10 Ambient Music Albums of 2024

Ambient music is my workday companion. The albums collected here — ranging from spectral drones to late-night meditative jazz to minimalist classical pieces — have a peculiar effect: they help me carve out a space where focus is sustained and time seems to suspend itself. These are the records that have colored my working hours throughout 2024.

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Façadisms

Endurance (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Earthen Sea - Recollection

Jakob Bro - Taking Turns

Malibu - Palaces of Pity

Jon Hopkins - Ritual

Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol. 5

Roger Eno - The Skies: Rarities

Not Waving & Romance - Wings of Desire

Suso Saiz - Distorted Clamor