r/MusicRecommendations

rec me rap: alternative / experimental / non-mainstream

rec me rap: alternative / experimental / non-mainstream

For reference, this is a (non-exhaustive) collection of artists / tracks I like. I've grown kinda bored of it and want to listen to some rap again, but I can't find anything interesting. I think the last rap acts that really had me excited were RTJ, Death Grips, clipping and Aesop Rock, and I'd love to find something on the same creative level.

u/legalize-freedom — 1 hour ago

very soft/maybe romantic songs by male singers?

the playlist i'm making for reference: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1cAFg7zjpZLGoldtvWaT7Z?si=-5qf4M-hS2eLxWpRmlPKSg&pi=nyCRXooRTK6SA

artists i already have included:

- cigarettes after sex

- wave to earth

- leeheesang

(i haven't listened to all their songs tbh so you can suggest them if the song isn't there yet)

i really want to make it multilingual so any foreign recommendations are welcome!

u/overcooked8 — 3 hours ago

Witchy Suggestions?

Hi all! I've really been diving into my feminine side lately, and by that, I mean, a combination of rage and let me just go live in a cottage in the woods and become a local legend the kids tell spooky stories about around Halloween, while all I'm really doing is nurturing my love of gardening, solitude, and reading.

ANYWAY!

I want to make a playlist of some songs that give witchy vibes. I'll gladly take all recommendations because I love music, and the more the better, however, if there is anything with Stevie Nicks, Florence + the Machine, Paris Paloma, Celtic Women vibes. . . I'm especially down for those.

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u/BlueBlossomArcadia — 6 hours ago

Please suggest female vocalists that sound like the color red, spring days at Grandma's house, and honey being poured into your throat all at once

Any genre/era is fine. Shana Halligan (Bitter:Sweet) is a good example of what I'm looking for.

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u/MadiMarionberry — 5 hours ago

songs recs for being in love with someone you shouldn’t be in love with

can anyone give me any good songs to listen while being in love with someone you shouldn’t in love with? please let me know. i’m grieving and i need some music to listen to for my exact situation. please help.

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u/yummiliciousscorp6 — 6 hours ago

Please recommend some songs to blow me and my friends away while we're a little high, a little drunk... or maybe both!

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We are a group of six friends from different ethnic backgrounds who speak different languages but share a similar taste in music and art. Every weekend, we gather at our villa just outside the city to spend time together, listen to music, relax, and enjoy each other's company. Wine and weed are usually part of the evening!

Please recommend songs that would amaze me and my friends while we're high or slightly drunk. As long as a song has something beautiful to say, any genre, language, or country of origin is welcome!

Some song which we all like:

  1. Silver Giver - Virgil and the Accelerators

  2. Black River - Bomb The Bass (Lulu Rouge Stella Polaris Remix)

  3. The Finishing - Stavroz

  4. Father Ocean - Monolink

  5. Orion- Metallica

  6. Waltz - Mgzavrebi

  7. Midra - Gidge

  8. Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

  9. My Body Is A Cage - Peter Gabriel

  10. Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

  11. None of Us Are Free - Solomon Burke

  12. Repeat After Me - Kongos

  13. My World - eivør

  14. You are my destiny - Mina

  15. Sho Ayom - Abdi Behravanfar

  16. 5h34 - FERDI (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023)

  17. Into Gold - London Grammar

  18. Invasion - Haken

  19. After the Flood - Alcàntara

  20. Kibir - Redd

  21. lights - Archive

Edit1: Wow! Thank you all! I never expected this post to get so many great responses. This is actually my first post on Reddit. I'll do my best to read every comment and listen to every recommendation. Keep them coming!

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u/Real_Engineering8700 — 9 hours ago

First time here, looking for suggestions that blend Let Down by Radiohead, and I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace

I’m really hating myself right now, and want to find a beautiful, aggressive song about finding the power to escape myself.

Please and thank you

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u/Angry_Tayco — 3 hours ago

Looking for music with PTV, SWS, Flyleaf vibes

Basically just the title. I’ve gotten into PTV, SWS, and Flyleaf, and I want more music with those vibes. I like the screaming, high pitched, vibe if that makes sense?

Thank you!

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u/lyricz_starz — 7 hours ago

I’ll rate your non english recs

Please only 1 song per comment (idc how many times you comment tho)

Also no rap, k-pop or metal. Anything else I’m good with, and why I don’t allow these genres is simply because I won’t give a good rating because I don’t enjoy those genres.

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u/Alternative_Flow_569 — 20 hours ago

Need metal song recommendations!

Im gonna get some new headphones (540 ANC) and i wanna have some songs to listen to when i get them, i really liked the new bring me the horizon song so some like that would be appreciated, though i would like some crowbar and avenged sevenfold type recommendations, I’ve listened to every a7x song but i wouldn’t mind some new ones for crowbar, although any song at all i wouldn’t mind. :)

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u/Maaeyo — 14 hours ago
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Songs like Dark is the Night

It's an old russian song associated with the great patriotic war.

It's about loneliness, fear, death, and quiet hope of a soldier in the front. It is a homesick ballad that contrasts the conditions of the battlefield (whistling bullets, death) with intimate thoughts of family back at home.

The youtube video description describes it as: "Dark Is the Night has been described as "a gentle lyrical song imbued with a feeling of homesickness and expressing devotion to one's beloved" which helped "reveal the personal side of army life, indiscernable in the roar of warfare". It contrasted sharply with the prevalent type of war song, which was either a field marching song or a civil patriotic one."

What other songs would you recomnd to those fond of this song?

As of yet, I've only found one other song, another ww2 russian song called "take your trench coat".

Thank you.

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Youtube link for Dark is the Night: https://youtu.be/75P0QGi3RO0

Take your Trench Coat: https://youtu.be/eCVm4l1WFMs

u/noobishsurender — 12 hours ago

Raspy/soulful voiced music

I’m looking for any artist or group with a raspy/soulful voice. Specifically one with a moody/bluesy vibe. Example: Anything like The Preacher by Jaime N Commons

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u/hurlingturtles — 18 hours ago

Desperate for some new (to me) music!

Help a manic and overstimulated girl out. I can’t make another decision today. Drop what I should listen to! I’m in the mood for:
— folk/modern/soul blues
— RnB soul
— contemporary singer/songwriter
— spoken word

thank y’all so much in advance🥹
currently in my ears is: vodka cranberry by conan gray

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u/dramionedrips — 22 hours ago

Looking for similar sounding songs

I’m talking, they could be one the same album and you wouldn’t bat an eye, however, don’t just send songs from any album these songs are in

I love you like an alcoholic - The Taxpayers

No Children - The Mountain Goats

Fight for me - AliceBand (high importance)

Eat shit and die - Harley Poe

what? Right here? In the broad daylight? - Nicholas Burgess

Tongues and Teeth - Crane Wives (high importance)

Small edit: Tongues and Teeth is kind of an outlier here, but I still hold it in a similar vibe to the others, but some of them sound a lot different than it.

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u/TonyThePapyrus — 16 hours ago

Melodic music to calm and ‘say’ things will be ok

I have a neurological illness, have recently been in hospital, having to spend a lot of time in bed right now. I am looking for some gentle escapism and stuff to calm my nervous system. Things I can just close my eyes to and let go.

Kind of songs I already like and are keeping me going right now are:
Experience - Ludovico Einaudi,
Rainbow - Kacey Musgraves,
The Motherlode - The Staves,
Sons and Daughters - Allman Brown & Liz Lawrence.

Calm vibes, peaceful/uplifting/reassuring lyrics, or instrumental. Thank you for any recs!

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u/chicaabroad — 1 day ago