Albums
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms (Flatlands, Virginia Woolf Underwater)
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (legit got jump scares when I first listened...)
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved!
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night (maybe not typically seen as creepy or gothic, but I think there's a bit of those...might be conflating "strong atmosphere" with "strong atmosphere which is specifically <gothic>", idk)
Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers (Poacher's Pride, White Trashing, In the Land, You're so Cool)
Elysian Blaze - Levitating the Carnal; Beneath Silent Faces (think I should make a separate post for this ... not spoken about enough imo)
Songs
Poppy Jean Crawford - Glamorous
Kate Bush - Waking the Witch; Hounds of Love; Under Ice (as above ... atmospheric ... Is it dark and gothic? To me, sort of) Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love; Divers of the Dust
Emily Jane White - Behind the Glass
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Saram12saram - Fish Wish Kiss; Cripple
Holly Henry - Crawl; Roswell
Mercy Necromancy - Cruel; Bunny
Poppy - Holy Mountain
go support your local library, read a book, befriend a librarian, learn something new, sit in the silence and contemplate the meaning of life fun fact: I borrowed and watched seasons 1-7 of game of thrones from the library when I was in high school because I didn't have that sweet HBO money
It's that sweet spot between recession pop and the genre blending/experimental music that became more accessible through streaming and social media. The two really blended well during this era.
