Best-of Echoes 2024 – The Top 30

Get your shopping list ready for The Best Albums of 2024 on Echoes. It has been a great year for new music and we’ll pick out our Top 30 albums for your delight. You might want to see who is number one, but you will love who is 30. This online stream has all 30 of the Best Albums of 2024.
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Extended Echoes – The Best of Echoes 2025…so far…

It’s the Best of Echoes 2025 So Far. As we hit the midway mark of the year, we’ve selected the 35 best releases to rise above this year so far. We only had time to ply the top 20 n the broadcast version of Echoes, but you can hear all 35, uninterrupted, right here on Echoes Online . See how you match up with John Diliberto on the Best of Echoes 2025…so far…
| The Best of Echoes 2025…so far… |
| 35 |
0:00:00 |
Quiet Resonance |
Downlow |
Downshift |
| 34 |
0:07:54 |
Harbors (Hollie Kenniff & Goldmund) |
For One Another |
When We Are Free |
| 33 |
0:11:34 |
Dieter Spears |
Dimensional Shift |
The Signal |
| 32 |
0:17:55 |
Ryan Farish |
Natural Energy |
Under the Stars |
| 31 |
0:22:01 |
Ancient Future |
1. Spirit of Nirvana – Extended Intro |
Purple Nirvana |
| 30 |
0:27:43 |
AvaWaves |
Escape |
Heartbeat |
| 29 |
0:31:10 |
Hollie Kenniff |
For Forever |
For Forever |
| 28 |
0:33:57 |
Kelly Lee Owens |
Dark Angel |
Dreamstate |
| 27 |
0:37:38 |
Colin Rayment |
Nothing But The Umbra |
Penumbra |
| 26 |
0:43:19 |
Olafur Arnalds & Loreen |
01 The Sound of Breathing |
Sages |
| 25 |
0:47:05 |
The Royal Arctic Institute |
Mas y Menos |
The Royal Arctic Institute |
| 24 |
0:50:59 |
9 Theory and Torii Wolf |
Evaporate ( feat. xii) |
Soft Realms |
| 23 |
0:55:00 |
Erik Wøllo |
The Beach |
Where the River Widens |
| 22 |
0:59:34 |
George Wallace |
The Longing |
Beyond Live |
| 21 |
1:13:25 |
Milk & Bone |
Velvet Cove |
Lost Records: Bloom and Rage |
| 20 |
1:18:28 |
Michelle Qureshi |
Looking Glass |
Be In This World |
| 19 |
1:22:42 |
PLATFORM8 |
Fly (feat. Noah Wilding and Tom Eaton) |
PLATFORM8 |
| 18 |
1:27:51 |
Dino Pacifici & Brannan Lane |
Amazon Mist |
Imaginary Horizons |
| 17 |
1:32:51 |
AeTopus |
Probe |
iota |
| 16 |
1:38:03 |
Ian Boddy & Harald Grosskopf |
Doppelgänger |
Doppelgänger (DiN91) |
| 15 |
1:45:30 |
Ravi Kulur & Barry Phillips |
The Path Unfolds |
Breath & Bow |
| 14 |
1:51:32 |
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe |
Suddenly |
Luminal |
| 13 |
1:54:56 |
KOAN |
A Hat Full of Sky |
Nine Worlds |
| 12 |
2:02:37 |
Anoushka Shankar |
Amrita |
Chapter III: We Return to Light |
| 11 |
2:07:30 |
Explosions in the Sky |
Horizon |
American Primeval (OST) |
| 10 |
2:11:41 |
Mogwai |
Hammer Room |
The Bad Fire |
| 9 |
2:16:43 |
Oklou |
Take Me by the Hand |
Choke Enough |
| 8 |
2:19:26 |
Klangwelt |
Home |
Second Nature |
| 7 |
2:24:36 |
AESEAES |
Say When |
Opia |
| 6 |
2:27:56 |
David Helpling & Eric the Taylor |
The Precious Dark |
The Precious Dark |
| 5 |
2:37:31 |
Fractal Sextet |
Flight of the Phoenix |
Sky Full of Hope |
| 4 |
2:45:40 |
Ian Boddy & Erik Wollo |
Salvage |
Transmissions |
| 3 |
2:54:03 |
Carl Weingarten |
A New Remembering |
Song for a Perigee Moon |
| 2 |
2:58:03 |
Marconi Union |
Crystalline |
The Fear of Never landing |
| 1 |
3:04:32 |
Immersion | SUSS |
State of Motion |
Nanocluster Vol.3 |
Extended Echoes – The Best of Echoes 2025

