ALL Electronic: Folktronic albums

100 PORTRAITS: Time: Remix
Alternative folk rock meets Moby. This album is the remix of the original Time Will Be The Tell album from the duo Ben and Robin Pasley.
46°HALO: rebirth
An indie rock electro shoegaze new wave band from Japan.
A PYXIE WORM: Formica and Cork Tiles
Laptop technology, real instruments, found sounds, samples and rhythms - Incredible.
ADRIENNE LEASA: For God's Sake
An eclectic batch of songs that sound familiar but that you've never heard before with lovely female vocals singing blues, electronic, and alternative indie songs
AIRTIST: Wireless
Very energetic, unique sounding organic trance on didgeridoo, jew's harp and human beatbox. No electrically modified sounds, pure energy and virtuosity.
ALEX GOLDFARB: Keys for Locks
Tastes more like Nick Drake and early Neil Young than chicken. Fusing the singer/writer craft with subtle soulful rhythms.
ALEX MAHER: My Little Sun
They try to stay in touch with nature in the techno revolution, so there is a smooth folk rock with a touch of electro ambiance.
ALLAN PHILLIPS: Ehtnic Alchemy 1/soundtrack To PBS Show Grannies On Safary
Original blend of contemporary music with folkloric styles from around the world
AMOEBA CRUNCH: Sixteen Worlds
This is forestronic music: a catchy blend of ambient dub, folk rock, field recordings, and pop hooks that explores the beauty of forgotten places and unobserved events.
AMOEBA CRUNCH: Alternate Worlds
The companion disc to 2007's Sixteen Worlds, Alternate Worlds is a heavier, deeper snapshot of the same subject taken a year later. It is sequenced electronics and performed parts blended into a chunky, beat-oriented pop.
ANDIE FRANCOEUR: Morning Light
Indie-pop Seattle native with dynamic vocals and touching lyrics. Recommended if you like Natalie Merchant, Fiona Apple, Rachael Yamagata.
ANDREW DOUGLAS ROTHBARD: Abandoned Meander
Andrew Rothbard's solo debut is a totally tripped-out mix of pop-influenced folk and dark, heavy psych. Elements of sunshiny pop, folk, rock and noise all filter through one mind-fucked, psychedelic channel.
ARCTIC: Today Brought Me Here
Explore to find moody, haunting soundscapes, intricate layering of guitars and voice, reflections on change and loss, and the desire to see things for what they really are.
ARTHUR LOVES PLASTIC: Brief Episodes of Joy
Mischievous 80's tinged electronica.
AUTOMASSAGE: The Ambience Between Your Ears Is Noise
The encounter with this innovative project seems, given the clone-flooded periphery of the Slovenian music scene, like an encounter of the third kind. The music of Automassage sounds astonishingly modern and up to date, brave and connected.
BEARDWAGON: Poolside
Folk Rock storytelling for literate bumpkins.
BEATS FOR BEGINNERS: Lazer Beams For Eyes EP
Pulsating slacker analog electro rock, six tracks with an organic stones vibe.
BEAUTIFUL BELLS: Phantom Pleasure
A "strange sonic collage layered with torn pieces of rhythm, clipped brass, and half formed electronic textures." - Noah Pais, Gambit Weekly (New Orleans)
BETH HIRSCH: Indelibly You (reworked by Got-Ta-Scatta)
A folktronica mix of classic female singer/songwriter vocals, live instrumentation and 21st century-thinking beats.
BRAEBURN: Transition
Instrumental music perfect for relaxing, thinking, meditating, road-tripping or just fading into the background.
BRYANNOLL: Concrescence Ep 01
bryannoll makes music that would sound more appropriate in a forest than in a bedroom. He twists sounds until their distinction becomes irrelevant, and then he pours sunlight over the whole thing to make even the weirdest moments feel vaguely hopeful.
CALAMATEUR: The Old Fox of '45
Calamateur's debut album is an eclectic and effective mix of pop sensibility, avant gardism, noise, prettiness, acoustic fragility, electric muscle, harmonies and crackly samples.
CALAMATEUR: Son of Everyone EP
Chilled out acoustic loveliness with a light drizzling of understated electronics. Effectively a full length album, even though it's called an EP. Think of it as a single with a strong supporting cast of instrumentals and brand new tracks.
