Personally I've always been really fond of
Andrew Bird. He's pretty soothing and delightful.
Kind of in the same vein of things is
Owen Pallett. (he used to go by Final Fantasy but now just goes by his name) I'm actually pretty proud of Owen Pallett because he's moved into the world of doing larger symphonic scores and film scores, including doing the film score for the movie 'Her' that came out a few years ago, the one about the guy who falls in love with an AI computer program (which I kind of saw just because I heard Owen Pallett was partaking in doing the score for it hehe)
It kinda seems like I just like music made by weird quiet skinny guys who play the violin =P
So I guess breaking that trend is
Joanna Newsom. She's such an adorable and wonderful person too, if I'm not mistaken she makes all of her own album covers so she's a very talented visual artist as well, what's not to love ?