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Eluvium - False Readings On (2016)
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Wonderfully warm and sad ambient music. A bit of modern classical combined with static, electronic drones. I am the guy on the album cover when I listen to this.

Eluvium - False Readings On album cover
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Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (2003)
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Nostalgic and triumphant post-rock so good it spawned an entire genre of lesser copycats. The military-style drumming doesn't get enough credit for how creative and influential it was.

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place album cover
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Fela & The Africa '70 - Roforofo Fight (1972)
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Slow, wandering Afrobeat with gorgeous horns and Fela Kuti's trademark vocals and politically charged lyrics.

Fela & The Africa '70 - Roforofo Fight album cover
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The Field Mice - Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? (1998)
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The warmest, sweetest jangle/twee pop ever. The whole C86/Sarah Records music scene is one I absolutely adore and this big compilation of its best band is such a good representation of the sound.

The Field Mice - Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way? album cover
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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (2014)
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Freddie Gibbs's magnetic personality and delivery combined with Madlib's smooth production is a perfect match. Best gangster rap at least since the '90s, surely.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata album cover
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Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P. (1999)
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Ensemble post-rock for the apocalypse.

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada E.P. album cover
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Goldmund - All Will Prosper (2011)
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Beautifully arranged ambient/instrumental folk covers of American Civil War-era folk songs. When I first started living on my own I'd play this album on repeat because it was so comforting.

Goldmund - All Will Prosper album cover
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Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World (2005)
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Dense, savage, brilliant screamo with progressive instrumentation, genuine funk influence, and an organ.

Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World album cover
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Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band - Wede Harer Guzo (1978)
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Legendary Ethiopian jazz. Smooth, organ-heavy, hypnotic. Branches into a proto form of instrumental hip-hop on ocassion. This recording was nearly lost forever but was just managed to be saved, cleaned up, and released.

Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band  - Wede Harer Guzo album cover
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Hammock - Silencia (2019)
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Hammock's trilogy of Mysterium, Universalis, and Silencia is probably my favorite ambient music. Sweeping, warm, lush, full of life and health and peace. Silencia is my most listened-to of the three and possibly my most listened-to album of all time, despite its coming out only in 2019. I listen to it so much and so often it's already embedded itself into my DNA.

Hammock  - Silencia album cover
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