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The Best of My Weird, Whimsical, and Wonderful Music Tastes
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items I've been told my taste in music is strange, eclectic, and whimsical. Here's the best of my weird music preferences!
Cello-based feminist rockband full of strange vibes, Mythology, and historical allegories.
Rasputina
Haunting vocals full of deep magic and the divine feminine. Feels like ancient music, folk wisdom, and magic.
Ekaterina Shelehova
Bubblegum pop bops but with morbid and violent lyrics with true crime vibes.
Girly Girl Productions
Whimsical nature-centric musician whose songs make you feel like you're wandering through twilight in a fae forest.
Cosmo Sheldrake
Bubblegum goth pop with morbid lyrics disguised by allegories of girlhood
Melanie Martinez
Estonian hyper-pop singer who's work is strange and beautiful. I found her through an interest in dollfies and gothic lolita fashion.
Kerli
Modern witchy chill-pop afirmations, spirituality, and feminine empowerment vibes.
Moonlight Scorpio
Peachkka
Silly indie dad rock band known for their quirky lyrics that cover everything from science to poetry to history in fun, upbeat bops.
They Might Be Giants
Part burlesque punk cabaret band, part gothic feminist performance art. Discovered them at the height of my high school goth era and they are still radical and subversive almost twenty years later.
The Dresden Dolls
Indie folk band full of esoteric historical references, as well as mythological and personal tragedy. Sonically varied songs with a focus on storytelling a la wandering medieval bards.
THE DECEMBERISTS
Modern bluegrass folk banjo player who studied in China and incorporates a lot of traditional Chinese folk music seamlessly with American bluegrass.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Indie folk manic pixie singer-songwriter (half of the band The Moldy Peaches" of Juno soundtrack fame) whose quirky songs are lyrically and conceptually dense, decorated by queerness, mindfulness, and beautiful imperfection.
Kimya Dawson
Quirky indie pop band whose music videos are required watching for the sheer level of strange and nerdy concepts (everything from synchronized printing to visual illusions to zero-gravity plane shenanigans) filmed famously in single-shot long takes.
OK Go
Both a TV series and a band, the New Zealand musical comedy based duo satirizes all genres of music and social culture. Quirky, witty, and taken to the point of absurdity, this band is self-proclaimed as "New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-base...
Flight of the Conchords
Modern choral women's group who recreate authentic medieval and Renaissance music. Feels like old magic. The perfect soundtrack for running through castles or haunted forests in ethereal ballgowns.
Mediæval Bæbes
Full speed ahead celtic-ish pirate rock band with modern and historically inspired rock meets sea shanties.
The Dreadnoughts
Indigenous Siberian folk metal band that incorporates traditional instruments and throat-singing woven with modern rock/metal sensibilities.
Otyken
Modern close harmony vocal trio clearly inspired by The Andrews Sisters specializing in traditional 1940s songs as well as vintage style covers of modern pop classics.
The Puppini Sisters
Experimental techno-adjacent emo synthpop circa my high early 00s high school years with anti-capitalist themes and lyrics that cover systemic violence and environmental concerns through hyper visual metaphor.
Shiny Toy Guns
Russian-born singer-songwriter and pianist who plays emotionally intense "anti-folk" exploring the soundscape with unorthodox vocal and musical techniques that result in a strange, impassioned, and eclectic aesthetic and a devoted cult following.
Regina Spektor
Known for their upbeat softcore covers of popular songs, their cheerful and sweet vibes are a great backdrop for happily going through life.
POMPLAMOOSE
Hyper-femme hyperpop performance artist/singer/rapper whose music is sharp, shiny, and stranger than you expect. Known for her blue hair and Tokyo inspired street fashion, Ashnikko blends aggression, queerness, and manic intensity into straight up bo...
Ashnikko
Strange, ethereal, glo-fi, technopop singer with feminist, fantasy, and science fiction inspired themes whose otherworldly, futuristic dance-pop makes me forgive her for being married to Elon Musk that one time.
Grimes