If You Like This...
...then you might like this.
I'm picking one album that I thoroughly enjoy (that seems rather
popular on this site), and presenting one of a similar vibe with much,
much less recognition on here. I'm not going for blatant style rip-offs;
I'm trying to match the mood. |
1 | ![](images/albums/103568.jpg-thumbl) | Swans The Seer
If you like post-apacolyptic, eerie, dissonant, atypical arrangements...you might like: |
2 | ![](images/albums/30684.jpg-thumbl) | Wovenhand Blush Music
Entrancing percussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkit6DB57rc
More drone/Swansy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplY-Z97Zx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfaqoBEpvKE |
3 | ![](images/albums/2856.jpg-thumbl) | The National Alligator
If you like Matt's vocal delivery, stripped/direct instrumentation, sparse but
relatable lyrics, the raw production of Alligator...you might like: |
4 | ![](images/albums/24460.jpg-thumbl) | American Music Club Mercury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfMyLocLDC8 |
5 | ![](images/albums/11154.jpg-thumbl) | Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You
If you like that switch between dynamic groovers and moody, stretched
atmospheres, paired with that inexplicably mellow production, you might like: |
6 | ![](images/albums/71935.jpg-thumbl) | Lowercase The Going Away Present
More straight forward groover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17MEnZk68kY
Beginning reminds me of LTIY "December": https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=P1wZZw7s-oU
Longer, more atmospheric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYmKm4wvStU |
7 | ![](images/albums/1511.jpg-thumbl) | Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas...
Well, if you like that particular Godspeed-sound of post rock, you might like... |
8 | ![](images/albums/28061.jpg-thumbl) | The Ascent of Everest How Lonely Sits the City
I won't lie, 1:30 sounds a lot like that plucking sequence in "Static":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5X0p3Gw5o |
9 | ![](images/albums/1690.jpg-thumbl) | Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
If you like lush, organic, and daydreamy, but are tired of being recommended
Tycho, you might like: |
10 | ![](images/albums/48299.jpg-thumbl) | Lone Lemurian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_OZs--kNE |
11 | ![](images/albums/649.jpg-thumbl) | Slint Spiderland
If you like the Slint-esque, not easily definable type bands that sit in their own little
post rock corner (like Rodan or Polvo), you might like: |
12 | ![](images/albums/23713.jpg-thumbl) | June of 44 Four Great Points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCcFpWa9Bs8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxF2xMHugw8 |
13 | | The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hut
If you like simple, rugged folk, with that endearing type of vocalist, you might like: |
14 | ![](images/albums/23169.jpg-thumbl) | The Cave Singers Invitation Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoaQFY5XYk |
15 | ![](images/albums/16817.jpg-thumbl) | Stars of the Lid The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
If you like to zone in on studies, or zone out and daydream, you might like: |
16 | ![](images/albums/161714.jpg-thumbl) | Field rotation And Tomorrow I Will Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5lQ7B8O-3A |
17 | ![](images/albums/21932.jpg-thumbl) | Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
If you like those light, airy vocals, with playful melodies, you might like: |
18 | ![](images/albums/22349.jpg-thumbl) | Phosphorescent Pride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOahwaamrYo |
19 | ![](images/albums/866.jpg-thumbl) | Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism
If you like charming, mellow vocals, meshing perfectly with addicting and
understated compositions, you might like: |
20 | ![](images/albums/21788.jpg-thumbl) | The American Analog Set The Golden Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjjKAaIB5s
All of "New Drifters" is just golden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SGNkOIoUX6g |
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