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Gothic folk/folk-noir has been coming back recently, lead by a charge of mostly women putting out some of the best albums in any genre of the last few years. What is gothic folk? Well basically it's miserable folk songs with Robert Smith on guitar and borrowing all sorts of stylistic elements from old school goth, doom and industrial. It's been simmering for a while but lately there's been a glut of this stuff and I couldn't be happier because I loving love it. So what's good? Well... Chelsea Wolfe is probably the patron saint of folk noir and one of the people who's setting the standard for the genre. She uses tons of electronics and brings a massive doom influence, especially on Abyss.  Emma Ruth Rundle is a prolific musician who's been going since 2008 with her first band The Nocterns, had a brief stint in post-rock band Red Sparowes, had a short lived downtempo project called The Headless Prince of Zolpidem and currently plays in Marriages. She's only recently started putting stuff out under her own name but both albums have been completely mind blowing. Some Heavy Ocean is a bit more traditionally folk, while Marked For Death brings a ton of her post-punk guitar work over from Marriages.  Marissa Nadler is much softer and dreamier than a lot of the other musicians pushing this style forward, but the atmosphere is all there.  Katie Kim was one of my favourite discoveries of last year when I got a press release for her new album, Salt, which blends drone, minimalist electronics and lovely piano melodies.  Jayn H. Wissenberg aka. Darkher. Ever wondered what Black Sabbath would sound like if they replaced Ozzy with PJ Harvey? Wonder no more. Cymbal Monkey fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Bless you Cymbal Monkey
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Would AURORA count? She's Norwegian, and her music has a lot of death/dark/sad imagery associated with it. Her latest album's called "All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend" and there are sad/emotionally noir-ish songs with titles like "Running With The Wolves" and "Murder Song" She's only 20 years old and might be a little more poppy/blonde than the others that were mentioned, but I feel she still fits. There's a confidence in her songwriting, and she showed off her metal/doom/gloom bonafides in an All Songs Considered interview. Life on Mars (David Bowie Cover) Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1) Winter Bird Runaway
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Jan 2, 2017 20:53
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like neofolk with women instead of Nazis? This sounds worthwhile. (perennial lol: Bandcamp artists tagging their stuff "neofolk" then discovering what it actually is)
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Jan 2, 2017 22:27
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divabot posted:like neofolk with women instead of Nazis? This sounds worthwhile. It's not always Nazis! Current 93 weren't Nazis! Probably!  Captain Hotbutt posted:Would AURORA count? I'd say Aurora probably counts, though I'm not gonna sit around and be thread arbiter.
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Jan 3, 2017 11:37
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divabot posted:like neofolk with women instead of Nazis? This sounds worthwhile. Is your whole thing just posting your tepid neofolk opinions in different threads
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Jan 3, 2017 11:43
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 Miserable is shoegazey band by Kristina Esfandiari who was breiflly in Whirr and also fronts Doom band King Woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJhygc0jz7Y https://miserablegrl.bandcamp.com/ Nina Natasia is supposedly still ongoing but hasn't realeased anything since 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VNaThCRJc Wovenhand is another band of the guy from 16 horsepower who could also probabaly be classed as folk noir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPJjVYimkeM
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Jan 3, 2017 12:48
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im going to start tagging all of my albums on bandcamp with "neofolk" in hopes divabot will write some crap article about me anyway here's some good Folk-noir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4z9V2hydQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4BnfUm0eI
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Jan 4, 2017 01:58
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Earwicker posted:im going to start tagging all of my albums on bandcamp with "neofolk" in hopes divabot will write some crap article about me you might get a review if you manage not to suck. Literally tens of people could hear about you!
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Jan 4, 2017 12:23
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Chelsea Wolfe is definitely hitting a sound I've been looking to hear. I don't care for the occult rock fad with jess and the ancient ones and a whole host of others. Chelsea and Marissa Nadler are really really good.
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Jan 11, 2017 02:48
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I never really thought of it as folk noir but it is certainly a sad woman singing about dying. Daughter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63xjiLDRWBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUWrcFpmI5U
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https://soundcloud.com/tinygarbage/better-2 is my music folk-noir op
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us vs also us posted:https://soundcloud.com/tinygarbage/better-2 I don't think so but it's really cool and it's seriously reminding me of something and I can't figure out what and that's killing me, but keep it up.
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Cymbal Monkey posted:I don't think so but it's really cool and it's seriously reminding me of something and I can't figure out what and that's killing me, but keep it up. thank u just wanted to check if my music was folk-noir 
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Jan 18, 2017 23:25
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https://annavonhausswolffmusic.bandcamp.com/track/come-wander-with-me-deliverance Anna von Hauswolff is also really very good and probably belongs in this thread
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Jan 19, 2017 04:43
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soundsection posted:https://annavonhausswolffmusic.bandcamp.com/track/come-wander-with-me-deliverance Anna Von Hausswolff is a musical genius with a voice without equal and Come Wander With Me/Deliverance is probably the apex of human artistic achievement but I don't really get the folksiness? I thought about putting her in the op but I didn't quite feel the fit. But whatever, people need to know. PS. I've heard some of her new stuff when she opened for Swans and it's loving drone doom and I'm so loving excited for the album.
