Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah (1989)
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Religious/classical Sufi music from Pakistan. I'm definitely not well-versed in this type of music but Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's performance here is amazing and the music is so incredibly energetic and infectious.
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Opeth's unique brand of progressive death metal mixed with gothic folk/rock hit its apex here. Some of the best songwriting and performances across the entire metal landscape.
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Slightly noisy, punk-inspired twee pop. Super warm and melodic and sweet.
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Pat Schneeweis has been making drug-fueled anarchist folk-punk under a bunch of different names since he was a teenager. A lot of it is pretty awful, some of it is brilliant, and it's all near to my heart. His post-rehab songs about sobriety are incredibly uplifting but his post-rehab songs about the futility and naivety of anarchism are bittersweet at best. Still, there's an overarching positivity in his later music that consistently shines through. This is a big compilation of some of his later songs.
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Perfect intersection of country, blues, Heartland, punk, glam, rock, and a dozen other music scenes that somehow comes together as one cohesive sound. As influential an album as it was an influenced one.
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Relentlessy cold and evil atmospheric black metal. So black metal at times it's not even recognizable as black metal. Probably my favorite album in the entire metal universe.
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Deep, emotional indie rock/pop with a small town Americana flavor. Sounds straight out of "mall parking lots on holidays."
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Raw, intense, gothic flamenco. The wandering guitar tones and enormous vocals on here are just perfect.
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Energetic and lively hard-bop piano jazz.
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Jaunty, bubbly synthpop/electronic with some inexplicably savage guitar solos. Sounds like the coolest video game music for the coolest video game that never existed.
