○ Oct 2025 | Label: Ingrown Records
■ Genres: Drone / Ambient / New Age
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Misty Lake”
► Breathing in intense cycles of expansion and release is not easy as it seems. Deep, sustained tones form vast sonic spaces, while subtle new age elements add gentle movement. The interplay generates a meditative tension, evoking both earth and air, presence and transcendence. It’s a soothing yet quietly dynamic soundscape.
○ Mar 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Experimental / Field Recordings / Drone
■ Rating: 7.7/10
■ Favorite track: “it’s the thinnest and brittlest of veils”
► This infuses the stillness of drone music with a striking sense of urgency. Beneath the steady, immersive hum lies a pulse of tension — like an inaudible clock ticking. The radio fragments never resolve into clarity, instead hovering like lost messages from a distant crisis. Subtle oscillations and tonal shifts widen the atmosphere, giving the impression of scanning an unknown horizon for signals of meaning or safety.
○ Dec 2025 | Label: Bad Channels Records
■ Genres: Experimental / Concrete / Electroacoustic
■ Rating: 8.6/10
■ Favorite track: “Nexus”
► That is unsettling in the most effective way. We find ourselves looking for an impossible dialogue between innate human fragility and the concrete crudeness of productive slavery. We move in an aural landscape where beauty and despair coexist, perfectly capturing the existential ambiguity of a world on edge.
○ Oct 2025 | Label: Perceptual Tapes
■ Genres: Ambient / Drone / Electroacoustic
■ Rating: 8.5/10
■ Favorite track: “This river”
► Yeah, this is clearly a river. Trembling strings provide a mournful, cinematic backdrop, while spoken-word fragments drift in and out like a memory echo, half-heard and deeply human. Each piano note adds both fragile purity and dissonance to the hazy atmosphere. The combination of these elements somehow generates a real masterpiece. Poetry needs to be unclear.
○ Sep 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Electronic / Industrial / Ambient
■ Rating: 7.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Sospensione temporale”
► That’s a deliberate march to an unknown horizon. Each step feels purposeful yet uncertain, carried by subtle pulses that suggest both movement and hesitation. The soundscape is wide and enveloping — textures drift and intertwine like shifting clouds, creating a sense of vastness tinged with melancholy. Time is slow, but it cannot be stopped.
○ Sep 2025 | Label: Three Galleys
■ Genres: Ambient / Drone
■ Rating: 8.5/10
■ Favorite track: “baseload drift”
► This feels ineludible — like a presence that’s always been there, firmly waiting to be heard. Despite its minimalism, the track holds a magnetic pull, drawing the listener deeper into its luminous stillness. It’s a study in slow revelation, where time stretches and sound becomes pure atmosphere — both haunting and comforting, endlessly fascinating in its quiet, unstoppable ascent from silence.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Electroacoustic / Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “CANTO PER LA TERRA DI CANAAN”
► This track consists of four movements, blending modern sound design with echoes of Middle Eastern sonorities. What emerges is a space where tradition and abstraction intertwine. Fragments of modal melodies, resonant strings and woodwinds appear through layers of electronic processing, forming a tapestry that feels both ancient and futuristic.
○ May 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Experimental / Lo-Fi / Electronic
■ Rating: 6.4/10
■ Favorite track: “und die ganze welt sang mit mir (thank_you)”
► This is the first section of a sonic journey into the author’s past. (thank_you) deals with childhood experienced through a new awareness. Music succeeds in evoking the innocence and mystery of early perception, suggesting the imperfections of remembering. The piece captures the raw emotional texture of infancy: curiosity, vulnerability, wonder.
○ Sep 2025 | Label: SeeHear Recordings
■ Genres: Drone / Ambient
■ Rating: 7.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Capturing The Flag”
► We are wrapped in a gentle harp arpeggio flowing over a warm, uplifting drone loop. The harp’s delicate plucks shimmer like ripples on water, while the drone anchors everything in a soft, embracing bliss. Still, there is this feeling of interrupted flight, as if we were suspended between sky and ground, between the desire to rise and the fear of falling. Isn’t that what always happens to us?
