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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 The Pains of Growing
Albums closest to The Pains of Growing
- Kid Krow 2020Also conventional, contemporary and sincere
- I Barely Know Her 2025Also sincere, conventional and contemporary
- Back From the Edge 2016Also sincere, conventional and contemporary
- Immunity 2019Also sincere, contemporary and inward
- This Is How Tomorrow Moves 2024Also sincere, conventional and contemporary
- Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea 2000Also sincere and serious
- Journals 2013Also sincere, contemporary and conventional
- Jagged Little Pill 1995Also contemporary, sincere and inward
- So Far Gone 2009Also contemporary and conventional
- So Close to What 2025Also contemporary, conventional and inward
- 1000 Forms of Fear 2014Also contemporary, sincere and serious
- The Secret of Us 2024Also contemporary and conventional
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Spider-Man 2 2004Also classical in form, contemporary and earnest
The Boy and the Beast 2015Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
The Fighter 2010Also classical in form, contemporary and earnest
Series
Elementary 2012Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
Friday Night Lights 2006Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
CAROLE & TUESDAY 2019Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Books
Endurance 2017Also earnest, contemporary and classical in form
Becoming 2018Also contemporary, classical in form and earnest
Heat 2006Also contemporary and classical in form
Games
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees 2022Also contemporary, earnest and grave
Deer & Boy 2026Also contemporary, earnest and grave
Life is Strange: True Colors 2021Also contemporary, earnest and grave
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