Can you recommend contemporary music artists without lyrics?

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

DjMeas,

When I’m working, I listen to Lydian Collective and Tennyson (some of his tracks don’t have vocals). You might enjoy them as well!

oo1,

miles davis esp like bitches brew type era

dumptruckdan,
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Com Truise

jeffw, (edited )

Godspeed you! Black Emperor

Edit: I’m not old, but old enough that I only really remember their first round of albums. No idea what the newer ones are like, sadly. Just never got around to listening.

kambusha,

“God is an astronaut” “Boards of Canada”

Along with Godspeed, those 3 were like my university study mix.

jeffw,

God is an astronaut always reminded me of Explosions in the sky (or vice versa?)

Idk the last one

I would mix in some chill shit like John Fahey, some heavy shit like early Earth, or lighter post rock too. Depended on my mood

nolannice,
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I like Monster Rally a lot, they use a bunch of old tropical sounding music samples and put beats on it. Very good for relaxing and vibing.

cowfodder,

The Omnific

Polyphia

zero_gravitas,

The term for this would be ‘instrumental’, which I only mention because it might help you find what you want. If you search streaming platforms for ‘[some genre] instrumental’ it might turn up a playlist.

Here’s some favourite albums of mine, which are ‘ambient’ so you might find them terribly boring, but they certainly are instrumental:

  • 1 2 3 - Pole
  • And Their Refinement of the Decline - Stars of the Lid
  • Plume - Loscil
  • The Sound of Lights When Dim - Slow Dancing Society
Mothra,
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Thanks for the suggestions, I do like ambient sometimes, though when I do it’s more on the psychedelic side. Of your list Pole caught my ear.

“Instrumental” is so broad and often leaves out a lot of electronica which I like. Hence why I’m asking for artists as opposed to genre.

zero_gravitas,

Yeah, Pole is really different, and so good!

And what I was getting at with ‘instrumental’ is that it can just be added onto any genre/mood/activity and that can help you narrow it down and find stuff you want at that moment. So if you want instrumental electronica, you can find playlists for that, e.g. open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1EIe2aICIo80hbAs for moods and activities, examples would be ‘Chill Instrumental Beats’ open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX0khTY3HFA4M and ‘Instrumental Study’ open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9sIqqvKsjG8

JoYo, (edited )

Guillaume David knocks it out of the park with every game they OST.

NENathaniel,
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Big Smoke Brass is really fun if you like kinda upbeat acoustic instrumental music

La Femme has some amazing non-vocal music (altho a good portion has French/Spanish vocals)

If u like Jazz, check out the album The Bright Mississippi

JoYo,

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

Septian,

Check out ENV – Some of my favorite lyric-less music. There are a couple of playlists on YouTube with their albums. Firefrost is a good song to start with.

brihuang95,
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Covet, Chon, Scale the Summit, Caspian, Mouse on the keys, God is an astronaut, Weekend Plans, DJ Williams projekt

mkwarman,

Tycho, UTAH, Attom, lots more in my instrumental playlist. These are mostly chilled or electronic type genre songs, but I also have a “djentstrumental” playlist if that’s your jam, with artists like For Giants, Andromida, Returning We Hear the Larks (a personal favorite), and more.

Mothra,
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Thank you! A lot of good suggestions there, I’ll have fun going down the rabbithole. First time I hear about most artists on those lists.

Dempf,

Love Tycho!

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

atlasraven31,

Ever heard of a crab rave?

Mothra,
@Mothra@mander.xyz avatar

I’ve heard Crab Rave (and Sandstorm too), but didn’t know there was an artist with that name. Any favourite tracks?

atlasraven31,

Favorite track is probably what you listened to. Much more fun visually but it’s still good on its own.

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