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Peter Gundry, Adrian von Ziegler

City of the Sun is some fantastic Latin-inspired instrumental post-rock. (That’s probably drivel, idk what genre they are).

Their cover of Young Folks is how I found them, but their self-titled album from 2020 is probably one of my favorites of the last several years. It’s a good balance of calming serenades and powerful melodies.

Hon. mention - The Samuel Jackson Five - Easily Misunderstood is another old favorite of mine. Angrier and edgier, but still haunting in its own way.

The Beastie Boys also have a couple fantastic instrumental jam albums - The In Sound From Way Out, and The Mix-Up.

If the reason you want something without lyrics is so that you can focus on other stuff, you could consider songs in other languages. There's so much content out there to explore, and you might be able to find stuff in a genre that you already enjoy. I don't find it distracting, and it's fun finding new artists I otherwise would have never tried.

When I want pure instrumental, I usually go "instrumental {{genre}}" and just save the playlists.

Nils Frahm, his albums are quite different from each other; here are some I like in no particular order:

• Spaces
• 7fingers
• Electric Piaon
• Streichelfisch

Elephant Sessions, Kan, Peatbog Faeries, Monster Ceilidh Band, Flook. Peatbog Faeries have a new album out now that's great, but it is their first album with some vocal samples (not with many words though). All Celtic fusion bands to a greater or lesser degree.

Bruit ≤

Kashiwa Daisuke

I'd recommend Solo by RiveR idk about the rest of their songs though I've only listened to Solo.

I haven't seen anyone mention Tempel yet. And yes, it's spelled Tempel not Temple.

The French 79 has some lyrics but is primarily electronic melodies

Lindsey Stirling? Not sure if this is up your alley, but, her music is pretty great.

Also, Two Cellos, and the Piano guys.

Its, not classical. It's all instrumental music, no singing.

Lindsey Stirling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI

Two Cellos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Oh, and as a bonus- more of their songs then not, are pretty damn good. I can listen to them non-stop through an entire workday.

Zoe Keating https://music.zoekeating.com/album/into-the-trees

A few more for you that I don't think I've seen mentioned: Kalaido Tycho Worakls The Cinematic Orchestra

Jade Cicada, Tipper, Spoonbill.

Well, I happen to quite like upbeat, 8-bit-style music, but here's concrete artists nonetheless:

• Tremeschin
• Parnikkapore

Marconi Union, Mord Fustang, Caravan Palace, Pkch, Siriusmo, Jacob Mann Big Band, Shubh Saran.

That should get you a wide variety.

Browsed the comments really quickly and couldn’t see that anyone had mentioned Plini, so there’s my recommendation.

I've been listening to a lot of music that is featured on the NPR shows Hearts of Space and Echos, which i highly recommend. The following artists/bands are of that type, instrumental, chill, "slow music for fast times", and all are available on Bandcamp.

Hollan Holmes

Kiasmos

Lars Leonhard

Michael Stearns

Röyksopp

Feint, Matt Large, and especially Gregory David are awesome.

Additionally, Bernth is really cool if you like guitar.

Tauk

"Times Up"

Shai Maestro Trio.

Snarky Puppy! Bill Lawrence's solo work is also good

Chief Kaya, Benzmixer, Automhate, Versa, Badphaze, Akirah, Ternion Sound, Spass, Aweminus

Detektivbyron

Its Swedish folk music with some electronica.

I only have the Hemvagen EP, and I really like half of songs, with the title track being my favorite. I think the E18 album contains all of the same songs and more.

https://youtu.be/YE2yChrT4ok

They were partly inspired by Yann Tiersen who I also really like. Perhaps you've heard the Amelie soundtrack. If not, it's excellent.

I like everything black sky giant has done. And just look at this sweet album cover: https://blackskygiant.bandcamp.com/album/planet-terror

(The opening track has some light vocal samples, but there's no lyrics or vocal parts in their stuff generally)

Edit: you can also click on the "instrumental" tag on that page and go exploring.

Deadhorse! (We Can Create Our Own World specifically, they might have lyrics in other albums, can't confirm)

DJ Krush for some instrumental hip hop/trip hop.

Jon Hopkins, Boards of Canada

Meute is a "techno marching band" - they mostly do covers/reworkings but they have some original works too. My fave tracks atm:

• holy harbour
• you & me
• infinite
• endling