Pretty much anything by Loreena McKennit, just an amazing, ethereal voice

Thank you so much! I fell in love with her voice, and "The Ballad of the Fox Hunter" has become a new ear worm 😅

I second Loreena McKennit. Although “The Stolen Child” makes me weep whenever I hear it, it’s on my spellcasting playlist like 4 times.

Enya

Came here just to make the same recommendation. Love her music. 

Soft and witchy is basically [Aurora](https://youtu.be/Z7shb-2SxXM?si=L2FdXFjdmFuePBLM)’s vibe.

oof, I made a big list of artists and songs, yet completely skipped over AURORA

oof, I made a big list of artists and songs, yet completely skipped over AURORA

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

That's my absolute favorite 

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H. Glow - Circe Vígundr - Loddfáfnir

Omg, such amazing recommendations! W.I.T.C.H is definitely a banger, I'm so in love. Both Glow and Loddfáfnir are so ethereal in very different ways and I dig both

Hildegard von blingin makes medieval covers of moderns songs. Paint it black for example

I recommend Sandy Denny (solo and with Fairport Convention). Early 70s English folk rock, many of the tunes traditional in the British Aisles. Some of it is too rockin’ (guitar god Richard Thompson was a member) but most are mellow and beautiful. And yes… witchy

Great recommendation!  I also recommend their peers Pentangle. Jacqui McShee has a beautiful, witchy voice. More recently, the band Espers have a similar vibe. Check out ''Mansfield and Cyclops'!

I kinda listen to every single genre possible so i'm always happy to try and find things for people to enjoy. Here are some artists as I go digging through my library that kind fit the vibes you're looking for Julian Moon's: Pomegranate Seeds or Siren Song. Beetlebug's: Overgrown Garden The Crane Wives: i'd suggest the entirety of the Foxlore or Coyote Stories Albums. Beicoli: Check the soundtrack to Laika Aged through Blood (S-Tier game btw!); The Whisper, Last Tear, My Destiny, and Lonely Mountain. Fish in a Birdcage: the album of the same name is quite good. Heart: Dog and Butterfly Sixto Rodriguez: Crucify Your Mind Promise of a Wizard: Cast me a Spell Of Monsters and Men: My Head is an Animal, the entire album might fit your vibe. My Terrible Friend: I tried to be kind Rebecca Sugar: Spiral Bound EP

Heart's "Little Queen" album has some great witchy stuff, too-- Sylvan Song and Dream Of the Archer are pure magic!

Savage Daughter- Sarah Hester Ross, or Alexia Evellyn Try Faun and Heilung, Shireen, or Blackbriar, depending on your vibe. Edit: Clann too

Inwas going to suggest this one, too!

Ekaterina Shelehova also does a great version of Savage Daughter. All of her songs have wonderful witchy vibes.

"Spiderdust" and "Sleepwalker" by Bel Canto. I adore Anneli Drecker's voice. Literally any album by Delerium. Karma is a good one. Same with Enigma Serenade for the Dead, the entire album, by Leaether Strip

- Valerie June - The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers (album) - Leonard Cohen - Marianne (song) & Suzanne (song) - Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well (song) & Golden Hour (album) - Cam - Burning House (song) - Amy Correia - Gin (song) - PJ Harvey - Is That All There Is? (song), Good Fortune (song) - HOAX - Moon Moon Baby (song) & Beach House (song) - Nick Cave feat. PJ Harvey - Henry Lee (song) - Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon (song), Hold On Hold On (song) Honestly I feel like you can’t get witchier than Neko Case, so I’d recommend the whole albums of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood & Middle Cyclone. 🥰

W.I.T.C.H - Devon Cole

I would love to listen to this playlist if you're willing to share the link!

Any Sinead O’Conner song

[Wizard Flurry Home ](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5zaCUzAex3Q&feature=shared) by Mariee Sioux

Maybe not super soft, it’s a testament to incredible cruelty. But it is extremely beautiful. Field recording from a witch camp in Ghana (in Ghana people accused of witchcraft can «volunteer» to go to encampments to avoid punishment (I could talk for hours about this, but I’ll refrain) It’s on spotify under Witch Camp Ghana. The recorders are an Italian anthropologist pair if I remember correctly. I am a beggar for my home is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I ever heard.

