Here’s the top 10 from the last five years, a pretty outstanding collection of records, i’m sure we’d all agree. Who knows, maybe not featuring in our 2023 top ten keeps Sarah Davachi up at night…
2024
1: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri - Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close
2: Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
3: Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal
4: MINING - Chimet
5: Jasmine Wood - Piano Reverb
Sarah Davachi - The Head as form’d in the Crier’s Choir
Klara Lewis - Thankful
8: Lisa Lerkenfeldt - Suite For The Drains
9: Canadian Rifles - If The Sea Would Ask Me
10: Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works
Klara Lewis & Yuki Tsujii - Salt Water
2023
1: Laurel Halo - Atlas
2: Wanderwelle - All Hands Bury The Cliffs At Sea
3: Tim Hecker - No Highs
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
5: Kaya North- Myths
6: Dobrawa Czocher - Dreamscapes
Mélanie de Biasio - Il Viaggio
8: Heinali - Kyiv Eternal
9: Eluvium - (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality
10: Hollie Kenniff - We All Have Places That We Miss
Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes
Martina Bertoni - Hypnagogia
2022
1: Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Recordings From the Åland Islands
2: 36 & Zake - Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel II
3: Abul Mogard - In a Few Places Along The River
4: Raum - Daughter
5: Kali Malone - Living Torch
Clarice Jensen - Esthesis
7: To Move - To Move
8: Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters
9: 36 - Symmetry Systems
Claire Rousay - Everything Perfect Is Already Here
2021
1: Black Swan - Repetition Hymns
2: Elori Saxi - The Blue of Distance
3: Martina Bertoni - Music for Empty Flats
4: Green-House - Music for Living Spaces
Illuvia - Iridescence of Clouds
6: KMRU - Logue
7: Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
8: Zeke & Marine Eyes - Unfailing Love
Amulets - Building
10: Not Waving/Romance - Eyes of Fate
2020
1: Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant
2: Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders
3: Jake Muir - The Hum of Your Veiled Voice
4: Galya Bisengalieva - Aralkum
5: Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia
6: Daniel Avery, Alessandro Cortini - Illusion of Time
7: Greenhouse - Six Songs For Invisible Gardens
8: Alva Noto - Xerrox 4
9: Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle
10: Ian Willian Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke