Ambient · Albums
Top ambient albums
The top-rated ambient album on Riffiter is Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada, rated 4.5/5 by 9 listeners.
208 ambient albums ranked by community ratings and listening on Riffiter. The community has rated 3 of 208 ambient albums, averaging 4.1/5, spanning 1970 to 2022.
02 Geogaddi
Boards of Canada · 2002
★ 2.5 · 1
03 The Campfire Headphase
Boards of Canada · 2005
★ 3.0 · 2
04 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Max Richter · 2012
05 Tremors
SOHN · 2014
06 Sleep
Max Richter · 2015
07 Singularity
Jon Hopkins · 2018
08 The Understanding
Röyksopp · 2005
09 Tomorrow's Harvest
Boards of Canada · 2013
10 Junior
Röyksopp · 2009
11 For Now I Am Winter
Ólafur Arnalds · 2013
12 Melody A.M.
Röyksopp · 2001
13 All Melody
Nils Frahm · 2018
14 Twoism
Boards of Canada · 1995
15 Spaces
Nils Frahm · 2013
16 In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Boards of Canada · 2000
17 Living Room Songs
Ólafur Arnalds · 2011
18 Museum of Consciousness
Shpongle · 2013
19 Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Shpongle · 2009
20 Genetic World
Télépopmusik · 2001
21 infra
Max Richter · 2010
22 Comparsa
Deep Forest · 1997
23 Tales of the Inexpressible
Shpongle · 2001
24 Virgins
Tim Hecker · 2013
25 Ravedeath, 1972
Tim Hecker · 2011
26 24 Postcards in Full Colour
Max Richter · 2008
27 Songs From Before
Max Richter · 2006
28 Diamond Mine
Jon Hopkins · 2011
29 Opalescent
Jon Hopkins · 2001
30 Profound Mysteries
Röyksopp · 2022
31 Trans Canada Highway
Boards of Canada · 2006
32 Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle · 1998
33 Dead Cities
The Future Sound of London · 1996
34 …and They Have Escaped the Weight of Darkness
Ólafur Arnalds · 2010
35 Contact Note
Jon Hopkins · 2004
36 Immunity
Jon Hopkins · 2013
37 Harmony in Ultraviolet
Tim Hecker · 2006
38 Fordlândia
Jóhann Jóhannsson · 2008
39 Memoryhouse
Max Richter · 2002
40 Angel Milk
Télépopmusik · 2005
41 Insides
Jon Hopkins · 2008
42 The Inevitable End
Röyksopp · 2014
43 Collide
Beats Antique · 2008
44 ISDN
The Future Sound of London · 1994
45 Copia
Eluvium · 2007
46 Felt
Nils Frahm · 2011
47 Screws
Nils Frahm · 2012
48 Found Songs
Ólafur Arnalds · 2009
49 Epoch
Tycho · 2016
50 Tribal Derivations
Beats Antique · 2007
51 All Will Prosper
Goldmund · 2011
52 The Isness
The Future Sound of London · 2002
53 Accelerator
The Future Sound of London · 1991
54 Nightmare Ending
Eluvium · 2013
55 Wintermusik
Nils Frahm · 2009
56 Zuckerzeit
Cluster · 1974
57 Radio Amor
Tim Hecker · 2003
58 Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Shpongle · 2005
59 Caesura
Helios · 2008
60 Cluster II
Cluster · 1972
61 Awake
Tycho · 2014
62 Do It Again
Röyksopp · 2014
63 Hi Scores
Boards of Canada · 1996
64 Autumn Stories
Fabrizio Paterlini · 2012
65 Eulogy for Evolution
Ólafur Arnalds · 2007
66 Patashnik
Biosphere · 1994
67 Shenzhou
Biosphere · 2002
68 Cirque
Biosphere · 2000
69 IBM 1401, A User's Manual
Jóhann Jóhannsson · 2006
70 Senior
Röyksopp · 2010
71 The Bells
Nils Frahm · 2009
72 The Petrified Forest
Biosphere · 2017
73 Mirages
Tim Hecker · 2004
74 An Imaginary Country
Tim Hecker · 2009
75 Talk Amongst the Trees
Eluvium · 2005
76 7fingers
Nils Frahm · 2010
77 Fragments Found
Fabrizio Paterlini · 2010
78 Stare
Ólafur Arnalds · 2012
79 Dyad 1909
Ólafur Arnalds · 2009
80 Unomia
Helios · 2004
81 The Hilvarenbeek Recordings
Biosphere · 2016
82 Lifeforms
The Future Sound of London · 1994
83 Music for Lovers, Music Versus Time
Nils Frahm · 2010
84 Music for Wobbling Music Versus Gravity
Nils Frahm · 2013
85 Variations of Static
Ólafur Arnalds · 2008
86 Cluster 71
Cluster · 1971
87 Similes
Eluvium · 2010
88 Microgravity
Biosphere · 1991
89 Dropsonde
Biosphere · 2005
90 Virðulegu forsetar
Jóhann Jóhannsson · 2004
91 Blind Threshold
Beats Antique · 2010
92 Now
Fabrizio Paterlini · 2013
93 Viandanze
Fabrizio Paterlini · 2009
94 Grosses Wasser
Cluster · 1979
95 Departed Glories
Biosphere · 2016
96 Lambent Material
Eluvium · 2003
97 Birmingham Frequencies
Biosphere · 2000
98 Elektrafone
Beats Antique · 2011
99 Environment Five
The Future Sound of London · 2014
100 Nordheim Transformed
Biosphere · 1998
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