Board 8 > Hey music people, can you recommend 'seasonal' albums?

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Stuff that captures the essence of a particular season (could be just for you personally or on a more universal level). Not limited to one per season.

e.g. for me so far...

Spring: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Summer: ???
Fall: ???
Winter: Björk - Vespertine



There's been some stuff like AnCo where I thought "Hey this could be my summer album" but it hasn't really clicked with me yet like Vespertine has.

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Summer: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Winter: Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

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I generally find music in general to be very seasonal, so your mileage may vary, but here's a a few for each.

Spring:
Shad - TSOL (hip-hop)
Asobi Seksu - Citrus (poppy shoegaze)
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (indie pop)
Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now (folk/country)
Florrie - Experiments (pop) (hi icon)
Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Theater (r&b)

Summer:
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (obvious)
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (rock)
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock (folk rock) (hi again icon)
Reflections Eternal (hip hop)
Anamanaguchi - Dawn Metropolis

Fall:
Robyn Hitchcock - Jewels For Sophia
Happy End - Kazemachi Roman
Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM (electronic)
Beirut - The Rip Tide (indie)

Winter:
Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony (folk)
Portishead - Third (eerie pop?)
Shabazz Palaces (hip hop)
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko - 28 (down tempo electropop?)

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Winter - Basically anything by Agalloch

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Kid A seems very winter to me

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winter: anything by TSO

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Vampire weekend and paul simon are perfect at the moment for me (spring weather, warm but not too hot)

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Summer: Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit

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Going through my albums, I'm simply reminded of the season in which I listened to that album most, rather than what season the sound of the album actually represents.

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Summer:
Wavves - King of the Beach

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Hmm...fall seems lacking at the moment.

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ZaziGuado posted...
Summer: Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit

My favorite album ever

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Winter: Sigur Ros - ( )

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Summer: Zero 7 - The Garden

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For some stuff that hasn't been listed that I feel captures the essence pretty well...

Fall:
Death Cab for Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Modest Mouse - ...pretty much their entire discography

Winter:
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

Spring:
The Applies In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
The New Pornographers - Pretty much their entire discography too
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...

Summer:
Surfer Blood - Astrocoast
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
The Pixies - Doolittle
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

Probably worth noting that I'm pretty heavily influenced by when I first listen to an album. I made the mistake of listening to Best Coast and Wavves nearly exclusively for a December and now, as much as I know they sound at least as summer-y as Surfer Blood, they just can't escape the mental association.

On a separate note, I feel that there are a lot of albums that straddle the transition between Summer and Fall; the end of the dog days (at least in the NW United States) is a very distinct period from all other seasons and is I would identify as uniquely notable among seasonal transitions.

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Winter: Sadistik - The Balancing Act

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