He flows ambient and pop together in a way that services the whole. Perfect in many ways. This feels like cheating. The Beatles- Abbey Road- ok this is cheating.
Bob Dylan- Royal Albert Hall- inventing the acoustic —> electric set
Reed/Cale- Songs for Drella: the best story/concept album
Kendrick Lamar- good kid m.A.A.d city: same reason^
Parquet Courts- Light Up Gold: relentless
Animal Collective- Feels: the manic descent towards “Banshee Beat”, the holy ascension of “Turn Into Something”
These are great. Totally agree re: Kdot and Eno in particular. And Abbey Road isn't cheating it's just amazingly sequenced (sort of like Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique" too, with the song suite on the end of side two).
* The Strokes "Is This It"
* Bowie/Spiders "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
* Interpol, "Turn On the Bright Lights"
* Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
* Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black"
* The Clash, "London Calling"
* Liz Phair, "Exile In Guyville"
* Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue"
* XTC, "Skylarking" (US edition with "Dear God")
* Todd Rundgren, "Something/Anything"
* Love, "Forever Changes"
* Radiohead, "Kid A"
* Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
* Dusty Springfield, "Dusty In Memphis"
* Jane's Addiction, "Ritual de lo Habitual"
* Beatles, "Abbey Road"
* Most of the Spoon catalog but esp "Kill the Moonlight"
* Wlco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot"
I could go on, ha
The first one that came to mind was Abbey Road haha
I feel like The Beatles did this pretty well in general but maybe I feel that way due to the amount of times I listened at different stages of my life. John Prine - The Tree of Forgiveness
Father John Misty - I Love you honeybear
Neil Young - On The Beach
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
The new St Vincent song Black on Black on Black - Frog The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady - Mingus Liberation Music Orchestra - Charlie Haden a lot of David Berman McCartney (self-titled) - Paul McCartney Before and After Science - Brian Eno Disintegration - The Cure