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Ghostwriter:
Just to sort of add to Bunnyman's list (what with the Portishead and all), I'd really recommend checking out some Massive Attack.  Highly dark, but atmospheric band that played a huge part in the creation of trip-hop.  Mezzanine is an excellent album.  I can't recommend it enough.

McTaggart:
The gateway drug on the road to interesting music for me was Beck.He draws on a lot of styles but it's still all coherently his own. The albums Odelay, Guero (his latest) and Seachange are all gold. Mellow Gold, however, is not.

Thrillho:
I hate this thread.

KharBevNor:
And the thread hates you.

I'm gonna copy Bunnyman.

Coil

One of the best experimental groups of all time, Coil span a wide range of genres whilst still managing to fit roughly into the post-industrial/post-punk landscape. Coil did it all, from recording entire albums in a single acid trip, to setting the dials on their synths to astrologically significant positions, to recording whole drown albums on 60 year old Russian experimental electronic instruments. Unpredictable and thoroughly intriguing, and my current obsession.

Recommended Albums:
1: Loves Secret Doman
2: Horse Rotorvator
3: Musick to Play in the Dark
4: Angelic Conversation
5: Scatology

Current 93

I would probably say C93 is the most accessible neo-folk band. And neo-folk needs to be accessed. Oh indeed it does. Lyrically deep, musically beautiful, nostalgic and hopeful, elated and despairing, Current 93 takes some work getting in to, but it's well, well worth it

Recommended Albums:
1. Cats Drunk on Copper
2. As The World Dissapears...
3. All the Pretty Little Horses
4. Island
5. Thunder Perfect Mind


Ulver

Ulver began their career with a trilogy that, for some, redefined black metal: the eclectic Bergtatt, the acoustic folk album Kveldssanger, and then the almost unbelievably raw Nattens Madrigal. Then, having pretty much reached the pinnacle, they got bored and hacked together a monstrous experimental electronica album based on William Blakes 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. Then they just kept going, evolving through stages of bizarre and eclectic electronica, freely mixing in folk, rock and whatever else they thought necessary. I'll take into account accessibility in my recs...

Recommended albums:
1. Perdition City
2. Themes From William Blakes A Marriage of Heaven and Hell
3. Kveldssanger
4. Blood Inside
5. Lyckantropen Themes

Skyclad

Skyclad are necessary because everyone needs to be socially conscious, and everybody needs to rock, and there is definitively no funner way to rock in a socially conscious manner but Skyclad. Fact. Their career is diverse, but always has the same elements: a bit of punk, a bit of classic rock, a bit of prog, and a lot of heavy metal and British folk music. For their Martin Walkyier period (1991-2001) you will never find better lyrics. Anywhere.

Recommended albums:

1. Folkemon
2. The Answer Machine?
3. Prince of the Poverty Line
4. Vintage Whine
5. Irrational Anthems

penpen17:
If you like Feist, I suggest that you start with Broken Social Scene, Stars, and Metric.  Feist is in Broken Social Scene, and members from Stars and Metric also participate in it

Other than that, I say to start sludging through the recommended listening and figuring out what you like

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