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Addiction

Wanting without liking, and the industries that engineer for it.

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Atrocity Exhibition

Danny Brown · 2016

Atrocity Exhibition is Danny Brown’s third studio album, released in 2016 after signing with Warp Records. It is named after a Joy Division song. Paul White produced all tracks except ‘Really Doe’ (Black Milk), ‘Pneumonia’ (Evian Christ), and unspecified contributions from The Alchemist. Guest appearances include Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt, B-Real, Kelela, and Petite Noir. The album draws stylistic influence from Talking Heads and Joy Division — and, while writing it, Brown also drew inspiration from Björk. It received continued critical acclaim but reduced commercial sales.

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Fresh

Sly & the Family Stone · 1973

Fresh is Sly & the Family Stone’s 1973 album, made amid personnel losses and Sly’s escalating cocaine use. It follows There’s a Riot Goin’ On. It contains a track purportedly sourced from a 1968 outtake.

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10:09

Grievous Angel

Gram Parsons · 1974

Grievous Angel is Gram Parsons’s final album, recorded in summer 1973 at Wally Heider Studio 4 in Hollywood and mixed at Capitol Studios before his death in Joshua Tree. It features Emmylou Harris and members of Elvis Presley’s TCB Band. Only two new songs appear — 'Return of the Grievous Angel' and 'In My Hour of Darkness'. The rest draws from Parsons’s Harvard folk period, The Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and rejected material from GP. The 'live' medley is fabricated with canned applause. Critical attention focuses on Harris’s vocal role, especially on 'Love Hurts', and on the album’s paradox: disciplined energy amid personal collapse. It peaked at number 195 on the Billboard chart.

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Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor

Lupe Fiasco · 2006

Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor is a thematically dense, string-saturated hip-hop debut rooted in Chicago storefront logic—not abstract ambition. It lands where sound and subject align: 'Kick, Push', 'Daydreamin'', and 'American Terrorist'. It falters where runtime swells without function—especially the 'Outro'. No filler. No myth. Just food, liquor, strings, and scrutiny.

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Master of Puppets

Metallica · 1986

A dry, precise, sober metal record made in Copenhagen to escape American studio acoustics. No synths. No gloss. No myth-making during recording. Themes: drugs, militaries, religion, rage, insanity, monsters.

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Master of Reality

Black Sabbath · 1971

Master of Reality is Black Sabbath’s third album, recorded February–April 1971 at Island Studios in London under producer Rodger Bain—his final collaboration with the band. It was made without touring commitments, using expanded studio time and financial resources, including money for drugs. Iommi and Butler downtuned their instruments 1½ steps on key tracks to ease physical strain, directly shaping the album’s heavier sound. The band experimented with classical guitar, flute, piano, overdubs, bigger bass drums, and amplified bass presence. Osbourne struggled with rapid lyrics on 'Into the Void', requiring written cues; his vocals on 'Solitude' were doubled via delay. Drug use during sessions impaired idea retention. The album contains their first acoustic songs and key tracks like 'Sweet Leaf' and 'Children of the Grave'. Released July 1971, it marked a pivot toward studio-driven heaviness—not myth, but mechanics.

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Recovery

Eminem · 2010

Recovery is a 2010 hip-hop album recorded from 2009 to 2010. It replaced the abandoned Relapse 2 project after Eminem scrapped most of its material and started over with new producers. It was announced via Twitter on April 14, 2010, and released on June 18.

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Requiem for a Dream

Clint Mansell · 2000

Clint Mansell’s 'Requiem for a Dream' soundtrack is a string quartet score built on repetition, acceleration, and structural recursion — not mood or melody. David Lang’s arrangements for the Kronos Quartet define its texture. 'Lux Aeterna' functions as leitmotif and pivot point. Nothing else is verified.

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Rust in Peace

Megadeth · 1990

Rust in Peace is Megadeth’s 1990 studio album, recorded at Rumbo Recorders in March 1990. It is the first Megadeth album completed with a producer who wasn’t fired — Mike Clink — though Mustaine later said most of the work was done by himself, Max Norman, and engineer Micajah Ryan.

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Saturnz Return

Goldie · 1998

Saturnz Return is Goldie’s 1998 follow-up to Timeless. Its opening track 'Mother' is an hour-long orchestral drum and bass piece featuring a 30-piece string section and classically trained child singers. It was conceived as a sonic representation of Goldie’s adoption at age three, foster care, fame, and addiction. He described its arc as beginning with an unborn-child voice before descending into abandonment and rhythmic ferocity. He made it for one private moment: listening on headphones while seeing his mother’s body before her funeral. The album features David Bowie, Noel Gallagher and KRS-One, and received mixed reviews—including 'ambitious but monotonous and overlong—Pink Floyd with a gold tooth'.

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The Sun’s Tirade

Isaiah Rashad · 2016

The Sun's Tirade is Isaiah Rashad's debut studio album, released on September 2, 2016. It was recorded during a period of personal struggle with depression and addiction. Its production draws from hip-hop, trap, trip hop, soul, and jazz. It is a loose concept album with reflective, conscious themes. It debuted at number 17 on the US Billboard 200, selling 19,000 copies in its first week.