cylinder's top 100 DRONEBIENT
ambient and drone. with the ambient, i tried to keep it pure for the most part - so no ambient variations on other genres (ambient techno, ambient hip-hop, etc.) besides a few that toe the line but seem more so ambient to my ears, and another few just for fun (slushwave, ambient noise, ambient americana, etc.) Stuff like noise, pure field recordings, EAI, etc. could have their own list(s). with the drone, however, i allowed variations, since a "drone" is more of a musical technique than a genre in itself (even though it did kind of "become" its own genre over time). Top 25 is loosely ranked, the rest is not. the "***" indicates a reminder to myself to check more from that artist. heeeeeere we go! |
1 | | Black Thread Meadowlark (Premonition)
dronebient |
2 | | David Thomas Broughton Crippling Lack
folkdrone |
3 | | Various Artists (Ambient) Mono No Aware
ambient/drone/experimental electronic |
4 | | Brutal Shift Most of Humanity Might as Well Bathe...
Most of Humanity Might as Well Bathe in Bleeding Rust and Fly Shit - ambient. in my top 5 of the year so far, can't stop listening |
5 | | Kevin Drumm Imperial Distortion
drone |
6 | | Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Bloodstream Sermon
drone |
7 | | Vitaly Maklakov For a Distant Lands
ambient |
8 | | Oval 94 Diskont
ambient glitch/experimental electronic - most of this album isn't really ambient, but 'Do While' definitely is. And since it takes up like half the album and is also one of the greatest songs ever made, here it is. |
9 | | Tim Hecker Harmony in Ultraviolet
ambient/static/soft noise/Heckercore |
10 | | Yellow Swans Going Places
ambient noise - not quite harsh enough to be called just "noise," not quite soft enough to be called pure ambient. a very unique album in that way. classic |
11 | | The Humble Bee Lichen Cloak on a White Stone
ambient |
12 | | 7038634357 Neo Seven
ambient/ambient pop/noise |
13 | | Huerco S QTT4
dronebient |
14 | | Mark Templeton Gentle Heart
ambient glitch/electroacoustic/tape music |
15 | | The Necks Drive By
drone-jazz |
16 | | Vladislav Delay Anima
ambient glitch, but very ambient |
17 | | Eliane Radigue Jetsun Mila
drone*** |
18 | | The Dead C Trouble
noise rock/drone |
19 | | Mary Lattimore At the Dam
ambient/electroacoustic/new age |
20 | | X or Size Aether Ore
ambient dub - but the dub is faint. it makes an appearance before blurring into the many other layers |
21 | | Double Leopards Halve Maen
drone/dark ambient/neo-psych/noise |
22 | | Boris Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
drone metal |
23 | | Boris Flood
drone metal/post-rock |
24 | | Earth Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
drone metal |
25 | | Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
dronefolk |
26 | | Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
drone |
27 | | Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline
drone |
28 | | Earth Hex: Or Printing In the Infernal Method
drone rock/Earthcore/ambient americana |
29 | | Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting
dronebient |
30 | | Fripp and Eno Evening Star
dronebient |
31 | | Skullflower Form Destroyer
drone/noise rock |
32 | | Aidan Baker The Sea Swells A Bit...
