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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Dubstep has entered the chat - two standouts for me:
The One - Ganja White Night Tesseract - Subtronics
No one out there is able to emulate their sounds, they really sound unique!
Cake’s first album Fashion Nugget is the kind of unique that we rarely see twice.
The first, like, 5 albums by They Might Be Giants are unique in their own ways. Just different blends of wackiness and musical sophistication, it’s sublime.
They are such a blast! Their children’s albums are great, too; I played them all the time in English classes.
I grew up with them, and to this day I’ve never found anyone who quite matches that sound. Just pure musical creativity.
I’m gonna resist quibbling about what “completely unique” ought to mean, but in the spirit of how people are answering, I’ll submit Daliborovo Granje, Hainin. https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin
Croatian psychedelic instrumental rock.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUfQzCvWRPGdjZQR2Snca0k275TIaJ8Qh
“In kommer Gösta” is my favourite proto-progg track!
My word. That is both rancid and compelling at the same time. A great listen!
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
The Prodigy - The Fat of The Land
It’s a one of a kind album. I don’t think the prodigy ever made another album that good. And I don’t think there is anything else out there similar to it. It has its own energy, it’s definitely a unicorn type.
Yeah. For quite a while I thought this was a best of, given the name too, until I realized it was just a regular album. Definitely their best.
The first album of The Crystal Method also no givese similar vibes.
Smack My Bitch Up is insane. They won’t even play it in music venues and bars anymore, sadly :(
The music video was insane!
Any album by Pink Floyd.
Even mostly works if you compare said album to other albums by Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon as a classic notable callout.
Death metal band takes death metal and flips it on its head. I forget the exact phrasing from an interview with the frontman Luc Lemay, but he said they wanted to make their instruments speak in a new way. It’s highly experimental and maybe tough to digest even for death metal fans, but it’s undeniably unique and brilliant.
So great. Coloured sands as well
This thread showed up like it was meant for me in this very moment as I’m currently laying in my sofa and blasting this on high volume and drowning in the vibe:
Afro Celt Sound System - Volume 2: Release (Real World Gold)
Haven’t heard anything truly like it so I think it fits the thread.
This album has been with me since my childhood.
My mom used to house sit this crazy special house during the summers around 1998-2005 that belongs to a clay sculpture artist, my mom discovered this band there and loved this album especially.
It was mostly my mom, me (born 1990) and my little sister (born 1992) in the middle of the woods all summer break in this absolutely dream like house, it’s something out of a movie really.
A lot of the house was built by the artist dude, with tons of handmade clay sculptures, mosaics, wooden details of animals and twisted tree logs built into the structure. The sides of the road through the woods to the house was filled with totem poles, human-ish figures and other sculptures.
We just enjoyed the woods and the house, made clay art and nice food, went bathing in the river and took care of the garden.
There are so many deeply connected smells, sounds, sights and feelings in me to that house, it really affected me in a great way.
I so wish I could post photos of it but I have no contact with the owner and don’t want to do it without his permission.There are some greats listed here (Ween, Jarre, FSOL, Lovage, Aphex, Shpongle, Air, etc.)
However my pick is Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn The only thing similar to this is his own album Incantations a few years later, but there just isnt anything like it from start to finish.
If you want a positively singular album, check out Oldfield’s Amarok. It’s a unique experience, start to finish, and the story behind it is great.
A fortune teller told a father his kids were destined for stardom. Empowered by this, he forced the teen/adult kids to form a band. The result breaks all the rules of music. ALL of them. Ones that you don’t even know existed. Frank Zappa considers them better than the beatles
If Zappa says they’re good… Saving this comment to check 'em out later.
Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada.
LITERALLY EVERYTHING HORSE THE BAND HAS EVER DONE!
Seriously, one of the most under appreciated bands of all time. _A Million Exploding Suns_is a fucking masterpiece.
