Thanks for all the interesting replies! Given the response, I decided to make a whole community around this, hope you’ll consider joining!
If you liked this thread, you might like: !likethismaylike@lemm.ee
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You might like some of the output of Elysian Fields (Jennifer Charles, Oren Bloedow). Maybe in particular their earlier stuff, like their Bleed Your Cedar (1996) album:
https://piped.video/watch?v=-x6w5DQ5sLM
They’ve made many a fantastic albums though, worth checking out.
The benefit of living in NYC (I recently moved after living there for nearly 25 years)! I remember one show where they didn’t have a full band and Oren played drums and guitar at the same time. The space in their music allows for that sort of thing, but it still was pretty cool to see.