Death Cab For Cutie's Narrow Stairs always sounds like a winter album to me. Same goes for Explosions In The Sky's newest album, and the 'The Cold Part/Alone Down There/Stars Are Projectors' portion of Modest Mouse's The Moon And Antarctica.

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It just doesn't get any warmer than this :D

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Isis - Panopticon
Russian Circles - Station
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing and Warszawa
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Opeth - Orchid, Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse, Blackwater Park and Deliverance
Alice in Chains - Sap
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals - Lifeline
Ben Harper - Diamond On The Inside <-- Just about anything by ben would work though.

Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

Michael Franti & Spearhead - Yell Fire!

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Heres a start anyway. I would recommend everything by Ben & Michael they are just great artists all around.

Kenotic - Hammock


also:
Silver - Jesu
Peregrine - The Appleseed Cast
Ágætis byrjun - Sigur Rós
etc.

Heaven Or Las Vegas-Cocteau Twins

Title track from the same album. The drums that kick in @ 2:20 Immense:

Such a great tune. Great band too.

Eskimo Snow by Why?
Fleet Foxes
Morning view by Incubus
Agaetis Byrjun By Sigur Ros
Alchemy Index Water by Thrice

Cant get more winter then a COld Sebria winter :P

Nothing says winter like an album with the word "California" in the title by a band with the words "Red Hot" in their name and a cover featuring a photo of a sunny pool filled red water.

I actually begin listening to that album when the weather becomes cold (without even noticing).

It's an incredible album, very underrated.

My favorite from the album - the most winter song of all:

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

http://www.betweenplanets.co.uk/Art/...e_The_Dawn.jpg

St Vincent-Actor
Antony and The Johnsons are ONLY listenable during winter.

Arab Strap-The Red Thread.

Agalloch _ ashes against the grain... I feel as though The Mantle is more of a Fall album.

I'd say Meddle by Pink Floyd is a great one as well.

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.

Sorry 2 years late but important mentions, Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild OST

Pink Floyd's - A momentary lapse of reason - :)

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M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
I just happened to be listening to this right now and I think it's an album that sounds great in winter, more so than Before The Dawn Heals Us which was mentioned already in the thread. It's largely instrumental compared to later works and the soundscapes have a nice winter feel.

Le Lendemain - Fires

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TSC8nsgsqk...2009-cover.jpg



Lüüp - Meadow Rituals

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This is always the time of year for me to bust out For Emma, Forever Ago.

Auburn Lull - Alone I Admire



One of my favourite winter albums.

Off the top of my head,

Cage's Hell's Winter

Apathy's Eastern Philosophy

Apathy has a great track called The Winter that I like to play when its cold.

"The trees look so wicked with no leaves in it,
got to run the car for like 15 minutes"

or some such.

"It's the season where Timbalands replace our sneakers"

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Dream Letter by Tim Buckley is pretty good winter music. Though the song I linked is on the album, the video is a different version. Rejoicing in the Hands by Devandra Banhardt is a good 'burrow' album and anything where Chet Baker sings is a good depressing winter experience. For some reason posting the youtube videos is not working for me today which is why Ive linked them instead. It's probably because of the computer I'm using (not my usual).