Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Sleeping Beauty (1979)
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Massive spiritual jazz/funk with chants and spoken word.
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Creative, insanely catchy indie rock with a lot of art and psychodelic influences and lyrics that are just as bizarre and catchy as the music.
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Classic hard bop jazz featuring legends like John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and Coleman Hawkins. But it's always Monk's iconic piano-playing and composition that shines through the most.
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Gorgeous, lush math/post rock with masterful musicianship. Takashi Kashikura is my favorite drummer of all time. He's a technical, progressive, creative monster on the drums but he's also a song drummer at the same time that is able to come up with melodic drum hooks inside the chaos this band creates. I just can't believe some of the stuff he's able to do behind a drum kit.
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The best modern screamo album I've heard. The musicianship and production is beyond incredible and the Jeremy Bolm's lyrics about his mother's passing from cancer are so direct and honest they're hard to listen to at times.
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Folksy dream pop/post-rock from Indonesia. Breathes new life into the old post-rock crescendo.
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Brutally technical and dissonant death metal. Relentless and suffocating in the best way.
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Bizarre, ritualist black/doom metal from some ancient Pagan nightmare.
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MF DOOM's alter ego is somehow even more outrageous and villainous than the masked villain MC himself. This album is just so much pure fun from beginning to end.
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Perpetually slept-on indie rock/emo with a little soupçon of country sprinkled in. John K. Samson is one of my favorite lyricists and these songs are all so colorful and memorable. Underrated drumming too.
