Crooning is likely the technique you are hearing. Its a singing technique that emulates the singer being very emotionally close, right up on the mic.

One adjacent term is “frisson”: when it’s so sublimely awesome it gives you chills.

I think it might be a kind of dramatized emotional power ballad style. I used to listen to such things a lot, they have an urge, a longing in them that breaks free, reaching a breaking point after which the way leads into an unknown. In a movie they might accompany a scene where the protagonist is at a decisive turning point in the story, almost like soundtracks to life if it were a movie. Some of the songs id categorize this way are:

Magda - Wieso

Pixies - Where is my mind?

Fontaines D.C. - Bug

Keane - somewhere only we know

Adele - Skyfall

Stones - Gimme shelter

30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens

Bowie - Heroes

Europe - Final countdown

Might be sth entirely different tho an totally wrong im rly tired rn but ur post grabbed me. 👍

Ceaseless ascension? Songs that keep building up to a major crescendo

Symphonic Indie-Pop?

I call those tunes "certified fresh" in our house. I get frisson / goosebumps all the time from good music and I always call out "certified fresh" to the gang when I do and show off my arm (this is in the car a lot when I have the kids with me).

I can't see much in common between those tunes except that they're bangers and would almost certainly cause some goosebumps for me.

Idk but if you have a Playlist, please share it.

i think what you mean is just called "beautiful" by some people.

I'd call those pop ballads.

If you want suggestions, check out Moddi, Farao, Lindy-Fay Hella, Madrugada, Finnegan Tui, Brandon Perry

I love Creep, i am repulsed by Dog days (particularly the "The Do-o-og" part), and i don't know the 3rd one, so to me they're not similar.

Singer Songwriter?

How bout like, Xiu Xiu? Apistat Commander, Fabulous Muscles, The Fox and the Rabbit, Clowne Towne?

Country and/or western?