87. (Required), You can request being unblocked by clicking. Childish Gambino - Camp. You could have been blocked by mistake. Wasnt the most available thing, but our crew in Montreal at the time found out about it and latched onto it real quick. To us, its a great example of how a band can progress naturally. Ellen Johnson, Billie Eilishs career to this point has been one that could only have happened now. Its an album that needed to be put out, to be heard, so I took my time with it, got all the right rappers. Though at vastly different points in their careers, both musicians know how to crush and revive listeners with inspired woe, romantic poignancy and their instantly recognizable, consoling pipes. (Rumors circulated that Madlib mixed the whole thing while tripping.). Hawksmoor, aka James McKeown, made an outstanding bit of heady synth soundscapes with Methods of Dreaming. Complex's Best Albums of 2020. Frizzle-fried guitars intermingle with keys and fusion-like rhythm sections that bring to mind everything from Santana to Allman Bros to Band of Gypsies to Jack Johnson-era Miles. I remember hearing Leave the Biker on 106.3, my local alt-rock station in New Jersey, and being totally blown away. (LogOut/ The way the compression is used adds a kind of breathless feeling. Aki often flies under the radar because shes not cranking out tons of albums, but she always makes singular and personal music, regardless of trends and styles. Number Twenty-Five : Jake Schrocks Omnibus. The skillful and tasteful production of John McEntire, Andi Toma, and Tim Gane served as a roadmap for what was possible, musically and sonically in the studio. Tune in and hear about the records that I spun the most and dug into my subconscious the most. Somehow, none of this scans as ironic or overtly hokey: When Morby sings lines like Dear God, please forgive me three times with a childrens choir accompanying him on Congratulationsand then caps that off with a searing guitar solo worthy of a Springsteen climaxits hard to believe he is a nonbeliever. 22. Finally not writing in the relative isolation indoors as he has in the past, Philippakis allowed himself to address the weighty issues of the day rather than write from an insular place, all influenced by the setting he wrote in where he was simultaneously surrounded by a sea of Londoners while hiding in plain sight. In 1997, when fsck was released, Farmers Manual were just kids. This wonderful record was completely worth the long wait after Loveless. Worldwide, Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time with a whopping 47 million certified copies sold, six million ahead of Their Greatest Hits. He accesses another dimension that we intuitively know resides in us all. Ellen Johnson, On IGORS THEME, the opening track on Tylers highly anticipated follow-up to Flower Boy, he shows that even with the heightened expectations, he can still surprise us. I listened to all kinds of music at the time (Sonic Youth, Ani DiFranco, Liz Phair, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim), but there was something about Portishead that made me think more about vocals than I ever had before. The best of her four albums outside of Rilo Kiley, On The Line is absolutely dazzling. This company sells your internet traffic to other people, meaning that other people can use your IP address and can break some of the above rules, causing you to be blocked from this site. Luckily, this years soundtrack has lent a great deal of calm and clarity. Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status, or find something interesting to read. 20 reviews. The songs that hit me hard, the albums that hit me hard, and the album covers that hit me hard. We met them some years later, and they, of course, couldnt have been more kind. Here are answers from Phoenix, Beach House, the War on Drugs, and more. The most interesting thing about The Lost and Found, Parlato's third and best album so far, is that she plays well with others that she can marshal this original sound within a real band. Peel back what some have perceived to be a lyrical disaster, and Vampire Weekends fourth full-length is an album of rewarding moments and juicy samples. Change). Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Did you install a browser extension that helps you download YouTube videos or other content? But the music here transcends eras, really. On The Line, her best solo work to date, finds her trading chaos for peace and pain for parties. The charts are starved for something real and down-to-earth, and her songs, while heavily produced in comparison to some of her folksier beginnings, have an earnestness to them that cant be fabricated. Aakab grabbed me, and continues to hold on tightly. Now that its here, one things clear: Maggie Rogers is a pure pop star and a deserving one, at that. And the endearing pop atmosphere of Running brings opposite poles together through music, to show that no matter what the shade of our skin is, we all ride the same emotional waves through this world. If so, you'll need to disable it when using this site, as it spams the websites you visit with fake requests. But I believe only one album, fsck by Farmers Manual, has actually influenced me. