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This account's purpose is to show appreciation for music of all kinds, reject music elitism and gatekeeping, as well as challenge myself to broaden my horizons

ICON: Renaissance by Polyphia (2016)
BANNER: Let Them Be Alien by Lebanon Hanover (2018)
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Morbid Stuff - PUP (2019)
Genres: Pop Punk, Indie Rock, Post-Hardcore, Power Pop, Emo
Album art for Morbid Stuff by PUP. Against a pale pink background, four people are illustrated at a party, playing musical chairs. They are all wearing party hats and blindfolds, and are holding knives. There are three yellow smiley face balloons, two lay deflated on the ground while one hovers in the center of the image. There is a boom box on a box in the middle of the image as well.
November 22, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Equilibrium - Matthew Shipp (2003)
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Nu Jazz, Modal Jazz
Album art for Equilibrium by Matthew Shipp. A photo collage with a brick wall on the left, and concrete on the right. Edited onto the image is a photo of a Black man with short black hair wearing glasses and a black tee shirt looking down and to the left. He is standing near a brick wall. I'm not sure what's behind him but it's some kind of rectangular object. Below the photo of the man is a photo of some kind of catch basins in the concrete. To the right of the photo of the man is a blue block with text saying "Matthew Shipp" and "equilibrium".
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Arrival of the New Elders - Elephant9
Genres: Jazz-Rock, Nu Jazz, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk
Album art for Arrival of the New Elders by elephant9. 4 vertical rows of varying widths, containing hues of purple, blue, black, white, yellow, and red. The colors appear in the form of a horizontal geometric pattern of varying diagonals.
November 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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Śmierdzące Kwiatuszki - Łoskot (2001)
Genres: Yass, Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Post-Rock
Album art for Śmierdzące kwiatuszki by Łoskot. Two skinny brown dog legs crossed with the paws facing up with drawn sprouts growing from the claws against a beige canvas textured background.
November 20, 2024 at 9:11 PM
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Sankofa - Amaro Freitas (2021)
Genres: Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion
Album art for Sankofa by Amaro Freitas. A Brazilian man sits on a brown patterned chair against a cyan background. Behind his head is a bright pink shape with a bright red, green and orange pattern. He is adorned with colorful geometric and organic patterns on his shirt, his fingertips resting in water that reflects the patterns of his shirt, plants sprouting from the water. To the right of him is an aloe plant.
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Oyoyoy - Amsterdam Klezmer Band (2016)
Genres: Klezmer
Album art for Oyoyoy by Amsterdam Klezmer Band. A bright blue peacock against a black background. Within the feathers of the peacock are various motifs, such as guns, money bags, guitars, penises, pigs, women bending over, et cetera.
November 20, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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Punisher - Phoebe Bridgers (2020)
Genres: Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Chamber Folk, Psychedelic Folk
Album art for Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers. A red light illuminates a person wearing a skeleton costume and standing in the middle of the desert. Behind them are the silhouettes of jagged mountains. The figure stares up into the dark blue sky and at the stars above.
November 19, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Agonist - Latitudes (2009)
Genres: Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Post-Metal
Album art for Agonist by Latitudes. A black and sepia illustration of a huge, black boar with large tusks fighting with a dog. The dog's eyes and mouth are wide open, it looks fearful of the boar.
November 19, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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A New Tomorrow - Zulu (2023)
Genres: Metalcore, Sound Collage, Beatdown Hardcore, Powerviolence
Album art for A New Tomorrow by Zulu. A beautiful illustration of the sun rising behind a large tree and casting hues of yellow, orange and red into the sky. The grass is stylized teal and becomes a darker shade of blue as it approaches the viewer. In front of the tree, many Black people wearing colorful printed clothes dance together, celebrating. There are trees on either side of the illustration and roads leading to various parts of the people's village. Near the tree towards the back of the image, several people sit around a white blanket with food spread around the blanket, and some people seem to be cooking around a fire to the right of the blanket.
November 19, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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Eternal Blue - Spiritbox (2021)
Genres: Alternative Metal, Djent, Metalcore
Album art for Eternal Blue by Spiritbox. This image is difficult to describe but is turquoise and kind of resembles rain falling onto water.
November 19, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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Celestial Blues - King Woman (2021)
Genres: Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Doom Metal, Doomgaze
Album art for Celestial Blues by King Woman. A pale woman with shoulder blade length, dark, straight, wet hair stands facing away from the viewer. She is wearing a spiked collar. On her shoulder blades are two red gashes as if wings have been cut away. she has a black glove on and is holding up her right hand, and is holding a cigarette in her fingertips.
November 17, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Everything Goes Numb - Streetlight Manifesto (2003)
Genres: Ska Punk
Album art for Everything Goes Numb by Streetlight Manifesto. A red and black image of a woman with short black hair. You can see from the mouth to the top of the chest. On the left you can see her hand possibly holding a cigarette.
November 17, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Black Cascade - Wolves In The Throne Room (2009)
Genres: Atmospheric Black Metal
Album art for Black Cascade by Wolves in the Throne Room. A dark picture with what appears to be a long haired person bathed in blue, crouched on some rocks with perhaps some rushing water on the left. There are grey intricate, organic designs extending vertically on the left and right of the image. The blue sky seems to peak behind some trees in the top center of the image.
