Any recommendations for yuri-ish anime? I'm pretty sure I watched most of them so if you can think of a less known one that may not be the best, please still recommend it.
Have you seen the Bee Train stuff? Noir, Madlax, El Cazador de la Bruja. They all feature two women as main characters with relationships that range from "barely even subtext" in Madlax to "all but text" in El Cazador, plots that have their heads stuck up their ass to a varying extent, and really good music.
Bee Train got a lot better at making anime as time went on (though they never actually got great at it) so you should probably just start with El Cazador and work your way back until you hit your bad anime breaking point.
Otherwise, uh, Yuki Yuna? It got a pretty subdued reaction overall IIRC so I wouldn't be surprised by not hearing about it. It had some middling subtext and really cool music+visuals, but it was overambitious and a little unfocused.