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Albums like 100% Synthetic 2001
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 100% Synthetic
Albums closest to 100% Synthetic
- Cage the Elephant 2008Also conventional and driving
- Wheatus 2000Also conventional, contemporary and unpretentious
- Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace 2008Also conventional
- Good Morning Revival 2007Also conventional, contemporary and unpretentious
- Pablo Honey 1993Also conventional, contemporary and serious
- Take This to Your Grave 2003Also conventional, contemporary and driving
- Nothing Happens 2019Also conventional
- Costello Music 2006Also conventional and unpretentious
- What Do You Think About the Car? 2017Also conventional
- Konk 2008Also conventional and unpretentious
- First Impressions of Earth 2005Also conventional and serious
The same feel, in other forms
Books
A Man With One of Those Faces 2016Also classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious
Jumper 1992Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
Whompyjawed 1999Also classical in form, grave and unpretentious
Series
Stumptown 2019Also classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious
Rush 2014Also classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious
Lockwood & Co. 2023Also classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious
Films
Boiler Room 2000Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
Jack Irish: Bad Debts 2012Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
Kicks 2016Also classical in form, contemporary and grave
Games
Command & Conquer: Rivals 2018Also classical in form, unpretentious and relentless
Rest in Pieces 2019Also classical in form, contemporary and unpretentious
Dogfight 2020Also classical in form, unpretentious and contemporary
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