One thing I love almost as much as metal and prog is some gorgeous acoustic music. Here are some of my favourites for you!
Sleep is a Curse - Maudlin of the Well
By my favourite band, on my favourite album, this beautiful piece of acoustic heavenliness uses twin guitars and serene vocals to create a melancholy yet hopeful piece of music. The weird thing is that this is between the two heaviest songs on the album, and yet somehow it works within the confines of the album. Just an amazing song by an amazingly talented composer.
Hope Leaves - Opeth
Again, this is by an extreme progressive metal band, but on this album they took time off making amazing heavy music and made a soft prog rock album that is completely haunting, maudlin, and awesome. This song is one of the least proggy, but it is beautiful, so it gets a mention. It's also done on an electric guitar, but it's clean, so it's good enough!
Ocean - John Butler
If you're a guitar player, you know this fucking song. I played it for my music course in high school, and holy shit is it hard. It's brilliant, technical, and emotional, and you owe it to yourself to experience it at least once.
Rylynn - Andy Mckee
I want to fuck this man's hands. He is a legend, and an absolutely phenomenal guitarist. His music is heartfelt, and I love how he uses the guitar as both a melodic instrument and a percussive one. Youtube loves him too, because he has like 24 million views. He deserves everyone of them!
Lazarus - Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree are a modern day Pink Floyd. They make Prog Rock accessible to everyone, with pop stylings, yet still remain complex and progressive. This is one of their most beautiful songs, and their live acoustic album "We Lost the Skyline" is among my favourites. Fuck it, have another acoustic song by them!
Just because this song is awesome!
Neopolitan Dreams - Lisa Mitchell
Yeah I'm a sucker for cute indie pop with sung buy a woman with an adorable voice. Also, this song is more on piano and xylophone, but screw it. This song is gorgeous and simultaneously makes me happy and sad at the same time.
Yeah this song is pretty darn sweet.
I really liked the two instrumentals. Most of the rest weren't really my thing, and Lisa Mitchell's voice really wasn't my thing. But thanks for the exposure to music I wouldn't have come across otherwise. Nice selection of stuff here.
That's fair enough. If you like them though, you might like Anoine Dufour
My favorite was "Rylynn." Liked pretty much all of it, though. And acoustic just means something is not being electrically or otherwise artificially amplified, so piano and xylophone can count as acoustic.
Yeah I suppose, although I usually mean acoustic guitar when I refer to it. Glad you liked them though!
Andy Mckee is the man. Fun fact: we use a few of his tracks for the open, close, and break music in PixlTalk.
Nice work! Which songs?
Hmm, I think we using Drifting, Samus' Stardrive (fitting, I'd say), and something else from his second album. I'm bad with song names...
Yet another fine collection of music Blake. Really better than most top 40 three chords acoustic guitar songs and WAY better than I'm Yours.
My favorite has to be Oceans, with Waiting as my second favorite.
Yeah, Ocean is amazing, though I've forgot how to play everything except the first bit on guitar... need to learn it again.
And yeah, although three chord songs can be awesome. Look at Nirvana!
Maybe I should have explained myself better with the three chords; with my example I meant those acoustic guitar songs like Jason Mraz I'm Yours or most of the catalogue of Jack Johnson; artists and songs that use repeatedly the three chords that it becomes kinda unispired.
But yeah, the three chords ain't bad. Some of my favorite bands like AC/DC and Ramones use them.
Good stuff. I love acoustic stuff. Big fan of John Butler.