○ Ago 2025 | Label: Frosti
■ Genres: Ambient / Electronic / Drone
■ Rating: 8.6/10
■ Favorite track: “horrow (feat. Canaan Balsam)”
► In our humble opionion, that’s simply one of the tracks of the year. The gentle interplay between piano and xylophone establishes an atmosphere of innocence and calm, before slowly dissolving into darker textures. As layers of synths and distant echoes emerge, the instruments seem to fade, pulled gradually into a vortex of abandonment. The descent is mesmerizing — graceful yet unsettling — capturing the beauty of letting go.
○ Feb 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Experimental / Noise Jazz / Post-rock
■ Rating: 8.7/10
■ Favorite track: “tea tide pool”
► When you use too many ingredients, the risk is that you don’t feel anything. This doesn’t happen here. The meeting between different elements and styles (electronic, jazz, post-rock) is both fluid and jagged, spacious and constricting. We find ourselves drunk on a drifting boat, but alive and curious. A really noteworthy work.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Dub / Industrial / Experimental
■ Rating: 7.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Stardust Cluster”
► We are driven by a steady 60ish bpm kick, grounding the piece with a slow, heartbeat-like pulse. From this minimal foundation, glitch elements gradually emerge weaving themselves into the spacious soundscape. The pacing is deliberate, allowing each new detail to settle and reshape the mood without breaking the flow. This creates an attractive ambiguity.
○ Aug 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Electronic / Experimental
■ Rating: 7.7/10
■ Favorite track: “Broken Choir”
► This is truly moving. The fragmented use of a choir sample creates an interplay between voices and strings with a deeply melancholic consistency, like tears streaming through fractured memories. That’s a poignant reminder of impermanence of things.
○ Sep 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Electroacoustic
■ Rating: 7.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Footprints“
► This is a weightless dream. We move seamlessly between the tonic and subdominant major chords in a vast atmosphere, that feels both intimate and infinite. Each moment dissolves delicately into the next, reminding us that beauty still exists and asks no questions.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Drone / Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “haze“
► Is meditation nothing more than the highest and/or the most desperate form of distraction? This is what this track asks. Is the gradually deconstructed pulsation of the minor guitar phrase an invitation to merge with the world or to alienate ourselves in the dark? We still don’t know.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Electronic / Soundscapes / Glitch
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Hipparcos Catalog“
► Here it comes a sonic entity struggling to hold itself together. The result is meditative in its unpredictability, inviting the listener to sink into the irregular patterns and shifting atmospheres. It blurs the line between mechanical and organic.
○ Oct 2025 | Label: Passed Recordings
■ Genres: Ambient / Electronic / New Age
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “RainSong“
► We feel like we are listening to an acoustic reproduction of Penelope’s canvas. The fascinating choice of harmony is woven together and moves back and forth like a single wave, which arises and dissolves in itself with geometric rigor.
○ Jun 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Drone / Noise
■ Rating: 7.5/10
■ Favorite track: “they all agreed, it was harmonic evidence“
► Distant noises flow like wind through empty corridors. Amid this abstract backdrop, the piano emerges—fragile, slow, and emotionally resonant—carrying a sense of longing and memory. Everything evokes a dreamlike tension, as if recalling something lost in time.
○ Feb 2025 | Label: Sincronia del Viento
■ Genres: Electronic / Berlin-School
■ Rating: 6.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Tree of Life“
► It’s time to stand up and move. Pulsing synth arpeggios form the rhythmic backbone, gradually evolving in intricate layers that build both tension and atmosphere. Sweeping pads and cosmic tones create a sense of vast space, while subtle modulations keep the journey dynamic and engaging.
○ Jun 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Drone / Ambient / Electronic
■ Rating: 8.1/10
■ Favorite track: “Chapter“
► This track unfolds like a slow sunrise. The harmonic path is built around resonant chords that radiate introspection and depth. The pacing is deliberate, allowing every passage to breathe fully, evoking feelings of calm, quiet wonder. A precious listening.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Xytelon Records
■ Genres: Noise / Experimental / Drone / Industrial
■ Rating: 6.9/10
■ Favorite track: “Chloral Suicide“
► That’s a raw, immersive descent into chaos and texture. Harsh, distorted layers clash and dissolve. Metallic screeches, glitchy fragments and pulsing static collide in a soundscape that feels unstable yet intentional—like a broken machine struggling to breathe.
○ Jun 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Drone / Ambient / Experimental
■ Rating: 7.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Owls Cry where Harpies Lie“
► These sounds show a very peculiar tension. Layers of deep, resonant and/or dissonant tones draw a haunting soundscape that feels both unsettling and strangely inviting. Fractured textures ripple across the surface like distant storms, keeping the listener locked in a mesmerizing cage.
