Ambient music continues to push boundaries in 2025, with January delivering a wave of immersive and forward-thinking releases. This month’s standout selections span deep, meditative soundscapes and genre-blurring experiments, proving the genre’s endless evolution.

Peter Rehberg’s Liminal States crafts a haunting long-form journey, while Vril’s Saturn Is A Supercomputer bends sound into new dimensions. Usof’s stay longer offers a surreal, fragmented dreamscape, defying ambient norms with unpredictable textures.

Brendon Moeller’s Further blends dub techno and 170 BPM rhythms into hypnotic, club-minded atmospheres. Angel R’s Mossed Capable of Being Observant layers loops and bit-reduced nature sounds, while Pavel Milyakov & Lucas Dupuy’s HEAL channels field recordings into a lush, new-age-tinged world.

From weighty sonic explorations to delicate minimalism, these 15 tracks showcase ambient music at its most captivating.

Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano’s Split Scale unites two boundary-pushing composers with classical roots. Berlin-based brothers Sebastian and Daniel Selke (aka CEEYS) are known for their genre-blurring work and curation of Q3Ambientfest, while Hirano is a sought-after film composer and collaborator. Their debut album follows a simple yet striking concept—each track built around a note from a western scale. Composed in a fluid exchange, Split Scale blends rich instrumental textures with electronic elements, creating a deeply immersive, cinematic experience.