ACL 2025 ~ Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape

A remarkable year for field recordings was led by forms of minutiae’s incredible Ice Series, from which three albums made our top ten (and a fourth was just outside at #11!).  The series highlights the fact that the genre isn’t

Martina Testen / Simon Šerc ~ Nokturno

Biodukt, one of our favorite field recording albums of all time, was released in March of 2020, the week the whole world shut down.  The timing could not have been more fortuitous; the album, which tracked the sounds of Italian