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Best ambient albums

Ambient music foregrounds texture, space, and atmosphere over rhythm and song form — music designed, in Brian Eno's phrase, to be as ignorable as it is interesting. It spans beatless drone, environmental sound, and the meditative end of electronic music.

The top 12 ambient albums on Riffiter, ranked by popularity — community ratings take over as they come in.

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  1. 1Music Has the Right to Children coverMusic Has the Right to ChildrenBoards of Canada · 1998
  2. 2Tomorrow's Harvest coverTomorrow's HarvestBoards of Canada · 2013
  3. 3Geogaddi coverGeogaddiBoards of Canada · 2002
  4. 4The Campfire Headphase coverThe Campfire HeadphaseBoards of Canada · 2005
  5. 51999-11-05: Warp Records 10th Anniversary Party, The Z Rooms, Old Truman Brewery, London, UKBoards of Canada
  6. 6Old Tunes, Volume 2 coverOld Tunes, Volume 2Boards of Canada · 1996
  7. 7Random 35 Tracks Tape coverRandom 35 Tracks TapeBoards of Canada · 1995
  8. 8Closes, Volume 1 coverCloses, Volume 1Boards of Canada · 1992
  9. 92001-04-07: All Tomorrow's Parties, East Sussex, UK cover2001-04-07: All Tomorrow's Parties, East Sussex, UKBoards of Canada
  10. 10A Few Old Tunes coverA Few Old TunesBoards of Canada · 1996
  11. 11Catalog 3 coverCatalog 3Boards of Canada · 1987
  12. 122002-02-22: Helter Skelter, Aligre FM 93.1, Paris, FranceBoards of Canada