The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All TimeWallpaper music? None here. These are the albums that have shifted moods and created new worlds “As ignorable as it is interesting.” That’s the classic definition of ambient music, stated by Brian Eno in 1978 on the sleeve notes to his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. And he should know, since he basically invented the genre three years earlier with his album Discreet Music. But while Eno’s de
