Music Artists I Like
Ambient / Atmospheric
- Ólafur Arnalds
- Max Richter
- Brian Eno
- Hammock
Post-Minimalist / Contemporary Classical
- Ludovico Einaudi
- Balmorhea
- Nils Frahm (jazz-adjacent)
- Luis Berra
IDM / Cerebral Electronic
- Rival Consoles (new favorite)
- Boards of Canada
- Djrum (exploring)
- Barker (exploring)
Indie / Atmospheric / Groove
- Tycho
- Khruangbin (some)
Jazz — Piano-Centered / Introspective
- Bill Evans
- Brad Mehldau
- Thelonious Monk
- Miles Davis (Kind of Blue era)
- Pat Metheny
- Nils Frahm (crossover)
- E.S.T. / Esbjörn Svensson Trio (to explore)
- Herbie Hancock (familiar but underlistened)
Folk / Acoustic / Singer-Songwriter
- Punch Brothers (favorite — their own genre)
- Gregory Alan Isaakov
- The Lumineers
- The Civil Wars (defunct)
- Aoife O’Donovan (to revisit)
- Nickel Creek
- The Milk Carton Kids
- Crooked Still
Vocal / Jazz-Adjacent
- Norah Jones (earlier work)
- Diana Krall
References
Some help from Claude.ai with categorization