Artists like Sunlight Ascending

Sleepmakeswaves are an Australian post-rock band who formed in Sydney in December 2006. The group is currently composed of guitarist Otto Wicks-Green, drummer Tim Adderley, and bassist/keyboardist Alex Wilson. To date, they have released four full-length studio albums. The band have achieved notable success internationally for their energetic live performances and modern approach to the post-rock genre. They are currently released through Australian independent record label Bird's Robe Records, which is distributed through MGM in Australia and independently worldwide. In 2013, UK label Monotreme Records licensed their debut album for an international release across the UK, Europe, and North America.

Matthew Robert Cooper, also known by the moniker Eluvium, is an American ambient recording artist who resides in Portland, Oregon. Cooper was born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, before relocating to the Northwest. His albums often feature artwork and photographs by Jeannie Paske. He is signed to the record label Temporary Residence Limited.

Ef is a post-rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Using little vocals, they feature a wide variety of instruments. Their debut album Give me beauty... Or give me death! was released in May 2006 on their own label And The Sound Records. They had several tours with around 400 shows in various European countries.

If These Trees Could Talk is an American instrumental post-rock band from Akron, Ohio. They self-released their self-titled debut EP in 2006. Independent record label the Mylene Sheath re-issued the EP on vinyl in 2007 and went on to publish the band's debut studio album, Above the Earth, Below the Sky, on vinyl also, in 2009. The band self-released their second album, Red Forest, in March 2012, with a vinyl version coming out through Science of Silence Records. They followed it with a self-promoted tour throughout Europe in April 2012. If These Trees Could Talk issued their third album, The Bones of a Dying World, in June 2016, on Metal Blade Records. All their previous releases were subsequently re-issued in 2021 and 2022 on the same label. In February 2024, they published the single "Trail of Whispering Giants", their first new material in nearly eight years.