ambient |
33 | | Belong October Language
dronebient |
34 | | Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music For Airports
ambient |
35 | | Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
drone rock/Earthcore - i absolutely love this sound, as well as the sound of Hex. the light, shimmery guitar tones here are just heavenly. and i love how it's both rock and drone music at the same time. there aren't even any 'climaxes' really (which describes most of Earth's post-debut output) - it's just pure chill, through and through. if anyone has any recs for this type of sound, PLEASE send em my way because i've had next to no luck finding other bands that really sound like this, and this type of sound just puts me so at peace. |
36 | | Lee Noble No Becoming
drone/psych-folk/hypnagogic pop |
37 | | Tim Hecker Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
Heckercore |
38 | | Tim Hecker Radio Amor
Heckercore |
39 | | Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
drone rock/Earthcore |
40 | | Matt Christensen Bukowski
drone |
41 | | The Caretaker Patience (After Sebald)
ambient/turntable music/romanticism*** |
42 | | Patricia Taxxon TECHDOG 7
drone |
43 | | David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency
dronefolk |
44 | | Grouper A I A
dronefolk |
45 | | Peter Wright Surface
dronebient |
46 | | The Fun Years Baby, It's Cold Inside
dronebient/post-rock |
47 | | Birchville Cat Motel Our Love Will Destroy The World
drone/noise rock |
48 | | Hypnagogue Vacuum Wool
ambient noise, but the noise is very soft |
49 | | Jodis Secret House
drone metal/post-metal |
50 | | Pauline Oliveros Electronic Works 1965-1966
drone/electroacoustic/tape music |
51 | | Pendant Make Me Know You Sweet
dronebient |
52 | | Séraphitüs-Séraphîta Glacier
ambient |
53 | | Tanner Garza Lucid
drone |
54 | | Tanner Garza Regret
drone |
55 | | Taylor Deupree Faint
drone |
56 | | Taylor Deupree Somi
ambient |
57 | | The Fun Years God Was Like, No
ambient/soft noise |
58 | | The Fun Years A Heart to Heart About Our Values
drone |
59 | | Time Machines Time Machines
drone |
60 | | Vikki Jackman, Andrew Chalk and Jean-Noel Rebilly A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring
ambient |
61 | | Windy and Carl Drawing of Sound
ambient |
62 | | Windy and Carl Consciousness
drone |
63 | | X or Size Covert ID
ambient dub |
64 | | Zelienople His/Hers
dronebient/slowcore*** |
65 | | Emily A. Sprague Water Memory
drone/minimalism |
66 | | Felicia Atkinson Visions / Voices
dronefolk |
67 | | Aine O'Dwyer Music for Church Cleaners Vol. I and II
drone/holy minimalism/field recordings |
68 | | Fennesz Endless Summer
ambient glitch |
69 | | Former Selves Three Wells
ambient |
70 | | Gi Gi Lumino Pleco
ambient |
71 | | Gia Margaret Mia Gargaret
ambient |
72 | | Heaven's Emperor Teenage Poetry
ambient/soft noise/sadcore |
73 | | if i promise On Departure
ambient |
74 | | Mirt Mud, Dirt and Hiss
ambient |
75 | | Om Conference of the Birds
drone metal/heavy psych |
76 | | Pelt Ayahuasca
drone/free folk |
77 | | Saline never structures
gazebient |
78 | | Nadja The Bungled and the Botched
drone metal |
79 | | The Dead C Tusk
drone/noise rock |
80 | | The Fun Years Typos In Your Obituary
drone |
81 | | Small Cruel Party Do You Believe in a Pencil?
drone - Well, do you? |
82 | | Tim Hecker Mirages
Heckercore |
83 | | Tusen ar under jord Sorgsendomet Fobos
dark ambient/tape music |
84 | | Venn Rain Cymatic Cymbols
dronebient |
85 | | Work/Death Phone About To Ring
dronebient/soft noise |
86 | | Yara Asmar synth waltzes and accordion laments
ambient/modern classical |
87 | | Yellow Swans At All Ends
ambient noise |
88 | | Golden Living Room Post-Internet
vaporwave/"utopian virtual"/ambient |
89 | | The Necks Aether
drone-jazz |
90 | | Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
electrodrone |
91 | | Boxhead Ensemble Two Brothers
ambient americana/chamber music |
92 | | Corrupted Paso Inferior
drone metal |
93 | | desert sand feels warm at night & MindSpring Memories Desert Memories
vaporwave/slushwave/ambient |
94 | | Henry Flynt You Are My Everlovin' / Celestial Power
drone/minimalism |
95 | | William Basinski The Disintegration Loops I
drone |
96 | | Laurel Halo Atlas
ambient/modern classical/third stream? |
97 | | Xiphiidae Pass Hidingly Seek
dronefolk/tape music |
98 | | M. Sage Paradise Crick
ambient/experimental electronic |
99 | | The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To...
drone metal/sludge metal |
100 | | Tuluum Shimmering In the Grove the Moon is Drowned with Stars
dronefolk |
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