Songs & Musicians That Sound Similar to Lana

[CinnamonOnMyTeeth]

Well according to my mom Mitski has the same voice and lyrics as lana but I don’t think so. Take that with a grain of salt 

[Weirdkowski]

Pink floyd, fleetwod mac, jeff buckley, leonard cohen, Harry Nilsson - if you get it you get it. No one from our times gives me the same depth, freedom and nostalgia that Lana has

[honey dew]

 

I don’t know this artist but I just remember years ago I heard this song and was gagging because I thought it was Lana and when I realised it wasn’t I double gagged so hard and i’m still gagging to this day. Tell me that’s not Gangster Nancy Sinatra singing

 

[Thunder Revenant]

Definitely Alexandra Savior.

 

Other artists you could enjoy (depending on which Lana era you prefer) are Widowspeak, Fiona Apple, Elysian Fields, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions/ Mazzy Star, Lera Lynn, Jesse Jo Stark, Miynt and Hooverphonic. 

[Dark Angel]

9 hours ago, Weirdkowski said:

Pink floyd, fleetwod mac, jeff buckley, leonard cohen, Harry Nilsson - if you get it you get it. No one from our times gives me the same depth, freedom and nostalgia that Lana has

 

definitely jeff buckley!

 

 

[one time beauty queen]

Bobby D 

 

[bluechemtrails]

 

[blackestday x tough]

 

this is a beautiful song and it gives me Lana vibes!!!

[bluechemtrails]

Miss Li

 

 

[YourGirl666]

Fingertips legit became one of my favorite songs of all time and I'm starving for more songs like it. Sally's Song from TNBC soundtrack sounds very similar. I'm looking for slow orchestral mainly tracks with not too low pitched vocals, ethereal operatic quality and also that feel a little loose in structure. Anything, I'm dying to hear more like this.

[Embach]

This song is a copy-paste of every Born To Die album melodies and beats. Well it's obvious because Emile Haynie produced it. It even samples Lana's breaths from Burning Desire, you can hear them quietly in the background somewhere at the beginning.

[rural legend]

3 hours ago, Embach said:

This song is a copy-paste of every Born To Die album melodies and beats. Well it's obvious because Emile Haynie produced it. It even samples Lana's breaths from Burning Desire, you can hear them quietly in the background somewhere at the beginning.

Have you ever listened to Ceremonials? It came out a year before Born To Die and is probably my top 5 favourite albums of all time. You can hear similar melodies to this particular song throughout the whole record, especially in No Light, No Light, Only if For a Night, Spectrum. The band has always had the most stunning melodies. However, I do agree that the production is very BTD.

[Embach]

1 minute ago, rural legend said:

Have you ever listened to Ceremonials? It came out a year before Born To Die and is probably my top 5 favourite albums of all time. You can hear similar melodies to this particular song throughout the whole record, especially in No Light, No Light, Only if For a Night, Spectrum. The band has always had the most stunning melodies. However, I do agree that the production is very BTD.

F+TM is my favorite band actually  but yes, Ceremonials was the band's BTD era, Lana and Florence basically reinvented baroque pop in the early 2010s with all the sassy orchestras with deep guitars and beats. Especially Spectrum which dominated the charts in Europe, which also had like million dance remixes like Summertime Sadness. What The Water Gave Me and Strangeness & Charm are my favorites from the album though 

[lanaismamom]

oh ceremonials is one of the greatest album created and so is the song shake it off.... 

[rural legend]

7 minutes ago, Embach said:

F+TM is my favorite band actually  but yes, Ceremonials was the band's BTD era, Lana and Florence basically reinvented baroque pop in the early 2010s with all the sassy orchestras with deep guitars and beats. Especially Spectrum which dominated the charts in Europe, which also had like million dance remixes like Summertime Sadness. What The Water Gave Me and Strangeness & Charm are my favorites from the album though 

They are my favourite band too! That is why I thought maybe you weren't familiar with them because Florence is the original 'sad girl' for me. Gorgeous melodies, orchestral production (mostly on Ceremonials), great drums etc. They both have very similar sensitivities when it comes to songwriting but the way they phrase things and arrange the music around them are very different. 

EDIT: btw I never connected that the whispers in the background of Over The Love are from Burning Desire but I hear it now! This is such a nice homage to Lana.

[Embach]

Just now, rural legend said:

They are my favourite band too! That is why I thought maybe you weren't familiar with them because Florence is the original 'sad girl' for me. Gorgeous melodies, orchestral production (mostly on Ceremonials), great drums etc. They both have very similar sensitivities when it comes to songwriting but the way they phrase things and arrange the music around them are very different. 

They're the gods of today's alternative music ?

[Thunder Revenant]

Sylvie Kreusch has some songs that sound very Lana-esque, especially "Wild Love" and "Shangri-La"

 

It's the kind of energy that HM demos/ LFL outtakes had.

 

Widowspeak's "True Blue" has a slight Lizzy Grant/ May Jailer vibe.

 

"American Darkness" by Chelsea Wolfe feels like something Lana could have done more recently.

[Thunder Revenant]

On 6/18/2023 at 2:57 AM, YourGirl666 said:

Fingertips legit became one of my favorite songs of all time and I'm starving for more songs like it. Sally's Song from TNBC soundtrack sounds very similar. I'm looking for slow orchestral mainly tracks with not too low pitched vocals, ethereal operatic quality and also that feel a little loose in structure. Anything, I'm dying to hear more like this.

Weyes Blood "God Turn Me Into A Flower".

 

Also check out Wendy McNeill's record "First There Were Feathers" or "Floating Into The Night" by Julee Cruise

[YourGirl666]

15 hours ago, Thunder Revenant said:

Weyes Blood "God Turn Me Into A Flower".

"Floating Into The Night" by Julee Cruise

I already love these! Gonna check the other one

[Embach]

I remember someone said that 13 Beaches sounds like Hans Zimmer's Time and I listened to it then and they're actually very alike. You can actually sing 13 Beaches over it  it's probably because of Dan Heath's influence, he did the orchestra for 13 Beaches and he has previously worked with Hans Zimmer!

 

Also Your Girl really reminds me of Portishead's Glory Box, especially when the bluesy jazzy strings appear:

 

Nostalghia's Be My Man and Weyes Blood's Mirror Forever, in my opinion, are kinda similar melodically to Ultraviolence the title track: