Rae Needs Music

[Rae]

Yo.

So, I am an editor and writer. I do word stuff.

I like listening to music while I work--but generally not music with much by way of discernible lyrics in English.

I have a couple Pandora stations that are standbys--this one's my default, and another seeded from Zoe Keating.

But I would like more variety! And my knowledge of modern musics is lopsided and spotty and significantly limited in scope, so I am hoping you fine folk, many of whom seem to know your stuff, can help me out.

Stuff I currently look for in work music:
More or less hard instrumental rock, math rock, melodic metal, most genres with "post" in their names. Anything with a driving beat and interesting instrumentation. Russian Circles, Mogwai, Pelican, Black Mages, Powerglove. Zoe Keating. Anything with interesting cellos. Baroque chamber music. Klezmer. Distortion. Sometimes quieter stuff like God Is an Astronaut or Red Sparowes or Ascent of Everest or Kinsky--but less for work, where part of what I'm after is straight-up momentum.

Stuff I can't really listen to at work but like a lot:
Protomen, TMBG, Poe, a whole lot of hip-hop, Nick Cave, Blackguard, Kirby Krackle, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, anything lyrically intricate, genrefuck, genrefusion, angry 90s rock, Rage Against the Machine, the Nields, the Decemberists, queercore, post-punk, nerdy stuff, Robert Earl Keen, Amanda Palmer, Hedwig & the Angry Inch.

Stuff I rarely listen to of my own volition:
Nu-Metal. Most things that could reasonably be described as "twinkly" or "soft."

Help me, LBFA forums! You're my only hope!

[Koltreg]

Akira the Don has a few good free mixes of stuff and his own work varies from straight up rap to sort of folky stuff. Not quite nerdcore but he is a pretty earnest dude.

Other than him, all I normally listen to is Big Red Robot Mixtapes, Euge's stuff and then whatever is still on my iPod.

[BIGREDROBOT]

Appleseed Cast? Sigur Ros? Eno's ambient albums? Can? Neu!?

[MoustachePants]

The Indelicates?

[GL 2814.4]

I'm really liking La Vida Boheme right now, and The Globes (Stay Awake is my favorite). Muse, but that might qualify as nu metal, or whatever the kids are calling it, I don't know. Kaizers Orchestra for industrial rock. Vitamin String Quartet and other tribute string bands are usually good.

[MoustachePants]

British Sea Power