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Severant (2011)
Kuedo
Synth, Footwork

I have done so much ketamine to this album. So much.

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新しい日の誕生 [Birth of a New Day] (2015)
2814
Ambient, Dreampunk
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All These People Are Me (2018)
Solareye
Hip-hop, rap

This one unfortunately didn't seem to get much of an audience. A very spiritually conceptual album with wonderful (Scottish) lyricism and funky beats. Love letter to the genre, to writing/poetry and to the horror and beauty of existence.

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Mista Thug Isolation (2012)
Lil Ugly Mane
Horrorcore, Chopped and Screwed
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One Hundred Mornings (2018)
Windows 96
Vaporwave, Synthwave
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
Elton John
Piano Rock, Pop Rock

Almost wall to wall bangers. Just, please skip Jamaica Jerk Off.

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Money in the Pocket (2005)
Cannonball Adderley
Hard Bop
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Wilderness (2015)
Makeup and Vanity Set
Synthwave

One of my favourites for years. So far as I can tell it's pretty obscure (at time of writing, one rating on AOTY), but I think it's a lovely dark synthwave album.

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Tibetan Chants for World Peace (2008)
The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir
Religious, Buddhist Chanting

I would suggest actively listening to this and... seeing what happens

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COMPUTARIA SOUND SYSTEM (2026)
Marcelinho MeteBala
???
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Oneiric Ocean (2025)
Louie Zong
Comfy Synth
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No Caller ID (2025)
Trim, Pinch
GRIME AIN'T DEAD

It seems widely reported that Trim (Trimothy, Taliban Trim...) is a huge asshole, which probably explains why he never blew up despite being a great MC and one of the few still holding the torch for the UK grime scene.

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Universal Vibrations (2022)
Sam Redmore
Electro, Afrobeat, Latin, Funk

Joyful, danceable, lovely. It's nice to listen to music that isn't dark and miserable sometimes.

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All Living Things (2025)
Park Jiha
Ambient, Korean Folk, Post-Minimalism

Beautiful, melancholy, rich. Korean folk instruments are cool.

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Skinny But Dangerous (1996)
King Skinny Pimp
Gangsta Rap, Southern, Memphis

I mean, it is what it is.

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Stardust (2025)
Danny Brown
Experimental Hip Hop, Hyperpop, EDM

Danny's sobriety album. I find myself feeling proud of him, which is cute. Great collaborators lead to some very fun things.

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Buried Secrets (1992)
Painkiller
Grindcore, Free Jazz

WWUUUWWUWUUWW-WBAAAAAAH FWUUUU-WUAAAAHHH *unintelligible screaming* FWUOOOOOOOOOO

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Bandana (2019)
Freddie Gibbs, Madlib
Gangsta Rap

My favourite booty-spreading, life-loving rapper. Like, shrugging off your asshole being posted as revenge porn is highly based.

Gotta say, the art sucks.

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Scaring the Hoes (2023)
Danny Brown, JPEGMAFIA
Glitch Hop, Experimental Hip Hop

My favourite autistic ass, weird-voiced rapper and my favourite easily triggered rapper collab, yay.

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En el Palacio de Bellas Artes (1990)
Juan Gabriel
Mariachi

Probably the best live album I've ever heard. Amazing performance, arrangements and audience. Any time I listen, I'm thinking "Shit, I wish I were there".

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Iconoclasts (2025)
Anna von Hausswolff
Spiritual awe, ecstasy and dread

Waited for this to drop for months, and then... didn't listen to it. Until after the first ayahuasca ceremony, at which point I realised I'd apparently been waiting for just the right moment.

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HFM88 (2025)
Haircuts for Men
Barber beats

Barber beats are a big, vaguely guilty pleasure. HFM does great work (and has consistently aesthetic art), but this is one of my favourites. Listen to the descent 2.

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Sonatine OST (1993)
Joe Hisaishi
Soundtrack, cinematic classical

One of my favourite films, and one of my favourite soundtracks. I love his Ghibli works too, but the Beat Takeshi stuff takes it for me. Hana-Bi's OST is also excellent.

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Bigtyme Vol 2 All Screwed Up (1995)
DJ Screw
Screw

What if pre-vaporwave, but for hiphop, kind of?

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)
The Alan Parsons Project
Prog

Impeccable prog. Prog particularly seems to lend itself to concept albums? That's like, all these guys did. It slaps.

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Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos (2010)
Satanicpornocultshop
???

i duno man lol

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I'll Try Living Like This (2015)
Death's Dynamic Shroud
Vaporwave, kinda

Surely one of the most autism-coded groups out there. I like all their work, but this remains a standout.

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