Recommended Non Metal Albums

[Obsidian]

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Caretaker's album series "Everywhere At The End Of Time" is a masterpiece. In total the stages 1 - 6 combine into this 6 hour 30 min journey almost like a dementia simulator. It's an exploration of sound patterns and the decline of memories and the human mind. It's both beautiful and heartbreaking and terrifying all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc

[open face surgery]

I haven't listened to that but I absolutely love An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Really hit a chord with me for some reason. It's so beautifully harrowing in a minimal sense. Used to always have it on while meditating.

[Obsidian]

Yeah that one is savage too.  This one is a real trip. I think the main melody is lifted from The Shinings end scene. It progressively gets more dissonant and confusing as it goes on. It's a real trip.

[Airneanach]

Bought a few of their albums there, after this stuck in my head. Went for the deluxe versions as they're fairly cheap these days, so plenty of extra material to get through.

I watched The Insatiable Ones again the other night, great documentary on the history and reformation of the band if anyone's bothered.

Nice one. Have all the standard pressings alright and the b-sides but I'd say you're sorted for plenty of those with the deluxe, which is a good thing as quite a lot of their top shelf stuff are the b-sides.

I know it's a non-album single, but "Stay Together" is one of my favourite songs ever written.

It's brilliant. Especially the mental ten minute odd version. The band hate it, too, and they're dead fucking wrong. Prime contender for top tunes disowned by their creators.

[astfgyl]

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Caretaker's album series "Everywhere At The End Of Time" is a masterpiece. In total the stages 1 - 6 combine into this 6 hour 30 min journey almost like a dementia simulator. It's an exploration of sound patterns and the decline of memories and the human mind. It's both beautiful and heartbreaking and terrifying all at once.

The description has me intrigued

[Nazgûl]

I haven't listened to that but I absolutely love An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Really hit a chord with me for some reason. It's so beautifully harrowing in a minimal sense. Used to always have it on while meditating.

Love this album and haven't heard it in ages. I never owned as physical copy just had it ripped onto a harddrive from a mate who had it. The concept of sampling and looping that real old time ballroom music and manipulating it the way he does is indeed beautifully harrowing as you put it, sometimes a little eerie. I believe he came up with the idea when reading a study about Alzheimer's patients being able to remember music from their very early years, and this was sort of his idea of how that may sound.

[Nazgûl]

Artist: Tim Hecker
Album: Ravedeath 1972
Year: 2011
Genre: ambient, drone, experimental
RIYL: Ben Frost, Daniel Lopatin, Haxan Cloak, William Basinksi, etc.

Recorded on a church organ in Iceland, then brought back to his studio in Canada and chopped up, digitally processed, all sorts (think what Kevin Shields manages to get out of a guitar tonally, but for an organ!) resulting in a really fucking cool and  atmospheric album. Worth reading into the artwork and the concept too online, as the album seems to broadly be about the 'degradation of music and/or the endlessness of music." as one review put it nicely.

[livingabortion]

I maybe overly happy and poppy but I like Huey Lewis And The News 'Sports' and 'Fore!' albums

[open face surgery]

Been all over Them Crooked Vultures this week. What a fuckin deadly album!? Mad beats, sounds and great vocals. Def the best album to come from Grohl or Homme's current bands.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Been all over Them Crooked Vultures this week. What a fuckin deadly album!? Mad beats, sounds and great vocals. Def the best album thing from Grohl or Homme's current bands.

Good call, and agreed. Gonna stick it on myself now.

[Pedrito]

Just stuck it on myself from that recommendation. Excellent

[astfgyl]

Artist: Tim Hecker
Album: Ravedeath 1972
Year: 2011
Genre: ambient, drone, experimental
RIYL: Ben Frost, Daniel Lopatin, Haxan Cloak, William Basinksi, etc.

Recorded on a church organ in Iceland, then brought back to his studio in Canada and chopped up, digitally processed, all sorts (think what Kevin Shields manages to get out of a guitar tonally, but for an organ!) resulting in a really fucking cool and  atmospheric album. Worth reading into the artwork and the concept too online, as the album seems to broadly be about the 'degradation of music and/or the endlessness of music." as one review put it nicely.

Put this on last night while painting and it was a decent listen. Sort of put me in mind of Alessandro Cortini in places.

[astfgyl]

Speaking of which, here's a playlist of one of his albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX4_krGL8Zc&list=PLNCJBXC1Dsts1W4zcl6BM8MFtndh6quZA

Artist: Alessandro Cortini
Album: Avanti
Year: 2017
Genre: ambient, drone

Any of this fella's stuff is great

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Caretaker's album series "Everywhere At The End Of Time" is a masterpiece. In total the stages 1 - 6 combine into this 6 hour 30 min journey almost like a dementia simulator. It's an exploration of sound patterns and the decline of memories and the human mind. It's both beautiful and heartbreaking and terrifying all at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc

The algorithm pushed this up at me an hour ago and I clicked thanks to having seen your recommendation here. I feel somewhere between joyful, weepy, and anxious, with much of the journey yet to come. Wave to me from the shore until I disappear.

[astfgyl]

I have it on here as well. It's pretty miserable stuff.

Edit: An hour of that misery was enough for the one sitting but it's not bad at all as an experiment in hopelessness.