Weyes Blood, Holter, Ignota, Sundfor, von H, Wolfe

All of these "modern" females who are singer-songwriters (composers/lyricists) as well as musicians have released at least four studio albums each since 2010 under their given or stage names. For "other", please mention another such female who released at least four albums during that period, and is the primary driving force behind her albums and is a singer, songwriter and musician. This is to differentiate between those who are more singers for hire and more members of a band than artists in their own right who create their own music for their own projects (of course that often does involve collaboration with others for an album to come together). One can also use "other" to mention another album from 2010 up from one of the listed artists.

Feel free to vote for one album from each artist if you like, or just one or other.... If voting "other", please tell me who you are voting for and which is your favourite of her four or more albums from 2010 up. And of course recommendations are welcomed even if there aren't four albums (there are more female artists whose music I love from this period).

Recently I have been most into albums by Weyes Blood (pronounced Wise Blood) but I dig music by all.

Edited by Logan - February 09 2023 at 23:51

Logan wrote: All of these "modern" females who are singer-songwriters (composers/lyricists) as well as musicians have released at least four studio albums each since 2010 under their given or stage names. For "other", please mention another such female who released at least four albums during that period, and is the primary driving force behind her albums and is a singer, songwriter and musician. This is to differentiate between those who are more singers for hire and more members of a band than artists in their own right who create their own music for their own projects (of course that often does involve collaboration with others for an album to come together). One can also use "other" to mention another album from 2010 up from one of the listed artists. Feel free to vote for one album from each artist if you like, or just one or other.... If voting "other", please tell me who you are voting for and which is your favourite of her four or more albums from 2010 up. And of course recommendations are welcomed even if there aren't four albums (there are more female artists whose music I love from this period). Recently I have been most into albums by Weyes Blood (pronounced Wise Blood) but I dig music by all.

Awesome poll

I will admit I only know Susanne Sundfor out of these, but I would place her as the second best female solo artist around (after Kate Bush) and Music.. is one of my favourite albums so I've chosen that.

I was actually listening to a playlist I made that included all these artists lately. Per the criteria picked (female singer/songwriters with stage names leading their own acts), St Vincent feels like the most obvious miss. Bat For Lashes is also good. Neither would have passed my vote, though, which was Lingua Ignota's All Bitches Die - a stunning piece of music, although as has been noted, not one you will listen to often.

Edited by TheGazzardian - February 10 2023 at 14:53

^ Thanks, I have been meaning to look into My Brightest Diamonds.   I already like Jenny Hval a lot and originally I was going to do three albums per artist from the time period, and she would have been listed.

These are some of my favourites not included:

Melody's Echo Chamber (Melody Prochet)
Dear Laika (aka Isabelle Thorn)
Uboa (aka Xandra Metcalfe)
Emma Ruth Rundle
Jenny Hval
Yaya Kim
Pan Daijing

I'm forgetting one of my particular favourites (getting old).

And I like music by Joanna Newsom and Lana del Rey. There was a topic I made last year where I got turned onto various others like Jorja Chalmers and many more (I'll search for it). From the 90s up dominantly, I like Bjork and Pj Harvey and older again, Kate Bush, and older still I love Nico.

I might well do a couple more polls to cover more territory -- love hearing the suggestions and will try to check out music from all that are mentioned that I don't know. I have been big on making youtube playlists, and plan to make one for this later.

@Kees: I too recognise the sameness that can be found in Weyes Blood albums, especially for me with And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. It's not a problem with me with, say, Titanic Rising.

While I could vote differently as all have multiple loved by me albums, today I'll go:
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil
Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty



Edited by Logan - February 10 2023 at 18:50