Genre

Drone

Drone on LoudQuietLoud: more than 800 artists, including Grouper, Have a Nice Life and Oneohtrix Point Never. It runs alongside drone metal, progressive electronic and minimalism.

Duster

slowcore · space rock · shoegaze

Ethel Cain

dream pop · slowcore · ambient

Grouper

ambient · drone · shoegaze

Have a Nice Life

shoegaze · post-rock · drone

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

post-rock · instrumental · experimental

The Garden

post-punk · art punk · punk

Oneohtrix Point Never

ambient · drone · experimental

This Will Destroy You

post-rock · instrumental · ambient

Mount Eerie

lo-fi · folk · experimental

Tim Hecker

ambient · drone · electronic

Boris

drone · stoner rock · experimental

Stars of the Lid

ambient · drone · electronic

Parachute

pop · ambient · electronic

Album art: Boy Harsher, GET MEAN

Boy Harsher

coldwave · ebm · drone

Coil

industrial · experimental · dark ambient

William Basinski

ambient · drone · experimental

The Holydrug Couple

psychedelic rock · psychedelic · neo-psychedelia

Fennesz

ambient · glitch · experimental

U.S. Girls

experimental · psychedelic · noise

Album art: Spacemen 3, The Perfect Prescription

Spacemen 3

shoegaze · space rock · psychedelic

Colin Stetson

experimental · jazz · avant-garde

Fuck Buttons

noise · experimental · drone

Ducktails

lo-fi · psychedelic · experimental

Julianna Barwick

ambient · experimental · dream pop

Album art: Bowery Electric, Beat

Bowery Electric

shoegaze · trip-hop · ambient

Loscil

ambient · minimal · electronic

Earth

drone · doom metal · drone doom

Earth

drone · doom metal · drone doom

Six Organs of Admittance

folk · psychedelic · experimental

Jesu

post-rock · drone · experimental

Chihei Hatakeyama

ambient · minimal · japanese

Anna von Hausswolff

swedish · singer-songwriter · female vocalists

The Dead Texan

ambient · drone · post-rock

Terry Riley

minimalism · contemporary classical · avant-garde

lovesliescrushing

shoegaze · ambient · dream pop

Sunn O)))

drone · doom metal · dark ambient

Gas

ambient · minimal · electronic

Maebi

lo-fi · ambient · drone

Halo

sludge · drone · noise

Deaf Center

ambient · dark ambient · experimental

Wooden Shjips

psychedelic rock · psychedelic · experimental

Om

doom metal · stoner rock · psychedelic

James K

electronic · experimental · indie

Andrew Prahlow

video game music · ambient · soundtrack

Alva Noto

glitch · minimal · ambient

Planning for Burial

shoegaze · drone · post-rock

Album art: Emma Ruth Rundle, These Killing Times

Emma Ruth Rundle

folk · drone · ambient

Ben Frost

ambient · drone · experimental

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma

ambient · drone · noise

Ben Lukas Boysen

ambient · dark ambient · idm

36

ambient · downtempo · melancholic

Labradford

post-rock · ambient · experimental

Angel

hard rock · glam rock · progressive rock

Jónsi & Alex

ambient · icelandic · post-rock

Lustmord

dark ambient · ambient · industrial

Thou

sludge · doom metal · drone

Belong

drone · ambient · shoegaze

Peaking Lights

psychedelic · lo-fi · drone

Sun Araw

psychedelic · drone · experimental

Brian McBride

ambient · drone · electronic

Småland

ambient · electronic · lo-fi

Astrid Sonne

experimental · ambient · electronic

Steve Hauschildt

ambient · drone · experimental

Bing & Ruth

ambient · drone · piano

James Ferraro

drone · experimental · ambient

Windy & Carl

ambient · drone · shoegaze

Robert Rich

ambient · dark ambient · experimental

Album art: Roy Montgomery, Nebular

Roy Montgomery

post-rock · ambient · space rock

Emeralds

ambient · drone · experimental

Psychic Ills

psychedelic · experimental · psychedelic rock

Bardo Pond

psychedelic rock · psychedelic · space rock

Flying Saucer Attack

shoegaze · space rock · post-rock

Blanck Mass

ambient · drone · electronic

The Body

sludge · doom metal · experimental

Nurse With Wound

experimental · industrial · noise

Pan Sonic

experimental · minimal · electronic

Midwife

dream pop · slowcore · shoegaze

Album art: Sarah Davachi, The Will of Tongues

Sarah Davachi

ambient · electronic · minimalism

Loop

shoegaze · space rock · psychedelic

Uboa

noise · experimental · dark ambient

Nadja

drone · ambient · drone doom

Woodsman

psychedelic · psychedelic rock · ambient

Natural Snow Buildings

drone · ambient · experimental

Glenn Branca

no wave · experimental · avant-garde

Caterina Barbieri

electronic · ambient · minimalism

Laurie Spiegel

electronic · experimental · avant-garde

Bongripper

sludge · doom metal · drone

Lee Ranaldo

experimental · noise · noise rock

Album art: Oren Ambarchi, Cooked

Oren Ambarchi

drone · ambient · experimental

Croatian Amor

industrial · noise · ambient

Syndrome

ambient · post-rock · visual kei

Tarentel

post-rock · ambient · experimental

Conan

doom metal · sludge · stoner metal

Alessandro Cortini

ambient · electronic · drone

Prince Rama

psychedelic · experimental · tribal

Gauntlet Hair

lo-fi · shoegaze · indie

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Labels

Labels in this genre

Kranky

Home to Grouper, Tim Hecker & Stars of the Lid

Editions Mego

Home to Oneohtrix Point Never, Steve Hauschildt & Emeralds

Important Records

Home to Boris, Earth & Earth

Invada Records

Home to Boris, Ben Frost & Blanck Mass

Mexican Summer

Home to Tim Hecker, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Peaking Lights

Robotic Empire

Home to Jesu, Thou & Nadja

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