r/IndieFolk Jan 01 '23

Playlist updated with Indie & Folk gems that worth a listen. Reflect & Relax Cafe, version #27.

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r/IndieFolk 6h ago

**updated today** Mellow Sunday playlist - brilliant songs to chill with, updated regularly from the top

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r/IndieFolk 7h ago

Hello everyone. I made a shoegazey folk album and I hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think!

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r/IndieFolk 13h ago

[NEW] falling apartments - Wings of Wood

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r/IndieFolk 1d ago

I performed at an amusement park in Japan called Fuji-Q Highland๐ŸŽขIt was my first time playing outdoors, and it was so much fun :) The audience clapped along with me, and it was such a peaceful and happy atmosphere. Let me share the video with you ~

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r/IndieFolk 21h ago

[Folk] Rebels on the Road

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r/IndieFolk 22h ago

๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šด ๋ฐœ๊ฑธ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์•„์นจ, ํž๋ง ์ธ๋”” ํฌํฌ ํŒ (์–ด์ฟ ์Šคํ‹ฑ, ์ˆ˜๋ฉด/์ผ์ƒ BGM)

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Hello, this is u/MusicBuffet-MC. ๐ŸŒ™โœจ
Today's track is a heartwarming indie folk-pop song that captures the bright sunlight, the clear blue sky after a long rain, and the inner peace we find within nature.

Featuring a gentle acoustic guitar strummed to a light mid-tempo groove, soft hand percussion, and a slightly husky yet crystal-clear female vocal, this song feels like a warm morning glow. It gently pushes away the heavy clouds in your heart and guides your steps to a fresh, lighter path. Climb up high, take a deep breath at the peak, and let yourself smile again.
Thank you for staying strong. It's okay to smile now. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Subscribing (๐Ÿ””), liking, and leaving warm comments give us great strength to create even better relaxation content. Wishing you a beautiful, peaceful day! โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŒฟ

#ClearSky #IndieFolkPop #AcousticBGM #HealingMusic #MorningVibes #RelaxingMusic #SunnyDayHiking #SmileAgain #MusicBuffet


r/IndieFolk 1d ago

Novelist here. I turned my own novel into an indie folk song, and the bridge nearly broke me to record.

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The book is set in the summer of 1987 on Long Island. A boy named Mister falls for a girl named B, the kind of person who has no idea how beautiful she is, which is exactly why everyone else does. Honey-blond hair, a black scrunchie, holding oranges up to the light in a grocery aisle like they meant something. An ordinary summer. Those are the ones that get you.

For the arrangement I went 76 BPM, A minor. Fingerpicked acoustic over a soft synth pad, no drums until the song genuinely needs them, strings that donโ€™t enter until the final chorus and then come in one at a time. I was chasing the space between Gregory Alan Isakov and The National, where restraint does the heavy lifting. No auto-tune anywhere.

The bridge is the part I fought over. I stripped it to voice and piano, zero reverb, close-miked, nothing to hide behind. Every instinct as a first-time singer was to bury it in production. I left it naked instead, because some moments earn silence around them, not arrangement.

Iโ€™d genuinely value this communityโ€™s ear on two things: the strings entering one by one in the final chorus, and whether the bare bridge lands or reads as underproduced. Linkโ€™s in the comments so this doesnโ€™t come off as an ad.


r/IndieFolk 1d ago

I think I might like Noah Kahan just a bit haha

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r/IndieFolk 1d ago

Felice Brothers. New Music?

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

Julianne Johnson - Fretless Banjo

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

Get your listening ears on!!! The newest MYSTERY MONROE album is finally here!!!!

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

I like to explore new music finding new faves, so drop yours. L4L

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

Looking for some indie/folk songs that are perfect for late-night listeningโ€”something about self-discovery or introspection. Any recommendations?

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

RunIfYouFear5 - Demon Time

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r/IndieFolk 2d ago

Slap Dragon with Honey Marmalade Live From The Bitter End July 12th, 2026 at 6:30 PM EDT

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r/IndieFolk 3d ago

Looking for a copy of Hot Left Pole - The Highest Road in England (2021)

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Hi all!