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. If the bar for Carly Rae Jepsenand maybe even 2010s pop as a wholeis the intellectual pop perfection of Emotion, then Dedicated falls only a little short, landing somewhere between effortless earworm territory and therapeutic ecstasy. Photo by Daniel Boczarski/Redferns/Getty Images. But the fruit of the last several hundred years, even the last couple of thousand years, is now coming to a head with the collapse of stability in the natural world. And of course the artists that hit me hard. Big concept, bigger anthems. Rest in Peace, Joey Jordison. Its just an album that needed to be heard., Ab-Souls Control Systemwas also a part of Qs list. Titanic Rising doesnt feel blissfully adrift. The new version is sometimes corny (Brians voice is Auto-Tuned, the production is really slick like Broadway or kids music slick), but its also the sound of a bunch of musicians supporting Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks vision which had gotten squashed for almost 40 years. Oh My God is not one of them. This is background music for me, way ahead of my time. She makes a boxing reference, namedrops Elliott Smith and the sycophants in Marrakesh, recalls a run-in with Harlem nuns and relaxes with a pack of Marlboros all before proclaiming, Maybe a little bit of hooking up is good for the soul. In a most delightful way, Heads Gonna Roll is about everything and nothing. Number Twenty : Dream Divisions Beyond The Mirrors Image. Here are the 25 best-selling albums of all time. He locks into this analog sound thanks to his exquisite collection of analog synths and drum machines. This extension has a feature called 'The Human Web' that silently re-downloads all the pages you've recently visited in your browser in the background to collect data, which causes you to be blocked. Then one night, watching MTV, I saw the Paranoid Android video. Dilla transmuted his final time on earth into a work of art that will remain eternal. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up. Having grownup in the city of Compton, he has an understandablepreference for West Coast rap, but his taste in hip-hop transcends geographical boundaries. Its really unique. As Pharrell more or less said upon hearing that first cut of Alaska (which now boasts more than 85 million Spotify streams and club remixes for days), Maggie Rogers is singular. Songs like Dont Disturb This Groove and I Wonder If I Take You Home and Private Dancer all reveal new emotional depths in Meshells hands (to say nothing of this absolute monster of a bandAbe, Chris, and Jebin. It taught me to live first and then document. On his latest opus Articulation, West links back to 2016s Night Melody, at least sonically. Ultimate Success Today is another constant spin in my head. Check out Logic's 25 Favorite Albums,listed in chronological order. COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. You can feel the birds on the line, the people on the street, the time of day, the phone rings, a cough, a dog bark. They presented themselves as a scientific organization, and their performances also doubled as lectures on information control dynamics.. Seth Haleys long-running musical project Com Truise continues to evolve and shape into something leaner, tighter, and more direct. He adopted a passion for the Grateful Dead, intensified one for character studies and swapped boat shoes for Birkenstocks, and the result here is the rare album that not only works as picnic music but also makes for a fine conversation topic. I was completely unaware of all the reference points they folded into their sound, and as a result, everything felt completely new and timeless at the same time. Site also contains reviews, ratings & more. Barwick crafts her songs alone, sitting cross-legged on her bed, singing into a lone microphone processed through a few effects, a loop pedal and a laptop. This is the record that sticks out to me personally as far as influence goes. That may have to do with when it was releasedin 1998, I moved to New York City as a 19-year-old, wide-eyed college studentor maybe its just because it is a fantastic record. This is a record for any time, any day. August 30, 2005. Inspired by Philly rapper Schoolly D's 1985 single "P.S.K. 244. Just as the Clientele Suburban Light and the Radio Dept.s Clinging to a Scheme before it, Meshell Ndegeocello's Ventriloquism turned me upside down and inside out. The music feels like youre being brought towards it. I know what I like, and I know that shit is hard as fuck. It may have been a long wait for us fans, but it was a much longer 12 years for the two remaining members, Brandon Curtis and Josh Garza. Her music is equally absorbing on taut arrangements that combine guitars with piano and drums, and