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Albums like Face Value 1981
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Face Value
Albums closest to Face Value
- I Barely Know Her 2025Also sincere, inward and serious
- Tidal 1996Also sincere, serious and inward
- Superache 2022Also sincere, serious and contemporary
- Rumours 1977Also sincere, inward and serious
- Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 2000Also sincere, serious and polished
- Imagine 1971Also inward, serious and polished
- Tapestry 1971Also sincere, inward and serious
- Back From the Edge 2016Also sincere, serious and inward
- Breakaway 2003Also sincere, serious and contemporary
- Continuum 2006Also sincere, serious and inward
- Safe Haven 2017Also sincere, inward and serious
- Back to Bedlam 2004Also sincere and serious
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Kaatru Veliyidai 2017Also earnest and grave
Weathering with You 2019Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Whale Rider 2003Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Series
Elementary 2012Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Friday Night Lights 2006Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Heartstopper 2022Also earnest, contemporary and character-led
Books
An equal music 1999Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Have a little faith 1960Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Lab Girl 2016Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Games
One Dreamer 2022Also earnest, character-led and grave
The Forest Quartet 2022Also earnest, grave and character-led
Shelter 2 2015Also earnest, grave and contemporary
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