What kind of music is this?

[angrymudcrab]

This may be an odd question, but I'm trying to figure out what sort of music I like. The main features I've noticed that I tend to like are female vocalists, for lack of a better term "flow" to the instrumentals in the background, and a tendency towards more abstract lyrics. Part of the problem is I don't know enough about music to explain it in a coherent manner, so here are some songs I like. Can anyone help me classify what this style is called and recommend some similar artists? I've mostly been just listening to things I've stumbled on randomly, and I would like to be more thorough about it since I am sure there is more good music out there that matches this style. Thanks. :smallsmile:


Garbage - Push It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CHEnJ7gnc)

Dido - Let's Run Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0vScH9H5nk)

Roseanne Cash - Seven Year Ache (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s)

Laika - Black Cat Bone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnvvWp_emWU)

Ellie Goulding - Lights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqLGuRX_nLM)

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dsh9M6qnhE)

Velvet Chain - Treason (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FticY_mpMhw)

Curve - Coming up Roses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hyhYiU6IY)

Bettie Serveert - Not Coming Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r2hIg6qoFU)

[Doctor Foreman]

This may be an odd question, but I'm trying to figure out what sort of music I like. The main features I've noticed that I tend to like are female vocalists, for lack of a better term "flow" to the instrumentals in the background, and a tendency towards more abstract lyrics. Part of the problem is I don't know enough about music to explain it in a coherent manner, so here are some songs I like. Can anyone help me classify what this style is called and recommend some similar artists? I've mostly been just listening to things I've stumbled on randomly, and I would like to be more thorough about it since I am sure there is more good music out there that matches this style. Thanks. :smallsmile:


Garbage - Push It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-CHEnJ7gnc)

Dido - Let's Run Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0vScH9H5nk)

Roseanne Cash - Seven Year Ache (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUs_FWqj9s)

Laika - Black Cat Bone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnvvWp_emWU)

Ellie Goulding - Lights (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqLGuRX_nLM)

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dsh9M6qnhE)

Velvet Chain - Treason (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FticY_mpMhw)

Curve - Coming up Roses (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hyhYiU6IY)

Bettie Serveert - Not Coming Down (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r2hIg6qoFU)

If by "sort" or "style" you mean "genre", then there is no genre which encapsulates the stuff you've listed here. The closest you will get to a succinct description of this kind of music is what you already wrote.

As for finding similar music, I recommend Pandora Radio.

[Gavinfoxx]

Why don't you look up the genres of the artists in wikipedia?

[Spacewolf]

Some of the stuff by Florence and the Machine perhaps? Drumming song would be my first suggestion

[BWR]

Vaguely similar, at least to my mind, to Garbage and Curve are Bel Canto (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpjHvs7wPU) and Cranes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiSTv_XcAQ&list=PL7A5D1E2EDAD73F41)

[BWR]

Some of John Cale's later (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYRbOenWr7c)stuff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jew6sJW_usc)might be what you're looking for. Almost all of John Cale's stuff is good, but his style has changed over the years.

[VeisuItaTyhjyys]

While I don't think there's a discrete genre label that encompasses the kind of sound you're describing, I think I have some idea what "kind" of music you mean. If I'm not too off base, you may enjoy some or all of the following.

Siouxsie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKx_MSIbGgg) Sioux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPs22CxXE8Y)

Concrete (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENL7F-K8jug) Blonde (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeRRZz8H_oA)

Natalie (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1v6s4_natalie-merchant-ophelia_music) Merchant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpeNwR5XYo)

Jesse (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlCIjOBeoCQ) Sykes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmdGcTQ6pkY)

Des (http://vimeo.com/19123568) Ark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCjQbtxQnI)

Sinead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnqOhuuP70) O'Connor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqKGOBtpp0)

Tracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3YUYpaJvE) Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9Qa7MpAvw)

EDIT(s): I promise their music is better than my typing. All those tags took, like, five tries.

[oblivion6]

Tracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3YUYpaJvE) Chapman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9Qa7MpAvw)

I'll second Tracy Chapman. I especially like Fast Car and Turn my Back Around.

[Gavinfoxx]

So...

Singer-Songwriter is the genre?

[VeisuItaTyhjyys]

I don't think I'd ever call, say, Fleetwood Mac "singer-songwriter," at least not in the sense of the genre.