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.
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As cool and smooth as jazz gets. Perfect lineup with some nice blues influence.
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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.
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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.
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Ridiculously catchy maximalist bubblegum electropop. There's a lot of depth beneath the sugary aesthetics. And the production is just so detailed and fascinating and made with so much love. The kind of album you need to listen to with good headphones to catch all the details.
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Gritty '90s east coast boom bap done perfectly. Simple, hard-hitting, and timeless.
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Warm and soft dream/ambient pop with wonderful indietronica production. The whole thing is so melodic and cozy and comforting.
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Minimal new-age ambient keyboards. Soft, sweet, and melodic.
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Frances Quinlan's lyrics are what makes this one of the best indie-rock albums ever. Not just because her lyrics are brilliant, which they are, but also because her poems are written first and the band crafts its music and melodies around them. It gives their songs such a unique structure and feel.
Warning: The links lead to the original album art which contains nudity.
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Indie rock/emo that is far more mature and nuanced than the genre tags suggest. The lyrics about finding comfort and peace in nature feel so at home in emo music I'm surprised this album seems to be unique in that regard. The whole album feels like a Mary Oliver poem which is appropriate because she's referenced throughout.