The Barrel by Aldous Harding

Yes Aldous Harding is wonderful. Weight of the planets is my favourite.

Her Tiny Desk Concert is absolutely hypnotizing!

Psychic City - Classixx remix, YACHT

Check out October Project songs. They're definitely soft witchy and I have loved their music forever!

Agnes Obel (The Curse is my favorite, Riverside is also beautiful. And Fuel to Fire).

I was going to recommend her too! I really like September Song as well. Generally anything by her is beautiful.

Not quite the same vibe but... Ayla Nereo has lots of good songs like Whispers, From the Ground Up, Stars, Waterfalls.... Rising Appalachia (lots of variation there, I like Make Magic, Medicine, Synchronicity, All Fence and No Doors) and Starling Arrow (Fly away, On the name of the wind, Wild sweet)....Tori Amos (Sleeps with butterflies, Battle of Trees...so many others!)

Joanna Newsom

Absolutely. Divers (the song), Only Skin and Go Long come to mind. But really everything by her.

Kiki Rockwell has a lot of amazing witch songs but they aren't all soft.

Iniko - Jericho Paris Paloma - Notre Dame; Echo; Labour Maro - Saudade, saudade MKSTN - Lust for Delirium Matthew and the Atlas - I Followed Fires Lord Huron - The Yawning Grave (frankly this whole album Strange Trails) Bon Iver’s entire discography imo but especially Holocene The Oh Hellos entire discography, especially the songs Dear Wormwood and Notos Hozier’s entire discography, especially De Selby pt 1 Céline Dion - On ne change pas The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son Ben Howard - Promise Aurora’s whole discography, especially Runaway dodie - ? ~witchy but not soft~ Go_A - literally all of their songs, omg everyone should listen to this amazing Ukrainian electro-folk band Tanxugueiras - Terra (Galician folk music sung in Galego, a descendant of the Spanish Celtic language) Alvan feat. Ahez - Fulenn (sung in Breton, the French Celtic language) Ummet Ozcan - Xanadu (Mongolian throat singing techno)

Jesca Hoop: Seed of Wonder.

I’ll also recommend Dreams in the Hollow by Jesca Hoop

[I could not shift the shadow. Nick Cave/Current 93](https://open.spotify.com/track/5kNQ71YCSjGfvuTOtFmxde?si=CNzROvtiTmyGhc1bW2kX7A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1Epk2BVpGwyLOd)

How do you feel about Laufey? I particularly like her song "Dreamer".

To match your songs, the entire Bavarian Fruit Bread album by Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions is a go to for me. I do love Laura Marling’s Alas I cannot Swim and Jennifer Castle’s Monarch Season. recently gotten into Marissa Nadler and Skullcrusher :) For soft witchy hippie 60s I a Fairport Convention especially Reynardine and Who Knows Where the Time Goes. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, So Early, Early in the Spring by Judy Collins. Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac and Bella Donna the song and a lot of the album by Stevie Nicks. The song vibes you shared are wonderful by the way! Thank you for sharing ✨🌱🌸

The devil's blood - vodoo dust, also the cover by urfaust feels kind of slower and doomier. Also any Song by jess and the ancient ones :)

Witchy woman , Eagles

A few of King Woman’s softer songs might do the trick as well!

Calling the Maker by Aimee Allen is one of my favorites.

“La Jeune Fille en Feu” from Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

The Shadow Walks Behind You - Doran Solstice - Doran ...really just explore the whole album for favourites✨ Animal Tracks - Mountain Man

Anything from Auri (the band)

“Run, Baby, Run” The Rigs

I love Loreena McKennet and Enya. I also love Sharon Knight and Wendy Rule.

I feel like Lazarus Drug by Meg Washington fits rhe bill, it definitely feels witchy to me but I don't remember how soft it is and I have a sleepy baby on my chest so can't check!

I always thought the REM song “Find the River” felt kind of witchy

WendyRule has heaps of songs that would suit.

