Touché Amoré - Stage Four (2016)
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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.

The Trees & The Wild - Zaman, Zaman (2016)
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Folksy dream pop/post rock from Indonesia. Breathes new life into the old post rock crescendo.

Ulcerate - Vermis (2013)
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Brutally technical and dissonant death metal. Relentless and suffocating in the best way.

Urfaust - Ritual Music for the True Clochard (2012)
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Bizarre, ritualist black/doom metal from some ancient Pagan nightmare.

Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain (2003)
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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.

The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (2003)
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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. These songs are all so colorful and memorable.

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops (1982-2011)
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Compilation of all four Disintegration Loops. Simple little melodic tape loops stretched and deconstructed over time until they are destroyed and unrecognizable. As much of an art project as a musical album but it works exceedingly well as both. A thirty second sample of this is pretty useless but I'll include it anyway!

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (2007)
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The best example of American black metal. Naturalistic, woodsy. Long-form and atmospheric with production quality just high enough to be pretty without being gaudy. Some of the best riffs across all of black metal.

Yellow Swans - Drowner Yellow Swans (2007)
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Beautifully intense noise/drone. Some of the most immersive and visceral textures I've ever heard in music.

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