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sick sad library's billboard top 10

  1. "Marked for Death" by Emma Ruth Rundle 㐃
  2. "Rasa" by oktobernatt 㐃
  3. "The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra" by Anna Von Hausswolff 㐃
  4. "Place In the Sun" by Chelsea Wolfe 㐃
  5. "Whispers In the Hall" by Chromatics 㐃
  6. "Airy Me" by Cuushe 㐃
  7. "Living With the Black Dog" by Emma Ruth Rundle 㐃
  8. "mary magdalene" by FKA twigs 㐃
  9. "Striptease" by FKA twigs 㐃
  10. "I'm Not Done" by Fever Ray 㐃

updated weekly


favorite artists

Fiona Apple, Björk, Cocteau Twins, Deftones, Lupe Fiasco, PJ Harvey, IC3PEAK, Kendrick Lamar, Morphine, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Portishead, Primus, Tool, Joey Valence & Brae, Chelsea Wolfe, yeule, Zheani.


favorite genres

alternative rock/metal, art pop, dream pop, folk, grunge, hip hop, punk, singer-songwriter, various electronic genres.

favorite albums

Dirt by Alice in Chains

grunge, alternative metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Would?"
  2. "Rooster"
  3. "Down in a Hole"

Vespertine by Björk

art pop, electronic, glitch pop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Pagan Poetry"
  2. "Unison"
  3. "It's Not Up To You"

White Pony by Deftones

alternative metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Change (In the House of Flies)"
  2. "Passenger"
  3. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"

To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey

alternative rock, singer-songwriter

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "The Dancer"
  2. "C'Mon Billy"
  3. "Down By the Water"

あらためまして、はじめまして、ミドリです。(Aratamemashite, hajimemashite, Midori desu.) by ミドリ (Midori)

art punk, jazz-rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "ゆきこさん"
  2. "お猿"
  3. "ひみつの2人"

D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L by Panchiko

indie rock, dream pop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Kicking Cars"
  2. "Laputa"
  3. "Sodium Chloride"

Pork Soda by Primus

funk metal, avant-garde metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "My Name Is Mud"
  2. "Mr. Krinkle"
  3. "DMV"

Life's Too Good by The Sugarcubes

post-punk, alternative rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Birthday"
  2. "Mama"
  3. "Coldsweat"

Tidal by Fiona Apple

singer-songwriter, piano rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Criminal"
  2. "Sleep to Dream"
  3. "Carrion"

Twilight by bôa

alternative rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Duvet"
  2. "Deeply"
  3. "Fool"

Exuma by Exuma

psychedelic folk, caribbean folk music, wyrd folk

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Mama Loi, Papa Loi"
  2. "Exuma, The Obeah Man"
  3. "The Vision"

Live Through This by Hole

grunge

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Violet"
  2. "Jennifer's Body"
  3. "Asking for It"

Cure for Pain by Morphine

jazz-rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Cure for Pain"
  2. "Mary Won't You Call My Name?"
  3. "Thursday"

Ten by Pearl Jam

grunge, alternative rock, hard rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Why Go"
  2. "Black"
  3. "Porch"

Sailing the Seas of Cheese by Primus

funk metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver"
  2. "Tommy the Cat"
  3. "American Life"

Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic by The Sundays

jangle pop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "You're Not the Only One I Know"
  2. "A Certain Someone"
  3. "I Won"

When the Pawn... by Fiona Apple

singer-songwriter, piano rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Paper Bag"
  2. "A Mistake"
  3. "Fast As You Can"

Perverts by Ethel Cain

drone, dark ambient

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Punish"
  2. "Etienne"
  3. "Pulldrone"

Fever Ray by Fever Ray

art pop, synthpop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "I'm Not Done"
  2. "When I Grow Up"
  3. "If I Had a Heart"

Kiss of Death by IC3PEAK

alternative metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Kiss of Death"
  2. "Worm"
  3. "Last Day"

The Night by Morphine

jazz-rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Take Me With You"
  2. "The Night"
  3. "I'm Yours, You're Mine"

Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs

psychdelic folk, singer-songwriter

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Paper Mountain Man"
  2. "Hey, Who Really Cares"
  3. "Moon and Cattails"

OK Computer by Radiohead

alternative rock, art rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Karma Police"
  2. "Climbing Up the Walls"
  3. "Paranoid Android"

Toxicity by System of a Down

alternative metal

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Aerials"
  2. "Chop Suey!"
  3. "ATWA"

God Loves Ugly by Atmosphere

conscious hip hop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "GodLovesUgly"
  2. "Lovelife"
  3. "Modern Man's Hustle"

Moon Pix by Cat Power

singer-songwriter, slowcore

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Cross Bones Style"
  2. "Metal Heart"
  3. "Moonshiner"

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor by Lupe Fiasco

conscious hip hop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Hurt Me Soul"
  2. "The Cool"
  3. "The Instrumental"

呼吸 (Kokyuu) by Lily Chou-Chou

dream pop, soundtrack

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "愛の実験"
  2. "アラベスク"
  3. "グライド"

MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana

acoustic rock, grunge

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"
  2. "Plateau"
  3. "Lake of Fire"

Dummy by Portishead

trip hop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Glory Box"
  2. "Numb"
  3. "Roads"

Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet

afro-jazz

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "My Queen Is Ada Eastman"
  2. "My Queen Is Harriet Tubman"
  3. "My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu"

Hiss Spun by Chelsea Wolfe

doom metal, gothic rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "16 Psyche"
  2. "Twin Fawn"
  3. "Scrape"

Post by Björk

art pop, electronic

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Hyperballad"
  2. "Enjoy"
  3. "Army of Me"

Treasure by Cocteau Twins

dream pop, ethereal wave

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Persephone"
  2. "Cicely"
  3. "Beatrix"

Visions by Grimes

synthpop, chillwave

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Nightmusic"
  2. "Oblivion"
  3. "Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus)"

All Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota

death industrial, neoclassical darkwave

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Woe to All (On the Day of My Wrath)"
  2. "God Gave Me No Name (Nothing Can Hide From My Flame)"
  3. "For I Am the Light (And Mine is the Only Way Now)"

Nevermind by Nirvana

grunge, alternative rock

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Lithium"
  2. "In Bloom"
  3. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Portishead by Portishead

trip hop

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Cowboys"
  2. "Elysium"
  3. "All Mine"

Sublime by Sublime

alternative rock, third wave ska

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Get Ready"
  2. "Santeria"
  3. "April 29, 1992 (Miami)"

She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She by Chelsea Wolfe

darkwave, post-industrial

Favorite Tracks:

  1. "Unseen World"
  2. "House of Self-Undoing"
  3. "A Place In the Sun"