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Albums like The Pretender 1976
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 Pretender
Albums closest to The Pretender
- Tidal 1996Also serious, sincere and contemporary
- XO 1998Also serious, sincere and inward
- Superache 2022Also serious, sincere and contemporary
- Rumours 1977Also serious, sincere and conventional
- the record 2023Also serious, sincere and conventional
- 9 2006Also serious, sincere and conventional
- Imagine 1971Also serious and inward
- Back to Bedlam 2004Also serious, sincere and conventional
- Elton John 1970Also serious, sincere and inward
- Bridge Over Troubled Water 1970Also sincere, serious and conventional
- The Shepherd's Dog 2007Also serious and sincere
- Tapestry 1971Also sincere, serious and conventional
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The Vanishing Half 2020Also grave, earnest and classical in form
An equal music 1999Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Commonwealth 2016Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Films
A Star Is Born 2018Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Riding Giants 2004Also grave, earnest and classical in form
City of Angels 1998Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Series
Friday Night Lights 2006Also earnest, classical in form and grave
Elementary 2012Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Pyarey Afzal 2013Also contemporary, grave and earnest
Games
Life is Strange: Before the Storm 2017Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Lucy: The Eternity She Wished For 2016Also grave, earnest and classical in form
Leila 2025Also earnest, grave and character-led
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