Fantastic Planet

Failure

Our biggest inspiration.
why doesn't more music sound like this?

In general, our sound is most influenced by these first 3 albums in this row,
Fantastic Planet + Mezzanine + F#A#∞

Failure have such a unique harmony of almost jazz-like dissonance that is just wonderful.

Mezzanine

Massive Attack

Addictive, Hypnotic, Immersive.

The perfect album, the most atmospheric album. Impossible not to love.

Fascinating samples, synth swells, but the repetition with layering and atmospheric urban sampling is incredible.

Trip-Hop is a long-time obsession of John's.

F#A#∞

GYBE

We've seen them live!

We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine...
And the machine is bleeding to death.

The urban decay is incredible.

Paired with STALKER Call of Pripyat for favourite apocalypses.

Spiderland

Slint

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Loveless

My Bloody Valentine

There's something genuinely magical about this album at times.

You need to really be ready to feel, but when it works, it's like ecstasy.

You'd Prefer An Astronaut

Hum

My beloved introduction to alt-rock.

Another insomnia classic.

Turn On The Bright Lights

Interpol

Velocity : Design : Comfort

Sweet Trip

Born before we, still sounds like the future.

There is no album more fascinating honestly, from 2003 yet still sounds like the future.

Geogaddi

Boards of Canada

John & Ron grew up listening to Arctic Monkeys & Boards of Canada (+ Coldplay & C418).

In many ways, to us, this album sounds like what the world is like as a child; abstract, wonderous, beautiful-dangerous.

Outer Wilds

Andrew Prahlow

I have played thousands of game hours, watched hundreds of movies, heard hundreds of albums.
Of every media I've ever experienced,
this, outer wilds, is the one I want everyone to experience.
I have no shame to say this game makes me cry.

Go play it, doesn't matter who you are.
It may be the most perfect art ever made.

Bella

Womb

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Hex

Bark Psychosis

Dummy

Portishead

This was the album I stuck on while on the night-time road trip back from family trips as a teenager.
My beloved Dummy.

Psyence Fiction

UNKLE (DJ Shadow)

This album was very unfinished.

It has some incredible moments, it's best known for Rabbit In Headlights, but the standout track to me has always been Bloodstain.

I used to listen to this album over and over when I was 16 and insomnia was brutal, usually while reading webcomics.

40oz. to Freedom

Sublime

My favourite lyricist of all time.

There is no better music to walk to, no better summer music, no better expression of Cioran-ian rebellion against entropy.

Spark up a joint, it's better than death.

MTV Unplugged

Alice in Chains

INTO THE FLOOD AGAIN

Same old trip it was baaaaaack then...

Grace

Jeff Buckley

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Leaves Turn Inside You

Unwound

I discovered this album upon the announcement of vern's death, having never heard of them.
So I quickly went to listen to them to see what the comments were mourning over and discovered what I was missing.

The ultimate autumn album, and Demons Sing Love Songs is one of my all-time favourites.

Big Calm

Morcheeba

Another Insomia Classic.

This was one I used to listen to on repeat when I was 15 and couldn't sleep. I'd just watch the aeroplanes trail across night sky.

Radiohead

In Rainbows

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Joy as an Act of Resistance

IDLES

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Drukqs

Aphex Twin

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Seven Swans

Sufjan Stevens

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Ágætis byrjun

Sigur Rós

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Ys

Joanna Newsom

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MWNG

Super Furry Animals

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Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins

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Schlagenheim

Black Midi

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Deathconsciousness

Have A Nice Life

We've seen them live!

The Money Store

Death Grips

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Relationship of Command

At the Drive In

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Doolittle

Pixies

Songs About Fucking

Big Black

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Jerusalem Crossroads

Lift to Experience

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Flood

Boris

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Houdini

Melvins

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The Holy Bible

Manic Street Preachers

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None So Vile

Cryptopsy

The most vicious musical assault ever recorded.

I like to imagine this album wasn't made, but merely spawned in.
That way, it makes more sense to me, because this is boundary-breaking sound that hardly makes sense within the realms of conventional music.