Asklemmy

Guts Pie Earshot are one of my favorite bands - just Cello & Drums (except in their first years), for example Butterfly

The Comet Is Coming - for some psychedelic/jazz/rock, Tiny Desk Concert

Space Rock - An Interstellar Traveller's Guide is one of my favorite compilation albums (so not really an artist but a bunch of artists)

Some more space rock: Yuri Gagarin

Die Wilde Jagd have some lyrics, but also many instrumental tracks, like Austerlitz.

When it comes to techno, there is obviously a lot of choice, I like e.g. Ellen Alien Lism for a more ambient vibe

I like to listen to synthwave when driving and I can recommend 'Rivera Rivera' and 'Inexdra' as well as 'Cartridge 1987'.

The latter has some great songs that tell a story without any words.

The American Dollar

Gidge, Bonobo, Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm

RATATAT has been a favorite of mine for a long time. Love almost every single song of theirs.

Maybe not quite contemporary, but

YYZ by Rush

Slabo Day by Peter Green

Check out DJ Ugly Katz!

Disclaimer: That's one of my own projects...

HOME, the anthem of speedrunning is by them too.

Little People
Rival Consoles

Opiuo, Ott and Griz are probably my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJj_4ir12-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cjxNU0S17g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMGWXAitaK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6pJs5wPfcw

Rival Consoles

Lustre

Flamingosis

Eevee

Anamanaguchi

stuff i've been listening to lately:

• andy stott
• gas
• forest swords
• boards of canada
• tortoise

If you like guitar, Tom Anello.

Little People

Carpenter Brut. Though I only really listen to the trilogy from them.

GoGo Penguin is a jazzy trio from the UK that makes midern jazz that is really engaging. I'm really a progmetalhead, but this band is ficking epic.

Bersarin Quartett is another band that I love. It's is a bit tough to get into, but it's really rewarding if you like slowish dreamy complex music. All song titles are in German, but luckily there's no lyrics.

plini, an addition to all the rock/metal listed

Khruangbin

Check out ENV -- Some of my favorite lyric-less music. There are a couple of playlists on YouTube with their albums. Firefrost is a good song to start with.

Los Bitchos

HOME

Polyphia is a pretty incredible instrumental band.

https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLU?si=eiTMnGJSydj5TKQc

Listened to these two albums today, both fantastic
https://youtu.be/5w6_D-jrt6s
https://youtu.be/2GhWimO54YE

If you like solar fields, try Asura (also on ultimae records)! Also, hinkstep is pretty nice but has vocals some of the time.

Infected Mushroom

Zircon

Eskimo

If the reason you want something without lyrics is so that you can focus on other stuff, you could consider songs in other languages. There's so much content out there to explore, and you might be able to find stuff in a genre that you already enjoy. I don't find it distracting, and it's fun finding new artists I otherwise would have never tried.

When I want pure instrumental, I usually go "instrumental {{genre}}" and just save the playlists.

Sure, just Odesza we were young Two feet just felt like playing the guitar and not singing Odesza kusangi Odesza koto Brock Berrigan Making Up (70s inspired music) Hippie Sabotage enlightened energy Hippie Sabotage smoke room Hippie Sabotage drifter

Not everyonea cup of tea, alternative/edm but yes let me know your thoughts

beastie boys have some really great instrumental tracks in their catalogue

Daliborovo Granje (Epic Croate Psychedelia)

Tommy Guerrero

Estas Tonne

Deadhorse! (We Can Create Our Own World specifically, they might have lyrics in other albums, can't confirm)

I've been enjoying Los Bitchos

Chapelier Fou, but kinda went into a "symphonic direction" over the years I guess, but maybe you still like the older stuff? My personal favorite.

When I'm working, I listen to Lydian Collective and Tennyson (some of his tracks don't have vocals). You might enjoy them as well!

I like everything black sky giant has done. And just look at this sweet album cover: https://blackskygiant.bandcamp.com/album/planet-terror

(The opening track has some light vocal samples, but there's no lyrics or vocal parts in their stuff generally)

Edit: you can also click on the "instrumental" tag on that page and go exploring.

I like Monster Rally a lot, they use a bunch of old tropical sounding music samples and put beats on it. Very good for relaxing and vibing.

Detektivbyron

Its Swedish folk music with some electronica.

I only have the Hemvagen EP, and I really like half of songs, with the title track being my favorite. I think the E18 album contains all of the same songs and more.

https://youtu.be/YE2yChrT4ok

They were partly inspired by Yann Tiersen who I also really like. Perhaps you've heard the Amelie soundtrack. If not, it's excellent.