Agalloch - Pale Folklore (1999)

Genre: Folk Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal

1. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline I
2. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline II
3. She Painted Fire Across the Skyline III
4. The Misshapen Steed
5. Hallways of Enchanted Ebony
6. Dead Winter Days
7. As Embers Dress the Sky
8. The Melancholy Spirit
   

This album features a lot less post-rock and neofolk then The Mantle. It's much more of a real 'metal' sound. It's definitely recommended to anyone who liked The Mantle.

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Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther (2006)

Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock

1. Roscoe
2. Bandits
3. Head Home
4. Van Occupanther
5. Young Bride
6. Branches
7. In This Camp
8. We Gathered in Spring
9. It Covers the Hillsides
10. Chasing After Deer
11. You Never Arrived
    

A nice, relatively quaint album.

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Tenhi - Kauan (1999)

Genre: Dark Neofolk

1. Näkin Laulu
2. Huomen
3. Revontulet
4. Hallavedet
5. Etäisyyksien Taa
6. Lualuin Sinulle
7. Taival
8. Souto

This style of what I call 'dark neofolk' reminds me of Agalloch with a slightly more acoustic sound.

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[Non-Music] Removed Albums

As you may have noticed, albums have been starting to get removed by way of copyright claims. This (continuously updated) list marks all the ones which have, so far, been removed.

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

Genre: Electronic

1. Wildlife Analysis
2. An Eagle in Your Mind
3. The Color of the Fire
4. Telephasic Workshop
5. Triangles & Rhombuses
6. Sixtyten
7. Turqoise Hexagon Sun
8. Kaini Industries
9. Bocuma
10. Roygbiv
11. Rue the Whirl
12. Aquarius
13. Olson
14. Pete Standing Alone
15. Smokes Quantity
16. Open the Light
17. One Very Important Thought
18. Happy Cycling
    

Although I try not to use the term 'IDM', it definitely describes this music. there's a lot more of it on this blog.

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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

Genre: Progressive Rock

1. 21st Century Schizoid Man
2. I Talk to the Wind
3. Epitaph
4. Moonchild
5. The Court of the Crimson King
   

Most of these tracks are a few songs combined into one, all edited together.

As for the content itself, In the Court of the Crimson King is definitely a progressive rock classic. Listen to it, it's really quite good.

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Air France - No Way Down (2008)

Genre: Electronic

1. Maundy Thursday
2. June Evenings
3. Collapsing at Your Doorstep
4. No Excuses
5. No Way Down
6. Windmill Wedding
   

No Way Down is a very warm and tropical album. It's like sunshine and happiness in a CD case (or, in this case, a mediafire link).

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[Non-Music] Recommended Albums

Check the tag 'recommended' for the best albums of the blog.

So far we have:

jj - jj n° 2
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/jj-jj-n-2-2009.html

The Antlers - Hospice
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/antlers-hospice-2009.html

The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/flashbulb-kirlian-selections-2005.html

Ozric Tentacles - The Yumyum Tree
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/ozric-tentacles-yumyum-tree-2009.html

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/genre-indie-king-of-carrot-flowers-pt.html

Agalloch - The Mantle
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/07/agalloch-mantle-2002.html

Agalloch - Pale Folklore
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/08/agalloch-pale-folklore-1999.html

Cynic - Traced In Air
http://the-mantle.blogspot.com/2009/10/cynic-traced-in-air-2008.html

The Antlers - Hospice (2009)

Genre: Indie Rock

1. Prologue
2. Kettering
3. Sylvia
4. Atrophy
5. Bear
6. Thirteen
7. Two
8. Shiva
9. Wake
10. Epilogue
    

This is the shit that makes grown men cry.

;_;

The guy who wrote this wrote it after years of social isolation in New York. It's the story of a man watching his wife die of bone cancer. A very minimalistic but well-made album.

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Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I (2007)

Genre: Electronic, Ambient

1. Stella
2. Write Once, Run Melos
   

The tracks are 25 and 35 minutes long.

"This shit's like listening to a journey."
-Anonymous

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Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

Genre: Industrial, Shoegaze

1. A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticutt
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5. Telephony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun
7. There is No Food
8. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
9. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
10. Deep, Deep
11. The Future
12. I Don't Love
13. Earthmover
    

This album definitely has a nice noisy and dark sound. It is also definitely not for everyone.

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Tool - Ænima (1996)

Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Alternative Metal

1. Stinkfist
2. Eulogy
3. H.
4. Useful Idiot
5. Forty-Six & 2
6. Message to Harry Manback
7. Hooker With a Penis
8. Intermission
9. Jimmy
10. Die Eier von Satan
11. Pushit
12. Cesaro Summability
13. Ænema
14. (-) Ions
15. Third Eye
    

Though you all may already have this, it's still a good album. Anyone who doesn't have it yet should probably get it.

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Foxhole - We the Wintering Tree (2004)

Genre: Post-Rock

1. A Series of Springs and Falls
2. The End of Dying
3. Dead Rimes
4. Spectacle
   
5. Lent
6. At Right Angles
7. A Children's Canto
8. Lamentation
9. A Lion in Winter / Long Live the King
10. Through Bone and Marrow
    

I love a good post-rock album, and I have to say, this is a fine example of one. It puts a new spin on concepts seen in regular rock, with a very good outcome.

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Jupiter One - Jupiter One (2007)

Genre: Indie Rock, Synth Pop

1. Intro for Ani Enorda
2. Countdown
3. Moon Won't Turn
4. Unglued
5. Mystery Man
6. Turn Up the Radio
7. Platform Moon
8. Wrong Line
9. Fire Away
10. Kamikaze Pilots
11. Way to the Floating Hospital / The Miracle of Flight
12. Umbrellas
13. Summer Song
    

This seems to be a great album for trying out synth pop. It's quite catchy.

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Kylesa - Static Tensions (2009)

Genre: Sludge Metal, Doom Metal

1. Scapegoat
2. Insomnia for Months
3. Said and Done
4. Unknown Awareness
5. Running Red
   
6. Nature's Predators
   
7. Almost Lost
   
8. Only One
   
9. Perception
   
10. To Walk Alone
    

Kylesa's music is hard to describe, as it possesses elements from many different genres, while still having a sludgy sound.

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jj - jj n° 2 (2009)

Genre: Electronic

1. things will never be the same again
2. from africa to málaga
   
3. ecstasy
   
4. are you still in vallda?
   
5. my love
   
6. intermezzo
   
7. my hopes and dreams
   
8. masterplan
   
9. me & dean
   

Sorry for the wait.

jj is quite the odd group. Nearly nothing is known about their members or location, but they have already garnered attention in the short time that they've existed. This is a good, fun, and uplifting album that everyone should give at least a try.

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