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Albums like 21st Century Breakdown 2009
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 21st Century Breakdown
Albums closest to 21st Century Breakdown
- The Black Parade 2006Also story songs, serious and concept-driven
- Trench 2018Also concept-driven and serious
- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends 2008Also serious and maximal
- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank 2007more playful
- Infinity on High 2007more inward
The same feel, in other forms
Games
Bastion 2011Also plot-driven
NEO: The World Ends with You 2021Also plot-driven
Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree 2019Also plot-driven
Books
Railsea 2012Also epic, richly built and grave
The Great When 2024Also plot-driven
Luka and the Fire of Life (Khalifa Brothers #2) 2010Also plot-driven and epic
Films
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022Also epic and plot-driven
Planet of the Apes 1968Also epic
Series
Alien: Earth 2025Also epic and grave
Katanagatari 2010Also grave
Samurai Jack 2001Also epic and plot-driven
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