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Albums like Painful 1993
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 Painful
Albums closest to Painful
- Twilight 2001Also inward, serious and sincere
- Melophobia 2013Also inward, serious and sincere
- Wincing the Night Away 2007Also serious and contemporary
- Beatopia 2022Also inward and sincere
- Show Your Bones 2006Also inward
- You Forgot It in People 2002Also inward, contemporary and serious
- She Hangs Brightly 1990Also inward, serious and sincere
- bury me at makeout creek 2014Also inward, serious and sincere
- Cease to Begin 2007Also sincere and serious
- Figure 8 2000Also inward, serious and sincere
- I Love You. 2013Also inward, contemporary and serious
- First Impressions of Earth 2005Also serious
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Heights 2005Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga 2019Also contemporary and grave
Lust Stories 2018Also contemporary, grave and character-led
Series
Banana 2015Also contemporary, grave and character-led
SKAM Italia 2018Also contemporary, character-led and grave
SKAM 2015Also contemporary, character-led and earnest
Games
The Path of Motus 2018Also character-led, earnest and grave
Nostoi 2018Also character-led, grave and earnest
ShadOAlso contemporary, grave and character-led
Books
How to Change Your Mind 2018Also grave, earnest and contemporary
The Actual Star 2021Also contemporary and grave
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 1992Also earnest
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