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folktronica

Last updated: Fri Oct 31 2025 19:40:50 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Folktronica is a genre of music that combines elements of traditional folk music with electronic music, resulting in a unique sound that blends acoustic instruments with electronic beats and production techniques. The genre emerged in the early 2000s, with artists such as Four Tet, Tunng, and Caribou blending folk melodies, acoustic instrumentation, and electronic production to create a new form of experimental music. Folktronica often features acoustic instruments such as guitar, banjo, and mandolin, as well as electronic elements such as synthesizers and drum machines. The genre is also influenced by other genres such as indie rock, post-rock, and ambient music, resulting in a diverse and eclectic sound.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
34		1989	Woo	It's Cosy Inside (Remastered)	ambient ambient pop easy listening electronic folktronica minimal wave new age space age pop	ambient pop # 8 minimal wave # 78 space age pop # 97
23		1990	Woo	Into the Heart Of Love	ambient ambient pop avant-folk folktronica new age psychedelic folk	psychedelic folk # 36 avant-folk # 62
46		1993	Madonna	American Life (PA Version)	electronic folk folktronica pop
36		1999-12	múm	Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK	ambient pop electronic folktronica glitch glitch pop idm indietronica	glitch # 4 ambient pop # 15 glitch pop # 58
47		2001-10-01	Bogdan Raczynski	Myloveilove	ambient avant-folk contemporary folk downtempo folktronica glitch pop idm lo-fi	glitch pop # 60 avant-folk # 72 contemporary folk # 73
27		2002	Chuck Prophet	No Other Love	alternative folktronica
26		2002-10	Mugison	Lonely Mountain	folktronica iceland indie folk singer-songwriter	iceland # 85
71		2003	Animal Collective	Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished		noise pop # 40 progressive pop # 76 noise # 78 freak folk # 79
59		2003-03-31	Manitoba	Up in Flames	indietronica electronica folktronica	indietronica # 23
24		2003-05-05	Four Tet	Rounds	electronic idm	electronica # 1 idm # 48 experimental techno # 58
14		2003-05-12	FOG	Ether Teeth	folktronica
44		2003-07-01	Juana Molina	Segundo	folktronica
74		2003-10-06	Animal Collective	Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished		noise pop # 48 progressive pop # 80 freak folk # 80 noise # 88
69		2003-10-20	The Books	The Lemon of Pink (Remastered)	folktronica sound collage	sound collage # 92
15		2004	The Earlies	These Were The Earlies	chamber pop folktronica neo-psychedelia psychedelic pop
50		2005-01-10	Tunng	Mother's Daughters & Other Songs	folktronica
54		2005-01-10	Tunng	Mother's Daughter and Other Songs	folktronica
22		2005-06-13	Patrick Wolf	Wind in the Wires	singer-songwriter british	singer-songwriter # 5 strings # 93
63		2006	Detektivbyrån	Hemvägen	folktronica
55		2006-01-23	Tunng	The Pioneers EP	folktronica indie rock
56		2006-03-24	Lump	Lump	folktronica singer-songwriter
20		2006-05-22	Tunng	Comments of the Inner Chorus	folk	turntablism # 34 alternative folk # 73
82		2006-05-22	Psapp	The Only Thing I Ever Wanted	female vocalists folktronica
73		2006-08-29	Detektivbyrån	Hemvägen EP	folktronica
32		2006-09-11	Bat for Lashes	Fur and Gold	female vocalists	female vocalists # 56
60		2006-10-17	Dosh	The Lost Take	electronic folktronica indietronica
76		2007-02-26	James Yuill	Turning Down Water For Air	folktronica electronica
8		2007-04-12	Emily Wells	Beautiful Sleepyhead and the Laughing Yaks	folk pop folktronica singer-songwriter	folk pop # 22
84		2007-08-27	Tunng	Good Arrows	folktronica
28		2008-01-01	Emily Wells	The Symphonies: Dreams Memories & Parties	easy listening singer-songwriter classical folktronica	easy listening # 40
75		2008-02-06	Goldfrapp	Seventh Tree	female vocalists downtempo trip-hop	female vocalists # 50 trip-hop # 67 downtempo # 91
