hatakeyama’s Lucid Dreams drifts between wakefulness and dream states, capturing the surreal flow of time and memory. Inspired by insomnia and lucid dreaming, the album unfolds in waves of hushed melodies and shifting textures. Collaborations with Cucina Povera and Nailah Hunter add organic warmth to his signature ambient sound, creating a space to lose yourself in.
Romance – Feel (For The First Time)
Romance return to worship at the altar of the iconic Canadian songbird, offering another winsome assemblage of tracks that see them reconstruct the DNA of her Disney Princess Power Ballads into yearning ambient elegies. This release was originally issued earlier this year as a tape only companion to the Once Upon A Time vinyl.
Ichiko Aoba – tower
Inspired by field research in Japan’s Ryukyu islands, Luminescent Creatures carries a tactile, organic beauty—twisting flutes, twinkling bells, and submerged soundscapes. Aoba’s featherlight voice weaves through the album, delicate yet never cutesy. As soothing as a sound bath and rich in world-building, it’s a quiet force—nurturing music for uncertain times.
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – The Milky Sea
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s Gift Songs is a meditative exploration of sound, shaped by nature, spirituality, and a deep sense of presence. Blending guitar, modular synths, and acoustic instrumentation, he crafts five minimal yet expressive compositions, enriched by collaborators like Omer Shemesh, Clarice Jensen, and Booker Stardrum. Rooted in his experiences as a Zen priest and hospice worker, the album unfolds like shifting landscapes—piano lines dissolving into dense textures, rhythms echoing the pulse of nature. From the shimmering layers of The Milky Sea to the glowing finale River That Flows Two Ways, Gift Songs feels less like a collection of tracks and more like a living, breathing entity—delicate, immersive, and deeply human.
Tim Hecker – Sunset Key Melt
Shards is a collection of pieces originally written for various film and TV soundtracks Tim Hecker has scored over the last half decade. These compositions were originally written for scoring projects including Infinity Pool, The North Water, Luzifer, and La Tour.
Elori Saxl – It Will Be Gone
Elori Saxl’s Texada is a sonic meditation on time, place, and transformation. Scoring the documentary of the same name, Saxl translates the evolving relationship between people and landscape into a richly textured sound world. Blending analog synths, processed baritone saxophone, and field recordings, she captures the tension between permanence and impermanence—mined landscapes reclaimed by nature, industry dissolving into quiet renewal. The saxophone, stretched and fragmented, drifts between organic and synthetic, mirroring the island’s shifting identity.
Yama Warashi – Sazanami Yurera
Yoshino Shigihara returns as Yama Warashi with At My Mother’s Piano, a deeply personal and evocative solo piano EP. Inspired by a visit to her family home in Ashiya City, Japan, the music weaves delicate improvisations with vivid field recordings, capturing moments of nostalgia and quiet reflection. Blending influences from Japanese folk, free jazz, and psychedelia, Shigihara crafts a dreamlike journey through seven impressionistic pieces.
Civilistjavel, Thomas Bush – XVII
Civilistjävel! returns to FELT with Följd, a continuation of the shadowy, dub-tinged atmospheres explored on Brödföda. Across seven tracks, Tomas Bodén crafts a slow-moving, nocturnal world—equal parts beauty and unease. Thomas Bush joins on the closer, XIX, where his hushed vocals weave through organ and guitar, casting a dawn-lit glow over the album’s final moments.
Ocean Moon – Angel Falls
Best known for running Lo Recordings and his work with ‘90s UK ambient group MLO, Tye continues to weave serene, optimistic soundscapes, echoing the spirit of his earlier collaborations while embracing new inspirations. The album’s first half reflects Tye’s explorations into AI, influenced by thinkers like Frank J. Tippler and James Lovelock, while the second features long-form pieces created for art and film. Inspired by the poetry of Angus MacLise, Ways to the Deep Meadow drifts with a gentle luminosity, offering an invitation to slow down, listen, and let its warmth unfold.
Naal, Andrew Tasselmyer – Holly
Phases is a collection of 14 long-form drone compositions by NAAL, each tied to the lunar calendar and created in collaboration with a range of artists. Released gradually over 2020 and 2021, the project embraces shifting creative processes—some tracks shaped by musical collaborators, others by self-imposed constraints. Accompanied by Charlea Taylor’s handmade collages, which incorporate elements from each song’s namesake, Phases is as much a visual meditation as a sonic one.
Not Marshall – growagain
It is near impossible to find any information about producer Not Marshall, so rather than making something up I suggest you just listen to this one. It’s incredible to me that so little can be known (or found) about anyone making music this good.
Fennesz – The Last Days of May
Fennesz crafts shimmering, immersive soundscapes where guitar and electronics merge into organic, ever-shifting forms. His music is anything but sterile—evoking the microscopic detail of natural environments, from the hum of insect life to the movement of air and light. Recorded in May 2024 and released as the final piece on the Longforms Editions imprint, Fennesz abandoned his initial concept, drawing fresh inspiration from guitarist Roland S. Howard. Stripping back to core elements—guitar, string textures, and forgotten synthesis techniques like physical modeling—he explored microtonality and the subtle decay of sound. Designed as a sound installation, the piece blends seamlessly into everyday spaces yet holds the depth to be fully experienced on headphones at high volume.
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