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ambient rock

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 09:17:30 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Ambient rock merges the atmospheric textures and spaciousness of ambient music with rock instrumentation, creating immersive soundscapes that prioritize mood over traditional song structures. The style often features reverb-drenched guitars, subtle rhythms, and ethereal vocals that drift through layers of sound, inviting contemplative listening rather than immediate engagement. It emerged as artists sought to blend rock's emotional intensity with ambient music's meditative qualities, resulting in a hypnotic middle ground between active and passive listening experiences.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
74		1986-09	David Sylvian	Gone To Earth	ambient
87		1993	Deux Filles	Silence & Wisdom (Remastered)	ambient rock post-rock	sound collage # 47
53		1995	John McLaughlin	Molom	ambient rock folk fusion jazz rock new age soundtrack world fusion
72		1995-09-23	Dog Bite	the owls and eyes	alternative alternative pop alternative rock ambient rock america american american underground atlanta avant-rock electronic experimental folk experimental pop freak folk new weird america one man band one man project psychedelic pop psychedelic rock usa	american underground # 24 avant-rock # 34 atlanta # 51 one man band # 63 experimental folk # 71 one man project # 75
24		1996	Beyonder	Beyonder	ambient rock rock stoner metal
70		1998	Volkan	volkan	ambient rock chile
94		2000	A Beautiful Machine	Home	ambient rock australian dream pop shoegaze space rock
5		2005-09-27	The Love Songs	Some Protest Music For Today's	alternative ambient ambient pop ambient rock avant-rock drone electronic europe european experimental indie experimental rock german germany indie electronic indietronica musique concrete one man band one man project organic electronica post-rock	one man project # 12 organic electronica # 19
14		2006	Cousin Silas	Memories Of A Journey	ambient ambient rock drone microtonal minimalism soundscape	microtonal # 19
33		2006	Ashtray Navigations	Deadicated to the Sensory Armada	ambient ambient rock avant-prog avant-rock britain british british underground drone drone rock electronic electronica england english europe european experimental electronic experimental rock noise noise rock psychedelic rock	british underground # 46
59		2006	The Late Virginia Summers	tlvs	ambient rock america american american underground duo experimental indie experimental rock live recording lo-fi post-rock usa	experimental indie # 38
88		2006	Dilatazione	Too Emotional For Maths	post-rock instrumental indie rock jazz
41		2006-02-16	Muhmood	soБЫТИЕ (evENT)	ambient atmospheric metal dark ambient instrumental soundscape	atmospheric metal # 36
75		2006-04	Aidan Baker	Dog Fox Gone to Ground	ambient rock avant-rock experimental rock post-rock	avant-rock # 42
76		2007	Adam Gnade & Youthmovies	Honey Slides	art rock math rock post-rock progressive rock spoken word	avant-rock # 43
7		2007-09-13	Echoes	Echoes (2009)	ambient ambient rock america american american underground experimental rock instrumental instrumental rock post-rock usa
20		2008	Pi Xprnc	Oblivion Works Inside Us	ambient rock experimental rock new york post-industrial post-rock prog-rock progressive rock psychedelic rock rock	prog-rock # 13
51		2008	Muhmood	Naked Loneliness	ambient instrumental	atmospheric metal # 9
57		2008	Muhmood	Presence.[exe]	ambient dark ambient instrumental soundscape	atmospheric metal # 17
10		2008-02	Anomalous	Embers of November	ambient rock
38		2008-05-13	auger shell	holdstill ocean	ambient rock avant-rock diy electronic experimental rock lo-fi post-rock
91		2008-11-25	City of Satellites	The Spook	alternative ambient pop ambient rock australian dream pop post-rock shoegaze
23		2009	Expatriate	EP #1	ambient rock instrumental
42		2009	Sanchez is driven by demons	robot replicas	ambient ambient rock duo electronic electronica europe european experimental electronic experimental indie experimental rock glitch indie electronic indietronica post-rock sweden swedish
25		2009-02-10	Tree No Leaves	Under The Covers	ambient ambient rock america american avant-rock experimental indie experimental rock post-rock usa
79		2009-02-22	Dotåbåtå	Cloudburst	ambient ambient noise ambient rock dark ambient drone drone rock post-rock ritual ambient	drone rock # 38 ambient noise # 69
100		2009-05-22	Devin Townsend Project	Ki	ambient progressive rock progressive metal	atmospheric metal # 81
