Albums You're Digging II

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Unit - Regurgitator

I just rediscovered these guys today, and i'm amazed at how i was able to forget them in the first place.

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That was also my gateway album to the wonderful world of shoegaze :D. The whole album from start to finish it such an amazing experience. Here's a few more albums for you to try next:
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ride - Nowhere
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
 
Sound Of Confusion - Spaceman 3 (1986)
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My first Spaceman 3 album. If you like The Jesus And Mary Chain, you'll like this. Although honestly I've only heard psychocandy.

Alina - Arvo Part (2000)
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A simple but beautiful piano composition by Arvo Part.

Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan (2006)
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Melodic and comfortably dark, the mood of this masterpiece will stay throughout the album and longer.

Tempting The Muse - Mysteria (2006)
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An artists I found by accident, she sounRAB like if Dead Can Dance did Gregorian chant.
 
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Tommy gets a lot of flack from purists who didn't like The Whos change of direction. I personally prefer Rock Opera/Stadium Rock Who to the Mod days. That album just has an amazing flow and feel to it. Maybe my favorite Who album, but between it and Whos Next its close.

And Relayer is amazing. The Gates of Delirium is pure chaos, and Soon is a gorgeous ballad, Steve Howes pedal steel playing is otherworldly.
 
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (2010)

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Really enjoying this one over the past few months. I remeraber on first listen, I found a few nice melodies but thought it was kind of mess. Now it's just beautiful. Nu-jazz, jazz/rock fusion, post-rock (Tortoise-style), progressive rock...I don't know what to call it at all, but it's good.
 
Kill 'em all and master of puppets are the only two of their albums that I really dig. But I only get the full experience if I listen to them then take a long break (at least a year) then rediscover the details the next time I listen to them.
 
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Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Bubblegum

I just got this yesterday and I think I've already spun it 4 or 5 times now... it's just so relaxing, engaging, catchy, upbeat, and euphoric. Seriously everyone please I implore you, go out and get this record, because if you don't, the terrorists win.
 
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Whipping Boy-Whipping Boy
Heartworm is possibly the best album ever made.But this shouldn't be overlooked as a worthy addition to their all-too-small discography and a stunning piece of indie rock in it's own right.
 
A Piece of Strange (2006) is by far one of the greatest contributions from the hip hop genre. An album bursting with good ideas, smooth beats, and excellent deliveries, it deserves to be listened to by ANYONE who enjoys hip hop or thinks they might be able to get into hip hop.
 
Oddly enough I got both of those a few days ago on my current downloading spree. I've just been grabbing up everything that looks relatively interesting in an attempt to find lots of good stuff before I leave.

And Blue Foundation is sick, I'm with you on that one. I would expect them to be at least as popular as some of the slightly lesser known but still popular trip hop stuff like Telepopmusik and Blockhead.
 
Thank you, Bulldog!

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Who here has not had the occasion where another meraber unsolicitedly throws an album your way by an artist that you never heard of and instantly you know what will be wearing out your speakers for a long time to come. This is a favorite of mine right from the first listen.

Cuong Wu is a Korean trumpet player, and, as is the case with most trumpet based music, it's almost a reflex to throw what he's doing here into the jazz category, but this is pure post-rock (bordering on free jazz at times). There is such an amazing dynamic energy to his playing and somehow he manages to stay far away from all of the pitfall jazz cliches that so often pigeonhole the instrument into the jazz style. Backed by bass, drums and guitar, the enserable transitions from arabient to cacophonous noise and back again all the while maintaining a solid unshakable cohesion.

Fans of fusion, free jazz, and post-rock are almost guaranteed to love this.

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Mizar - Natural Design (2009)

Hungarian jazz-pop trio that do a helluva lot of things I enjoy: they bring some of the exotica that certain 80's contemporary jazz groups like The Rippingtons or The Yellowjackets possessed into a punchier, more rhythmic context (a-la early Jamiroquai or Level 42), and then transforms these hand-me-down influences into grand, cohesive focus with entertaining results.

Oh, and the chick has a fantastic voice also, if a tad accented due to not being a native English speaker. Gotta love Europe!
 
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