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Not sad or morose, needs to be qualitatively like being under a heating lamp, almost as if one were cocooned or swaddled in warmth.

  • Probably "dark" is preferable but not necessarily,
  • must be "warm", can be "chill" but not at the expense of warmth,
  • probably "soft" or "easy"/mellow, intensity should be fairly homogenous throughout
  • "sonorous", "fat", possibly resonant is good
  • definitely not cold/cool or desolate
  • buzzy/buzzing/buzz/swarming/swarmy, oscillating, vibrato, very mild distortion or driftiness, like bees swarming
  • dreamy but still warm (opposite of inception)
  • ethereal is ok but not in conflict with warmth

Harold Budd - Luxe

Brian Eno - Neroli

Burst Error - Warm Reset

Earthbound - Buzz buzz prophecy

This is all very subjective so take all this as more general but try to recognize the spirit of what is being sought. A lot of this sound makes me think of if microwave rays were embodied in sound

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Alohaha is great for this, it feels like sitting on a beach at night. Also in that theme are Green Arrow by Yo La Tengo and Island Music by Tennis.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Bonobo - Black Sands

Play the first two song without a pause

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Does P. J. Harvey's Let England Shake fit the bill?

Dark, and warmer than cold I personally think. But maybe we're understanding the temperature adjectives differently?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Moby - long ambients.

Nine inch nails - ghosts.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92.

There's a whole genre called dark ambient.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I would consider portishead to fit the request. Nope still can’t think of anything better.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Arvo Part for sure

Big Thief, especially the song Change, and you might like the whole album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You, though much of it is quite noisy, does not fit your "the same straight through" requirement it is very warm and human sounding. She is such a great guitar player.

Michael Kiwukana

Tomorrow I can ask my friend who listens to more of the stuff in your list.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I wouldn't call some of what you give as samples 'warm' but here are some things that have some element in common with them, to my ear.

Bramble Hedge

Space Banjo

Nexus Sun

Neutral

William Ryan Fritch

William Wright

Marisa Anderson

Dead Can Dance

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Apparat - Equals Sessions, Stay Still, Dämonen, Capri-Revolution

*Is it correct to summarize your description as "It's really awful and horrible, but there's nothing you an do about it and that's okay."?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Early Pink Floyd, especially the albums A Saucerful of Secrets and Meddle

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Emphasis on the dark bit, but The Downward Spiral has a track called A Warm Place.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Try the Jar of Flies EP from Alice in Chains

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Not sure if I'm getting this, but maybe Boards of Canada and then (early) Jääportit for dark?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Re: "cocoon" and "space but warmly heated but at least some light," I strongly recommend HVOB, particularly arguably their best record, Trialog

Here's the first track as a taster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsBGIhaRBoc plus importantly for me, their music is so good to dance to

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I'm glad :) More along the lines of "buzziness," another rec along very different lines is this Ethel Cain track, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvIURYg4qY4 which is off one of my favourite records of 2025 so far, Perverts.

If you like that, the natural follow up is Midwife... Check this track off her album from last year, No Depression in Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0uFGSKQQU Going even further back along similar lines is early Grouper, like this from her 2007 record Cover the Windows and the Walls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39nQSD0a97A

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

i think a few songs from "ohGr"s album "sunnypsyop" fit this... atleast to me....

[-] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

I find Mac Demarco to be quite warm and chill. He writes very mellow singer-songwriter type indie music. A good example might be the song Moonlight on the River. If you like that, you’ll probably like most of his stuff.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Bahamas, too. Same vibe.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

The album Good by Morphine is like being wrapped in a blanket next to a fire on a rainy evening

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Is their overall oeuvre similar?

Reminds me of Riders of the Storm a Little. Would I probably like The Doors?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Yea this is a bit darker than other albums overall but still the same general vibe. If you enjoy it Cure For Pain is the next album from them to check out.

And yea if your into this definitely check out The Doors.

Also check out Metaphorical Music by Nujabes. Totally different genre and a bit less warm than Morphine or The Doors but I think the vibe will be right

[-] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Pj Harvey, Nick Cave and Portishead come to mind

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Not sure if many will agree, but for me warmly dark/darkly warm is most closely linked to doom metal. Avatarium would be an accessible choice to start exploring the genre.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Morcheeba - The Big Calm album

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The album Mer de Noms by A Perfect Circle.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

If you like Harold Budd, then you might like Jon Hassell, maybe? I’m thinking of albums like Aka Darbari Java or Dream Theory in Malaya, there are many more with a similar sound.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I'm not in a place where I can compare it to the artists you've mentioned, but maybe check out Ben Prunty? He's got a bunch of stuff in his catalogue (including an album that's meant to be on the darker side), but I think he's most known for the FTL soundtrack, which I'd probably describe as space, but pensive and curious.

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