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Can't post YouTube links (blocked at work) but I fully recommend the following albums:
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs. Utterly minimal and atmospheric, vaguely post-rock, loosely structured pieces, but with a violin leading the melodies and only a guitar and drums for accompaniment. Doesn't suffer from the overproduction that a lot of postrock stuff does. Ocean Songs basically got me through living in a flat with no heating and no money for three months.
Liz Durrett - Mezzanine. Liz Durrett has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard, breathier than Cat Powers, more fluttering than Elizabeth Fraser, lyrics perfectly poised - melancholy but evocative enough to make it much more than an exercise in sadness.
Some more
Bonnie Prince Billy - Death To Everyone. Might be a bit too depressing for some, but the gentleness of the anger and sadness here wins me over every time. Slightly roots/folky but with the kind of lyrics you'd find in an articulate teenagers poetry book. There's something disarmingly honest about this album.
And teh following artists:
Max von Richter (composer who uses ambient synths and strings to great effect)
Robin Guthrie (one of Cocteau Twins, makes very minimal progressive guitar ambience)
Bon Iver (singer-songwriter who records his stuff straight to tape and layers voice after voice after voice. very beautiful)
Alela Diane (singer songwriter, clean production, great lyrics, awesome voice, sings about pirates)