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Perfect Winter Albums

theescapedslave [Edit] [Delete] 34 replies 13:26, 23 January '12

The Unwound appreciation thread has got my thinking about Leaves Turn Inside You and how it is one of "those" albums...from start to finish something very special. IMHO a flawless collection of claustrophobic songs, consistent in tone, that build to the twin emotional peaks of Terminus and Below The Salt...the ultimate winter album

Whenever I think of Leaves Turn Inside You I am also drawn to three other similarly themed and similarly brilliant albums, namely:

Spiderland by Slint, I Could Live in Hope by Low, and The White Birch by Codeine.

All of these albums maintain a consistency of tone and quality throughout, that frame a peak, that complements what comes before and after rather than making the others look poor by comparison (Washer by Slint (other would probably say Good Monring Cap'n), Lullaby by Low, Ides by Codeine).

So I guess after that, what albums fit this sort of bill for ya'll?

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yeah totally, that record alone evokes many similar ones

City of Caterpillar's self titled
Loveless
post-rock stuff, Mogwai, Explosions, Godspeed etc.

Severed799 | 23 Jan '12, 13:51 | X
Bjork - Vespertine

charliepanayi | 23 Jan '12, 13:51 | X
nothing to do with Unwound though

I always find Clarity by Jimmy Eat World to be a pretty good example

Severed799 | 23 Jan '12, 13:52 | X
OK Computer

GibsonLesPaulCustom | 23 Jan '12, 13:57 | X
- Kid A > OK Computer
  
  dacbo @GibsonLesPaulCustom | 23 Jan '12, 17:03 | X
  - To each their own
    
    Kid A is brilliant but OK Computer is a masterpiece.
    
    I also think Pablo Honey is one of their best albums, just to be controversial!
    
    GibsonLesPaulCustom @dacbo | 23 Jan '12, 18:30 | X
    - But OK Computer isn't wintery...
      
      If anything it's more summery. Kid A sounds wintery.
      
      Oissin_ @GibsonLesPaulCustom | 23 Jan '12, 20:10 | X
Midlake

The trials of van occupanther
or
The courage of others.

crosseyedsniper | 23 Jan '12, 14:36 | X
By The Cure...

...Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography.
By Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here and Porcupine.
I like to imagine the early 80s as being permanently winterbound.

pentargo | 23 Jan '12, 14:40 | X
- Permanently winterbound- exactly
  
  Faith especially! Something about that gated snare sound is really bleak and lonely.
  
  I'll add Chameleons- Script of the Bridge to your 80s nuclear winter playlist if I may
  
  heartworms @pentargo | 23 Jan '12, 16:37 | X
  - You may indeed
    
    I almost included that myself :D
    
    pentargo @heartworms | 23 Jan '12, 17:10 | X
Darkthrone- A Blaze In The Northern Sky

Nico- The Marble Index

Nick Drake- Pink Moon

Big ^this for Spiderland too

heartworms | 23 Jan '12, 16:34 | X
Everything Damien Jurado has ever released.

silverfoxqpr | 23 Jan '12, 16:41 | X
nothing like some Nils Frahm

on a sunny, icy morning in winter

Noblet | 23 Jan '12, 16:45 | X

ignatz this'd this
Richard Skelton - Landings

jimitheexploder | 23 Jan '12, 16:51 | X
- The definition of perfection
  
  I wish the vinyl version wasnt so expensive :(
  
  E_H_Gombreak @jimitheexploder | 23 Jan '12, 17:01 | X
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

PE Hewitt Jazz Ensemble - Winter Winds
Gas - Pop

E_H_Gombreak | 23 Jan '12, 17:02 | X

Oissin_ this'd this
Hood

Cold House and Outside Closer both fit the bill nicely

karl | 23 Jan '12, 17:05 | X
- ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this ^this
  
  -dan- @karl | 23 Jan '12, 19:32 | X
Choose A Bright Morning

by Jeniferever for those cold but still winter mornings.

bigmitch | 23 Jan '12, 17:15 | X
first Fleet Foxes

Lyrically and musically.

funkycow | 23 Jan '12, 17:46 | X
- jesus...
  
  couldn't disagree more...though i loath them no matter what the season.
  
  theescapedslave @funkycow | 23 Jan '12, 18:28 | X
  - Oh sorry, I should have said
    
    Seefeel - Succour
    The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
    Etc
    
    But seriously, FF really does feel wintry. It even has cute lyrics about snow. What's not to like?
    
    funkycow @theescapedslave | 23 Jan '12, 19:29 | X
    - haha..
      
      no probs...fleet foxes are just one of those nails on a chalk board bands for me...
      
      theescapedslave @funkycow | 23 Jan '12, 19:55 | X
Fennesz and Sakamoto - Cendre

Tim Hecker - Haunt Me
Johann Johannson - Englaborn
Thomas Koner - Permafrost
Zelienople - Give It Up

sfajack | 23 Jan '12, 17:54 | X

funkycow this'd this
The Sight Below - Glider

Emanuele Errante - Migrations
Sickoakes - Seawards

Aereomuffin | 23 Jan '12, 18:42 | X
Echospace - The Coldest Season

Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze
Biosphere - Substrata

DriftingSkeleton | 23 Jan '12, 18:50 | X
Ben Frost - By The Throat

chadders | 23 Jan '12, 19:22 | X

Luis_Carruthers and theescapedslave this'd this
For Emma Forever Ago..

Also From a Basement on the Hill.

dis-charge | 23 Jan '12, 19:27 | X
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

Burzum - Filosofem

Luis_Carruthers | 23 Jan '12, 19:46 | X
magazine - secondhand daylight

funboy07 | 23 Jan '12, 19:52 | X

Oissin_ this'd this
- What an album
  
  I'll listen to it now :)
  
  Oissin_ @funboy07 | 23 Jan '12, 20:02 | X
Some great shouts

I'll add

Biosphere & Higher Intelligence Agency - Polar Sequences
Lanterna - Sands
Songs Ohia - Didn't It Rain
Mark Mulcahy - Fathering

and anything Mark Kozelek has ever put his name to

couldbebrianmay | 23 Jan '12, 20:06 | X
Hex Enduction Hour

I think "Winter" is the most perfect rendering of wintery-ness in music that I have ever heard. It doesn't sound like a romanticised version of winter, or a horribly hard winter, just ordinary British winter. But that sounds boring which it isn't in any way. And this version is one of the most perfect things ever recorded. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKI5NGFvCEQ
The rest of the album always sounds very wintery to me as well, especially the opening riff of "Fortress/Deer Park" and "Who Makes The Nazis?"

Oissin_ | 23 Jan '12, 20:06 | X

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