While re-listening to Bitches Brew tonight it occurred to me, there’s never been anything that sounds quite like it since, and there never will be again.

What are your favorite unicorn albums?

  • nafzib@lemmy.world
    9·
    7 days ago

    Endtroducing by DJ Shadow

    It’s his inaugural album and there’s never been anything quite like it. Even his follow up albums, with his unique sound, feel a bit different than this one (not in a bad way, but I don’t think they meet your unicorn criteria).

    Also, I think this easily goes in my top ten albums list.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      2·
      6 days ago

      I never heard of this artist or album before, so far I’m 1/4 through the listening and digging it, thanks for posting

  • snik@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

    Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly ky

    The Flashbulb - Opus At The End Of Everything

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I live under a rock, and I live in my own temporal warp field of mostly avante garde jazz works from 1940s-1990s

      So from the bottom of my heart, thank you for sharing this, I am loving the hell out of it!

    • Mechanite@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      This is one of my favorite albums ever.

      If anyone was wondering, I believe nearly the whole album is made up of samples.

      The Avalanches have a ton of other stuff. If you are a fan of Since I Left You, definitely check out the Gimix version which starts similar but has a lot of different tracks in it (including much more famous songs) https://youtu.be/X7i8bIhJY8c

      • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        They’re by far one of my favorite artists. And you are correct. The band has claimed the album has no original recordings at all. And something like over 3000 samples. I still don’t even know how that was possible to do back in the mid 90s when they were making it. They’re other two albums are also great, each one with a different vibe, although they started relying less on samples because of how much it complicated things to ask for so many rights to so many different tracks.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    6 days ago

    Neil Young, Le Noise is amazing on a good system. The sub sub octave acoustic efffect is very unique.

    Protomen volume I - they purposely went against arbitrary recording “laws”

    Rush-2112, moving pictures

    Also a rare one: Burlap to Cashmere, ,is there anybody out there. Its soooo clearly mixed. Hard to find any in depth info on this album.

  • 2FortGaming@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Loving and saving this whole thread, I’ll add in

    Ones & Zeros, Vol. 1 - 3rdegree, not SUPER unique, but it’s instrumental and commitment to they’re concept album’s theme of uploading your consciousness into the internet gives it a ton of charm!

    Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson , very surprised I haven’t seen this one in the thread, a classic weird ass prog album by the Kings of Prog themselves (IMO of course). They got a guy to do a bunch of random sounds for the album and he left to become a monk days before they started the album tour lol.

  • alt_xa_23@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 days ago

    Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun. It’s a mix of drone, post-rock, and folk that is unlike anything I’ve ever heard (NSB’s other albums have similarities, but this one stands out to me)

    Honorable mentions:

    Boris - Flood

    Agalloch - Ashes against the grain

    Grace Cathedral Park - In the evenings of regret

  • Gary Ghost@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 days ago

    Rage against the machine - rage against the machine album

    Pig destroyer - prowler in the yard

    Eminem - the slim shady lp and marshal Mathers lp

    Alice in chains - dirt

    Rob zombie - hell Billy deluxe

    Korn, I can’t pick one album

    Guns n roses - appetite for destruction

    Gutalax - shit beast

    Kendrick Lamar to pimp a butterfly