My favorites: Music

This is a list of my favorite recording artists. Names in bold are exceptionally important to me and have significantly influenced my sensibility and outlook.

Singer-Songwriter and Contemporary Folk

  • Angels of Light
  • Boduf Songs
  • Boring Bathtimes
  • Current 93
  • Emily Jane White
  • Gravenhurst
  • Ichiko Aoba
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Katie Jane Garside (various projects)
  • Marissa Nadler
  • Mark Lanegan
  • Matt Elliott
  • Mathew Sawyer (and The Ghosts)
  • Michelle Gurevich (formerly Chinawoman)
  • Momus
  • Satomimagae
  • Smoke
  • Songs: Ohia
  • Stanisław Staszewski
  • Timber Timbre
  • Tom Waits

Eclectic / Miscellaneous

  • Burial Hex
  • Coil (and related projects)
  • Nicolas Jaar
  • Piano Magic
  • A Silver Mt. Zion
  • Swans

Slowcore, I suppose?

  • …Bender
  • The Black Heart Procession
  • Crescent
  • Movietone
  • Spokane
  • Tindersticks

Dark Jazz / Instrumental

  • Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Autoisolation
  • Black Chamber
  • Bohren & der Club of Gore
  • Dictaphone
  • Jun Miyake
  • Lowering
  • Manet
  • Radare
  • Trigg & Gusset

Ambient

  • Beyond the Ghost
  • Dead Melodies

Post-punk and Coldwave

  • Black Marble
  • The Chameleons
  • Joy Division
  • The KVB

Gothic Country

  • Antic Clay
  • DBUK
  • The Dead Brothers
  • Kal Cahoone (and all her guest appearances)

Blues

  • Charles Caldwell
  • Otis Taylor
  • Skip James
  • Son House

Persian Classical Music

  • Kayhan Kalhor