Drone music?

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It can be more ambient e.g. SotL. Natural Snow Buildings are great but they combine it with folk and Post-Rock so I guess they aren't pure drone. Hiss Tracts are good too. Haven't really looked into the genre more than that though.

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This is probably a good place to start.
>Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
https://youtu.be/MaSi7Gut7xM

>>72797442
>>72797501
Cheers guys, I'll look into all of these recs. Natural Snow Buildings, if they combine it with folk and post-rock, maybe that'd be a good way to ease into it then.

Can't find them through Apple Music though, so I'll give Stars of the Lid a listen while I find their music on Soulseek or something.

Really appreciate it!

>>72797790
No problem man. For NSB I'd start with the Dance of the moon and the sun cause that's the one everyone knows. Shadow kingdom is more folk. The winter ray and ghost folks are more Post-Rock. Can't go wrong really and their discog is huge.

>>72797895
Perfect, Moon and Sun is the one I started downloading. Didn't know it would be so crazy fucking long but should be interesting to hear, and I love a good really long album, so I'm looking forward to it!

>>72797126
I don't know about other people, but sometimes listening to rhythmic music just gets tiring. Listening to more minimalistic, textural music can be calming, even if it's dark, dissonant, or atonal. This is one of my favorite drone groups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqF9Fc0peP0

>>72798000
Yeah all the ones I mentioned are pretty fucking long. DotMatS gets compared to soundtracks for the blind quite a lot here so if you're into that you'll probably like it.

>>72797895
>>72797790
One thing that makes NSB so great is that they alternate between long instrumentals and short melodic folk bits. Acts as a real nice palette cleanser between the droney parts. But then again there's a few releases where they just go full bore like Night Coercion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwk0CtLMV6A&t=8841s

The solo projects are great too. NSB is two people: Mehdi (TwinSisterMoon, the singer, also a dude funny enough) and Solange (Isengrind). I've found that Mehdi is responsible for a lot of the actual drones as well as guitar parts, while Solange seems to be all about the rhythm and her sound feels a lot more ancient / tribal. Regardless, it is a truly collaborative project without leader and they make some beautiful stuff

>>72798089
Cool rec, definitely will look into them. Can't find them on wikipeda though, do you have a favorite album of theirs I could look up?

Fucking creepy music video too btw.

>>72798135
Damn, I'm getting lots of stuff to download today -- going to be a few days to get through just NSB haha. That one I'll definitely give a listen to as well. Thanks again folks!

>>72798144
Som Sakrifis.
BTW if you want to research more obscure artists' discographies, use Discogs or RYM.

>>72798135
>they alternate between long instrumentals and short melodic folk bits
Yeah that's what I love about them too. When the 20 minute drone section at the start of shadow kingdom ends and gives way to the acoustic guitar and vocals is fucking beautiful.

>>72798089
>but sometimes listening to rhythmic music just gets tiring. Listening to more minimalistic, textural music can be calming, even if it's dark, dissonant, or atonal

Literally this. Sometimes you just wanna float out, don't care about anything and think about life. Drone can heal your wounds, OP. Here's a good one imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15ZSQVHlc4

>>72798256
Thanks mate!

>>72798288
This actually sounds pretty great to me. I'll definitely have to find this one as well.

And I totally get what you mean about rhythm being able to wear on you after a point. I only just recently got into ambient music which has been a good antidote to that. Hopefully I can get into drone just as easily.

For more electronic sounding drone try:

Celer
Tim Hecker
Eleh
Jacob Kirkegaard's 4 Rooms
Coil's Time Machines

>>72798524
Thanks for the recs! Will check them out

There's also an instrumental album from the Neutral Milk Hotel crew (released under the OTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSQs_rrHYQ

Check it out some incredible stuff by some of the greatest contemporary psych artists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtCyyAQFeo My friend made this. He smokes too much.

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Forgot the pic.

Here's another Mangum project that fits the bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnhhR_S-mM

And there's also Major Organ, but that's more straight psych. Still worth listening to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jEmUbsrr2M

Ildefonso Aguilar - Erosion


excellent drone album

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Ik it's technically dark ambient but any albums like this?

>>72799471
I don't know that album but for dark ambient Ben Frost is king. This stuff isn't all really too dark, but other ambient recs would be Emeralds, Stephen R. Smith, Loscil, Cerberus Shoal, Six Organs Of Admittance, Brian Eno

>>72800802
Cheers mate I'll check them out

>>72800802
What would you say is your favorite from him?