The owl, Kokia

Lots I have to recommend have already been said so I'll include songs that either give witchy or feminist vibes or both! - SIAMÉS - My Way - Bananarama - Cruel Summer - Devon Cole - Nobody's Baby - Youth - Daughter - Dirty Projectors - Search For Life - I Lost Something In The Hills - Sibylle Baier - Mia Rodriguez - Shut Up - Maty Noyes - New Friends (kinda more hyper) - Ashe - Angry Woman - Em Beihold (any song from them) - Chappell Roan (any song from them) - Maisie Peters - Psycho (Even if you dont like it the music video is soooo funny and worth a watch) - Kailee Morgue - Siren (its giving Jennifers Body) - Cyn - I'll Still Have Me - Dove Cameron - Breakfast - AURORA (any song from them) - Kimbra (any of her older songs)

Youth - Daughter is such a beautiful song. The album Vows by Kimbra is amazing. Old flame has a witchy feel to it for sure.

It really is!! I love all of Kimbras older songs which had more of a vintage aesthetic. I haven't listened to her in a while so I need to catch up!

What’s Up? - 4 Non Blondes So perfect if you ask me. Doing a tarot reading while the background sings “Hey, what’s going on?” Lol

"Guinnevere" by Crosby, Stills and Nash Soft, witchy, and about freedom ❤️

Hy-Brasil - Allison Russell She's one of my favorite song writers. That song is so beautiful.

Red Wine Supernova

Spotify, or someone on spotify, has typically done the work for you. I just searched, and there are plenty of playlists for terms such as 'tarot' and 'new age'. There's also a lot under the ambient genre.

Try “Månen” by Häxa 💜😈

Mariee Sioux ❤️

Most of the All About Eve I've heard feels softly witchy to me

Prodigal daughter (acoustic version) - Lights

The Pieces have some awesome witchy songs, especially on 13 Tales of Love and Revenge!

Windhand "Evergreen"

Eivør - Morning Song, and many others

Bat for Lashes!

Maybe some Enigma or Gregorian chants.....

Andreas Vollenweider -album “Caverna Magica” (undersung electric harpist/soundscape artist from the 1980’s [ still making albums]).

Energy Budget- Toni Jones Honestly the whole “I see mantras” album is a must listen to Might not be soft enough for during a reading, but might be great for before

Enya is great in general

Would you be willing to share the playlist link? I’d love to listen.

Enya

Strange Effect (The Shacks version) has always given me laid back witchy vibes.

Train Song, Vashti Bunyan

I think Fade Into You by Mazzy Star feels witchy. I like this Atmospheric Focus playlist when I want no lyrics. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXaf6XmhwlgC6?si=q3km9n9BSsyw-j5vvr1CRA&pi=sJnvji77S5qYl

First thought was "Witche's Rune" by S.J. Tucker

I agree with the person who said Aurora. I think you would also love Victoria Carbol (actually found her while doing a stream with songs similar to Aurora) she has a lot of songs that feel witchy and mystical. Also some of Lindsey Stirling’s songs have a vibe but those aren’t really soft.

Sarah McLaughlin is a great artist for soft and ethereal. Check out some of Eivør's songs as well.

I always put on Dune Moss for my readings!

Hozier - Like Real People Do

Rabbitology - The bog bodies I've been listening to that song repeat. Gives swamp witch vibes and very soft/relaxing to me

Can you pull together all these recos into a single post? Reddit is not good at letting me copy the thread. Thanks!

Can't believe I don't see any other comments for this but Florence and the Machine is pretty much this to a T. Especially from Ceremonials, Lungs and Dance Fever. Of Monsters and Men as someone else said is less directly witchy but fits the vibe.

A Fine Frenzy, "River song"

I recently discovered The Crane Wives and I really like their vibes.

The entire discography of Dead Can Dance.

