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Albums That Sound Like an Unsettling Dream
Albums That Sound Like an Unsettling Dream
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For listeners who want an album to feel like a place rather than a playlist: records whose voices blur, whose sounds shift shape and whose calm always has something slightly wrong underneath. The...
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Science Fiction Film Scores With Distinctive Sounds
Science Fiction Film Scores With Distinctive Sounds
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Science fiction has pushed film composers further than any other genre: toward home-built circuits, kitchen mixing bowls, a Soviet photoelectronic synthesizer, Indonesian gamelan and custom-built...
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Storytelling Karaoke Songs That Don't Need a Big Voice
Storytelling Karaoke Songs That Don't Need a Big Voice
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For the person who wants the microphone but not the high note. Every song here wins the room through character, timing and a tale worth following: half-spoken verses, comic twists, duets with a...
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Pop Albums with More to Offer Than Their Biggest Single
Pop Albums with More to Offer Than Their Biggest Single
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A huge single can leave the rest of a good pop record in the shade. These choices are worth exploring for their less familiar songs: a surprise change in vocal character, a stranger rhythm or a...
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Japanese City Pop Albums for Going beyond Viral Singles
Japanese City Pop Albums for Going beyond Viral Singles
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City pop, the polished Japanese pop of the late 1970s and 1980s, reached a new audience online through a handful of songs such as Plastic Love and Stay With Me. This list is for listeners who...
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French-Language Pop Albums with Distinctive Personalities
French-Language Pop Albums with Distinctive Personalities
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French-language pop is far broader than the chanson stereotype. Across France, Belgium and Quebec it takes in orchestral concept albums, yé-yé, hip-hop, electro-pop, baroque pop and voice-only...
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Indonesian Pop and Indie Albums for Curious Newcomers
Indonesian Pop and Indie Albums for Curious Newcomers
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Indonesia has one of the richest pop scenes in Asia, though few listeners abroad know it. In the late 1970s, songwriters and progressive rock musicians mixed orchestral pop, jazz and gamelan...
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Art-Pop Albums That Keep the Door Open
Art-Pop Albums That Keep the Door Open
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Art-pop works best when its strangest ideas still welcome you inside. These albums take unusual routes through synthesisers, chamber arrangements and unruly digital textures, and each earned its...
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Albums for People Who Usually Only Listen to Singles
Albums for People Who Usually Only Listen to Singles
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Know the hits but rarely stay for the album? These records offer an inviting next step: immediate songs, a clear sense of movement and less familiar tracks that repay staying put. The choices...
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Dance-Pop Albums Built for More Than One Big Night
Dance-Pop Albums Built for More Than One Big Night
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A great dance-pop album gives you reasons to keep moving after the obvious single. These records sustain a personality across their tracklists through bass lines, vocal character and changes in...
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Synth-Pop Albums for People Who Love a Strong Melody
Synth-Pop Albums for People Who Love a Strong Melody
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For listeners who love a tune they can carry away, these records put melody at the centre of electronic pop. The attraction varies: Erasure offer vocal drama, Shura makes room for uncertainty, and...
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Arabic Pop Albums with Strong Songs across the Tracklist
Arabic Pop Albums with Strong Songs across the Tracklist
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Arabic pop spans many dialects and scenes: Cairo's orchestral tarab tradition and its Mediterranean pop descendants, Beirut's jazz-tinged songwriting and indie rock, Iraqi classical poetry set to...
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Japanese Jazz Albums for Curious First-Time Listeners
Japanese Jazz Albums for Curious First-Time Listeners
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Japanese jazz covers lyrical piano trios, hard-driving post-bop, audiophile recordings, big band works that bring in Japanese instruments, jazz-funk and the bright fusion bands of the 1980s. This...
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Bubblegum Pop Songs with Surprisingly Clever Arrangements
Bubblegum Pop Songs with Surprisingly Clever Arrangements
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It is easy to dismiss bubblegum pop as pure sugar, but making a song sound effortless takes real arranging skill: counter-melodies, odd bar lengths, sudden drop-outs and borrowed sounds that slip...
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Albums That Balance Experimentation with Great Songs
Albums That Balance Experimentation with Great Songs
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For curious listeners who enjoy a memorable tune or groove and want to hear what can happen around it, these records offer adventurous sounds with something clear to hold. Strange voices, abrupt...
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