Winter Albums

I got hold of this Alcest album on your recommendation. Listened to it on my way to work this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. Amazing album and I'm currently giving it a second listen. The sun is going down here, and I've not got a light on so my room is slowly getting darker. It's almost as if the music is replicating that mood.
 
Agreed with storymilo on the Sigur Ros () and FaSho on the Bon Iver.

I've always viewed EITS's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place as a very wintery album.
 
Nothing says winter like an album with the word "California" in the title by a band with the worRAB "Red Hot" in their name and a cover featuring a photo of a sunny pool filled red water.
 
I'm still working through some of the recommendations given here. I find post-rock is great winter music personally, so I've been listening to a lot of that. Can't beat jazz as soon as the sun has gone down though, perfect early evening music when it's dark. Not sure I've ever listened to jazz in the day come to think of it. Winter = more dark = more jazz! So yeah, a few more wintery albums that haven't been mentioned, in my opinion:

Mogwai - Young Team

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Biosphere - Substrata

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M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us

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I posted this a while ago, but I actually spent last winter living in Ray LaMontagne's home town. Gossip in the Grain will always be a winter album for me, because of discovering the album that winter, but especially for this song:

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Yeah after taking some time to experience the subtly different facets of sigur Ros, Takk has really won me over. I can definitely see it as a winter album.

It's a little unconventional for this thread, but when the weather gets dark and cold I get out the Astor Piazzola. This album is exceptionally beautiful.

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I agree with the OP, Hospice definately depicts winter melancholy.

Another recommendation would be Vespertine by Bjork. It's not a winter album in the sense that Hospice or () is, it's like an indoors winter album. It's a fuzzy winter sweater for your ears; a very intimate album.

Of course, if you want that winter desolation feel, go for any Sunn O))) album. They basically sound like somebody screaming in a refridgerator.
 
In the winter I like to listen to a lot of David Bazan, Sufjan Stevens, Kings of Convenience, Owen and Vetiver. There's nothing that I love more than baking and putting on a good mix featuring these artists, especially if it's raining outside (I live in San Francisco, it doesn't snow here obviously).
 
Just getting into this:
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It's deep, heavy and atmospheric without falling into any of the cliches associated with the genre. It's not Electronica and it's not metal but it somehow bridges the gap between both genres. Astonishing.
 
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