CALAMATEUR VS. STEVE LAWSON: Calamateur vs. Steve Lawson
The fruit of a long friendship, a collaboration between two very different musical talents and a collection of beautiful, eerie songs. Painfully confessional, the overwhelming sense is of beauty in a stark place; a desolate Antarctic wilderness.
CHICKEN FEED: Inside The Machine
These tracks combine their love for programmed beats, acoustic and electric guitars and spacey vibes.
DANA PARKER 327: Eclectic
A dynamic mix of musical styles combining elements from Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Moby, Radio Head, Pink Floyd, to create an eclectic sound all its own.
DARREN FRANK: Coal To Diamond
Escalator music.
DB LEONARD: The Beast Ep
Folktronic. 1932 Regal Acoustic Guitar meets 1923 Corona Sterling Typewriter meets British Soundscape for a walk down East Fourth Street in New York City.
DENIM ON DENIM: Secret Candy
Exquisite pop/ambient works. Exceedingly dense layers and patterns of synth, drum machines, vocals, and chimy guitars.
DREW: Drew Rich
Modern male folk with and without words.
EDGARDO MORENO: Travelling Guitars
A cinematic journey through intertwining guitar melodies backed by a subtle electronic score. It is a musical journal of travels through the great Canadian highways and wilderness. Inspired by movie scores that I've created and are related to traveling.
EMALAZARUS: 7 songs
Evocative, haunting tracks to accompany your journey.
ERIC HOGG: Origins Unknown
Melodic, harmony laden, acoustic guitar driven songs, lush production, memorable hooks and an experimental edge.
FDR: Pawnshop Romance
"Listening to FDR was like seeing a festival with all my favorite bands; Modest Mouse, The Violent Femmes, The Mountain Goats, Magnetic Fields, Bright Eyes, Beck, and the Flaming Lips."
FLOORMODEL: Random Access Memories
Electronic music with an analog heart.
FOSFORO: Macondo
Reggaetronic junglistic cumbiaton with fierce Spanish lyrics and searing soul.
FRAGILE DRAGON: Light Bend and Rhythm
Alternative Electronic: a blend of Electronic Pop and digital Film Scape punctuated by massive rhythms. At times the music is serene and sparkling, other times it is an intense psychedelic jam with an otherworldly afterglow.
GEMINI WOLF: Josiah
Electronic noise soul band with strings dreamy vocals and funky beats.
GLENN TAYLOR ORCHESTRA: Glenn Taylor Orchestra
Instrumental Americana, jazz, electronic featuring pedal steel, horns, and laptop.
GOODNIGHT STREETLIGHT: The Curfew Bell
Sleepy melodies, possessed kitchen appliances, and ghosts whispering in the dark.
GREG HEFFERNAN'S SAUCE: Sauce
A jazz-groove ensemble combining found-sound electronic beats, improvisation and a slant towards Americana by-way-of Brooklyn.
HALALUJAHMUSIK: a'SLIGHT+-RETURN
Sounds like the blend between Roots Reggae lyricism, and Trip=Hop. Modern revolutionary word sound power.
HAZAH: Eyes Open
unique electro breakbeat real funk groove with a refreshing organic folk blues twist.
HAZAH: Home Before Dawn
Unique electro breakbeat real funk groove with a refreshing organic folk blues twist.
HELEN SVENTITSKY: Monochrome In Technicolor
Poetic, sensual, brilliant stories in varying shades of electronica, synth-pop, alternative, rock and folk.
HUMANBOY: I'm No Good at This
Acoustic fingerstyle infused with breakbeat-driven electronica, melodic electric guitars and entrancingly delicate female vocals.
HUNGRY LUCY: Before We Stand ... We Crawl
dreamy, electro-organic pop music with emotional female vocals.
IDA: Shhh
Folktronic remixes
IMMANUEL WON'T: Immanuel Won't
Electronic grad school folk smut.
JANE JENSEN: My Rockabye
Eclectic folk to pop your socks off.
JANE JENSEN: Privateer Pt. 1
Politically unabashed and emotionally brazen, this singer/songwriter continues to write fearless music. Not recommended for the weak of heart.
JESSICA LOFBOMM: Tonic
Folktronica. Jessica mixes in original writing and old-school hymns, infusing them with Dido-esque organic, electronic serum. Soaring, beautiful vocals over a mixed palette of strings, beats, organs and Lord knows what else.
