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And Mirrored isn't instrumental, it has vocals! Wink


Sorta. I mean,sure, if you want to call those oompa-loompa sounds vocals!


It was a joke.. I agree that they are instrumental.


Umm. I was joking too. Oompy-Loompy?


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I mean, they sound like an oopma-loompa who had some helium fun..

..anyways, darn this internet! Always making it a challenge to tell jokes from serious. You kid? I kid!
 
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Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Do Make Say Think -WHCHSH
The Advantage - Elf Titled
Mogwai - Happy Music for happy people
Lightning bolt - Hypermagic mountain
 
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Dirty Three - Ocean Songs

Hadn't thought about them for a while but they are truly good. Would probably choose Horse Stories as my favorite album though.
 
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Mogwai - Happy Music for happy people


I forgot to mention this one. I think it's far and away Mogwai's best.


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Mogwai - Happy Music for happy people


I forgot to mention this one. I think it's far and away Mogwai's best.


Agreed. There are some gorgeous melodies, and heaps of highly controlled energy.


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I guess I don't consider Mirrored instrumental. I can see the argument about the vocals serving as an instrument, but there's still lyrics.
Most of my favorite "instrumental" albums actually have some lyrics: Hypermagic Mountain, You, You're A History In Rust, and to some extent Mirrored.

I love Clark's Body Riddle (which does contain four words, but they're quiet...), From Here We Go Sublime, and pretty much everything Aphex Twin has done. Explosions in the Sky are good too. I like "Moya" from Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada (since the second track has words, even if they're recordings, I guess). I actually bought f#a#(infinity), but inside the case was Slow Riot...

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Hmm, instrumentals huh? Let’s see.

There are all of the symphonies by Beethoven (nine), Tchaikovsky (six), Brahms (four), at least a dozen from Haydn and at least 30 of Mozart’s. That would be a pretty good start, then we can get into other stuff. But yeah, you should check those out.


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Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust

These are two of the best albums you will ever listen to.
 
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All of the music listed so far is very very good. I would have listed all of these albums, but I'd like to add that I really like...
Tristeza-Dream Signals in Full Circle
Four Tet- Rounds
Flying Saucer Attack Further
anything by M83
Saxon Shore Four Months of Darkness
Fennesz=Endless Summer
Neu!
Unwed Sailor- The Faithful Anchor

Great board! My favorite music tends to be instrumental because “music is louder than words, and brighter than pictures”. Goodbye!
 
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Metal heads - and even those who aren't - check out Behold...The Arctopus. This is kewl stuff.
 
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Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson - Miles Davis
A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchesra
Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
Pat Metheny Group - Pat Metheny Group
Romantic Warrior - Return to Forever
Black Market - Weather Report
Secrets - Allan Holdsworth
Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock
Hot Rats - Frank Zappa (mostly)
Bundles - Soft Machine
Yellowjackets - Yellowjackets
Gordian Knot - Gordian Knot
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Sprials in Hyperspace - Ozric Tentacles
Happy the Man - Happy the Man
Hydrophonia - Roine Stolt
The Snow Goose - Camel
F#a#∞ - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
TNT - Tortoise
Codename://Dustsucker - Bark Psychosis
Mr Beast - Mogwai
Is there Love in Space? - Joe Satriani
Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai
No Pussyfooting - Fripp & Eno

Leaving out a ton, but yeah, I can't believe I'm one of the only ones to mention jazz. :P


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Leaving out a ton, but yeah, I can't believe I'm one of the only ones to mention jazz. :P


Probably because this is the indie rock forum...hmmm...

Anyways, it's a good list, and the jazz stuff you chose is all amazing.


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A good instrumental/electronic release for this year is Glider by The Sight Below. I think fans of the Field should like it, though it's not as obviously beat driven and is leans more towards ambient. Does this recommendation belong in this thread?
 
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Qualification: These are either purely or mostly instrumental. I think the focus of all these albums is their ability to convey certain mindsets [i.e. emotions and whatnot] through instrumentation alone.

Squarepusher - Music Is Rotted One Note
Mogwai - Young Team
Battles - Mirrored [essentially instrumental]
Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop [same as above]
Sunn 0))) - Black One
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsum
Tortoise - TNT
Tim Hecker - Imaginary Country and Harmony In Ultraviolet
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock [Do vocals-as-instrument count?]
Sigur Ros - Ágætis byrjun [Hopelandic cannot be called vocals]
Rodan - Rusty
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow & Hypermagic Mountain [really underrated I feel]

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
 
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