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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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.
It may not be a “unicorn” per se, but it’s often forgotten since it came out in 2020 and they weren’t able to tour the album. Coldplay’s Everyday Life is an art piece to me.
Honorable mentions:
Black Pumas - Black Pumas Watsky - x Infinity The Avett Brothers - Mignonette Parker Barrow - Jukebox Gypsies Childish Gambino - Because the Internet Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium The Black Keys - Brothers
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun. It’s a mix of drone, post-rock, and folk that is unlike anything I’ve ever heard (NSB’s other albums have similarities, but this one stands out to me)
Honorable mentions:
Boris - Flood
Agalloch - Ashes against the grain
Grace Cathedral Park - In the evenings of regret
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nothing sounds quite like itAbsent Moon by Chuck Salamone
Laurie Anderson Strange Angels I don’t know why but that album hits me so hard. It’s like nothing else I like but I’ve been know to listen to it on loop for hours on end.
Cocteau Twins: Heaven Or Las Vegas
Animal Collective
One classic one I forgot
Art of noise - The seduction of claude debussy
Phenomenal blend of styles to create something truly unique.
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Der Fall der Psychiatrie - Das Flug
At least that was the name I originally knew the EP as. I think it’s since been rereleased as Alles Musz in Flammen Stehen
German electronic punk by a solo artist who’s sadly stopped releasing music some time around 2015.
Loving and saving this whole thread, I’ll add in
Ones & Zeros, Vol. 1 - 3rdegree, not SUPER unique, but it’s instrumental and commitment to they’re concept album’s theme of uploading your consciousness into the internet gives it a ton of charm!
Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson , very surprised I haven’t seen this one in the thread, a classic weird ass prog album by the Kings of Prog themselves (IMO of course). They got a guy to do a bunch of random sounds for the album and he left to become a monk days before they started the album tour lol.
Cake’s first album Fashion Nugget is the kind of unique that we rarely see twice.
