Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus

Genre: Indie Rap, Hip-hop
Year: 1997
About: Being Company Flow's only official LP, it is also one of the pioneering albums of the Indie Rap movement. Containing abstract lyrics and unusual beats, it is also the launching point of El-P's career. This is one of the most independent rap albums out there, as well as being a huge influence on almost every alternative rapper alive today.
Sounds Like: Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, Cannibal Ox, Atmosphere
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Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown

Genre: Reggae, Dub
Year: 1976
About: King Tubby's radical production shows its teeth here on this release, setting the trend for all dub to come after. Augustus Pablo was the first melodica player to use the instrument so extensively on a recording. If you love dub, or are looking for an album to start with, you've found it. King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown will satisfy your soul.
Sounds Like: King Tubby, The Upsetters, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Hugh Mundell
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Death Cab for Cutie Discography

Genre: Indie
About: Originally the sole project of Ben Gibbard, the group's name was taken from a song performed by the Bonzo Dog Band in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film. Gibbard expanded the band after the success of the first demo into a four piece outfit. Gibbard's poetic lyrics and straightforward songwriting paint vast images in your mind's eye. Simple but beautiful lyrics include "Drinking champagne from a paper cup is never quite the same" from Champagne from a Paper Cup. The songs are played with a passion and you can feel it. The songs often tell a story, albeit melancholy and heartbreaking at times, that's easily related to by the average human being.
Sounds Like: The Postal Service, The Shins, The Decemberists, Bright Eyes
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You Can Play These Songs with Chords Demo (1997)

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Something About Airplanes (1998)

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We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes (2000)

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The Forbidden Love EP (2000)

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The Photo Album (2001)

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The Stability EP (2002)

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Transatlanticism (2003)

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Studio X Sessions EP (2004)

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The John Byrd EP (2005)

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Plans (2005)

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Narrow Stairs (2008)

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The Open Door EP (2009)

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Gkfoes vjgoaf - What is a Dream Earth Bed

Genre: Psychedelic, Folk, Electronic
Year: 2008
About: A home recorded psych-folk album that uses chilled-out electronic effects and samples too. Think "Campfire Songs", if it were a chillwave album also. Very pretty, semi-droning stuff that anyone can get lost in. You know... what is a dream earth bed anyways?
Sounds Like: Animal Collective, Songs of Green Pheasant, Sun Araw, Pocahaunted
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Torche - s/t

Genre: Stoner, Doom, Psychedelic
Year: 2005
About: The debut album from Miami based stoner band Torche, it features driving rhythms and hypnotic riffs that draw you into a world of sludge only Torche could have crafted. This is not your typical doom album either, it's not "solely" suited for "stoners". Many of the songs are very melodic (save for Fuck Addict) and the vocals are sung in a clear, understandable way with low distortion. Torche perfectly blend the greatest aspects of doom metal with catchy and complexly written songs, resulting in one of your new favorite metal records.
Sounds Like: Mastodon, Baroness, Electric Wizard, High on Fire, Zoroaster
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The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Genre: Ambient House

Year: 1991

About: This is one ambient album that takes you to another universe, one "beyond the Ultraworld." Pioneering the ambient house genre, the Orb takes massive out-of-this-world soundscapes and adds a rocking danceable beat. The influences heard on this album are vast and far-reaching, including dub and 70's progressive rock such as Pink Floyd. The Orb crafts masterful environments with their music, as only true ambient artists can, and leave you in awe of the dimension you have just encountered.

Sounds Like: The Future Sound of London, The KLF, Orbital, Sun Electric, System 7

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Jesu Discography

Genre: Post-Metal, Shoegaze, Drone, Ambient
About: Justin Broadrick (of former Godflesh, Napalm Death, Final, and Techno Animal fame) claims that Jesu are not any of the genre's listed above, and that they make what he considers to be coherent and structured pop songs. By no means is any Jesu song a "pop" song, as every song is a different venture through the deep realms of drone and spacious metal. You can definitely hear all of Broadrick's various influences as each album defies many rules of the genre. Though they have not received much reception in the mainstream or underground universes, Jesu are a hidden gem that create incredible drone jams and metal epics.
Sounds Like: Godflesh, Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, Sunn O)))
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Heart Ache (2004)

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Jesu (2005)

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Silver (2006)

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Conqueror (2007)

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Sun Down/Sun Rise (2007)

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Pale Sketches (2007)

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Lifeline (2007)

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Why Are We Not Perfect? (2008)

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Infinity (2009)

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Opiate Sun (2009)

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Phish - Lawn Boy

Genre: Jam
Year: 1990
About: I originally wrote a lot about this album, but i accidentally deleted the draft and am too lazy to write it again. Lawn Boy is fucking good, just as good as Junta and possibly even better. Listen to Reba and yadadadadadadadadadadadadaddadadadada DOWNLOOOOOOOAD!!!!!!
Sounds Like: The Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Umphrey's Mcgee, moe., String Cheese Incident
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NOTE: This album is in WMA Lossless format, resulting is larger file sizes but AMAZING sound quality. Completely worth the extra space. Also, iPod users will need to convert to AAC upon importing (prompted automatically to do so.)

Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees

Genre: Ambient, Drone
Year: 2005
About: Talk Amongst the Trees is Eluvium's third album, but is widely considered among fans to be his best. The albums heavily uses pedals and loop processing to layer every song with an intense, unique droning effect. The entire album has a depressed, environmental-apocalypse feel to it, but to some extent may invoke positive emotions in the listener as it can open your mind to the world around you. As the title suggests, this is an album that is best enjoyed amongst the trees. So roll up a few j's, put your headphones in, enter the woods and enjoy.
Sounds Like: Stars of the Lid, Tim Hecker, Jonsi & Alex, William Basinski
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Death - Human

Genre: Death Metal, Progressive
Year: 1991
About: Released by what has been called "the death metal band that started it all," Human marked a stylistic change for the band to a more technical, progressive death metal sound. The lyrics changed from the cliche blood and gore to the introspective and pensive. Get this: you can actually understand these lyrics though he screams them. This album is constantly heavy, relentless, and aggressive, with a few spacey interludes thrown in for good measure, and the riffs are amazing. There are great time changes and start/stop rhythms throughout. This album is incredible, unlike any other in its genre, and if you're a fan of death metal, or metal in general, you're sure to enjoy it.
Sounds Like: Morbid Angel, Atheist, Obituary, Necrophagist
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Rush Partial Discography 1974-1985

Genre: Progressive, Hard Rock

About: Does Rush even need an introduction? Here you will find about the first half of Rush's impressive body of work. Formed in Toronto, Ontario, Rush quickly expanded their sound past the original hard rock formula and became some of the front runners of the burgeoning progressive rock scene around the world. Each member has much technical skill, and the complex songwriting draws heavily from many ideas and otherworldly concepts. After joining in as drummer in 1974 before their first U.S. tour, Neil Peart assumed lyric writing duties for the band, adding more of a fantasy and science-fiction element. Rush rapidly rose to the status of a talented band not to be ignored. They have become one of the most successful musical acts in history, placing them third behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in consecutive gold or platinum studio albums, and have influenced a variety of acts in the progressive, metal, and alternative genres.

Sounds Like: Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Kansas, Camel

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Rush (1974)

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Fly by Night (1975)

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Caress of Steel (1975)

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2112 (1976)

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A Farewell to Kings (1977)

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Hemispheres (1978)

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Permanent Waves (1980)

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Moving Pictures (1981)

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Signals (1982)

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Grace Under Pressure (1984)

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Power Windows (1985)

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Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient
Year: 1991
About: Talk Talk's 5th and final album, but only their 2nd post-rock album. Their previous 3 albums were all synthpop, so the fact that they could move from making synthpop to post-rock is already amazing enough. Some beautiful tracks on here, very emotional stuff.
Sounds Like: Bark Psychosis, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hood, Crippled Black Phoenix, Dirty Three
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Gastr del Sol - The Serpentine Similar + 20 Songs Less

Genre: Post-Rock, Experimental
Year: 1993
About: The debut album and first EP by this amazing post-rock band from Chicago, featuring Jim O'Rourke of future Sonic Youth fame. If you dig crazy ass shit, dig this.
Sounds Like: Tortoise, Slint, Cul de Sac, June of 44, Fly Pan Am, Bark Psychosis
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Television - Marquee Moon

Genre: Punk, Post-Punk, New Wave

Year: 1977

About: Imagine complex punk, but Television weren't concerned with speed and aggression like other punk bands. They were ahead of their contemporaries of the time and this introspective album shows it. The instrument arrangement are carefully placed, as not to show off, but you still get a sense of their virtuosity. The lyrics are passionately sung, and at times even seems to be a precursor to emo. The guitar lines are stunning, and weave in and out of your ears wonderfully. Such lengthy compostitions were unhead of in the punk scene at the time of this album's release. You can feel this record; they succeeded.

Sounds Like: Wire, Gang of Four, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, The Modern Lovers

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Wavves Discography

Genre: Lo-Fi, Noise, Pop Punk, Indie
About: Wavves are a lo-fi pop punk band from San Diego, and are led by lead singer/guitarist Nathan Williams (pictured above). Wavves were originally a two-piece band consisting of just Williams and Ryan Ulsh on drums. This line-up was consistent through their first two albums, until Williams experienced a public breakdown in mid-2009, in Spain, due to being fucked up on X and valium (psssssssh). He proceeded to get into a fight with Ulsh and insult the spanish crowd, who then pelted him with bottles and shoes. The next day, Williams apologized and admitted to being addicted to alcohol. Ulsh shortly left Wavves after the incident, and was replaced by Zach Hill (Hella, Team Sleep) for a short time. In November 2009, Hill left and Williams recruited Jay Reatard's former band members, which turned Wavves into a 3-piece band for the first time. Their sound is often considered to be just a noisy blink-182, and while sounding very much like the pop punk gods, Wavves still have enough creative energy to give themselves their own unique sound which should not be missed out on. Any lover of lo-fi jams or catchy noise punk tunes should definitely give Wavves a good listen.
Sounds Like: No Age, blink-182, Jay Reatard, Pavement, Woods, Real Estate
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Wavves (2008)

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Wavvves (2009)

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King of the Beach (2010)

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