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Albums like October 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 October
Albums closest to October
- Tidal 1996Also sincere, serious and inward
- Ghost Stories 2014Also sincere, inward and serious
- Live Through This 1994Also serious, sincere and inward
- I Barely Know Her 2025Also sincere, serious and inward
- Minutes to Midnight 2007Also sincere, serious and contemporary
- Weathered 2001Also sincere, serious and inward
- No Need to Argue 1994Also sincere, serious and contemporary
- I Love You. 2013Also serious, inward and sincere
- Manic 2020Also sincere, inward and serious
- Rumours 1977Also sincere, serious and inward
- Jagged Little Pill 1995Also sincere, contemporary and serious
- How to Save a Life 2005Also sincere, serious and contemporary
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Whale Rider 2003Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Waste Land 2010Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Belle 2021Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Books
The Year of the Runaways 2015Also earnest, grave and contemporary
From this wicked patch of dust 2011Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Maximum city 2004Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Games
Neva 2024Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Iris and the Giant 2020Also earnest, grave and contemporary
Altheia: The Wrath of Aferi 2025Also earnest, grave and character-led
Series
Friday Night Lights 2006Also earnest, grave and contemporary
The Chi 2018Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Queen Sugar 2016Also earnest, grave and contemporary
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