November 15, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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Desolation's Flower - Ragana (2023)
Genres: Atmospheric Sludge Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Slowcore, Doom Metal
Album art for Desolation's Flower by Ragana. Two people stand in the center of the photo, facing away from each other and looking slightly upward. In front of them is a large amount of flowers. Behind them, their faces repeat in a circle that surrounds the two.
November 15, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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1-2-3-4 - The Gobs (2021)
Genres: Garage Punk, Synth Punk
Album art for 1-2-3-4 by The Gobs. A bright green and black illustration depicting a band, presumably The Gobs, performing on stage. The drumset says "I want to believe." The audience is in front, turned away from the stage and towards the viewer. One person is vomiting up the numbers "1-2-3-4!!" While a man with flames coming from his eyes and mouth drinks booze. Behind him on the right, someone strangles another person. In general they all look afraid. The reason for this is because two immense aliens at the top of the image are using magnifying glasses to set the stage on fire.
November 14, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar (2015)
Genres: Conscious Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Political Hip Hop, Neo-Soul, Funk, Poetry, Experimental Hip Hop
Album art for To Pimp A Butterfly. A black and white photograph of a large number of black men and children crowded in front of the White House. Many are holding cash and booze, with one child flipping the camera off. They all look at the camera and are standing over a white judge laying on the ground with X's over his eyes.
November 14, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning - Mount Kimbie, Dom Maker, Kai Campos (2022)
Genres: Alternative R&B, Minimal Techno, Experimental Hip Hop, Trap, Ambient Pop
Album art for MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning by Mount Kimbie, Dom Maker, Kai Campos. Art is split in half, with the top half featuring a white background with black paint drips forming thin arches. The bottom half features a pair of crossed, pale legs with the upside down word "HEART" tattooed on the right leg. They are sitting on top of a white sheet that is bathed in turquoise light. On the right side of the image, there is what is possibly a circular mirror reflecting a few palm trees against a hazy blue cityscape.
November 13, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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Geiger Counter - Liar, Flower (2020)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Dream Pop, Psychedelic Folk
Album cover for Geiger Counter by Liar, Flower. A high contrast photo taken at a slight tilt depicting a woman facing away from the viewer in a windowsill. She is silhouetted against the bright light shining in from the window. She is squatting on her toes with her legs spread, and her arms extend all the way upwards with her fingertips touching the ceiling.
November 13, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Mazy Fly - SPELLLING (2019)
Genres: Art Pop, Minimal Synth, Darkwave, Ethereal Wave, Hypnagogic Pop, Psychedelic Soul, Synthpop
Album cover art for Mazy Fly by SPELLLING. A flash photo taken of a black woman with curly black hair falling just below her shoulders. She is wearing a wedding dress as she sits on the hay-covered barn floor. She wears a black snakeskin cowboy hat and as she leans on the ground with her right hand, she reaches towards the hat with her left. There are several cows behind her, and one cow on the left sniffs at her.
November 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Moral Panic - Nothing But Thieves (2020)
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop Rock, Industrial Rock
Album art for Moral Panic by Nothing But Thieves. Depicts two silhouettes against a red, orange and yellow background. The silhouette on the left appears to be wearing a balaclava and is being grabbed from behind by the silhouette on the right.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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The Serpent & The Tiger - Cartel Madras (2021)
Genres: Hardcore Hip Hop, Trap
Album art for The Serpent & The Tiger by Cartel Madras. Against a white background, a red and white matchbox with an illustration of a tiger walking towards the viewer as a green snake climbs up its side sits partially open with many matches visible. Text on the matchbox reads: "PROJECT GOONDA PART 3", and "CARTEL MADRAS". To the left of the matchbox are many red flowers, small buds and petals breaking off towards the bottom of the box. On the right of the matchbox, "The Serpent & The Tiger" is written in charcoal from a burnt match that sits near the text.
November 12, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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Facades - Limp Wrist (2017)
Genres: Queercore, Hardcore Punk, Acid House
Album art for Facades by Limp Wrist. A black and white photo depicting four white men. One man faces away and has both arms up. He is wearing lingerie and the man to his right is grabbing his butt. On the left, there is an older man with a white beard wearing a black hat and a harness. The man behind him is grabbing his shoulder.
November 12, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Call of The Knife - Chain Whip (2023)
Genres: Hardcore Punk, Garage Punk
Cover art for Call of the Knife by Chain Whip. A black and white illustration over a pink background depicting a man facing away from the viewer and looking into a large knife. In the knife you see his reflection, and he is scowling.
November 12, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Destroying - Blackbird Raum (2015)
Genres: Folk punk, Irish folk music
Album art for Destroying by Blackbird Raum. An illustration of a cloaked woman holding a spear and a white hare trudging through a snowy forest, away from what looks like a castle. They leave behind a trail of bloody footprints.
November 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES - Backxwash (2021)
Genres: Industrial Hip Hop, Horrorcore, Political Hip Hop, Industrial Metal
Album art for I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES by Backxwash. A blurred, high contrast, black and white photo of a black person with dark skin shaking their head to the side and screaming. Their eyes are not visible, but they are wearing white makeup that starkly contrasts the dark photo. There are many chains that decorate their neck, one of which including a large O-ring.
November 12, 2024 at 2:34 PM