also with woodwinds, which can lend a deceptive pastoral air. If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically blocked as well. I just loved their hypnotic, trance-inducing music, which my friends and I called Motion Rock.. I'll stop there. Harding has said she often pursues musical ideas without having any deeper significance in mind, which works out fine: By leaving interpretation to her listeners, her songs can mean whatever anyone wants them to. She delivers the record that her generation has been waiting for, one with loads of in-jokes and language (the album literally begins with a joke about pulling out her Invisalign, while all the good girls go to hell ends with a joke about snowflakes). Usually, it means refusing to stagnate, lest you be labeled a one-trick pony. From the last 25 years, there are a few records that I cherish. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Zach Schonfeld, The magic of Almeda, a standout from Solanges welcome March surprise, When I Get Home, is unshakable. I didnt go get a million features on my shit, just a few, and made this shit happen. Oh My God has a ramshackle energy to it, as well as a distinctly vintage instrumental ambience, thats likely to encourage such comparisons. Id call it a classic. (Frannie Kelley), One of the most alluring and elusive albums of 2011, Julianna Barwick's The Magic Place is a meditative musical journey, equally spiritual and haunting. It was a milestone moment when I heard Richard D. James upon its release. Now its time to hear from some of these artists themselves about the music that theyve cherished and taken inspiration from during the same timespan. Low key, subtle synths that hover just above the surface, his compositions are like a low fog hanging over water. Shes self-assured in a way other radio stars arent, never afraid to fold in her folk background and do whatever she wants. I recognized myself in the complicated dynamics of it and have embraced going there wherever there may take me in my writing ever since. For our purposes weve ignored that. Mould is at his best when hes begging, making you wonder who could possibly say no to the promise Ill be your astronaut. Mould is the man we need right now. iTunes. Dedicated is about relationships, but its also an examination of self. I couldnt find anything to relax me. You can feel the point of view. The resulting album is an imaginative indie-pop chronicle of millennial malaise. Making music is a gift and should ultimately be fun and joyful, even if its hard sometimes. Songbook came out when I was 16 years old. Published on 10/01/2020. Ive never run so fast. Of course, the best musicals are anything but simple productions, and like the band's stage inspiration, David Comes to Life is lush and ebullient. But its also rooted, deeply, in a sense of calm. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. But the products of her latest brainstorm are less flashy than the profound studio effort that was 2016s A Seat At The Table. Original release "Steps - What Was" - 13:53 Its inspired me to continue to search for fresh sounds on my instrument and delve deeper into complex rhythmic structures. Dark, vulnerable, but tough. Keith Sweat, Keith Sweat (1997) Singles: "Twisted," "Nobody," "Just A Touch," "Come With Me" 3. Isolation blues? Maple live in San Francisco opening for Pavement. There is unquestionably a centerpiece song on Young Enough, and thats the title track, which clocks in at 5 minutes and 20 seconds longan epic by this bands standards. Beer buzzes and ocean breeze highs are abound on this record as Munk goes full improvisational jams with the likes of Brian Ellis; as well as members of Astra, Psicomagia, Monarch, Radio Moscow and Sacri Monti. In a post-Nirvana landscape where a lot of pop-rock skewed saccharine, Fountains of Wayne had a biting sense of humor that really resonated with me. So to have In Decay, Too drop it felt like a gift from the music Gods in this crazy year. Kid Cudi's 25 Favorite Albums- Complex Magazine. To read about Qs discussion regarding this addiction, click here. Complex - Nas' 25 Favorite Albums (2012) 2 posts Page 1 of 1. Number Twenty-Two : Com Truise In Decay, Too. You cant predict the future, you cant forget the past, he sings on Camp Sunshine. So maybe we cant go back there. There you have it, numbers 25-11. hide caption, On "All Cried Out (Redux)," Jill Scott turns a Doug E. Fresh beatbox and a touch of ragtime piano into the bottom of a breezy kissoff song, in which she sounds more free and brazen than she has in years. While thats a lengthy stretch of down time for any typical band between album cycles, its particularly noteworthy for the London-based artist, whose bandone of the hardest working acts in the UK since its inception in 2005has rarely even taken that much time off between shows. It was the sound that I was searching for. But what if letting oneself go looked like something else? She is one of the great elders in North American music. Esperanza composed the music and focuses primarily on singing (though she does play some acoustic bass and other instruments) while backed by her insanely talented band (and guitarist Matt Stevens superb articulation, harmonic sensibility, and tones certainly got my attention) for this concept song cycle/stage show (which we eventually witnessed at Town Hall. A list of the top albums of the year from Complex. