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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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Chamber Music Albums with an Unusual Instrumental Combination
Chamber Music Albums with an Unusual Instrumental Combination
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The string quartet and piano trio are tried and tested, but chamber music often becomes most vivid when composers combine unexpected instruments: horn with violin and piano, trumpet with strings...
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Classical Albums for People Who Do Not Know Where to Begin
Classical Albums for People Who Do Not Know Where to Begin
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Classical music can seem intimidating, with centuries of repertoire and dozens of recordings of every famous piece. The easiest way in is through works with strong melodies and immediate drama...
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Contemporary Classical Albums with an Inviting First Listen
Contemporary Classical Albums with an Inviting First Listen
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Twentieth- and twenty-first-century classical music has a reputation for harsh, academic dissonance, but much of it is lyrical, direct and beautiful on first hearing, drawing on minimalist pulse...
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Bluegrass Albums That Make the Ensemble the Star
Bluegrass Albums That Make the Ensemble the Star
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Bluegrass is celebrated for lightning-fast breaks and high lonesome singing, but its truest magic happens between the players. In a great band, five or six acoustic instruments lock into one...
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Orchestral Albums for Listeners Who Love Cinematic Drama
Orchestral Albums for Listeners Who Love Cinematic Drama
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Long before film scores, nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers were creating the musical language of screen drama: blazing brass, surging string themes, pounding ostinatos and huge climaxes...
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Choral Albums That Make the Human Voice Feel Vast
Choral Albums That Make the Human Voice Feel Vast
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You do not need music theory or Latin to be overwhelmed by great choral music. When many voices lock into harmony in a resonant space, the physical effect can rival any film score. This list is...
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Baroque Albums with Rhythmic Energy and Colour
Baroque Albums with Rhythmic Energy and Colour
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Baroque music is often treated as polite background strings, but seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music is full of driving dance rhythms, bold harmonic clashes, theatrical colour and virtuoso...
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Piano Trio Albums That Feel Like Three-Way Conversations
Piano Trio Albums That Feel Like Three-Way Conversations
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In a traditional rhythm section, the piano takes the spotlight while bass and drums keep time. In the greatest piano trios that hierarchy dissolves: the three players listen and react at lightning...
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Modal Jazz Albums That Make Space Feel Exciting
Modal Jazz Albums That Make Space Feel Exciting
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In bebop, soloists run an obstacle course of changing chords, sometimes two in a single bar. Modal jazz opened up the room: by paring harmony down to one scale or a sustained chord for long...
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Classical Piano Albums with a Clear Emotional Character
Classical Piano Albums with a Clear Emotional Character
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The concert grand can whisper, thunder or sing, and in classical music the pianist's touch, timing and pedalling decide how the same notes feel. For newcomers, the sheer number of recordings can...
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Acoustic Albums That Never Feel Bare
Acoustic Albums That Never Feel Bare
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A great acoustic album does not succeed just by leaving out electric instruments. The best ones build a full world from the resonance of wood and wire, purposeful space, the grain of a voice and...
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Portuguese-Language Albums That Show Very Different Musical Worlds
Portuguese-Language Albums That Show Very Different Musical Worlds
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Portuguese is spoken across four continents, and its music is far more varied than Brazilian standards alone suggest. This list is for listeners who want to hear how different the Lusophone world...
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