13		2008-02-29	Borko	Celebrating Life	folktronica
25		2008-03	Goldfrapp	Happiness	art pop chamber pop female vocalists folktronica psychedelic pop
66		2008-05-13	CocoRosie	God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me
41		2008-10-05	Soap&Skin	SOAP&SKIN	ambient dream pop folktronica neoclassical
43		2008-10-07	Juana Molina	Un día	folktronica
2		2008-10-14	Rio En Medio	Frontier	folktronica
39		2009	Pitbull	Timber (Feat. Ke$ha)	edm folktronica
51		2009-02-03	Bibio	Vignetting The Compost	folktronica
37		2009-03-03	Bibio	Ovals & Emeralds [EP]	ambient electronic folktronica
57		2009-03-18	jj	jj n° 1	chillout dream pop folktronica swedish
21		2009-05-03	Emily Wells	Dirty	folktronica
64		2009-06-22	Bibio	Ambivalence Avenue	idm abstract hip hop contemporary folk folk post-rock	idm # 85 abstract hip hop # 88 8-bit # 91 contemporary folk # 94
58		2009-09-04	Valravn	Koder på snor	ethereal folktronica	ethereal # 8
40		2010	Peter and Kerry	Clothes, Friends, Photos EP		folk pop # 42 experimental pop # 87 experimental electronic # 96 experimental indie # 99
100		2010	Ellie Goulding	An Introduction to Ellie Goulding EP	acoustic electronic female vocalists folk folktronica indie pop pop synthpop	indie pop # 34 folk # 57 female vocalists # 61 synthpop # 74 acoustic # 84
19		2010	Ellie Goulding	Lights 10	folktronica indie pop synthpop
92		2010-01-25	Ellie Goulding	Bright Lights	synthpop pop folktronica indie pop	synthpop # 37
98		2010-10-04	Crystal Fighters	Star of Love	folktronica alternative dance folk indietronica	indietronica # 69 alternative dance # 88
95		2010-10-11	Sufjan Stevens	The Age of Adz	art pop electronic	art pop # 81 progressive pop # 88 glitch pop # 94
16		2011-10-24	Dntel	Life Is Full of Possibilities (Deluxe)	ambient pop downtempo folktronica glitch pop idm indietronica	glitch pop # 44
52		2012	Peter and Kerry	Benaize	electronic experimental electronic experimental pop folk rock folktronica indie folk indie pop indietronica lounge new wave synthpop	lounge # 2 experimental pop # 90 experimental electronic # 98
65		2012-02-03	Goldfrapp	The Singles	glam rock synthpop electronic folktronica	electroclash # 10 glam rock # 57
86		2012-05-28	alt-J	An Awesome Wave	electronic alternative indie pop	alternative # 36 indie pop # 58 electronic # 75 art rock # 75
9		2012-07-23	Trails and Ways	Mtn Tune	folk rock folktronica indie folk
33		2012-09-25	The Olllam	The Olllam	celtic folk folktronica irish post-rock	celtic # 11 irish # 23
12		2012-10-12	Bat for Lashes	The Haunted Man	dream pop alternative	dream pop # 5 chamber pop # 23
4		2013	Trails and Ways	Nunca	folk folk rock folktronica indie folk
53		2013-04-22	Junip	Junip	folk rock
67		2013-05-31	Milky Chance	Sadnecessary	indie folk indie pop folk	indie pop # 39 indie folk # 86
30		2013-09-06	Goldfrapp	Tales of Us	trip-hop electronic art pop chamber pop	trip-hop # 19 chamber pop # 41
91		2014-04-22	Damon Albarn	Everyday Robots	electronic folktronica
48		2015-02-24	Eartheater	Metalepsis	ambient avant-folk drone electroacoustic ethereal folktronica psychedelic folk	psychedelic folk # 50 avant-folk # 73 electroacoustic # 96
77		2016	Kygo	Raging	deep house folktronica house tropical house	deep house # 43 tropical house # 64
78		2016	Aurora	All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Deluxe)	alternative electronic electropop folk synthpop alternative pop art pop dark folk dark pop ethereal europe european european pop nordic norway norwegian	art pop # 35 folk # 47 alternative pop # 60 synthpop # 65 ambient pop # 65 electropop # 68 norwegian # 81 ethereal # 84 european # 87 europe # 87 nordic # 88 norway # 88 dark pop # 94 european pop # 95 dark folk # 100
18		2016-01-16	Blithe Field	Face Always Toward The Sun	ambient electronic folktronica indietronica
99		2016-09-30	Bon Iver	22, A Million