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over). Only a suffering, broken species would facilitate the destruction of their only home. Its deconstructed computer rock. On Zoo Eyes, she does it from one phrase to the next. Friday, folks. Recording an excellent debut album is mostly a blessing, of course. Since those days, Ive gotten to know Connan, played with him a bunch, and have become friends. Ideas conjured in the ether and given electrical significance and circuital forms, which lead to dream-like landscapes. In this case, they took a different approach, deciding to push all of those song ideas to the finish line, effectively saving all the tracks that previously would have been lost. Their album Talker had recently come out. In 25 Lists. It sounds decidedly grown up, mature both lyrically and musically, and its a spectacular studio effort. God bless them. Dlek - From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots (2002) Dlek is an experimental Hip Hop crew from Newark, New Jersey - comprised of MC Dlek, Oktopus, and DJ Still ( who passed away in 2018). My 25 Favorite Albums of the Summer | by Paul Schorin | The Princeton LP Write Sign up Sign In 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. I always come back to this tape and listen and hear something new! Barwick sings each vocal part with purpose, each slowly unfurling and overlapping until they swell into a room-enveloping chorus of otherworldly voices. Catalpa was the first album that really taught me why we write songs. They really showed me the way and therefore changed my life forever. In my interview with F---- Up's drummer, Jonah Falco best summed up the band's sprawling, 78-minute rock opera, David Comes to Life: "I think it's indicative of the people crafting the project that even in our attempt to simplify, we've made something complex, confusing and frustrating." But theres some curse involved, too, in that you have to figure out how to follow it up. Lizzie Manno, Theres a tension between introspective minimalism and cathartic bombast present in every song on SASAMIs self-titled debut, creating some of the best moments in music released so far this year. While very dense and layered at times, it was still very melodic and easy to listen to. It's impossible for me to define my favorite album of the last 25 yearsthat is a fluid thing, changing all the time. Number Eighteen : Ellis Munk Ensembles San Diego Sessions. Number Seventeen : The Nels Cline Singers Share The Wealth. Chucked out most of those after I spent some time with dolphin love; was maybe the first time Id heard something contemporary with a lot of weird elements that didnt feel whack. Billionaires, be they artists, executives, or politicians, inevitably ask me to swallow their poisonous storytelling, and right now, only clear storytelling helps me. If youve heard Break The Bank, its kinda similar to that. Panda Bear - Tomboy. One of the many things I so admire about Buffy is her relentless positivity, combined with her willingness to look clearly at the past and the present, no matter how brutal the landscape, and name it. February 25, 2003. The mood is dark but never dour, as Mercatante has made an album about losing oneself and the journey to find what was lost. The minimalism, the edge-of-your-seat guitar playing, and the brutally perfect vocal delivery are untouchable. Designer, her third album, is riveting in such an offhanded and low-key way that it sneaks up and grabs you with unexpected force. On U.F.O.F., Big Thief embrace their more subtle and mystical sides while capturing a wider array of landscapesthe cosmic (U.F.O.F.), bucolic (Cattails), domestic (From) and urban (Betsy). This came out almost exactly 25 years ago. What he does with Smile, the sixth Helado Negro LP, is open up the range of his songwriting to show how universal the truths he extols truly are. For someone with a documented predilection for idiosyncrasy and experimentation, she sounds completely at ease in these new songs, and ready for bigger things ahead. She hit her stride with Are We There, but here shes not even on the ground. Anything on here you going to to check out? Read on to find out which albums defined Kendrick Lamar's coming of age in hip-hop, and which artist was on such heavy rotation in his childhood home that he can't remember which songs were from which album. Here are the 25 Best Albums of 2019 (So Far): 25. The music is an integral part of that reflection. For more of Pitchforks 25th anniversary coverage, head here. And each of the several times I was fortunate enough to see it performed live was a completely enjoyable and rewarding experiencethree absolutely wonderful and interesting musicians producing truly compelling sounds and making something only they could. I do realize these lists are rather arbitrary to most. This translated to the live show as well. The On the Line singles are all illustrious earworms, but the album opener, Heads Gonna Roll, is especially grandiose. 