Steampunk-adjacent album recommendations

heres me yappin about albums i like :P i definitely think that if you're interested in anything dark cabaret/steampunk you should check these out

ill probably be adding to this 

Jill Tracy-- quintessentially unreal

probably one of my favourite albums! i think jill tracy is really a rose among thorns; her lyrics are always so beautifully put together and unique and her piano melodies compliment them so well. overall i think her music has a very hauntingly beautiful sort of sophisticated feel to it.

songs on this album that stick out to me + some lyrics i like!!

* hour after hour

     -  "You live inside a clock

          I feel your hands upon my face

          Choking on the after taste of time"

* make it burn

     -  "An incandescent funeral pyre

          Pyrotechnically inspired

          They call it a fixation

          Keep the matchbook closed

          Little fix of friction

          Combustion overdose" 

* anything at all

      -  "I’ll grant you the nine of cups on eleven rainy days

          I’ll pull apart the lion’s mouth and make him sing your praise

          I’ll challenge the great Houdini to a remarkable escape

          I’ll amputate the fingers upon the Hand of Fate

          I’ll do anything at all

          Just to get closer to you"

Sunday Driver-- in the city of dreadful night

i really love about sunday driver's use of a lot of different instruments that give them a beautifully unique sound; their music fuses english folk and classical Indian music and their band consists of a vocalist, tabla drummer, guitarist/sitarist, bassist, harpist/clarinetist/spoonist, and percussionist! i'm a big fan of the sitar especially. this band makes some suuper awesome stuff 

songs on this album that stick out to me + some lyrics i like!!

* black spider

     -  " Stand in line. Step in time

           Steady until the end

           We will be fine. All will be mine

           'Til the arachnid descends

           Sleazy, slimy, creep up behind me

           I know she'll win in the end

           Until that day, Here I stay

           Blindly?"

* naked bodies

- ((i love the piano in this one))

     -  "If I should die alone

         In my bed at night

         Close my eyes and

         Never reveal my name..."

beats antique-- collide

oooohhh what a band- Zoe Jakes, David Satori and Tommy Cappel take influence from all kinds of old and new genres like; middle eastern belly dance music; down tempo; hiphop; old school jazz; afrofunk; and probably some more. they do a whole lot of awesome live performances 

like this one!!

Roger fojas of lucent dossier(and panic!) has worked with these guys a few times !!

songs on this album that stick out to me!!! ((..minus the lyrics because its instrumental)) 

* beauty beats

* dope crunk

* slapdash era

* milieu

thats all 4 now!! if u do check any of these out pls lmk bc i could probably talk abt these artists for aages