Chelsea Wolfe has a lot of guitar work that gets mistaken for synths on her more electronic albums.
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Venetian Snares + Daniel Lanois
Keith Fullerton Whitman
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I found this footage of Forest Swords using a guitar a while back. I’d say this ticks the ‘dark moody’ box.
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My experience with banjos next to electronics is that they actually integrate rather well, assuming you like banjos in the first place. They have a very small frequency range which allows them to sit nicely with full frequency electronics. By contrast electric guitars take up SO MUCH room and very rarely sound nice next to electronics, they feel like they’re competing. Acoustics tend to sound better, but you have to EQ out the bottom end from either the guitar or the electronics to get it to fit. I don’t have any experience with ukes.
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Silver Apples did this with a couple of tracks on Contact from 1968, though they’re not maybe their best pieces.
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Ahh… what’s that now. I think this thread alone has proven otherwise. Also, welcome!
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Another vote for Depeche Mode, especially everything from ‘music for the masses’ onwards. Martin keeps it simple, so it doesn’t clash too much.
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Thom Yorke’s album Eraser and Atoms for Peace project makes excellent use of guitars.
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Theres a couple on the originally unreleased third album too iirc
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Well I did say rarely not never 
I’d suggest the tracks here are the exceptions that prove the rule and it takes a lot of processing to get there. That’s just to my taste tho.
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I must recommend guitarist Daniel Bachman. For years he played in the “American Primitive” style, highly influenced by John Fahey and Robbie Basho. The last few albums he’s been really branching out, processing the guitar and field recordings in glitchy, really well thought out ways. Think John Fahey crossed with Fennesz.
His new album:
A great album influenced by climate change:
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I mean… https://youtu.be/wZdZKolMIl0
Edit: I imagined there were more synths in it because of the HHG2G score, but I don’t see any credited. A THOUSAND APOLOGIES.
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Indeed, including the excellent take on “John Hardy”, but it’s not particularly heavy on the electronics unfortunately.
Totally! The sound of my teenage years via The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide radio series.
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Ist das nicht nur Rock musik? 
That Atoms for Peace track has all the elements to be a great instrumental track if Thom Yorke wasn’t singing on it. (I do like Thom Yorke btw.)
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You just found the answer.
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Weird 80’s electronic stuff from ex-punks(Dow Jones and the Industrials I think) with drum machines, synths, samples and some guitar on top.
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