Let's put in Joker's Daughter - The Last Laugh. The track Lucid particulary is exemplary of what puts the corn on this uni. A Danger Mouse joint.
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Weird Tales by Golden Smog. Kind of like country on acid but not like the Grateful Dead. Very creative.
Between the Buttons by The Rollong Stones. Unlike other Stones albums - Jagger and Richards don't even seem to like it anymore. But it has a sound of its own, and might be Brian Jones' last significant effort with the Stones.
And of course T.Rex
The North Borders - Bonobo
reporting back; this album is lit.
In particular "Since I left you" and "Frontier Psychiatrist" are both jams.
Endtroducing by DJ Shadow
It's his inaugural album and there's never been anything quite like it. Even his follow up albums, with his unique sound, feel a bit different than this one (not in a bad way, but I don't think they meet your unicorn criteria).
Also, I think this easily goes in my top ten albums list.
It may not be a "unicorn" per se, but it's often forgotten since it came out in 2020 and they weren't able to tour the album. Coldplay's Everyday Life is an art piece to me.
Honorable mentions:
Black Pumas - Black Pumas Watsky - x Infinity The Avett Brothers - Mignonette Parker Barrow - Jukebox Gypsies Childish Gambino - Because the Internet Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium The Black Keys - Brothers
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun. It's a mix of drone, post-rock, and folk that is unlike anything I've ever heard (NSB's other albums have similarities, but this one stands out to me)
Honorable mentions:
Boris - Flood
Agalloch - Ashes against the grain
Grace Cathedral Park - In the evenings of regret
Absent Moon by Chuck Salamone
Animal Collective
Cocteau Twins: Heaven Or Las Vegas
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Laurie Anderson Strange Angels I don’t know why but that album hits me so hard. It’s like nothing else I like but I’ve been know to listen to it on loop for hours on end.
One classic one I forgot
Art of noise - The seduction of claude debussy
Phenomenal blend of styles to create something truly unique.
Loving and saving this whole thread, I'll add in
Ones & Zeros, Vol. 1 - 3rdegree, not SUPER unique, but it's instrumental and commitment to they're concept album's theme of uploading your consciousness into the internet gives it a ton of charm!
Larks' Tongues In Aspic - King Crimson , very surprised I haven't seen this one in the thread, a classic weird ass prog album by the Kings of Prog themselves (IMO of course). They got a guy to do a bunch of random sounds for the album and he left to become a monk days before they started the album tour lol.
Cake's first album Fashion Nugget is the kind of unique that we rarely see twice.
The first, like, 5 albums by They Might Be Giants are unique in their own ways. Just different blends of wackiness and musical sophistication, it's sublime.
They are such a blast! Their children's albums are great, too; I played them all the time in English classes.
I grew up with them, and to this day I've never found anyone who quite matches that sound. Just pure musical creativity.
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
I'm gonna resist quibbling about what "completely unique" ought to mean, but in the spirit of how people are answering, I'll submit Daliborovo Granje, Hainin. https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin
Croatian psychedelic instrumental rock.
The Prodigy - The Fat of The Land
It's a one of a kind album. I don't think the prodigy ever made another album that good. And I don't think there is anything else out there similar to it. It has its own energy, it's definitely a unicorn type.
Cannot believe I forgot this. Absolutely incredible album. Every single tune a banger and such a unique sound.
They absolutely nailed the Zeitgeist with it.
Yeah. For quite a while I thought this was a best of, given the name too, until I realized it was just a regular album. Definitely their best.
The first album of The Crystal Method also no givese similar vibes.
Smack My Bitch Up is insane. They won't even play it in music venues and bars anymore, sadly :(
The music video was insane!
Dubstep has entered the chat - two standouts for me:
The One - Ganja White Night Tesseract - Subtronics
No one out there is able to emulate their sounds, they really sound unique!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUfQzCvWRPGdjZQR2Snca0k275TIaJ8Qh
"In kommer Gösta" is my favourite proto-progg track!
My word. That is both rancid and compelling at the same time. A great listen!
Any album by Pink Floyd.
Even mostly works if you compare said album to other albums by Pink Floyd. Dark Side of the Moon as a classic notable callout.
Yei, I was hovering on nominating a FSOL album. Glad someone did.
I'm kind of surprised it took so long to see Trout Mask Replica here. Although the prompt was for an album you like, which might exclude it.
I'm not sure if I like it, but I definitely have the phrase "fast and bulbous" run through my head sometimes.
A fortune teller told a father his kids were destined for stardom. Empowered by this, he forced the teen/adult kids to form a band. The result breaks all the rules of music. ALL of them. Ones that you don't even know existed. Frank Zappa considers them better than the beatles
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LITERALLY EVERYTHING HORSE THE BAND HAS EVER DONE!
Seriously, one of the most under appreciated bands of all time. A Million Exploding Suns is a fucking masterpiece.
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