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Cymbal Monkey posted:PS. I've heard some of her new stuff when she opened for Swans and it's loving drone doom and I'm so loving excited for the album. holy moly
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Cymbal Monkey posted:Anna Von Hausswolff is a musical genius with a voice without equal and Come Wander With Me/Deliverance is probably the apex of human artistic achievement but I don't really get the folksiness? I thought about putting her in the op but I didn't quite feel the fit. But whatever, people need to know. The organ? harmonium? intro reminds me of seeing Nico in 1986 with the Blue Orchids backing her. (Literally the same Blue Orchids who recorded The Greatest Hit. I didn't know this then.) She was quite definitely the noirest of folk, cutting sick on her harmonium. I recorded it on my Walkman, gently caress knows what happened to the tape. Also, her voice was an octave or so lower. divabot fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Jan 20, 2017 |
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Jan 20, 2017 00:41
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divabot posted:The organ? harmonium? intro reminds me of seeing Nico in 1986 with the Blue Orchids backing her. (Literally the same Blue Orchids who recorded The Greatest Hit. I didn't know this then.) She was quite definitely the noirest of folk, cutting sick on her harmonium. I recorded it on my Walkman, gently caress knows what happened to the tape. Also, her voice was an octave or so lower. She's an organist, and that album was recorded on the largest pipe organ in Sweden, apparently.
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Jan 20, 2017 09:08
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Important news for  , Emma Ruth Rundle and Darkher are playing The Lexington in London on the 26th of April!
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Cymbal Monkey posted:Important news for I wish I got good bands further north, however King woman, Chelsea Wolfe and True Widow are doing some uk dates together!
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Jan 24, 2017 21:45
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I stumbled across Ruby Throat recently. Definitely fits this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M3oEITick0 Also, an older classic: Cocorosie.
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Feb 14, 2017 10:19
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If you like Chelsea Wolfe you will probably enjoy Zola Jesus. I see them mentioned in the same breath more often than not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY9WUZZrTpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah8QWamNXWk Not sure I'd call her folk, but then again, not sure I'd call Chelsea Wolfe folk either. But they're both definitely noir. PJ Harvey isn't considered folk either, but her album White Chalk definitely fits the aesthetic of this thread. If I had to describe it in one sentence, I'd go with "A Victorian ghost playing a haunted piano." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPkaTn8lRB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_OYNoxdcQ
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Joy Shannon and the Beauty Marks are a "Celtic pagan dark folk band fronted by vocalist and Celtiic harpist and cellist Joy Shannon". I'm listening to Mo Anam Cara right now and it's excellent. Very, very gloomy.
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Feb 20, 2017 13:49
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Hey, Older Tasseomancy might fit the bill, anything newer gets a bit more electronic and a bit more dark pop. Diana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWA5vtWmfA (as Ghost Bees) Vampires of the West Coast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtKiUPtuDWQ Soft Feet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdxY4Vfwjo Here they team up with another band you might want to check out, if you don't mind some dude singing Tasseomancy with Timber Timbre - Darkness of Things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDfAM-WQqSU
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I already love so many of these and I'm really excited to listen to the ones I haven't heard yet. Here are a few others I've enjoyed: Mariee Sioux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnnjhArueNY Alela Diane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sVDOdayOsc Some of Jesca Hoop's songs qualify, I think, like this duet with Sam Beam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIxq2-RYAJg
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On the subject of men singing, my friend Tom Morris has a band called Her Name is Calla that totally fit this bill, he's an amazing musician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrRbClg6bM0 Solo work is good, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtaJ3aNvgA
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Cool stuff, checkin out the links now Here's a more traditional folk song but one of my fav's. https://youtu.be/TJCZLKdd8ZI got any sevens fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Aug 18, 2017 19:43
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I kinda feel like Black Heart Procession is the first band that did this really well, way back in the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuLB-LOut7w More recently, I really dig Barn Owl and Esben and the Witch Papa M (of Slint) also did a great folk-noir album back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe5Cqz1i4Uc
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My favorite folk noir artists were men. This is my personal favorite neo folk album. Nada! by Death in June. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwtE_PJB4rI Swans, however, were and are the pinnacle of genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqqI8gzhoI God Of Paradise fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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God Of Paradise posted:Swans, however, were and are the pinnacle of genre. Swans are the pinnacle of whatever it is Swans are, but it's not neofolk.
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Cymbal Monkey posted:Swans are the pinnacle of whatever it is Swans are, but it's not neofolk. To be fair, some of M. Gira's solo albums fit the bill of neofolk well enough. Particularly How I Loved You.
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precision posted:To be fair, some of M. Gira's solo albums fit the bill of neofolk well enough. Particularly How I Loved You. None of his stuff had anything to do with the scene that neofolk came out of though, which is probably the most important thing, because the actual sound of neofolk is really just reverby acoustic guitars with guys talking over them.
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technically a record can only be considered neofolk if it was literally recorded either within the grounds of Schloss Wewelsburg or in a chamber containing at least 2.35 cubic meters of soil from said grounds
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Earwicker posted:technically a record can only be considered neofolk if it was literally recorded either within the grounds of Schloss Wewelsburg or in a chamber containing at least 2.35 cubic meters of soil from said grounds Thank you
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I'm not entirely sure these qualify but I feel like they're kind of-sort of in the same vein. The Romanovs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0keMZoj2Zak Vermillion Lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmPNhNLSJJg Phildel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CghQKrk0hWM
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Anna von Hausswolff has a new album out this year and it's loving great. Here's the fist single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nre0hcDz5TI
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I loving love Chelsea Wolfe. Glad to see Ruby Throat mentioned by someone for once too. Katie Jane Garside had some incredible solo work and the album Taxidermy by Queen Adreena has been one of my favourites for years and years. I love their version of Pretty Polly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXr0XUXbRWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1aKNe3zmuw 8 years ago I made some videos using Planet Earth footage to a couple of her songs after leaving DVDs playing while listening to the CD. I liked the juxtaposition of creepy and beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt3XwCV3QSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrSu65Bb9X4
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