Been rediscovering Comus First Utterance today for the first time in years. I like it far more now than I did the first time I heard it years ago, my taste is much more geared towards this kind of music now. I've probably listened to The Herald six times over in the last few hours, one of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard. The acoustic section that kicks off around 3:50 is absolute bliss, exactly what my ears wanted to hear today.

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Eerie swirls of music pouring from my speakers as I carve my jack-o-lantern.

Dope as hell.

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Not at what I expected to hear out of a white Swedish girl. All right...fair enough. Some alt hip-hop on an early Friday morning will kickstart my day.

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Going into this, I thought they'd never live up to their Flaming Lips stuff (esp. Soft Bulletin), but it wasn't a competition. It was something totally different...almost retro, almost prog. As I listened, I kept thinking about Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Couldn't figure out why. And then when the last track came on, a dreamlike rendition of Heart of the Sunrise, I was like yeah. Good end.

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This is an old favourite of mine. I've been a Beck fan from the beginning, and this one, lacking any coherent vision like Mellow Gold or Midnite Vultures, just seems like a collection of greatest hits that were never hits.

Not trying to take over this thread or anything...it's just today is a free listening day, so I'm burning through some albums.

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This is my first listen to this. I recommended it to my teenage daughters even before I'd listened to it. I guess it's all right. I just wanted my girls to hear some music very different from what they usually listen to (Of Monsters and Men, The Killers, Anais Mitchell, Amy Winehouse, Daft Punk, Duck Sauce, etc).

Anyway, though this music isn't really my style, I can listen to it, appreciate it, and it's fine on my headphones as I'm doing other things.

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Recently watched the documentary Scott Walker 30th Century man and really enjoyed it and although it seems to me that Scott Walker's solo stuff will take some listening to, they did play a couple of tracks from the Walker Brothers 'comeback' album Nite Flights which was released in 1977 and what a fascinating oddity it is. Far from the wholesome music they pumped out in the 60's this is a left field slice of Pop that sounds completely different to what was in the mainstream at the time. It is up there with Bowie's Berlin years trilogy of albums. It is deceptively deep in scope and off the wall but at the same time very accessible. I urge everyone to listen to this.
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First album for nearly 10 years from one of Death Metal's original and best bands. Wearing their Celtic Frost influences firmly on their sleeves this is a chugging riff laden beast. Old school :)
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Alt - J - An Awesome Wave. A british 'indie' band of whom I had heard the name a couple of times but never bothered with until one of their tunes popped on Sons of Anarchy S6 which I really liked. I actually thought they were American because their sound doesn't really center at all on the typical guitar sound of most British Indie bands but sort of drift through Ambient Electronica, Folk and Art Rock. A very pleasant surprise.

^I like Alt+J

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Ever since I first heard Sigur Ros, I've kept my ears open for Icelandic bands or music produced in Iceland. There's something magical about that place. Son Lux and Julianne Barwick have recorded stuff there that sounds different from their normal stuff -- the influence of Iceland? Anyway, I loved this album the first time I heard it...and here I am today listening to it again for the umpteenth time. It never fails to lift my spirits and take me to that mythical land of the Lionheart, where the creatures with four Dirty Paws help the birds wage a wintry war against the queen bee and her army.