○ Aug 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Electronic
■ Rating: 7.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Lirae“
► Drifting can be sweet at times, just as shipwrecking can be saving. This track feels like drowning in amniotic fluid. Remember when you were floating there? Likewise, at least for a moment, memory forgets itself here, and if there is nothing to remind there is nothing to suffer from.
○ Jul 2025 | Label: Ingrown Records
■ Genres: Ambient / Drone / Atmospheric
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “this cloud won’t rain on me (thankful)“
► It’s always time to stop and breathe to find yourself again. Here there ‘s an opportunity. Gentle, evolving layers of tone create a sense of calm, while subtle electric pulses add depth and movement without disrupting the tranquility. The track strikes a delicate balance between stillness and motion in a sonic world of quiet beauty.
○ Jun 2025 | Label: Mahorka
■ Genres: Concrete / Experimental
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Ground Floor / Elevator“
► This track reimagines the mechanical movement of an elevator as a vehicle for sonic exploration. Creaks, hums, chimes and shifting cables create a hypnotic rhythm, evoking a strangely meditative ascent through industrial space. The piece resists any musical notation, instead inviting to find music – whatever it may be – in the most hidden places.
○ Jun 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Electronic / Electroacoustic
■ Rating: 8.7/10
■ Favorite track: “VII“
► Here there’s little to say: if you like ambient and/or electronic, allow yourself to listen to this. There are no falls, there are no negligible moments. This album can easily be considered an instant-classic of the genre. The experience is completely immersive and beneficial, we are facing 50 minutes and more of pure bliss. Simply one of the best works of the year so far.
○ May 2025 | Label: Opal Tapes
■ Genres: Electronic / Noise / Experimental / Industrial
■ Rating: 7.7/10
■ Favorite track: “Refraction 4“
► Try this if you want to surf on fractured rhythms and distorted urgency. Layers of erratic synths and jarring percussive bursts mimic a nervous system on edge, creating an atmosphere both chaotic and hypnotic. Subtle modulations and ghostly textures surface just long enough to vanish, heightening the sense of unease.
○ May 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Vocal / Minimalism
■ Rating: 8.0/10
■ Favorite track: “The Corner House, Cellar Nr.9“
► This voice breathes life into silence. Each note draws a resonance against stone, time, and memory. The performance feels like a communion with the past, where the human voice becomes both instrument and invocation. The call for stillness, reflection and awe is open.
○ May 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Drone / Noise
■ Rating: 7.5/10
■ Favorite track: “A Vast Profound“
► With your eyes closed, please. Everything here flows into a powerful crescendo that feels both cinematic and deeply personal. As the track rises, it evokes a profound sense of hope, clarity, and renewal. All is full of grace.
○ May 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Electronic / Drone / Noise / Dark Ambient
■ Rating: 7.2/10
■ Favorite track: “WOG 2206“
► We are moving on a black carpet. We are struck by electric flashes, mechanical echoes. We drag ourselves in chains to a forced destination, surrounded by hostile forces. Having no choice, somehow, lifts us from all remorse.
○ May 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient / Electronic / Noise / Drone
■ Rating: 8.3/10
■ Favorite track: “distanz“
► Oh, we simply love this kind of jagged electronic music. Abrasive textures and stuttering pulsations buzz and convulse like exposed wires, while sudden drops and bursts of distortion keep the listener on edge. Still nothing is chaotic, everything seems skillfully carved.
○ May 2025 | Label: Falt / epileptic media
■ Genres: Experimental / Avant-garde / Electronic / Concrete
■ Rating: 8.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Fairly Used III“
► This is a clear example of a combination of sounds that goes beyond their simple sum. In other words, sonic interactions *really* generate emergent properties in this case. This approach leads you to a visceral experience—haunting, immersive, and unnervingly intimate—pulling your head into a spectral world shaped by decay.
○ May 2025 | Label: Perceived Sound
■ Genres: Drone, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Eyes Inside“
► This music seems to come directly from Lovecraft’s pen. There is an eerie sense of presence and unease. The track unfolds hypnotically, blurring the line between wait and dread. Whether we like it or not, we are forced to descend into the darkest recesses of our conscience.
○ May 2025 | Label: Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.