15. Not only did the change of scenery alter his lyrical output, but it also led to the most productive period of his bands career, leading to the release of not one, but two albums this year. There is studio trickery ranging from subtle to overt around each and every corner and it still feels exciting almost 25 years later. Our terms of service forbid this. Hopefully something tickles your fancy. But to me its a revisiting of a year. Here we've got 25 through 11. Movement isnt just a construct, but the conductor. Charly Bliss: Young Enough. My wife Yuka started listening to this wonderful outpouring of creativity, versatility, and imagination as soon as it was released, and together we have listened to it in amazement more times than I can count. The Beatles: Sgt. And you just cant help but root for her. And each time she releases a full-length album, her destination comes a little more into focus. Number Thirteen : Oneohtrix Point Nevers Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. The RIAA counts sales of double albums like Billy Joels Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II or Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti as two copies, essentially double-counting every sale. Throughout his discography, the Florida-born son of Ecuadorian immigrants has looked to make sense of the Latinx experience in America. Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers. Then, they will come back on, only for Kendrick's face to be zoomed in on every screen in the stadium. Nels Cline for sure and, knowing how I usually dig what you post even though I know nothing about any of it, probably the rest of them too. A brilliant album. A therapeutic listening experience when such things are needed most. Steven Edelstone, Flying Lotuss sixth album is as much of a throwback to the bold, experimental productions that made him one of the most uniquely influential hip-hop/electronic crossover producers of the past decade as it is a new relic for other musical creatives to once again derive stylistic permutations from. I love the musical world of Jake Schrock. Casey and company capture the vibe of Gang of Four and Pere Ubu while rolling their sound in plenty of the Motor Citys grime and attitude. It gleamed in so many of the ways we wanted to present AC: mysterious characters from another world who would infect the current trends with our own personalities and something a bit different. Looking back through all of the fantastic records that have been made in the last 25 years, I find the one that has probably influenced me most (and maybe Ive heard the most), is Accelerator by Royal Trux. On his newest release, the rock-centric Beyond The Mirrors Image, McDowell takes Dream Division into Giallo territory. I bought the album the next day and everything about it made sense. So perhaps, when we eventually look back on the music of this era a few years from now, there will likely be no singular album that absolutely nails the sound of 2019 quite like Billie Eilishs debut record, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, for better or worse. So even now, when life starts moving too fast, OK Computer is still there to help slow it down for me. The musics freewheeling and often startling twists and turns often envelop the listener like a torrent of creative expression or fever dream that one never wants to wake up from, feeling simultaneously meticulously crafted and urgently spontaneous. San Diego Sessions is the culmination of a couple jam sessions between Causa Suis Jonas Munk and a mind-blowing crew of southern Californias finest in the psych community. Theres so much darkness that surrounded the original SMiLE sessions (and subsequent Beach Boys albums): substance abuse, emotional abuse, untreated mental illness. 1 Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 3 Bob James - One - CTI 6043 4 Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life ADVERTISEMENT 5 Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear 6 Michael Jackson - Thriller 7 King of Rock (Run-DMC, 1985) 8 Anita Baker - Rapture 9 Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded 10 Eric B. "I got into it through both [his beats and his raps], me being a kid and listening to it. Laetitia Sadiers prescient first lyric from the song Brakhage seems like something you can sing even louder today: We need so damn many thingsTo keep our dazed lives goingMany things to keep our livesLives going, so many things. The track Diagonals opens with what at the time seemed impossible, a drumbeat that stayed in time but raised in pitch. The slowthai-aided WHATS GOOD largely