Edit: THANK YOU ALL! I am taking all recommendations into consideration and will be giving them a listen sometime. I was a little overwhelmed hence my lack of response, but I greatly appreciate what you’ve written. (-:
Yes, this is a “suggest me songs” post. Only because I don’t know which other community is more appropriate.
I’m looking to revamp my main playlist and clean out songs I don’t revisit all that often. I was hoping you all could suggest some songs OR albums based on my current taste. The other reason I make this post is because I fear I’ll go my entire life without hearing fantastically underrated albums, and I know lemmists to have taste.
That being said, here are some of my favourite artists and albums:
- Lana Del Rey
- Marina and the Diamonds
- The Bravery
- “Disintegration” by The Cure
- Foreign Air
- Saint Motel
- “How to be a Human Being” by Glass Animals
- Garbage
- Madonna, especially the albums prior to the 00s
- Palaye Royale
- Vendredi sur Mer
I am additionally looking for artists similar to Crystal Castles, Com Truise, and Cults. Anything indie / electro / disco / jazz / poprock / pop-punk is welcome. Honestly, y’all don’t even have to take into consideration what I’ve just listed. Just give me the best you’ve got! Cheers. (:
Crystal Castles
Alice Glass (solo project)
Kap Bambino
CRIM3S
yyycry
CASHFORGOLD
White Ring
Ferngazer
IC3PEAK
Stay Healthy
Crossparty
Best of all, none of them have Ethan Kath as a member
Do you like … St. Vincent The National Neutral Milk Hotel Dinosaur Jr. Spoon Wilco Echo and the Bunnymen Some of that’s pretty old, but so am I.
We have some similar tastes. I think you’ll like:
Borns
Florence and the Machine
Lorde’s 2021 album Solar Power
Spoon
Billy Raffoul
Hozier
Bishop Briggs
Your taste is a lot different than mine, but check out “Free” by Florence + the Machine and see if you like it.
You could try “Used to the darkness” by Des Rocs. If you like it I’ll see if I have other songs.
I guess whether or not they’re underrated depends on where you are, because IME Americans usually don’t know who they are but Europeans do, even though they’re an American band; but anyway Scissor Sisters is great if you haven’t checked them out. Their last album (Magic Hour) is their weakest IMO, but it still has some good songs.
I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ is pretty representative of their upbeat songs, and Return to Oz for their slower songs.
They are so good, and I do think underappreciated. I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ is one of the very few songs that I will always listen with the video on.
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Electronic suggestion:
it’s hard to see color [When You’re So Impossibly Far Away*] - Jaron
Been my absolute favorite since it released.
Vundabar is one my favorite indie bands. I love their new stuff, but I’d give the album Gawk a try first.
You would probably enjoy Alexandra Savior, The Last Dinner Party, and Roisin Murphy.
One song that recently has been putting me into a very good mood every time I put it on is “Read my mind” by the Killers.
- Stuck - Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Cough Syrup - Young The Giant
- Changes - Empire of the Sun
- American Money - BØRNS
- I just Wanna Shine - Fitz and the Tantrums
- Talk Too Much - COIN
Also the “you can crash my car tonight” song from Coin. They are such simple music but just delightful.
You’re going to regret asking me this.
I’ve been listening to a ridiculous variety of music over the last few years; let me dig up some particular favourites. Total mixed bag and in no particular order, you get what you get. Probably some serious misses, but who knows what it’ll stir up in the algorithm :)
- I Don’t Know How But They Found Me - Do it all the time
- Portugal. The Man
- Modern Jesus
- Feel It Still
- Dummy
- Of Monsters And Men
- Empire
- Wolves Without Teeth (check out any of their monochrome lyric videos - they are all amazing)
- Days and Daze - Misanthropic Drunken Loner
- Dead Sara - Weatherman
- Odie Leigh
- Chutes and Ladders
- Crop Circles
- Femtanyl - Chaser EP
- Hatchie
- Rooftops
- Giving The World Away
- Johnny Hunter
- Try As You May
- Cry Like A Man
- Larkin Poe live set
- The Longest Johns +_ Skald - Santiano
- The HU - Yuve Yuve Yu
- Too Many Zooz live set
- Humb - Bumperclart
- Cherry - Butter
- The Correspondents
- Fear and Delight
- Finally
- Garik & Sona - te axjik lineir (I have so much Armenian music it’s not even funny)
- Royal Blood
- Lights Out
- Boiler Maker
- Figure It Out
- Mother Mother - It’s alright
- Orla gartland - Why am I like This?
- Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug
- Seafret - Wildfire (if this doesn’t make you smile, you have no soul)
- Grandson
- Dirty
- Something To Hide
- Tom Morello
- Hold the Line (ft. Grandson)
- Can’t Stop The Bleeding (ft Gary Clark Jr. & Gramatik)
- Missy Higgins - Scar
- Walk Off the Earth - Somebody That I Used To Know (cover)
- Postmodern Jukebox ft Puddles Pity Party - All The Small Things (cover)
- Youth Group Forever Young (cover)
- Bridge City Sinners - Saint James Infirmary
- The Pretty Reckless - And So It Went
- Alice Merton - No Roots
- Dana Saleh - Dum Tak
- The 1975 - Part Of The Band
- Gang of Youths - Achilles Come Down
- The Amazing Devil - Pray (yes that’s Jaskier)
- Brick and Mortar - Locked In A Cage
- Patti Smith Smells Like Teen Spirit (cover)
- Poppy - Church Outfit
- The Tubs - Wretched Lie
- Spoon - The Way We Get By
- The Wombats - Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?
- Heartagram - The Foreverlost
- Sage Against The Machine - Gotta Love You
- The Dead South - In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company
- Winona Oak - Baby Blue
- Polyphia - Playing God
- Serj Tankian - Sky Is Over
- Kaleo - [Way Down We Go]9https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v96wkt38EU8_)
- Cage The Elephant - Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked
- Phoebe Go - 7 up
… okay, that should keep you going for a while :)
Such good suggestions already. I am going to go in another direction - I like all the stuff you do, here are some artists from different genres not in your list, that I think you would like:
Durand Jones and the Indications
Leon Bridges
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Fiona Apple, my kids are obsessed with her lately and it kind of opened my eyes to how good she really is.
And in the genres you do already love, Gossip (I am loving the new album) and Perfume Genius.
Should probably put some MGMT on there.
Jungle - Volcano (the whole album)