Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (2011)
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Lo-fi indie/slacker rock with some of the most brilliant songwriting across all modern rock music. It was re-recorded with much better sound quality and musicianship a few years later but I like the charm of the original.

Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf - Big Shots (1991-1993)
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Extremely fun, cute, light-hearted, jazzy hip-hop with incredibly creative beats and turntablism. One of the most criminally underrated hip hop albums out there. Charizma was tragically murdered at only twenty years old in 1993 and this album wouldn't get compiled and released for another ten years.

Christina Vantzou - No. 1 (2011)
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Super underrated ambient. Perfect blend of warm drones with melodic strings and horns. Essential reading music for me.

Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else (2014)
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Messy, heavy, dense, jarring, and incredibly catchy post-punk. Lacks the sheer mass and weight of their (rightfully) celebrated Attack on Memory but makes up for it with tighter songwriting and better instrumentation.

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)
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Masterful sludge/post metal. So atmospheric and eerie while keeping some pretty post rock influences. This band also uses two drummers which gives the heavy bits so much more weight and creativity.

Dadawah - Peace and Love (1974)
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Religious Rastafari reggae with incredible production. Spacious, ethereal, hypnotic, and devout.

Daïtro - Laisser vivre les squelettes (2005)
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Quintessential French skramz/screamo. Technical without being frilly or obnoxious. Heavy and ugly while still being melodic.

Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990)
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A difficult album to listen to and to describe. A messy collection of live recordings, studio recordings, covers, and church hymns. Daniel Johnston's trademark silly side is here but just barely. Mostly he's paranoid, raw, and anguished. Deeply religious, deeply sad, deeply honest.

Darkthrone - Transilvianian Hunger (1994)
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'90s Darkthrone is the ultimate black metal band. Lo-fi, raw, sparse, cold, eerie. Absolutely venomous riffs and vocals. Bands have been trying and failing to recapture this magic for thirty years.

Death - Symbolic (1995)
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The best death metal of the '90s. So influential and technical and creative. Just a perfect piece of heavy metal.

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