JESSIE KILGUSS: Exotic Bird
Experimental, melodic rock
JOHN SAFRANKO: Flowers in a run-down neighborhood
Autobiographical ruminations of growing up in the city, with acoustic and electronic layers of sound surrounding whispery vocals.
JUSTIN GROUNDS: Love Is Strong As Death
Indie-folk electro-acoustic with a dark mystical romantic soul.
KENY BUTLER: The Strange Cabaret
"An underground masterpiece. Butler's mix of the electronic and acoustic take us to deep and dark places within the mind. A truly original concept album with extraordinary lyrics and memorable melodies."
KING OF SPAIN (MATT SLATE): Entropy
Tantalizing pop hooks are marred by nothing, not even the small recording budget, and find a special place wrapped tightly inside of emotional verses and words with a slight nod to ambient pop ala Brian Eno. Simply stunning. - Smother.net
KONRAD: Loose Canyons
New millennial song konstructionist who creates astral pop from the strains of folk, IDM, indie and hip hop
KORBY LENKER: Papa Was a Rodeo
I first heard this song a couple years ago when KEXP sponsored a Magnetic Fields tribute at the legendary Crocodile Cafe in Seattle. The song stayed in my head so I learned it and would play it for myself when I was feeling lonelyish. Somewhere in there,
KYLE DAWKINS: Walls Became The World
Tottery layers of space belie gorgeous melodic considerations within heavy skittering beatwork; rainy day, sunny night music.
LACEY BROWN: Waking Holding Dreaming Dying
Playful yet poetic, combining electronics and lush orchestration with pop melodies.
LAKE ONTARIO WATERKEEPER: At the Barricades: Volume 1
A compilation of artists committed to the battle for clean water, featuring new tracks from: Broken Social Scene, Bill Frisell, Sarah Harmer, Chris Brown, Kate Fenner, Stars, Dave Bidini, and Tony Scherr, among others.
LIZ LARIN: Blue Circus Life
This CD features classic Liz Larin song writing complimented by the ‘Larin Baritone’, which is a specially made guitar with a haunting quality. Like a private concert by candlelight.
LONG DISTANCE RUNNER: The Fire of Cumulative Hours
A Collage of Breakbeats and Experimental Soundscapes, Assembled with Attention to Detail - For fans of Air, Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, Thievery Corporation, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, Portishead, M83, RJD2, Prefuse 73, The Books, Four Tet, Caribou, Tortoise
LUCY BLAND: Lucy Bland's First Recital
A folktronica soundtrack for starry nights and dusty highways. Lucy Bland is an electroacoustic group featuring lush female vocals and dreamy electronic soundscapes.
LUCY BLAND: Down To Sea Level
A little bit familiar and a lot unexpected, fuses the dynamic range of indie rock, the experimentation of electronica, and the story telling of folk into this genre-defining work.
LUST4LUV: Raison D'Etre
A symphonic journey organically blending the beauty of nature through acoustic guitar and soulful vocals and the power of technology with fx, beats and basslines.
MARTA G. WILEY: The Missing Link
Written and produced by Wiley is a avant garde electronic acoustic masterpiece.
MATHIAS DELPLANQUE: Le Pavillon Temoin
This is a very subtle and personal piece of work exploring the aesthetics of modern electronica, jazz, folk and musique concrete. Acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, cello, drums, accordion, melodica, bells) form the backbone of the compositions.
MATT HARDING: Tomorrow
"Lovely lo-fi beats driven melodicism; Time-Out sunday morning folktronica
MICK PAYNTER & THE MOONTONES: Kernow bys Vykken
Deputy Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Mick Paynter now adds amazingly expressive vocals to his considerable literary expertise - singing and 'rapping', as well as speaking, in pure Kernewek.
MISS MASSIVE SNOWFLAKE: Queen's Headache
Orchestrated electro/acoustic political dance songs for a better world.
MODEL ROCKET SCIENTIST: Affordable Audio Healthcare
A collision of rock & roll at a rave that sneaks into an all day stadium show.
MODELS NEED SLEEP: All Your Dead Weight
Features a rock sound with significant electronic influence lead by acoustic and electric guitars with unique sibling-formed harmonies.
MOIRA: Climbing Mountains in the Night
A unique blend of electronic and folky pop with bittersweet songs and a sensitive vocal style that has been described as "a panacea for jaded ears."