37		2009-05-27	Tangerine Dream	Tangents Box	ambient rock art rock progressive rock
17		2009-09-03	Abstressionist	Abstression III	alternative ambient ambient rock america american american underground darkwave electronic electronica glitch illbient industrial noise ohio post-industrial spoken word usa
55		2009-10-13	The Lights Galaxia	Global EP	ambient rock art rock experimental rock musique concrete organic electronica post-rock	organic electronica # 49
83		2009-10-31	Dopedrone	Contact Book	alternative alternative dance ambient ambient rock big beat dark pop darkwave electronic ethereal wave experimental rock indie dance one man band one man project post-rock shoegaze soundscape	indie dance # 60 one man band # 76 one man project # 83
65		2010-05	Anomalous	All Needles Point North	ambient rock
67		2010-11-12	Srkp	Satan And His Army EP	alternative alternative dance ambient rock electronic europe experimental indie experimental rock indie dance post-rock remixes russia russian shoegaze	experimental indie # 52 indie dance # 53
68		2010-11-12	Srkp	Absurding OST	ambient rock electronic post-rock shoegaze soundtrack
69		2010-11-25	Atlas Sound	12/31/09 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA		avant-rock # 33
84		2011-01-16	phantom icicles	PiTCH	ambient rock
89		2011-01-19	Puffin on My Side	Lech-Lecha	ambient ambient rock europe instrumental instrumental rock italian italy post-rock	italy # 7
11		2011-12-20	Magi	December	ambient rock doomgaze post-metal post-rock
61		2012-01-29	Testet ölt	Untitled	alternative alternative pop alternative rock ambient ambient rock avant-rock balkan europe experimental rock improvisation instrumental neo-psychedelia post-rock psychedelic rock serbia serbian	avant-rock # 19 serbian # 50 serbia # 73
22		2012-03	Excavacations	Object Permanence	alternative alternative rock ambient rock america american american underground americana art rock avant-pop avant-rock blues drone rock electronic experimental electronic experimental indie experimental rock improvisation krautrock lo-fi neo-psychedelia new weird america noise rock post-rock psychedelic rock usa
15		2012-06-06	Synthesia	The Time Travellers	epic metal melodic metal progressive metal
36		2012-06-06	Synthesia	Rain of Light	rock
1		2012-06-21	Elephant Pancakes	Full Lucid Old Barn	ambient ambient rock instrumental instrumental rock
54		2012-08-05	Bisamråtta	Bisamråtta (LP)	ambient ambient rock europe european musique concrete one man band one man project post-rock russia russian sound collage	one man band # 24 one man project # 54
62		2012-12-13	1476	The Nightside EP	acoustic acoustic rock ambient ambient rock apocalyptic folk art rock dark ambient dark folk dark rock experimental rock folk folk pop folk rock melodic rock neofolk pop pop rock progressive rock rock	dark rock # 35
71		2013	Juseph	Novae	ambient rock post-metal post-rock
43		2013-01-24	We Came From The North	Demos	ambient rock post-rock scotland
97		2013-02-19	Falling Up	Hours	ambient rock art rock experimental rock
30		2013-02-22	Ou Où	Geocities	alternative alternative dance ambient ambient noise ambient rock america american american underground drone indie electronic indietronica shoegaze usa
28		2013-03	Anomalous	Dusk of the Great Dawn	ambient rock lo-fi space rock
9		2013-04-07	Universal Theory	Timeline	alternative metal alternative rock ambient ambient rock doom metal gothic metal gothic rock metal progressive metal progressive rock
31		2013-04-19	Híbrida, Nen i Cavall	Pedralbes		barcelona # 26
80		2013-04-19	Nult	asil liseli	alternative rock ambient rock barcelona catalan europe european experimental rock post-rock spain spanish	spain # 6 catalan # 48 barcelona # 81
44		2013-04-19	Híbrida, Nen i Cavall	Permafrost
27		2013-04-22	Firetail	Learning to Cheat	ambient ambient rock america american american underground experimental rock one man band one man project post-rock soundscape usa	one man project # 30
81		2013-05-06	Mendelson	Mendelson	alternative rock ambient rock depressive rock experimental rock industrial rock noise rock post-rock	depressive rock # 37
63		2014	Templeton	Templeton	ambient rock
12		2014-02-13	Tides of Man	Young And Courageous	post-rock
6		2014-02-25	Dead Leaf Echo	true.deep.sleeper EP	alternative alternative pop alternative rock ambient rock america american american underground brooklyn dream pop electronic electronica indie pop indie rock new york trio usa
18		2014-03-01	Also Sprach	Instrucciones para quedarse solo	alternative rock ambient rock pop rock progressive rock
