More spacious, dark, and arrestingly beautiful songs please.
November 6, 2011 3:35 PM Subscribe
Best answer: Rutti — Slowdive
Harold Budd and Brian Eno — The Pearl
The Album Leaf — Brennivin
Peter Gabriel — Of These, Hope - Reprise
Massive Attack — Small Time Shot Away
Bruce Cockburn — If I Had A Rocket Launcher
posted by netbros at 4:26 PM on November 6, 2011
Harold Budd and Brian Eno — The Pearl
The Album Leaf — Brennivin
Peter Gabriel — Of These, Hope - Reprise
Massive Attack — Small Time Shot Away
Bruce Cockburn — If I Had A Rocket Launcher
posted by netbros at 4:26 PM on November 6, 2011
Best answer: Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (album)
Catherine Wheel - Fripp (plus quite a few songs on the Like Cats and Dogs album)
posted by backwards guitar at 4:37 PM on November 6, 2011
Catherine Wheel - Fripp (plus quite a few songs on the Like Cats and Dogs album)
posted by backwards guitar at 4:37 PM on November 6, 2011
Best answer: Japan
Blonde Readhead
M83's older ones
posted by Threeway Handshake at 4:54 PM on November 6, 2011
Blonde Readhead
M83's older ones
posted by Threeway Handshake at 4:54 PM on November 6, 2011
Best answer: You already have two of my favorite artists, and I'll presume you know all of their catalogs and side projects. So...
Shriekback, The Only Thing That Shines and This Big Hush
Lowlife, Permanent Sleep
The National, Cardinal Song and Sorrow
Mumford And Sons, I Gave You All
Mike Scott, Bring 'em All In
Felt, Primitive Painters
1 Giant Leap, The Way You Dream
Jane Siberry, The Taxi Ride
The Low Anthem, This God Damn House
If any of these strike a chord, I'll look for more. This question resonated (hah) with me.
posted by vers at 4:55 PM on November 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Shriekback, The Only Thing That Shines and This Big Hush
Lowlife, Permanent Sleep
The National, Cardinal Song and Sorrow
Mumford And Sons, I Gave You All
Mike Scott, Bring 'em All In
Felt, Primitive Painters
1 Giant Leap, The Way You Dream
Jane Siberry, The Taxi Ride
The Low Anthem, This God Damn House
If any of these strike a chord, I'll look for more. This question resonated (hah) with me.
posted by vers at 4:55 PM on November 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Low, though it might be less spacious than you'd like.
From someone else's list of artists like David Sylvian: Bark Psychosis and Mothlite
Other Sylvian side-projects: Nine Horses and Rain Tree Crow
More of the post-rock/ambience: Loscil, Fennesz, Implodes, and much more from the Kranky label.
posted by filthy light thief at 6:05 PM on November 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
From someone else's list of artists like David Sylvian: Bark Psychosis and Mothlite
Other Sylvian side-projects: Nine Horses and Rain Tree Crow
More of the post-rock/ambience: Loscil, Fennesz, Implodes, and much more from the Kranky label.
posted by filthy light thief at 6:05 PM on November 6, 2011 [1 favorite]
Check out Richard Buckner, and try anything off Blacklisted by Neko Case. Not necessarily spacious, but many have a similar feeling.
I wonder if looking for not-exactly-country songs that have pedal steel guitar will get you the feeling you want.
posted by librarina at 7:37 PM on November 6, 2011
I wonder if looking for not-exactly-country songs that have pedal steel guitar will get you the feeling you want.
posted by librarina at 7:37 PM on November 6, 2011
Our Last Days as Children by Explosions in the Sky.
I absolutely love them. Some of their music has scary and awful and abrupt sound changes, but if you get their music into itunes, you can easily chop out those parts. But this song is absolutely perfect.
posted by fuzzysoft at 7:44 PM on November 6, 2011
I absolutely love them. Some of their music has scary and awful and abrupt sound changes, but if you get their music into itunes, you can easily chop out those parts. But this song is absolutely perfect.
posted by fuzzysoft at 7:44 PM on November 6, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks! A lot of great suggestions.
GilloD, Panda Bear's Tomboy is great! I like Youth Lagoon as well, will have to listen to more.
netbros, you mentioned a bunch of artists I already love (Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, and Massive Attack) but I had never heard that song by Bruce Cockborn, never heard anything by him for that matter. I love it!
backwards guitar, I will definitely be getting the Talk Talk album.
Threeway Handshake, Blonde Redhead and Japan are the best.
vers, of all your suggestions I particularly like Mumford and Sons and Felt... beautiful.
filthy light thief, definitely already love Sylvian's side-projects, had never heard Low before though, thanks for that.
librarina, interesting that you should mention not-exactly-country songs and Neko Case, because although I wouldn't have thought of those as fitting what I was looking for this time around, I feel like it fits the Mazzy Star, Cowboy Junkies-esque, darker, moody music I've also been looking for. Neat that you somehow picked up on that.
posted by seriousmoonlight at 9:37 AM on November 7, 2011
GilloD, Panda Bear's Tomboy is great! I like Youth Lagoon as well, will have to listen to more.
netbros, you mentioned a bunch of artists I already love (Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, and Massive Attack) but I had never heard that song by Bruce Cockborn, never heard anything by him for that matter. I love it!
backwards guitar, I will definitely be getting the Talk Talk album.
Threeway Handshake, Blonde Redhead and Japan are the best.
vers, of all your suggestions I particularly like Mumford and Sons and Felt... beautiful.
filthy light thief, definitely already love Sylvian's side-projects, had never heard Low before though, thanks for that.
librarina, interesting that you should mention not-exactly-country songs and Neko Case, because although I wouldn't have thought of those as fitting what I was looking for this time around, I feel like it fits the Mazzy Star, Cowboy Junkies-esque, darker, moody music I've also been looking for. Neat that you somehow picked up on that.
posted by seriousmoonlight at 9:37 AM on November 7, 2011
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To that end, I can suggest a few things, starting with kind of direct suggestions and then moving on to things that may be influenced by this kind of sound:
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs. This is probably the logical conclusion of this kind of thing. Super slow, very spacey. Like listening to a tundra. Whitman's other stuff borders on unlistenable, start here and explore slowly.
Panda Bear- Of his two albums, Tomboy has a lot more space. Start there.
The2nd M83 album- Dead Cities... - has a lot of washy, expansive synth noise, though it's a bit more structured than what you have here.
Youth Lagoon does this kind of thing, although, again, structured.
You might like anything that falls under 'Shoegaze'- Start with My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" and go from there.
posted by GilloD at 3:59 PM on November 6, 2011