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Albums like Illmatic 1994
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 Illmatic
Albums closest to Illmatic
- 4 Your Eyez Only 2016Also sincere and serious
- good kid, m.A.A.d city 2012Also sincere, serious and polished
- Moment of Truth 1998Also sincere, serious and conventional
- Alfredo 2020Also serious and polished
- The Documentary 2005Also sincere, serious and conventional
- Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager 2010Also serious
- The Predator 1992Also conventional
- Black on Both Sides 1999more inward
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Breaker Morant 1980Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Manon of the Spring 1986Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1931Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Books
A Murder in Virginia 2003Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Dreamsnake 1978Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The witches: Salem, 1692 2015Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Games
Ghost Town 2025Also earnest, grave and meticulous
The Room Two 2013Also grave and earnest
Series
Baghdad Central 2020Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Mandaar 2021Also earnest, grave and meticulous
Under the Banner of Heaven 2022Also earnest, grave and classical in form
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