Warmth should be high on your list imo.
I’ll second Hotel Neon, Chihei Hatakeyama and Olan Mill as well.
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Death to False Drone! 
Nah Sarah Davachi is wonderful.
Ha!
Not false…I was trying desperately not to be a drone snob! It’s just that a lot of stuff is described as drone, when it really isn’t! Tim Hecker is mentally brilliant, but he ain’t a drone artist, even though he will incorporate drone into his work. I’d describe him as a ‘noise’ artist - just for my own personal genre-sorting. I apply the term Ambient Drone for those like RAI, who use wall soundscapes that are droney, but with lush chord progressions etc. Similarly for your William Basinksis and Ian William Craigs…y’know, your tape disintegrators!
Ben
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I am trying Sarah Davachi now 
For the record, I am looking for both fake and proper drone recommendations
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Just been reading the big article about the Trump staffer’s revelations to the New York Times about how there’s a cabal within the White House working continually to stop the tangerine man-baby from destroying the world…
And now we have Fake Drone…
Fuck it, that man has a lot to answer for when he’s tarnishing DiS Ambient/Drone threads…I mean, that’s crossing a line, man…
Ben
Just kidding man - those are perfectly sensible distinctions! I tend to use ‘drone’ to broadly cover artists who use elements of it in their work but do sometimes catch myself using the term for work which doesn’t even have a hint of a drone about it. Which does render it a bit pointless.
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Oh, I know you were - I just also know that I am always in danger of being that guy, when it comes to music snobbery…!!!
Ben
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Earlier Timmy H is pure drone. Harmomy in Ultraviolet, Mirages, Radio Amor. For sure he’s shifted away by Love Streams
And there’s the Oracle to, once again, enlighten us all again (not taking the piss, AT!) - for indeed Love Streams was my first ‘in’ to Mr Hecker…
Sounds like I need to get into that back catalogue…!
Ben
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heavy ^this for slow walkers
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Just love those early release of his so damn much but they totally missed out on the Pitchfork-level exposure of everything since Ravedeath so get overlooked. Harmony In Ultraviolet is probably top 10 of all time for me and definitely fits the brief more than later release
further to sarah davachi mentioned above, in terms of classically-influenced drone/‘dark ambient’, you could do a lot worse than ellen arkbro’s for organ and brass, aine o’dwyer in general, maja ratkje’s the crepuscular hour, and this pancrace record
nicolas szczepanik is a top lad - a fair few one-track records of magnificent, emotional drone
I also really rate the band/bloke ore, who make doom with tubas - not ‘abrasive’ per se, but more metal-tinged than you might be looking for. plus the guy is a good egg and used to put on experimental music nights at a parish hall in the middle of nowhere in worcestershire which i appreciated heartily.
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This! This this this!
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That Ore album is a cracker - I reviewed it for Echoes & Dust last year. ‘BECK’ in particular is just gorgeous.
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Sorry to go a touch off topic, but given the current posters on this thread - anyone else been completely blown away by the brilliance of Robert Lippok’s Applied Autonomy?
Bloody fantastic…
Ben
(should probably have posted in the IDM/Electronic/Ambient/Drone thread - sorry AT!)
to you for reviewing for Echoes and Dust, 
They’re a great bunch and brilliant to work with.
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Consider Harmony In Ultraviolet acquired and rinsed in lossless, as soon as I get home!
Thanks, AT
Ben
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You could try the Demen album from last year, Nektyr. On Spotify etc.
I’ve honestly no idea what a proper drone album is but I adore Sarah Davachi - Let Light Come… is my favourite album of the year so far I think.
Bought her earlier stuff from bandcamp and i think she has me mesmerised as i just love it all.
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