The Worst of Black Box Recorder is actually very good. Hints of Grandaddy filter through on waves of Wilco-esque banjo and guitar. Like his heroes XTC and Tom Waits, Sanko fashions oddly compelling songs from mangled melodies and ragged scraps of rhyme.
Some folks prefer a whisper to a scream.
The artists collected below are certainly in that category. But that is not to say that they don't have their own brand of hushed tones.