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I need some mellow artists to listen to. Acoustic/lo-fi/ambient/trip-hop/etc whatever. I have like a million records that sound like velociraptors dying in train crashes, and I need some more stuff to just relax with. Just quieter, and not necessarily "sad" jams.

burzums keyboard albumz

Z'EV & Stephen O'Malley's album magistral.

anything by the group jogger

i got in to Wavves - Life Sux EP lately. its chill dude

maybe King Krule too

oh yeah king krule is legit

explosions in the sky

first three leonard cohen albums
mississippi john hurt - 1928 sessions
nick drake
woody guthrie
blind willie johnson
early bob dylan

Stone Roses-the Remixes
a few songs got turned into weird acid house songs (which is still cool), but some are really chilled out. Elephant Stone and Shoot You Down are my favorite ones

Bert Jansch-Birthday Blues
Low-the Great Destroyer
Arab Strap-Philophobia

apparently Aloof Proof-Piano Text is really good too

this might not be all for you but maybe for someone else in this thread and is kind of a cross section of the stuff I listen to when I want to mellow out a little.

erik satie complete piano works
chopin preludes
julie doiron
ghosts
this will destroy you
washed out
toro y moi
yume bitsu
nasstasia yard
air (and their "late night tales" compilation of influences)
boards of canada
thievery corporation
bill evans

"mellow" and "sad" are inseparable for me...

Expo 70 (laid back space rock)
College (synth pop)
You (synth heavy mello prog)
The Bran Flakes "I Have Hands" (super upbeat plunderphonics)
Jimmy Smith "The Cat" (upbeat jazzy organ)

Album Leaf (Jimmy LaValle of Swing Kids...)
American Football
Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones (perhaps my fav album from 2008)
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David Bazan
The National
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Braids - Native Speaker (one of my top albums from last year)

Caribou
Fifths of Seven
Neko Case
Moonface
Mountain Man (folk group.. the hardcore group is rad too though)

Owen
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
ONE AM RADIO

Ida

Chet Baker vocal music (ie. "Let's Get Lost" soundtrack).

Jose Gonzalez

Fennesz - Venice
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Peaking Lights - 936
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels (you can sub in anything from the Ghost Box label as it all sounds like 1960's british television)
Alec Empire - Low On Ice
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Felt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (past the first track, the rest of the album is real chill)
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
The Field - Yesterday and Today
Ganglians - Still Living
Mark Mcguire - Get Lost
J Dilla - Dounts
John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Laurel Halo - King Felix EP & Hour Logic EP
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Oval - 94diskont

And now the obligatory Slayer joke.


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Ladies and gentleman, the obligatory Slayer joke.

UNPOC - fifth column

a couple tracks off Slint's "Spiderland"
Jimmy's Cliff's organ stylings on the old Hammond
Residents - "Tunes of Two Cities" - ultimate stoner vege'in-out shit

as far as ambient try...

deaf center - owl splinters, pale ravine
julien neto - le fumeur de ciel
stray ghost - nothing, but death
porn sword tobacco - explains freedom, s/t
lilacs/champagne - s/t
most of the dead pilot records catalogue

and obviously stars of the lid, grouper, grails.