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lichter's Top 150
- FM-84 - "Atlas"
If this album doesn't make you feel good something is wrong with you. Yes, this was a big synthwave year for me. - Cicada - "Ocean" - bandcamp
There is something special about this album that I can't quite pin down. I listen to a hell of a lot of instrumental music, and for some reason this really made me feel something. - Kikagaku Moyo - "House in the Tall Grass"
- Maria Usbeck - "Amparo" - bandcamp
- The Midnight - "Endless Summer"
- The Comet is Coming - "Channel the Spirits" - bandcamp
- The Gloaming - "2"
Probably the best folk musicians right now. - Leitbur - "Antique Travelers"
- Shura - "Nothing's Real"
- Plini - "Handmade Cities"
- Imarhan - "Imarhan"
- Antonymes - "(For Now We See) Through a Glass Dimly"
- Hiss Golden Messenger - "Heart Like A Levee"
- M Craft - "Blood Moon"
- Akira Kosemura - "MOMENTARY: Memories of the Beginning"
- Jessy Lanza - "Oh No"
- Christine Ott - "Only Silence Remains"
- Mogwai - "Atomic"
- Films - "Signs From the Past"
- Sarah Neufeld - "The Ridge"
- Ital Tek - "Hollowed"
- Tim Hecker - "Love Streams"
- Fragments - "Imaginary Seas"
- Anderson .Paak - "Malibu"
- Yumi Zouma - "Yoncalla"
- Ian William Craig - "Centres"
- Petrels - "Jörð"
- Colin Stetson - "Sorrow: A Reimagining Of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony"
- Yann Tiersen - "Eusa"
- Agnes Obel - "Citizen of Glass"
- Carly Rae Jepsen - "E MO TION Side B"
- Robert Parker - "Crystal City"
- Jherek Bischoff - "Cistern"
- Sithu Aye - "Set Course for Andromeda"
- Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
- Eagulls - "Ullages"
- William Ryan Fitch - "Ill Tides"
- Steve Gunn - "Eyes on the Line"
- Olafur Arnalds - "Island Songs"
- Black Mountain - "IV"
- 65daysofstatic - "No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe"
- Hammock - "Everything and Nothing"
- GoGo Penguin - "Man Made Object"
- Slow Dakota - "The Ascension of Slow Dakota"
- Forest Fang - "The Sleepwalker's Ocean"
- Morgan Willis - "Miami Calling"
- Ben Chatwin - "Heat and Entropy"
- King Creosote - "Astronaut Meets Appleman"
- Steve Hauschildt - "Strands"
- White Lung - "Paradise"
- Roger Goula - "Overview Effect"
- Cavern of Anti-Matter - "Void Beats / Invocation Trex"
- Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
- Boliden - "Landscape and Memory"
- Nick Millevoi - "Desertion"
- Wildhart - "Shine"
- Kedr Lavinskiy - "January Sun"
- Andrew Bird - "Are You Serious"
- Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha"
- Swans - "The Glowing Man"
- Memoryhouse - "Soft Hate"
- Haley Bonnar - "Impossible Dream"
- Fews - "Means"
- Julian Lage - "Arclight"
- Lapsley - "Long Way Home"
- Lorenzo Masotto - "Rule and Case"
- Tilman Robinson - "Deer Heart"
- Jeff Rosenstock - "WORRY."
- Gold Panda - "Good Luck and Do Your Best"
- Heron Oblivion - "Heron Oblivion"
- Stefano Guzzetti - "Escape (Music For a Ballet)"
- Lucy Dacus - "No Burden"
- Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
- The Black Queen - "Fever Daydream"
- Noura Mint Seymali - "Arbina"
- Gaye Su Aykol - "Hologram Imparatorlugu"
- The Hotelier - "Goodness"
- Three Trapped Tigers - "Silent Earthling"
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - "Orphée"
- If These Trees Could Talk - "The Bones of a Dying World"
- Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"
- Bruno Bavota - "Out Of the Blue"
- Kishi Bashi - "Sonderlust"
- Fog - "For Good"
- Daughter - "Not to Disappear"
- Young Magic - "Still Life"
- Lights - "Midnight Machines"
- Moderat - "III"
- Drombeg - "Earthworks"
- Wet - "Don't You"
- The Cult - "Hidden City"
- Hyboid - "Terror of the Universe"
- Palmistry - "Pagan"
- Mutual Benefit - "Skip A Sinking Stone"
- Moonface and Siinai - "My Best Human Face"
- Erika Tazawa - "Rhythm of Silence"
- Doomsquad - "Total Time"
- Holy Fuck - "Congrats"
- Waclaw Zimpel - "Lines"
- Ryley Walker - "Golden Sings That Have Been Sung"
- Dinosaur Jr. - "Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not"
- Wang Wen - "岁月鸿沟"
- American Football - "American Football"
- Loscil - "Monument Builders"
- Wolf People - "Ruins"
- Waveshaper - "Station Nova"
- Jambinai - "A Hermitage"
- Stefano Guzzetti - "Leaf"
- Iamthemorning - "Lighthouse"
- Juliana Barwick - "Will"
- Eluvium - "False Readings On"
- La Femme - "Mystere"
- Celer - "Two Days and One Night"
- Mono - "Requiem for Hell"
- Oren Ambarchi - "Hubris"
- Explosions in the Sky - "The Wilderness"
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Skeleton Tree"
- Modern Baseball - "Holy Ghost"
- The Album Leaf - "Between Waves"
- okamotonoriaki - "Happy Ending"
- Samaris - "Black Lights"
- Jamie T - "Trick"
- World's End Girlfriend - "Last Waltz"
- case/lang/veirs - "case/lang/veirs"
- Whitney - "Light Upon the Lake"
- Mammoth - "Deviations"
- Dungen - "Haxan"
- The Casket Girls - "The Night Machines"
- Beth Orton - "Kidsticks"
- Causa Sui - "Return to Sky"
- Havenaire - "Tremolo"
- Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla - "Kirkastus"
- Library Tapes - "Escapism"
- Ulrika Spacek - "The Album Paranoia"
- Polyenso - "Pure in the Plastic"
- Vieux Kante - "The Young Man's Harp"
- Mmoths - "Luneworks"
- Angel Olson - "My Woman"
- Phoria - "Volition"
- Wata Igarashi - "Mood of the Machines"
- The Dear Hunter - "Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional"
- The Coral - "Distance Inbetween"
- Frightened Rabbit - "Painting of a Panic Attack"
- Culture Abuse - "Peach"
- Sunwatchers - "Sunwatchers"
- The Veils - "Total Depravity"
- Scott Walker - "The Childhood of a Leader OST"
- Nite Jewel - "Liquid Cool"
- Andy Stott - "Too Many Voices"
- John K. Samson - "Winter Wheat"
- Honorable Mentions
- Dakota Suite + Vampillia - "The Sea is Never Full"
- Thee Oh Sees - " A Weird Exits"
- Wrekmeister Harmonies - "Light Falls"
- White Denim - "Stiff"
- Umberto - "Alienation"
