Great pick.
Dark Folk
Colton Sanchez
David Torres
>Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
that album is legitimately GOAT, probably the best lyrics your gonna find, but Singer-songwriter is meaningfully different than folk
Isaiah Foster
back at you, i haven't listened to that in two years
Carter Edwards
Hint: look north
Tenhi - Maaäet
Empyrium - Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays
Nest - Woodsmoke
Vàli - Forlatt
Agalloch - White EP
Havnatt - Havdogn
Wardruna - Runaljod trilogy
Dominic Nelson
south works too
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Thomas Smith
Huh, never thought of it that way. Isn't it still folk tho, because of the instruments?
Jaxson Powell
the easiest way to describe the difference to me (and i could very well be an idiot) is an overwhelming sense of place is present in folk music, even contemporary folk tries to carve out a plot of land (sometimes its an impossible place like ITAOTS, but its still a place)
as much as I love Baier, she doesn't have this sense of place, rather ALL of her focus seems to be on people and relationships, which is a common enough theme in folk, but it rarely overtakes the place.
Ryder Cruz
What about the mediterranean area? Not sure if you'd like it or find it cheesy just because it's in Italian, but this album is quite dark:
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Bentley Ramirez
this sounds good, user thanks!
have some dark-ass Greek Folk
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Leo Butler
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Have some neofolk as well
>Current 93
>Death in June
>Of The Wand And The Moon
>Backworld
>Darkwood
>Forseti
>Falkenstein
>Agnar
>Nest
>Blood and Sun