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SYML, Nobody Lives Here

I’m not sure this album is SYML’s best, but it certainly was the one I returned to time and again on my media player.

Do As Infinity, EIGHT

I never got around to owning this album on a physical format, and listening to again a decade later makes me think it’s probably the best in the band’s 20-year discography. It holds up incredibly well.

Rammstein, Mutter

I get the sense this album might be Rammstein’s most accessible.

Club Nouveau, Listen to the Message

Club Nouveau’s Life, Laugh and Love is an unsung 80s classic, but its socially-conscious follow-up didn’t replicate that success, despite being an album of much deeper thoughtfulness and more forceful messaging.

Hamilton Leithauser, Black Hours

I kept coming back to this album because Leithauser doesn’t seem to like being beholden to a single style.

Ray Lynch, Deep Breakfast

I have a soft spot for new age music from the 1980s, and modern dance music owes a lot of its ethereal pads to work by the likes of Lynch. I did think “Celestial Soda Pop” was a set of variations on Blondie’s “Call Me.”

Cynthia Erivo, I Forgive You

I would have thought the success of Erivo’s work on Wicked and a concert performance of Jesus Christ Superstar would have rubbed off on this album, but it seems like nobody’s talking about it. And I’d much prefer to listen to this album than Wicked.

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