Best Electronic/Ambient/Experimental Albums of 2025

Acopia - Blush Response

After years of floating in that gauzy, half-awake corner of electronic pop, the Melbourne trio leans into something fuller, brighter, and more urgent. The songs bloom with heavier guitars, nervy basslines, and some of Kate Durman’s most emotionally bare vocals, still hushed, but now carrying a little fire beneath the breath. 

Car Culture – Rest Here

The second Car Culture album plays like a mixtape passed between friends: fuzzy dream-pop, hazy downtempo, and soft-lit psychedelia drifting into one another. Guitars, dusty drums, and bent samples stack into a warm, enveloping blur, with guest spots from Patrick Holland, Priori, J. Albert, Squirrel Flower, and Ms Ray adding texture without breaking the spell. 

Djrum – Under Tangled Silence

Djrum’s third album threads improvised piano, intricate percussion, and club-music DNA into a fluid, constantly shifting whole. Tracks tilt between jazz-tinged introspection and restless rhythmic engineering, carrying his classical training and rave lineage in equal measure. 

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Good Block — Window

A bright, borderless collage of global rhythms, dub echoes, and playful synth work, Window feels like flipping through radio stations in a city you’ve never visited, each track a different climate, a new corner, a fresh breeze. 

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Headache - Thank You For Almost Everything

Headache’s second album doubles down on the strange little world they’ve been building. Francis Hornsby Clark’s AI-filtered monologues drift across Vegyn’s warm, slo-burn productions, turning everyday memories into something slightly surreal and unexpectedly tender. 

Indopan – In Opulence

Andrew Morrison slips back into his Indopan alias with a 70-minute wander through jazzy circuitry and sepia-streaked breaks. Fueled by a new haul of hardware—a Wurlitzer 206A, Polysix, and a Soviet Marsh UDS—the record filters his trademark tape-worn pulse into something warmer, warped, and quietly emotive. 

Jaime Rosso – Away

Inspired by his time moving from rural Kent to London, Jaime Rosso’s self-produced debut drifts between rural quiet and South London rush, folding both into a small, vivid world of house, soul, and dub with lyrics that reflect someone trying to process two environments at once.

Johnny Sais Quoi - Love On Ice

Marseille-based artist Johnny Sais Quoi's debut album pulls from ‘80s new wave, Italo-pop, and blue-eyed soul, but the charm comes from how handmade it all feels, with songs built on crisp basslines, FM synth glow, and melodies that stick around long after the record stops. It’s playful, heartfelt, and delivered with the confidence of someone who already knows exactly what they want their world to sound like.

K-LONE – sorry i thought you were someone else

K-LONE’s sorry i thought you were someone else is one of those rare dance LPs that works just as well in headphones as it does in a club. The UK producer leans into garage, dub-techno, and warm ambient currents, shaping them into a record built as a place to breathe, reflect, and move, often all at once.

Karizma — Can’t Call It

A veteran producer in full command of his instincts, Can’t Call It is Karizma doing what he does best, crafting deep, melodic house music that just builds and builds. You can hear decades of experience in how casually it all flows.

Kaytranada — AIN"T NO DAMN WAY!

Kaytranada’s AIN’T NO DAMN WAY! finds him back in pure beat-maker form, no big rollout, no mood-board of guest features, just 34 minutes of sleek, pressure-free dance music. It’s a return to the instincts that made him a phenomenon in the first place: off-kilter swing, basslines with their own gravitational pull, and samples folded into shapes only he seems able to find. 

Mystic Jungle — Sunset Breaker

A tropical-tinged cosmic boogie trip from one of Naples’ finest. Mystic Jungle taps into that rare energy where funk, jazz, and soundtrack music all melt into one breezy, sunburnt groove.

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Various Artists – Instrumental Dubs #3

The third entry in Isle of Jura’s Instrumental Dubs series digs into UK street-soul, reggae-leaning rhythms, proto-house curiosities, and space-hazed instrumentals. A low-key essential collection for deep selectors.

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Voice Actor & Squu — Lust (1)

With Lust (1), Voice Actor and Squu continue to push the boundaries of what a narrative album can sound like. An eerie, intimate collage of lo-fi ambient storytelling and whispered electronics, it feels like tuning into a pirate radio station broadcasting from inside a dream. 

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