Strange, Obscure, & Underrated Music Artists Suggestions

[dreddurius]

Hey everyone, I just finished a set of tracks and put them up on my site:

https://minimus.music

I’ve been hesitating to share this here because of a lot of self-doubt (impostor syndrome might be the better term), but I don’t want that to stop me from putting my work out there.

If you give it a listen, I’d really appreciate it 🙂

PS:// It leans more towards the Chillsynth genre.

[lakes]

I just found out about this song from a blog post on "outsider music". It feels very earnest and peaceful yet somber. I like it.

[chantolove]

@rnottelovesowls Alexander Panos!!! I love that album so much

I have a 400-track-long playlist for this topic, snobbishly titled Music You Haven't Heard, (which I will be going through and grabbing new picks for from this thread hehe) but if I had to pick a handful of tracks to specifically spotlight:

Abby Holliday is a singer-songwriter type who mixes the expected sound with what's been called 'industrial' electronic elements. Difficult to describe... her newest album, 'CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE', is a MASTERPIECE. It's so hard to pick a favorite track, so here's two...

Abby Holliday - Couch Comrade

Abby Holliday - Immortal

Steam Powered Giraffe is probably very likely known to many people here, the robot mime band with the hats and that one song on the beach. What you might not know is they recently put out their two best songs ever:

Steam Powered Giraffe - The Steam Rises

Steam Powered Giraffe - Moon River

Thank You Scientist is a prog rock band that recently pulled a Van Halen- that is, I don't really know what their new frontman is doing but he seems to have a very different opinion on the best way to pronounce words than everyone else does. So you won't get to hear this fantastic unique voice live, but it's stellar on the album:

Thank You Scientist - FXMLDR

Thank You Scientist - Son of a Serpent

OH AND HOW DID I POST THIS AT FIRST WITHOUT INCLUDING BROTHER BIRD!!! us Carolines gotta stick together. She opened for Abby Holliday, very similar but no electronic.

Brother Bird - I'm Sorry

Brother Bird - Something Better

And here's a few grab bag songs I think need more views:

The Toxhards - October

Carrie Elkin - Absolute Lithops Effect

Jamaica Moana - TUGGAWAR

Khatumu - Matador

Ian McConnell - Mechanic

Nick Lutsko - Look at This Love

[rnottelovesowls]

though bitbird, an electronic music label founded and helmed by EDM singer-songwriter San Holo, has released music from artists i wouldn't call "obscure", as far electronic music is concerned, it's more of the "artsy" type, enjoyed by those looking for more spice in sound design. and there are some pretty underrated artists who love to test the norms of what electronic music can be. here are some favorites of mine, both recent and old:

DROELOE - Kings and Queens

Polezsky & dg. - One More Night

Eyezic & CloudNone - Voices

Tails ft. Monsoonsiren - second thoughts

Aiobahn ft. Dan Soleil - On Repeat

Rome In Silver - Like You

[lakes]

I just found out about this band today.

[Semantica]

There's this AMAZING band from japan that goes by the name "coo:ya"

Very dreampoppy, very cool, very musheDiwaxer

coo:ya - disposable body

[littlelum]

The Summer and the Shade by Bill Eager

This one was uploaded 16 years ago, but only has 1.3k views. Most of his other stuff usually has less than 1000 views. The outlier is Ghosts, Speak, and Ghosts in Flight, which was used in the Mother: Cognitive Dissonance Soundtrack.

[flea]

I love love love Sanguinarius!!!!
His songs are long, and they feel so warm as you get to know them. Check out the wonderful lyricism too!!  Intimate and interesting, verily

Divine Comedy (the cover art is so shapely.. smile)

Temple

Cannibal