recommend books based on favourite albums

[Anonymous No.11574973]

the last thread seemed fun, and i appreciate the insight threads like these can give of aesthetic sensibilities and so on. do i make sense?

[Anonymous No.11574979]

>>11574973
there is no book like that album. also i havent listend to Grouper in literally years, will probably go do that now

[Anonymous No.11575055]

>>11574973
Solely going by the cover here.
The combination of a mainstream-contrarian goth on the foreground and the arid forest background spring to mind Walden; Thoreau isn't above sulking, pouting and sounding bitter about the current state of affairs, just like those sweet alternative girls I used to know.

[Anonymous No.11575082]

pavement - crooked rain crooked rain. need recs for this

[Anonymous No.11575098]

>>11574973

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>>11575098
this feels like what I imagine the inside of Strindberg's mind looks like during his Inferno period. Given how depressing and fucked this album is, I think it has to be Strindberg's Inferno.

>>11575082
probably some Pynchon just because it's so silly and seriously deep from one second to the next

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[Anonymous No.11575302]

>>11574973
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

[Anonymous No.11575306]

>>11575272
that's bukowski and not in a good way

[Anonymous No.11575311]

Not in the nazi way, more like the mood

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[Anonymous No.11575315]

>>11575311
Opus is a bit like that as well

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>>11575082
My diary, unironically

[Anonymous No.11575329]

There's gotta be something good for this

[Anonymous No.11575350]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lZRIuFiJzg

I've read a lot of the obvious choices. Looking for something a bit more "underground," if that makes sense.
Bonus points for some obscure book of poetry by some emo author

[Anonymous No.11575359]

ITT: albums only /mu/core has listened to

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[Anonymous No.11575384]

>>11575350
Oh, this is nice! I only listen to some stuff by Burzum, some by Mayhem and that At the Wolves Gathering album... This is very catchy

[Anonymous No.11575387]

>>11575384
As the wolves gather* heh

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>>11575329
One Way Street by Benjamin

[Anonymous No.11575400]

>>11575389
(you know, other than 4 quartets, I know the titles are inspired by the poem)

[Anonymous No.11575409]

>>11575384
>>11575387
I'm glad you like it.
Carpathian Forest is good all around. Their lyrics have a certain literary quality to them as well. Take a look at their Carpathian Forest's lyrics:

Lifeless landscapes
Dead trees up in the hills
Pure autumn bliss

In cold November
On a night of gusting wind
Clouds came down - down

Together we were beasts
We lay in the cold dusk -
Of his negligence
In the mist of the turmoil

Frozen heart
Beast of winter
Mental frost
Beast of winter
Mental frost

Succinct, yet haunting.

>>11575389
The album and song titles are from American poet T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets set of poems. Fahey later said the songs were "too demanding" to play live.

[Anonymous No.11575413]

Sorry for being a lazyposter, but I'm terrible with recs.

[Anonymous No.11575420]

>>11575389
>>11575400
Ignore >>11575409 then, you beat my post.
Try "A Short Walk in the Hindoo Kush" by Eric Newby.

[Anonymous No.11575481]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEOd2VQmlk

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>>11574973
need recs

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[Anonymous No.11575739]

>>11575413
I'll never understand how scaruffi could prefer spirit of eden to this masterpiece

[Anonymous No.11575747]

>>11575055
Honestly, Walden works for this one too
Even though Candy Claws' earlier album, Hidden Lands, was literally a concept album about forests, this album is also about getting back to nature n shit

[Anonymous No.11575748]

>>11575698
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

[Anonymous No.11575783]

>>11575413
Something by Kierkegaard maybe? I'd say Works of Love but not exactly sure if it fits

[Anonymous No.11576138]

>>11575318
Samurai Executioner - Koike & Kojima

[Anonymous No.11576147]

>>11575413

[Anonymous No.11576155]

>>11576147
>forgetting pic on a contentless post

[Anonymous No.11576903]

>>11575739
I'll never understand why someone would care this much about another person's opinion of a thing they enjoy

[Anonymous No.11576962]

>>11576155
Have you read 'the decay of lying" by Oscar Wilde ? it's roughly a philosophical dialogue, not longer than a novella, pretty rich and insightful.

[Anonymous No.11576967]

>>11575295
could be pic related

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>>11575315
>>11575311
Come on, no one?

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>>11575739
I don't really either, maybe he considered Spirit of Eden more innovative? I love both, but Laughing Stock is in a whole world of its own.
>>11575783
I've read some Kierkegaard, but not Works of Love. Seems like it would be a good fit though, the kind of heterodox, personal relationship with Christianity that Kierkegaard had is similar to what I imagine Mark Hollis had in mind with Laughing Stock.
>>11576155
Interesting, is this a book about Monet's paintings or a collection of his art? Hollis was definitely influenced by musical impressionism.

[Anonymous No.11577893]

>>11576974
Based as FUCK

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>>11575748
Pretty much

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