Husker Du - ‘Zen Arcade’
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It’s actually aether, which really pisses me off by ruining the symmetry of it all and also because it says sky(e) right fucking there
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the unpretentious ones aren’t doing it properly. And stuff like “it’s about a person very similar to the writer living their life” shouldn’t count
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The opposite of this thread! (Although I enjoy it as an album).
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Everything Everything - Mountainhead
Weaves the mountain society concept in pretty seamlessly imo
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What I’m getting from this thread is that asking DiS users to name unpretentious albums is like asking the richest people in the country to name basic household essentials.
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Jane Doe by Converge could be interpreted as a concept album about a breakup.
Came here to post the crane wife.
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Smile 
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Wish You Were Here - overarching theme of absence
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Could also apply to Goths (music for and about goths) and Bleed Out (Maximalist music for imaginary 70s films)
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A lot of Masta Ace’s albums. Disposable Arts probably the one I’d pick as it’s quite silly in places.
Edit - or SlaughtaHouse.
What if I was to interest you in a progressive metal concept album that was all about the implications of time as a human construct?
- Not pretentious - I’m interested
- Not pretentious - count me out
- Pretentious - fuck off
- Pretentious - I’d still glance at that
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Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling of the 1970s & Early '80s
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Ohhms- Rot is just basically dirty sweaty rock about horror films- including a feature presentation introduction- and I love it.
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What’s the concept in this one?
Excellent shout, what an album!
Field Music - Making A New World
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Ariel Sharratt and Mathias Kom - Never Work
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Mountain Man - Grief
Dealing somewhat with the tragic loss of their original singer (from their previous hardcore band Last Lights) after he accidentally asphyxiated himself with a mic lead at a gig.
The track titles are Denial I, Denial II… etc
17 tracks blasted out in 23 mins is pretty unpretentious I reckon
cw: death