Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (1957)
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Extremely fun hard bop jazz with some of the coolest grooves ever and crazy musicianship. Production value is also amazing for how old it is.

Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces Everyone (2020)
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Perfect modern pop-punk/emo with mature songwriting. Taps into the zeitgeist of economic pessimism lots of millenial and gen-z folks are feeling.

Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)
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Stars of the Lid's twin albums The Tired Sounds of and and Their Refinement of the Decline were I think the first music I ever really loved. As opposed to music I thought was cool or fun or interesting. Those two albums shaped me as a person more than any other art I've ever consumed.

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2023)
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Sufjan Steven's music has always been a combination of brilliant indie Americana songs and eclectic, textured instrumentation. His album Carrie and Lowell leaned heavily into the songwriting aspect and the eclectic instrumentation wasn't included as much. Javelin is the opposite. The instruments, production, layers, and textures here are so vast and fascinating and Sufjan's songwriting is as good as ever.

Sun Ra and His Arkestra - Sleeping Beauty (1979)
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Massive spiritual jazz/funk with chants and spoken word.

Toe - The Book About My Idle Plot on a Vague Anxiety (2005)
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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.

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.

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