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xSmackSoundx
xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
edited May 2008 in Other Music
I like complex awesome layered music... even sometimes just instrumental... these are some of my favorite albums...

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Pinback - Blue Screen Life

I need more music of this awesome sound quality and writing. Albums like these are hard to come by... I want an acquired taste... something challenging to get into... please help me..
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,018
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    I like complex awesome layered music... even sometimes just instrumental... these are some of my favorite albums...

    Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
    Radiohead - In Rainbows
    Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
    Pinback - Blue Screen Life

    I need more music of this awesome sound quality and writing. Albums like these are hard to come by... I want an acquired taste... something challenging to get into... please help me..


    Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow. it's instrumental....and it's awesome

    http://rapidshare.com/files/89297730/1975_-_Blow_By_Blow.rar.html

    also, it's produced by George Martin from the Beatles
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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    I like complex awesome layered music... even sometimes just instrumental... these are some of my favorite albums...

    Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
    Radiohead - In Rainbows
    Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
    Pinback - Blue Screen Life

    I need more music of this awesome sound quality and writing. Albums like these are hard to come by... I want an acquired taste... something challenging to get into... please help me..
    if you want complexity, I would recommend TOOL. A lot of their music is mathematical and precise.
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • xSmackSoundx
    xSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    I was looking less for sprawling guitar epics and more for tight, layered synthesizer/vocals
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    check out muse - origin of symmetry
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    I was looking less for sprawling guitar epics and more for tight, layered synthesizer/vocals
    Not so layered, but you could try Belanova.

    or....Depeche Mode : Violator
  • keeponrockin
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    This may be a dumb question, but do you own Dark Side of The Moon?
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  • piaget77
    piaget77 Posts: 156
    Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
    Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    based on the albums you mentioned I would recommend (off the top of my head)

    Battles - Mirrored
    Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
    Menomena - Friend and Foe
    the Decemberists - Picaresque
    Estradasphere - Palace of Mirrors
    Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
    Handsome Furs - Plague Park
    MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
    Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
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  • r1vers
    r1vers Posts: 244
    Spiritualized if you want some heavy layering...go for Lazer Guided Melodies or Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space or they've got a brand new one coming out next month called Songs In A&E that i'm loving, but maybe a little less of what you're looking for.
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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Todd76 wrote:
    Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
    MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

    Those two are fantastic. Anything by Stereolab is worth a go.

    Kate Bush - The Whole Story
    Bat For Lashes - Fur & Gold
    Air - Moon Safari
    Lemon Jelly - ky
    Four Tet - Rounds
    Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
    Lamb - Lamb
  • Bangers_n_mash
    Bangers_n_mash Posts: 1,241
    Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

    It's complex, it's awesome and it's pretty fuckin layered. So is pretty much every other album. Try this song from AMOLAD: http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=xh1-lG8WBZg
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  • South of Seattle
    South of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
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  • BootsyGraham
    BootsyGraham Posts: 51
    Lukin66 wrote:
    if you want complexity, I would recommend TOOL. A lot of their music is mathematical and precise.

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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Menomena - Friend & Foe (good for complex layered music)
    Menomena - I Am The Fun Blame Monster (good for instrumentals)
    Anything by Built to Spill if you haven't heard them already (It's a musical mind fuck. jumps from one riff to another effortlessly)
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Apse - Spirit (recent purchase, talked to band member on another forum and this is his band...pretty cool stuff, very Sigur Ros-ish)

    Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

    David Chesky - The Body Acoustic
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  • transplant
    transplant Posts: 1,088
    My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
    Alcest - Sounveniers D'un Autre Monde
    Jesu - Silver
    Belong - October Language
    Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,981
    Dredg - Catch Without Arms

    -one of the best albums ever IMO
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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    for complexity, I would recommend some Rush for you. They're very technically precise
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • Gardenparty
    Gardenparty Posts: 1,910
    El Ten Eleven

    sound like Pinback but no vocals. I reccomend their self titled first

    Nice tight grooves
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  • Fender_Man
    Fender_Man Posts: 408
    Gotan Project - La Ravancha Del Tango
    Frank Zappa - Jazz From Hell (nearly all synth music)
    Anything by Jean Luc Ponty, if you don't mind a bit of electric violin/fiddle.
    As mentioned before Spiritualized, Stereolab, Miles Davis all good calls.

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