Best Ambient Albums Ever

File this under late news

I have discovered a list on Pitchfork from 2016 of the 50 best ever ambient albums. Obviously this may have become somewhat out of date during the last decade but it still seems mostly accurate to me.

The top five?

1. Brian Eno: Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
2. Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994)
3. William Basinski: The Disintegration Loops I-IV (2002)
4. Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
5. The KLF: Chill Out (1990)

I might want to argue about the order ( I think I would place them in the order 3, 4, 5, 2, 1) but the actual albums seem a reasonable choice.