The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site (2003)
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Perpetually slept-on indie rock/emo with a little soupçon of country sprinkled in. John K. Samson is one of my favorite lyricists. These songs are all so colorful and memorable.
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Compilation of all four Disintegration Loops. Simple little melodic tape loops stretched and deconstructed over time until they are destroyed and unrecognizable. As much of an art project as a musical album but it works exceedingly well as both. A thirty second sample of this is pretty useless but I'll include it anyway!
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The best example of American black metal. Naturalistic, woodsy. Long-form and atmospheric with production quality just high enough to be pretty without being gaudy. Some of the best riffs across all of black metal.
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Beautifully intense noise/drone. Some of the most immersive and visceral textures I've ever heard in music.
