Thanks so much to everyone who voted, and a toast to the 62 different releases selected (apologies if i’ve made a mistake here!).
As mentioned by @bennyhana22 this years winner was a bit of a runaway in the end, but still, drumroll please …
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close
Massive congratulation to Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri on taking the title. Rafael Toral will have to make do with second again, alongside his second from Boomkat and The Wire and third goes to another board favourite Adam Wiltzie
Here’s our top ten (eleven) and their points, and the following points totals for all our selected releases.
1: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close - 31 points
2: Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution - 18 points
3: Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal - 15 points
4: MINING - Chimet - 14 points
5: Jasmine Wood - Piano Reverb - 11 points
Sarah Davachi - The Head as form’d in the Crier’s Choir - 11 points
Klara Lewis - Thankful - 11 points
8: Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Suite For The Drains - 10 points
9: Canadian Rifles - If The Sea Would Ask Me - 9 points
10: Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works - 8 points
Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii - Salt Water - 8 points
7 points:
Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English - Selene
6 points:
Hollie Kenniff - For Forever
Bartosz Kruczyński - Dreams & Whispers
5 points:
ASC, Sam KDC - Surfacing
zakè - Lapis
Not Waving & Romance - Wings of Desire
Not Waving & Romance - Infinite Light
Andrew Tasselmyer - Where Substance Meets Emptiness
Andrew Tasselmeyer - Illusions Become Form
Simon McCorry & Wodwo - Every Creeping Thing
Kali Malone - All Life Long
Illuvia - Earth Prism
Kmru - Natur
4 points:
Claire Rousay - sentiment
Maya Shenfeld - Under the Sun
Ulla & Ultrafrog - It Means a Lot
Felicia Atkinson - Space As An Instrument
D York - Osada De La Virgen (Ode to Delfina)
Benoit Pioulard and Offthesky - Sunder
3 points:
Irena & Vojtěk Havlovi - Four Hands
Orp - Deep End
Kelly Moran - Butterfly Phase
Claire Rousay - The Bloody Lady
Armbruster - Can I Sit Here
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 5
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Facadisms
Julien Demoulin - Ephemeral Maps
Pepo Galan - Simple
Mizu - Forest scenes
2 points:
Ekin Fil - Sleepwalkers
Ornu - 1958
Henrik Meierkord - Falling
Jasmine Guffond - Alien Intelligence
Fennesz - Mosaic
Manja Ristić & Tomáš Šenkyřík – Vstal
Grand River & Abul Mogard - In Uno Spazio Immenso
Maya Beiser x Terry Riley - In C
Hollie Kenniff - For Forever
36 - Trance albums for a sunken generation
1 point:
Slow Reels - Everyday Exotic
Seefeel - Sky Hooks
Jogging House - Rendezvous
Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist
Panghalina - Lava
Luke Wyland - Kuma Cove
Ed Herbers - Upper Atmosphere
Civic Hall - The Trembling Line
r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams
Actress - Statik
Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds
Concepcion Huerta - The Earth has Memory