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           Fleet Foxes  Fleet Foxes | 2008 
          Top 3: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song / Your Protector / Meadowlarks
         This should be a staple in everyone's music collection. 
        
 Robin Pecknold's writing is unmatched.
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           How to Be a Human Being  Glass Animals | 2016 
          Top 3: Season 2 Episode 3 / Take a Slice / Agnes
         When this album came out I shifted timelines. I still think this is some of theirfinest work.
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           Imaginal Disk  Magdalena Bay | 2024 
          Top 3: Watching TV / Cry for Me / Angel on a Satellite
         This album is everything to me. I love a well-executed concept album, and Magdalena Bay really knows how to commit to one.
 
 The creative direction, the sound, even their website is so cohesive and this stands out
 so much as a work of art.
 
 I could write a whole book about how unique their sound is! I'm so excited to see what
 else they'll do.
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           I Love You, Honeybear  Father John Misty | 2015 
          Top 3: Chateau Lobby #4 / Strange Encounter / I Went to the Store One Day
         A crowd pleaser. Who doesn't like this album?  | 
  
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           Pines  A Fine Frenzy | 2012 
          Top 3: Pinesong / Avalanches (Culla's Song) / Riversong
         The first concept album I ever heard. Pacific Northwest-coded.  | 
  
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           Preacher's Daughter  Ethel Cain | 2022 
          Top 3: A House in Nebraska / Hard Times / Strangers
         Visceral and painful, forever in love with Hayden's writing.  | 
  
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           Stranger in the Alps  Phoebe Bridgers | 2017 
          Top 3: Scott Street / Killer / You Missed My Heart
         I think Phoebe is going down as one of the greatest lyricists of our time. This album captures such unique emotional depth.
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