Top Ambient Albums of 2025 – Spring Edition

As I said in my Top Ambient Albums of 2025 – Winter Edition rundown, (and I will continue to say this) music lists with “Top” in their title should always be taken with a grain of salt. There are only so many hours in so many days and while I’ve had a chance to listen to a lot of new ambient music this year, there could be PLENTY more that are worthy of this list. With that being said, here’s my list (in no particular order) of the top ambient albums of Spring 2025.

Best Ambient Albums of Spring 2025

Whatever the Weather ii – Whatever The Weather

Release Date: March 14, 2025

This album reminds me that America’s cultural crown is a rusted relic all of a sudden – we need to step back and just accept it. And in fitting fashion each track here is named after a temperature in Celsius. London isn’t calling, London is dreary and cold, innit? Loraine James’ “Whatever The Weather II” is ambient work at its most intimate – delicate, fractured, honest. You won’t know where one track ends or the next one creeps in, and that’s exactly the point. Clarity is for 2015. It should be required listening for anyone brave enough to admit that the temperature of relevance has moved elsewhere – and it’s sitting just above freezing, probably somewhere in North London. Its mix of radiant tones, sound collage and pure spirit should solidify why this album should be on your list to listen to in 2025.

From Where You Came – Kara-Lis Coverdale

Release Date: May 9, 2025

A lot of ambient musicians have all the ingredients to make something nourishing and familiar – they’ve got the gear, they’ve got the mood, but nine times out of ten they churn out the same lukewarm porridge and call it transcendence. Boards of Canada clones, or worse, Stars of the Lid – which is fine if you’re in the mood to be slowly embalmed in a velvet-lined echo chamber. There’s nothing wrong with a blockbuster nap. But then there are those musicians who use the ingredients in just the right way to make something we feel in our guts – it’s new, but we’ve felt those feelings before. Kara-Lis Coverdale’s “From Where You Came” is nourishing. It’s a perfect mix of live instruments, reverb and mystical synthesis. A perfect start to Summer – rejuvenation through rumination.

no floor – more eaze & claire rousay

Release Date:  March 21, 2025

Between us, I was ready to hate it. The first few seconds hit – bare acoustic guitar, bone-dry, no reverb, no smoke – and I braced myself for another half-baked “Americana Ambient” record. This was something else entirely. Something tender, disarming and weirdly holy. It’s fucking lovely. It’s like slipping into a hot spring – the strings drift in like sunlight through steam, and every so often a synth sputters or a knob flickers reality just enough to remind you: this isn’t nostalgia, this is your life. It soars high and then you descend into a beautiful meadow where you can feel the wind in your hair and smell all the life. It’s a divine album by more eaze & claire rousay. I look forward to pouring into their discography.

quiet circle – marine eyes

Release Date: April 25, 2025

I feel like the phrase, “Where’s the love?” gets thrown around a lot these days. But I know it’s exact location – it’s in “quiet circle” by marine eyes. Maybe I have a sweet tooth for these rich harmonies and synths, maybe I’m too oversentimental for my own good, but I love the way this album makes me feel. For me, that’s what it’s all about – how I feel. marine eyes says that this EP is dedicated to “— carving out space for our own quiet circles.” And you know what? I did carve out my own space. Definitely put this album on your list.

wellspring – anthéne & simon mccorry

Release Date: May 2, 2025

Some music feels like a soft exhale after holding your breath for too long – except wellspring is stretched over forty minutes and dripping with cello, guitar, and some kind of sonic fog that coats your lungs in moss. anthéne and Simon McCorry dragged out this album like a rusty chain being pulled slowly out of the earth with strings and signal decay. It’s slow, wandering and reflective. T here’s no climax, no catharsis – just the steady, patient unraveling of sound. Play this when the world’s too loud and you need to remember how to feel human again.

Sphaîra – Sara Persico

Sara Persico’s Sphaîra is a haunted structure made of reverb, memory, and decay. I feel like if I were in a haunted house and this came on, I’d be safe – I’d be one of them. sounds don’t flow so much as echo from the corners of some deeper chamber, full of hissing electronics, mournful textures, and voice fragments that hover between plea and prophecy. Every track builds tension without resolution – and I fucking love that. Sphaîra moves through the physical and the emotional without asking permission, dragging you into a place where beauty survives under duress. It’s unnerving, captivating and entirely a human traveling through a spirit realm. Great record.

Amber Disc – Joel Noct Brinson

Release Date: February 2025

Okay, confession time. This album and the one before it were actually released in February, so it shouldn’t be on the list, but to be fair if I would have heard it in February, it would have made it onto my Top Ambient Albums of 2025 – Winter Edition. I had a chance to see Joel Noct at a show called “EQUALIZER” at No Fun Bar about a month back and just had to listen to some of their work. Amber Disc is a real revelation. It’s the type of ambient album that hums in your soul and it sounds like a womb. Not your mom’s womb, someone elses. You’re in someone else’s womb. And just when you get comfortable, it’s over. The drone compositions in this are absolutely breathtaking and hypnotic. Give this one a listen.

Dishonorable Mention

Side note, Brian Eno is a hero of mine. I was excited to listen to his new album “AURUM” – I had the incense lit, headphones warmed … ready to receive the transmission. Then I saw it: Apple Music exclusive. The corporate gulag. The gated temple for the branded faithful. And just like that, the thrill was fucking gone. Brian, why shackle your sound to a walled garden run by ad agencies and tech cultists? You of all people should know better. You practically invented open sonic space, and now you’re renting it out by the month. Do better, Mr. Eno.