Keyword artist , or band/group name. I’m not looking for a genre, I want to search artists. Tell me about someone you like listening to.

Would appreciate if it’s Not symphonic/orchestral movie/videogame OST. I know there is a lot of really good music in this category but I’m trying to avoid recommendations like Hans Zimmerman or Jeremy Soule or Enya etc., since they are either really well known or fall into the orchestral and/or “epic music score” I’m not looking for.

It’s OK if some tracks have vocals or even some lyrics/voice samples but I prefer to keep them at a minimum.

Any suggestions? TIA

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    Apocalyptica. Metal on the cello. They sometimes have s guest vocalist. I like their self-titled album.

    Phamie Gow. Pianist and harpist. Maybe too orchestral. I turn to the Beyond the Milky Way album oftenwhen working out studying.

    Mary Lattimore. Experimental harpist. I’ve been enjoying her latest album, West Kensington, with guitarist Paul Sukeena.

    Kelly Moran. Experimental pianist Can’t recommend her album Ultraviolet enough.

    Burial. For some chilled, glitchy dubstep.

    The Comet is Coming. For some psych jazz.

    Moderat. For some house electronica.

    Uboa. For some droney, noisy, doomy metal.

    George Clanton. For some synthpop vapourwave. His latest album is great.

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    I listen to Ghost Data and Porter Robinson lots. Both are electronic music, but I like them more than Zedd or Madeon because they sound more unique.

    Ghost Data's chord progressions are unique but repetitive (I don't know many other artists that have a chord progression or vocal idea like that of "Queen of Knives", so it's unique, but the main chord progression of "Queen of Knives" doesn't change all that much throughout the song, so it's repetitive). I like that there's sonic variety while exploring singular ideas fully, like how the main melody of "Thy Flesh Undone" repeats through different instrumentations.

    Porter Robinson stuff is pretty great because it sounds more emotional than most EDM I hear. It can sometimes have words, sometimes not. The Worlds album is more of an ambient and emotional/inspiring twist on EDM; specifically I'm thinking of "Goodbye to a World" and "Lionhearted" as uniquely happy songs.

    I give an honorary mention to "Antirrhinum" by MALO because its rhythms are pretty cool and confused me a lot at first. It was entertaining trying to figure them out.

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    Post rock post rock post rock post rock

    Explosions in the Sky

    Mogwai

    Sigur Ros

    The Album Leaf

    This Will Destroy You

    try these on for size and see if the genre takes you like it took me. I tried to include some stuff that is more traditional rock in form and instrumentation and some that is a bit more experimental in that regard.

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      God is an astronaut

      If these trees could talk

      Maybeshewill

      Collapse under the empire

      Long distance calling

      Russian circles

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      Love Tycho!

      I feel Boards of Canada is similar, but they do pretty frequent vocal samples.

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    I like listening to foreign language music when I don’t want to be distracted by vocals.