r/IndieFolk

Lets here your complete ranking of all Dawes albums, even if you love then all - can be fun to do based on your current mood.

1. Nothing is Wrong
2. Oh Brother
3. North Hills
4. Doomscroller
5. All Your Favourite Bands
6. Stories Dont End
7. Passwords
8. Good Luck With Whatever
9. Were All Gonna Die

Hi everyone,

I'm an independent artist from Brazil exploring dark folk / melancholic Americana.

I recently released a song called I Embrace My Pain.

It’s a very personal piece about carrying pain and learning to live with it.

I'd love honest thoughts from people who genuinely enjoy this kind of sound.

If sharing the link is okay, I can post it.

Thanks for listening.

My fiancé and I are getting married at a cabin in the smokies. It’s a little micro wedding with just family so we’re wanting our wedding party and bridal entrance song to be in line with it.

We’re huge fans of Caamp, GAI, Lumineers, Isbell, Watchhouse, John Vincent III, RMCM, and basically any folky/ americana sounds. I pride myself on music and “DJing” but finding songs for this has been killing me.

I think theres just such a fine line of reverence and cinematic that I’ve struggled to find.

Any song suggestions would be so helpful!!!

I make music under the name The House of Flowers, and I've got an album out today exclusively on subvert. I recorded it in lockdown and left it on my hardrive for far too long. I'd be honoured if you listened to it.

[You can listen here](https://www.subvert.fm/thehouseofflowers/leave-the-house)

These songs were written, along with a couple others, in a whirlwind period of productivity between September 2016 and June 2017. A couple of years prior, some friends and I wrote an album that explored our shared compulsion to put physical distance between ourselves and our problems. Briefly, I was convinced that I could keep running forever. Of course, I was wrong.

In August 2016 I found myself back living at my mum's house, and I began to realise how exhausting it can be to be always on the run, but lacked the scope for self-reflection to understand why I was running in the first place. These songs were born of that tension.

I made numerous plans to record this album over the years that followed, but for one reason or another, nothing came to be, until we all found ourselves stuck at home for a bit in 2020.

I set myself a challenge to make an album using only equipment I already owned. No new software or hardware and certainly no new instruments. Although I was allowed to buy new guitar strings and plectrums as required. I was also only allowed to spend one day working on each song, to keep my tendency to tinker at bay. The project got off to a rocky start when it took me a whole day to locate the one mic cable I owned.

I recorded these songs over ten consecutive weekdays and then sent it to my old pal Rich Mandell to mix and master. I was so proud of this slightly scrappy homemade folk punk record and couldn't wait to share it, but releasing music without playing shows didn't seem right, so I held the album back until the world opened up.

And then the world opened up and I listened to the album, and couldn't recognise the narrator. By this point it was 2022, I was still relatively new to sobriety and becoming increasingly healed and reflective. Some of these songs were 6 years old, written at my lowest emotional ebb. The songs evoked chaos and uncertainty, the final chapter in my turbulent youth. I felt strange releasing songs that no longer reflected who I was as a person, so I just....didn't.

Leave the House, originally conceived as a spiritual successor to an album released in 2015, has remained on my hard drive for nearly 6 years. I listened to it for the first time in a while in early 2026 and felt a renewed compassion for my younger self. Not always making the best choices, but never afraid to feel the full range of human emotions. If you connect with these songs, please remember, there are always better days ahead.

Hi Erdnoid here! I wrote this song after waking up at 3AM from a nightmare I couldn't remember all of. It was basically a dream about a mermaid (siren) luring me in with the most beautiful song I had ever heard in my life. All I wanted to do was remember the song she was singing me, but couldn't remember for the life of me. So I just wrote this song pretty much out of frustration about that lost memory. I recorded in my living room in my apartment. I also ended up getting mixed in Dolby Atmos (for anyone who has apple music). I also added Spotify link too. It ended becoming my first song release. I'm currently working on my 2nd song now and would love feedback/reviews on this to make my next song better. Thanks!

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/lost-in-a-whisper-single/1894425542

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0wdA58LPM1H8cj0BZ0dM61?si=35c7dee3fa4c4726

I've often struggled to keep up with a lot of the newer Alt-Country stuff myself, but I saw someone do this with movies the other day--basically, whatever your favorite color is,, below there is an UNDERGROUND alt-country song with your favorite color in its title for you to listen to (that can maybe help expand what you listen to). Most of the songs are new-ish artists. That's it!

GREEN - "Long Green Cigarette" by Joshua Quimby

RED - "Election Day in the Red State" by Drumming Bird

BLACK - "Black Clothes" by Elliott Adkins

WHITE - "Little White Lies" by Liam St. John

PURPLE - "Purple Flowers" by The Fretliners

ORANGE - "Blood Orange Morning Light" by Andrew Montana

BLUE - "I'm so blue" by Dylan Smucker

YELLOW - "The skin of my yellow country teeth" by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

BROWN - "Brown Haired Blue Eyed Baby" - JD Clayton

Recorded these on my phone , hope you guys dig em!