Or old skool?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA

Sorry  music threads always get me going.  I keep thinking of more

I’d also add Brian eno’s An Ending – a piece of music rather than a song, but beautiful is what it is.

Then there is all that trance / chillout  stuff like this

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Anything by emmy the great.

sweet innocent voice with poignant lyrics in a folky style

EDIT:  her latest stuff is Shyte

King Creosote is a good shout.  Paupers Dough can reduce me to tears, for some reason it reminds me of a dearly missed friend.  Your Young Voice and My Favourite Girl are good too.  Actually most of his stuff does it for me, his voice and the production, it’s really raw and so rare these days to hear something that hasn’t been overproduced.

This stuff

The Raconteurs – Together

Gomez – Free to Run

Emiliana Torini – Love in a Time of Science (album)

Air – You Make it Easy

Motzart  laudate dominum

Simon and Garfunkel – Sound of Silence.

Then when you want it a bit louder, the The Disturbed version.

Both equally beautiful IMO.

Many songs (or even entire albums) by The National.

Power of Love – Frankie. Teenage slow-dance heaven.

Zappa’s Watermelon in Easterhay.

Little Feat’s Voices On The Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnvFddEmYeo

I will enter Sarah McLachlan’s album Surfacing, especially Do What You Have to Do.

This is a great thread!

Kate rugby, blooming heather.

The White Buffalo, could have picked so many! Went for wish it were true.

Finally, the Wilderness of Manitobia, nothings ever said.

What is Love? Howard Jones.

BRMC.  The Line.  The song starts fairly meh but it transforms about 3 mins in.

The breeders – driving on nine

Sting (yeah, I know!) – I’m so happy I can’t stop crying.

Paramore, the album is “after laughter” the track is “26” and it’s just lovely.,,

Some fantastic shouts, plus ones on Eno’s Ending and Mitchell’s Both Sides, and I too shall check out everything else what I don’t know (which is most stuff). My ha’porth worth are Battery Human by Stornaway and Claire De Lune by Debussey.

Acoustic version of sound of silence always gets me. The live version even more so

+1 Song To The Siren, This Mortal Coil

Wraps & Arms – Gene Loves Jezebel

She Moves Through The Fair – All About Eve

The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel

Can’t beat a bit of shoegaze for beautiful songs.

And then still on a 90s tip…

More upbeat, but beautiful perfection for me.

Make sure you listen beyond 2:20.

Or staying with Simon and Garfunkel:

“I get the news I need from the weather report”

Some great shouts so far. OP mentioned Lamb. I prefer their track Gorecki from a beautiful standpoint.

Massive Attack, Terry Callier, Groove Armada, and Gil Scott Her on are good shouts. I would add

DJ Shadow and Richard Ashcroft – Lonely Souls

Seba- So Long

Zero 7 – Warm Sound

4 Hero – Les Fleurs

Portishead – Glorybox

Not a big fan of Sounds of Silence. However by Paul Simon Hearts and Bones is fantastic. Or perhaps Something so Right.

I’d also suggest the Killers cover of Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet.

good call on this mortal coil and all about eve.

and its partner

However by Paul Simon Hearts and Bones is fantastic.

IMHO the finest album he has ever recorded. Reneé And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War is stunning, as is The Late Great Johnny Ace. All killer, no filler

Talking to my mate over the pub about this thread, and there were two that popped up, with a connection between them:

Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost

Indigo Girls – Kid Fears

Fleetwood Mac Albatross on BBC

Few of my favourites…..

Sebastian Tellier – La Ritournelle

Air -All I Need

Bonobo – Kiara / Eyesdown / Pick Up (almost any of his stuff)

Little Dragons – Twice

Zero 7 – Destiny / Give it Away

Telepopmusik – Breathe

Yuna – Live your life

Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats / Crosses

Avalanches – Since I left you

Craig Armstrong – Balcony scene