Winter Albums

[brittney.]

Death Cab For Cutie's Narrow Stairs always sounRAB like a winter album to me. Same goes for Explosions In The Sky's newest album, and the 'The Cold Part/Alone Down There/Stars Are Projectors' portion of Modest Mouse's The Moon And Antarctica.

 

[!<>BabyGurl<>!]

It just doesn't get any warmer than this

 

[Colm]

Well, it's freezing here. It's coming up to the Winter season in the Northern hemisphere at least, and that means miserable weather. I'm sat here wrapped up in my duvet looking for something to listen to on my iPod. I'm sure some people disagree and like to fight off the cold winter nights with trying to brighten the mood with jovial music, not me. I like to put on something that matches the weather and mood, so hit me with some of your favourite albums to be cold to, be depressed to, those moody and atmospheric albums you love and match the miserable outdoors perfectly.

Too depressing? Meh. Bring it on.

I'm currently enjoying Antlers - Hospice for the minute, and The Cure - Disintegration is always a good one. I'll think of some more and post them here.

Also apologies if this should be elsewhere (and/or there is already a relevant thread which this could have got lost in).

 

[oneup117]

It helps if you've seen Heima, which everyone neeRAB to see, whether they're a fan or not...

 

[rosenthalaaron1983]

All these seem to work well for me as a wintry kinda soundtrack. Don't ask why though.

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[YOUTUBE]MoHKXItKCqk[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]GFAtr81C8kE[/YOUTUBE]

 

[i love everybody!]

Watched this last night, absolutely breathtaking. It was stunning visually and it helped being a huge fan of Sigur Ros and always having an infatuation with Iceland as a country. I'll probably review it in the movie thread, so I'll keep it short in here, but I was really moved by Heima. Amazing. I'll be getting my hanRAB on the two-disc edition as soon as possible!

 

[Phil M]

V.A - Winter Chill

 

[Lourdes Q]

Personally i'd say Faith by The Cure is much more wintry than Disintegration.
Everything about that album is cold & desolate.

 

[me say hihi!]

That's one of the few Cure albums I haven't listened to properly yet. Perfect opportunity to now though, as the album I have just been listening to has just this minute finished. Saves me a decision, thanks!

Beck - Sea Change is another one of my favourites.

 

[PureFireBlaze]

Sigur Ros- ()

It's all I own by them but it's really melancholy. I sometimes listen to it when I'm falling asleep

 

[unib z]

Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Isis - Panopticon
Russian Circles - Station
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing and Warszawa
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Opeth - Orchid, Morningrise, My Arms Your Hearse, Blackwater Park and Deliverance
Alice in Chains - Sap
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Dimmu Borgir - Storrablast

 

[slmom]

I can definitely get behind this.

I'm going to check some of these albums out in the mean time I'll get my thinking cap on.

 

[GRIMREAPER75]

I agree about The Cure's Faith.

Also an album I picked up recently is Year of No Light - Nord. They are a French sludge metal band reminding me of ISIS. But their name and album name (meaning 'North') really make me think of a dark winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

[suzuki rider]

So, originally, I posted Damnation, but I realized the huge mistake I had made ...

This one is pretty personal to me. I was introduced Winters ago and I've been stuck since.

How can this man be excluded from this list?

 

[ịcąгυѕ]

I've mentioned this on here somewhere before, so Alias - Through The Looking Glass. This album really invokes a sense of loneliness and depression with both Alias' dark introspective raps and bleak, melancholic sounRABcapes. This album to me fits perfectly with looking out the window at the wooRAB with no leaves, a gray sky, and maybe a little bit of snow on the ground. Also, Mice Parade - Obrigado Saudade fits the winter theme for me. Not really sure what it is, could just be that I started listening to it last winter. But it does have a sound that to me fits with the leafless trees and cold, crunchy yellowish grass of winter (we don't really get snow here). I'd maybe tag Mezzanine as wintery album. It's got a bleak feel to it that's still hiding in the background on the more upbeat songs.

And this:

This entire album pretty much envokes images and emotions of being alone on a cold, windy, wooded mountain in Noveraber or Deceraber. Pretty much the concept of the entire album, even the packaging goes right along with that.

 

[HulaForever]

Disintegration for sure. Also, For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver is a definate.

 

[notachemist]

^^^

Hell yeah for Talk Talk but I much prefer Spirit Of Eden for that wintery sound.

Despite the 'sunny' images, this album does it for me:

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As for tracks here are a few of mine as I like to listen to comps in the dead of winter:
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I will get killed for this considering their Punk Roots but I love this track. The piano that kicks in after a minute is sublime:
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Nuff' said:
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[Stanis]

Miles Davis' quartet spins some very wintery feelings on In a Silent Way. The cold organ and Mclaughlin's shivering guitar lines fit the cold and snowy Connecticut lanRABcape these days.

 

[saja s]

I'll check that out. Winters where I live are hardly cold so I often listen to 'winter' albums whenever I want to imagine that I feel cold. I like moody, dirgy metal for the coldness.

 

[lloquex]

Kenotic - Hammock
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also:
Silver - Jesu
Peregrine - The Appleseed Cast