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Albums like Despite Yourself 1997
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 Despite Yourself
Albums closest to Despite Yourself
- Weathered 2001Also serious, sincere and inward
- A Rush of Blood to the Head 2002Also serious, sincere and inward
- Live Through This 1994Also serious, inward and sincere
- Under the Iron Sea 2006Also inward, serious and sincere
- Facelift 1990Also serious, sincere and conventional
- One by One 2002Also inward, serious and sincere
- Showbiz 1999Also serious, inward and sincere
- The Bends 1994Also serious, sincere and inward
- The Back Room 2005Also serious, sincere and inward
- Eyes Open 2006Also sincere, serious and inward
- Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 2000Also sincere and serious
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The Prince of Tides 1986Also earnest, grave and classical in form
The Vanishing Half 2020Also grave, earnest and classical in form
What's Mine and Yours 2021Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Films
A Star Is Born 2018Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Rent 2005Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Belle 2021Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Series
Elementary 2012Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Friday Night Lights 2006Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Queer as Folk 1999Also character-led, earnest and classical in form
Games
Neva 2024Also grave, earnest and contemporary
One Dreamer 2022Also earnest, grave and character-led
Iris and the Giant 2020Also grave, earnest and character-led
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