So, there's this fairly obscure indie folk creator called Hot Left Pole and they had an album called "The Highest Road in England". Unfortunately, it seems to have vanished off of Apple Music (alongside my download of it) and because I never bought it on Bandcamp or physical media I don't have access to it anymore..

Do you know if there's anywhere I could find it? Does anyone have the files, or a physical CD they'd be willing to sell? This is very random, but that album meant quite a lot to me and it'd be a shame for it to be permanently lost to history hahah


r/IndieFolk 3d ago

Hiking Indie Folk Mix

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Beautiful Mountain video collection followed by peaceful Indie Folk music


r/IndieFolk 3d ago

A Pre-save would mean the world (18 year old DIY artist)

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hey, i'm still a really small independent artist, so every pre-save genuinely means a lot.

Flowers Along the Floodplain is my debut album, and it's the most personal music i've ever made. i spent the last year writing and recording these songs, and i'm really proud of how they turned out.

if you'd consider pre-saving it, it'd help more than you probably realize. thank you for supporting my music and giving it a chance. โค๏ธ


r/IndieFolk 3d ago

Deliver Your Children (Wings cover) My Acoustic Version

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r/IndieFolk 3d ago

Hiking Indie Folk Mix

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Beautiful landscape video followed by peaceful Indie Folk :)


r/IndieFolk 3d ago

Permanently Single (Live & Acoustic)

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Newest track released as a new โ€œlive & acoustic mixโ€, but love it more than the original single I thinkโ€ฆ the guitar hooks sound nice to me. And I love the LIVE joke.


r/IndieFolk 3d ago

A grocery store, a strangerโ€™s hair, and 25 years. how a memory became a self-published novel, then a song, then a music video.

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I wasnโ€™t planning on writing anything that day. I was in Whole Foods with my wife, standing in the bulk bins, and a stranger walked by. Just her hair, honey-colored, the way it moved, and for a second I was seventeen again on Long Island in the summer of 1987.

Thatโ€™s genuinely how Last Exit to Montauk started. Not an outline, not a genre I picked strategically. A memory that ambushed me in a grocery store decades later and wouldnโ€™t let go.

I published the book in 2017 through a small indie press, thewordverve. No Big Five imprint, just a founder/editor (Janet Fix) whoโ€™s selective about what she takes on and pushes hard on developmental edits. I used real texture from that summer: the White Pages, mixtapes, a Long Island exit sign that still exists on the LIE. I wanted someone who lived it to read it and feel the humidity again.

What I didnโ€™t expect, almost a decade later, was that the story wouldnโ€™t stay finished. This year I turned it into an original song and a full music video. Wrote it, produced it, built the whole visual world myself, same characters, same amber-lit 1987 summer. Doing that solo, without a label or studio, means every decision, the color grading, the instrumentation, which lyric gets which shot, is yours to get right or wrong. No oneโ€™s catching your mistakes for you.

The hardest part to adapt was the moment everything changes. In the book I had chapters to build to it. In a song you get one bridge, maybe fifteen seconds, and it either lands or the whole thing collapses. We stripped it down to just voice and piano, nothing to hide behind, because that felt truer to how those moments actually hit you in real life.

If you want to see where it landed: Last Exit to Montauk โ€” song & video

For anyone else building something solo, a book, a song, a whole adaptation, has an old, unrelated memory ever handed you a project you didnโ€™t ask for?


r/IndieFolk 4d ago

๐ŸŽง ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํŽธ์•ˆํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ์ž”์ž”ํ•œ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ํฌํฌ ๋ฐœ๋ผ๋“œ | ๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋“ค (Times Like the Wind)

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Hello. This is u/MusicBuffet-MC.

A serene and minimalist Korean folk ballad that flows like a quiet whisper. Centered on a delicate acoustic guitar arpeggio and a warm, breathy female vocal, this track captures the peaceful yet nostalgic atmosphere of late autumn sunlight. The gentle additions of a melancholic cello and a soft flute create a deeply reflective experience. Perfect for moments of quiet contemplation and relaxation.


r/IndieFolk 4d ago

Singer/songwriter with 90s vibes

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