While re-listening to Bitches Brew tonight it occurred to me, there’s never been anything that sounds quite like it since, and there never will be again.
What are your favorite unicorn albums?
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Rage against the machine - rage against the machine album
Pig destroyer - prowler in the yard
Eminem - the slim shady lp and marshal Mathers lp
Alice in chains - dirt
Rob zombie - hell Billy deluxe
Korn, I can’t pick one album
Guns n roses - appetite for destruction
Gutalax - shit beast
Kendrick Lamar to pimp a butterfly
Bones and Beeker self titled album, 2015.
Splashdown - Blue Shift album
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
GWAR - Scumdogs of the Universe
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Steve Reich, music for 18 musicians
‘Mirrored’ by Battles (2007).
They’ve got a mostly traditional setup and instrumentation, but the sounds they make are really strange and unique. Sometimes the words of the songs aren’t real words. It’s just really out there, from start to finish.
Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion.
Latest album is great too. And the OG whourkr stuff
Neil Young, Le Noise is amazing on a good system. The sub sub octave acoustic efffect is very unique.
Protomen volume I - they purposely went against arbitrary recording “laws”
Rush-2112, moving pictures
Also a rare one: Burlap to Cashmere, ,is there anybody out there. Its soooo clearly mixed. Hard to find any in depth info on this album.
Most albums by Mamaleek. They change up the sound on each record, and still stay unlike anyone else. Check out ‘Diner Coffee’ and ‘Vida Blue’.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
Lemon Jelly - lemonjelly ky
The Flashbulb - Opus At The End Of Everything
Crash Injury Trauma by isolrubin.bk. I once read a review stating the album was “music for binge drinking”.
Endtroducing by DJ Shadow
It’s his inaugural album and there’s never been anything quite like it. Even his follow up albums, with his unique sound, feel a bit different than this one (not in a bad way, but I don’t think they meet your unicorn criteria).
Also, I think this easily goes in my top ten albums list.
I never heard of this artist or album before, so far I’m 1/4 through the listening and digging it, thanks for posting
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
This is one of my favorite albums ever.
If anyone was wondering, I believe nearly the whole album is made up of samples.
The Avalanches have a ton of other stuff. If you are a fan of Since I Left You, definitely check out the Gimix version which starts similar but has a lot of different tracks in it (including much more famous songs) https://youtu.be/X7i8bIhJY8c
They’re by far one of my favorite artists. And you are correct. The band has claimed the album has no original recordings at all. And something like over 3000 samples. I still don’t even know how that was possible to do back in the mid 90s when they were making it. They’re other two albums are also great, each one with a different vibe, although they started relying less on samples because of how much it complicated things to ask for so many rights to so many different tracks.
reporting back; this album is lit.
In particular “Since I left you” and “Frontier Psychiatrist” are both jams.
Cake’s first album Fashion Nugget is the kind of unique that we rarely see twice.