MUNDANE MUSIC: A Place in Mind
As crisp as an early autumns morn, curdling dreamy samples and rickety pastoral parochialisms, prised apart by gentle darting beats. At the heart of these six tender morsels lies a weighty lucky bag of sweet mouth watering succulence.
NATIONAL EXIT STRATEGY: Safety Sleeper Six
A sex-crazed artifact of the now-defunct Department for Personal Sonification, this act is techno with a live drummer, microscopically amplified and computed to create microcosmic psychodelics - cosmos of soaring tones and colours.
NILS NILSSON: Life Goes in Circles
Electro/hip-hop laced with childish melodies that have suffered mangling in a mediocre computer. The perfect chill-out album for chilling out outside on a chilly day without a bowl of chili.
NYLES LANNON: Pressure
As Lannon tells us, "Pressure doesn't have a light at the end of the tunnel." It's lyrical content is steeped in dark thought: denial, guilt, temptation, regret. Swirling emotions choreographed into a series of well-crafted, intelligent pop songs.
ORESTE FIENGO: ROMA
Greece - Roman music and electro digital contaminations
PAUL AZIZ: Turnaround
Introspective folk layered with electronic soundscapes which embarks you on a journey from darkness to light
PETRACOVICH: Blue Cotton Skin
Bedroom folktronica; melancholy, muffled piano, beats and bells
PHANTOM: Cumputer Fun
Pop flavor on deep cuts. I think they'd be happy on about three or four acres each.
PILCROW: Bound in Boards
Ambient fingerstyle guitar layered with field recordings and extremly wet guitar loops.
POLARFORSKER: The Forest Is Dead / The Forest Lives Forever EP
Subtle guitar melodies, soft synths, hiss and crackle, clicks and cuts from the forest. Winter turns to spring.
RADOMIRA: Beautiful Things EP
moody indie-pop folktronica; ethereal female vocals layered over dark, subdued pianos and brooding cellos ~ the soundtrack to a gloomy sunday. for fans of dido, fiona apple, coldplay, aimee mann, the black heart procession, azure ray & rachael yamagata
REVOLUTION I/O: Last Stand of the Caveman (Radio Promo)
A blend of 60s-70s singer-songwriter song structure fused with modern progressive electroinca.
ROBERT PETERSEN: Samaritan
Personal, piano-based musical document.
ROCHE LIMIT: White Light
A Folktronic album that encompasses a compelling selection of moods and styles, transporting the listener from the depths of a brooding instrumental to unforgettable upbeat melodies.
ROXANNE FONTANA: Love is Blue
Poetic melodic electronic pop for the francophile, anglophile & sophisticate.
ROXANNE FONTANA: Souvenirs d'Amour
Intense poetic lyrics, Folk rock, Beatles pop, Bluesy folk, Anglo & Franco influenced, electronic, orchestrated folk.
RUSUDEN: Warm Human Antennae
Warm Human Antennae zips into a strange world where breakbeats, warm synths, guitar and even the acid bassline find a home... millions of miles away. With some tracks themed on visits to an alien, other world lounge - you can almost see the smoke trails c
SAMENAME: The Tapir
Luke Flowers and Luke Atencio join forces to create an eclectic sound. Luke Flowers adds his strong lyrical style, and acoustic energy, with Luke Atencio adding his expansive composer, DJ and Hip Hop style background to create a unique sound.
SAN.DRINE: Janvier
Fans of ethereal vocals, electronica, and soundtrack music will love this intimate and ground breaking collection of original songs in French and English.
SANCHO: Cha Cha Mancha
"Imagine if David Bowie had been co-opted to score the soundtrack to David Lynch's Twin Peaks." "Sancho Panza is a cross between Godspeed You Black Emperor under valium and Jim O Rourke at the top of his form"
SCOTT LANAWAY: Answering Machine Diaries
Flaming Lips meets Richard Ashcroft meets Beck. Add a lot of blips and atmosphere, and you have a collection of personal mini-soundtracks to the movies and moments that exist in your head. Accoustic guitars, synths, samples, and blips. Some have called it
SCOTT PECKENPAUGH: Year of the Dog
".ethereal but tuneful and moody but mesmerizing."
SKETCHES WITH NO DRAWING: Pandas are People, Too
The unabashedly unmatched, unrivaled, and unexpected follow-up to Artist's Rendering done completely with electronic instruments - perfect for everything from driving to parties.
