Recommended Non Metal Albums

[Kurt Cocaine]

Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill

Pure psychedelia! Not album where you pick and choose tracks. Stick it on and let it run!  Pure nutty brilliance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-clKFoZOBYs

Saved, nice one.

One of the comments: "Did you hear me touch you with my eyes?" 

[101_North]

Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill

Pure psychedelia! Not album where you pick and choose tracks. Stick it on and let it run!  Pure nutty brilliance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-clKFoZOBYs

Saved, nice one.

One of the comments: "Did you hear me touch you with my eyes?" 

The original LP's inner sleeve warns: "After Listening to this Record, your friends may not know you anymore" and "Only listen to this once a day. Your brain might be destroyed!" 

[astfgyl]

https://youtu.be/ybZk_zzndT0

The moby thing I was on about.

Also I listened to the first of those sonic youth albums there the other night and thought it was decent. I've always had it in my head that those lads were shit but not for any reason, more that I associated them with shit people over the years. Anyway, my loss if it's like that album

[pete]

The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia

https://youtu.be/2OyCZ15xA1o

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Can't really go wrong with any of Songs:Ohia's stuff, good call!

[Blackout]

Japanese popstars - Control your allegiance

Very cool album for running to.

[Nazgûl]

The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia

https://youtu.be/2OyCZ15xA1o

Love this album! The end of Farewell Transmission gets me every time.


Here's one I come to back to often:

Artist: TV On The Radio
Album: Return To Cookie Mountain (2005)

https://youtu.be/YbUsCBBOhak

Hard to categorise, very 'modern' sounding band I suppose. Vocals somewhere between David Bowie (who appears on a track as a guest) and Prince perhaps. Tunes are all over the place stylistically with good doses of post punk, funk, art rock from the late 70s and 80s, and electronic.

[open face surgery]

First tune on one of their albums is a belter. Way home or something like that. Wasn't into the rest of the album.


For some reason people often tend to overlook Third by Portishead. It is quite the departure from the first 2 studio albums and it didn't click with me immediately but with that it is also one of the greatest albums ever written.

https://youtu.be/3Eiv4UyXW7Q

[Nazgûl]

Ah nice shout! I'm the exact same as yourself there, totally underrated album, and while I love their other two albums and appreciate how much it did for that whole Bristol trip hop sound, they moved on with this one and sounded even further out on their own. Caught them live once at a festival...great performance and visuals going on. Machine Gun from this album was heavy as fuck.

[open face surgery]

Serious bucket list band for me. Electric Picnic was of no interest to me but my mother saw them at it and said they were the highlight.

[Blackout]

Seen portishead in 2014 electric picnic and they were deadly. Wouldnt be a band I would buy an album for though.

[open face surgery]

Love this version of Machine Gun. Has an added eeriness to it.

https://youtu.be/n8azH3iJWsI

[Carnage]

The percussion ruins that song for me (it's like an FSOL cast-off) but that's a decent album alright. Their live album (Roseland NYC Live) is superb. As is this, Beth Gibbons guesting with the Polish National Symphony performing Gorecki's Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs:

https://youtu.be/DoaEEVMrL-g

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Must check out that Roseland NYC live album, don't know it at all. An amazing music creating unit they were.

[astfgyl]

Roxy Music - Avalon

Great album. It's almost like it should be shit but it isn't at all.