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Highest Rated Drone Albums of All Time
Decade
All Time
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Genre
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Alternative Rock
Ambient
Art Pop
Contemporary Folk
Country
East Coast Hip Hop
Electronic
Folk
Hip Hop
House
Indie Pop
Indie Rock
Jazz
Metal
Pop
Post-Punk
Psychedelic
R&B
Rock
Singer-Songwriter
Soul
Synthpop
Trap
1
.
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
October 21, 2002
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
97
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2
.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞
August 14, 1997
Post-Rock
,
Drone
Score
95
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3
.
Windy & Carl - Antarctica: The Bliss Out, Vol. 2
February 1, 1997
Drone
,
Ambient
Score
95
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4
.
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Ambient
,
Minimalism
,
Drone
,
Tape Music
Score
94
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5
.
William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops II
January 1, 2003
Ambient
,
Minimalism
,
Tape Music
,
Drone
Score
94
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6
.
Windy & Carl - Depths
March 23, 1998
Drone
,
Ambient
,
Space Rock
Score
93
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7
.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
October 16, 2012
Post-Rock
,
Drone
Score
93
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8
.
Pauline Oliveros / Stuart Dempster / Panaiotis - Deep Listening
January 1, 1989
Drone
,
Ambient
,
Dark Ambient
Score
92
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9
.
Swans - The Seer
August 28, 2012
Post-Rock
,
Experimental Rock
,
Noise Rock
,
Drone
,
Neofolk
,
Totalism
Score
90
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10
.
Tony Conrad & Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate
Drone
,
Minimalism
Score
90
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11
.
Sunn O))) - Black One
October 18, 2005
Drone
,
Drone Metal
,
Dark Ambient
Score
89
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12
.
Stars of the Lid - Per Aspera Ad Astra
November 18, 1998
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
88
Source →
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13
.
This Heat - Health and Efficiency
January 1, 1980
Experimental Rock
,
Post-Punk
,
Drone
,
Tape Music
Score
88
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14
.
David Lynch & Alan R. Splet - Eraserhead
January 1, 1982
Dark Ambient
,
Drone
,
Sound Collage
,
Spoken Word
,
Industrial
,
Field Recordings
Score
88
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15
.
Gas - Narkopop
April 21, 2017
Ambient
,
Ambient Techno
,
Minimal Techno
,
Drone
Score
88
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16
.
William Basinski - 92982
January 1, 2009
Ambient
,
Drone
,
Tape Music
Score
87
Source →
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17
.
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
July 1, 1975
Noise
,
Drone
Score
87
Source →
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Music
Spotify
18
.
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
April 15, 2013
Drone
,
Ambient
Score
87
Source →
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19
.
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
February 14, 2011
Drone
,
Ambient
Score
86
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20
.
Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again
November 20, 2001
Ambient
,
Drone
,
Glitch
Score
86
Source →
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21
.
Yellow Swans - At All Ends
October 2, 2007
Drone
Score
86
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22
.
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
October 29, 2001
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
86
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23
.
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
April 7, 2007
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
86
Source →
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24
.
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star
December 0, 1975
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
86
Source →
Amazon
25
.
Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
March 10, 1997
Ambient
,
Drone
Score
85
Source →
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