SKINK: 100 Random Signs
A rich remix collection of tracks that covers everything from ambient to IDM, techno to drum & bass.
SO A.D.D.: 100 Years of Silence
The songs of So A.D.D. wind their way through trip hop, folk and alternative without deciding a genre, but Jol'e's haunting and eclectic voice is the glue that holds it all together.
SPOOL: Spool EP
Electronic acoustic music from Ireland that has been described as future folk blending reams of melody, and echoes of Vashti Bunyan vocals, while the electronic airs revolve around a post-folk fulcrum of bleepy nuances, guitars, shimmering violins and twi
STEPHEN SIMMONS: Drink Ring Jesus (remix)
Moody, Break-Beat Electronic remix of the title track from 'Drink Ring Jesus'.
TALKDEMONIC: mutiny sunshine
Talkdemonic is a genre-busting barnstormer of folktronic hop musicality.
THE CAPTAIN LAZERBLAST BAND: Journey to Flootopia
Techno-Folk; like electronica without the percussive loops; folk-feeling music played on electronic wind and string instruments.
THE CAPTAIN LAZERBLAST BAND: Elves on the Moon
Techno-folk compositions for live performance (electronic sounds with a human touch) with no loops, no drum machine, and no clichés.
THE MODERN ANTIQUES: Neon Heart EP
Electronic indie-pop. Folk at the heart, but it's dressed up with synths, electronic beats, and a commodore 64. Picture a skyscraper in the middle of a corn field. Or a silo in the middle of Manhattan.
THE ONE AM RADIO: The Hum of the Electric Air!
A beautiful, bittersweet album of lullabies about cities, full of warmth, longing, violins, and fuzzy beats.
THE PAPER RAINCOAT: Safe In The Sound
An imaginative collaboration between Brooklyn songwriters Amber Rubarth and Alex Wong that brings to life a colorful world teeming with compelling characters, dream~like storylines, and metaphorical narratives.
THE SLOWS: Be Patient or Be Something Else
Ten tracks of atmospheric electronica that range from the quiet steel guitar loops of “Sound is the Biggest Silence” to the vintage arcade field recordings of “Kidd Video.”
THE TENTH STAGE: The Tenth Stage
An eclectic mix of electronic / gothic / classical and reggae which will appeal to fans of Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance and Nick Cave. If you like intelligent music that's close the the dark side then have a listen.
THESE UNITED STATES: A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden
Psych-folktronic with a punk and pop ethic.
THIS UNIQUE MUSEUM: Cut A Long Story Short
Folktronica indie dream pop
THIS UNIQUE MUSEUM: A Ghost In The Playground
Acoustic shoegazing mellow indie
TIM ROCK: Into the Blue
A fantastic mix of instrumental jazz, electronica and fusion musical styles
TOOL BOX HERO: Stay In Touch
Haunting vocals and guitar blend with electronic sounds. Listen if you like Postal Service, The Album Leaf, and Plus 44.
VAJAS: Sacred Stone
Ancient traditional music from the Arctic blended with modern electronica
VARIOUS: Wheel of Sound 1
Electro-acoustic mantras in tradition of Kundalini Yoga
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Gourmet Scavenger
A selection of lobe smacking dishes, Scavenger's all natural ingredients range from downtempo electronica to folktronica, glitchhop to leftfield hip hop, brokenbeat to jazz groove, plus a few spices you'll have a hard time putting your finger on.
WHITE HOUSE: Bunker
Folktronic tribal house music.
WIXEL: Heart
8 tracks of melancholic acoustic guitars and warm electronics - a very personal and introspective record that might remind you of whomever you used to be.
XERA: Lliendes
Here starts the story of an idea whose musical aspect is only a piece. A piece of the experience that is a nap under the ash tree, or the wind from mount Sueve dragging its memories; a piece of the dim
YOUR HAND IN MINE: Every Night Dreams
Originally conceived as a music accompaniment to Mikio Naruse's film "Yogoto No Youme", "Every Night Dreams" is the debut full-length by Thessaloniki-based duo Your Hand In Mine.
YTAMO: Limited Leaf
Electronic keys, cheap rhythm sound, grace female voice and many tiny sounds are included.
ZACK HAGAN: Zack Hagan
A folktronica journey through love, loss, nature, and New York.