■ Genres: Experimental, Drone, Noise, Ambient
■ Rating: 7.9/10
■ Favorite track: “Momentum (Inner Cycles)“
► We’re in a swamp, darling. We ended up in “Apocalypse now”. The prevailing feeling in listening is: imminent danger. This is accentuated by an extremely wise use of space: the sounds are not only around us, but – literally – rain down on us from all directions.
○ To be released June 2025 | Label: Heavy Cloud
■ Genres: Experimental, Concrete, Spoken Word
■ Rating: 7.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Drawing 4’33”“
► Abstract concreteness? Yes, please. Although its elements come from the so-called “real world” in its materiality, concrete music is one of the most abstract art forms ever. Where notes often resonate emotionally, the noises of a typewriter leave the listener with the need to find a key to meaning. But: does a key always exist? Do we always have to go through a door?
○ March 2025 | Label: Somnimage
■ Genres: Field Recordings, Experimental, Post-rock
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “I remained a stranger to the birds“
► We live in this hypertrophic world. Is there still room for the beauty of little things? This is an empty question, typical of this late-capitalist era where you have to thank for your crumbs. But these 20 minutes are a meaningful exception. Here really “less is more”, here peace simply exists.
○ To be released June 2025 | Label: Elevator Bath
■ Genres: Ambient, Drone, Experimental
■ Rating: 7.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Mundus Imaginalis“
► The synths pass through us, the harmony is fluid, amniotic. But everything is filtered through an opaque lens, which gives the sound a trembling subsoil, as if you were waiting for a restless time. As if you don’t want to leave the present.
○ May 2025 | Label: Dragon Trax
■ Genres: Electronic, Drone, Ambient
■ Rating: 7.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Xylophonics V (Asha Patera Remix)“
► This is a powerful and relentless march, punctuated by a syncopated bass that dictates its tempo. Although the drone is totally immersive, the horizontal space of the sound spectrum is intelligently preserved by percussive elements and digital cascades, panned all around our head. It’s time to travel again.
○ April 2025 | Label: Mortality Tables
■ Genres: Electronic, Experimental
■ Rating: 8.2/10
■ Favorite track: “LF 28 / Skyrocketing“
► Okay, now we’re mesmerized. The circular advance of the synth phrase has completely captivated us. The starting Baba O’Riley subtle urgency slowly melts into the entrance of the pads. The result is highly uplifiting. Take your time and enjoy.
○ April 2025 | Label: Bathysphere Records
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 8.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Atmospheric Drag“
► This music moves like a wave. When you sail, circumstances can change rapidly, and the short synth phrases that pop up cyclically are there to remind that. This uncertainty is emotionally precious: the result reveals a dreamy expectation, and it’s up to you to define its color.
○ March 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Soundscapes
■ Rating: 8.4/10
■ Favorite track: “A Cetacean Thought“
► Some Floydian vibes here, and that might be enough. But there’s more. This is a paradigmatic example of “functional” use of natural acoustic elements that really gives strength to music. Something, to be clear, that goes beyond the simple “Oh, that’s nature ambient, let’s put some more birds here”. The result is blissful.
○ To be released on July 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Noise, Drone, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.8/10
■ Favorite track: “(Noise){WhiteOut}“
► The horizontal amplitude of granular noise is remarkable. The din faces a fully tonal harmonic development by the pads. The result is that you can choose your favorite shade of grey while you are listening.
○ March 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Noise
■ Rating: 7.1/10
■ Favorite track: “shift #2.2“
► We face a long journey through sonic paths. As the piece develops, subtle shifts in tone color bring in moments of either fragmentation or expansion, encouraging deep listening, reflection and a sense of timelessness.
○ March 2025 | Label: Cruel Nature Records
■ Genres: Experimental, Downtempo, Drone
■ Rating: 7.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Solitary Happy Hour“
► The rythmic construction and the guitar phrase are mesmerized hypnotically. The use of space is interesting and helps not to flatten listening. The subtle variations of the two key elements and the alternating use of silences cleverly sweeps away any static.
○ March 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.6/10
■ Favorite track: “how to get away“
► We are alone in the middle of the storm. Resistance is useless, surrender is sweet. So let us fall to infinity, disperse without guilt or hope, into oblivion.
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient Piano, Minimalism, Contemporary Classical
■ Rating: 8.2/10
■ Favorite track: “Rippen 115892“
► When it comes to minimalism, it’s easy to talk past. “Even I could have done that!”, people always say. So try, if you can. Try to create something so liberating, so saving, so pure.