follows suit, proving that he can make hard-hitting hip-hop better than almost anyone else. Let Danielle Haim and a choir of children sing you down the aisle on Hold You Now; let the bendy Bambina rock you into a summer stupor. Sharon Van Etten was already one of the great lyricists of the 10s, but with this breathtaking project, shes proved an artistic pliancy her contemporaries may not possess. First as the frontwoman of one of the most beloved indie-rock groups of the aughts and then as a realized soloist and supergroup hero, Lewis has had a brilliant career, even when things took a turn for the rocky in her personal life. Photo by Tim Mosenfelder/Corbis/Getty Images. The pianos crackle; the organs rumble and groan (see: Nothing Sacred / All Things Wild); everything has that fuzzy analog glow. It took several years, but Curtis and Garza found themselves back at Secret Machines, which led to Awake In The Brain Chamber. Watching them that night, I could feel that I was gaining an access to myself that wasnt available to me beforehand. Its pretty wild to hear an artist you thought you knew, playing songs you thought you knew. Crushing can change from melodic balladry to anthemic rock at the drop of a hat. Photo by Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella. The song is called Old Man, and its a fine introduction to Donnellys songwriting, which is frequently funny, confrontational, and charged with an awareness that the personal is political. We were teenagers, of course, and it sent us (more so Cam, Tay, and I) on a metal quest (lol) that actually led them (Cam and Tay) to play in the band Wicked Wisdom with Jada Pinkett Smith (lol). While someone like Snail Mail, only 18 months her elder, can put out a record with largely the same themes as WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, yet still speak to an older audience, Eilishs debut largely doesnt care, well aware that she doesnt need anyone above, say, 25 to make her the biggest pop artist on the planet. You might be using a VPN. The man can pretty much do anything at this point. For When I Get Home, Solange rallied the likes of Gucci Mane and Playboi Carti (among others) for a record that spans ambient avant-garde jazz to startling trap. Every five years or so, a record comes along and becomes a constant companion, a weekend guest who never leaves and simply becomes part of the family. I try to avoid the voices of billionaires. For me it works as a straight up follow-up to his debut Galactic Melt. Spinning the records for the good of mankind. So you must try to record a set of songs that showcase some artistic growth and aesthetic ambition, but at the same time, you dont want to stray too far from what worked so well the first time out. Suddenly, for some reason, this calm washed over me. Her gorgeously resonant voice is meant to be heard filling the rafters of some ancient cathedral. Its a very inspiring tape to me, and something I will always keep with me and around me. So for her to sing like that early on, combined with the subject matter, the arrangement of the album with its throughline, and how it just flows with you its definitely a classic body of work. It is music by a powerful and prodigiously talented artist that is beyond category. It should be in yours, too. Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. After hearing it, I have a hard time imagining the day in the near future when a new Solange release wont be regarded as objectively brilliant. I remember first listening to it when it came out, and there was a sort of mystery that came with it. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Wu-Tang never gave a fuck. It taught me that truth put to melody is all you need. Julia Jacklins Crushing is a striking search for self, a call to upend that which tethers you down. It seemed like this song was speaking to me. Kendrick Lamar Covers Complex's "good kid, m.A.A.d city" Week! Then, influenced by artists like Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell and Bon Iver, he sings sad ballads in a soul style, every note hanging beautifully on the edge of destruction. That idea of simplicity is also present in Brian Wilsons songwriting; they sound more complex but are usually simple chords with uncommon bass notes. He will come out, start doing HUMBLE, and then alright, and then all the lights in the stadium will go out. To kick off Pitchforks 25th anniversary, we published a list of the 200 most important artists across our lifetime thus far. But for the first time in quite a while, Berninger went back to his hometown of Cincinnati on Not in Kansas, I Am Easy to Finds keystone track. The weird ambient pieces in-between continue to establish Lopatins production prowess, while his songs show his continued march to pop dominance. Photo by Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images. Of landscapesthe cosmic ( U.F.O.F immigrants has looked to make sense of calm New Jersey and... 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