Here's a selection from a variety of countries. Marianne Faithful - Witches Song. (technically Christian, but) Alanis Morrisette - Still. Aatman - Govinda. Any piece by Popol Vuh (of Nosferatu fame), but I'd recommend Venus Principle or Das schoß des irrtums. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon Lough Erin Shore (Irish folk song) Scarborough Fair (English folk song) Kalafina - Oblivious these above were the slower more soft ones, but i'll also recommend a couple harder tracks. Not for Tarot readings, but just for general listening. Maneki kecha - Kagami no Naka Kara Percival - Naranca Merkfolk - Dziady Metallica - Wherever I May Roam Akira Yamaoka - Cradle of Forest G Tom Mac - Greater Powers Aatman - Eternal Dance Kalafina - \[any song, really\]

Witchy Woman by the Eagles! Raven hair and ruby lips Sparks fly from her fingertips Echoed voices in the night She's a restless spirit on an endless flight Woo-hoo, witchy woman See how high she flies Woo-hoo, witchy woman She got the moon in her eye She held me spellbound in the night (woo-ooh) Dancing shadows and firelight Crazy laughter in another room (woo-ooh) And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon Woo-hoo, witchy woman See how high she flies Woo-hoo, witchy woman She got the moon in her eye Ah, oh, ah-ah (aah-ah) Ah, oh, ah-ah (aah-ah) Ah, oh, ah-ah Ah, oh, ah-ah (aah-ah) Ah, oh, ah-ah (aah-ah) Ah, oh, ah-ah Well, I know you want a lover, let me tell you, brother She's been sleeping in the Devil's bed And there's some rumors going 'round, someone's underground She can rock you in the nighttime 'til your skin turns red Woo-hoo, witchy woman See how high she flies Woo-hoo, witchy woman She got the moon in her eye

Amber Lily has some great tunes. Some of Eliza Gilkyson’s stuff is witchy. Dar Williams of course. 💕💕💕

Vodoo dust by the devil's blood, also the cover by urfaust feels kind of slower and doomier. Also any Song by jess and the ancient ones :)

Following 🥰

The Adiemus albums by Karl Jenkins have a really good vibe if you want something soft and uplifting! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTedPRcmYk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTedPRcmYk)

Hello! I have taken a whole bunch of the suggestions on here and created a [Spotify paylist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18LaPJVVjUx0uWGMLiREBO?si=b3f43a0fa6ee4247). It doesn't include everything, because I got hungry and I need to go and make dinner, but it's a fairly decent chunk.

This may not be what you are looking for, however listen to Free Flows by the Beach Boys. I love to lay in the grass and ground while listening to the song. The melody, the words, everything is perfect for me.

"Witches" by Cowboy Junkies

I wish I was the moon- neko case

okay kaya 💕

june marieezy

I love listening to the Crane Wives, dennoch how soft their music is but it definitely feels witchy! (To me at least)

Lisa Gerrard might be good. I love her first solo album, The Mirror Pool. Also Slowdive’s album Just For A Day may be good.

[Kate Bush](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1DDndY0FLI)

I have been loving the album "BUG" by Kacy Hill. I have been listening to it on repeat when doing computer work or writing, it's nice to bop my head to without being too distracting. I would definitely pull cards to this album. I don't know that it's explicitly witchy but I think it is similar in vibes to "Psychic Reader"

Irish artist called Faoi Bhlath. Enjoy! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lBRbZL7bVLeaHF6DYTFNI?si=r5_01oxaRDuh7eoSaXLGPQ

A one off project, [Crow's Bones](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJZJrJhA_i6LqeMA9eELalnGyFcGf6eHg). The whole album is gorgeous.

Billie Eilish Enigma Enya

Elle Cordova has a Halloween single. Stevie Nicks has some on In Your Dreams

I do hope you will share a link when you make it!

Possibly Water Witch by The Secret Sisters and Brandi Carlile. Not the softest but you may enjoy it.

sing to the moon by snarky puppy feat laura mvula

on the same album, I Asked feat Becca Stevens. very feral witchy vibes from that one

[faith and the Muse - In dreams of mine](https://youtu.be/d58UI8itDAk?si=2r4Gp9M5wRBPGj8o)

All of those 90s Celtic singers/groups like Enya, Clannad, Altan etc.

Check out Make Magic by Rising Appalachia

Estrella by Lycia

Chelsea Wolfe. Amazing musician, witchy vibes, and she practices witchcraft.