The Best Albums of 2025 on Echoes. It’s a list unlike any other, which you should probably realize if you listen to Echoes. We just experience a different world here in the Echoesphere. It has been a beautifully tumultuous year for great music and we’ve compiled our list of 30 favorite albums from the Echoesphere. These are records that made us smile or made us think. We only got to hear the top 20 selections on the Echoes radio program for Monday, December 8 – only 20 because we can’t fit all 30 in our two-hour timeslot – especially when one artist is doing compositions that are 43 and 30 minutes long. But subscribers can hear a stream of all 30 right here.
| Echoes Best Albums of 2025 |
| Start Time |
Rank |
Artist |
Track |
Album |
Label |
| 0:00:00 |
30 |
Brannan Lane, John Gregorius & Sean O’Bryan Smith |
Lost Desert Highway |
Lost Desert Highway |
Wayfarer |
| 0:03:56 |
29 |
Platform8 |
My Way |
Platform8 |
(self-released) |
| 0:10:03 |
28 |
Nicholas Gunn |
Miss You (Acoustic) feat. Alina Renae) |
30 (review) (interview) |
Blue Dot |
| 0:13:37 |
27 |
Royal Arctic Institute |
Mas y Menos |
Royal Arctic Institute |
Rhyme & Reason Records |
| 0:17:31 |
26 |
Hollie Kenniff |
What Carries Us |
For Forever |
Nettwerk |
| 0:21:18 |
25 |
Michelle Qureshi |
Embracing Shadows |
Be in this World |
Wayfarer |
| 0:24:58 |
24 |
Rival Consoles |
In a Trance |
Landscapes from Memory |
Erased Tapes |
| 0:29:04 |
23 |
Geoglyph |
Resonant Structure |
Otherworldly |
Over the Moon Music |
| 0:35:52 |
22 |
Deepspace |
Geometric Polytidal ᛗ Fluctuations |
Water Planets (Interview) |
Projekt |
| 0:40:40 |
21 |
Deborah Martin & Jill Haley |
Sunlight and Starlight |
Rendering Time |
Spotted Peccary |
| 0:45:09 |
20 |
Ludovico Einaudi |
In Memory of a Dream |
The Summer Portraits (review) |
Decca |
| 0:50:08 |
19 |
Aetopus |
Accent |
Iota |
Spotted Peccary |
| 0:54:27 |
18 |
Ian Boddy & Harold Grosskopf |
Livewire |
Doppelganger (interview) |
DiN |
| 1:00:05 |
17 |
Koan |
A Hat Full of Sky |
Nine Worlds |
Blue Tunes Chillout |
| 1:07:22 |
16 |
Explosions in the Sky |
Hard Road |
American Primeval |
Netflix Music |
| 1:12:03 |
15 |
Anoushka Shankar |
Amrita |
Chapter III: We Return to Light (interview) |
Leiter |
| 1:16:55 |
14 |
Mogwai |
Pale Vegan Hip Pain |
The Bad Fire |
Temporary Residence Limited |
| 1:21:15 |
13 |
Mark Dwane |
Aeon 5 |
Aeons |
Trondant |
| 1:26:13 |
12 |
All India Radio |
Crystallinity |
The Unified Field (review) |
Spectra |
| 1:29:33 |
11 |
aeseaes |
White Noise |
Opia (review) (interview) |
(self-released) |
| 1:33:01 |
10 |
David Helpling & Eric “the” Taylor |
The Precious Dark |
The Precious Dark (review) (interview) |
Spotted Peccary |
| 1:42:03 |
9 |
Bluetech |
Amorphous Crystals of Cassiopeia |
Spacehop Chronicles 2 (review) (interview) |
Over the Moon |
| 1:47:33 |
8 |
Steve Roach |
The Far Place |
Portals and Spirals (interview) |
OtherSide |
| 1:58:14 |
7 |
Fractal Sextet |
Flight of the Phoenix |
Sky Full of Hope |
Rarenoise |
| 2:06:35 |
6 |
Marissa Nadler |
Weightless Above the Water |
New Radiations (review) (interview) |
Sacred Bones |
| 2:09:56 |
5 |
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo |
|
Transmissions |
DiN |
| 2:17:21 |
4 |
Carl Weingarten |
Rise of the Perigree Moon |
Song for a Perigee Moon |
Multiphase |
| 2:21:39 |
3 |
Azam Ali |
To Pieces |
Synesthesia (review) (interview) |
COP International |
| 2:25:54 |
2 |
Marconi Union |
Crystalline |
The Fear of Never Landing (review) (interview) |
Just Music |
| 2:31:50 |
1 |
Immersion/Suss |
State of Motion |
Nanocluster Vol.3 (review) (interview) |
Swim |