Pitchfork: The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time (2016-09-26)

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#	Year	Title	Artist	Type	Rating	Releases
1	1978	Ambient 1: Music for Airports	Brian Eno	Album	4.05	17
2	1994	Selected Ambient Works, Volume II	Aphex Twin	Album	4.1	18
3	2013	The Disintegration Loops	William Basinski	Album + Compilation		3
4	1969	A Rainbow in Curved Air	Terry Riley	Album	4.5	8
5	1990	Chill Out	The KLF	Album	3.65	6
6	2001	The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid	Stars of the Lid	Album	3.75	4
7	1995	94diskont.	Oval	Album	3.75	5
8	1989	Deep Listening	Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis	Album	4	3
9	2006	Harmony in Ultraviolet	Tim Hecker	Album	3.6	1
10	1975	Evening Star	Fripp & Eno	Album	3.15	8
11	2000	Pop	Gas	Album	4.4	4
12	1980	The Expanding Universe	Laurie Spiegel	Album		4
13	1983	Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks	Brian Eno	Album	4.3	18
14	2011	An Empty Bliss Beyond This World	The Caretaker	Album	4.15	3
15	1979	Automatic Writing	Robert Ashley	Album	4	3
16	1972	Persian Surgery Dervishes	Terry Riley	Album + Live	4	4
17	1982	Turiya Sings	Alice Coltrane	Album		2
18	2007	And Their Refinement of the Decline	Stars of the Lid	Album	4	5
19	1995	Orbus Terrarum	Orb	Album	3.5	8
20	2011	Replica	Oneohtrix Point Never	Album	3.5	9
21	2011	A I A : Alien Observer	Grouper	Album	2.75	3
22	2001	Endless Summer	Fennesz	Album	3.65	7
23	2002	Playthroughs	Keith Fullerton Whitman	Album	5	3
24	1982	Ambient 4: On Land	Brian Eno	Album	4.6	12
25	1997	What??	Folke Rabe	Album		1
26	1975	Inter-Dimensional Music	Iasos	Album		9
27	2009	Rifts	Oneohtrix Point Never	Album + Compilation		4
28	1982	Accordion & Voice	Pauline Oliveros	Album	3	2
29	1978	On the Other Ocean	David Behrman	Album		2
30	2011	The Magic Place	Julianna Barwick	Album	3	4
31	1976	New Age of Earth	Ash Ra Tempel, Manuel Göttsching	Album	4	6
32	1999	The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath	La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela	Album	3	2
33	1984	Structures From Silence	Steve Roach	Album	4.2	7
34	1974	Four Manifestations on Six Elements	Charlemagne Palestine	Album		2
35	1980	Ambient 3: Day of Radiance	Laraaji	Album	4	8
36	1998	Depths	Windy & Carl	Album		2
37	2013	Virgins	Tim Hecker	Album	3.5	3
38	1997	Substrata	Biosphere	Album	4	12
39	2016	Buchla Concerts 1975	Suzanne Ciani	Album	4	2
40	2015	Sleep	Max Richter	Album	4	3
41	1984	The Pearl	Harold Budd/Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois	Album	4.25	12
42	2002	Plays	Ekkehard Ehlers	Album + Compilation		2
43	2005	Talk Amongst the Trees	Eluvium	Album	4.5	3
44	1996	_snd	Microstoria	Album		3
45	2016	For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)	Huerco S.	Album	5	3
46	1975	Epsilon in Malaysian Pale	Edgar Froese	Album		4
47	1977	Vernal Equinox	Jon Hassell	Album	4	5
48	1975	Neighborhoods	Ernest Hood	Album		3
49	2014	Tomorrow Was the Golden Age	Bing & Ruth	Album		2
50	2004	Morals and Dogma	Deathprod	Album	4	3

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