○ February 2025 | Label: Cruel Nature Records
■ Genres: Avant-garde, Experimental, Vocal
■ Rating: 7.2/10
■ Favorite track: “Inner Peace Collapse Straight Ahead“
► That’s something interesting and rare. In a world that desensitizes us every day, where our tolerance threshold is getting higher and higher, this crowd of voices makes us feel like a fish tipping over on a boat dock. It distresses us in this anesthetized time.
○ February 2025 | Label: SeeHear Recordings
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 6.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Reynisdrangar“
► It’s cold out there. The wind blows hard. No time to figure out how to protect yourself. No way to find a direction in this desert of ice. Only regret for being there, trapped in boundless spaces, alone in the unspeakable white.
○ March 2025 | Label: See Blue Audio
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone, Atmospheric
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Voyage Beyond“
► This synth, in all its purity, envelops us and leads us on the journey. The evocation of interstellar space appears natural. The opening major7 arpeggio has the color of discovery; the rest of the harmony reflects the fear of revelations, along with their necessity.
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Experimental, Soundscapes
■ Rating: 8.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Symphonic Descent into the Beast’s Lair“
► This work, in all its nuances, is truly remarkable. The natural sounds, often trivialized in this genre and its derivations, are concretely functional to the development of the soundscape this time. Despite the sound complexity, the production of the album is perfectly blended.
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Field Recordings, Drone, Dark Ambient, Ambient
■ Rating: 7.9/10
■ Favorite track: “The Blood Spilt From the Lizard Will Return to Wash Over us All“
►Although the music advances with the patience a windless wave, the main feeling is restlessness. The circular anxiety is exacerbated by guitar interventions, inserted with ingenious incoherence in the sound picture. The choice of instrumental timbres is clever and seductive.
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic, Post-Rock
■ Rating: 7.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Kella“
►There is something liberating and threatening at the same time. The bass is like a snake crawling at your feet, but the cascades of high-frequency drones make you look up, searching for shooting stars to ask for hope. You’d better act.
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Eulogiae“
► Here it comes something really abstract. There is this dark drone going on with minimal variations, like something deeply inevitable. This is what the background noise of our lives might sound like. Silence is lost. Harmony, if it ever was, is over.
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone
■ Rating: 6.2/10
■ Favorite track: “a bridge above, a river below”
► There is a warm drone, and we all know what is going to happen. It will probably last forever. But not here: there is a sudden harmonic modulation, two steps above keeping the major key, and after that another minor, ascending climb to the summit. It’s time to close your eyes and breathe.
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Let Them Eat Flowers“
► The synth phrase is really charming. Even though it’s in a loop, it’s not easy to find the beginning and the end of it, and that’s its secret. Maybe it is not the right way to say it, but it’s like Boards of Canada have gone on vacation.
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Experimental, Ambient, Noise, Lo-Fi
■ Rating: 6.6/10
■ Favorite track: “Ceterus Paribus”
► There is a guitar and a beautiful repeated ninth chord, suitable – in its harmonic indeterminacy – to adapt to the emotional state of the listener. A desert at sunset lies before our eyes. We must cross it, whether we like it or not. Distant noises will accompany us on the way.
○ September 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Field Recordings, Experimental, Abstract
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Becquerel“
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○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Electronic, Ambient, Dub
■ Rating: 8.5/10
■ Favorite track: “I Feel Like“
► Well, just to be clear: this track is quite a masterpiece. There’s something charmingly hypnotic about the words, the syncopated beat, the echoes. We got totally captivated by the texture, every spark of this beauty has become precious and necessary in our head. And when the synth gets in: oh boy. We won’t forget this music.
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 7.8/10
■ Favorite track: “A Mind Consumed By Meaningless Data“
► There is a kind of inevitable circular path that digs a deeper and deeper furrow. Minor add2 chords paint a disperate picture. The synth bass moves 4 steps downward over and over again, buried within Freud’s repetition compulsion. This path is interrupted in an extremely significant pause around the middle of the track, only to resume inexorably.
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Experimental, Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 6.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Sewer Sea“
► In the midst of dark drones echoes, synhts phrases burst in. That’s intriguing because it emerges as an act of rebellion against the swamp that surrounds us. We can stand, somehow.