![]() | You, You're a History in Rust by Do Make Say Think
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.99 Rustic, bucolic, nostalgic, pastoral--all synonymous, and perhaps redundant, ways of saying what a beautiful and carefree piece of art work this album is. It suggests a sense of the band's comfort in their own, musical skin--a definite mark of artistic integrity and maturity.
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![]() | & Yet & Yet by Do Make Say Think
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.17 pastoral with an industrial edge. the least cacophonous of the band's efforts--a smooth ride on the synth wave.
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![]() | Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever by Explosions in the Sky
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.92 a truly cathartic experience--one suggestive of the whole range of human emotion, without sounding forced or trite
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![]() | All the Suits Began to Fall Off by The Mercury Program
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.07 highly minimalistic, yet layered, luminous, and all-together intriguing.
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![]() | Data Learn Language by Mercury Program
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $4.99 Slightly drifting and wonderful for it.
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![]() | Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.42 quietly explosive. ominously hopeful. full of musical irony.
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![]() | Under the Pipal Tree by Mono
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.93 the album packs enough youthful vigor to nullify any possible pretension. the drumming and strumming here is the real catch.
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![]() | Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined by Mono
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.99 "Sonic Boom!" like a peaceful spring recovery from a nuclear winter
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![]() | Happy Songs for Happy People by Mogwai
Buy used from: $5.36 could easily be dismissed as a boring listen, yet truly inspired with depth both musically and emotionally
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![]() | Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts by M83
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.00 a sonic journey at once synthesized and organic. will invoke images of the primeval and modern landscape.
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![]() | Noumena by The Drift
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $2.84 infused with jazz elements. comparable to Do Make Say Think, but more ambient. Includes Dan Grody of Tarental.
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![]() | One Day I'll Be on Time by The Album Leaf
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.73 an echo. a sound. floating.
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![]() | In a Safe Place by The Album Leaf
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.98 much more interesting than "One Day... ." The added help of Sigur Ros members does well to make an evocative piece. Equally melancholic and uplifiting.
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![]() | Metro North by Run Return
textured and tasty. electronica meets hip-hop meets rock meets jazz. a hybrid sound comparable to that of Boards of Canada, but more organic, layered, and interesting.
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![]() | Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $8.63 initially, a boring listen. but with some patience, you will see how music can create and permeate the atmosphere.
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![]() | Ágætis Byrjun by Sigur Rós
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.00 expressive, honest, and just plain beautiful
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![]() | Beat Romantic by Talkdemonic
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $4.49 Some songs could use some expansion and further sonic exploration, but intriguing all the same. Folk rock meets electronica meets hip-hop.
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![]() | Koyaanisqatsi (1998 Re-recording)
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $5.59 a haunting musical experience created by the vanguard of contemporary-classical/minimalist composition. prophecy through music.
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![]() | Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.47 evocative, melancholic, and inspiring. a definite sense of movement. a masterwork from the king of jazz fusion.
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![]() | Into the Blue Again by The Album Leaf
Buy used from: $10.48 Not so much an evolution, as a focused improvement on the sound heard on previous efforts.
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![]() | From Bone to Satellite by Tarentel
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.54 Blissed out, instrumental rock with a steady but interesting build, break, recover formula.
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![]() | The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.95 Synthesized but infused with more organic, folk elements than "Music Has the Right..." which was undergirded more strongly by beats. Highlight track: "Dayvan Cowboy"
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![]() | Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.94 A true time capsule in the history of hip-hop, pop rock, and electronica. Heavy on the beats with various sonic layers to set up a truly ethereal experience.
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![]() | Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.42 Eno blends atmosphere with instrumental, using keys and angelic vocals in a minimalistic, yet utterly intriguing fashion. He does well to define "ambient"-not only in word (as indicated in the liner notes) but in music as well.
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![]() | The Lost Take by Dosh
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $3.96 Loops of rhythmic genius. This is beautifully crafted song-work--nostalgic, happy, and uplifting.
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![]() | Burner by Odd Nosdam
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.00 Can definitely hear the Boards influence. Yet Nosdam brings a darker, more hip-hoppy spin to the sample and key work.
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