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2011 Ambient Album Releases
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Mar 4
C418
Minecraft - Volume Alpha
80
critic score
(3)
91
user score
(4,026)
Nov 8
Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica
79
critic score
(29)
84
user score
(1,472)
Apr 11
Grouper
A I A : Alien Observer
84
critic score
(3)
84
user score
(976)
Feb 14
Tim Hecker
Ravedeath, 1972
84
critic score
(19)
85
user score
(942)
Jun 1
The Caretaker
An empty bliss beyond this World
81
critic score
(9)
84
user score
(655)
Apr 11
Grouper
A I A : Dream Loss
79
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(213)
Sep 13
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
84
critic score
(9)
81
user score
(203)
Nov 11
Jeremy Soule
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Original Game Soundtrack
89
user score
(180)
Feb 22
Julianna Barwick
The Magic Place
81
critic score
(16)
79
user score
(161)
Oct 11
Tim Hecker
Dropped Pianos
75
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(102)
Oct 11
Cliff Martinez
Drive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
81
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(78)
Oct 11
Nils Frahm
Felt
85
critic score
(7)
80
user score
(75)
May 9
This Will Destroy You
Tunnel Blanket
65
critic score
(6)
69
user score
(44)
Jun 20
Devin Townsend Project
Ghost
85
critic score
(3)
72
user score
(41)
Oct 24
Massive Attack & Burial
Four Walls / Paradise Circus
79
user score
(29)
Jul 19
C418
72 Minutes of Fame
66
user score
(22)
Apr 18
Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories
Portal 2: Songs To Test By
84
user score
(21)
May 9
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Summvs
72
user score
(21)
Apr 25
Ulver
Wars of the Roses
60
critic score
(3)
70
user score
(20)
Sep 26
Rhinocervs
RH-07
76
user score
(20)
Dec 6
Jacaszek
Glimmer
77
critic score
(5)
71
user score
(17)
Oct 31
Uneven Structure
Februus
85
user score
(14)
Nov 9
Chris Watson
El Tren Fantasma
83
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(14)
Aug 3
Fennesz & Sakamoto
Flumina
68
critic score
(5)
76
user score
(13)
Jun 3
Kreng
Grimoire
77
user score
(13)
Jul 17
Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin
FRKWYS Vol. 7
77
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(11)
Jun 21
Deadbeat
Drawn and Quartered
87
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(10)
Oct 11
Leyland Kirby
Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
80
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(9)
Jul 25
Fennesz
Seven Stars
67
critic score
(3)
69
user score
(8)
Mar 8
Lee Noble
No Becoming
65
user score
(8)
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Nov 8
Gnaw Their Tongues
Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
82
user score
(6)
Jan 7
Aes Dana
Perimeters
84
user score
(6)
Nov 22
Peter Broderick
Music for Confluence
79
critic score
(6)
66
user score
(6)
Sep 27
Walls
Coracle
75
critic score
(11)
78
user score
(6)
May 24
Efrim Manuel Menuck
Plays "High Gospel"
72
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(6)
Dec 5
Gorgoroth
Under the Sign of Hell 2011
35
user score
(5)
Jun
Bee Mask
Elegy for Beach Friday
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(5)
Nov 7
Brian Eno
Panic of Looking
68
critic score
(6)
66
user score
(5)
Sep 27
Mark McGuire
Get Lost
71
critic score
(7)
77
user score
(4)
Mar 24
Daisuke Matsuoka
Donkey Kong Country Returns: Original Sound Track
81
user score
(4)
Sep 27
The Body & Braveyoung
Nothing Passes
82
user score
(4)
Mar
Thoughts On Air
Lazy Haze
75
user score
(4)
Sep 2
山岡晃 [Akira Yamaoka]
Shadows of the Damned
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(3)
Jan 17
Desolate
The Invisible Insurrection
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(3)
May 10
Mountains
Air Museum
71
critic score
(6)
75
user score
(3)
Sep 27
Roll The Dice
In Dust
72
critic score
(6)
53
user score
(3)
May 25
Glowbug
Mr. Plastic
53
user score
(3)
Mar 15
Higuma
Pacific Fog Dreams
83
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(3)
May 30
A Dancing Beggar
Follow The Dark As If It Were Light
69
user score
(2)
Jan 1
Mohave Triangles
Haze for Daze
74
user score
(2)
Oct 31
Husky In Denial
''It's too late,'' or so I'm told
34
user score
(1)
Nov 21
Count Shannäth
Help Me
30
user score
(1)
Apr 4
Namlook • Montanà
Labyrinth 3
100
user score
(1)
Apr 22
Aderlating
Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone Part One
85
user score
(1)
Mar 11
Extreme Shoegaze
Extreme Shoegaze / Set'30
70
user score
(1)
Jun 17
Syndrome
Floating Veins
77
user score
(1)
Apr 19
Cross Record
Magnetic Current
70
user score
(1)
Dec 17
Birds Of Passage
Winter Lady
76
user score
(1)
May 1
Sonitus Eco
The Glacier Series
65
user score
(1)
Jan 1
Motion Sickness of Time Travel
Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious
80
critic score
(1)
2
user score
(1)
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