Music evoking little girls who like faeries, unicorns, rabbits, dollhouses, teddies and witches

I know this is a really long shot and I dont realistically expect much other than humourous answers,,, but in the last few years Ive been thinking a lot about that sort of girls childhood obsessing over magical beautiful things little girls dont really care so much about now. I want music that evokes some of these things,,, the nearest thing I can think of is Cranes and some bits by Current 93.

I imagine there are a number of folk bands who do stuff like this.

I can imagine this thread is gonna get utterly pilloried, but I'm going to try and take this as seriously as a question and not as a pisstake.

Bat For Lashes pwns this thread.

Bits of Bishi - especially the song "All Around My Grandmother's Floor" is very much specifically about this very subject.

I'm sure I can find some other examples if I think about it.

Thankyou for taking it seriously,, I've always planned to listen to Bat For lashes,,, Scott Walkers involvement made it pretty much mandatory.

Cocteau Twins?

Marc Bolan? I think that Sandie Shaw said something in an interview to the effect that "he wrote girls lyrics".

Enya.

Kate Bush

Syd Barrett/1st Pink Floyd

Circulus

Sugarcubes

Throwing Muses!

Oh wait, Miranda Sex Garden.

haha I started a sorta similar thread one time:

Unicorn Rock

Tori Amos?

ah ok i see she is mentioned on the other thread.

(xpost) I was going to say! Miranda Sex Garden had that whole "haunted nursery" thing pretty much sewn up. Also Medieval Baebes, I guess.

funnily enough

helium, especially the magic city

Music evoking little girls who like faeries, unicorns, rabbits, dollhouses, teddies and witches

It took me a while to realize this meant teddy bears and I was like "wtf, one of these things is not like the others"

pram

I like most of these bands or have had them on my "to buy" list for a very long time. I own 95% of the Cocteau Twins output and I love Miranda Sex Garden,, but only got the first 2 albums.
The Unicorn Rock thread was very helpful, thanks,, now to go to Itunes and see what all those bands sound like.

Is it only British people who call teddy bears "teddies"? Isn't a "teddy" a kind of lingerie too?

Good luck USA!

I am British and I dont know the correct plural.

i think that would be "teddy bears"

or "teddies"

Yeah, that sounds right to me. I've never heard of "teddies" as lingerie, but then I've led a sheltered life.

Here are some teddy boys though:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dWXAwIlEcBI/R8mLkH4wjdI/AAAAAAAAADU/50m6LqO4KSw/s320/Teddy+boy.jpg

tyrannosaurus rex, incredible string band, kaleidoscope (UK)

http://www.lib.washington.edu/media/pitchfork/images/ys.jpg

Belle & Sebastian !

but in the last few years Ive been thinking a lot about that sort of girls

call the cops

All Music Guide review of Mary Timony's Mountains

Continuing the mystical, prog rock vibe of Helium's No Guitars and Magic City, Mary Timony conjures up Mountains, a collection of songs more akin to the Brothers Grimm's stories or C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia than anything in contemporary indie rock. Sparkling vibes, flutes, woozy vintage keyboards, and mandolins give songs like "The Bell," "Whisper From the Tree," and "An-Deluzion" a distant, dreamlike quality, which is the album's greatest strength and weakness; this collection of spooky girl music is so fragile and insular that it demands the listener's full attention, and some people — Helium fans included — may not want to put in that much effort. That's their loss, though, because on repeated listening, delicately gripping piano ballads like "Dungeon Dance" and "I Fire Myself " reveal themselves as songs of sadness, frustration, and hope couched in fairy-tale terms, while "Poison Moon," "Rider on the Stormy Sea," and "The Golden Fruit" are subversive rockers from a damsel in exile, not distress. The dreamy, elastic guitar workouts on "The Valley of 1,000 Perfumes" and "Tiger Rising" recall Helium's Pirate Prude, but Mountains has a closer sisterhood with Cindy Dall's Untitled — another album of witchy chamber rock that is often hypnotic, if you're a willing subject.

illegal purpose thread?

Above & Beyond presents Oceanlab ...and other sweet trance

totally pram

also the alice through the looking glass album by the people from agincourt, ithaca, friends, etc.

Birthday Massacre (at least judging from their album covers -- hard to tell what their songs are about.)