Recommend me artists like amazarashi
TL;DR: I'm looking for artists that convey raw emotion and make you feel something. Feelings like despair, anger, indignation, sadness, anything. Japanese or international.
Hello, all. In my teens I went through a depression that made me apathetic and numb. During this time I listened to amazarashi for the first time and ugly cried for the first time in years... It felt like I finally could feel the feelings bottled inside, and honestly it felt great. I didn't speak Japanese at the time, and there weren't even translations for their songs... I can't explain it, but Hiromu Akita's interpretation just carried me. It was like he was teaching me *how* to feel the things I didn't know how to feel anymore.
Amazarashi stayed with me, and as I started to learn what the songs meant, their pure poetry, they just got deeper and deeper in my heart. 14 years later, I'm still a huge fan and they're still my comfort band. It's like Hiromu Akita gives me permission to feel things, like he knows what are the words I'm looking for, what is the part of me that needs to be cared for and looked at. No other artist or song ever made me feel like this.
The only other artist that ever got close to make feel like that is Aurora's All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, except I miss the anger a little bit.
Well, I'm going through a rough patch right now and could really use some more artists for my amazarashi playlist... Grief does weird things to us, and I could really use someone else's voice to guide me again.
Do you have any artists that make you feel like this?
If you listen to amazarashi, do you know more artists who have this raw feeling too?