Recommend me anything!

Hi! Yes, as the title says, recommend me anything: musicians, songs, writers, books, poets, artists, photographers. I want to consume it all!

My only requests: nothing and no one that is explicit :)

Current favs: classic fiction, dream Pop/slowcore /indie music, nature film photography, Mary Oliver poetry, classical music

if you like dreampop, i heavily suggest in solarium by pia fraus! they're like a mixture of dreampop and shoegaze. they're one of northern europe's first real dreampop acts too, which is pretty neat. they have a really unique sound.

if you like slowcore, i suggest the golden band by the american analog set! they aren't exactly slowcore, but there's a lot of hushed vocals and lo-fi guitar melodies. i guess they're like laid-back indie, atmospheric post-rock. i listen to them mostly when i am writing because there's a lot of instrumentals.

i also really like things we lost in the fire by low + static & silence by the sundays! i think the sundays' whole discography is worth checking out tbh.

Owl City, Marianas Trench, JJ Heller are all musicians i like

Some music recommendations:

"nuvole bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi (the song of my soul!)
"reversing" by Takenobu (just heard this in a movie today <.<)
"butterfly waltz" by Brian Crane (have listened to this a hundred times)
"Runaway" by AURORA (AURORA is just so fun to listen to!)

Some of my favorite visual artists:
Henry Ossawa Tanner; especially The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water and The Annunciations to the Shepards

Also love Mark Rothko have seen a few of his paintings in person and have 4 prints of his paintings at my house.

a few poets I like right now:
Robert Frost (always a favorite)
Madeline L'Engle (also always a favorite)
Tracy K Smith (recent US Poet Laureate)
Joy Harjo (recent US Poet Laureate)
Luci Shaw (Christian poet I am reading more of lately)
Wendell Berry (Christian poet I am reading more of lately)
Gracia Grindal (a lovely Christian poet I've heard speak and am inspired by)
Louise Glück (poet I am reading more of recently)

Four dream-pop/shoegaze albums I'd suggest:

1. Blue Rev (2022) by Alvvays. The band, half-jokingly, has described their genre as gelato pop. Blue Rev, their third album, goes a step further. It's a milkshake-like mix of shoegaze-inspired production and pop-style lyricism.

2. Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) by Cocteau Twins. The OG dream-pop record. Precursor to shoegaze, arguably.

3. Loveless (1991) by My Bloody Valentine. The OG shoegaze record. Heavy focus on compression and distortion to create the wall of sound. Expressionist imo. I found this one's soundscape difficult to grasp and appreciate in my first listens. The songs are dreamy but not always in a way that's necessarily pleasant. I had to be patient with it, like I would be with a poetry that doesn't quite click in the first reading.

4. Souvlaki (1993) by Slowdive. The successor. Heavy focus on modulation to build a wall of sound that is comparatively impressionist.