62		2017	Juana Molina	Halo	folk folktronica
96		2017-02-03	Flora Cash	Nothing Lasts Forever (And It's Fine)	folktronica
72		2017-09-29	Four Tet	New Energy	downtempo electronic idm microhouse	downtempo # 63 idm # 71 ambient house # 95 microhouse # 97
29		2017-12-08	The Gentleman Losers	Permanently Midnight	ambient downtempo finnish folktronica indietronica neo-psychedelia post-rock suomi	finnish # 25 suomi # 95
35		2018	Flatsound	Hummingbird	ambient emo folktronica lo-fi lo-fi indie slowcore	lo-fi indie # 92
11		2018-04-06	baiuca	Solpor	celtic electronica folk folktronica world
6		2018-06-04	Rodrigo Gallardo	El Origen	dance dub electronic folktronica house
97		2018-07-31	Mid-Air Thief	Crumbling	folktronica dream pop neo-psychedelia	neo-psychedelia # 61 psychedelic folk # 65 progressive pop # 65
1		2018-07-31	Mid-Air Thief	Crumbling 무너지기
10		2018-11-02	Dead Can Dance	Dionysus	neoclassical darkwave world world fusion	dark folk # 57 nerdcore # 76 poetry # 77 new weird america # 77 poptron # 85 ethnic # 85 tribal # 88 eurobeat # 93 moscow # 94 world # 94 neoclassical darkwave # 96 china # 98 ethnic fusion # 99 neomedieval # 99 world fusion # 100
83		2019-08-09	Bon Iver	i,i		art pop # 57 chamber folk # 91
85		2020-03-13	Four Tet	Sixteen Oceans	downtempo folktronica idm microhouse	idm # 22 microhouse # 95
88		2020-05-29	⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ	ooo ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡( ؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0 ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ	dance edm electronic folktronica house idm microhouse tech house	idm # 35 edm # 62 tech house # 95 microhouse # 96
87		2020-08-14	Jacob Collier	Djesse Vol. 3	folktronica
81		2021-04-23	Porter Robinson	nurture	electropop synthpop	progressive house # 1 electropop # 29 glitch pop # 80
68		2021-07-02	VilloVilduVeta	Längtan Får Vingar	ambient folktronica new age	new age # 25
79		2021-07-14	Caroline Polachek	Blood and Butter	art pop downtempo folktronica
94		2022-05-06	Juliette	Cansar de Dançar	baroque pop folk folktronica new age	baroque pop # 79 new age # 84
49		2022-05-20	Marina Herlop	Pripyat	art pop avant-folk choral folktronica glitch pop	glitch pop # 63 avant-folk # 74 choral # 95
45		2022-06-03	Juliette	Solar	folk folktronica
70		2022-09-09	Jockstrap	I Love You Jennifer B	glitch pop progressive pop	progressive pop # 94 glitch pop # 97
38		2022-09-16	Daniela Lalita	Trececerotres	art pop folktronica post-industrial	post-industrial # 76
3		2022-09-22	Alexander Panos	Nascent	folktronica glitch
61		2023-05-18	Lil Ugly Mane	SPILL	folktronica indietronica
90		2023-09-20	Eartheater	Powders	alternative rnb art pop folktronica psychedelic folk	art pop # 4 alternative rnb # 17 psychedelic folk # 90
80		2023-10-06	Sufjan Stevens	Javelin	indie folk singer-songwriter	singer-songwriter # 35 indie folk # 57 chamber folk # 90
93		2023-10-11	Quadeca	i didn't mean to haunt you	folktronica	glitch pop # 24 post-industrial # 74
5		2024-01-10	Four Tet	Three	downtempo	microhouse # 74
89		2024-02-16	Quadeca	Scrapyard	folktronica glitch pop art pop electronic emo rap glitch hop neo-psychedelia	emo rap # 9 glitch hop # 25 glitch pop # 92
17		2024-07-24	hakushi hasegawa	Mahōgakkō	art pop chamber pop deconstructed club folktronica glitch pop neo-psychedelia nu jazz	nu jazz # 13 glitch pop # 46 deconstructed club # 60
31			Mid-Air Thief	Gongjoong Doduk	psychedelic folk	avant-folk # 66 psychedelic folk # 77
42			SLAUSON MALONE 1	EXCELSIOR	ambient ambient pop art pop avant-folk folktronica glitch hypnagogic pop neo-psychedelia neo-soul sound collage	glitch # 13 ambient pop # 19 hypnagogic pop # 36 avant-folk # 71 sound collage # 83
7			Juana Molina	Segundo (Remastered)	indie folk indietronica folktronica

Related genres

• electronic
• ambient
• electronica
• folk
• indietronica
• indie folk
• idm
• alternative
• female vocalists
• pop