Gave a few from @theQuietus top 100 a listen yesterday. The common thread seems to be albums that need to be consumed whole, that steer towards accepted "genres" and then steer away from them and offer intrigue and the promise of repeated joys. This is a good thing...
...if you see listening to music as an exercise in identifying and filing-away then I can see how few of them grab the listener by the collar and scream clearly about what they are in a way that's immediate and understandable...
Take the UKAEA album. If I listened to 30 seconds of the first track to try and "get a feel for it" then my perception of what that record is would be really different than if I listened to the whole thing. And more importantly I'd be missing out...
Fair play to tQ for picking so many albums that require an investment of time when that's the one thing most people have a little more of right now.
Tuck in to that list - but if you're going to tuck in then *really* tuck in. Don't be a genre-spod.
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