40		2014-04-07	Difleger	Rebirth	ambient ambient rock post-rock soundtrack
56		2014-05-26	Soulsonic	Things That Connect Us	acoustic alternative pop ambient pop ambient rock electronic electronic pop electronica ethereal ethereal wave
45		2014-07-01	Crystal boys	Skeletons	ambient rock instrumental rock
78		2015	Code I	Hope For The Departed	alternative rock ambient rock instrumental rock shoegaze space rock
90		2015-03-20	Code I	The Ending That We Dream Of	alternative rock ambient rock instrumental rock post-rock shoegaze
93		2015-10-02	Stafrænn Hákon	Eternal Horse	ambient rock iceland icelandic post-rock	iceland # 38
85		2016	Lockerbie	[BadPanda065] Lockerbie	alternative pop alternative rock ambient rock baroque pop chamber pop experimental indie iceland icelandic post-rock soft rock	iceland # 19 experimental indie # 73
95		2016	Signal From Europa	Dusty Monuments	ambient rock instrumental rock
49		2016-10-14	Loren Mazzacane Connors	The Departing Of A Dream Vol. III: Juliet	ambient rock avant-rock experimental rock
73		2016-11-10	Jet Plane	Pipe Dream	ambient ambient rock art rock bagpipes instrumental instrumental rock post-rock russia	bagpipes # 58
2		2017-07-14	Lately Kind of Yeah	Galaxie Depression	ambient rock art rock avant-rock experimental rock minimalism post-rock
96		2018	Patti Smith	The Coral Sea	ambient ambient rock poetry post-rock spoken word	poetry # 19
50		2018	Bull of Heaven	In the House of Dust	ambient ambient rock drone drone rock
29		2018-03-04	quantum computer	Reaching into the past.	ambient rock dance electronic electronica female vocalists house techno
47		2018-08-01	Roman Candles	Proximo	alternative rock ambient rock experimental rock glam rock indie rock rock
52		2018-09-19	Gaetano Fontanazza	The Grandpa Lullabies	ambient ambient rock art rock avant-rock electronic experimental rock minimalism post-rock progressive rock
64		2018-11-01	Yseulde	The Buried Giant	ambient ambient rock indie rock post-rock rock slowcore
77		2018-11-01	Yseulde	I'm Happy. Anyway, I'm Not Dying.
21		2020	Burrito	Burritard	ambient rock avant-prog avant-rock
35		2020-02-07	Ecovillage	beko_80	ambient ambient rock duo post-rock sweden swedish
99		2020-02-28	The Echelon Effect	Drift Ten	alternative rock indie rock post-rock
82		2020-03	Carlos Viola	Blasphemous	ambient ambient rock dark ambient post-rock soundtrack spanish guitar	spanish guitar # 61
66		2022	Magna Carta Cartel	The Demon King	alternative rock ambient rock post-rock psychedelic rock
48		2023-03-31	argo nuff	taking a break from my phone	ambient rock alternative rock indie rock
92		2023-03-31	argo nuff	annebolyn deluxe*	ambient rock instrumental
86		2023-11-10	Pjos	Shoe In	alternative ambient rock shoegaze
3			theseahorses	silence is best left unbroken	ambient ambient rock noise portland
4			Marco Manzella e Antonella Scalia	Oltre...	ambient ambient rock classical duo electroacoustic europe experimental rock italian italy post-rock symphonic rock
8			The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra	music for the post-apocalypse	ambient
13			Tudo de Volta	Tudo de Volta	ambient ambient rock avant-rock brazil brazilian drone experimental rock instrumental instrumental rock latin america lo-fi noise post-rock
16			Anemine	MeeresWeiten	alternative ambient ambient rock chillout electronic german instrumental
19			The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra	Alchemy	ambient rock post-rock
26			The Chadderandom Abyss	A Sea of Space Age Redundancy	acoustic guitar ambient ambient rock darkwave downtempo drone rock harmonica industrial instrumental noise rock post-rock psychedelic rock shoegaze space rock
32			The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra	The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra	ambient rock post-rock
34			theseahorses	forest of fangs	ambient ambient rock instrumental noise portland
39			The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra	Music For Chairs	ambient ambient rock dark ambient drone rock post-rock
46			Equivalent Exchange	EP 2012	ambient ambient rock indonesia
58			Spare Planet	Exit Straight Ahead	acoustic guitar ambient ambient rock indie rock post-rock
60			Retopia	Meeresweiten	acoustic alternative ambient ambient rock chillout downtempo electronic german instrumental
98			平沢進	ICE-9	ambient rock experimental rock noise rock psychedelic rock

Related genres

• ambient
• post-rock
• experimental rock
• noise
• electronic
• alternative
• avant-rock
• alternative rock
• shoegaze
• instrumental