One and Done albums

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#21

Late of the Pier
Clor

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#22

Was about to post The Moon Is A Dead World by Gospel from 2005, but it looks like they released their second album less than a week ago. WTF?

#23

Iā€™d give it a miss

#24

Currently a minute 10 into the first track and yeah. What a downer. Is it the same drummer?

#25

Same drummer. Second track is a bit better tbf. Way, way too much keyboard though.

#26

One of the finest epic black metal albums ever made. Based on the Malazan book series, imo the best fantasy book series ever written.

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#27

Blind Faith - Blind Faith
Lauren Hill - The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks Hereā€™s The Sex Pistols
X-ray Specs - Germfree Adolescents

#28

WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

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#29

Always wondered what happened to Tom Burbank. Loved his one and only album.

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#30

Todd Terje - Itā€™s Album Time

Seems to have lived off it and all

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#31

This guy recorded four fantastic songs in Jamaica in the 70s then completely disappeared.

That Ronald Haynes album is superb by the way - I had the same process as @ballard in not quite believing that there isnā€™t some kind of history around him.

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#32

Of course thereā€™s also this, perhaps the greatest northern soul single ever and the only thing Frank Wilson ever recorded (until he made a gospel album many years later)

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#33

Dennis Wilson- Pacific Ocean Blue

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#34

Does Baader Meinhof count even though itā€™s just another delivery mechanism for Luke Hainesā€™ delicious bitterness?

King Biscuit Time also falls into this category, before Steve Mason decided to use his real name.

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#36

Iā€™m discounting collaborations and supergroups e.g. you could consider The Postal Service as ā€˜one and doneā€™.

Wade - s/t

Scarce - ā€˜Deadsexyā€™

Bike - ā€˜Take in the Sunā€™

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#37

Was about to suggest another scottish electronic artist with only one album but it turns out Grumā€™s pulled his thumb out and made two more albums in the last couple of years.

Heartbeats was/is a hell of a bop still.

#38

One of the best ambient albums ever is 76:14 by Global Communication, and it was their only album.

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#39

I saw them do about half this album live at an anti-vivisection fundraising gig in Yeovil. GC were the support, PJ Harvey headlined

Yeovil represent

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#40

Lots of brilliant weird British guitar bands did this back around the turn of the 2000s. Especially if they were on Undergroove (like TMORL)! Hereā€™s some other one album wonders:

Eden Maineā€™s To You the First Star, a brutal amalgamation of Converge and Explosions in the Sky:

The heavy but psychedelic Entheogen, from Sheffieldā€™s utterly indescribable Sika Redem.

And for some non-Undergroove examples, who can forget Meet Me In St Louis? Variations on Swing is pretty much math rock perfection.

I also had a big soft spot for Aconite Thrillā€™s The Recliner, a really tight post-hardcore jem, featuring this belter:

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