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Name the most recent album that has shaped your musical world

Every now and then, sometimes when you're least expecting it, an album comes along that shifts, develops, and extends the shape of your music world.The album/artist/creation doesn't have to be a sea-change from your previous taste, but it does have to add a flavor to that taste palette that was missing before.

In the past few years, creations like M83's "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming", TV on the Radio's "Quartz", and Wye Oak's "The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs" have all done this. But most recently, Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer" eased me into a new musical shape, itself populated by Erykah Badu, Dominique Fils-Aime, and others I wouldn't have discovered had it not been for Monae's brilliant, game-changing release.
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davidfellows
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So many great recommendations here. Thank you!
Two that have really brought me joy and comfort of late:
Regina Carter’s “Paganini: After a Dream”
I keep reaching for the volume and turning it up. Sublime!
Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra “Back Home.” The sound quality on this is so pure. Beautifully mixed and engineered. Makes my heart dance. 
jdm61
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Somebody mentioned Billie Eilish and said don’t laugh. No reason to laugh and she’s pretty darn good and I’m 59. I have discovered a lot of old stuff as I got older, But I have to go back a while to find something that was new at the time and from a relatively new band and it made me really set up and take notice. I would tend to leave out stuff like them crooked vultures because that was a group of guys that I already knew.I’m tempted to say white stripes elephant, but I think realistically the two that belong in the most recent records with the greatest influence Would have to be Radiohead OK computer and toadies rubberneck which I didn’t discover until a few years after it came out.
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tim_p
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I just discovered Carl "Safe Sax" Ferris, CD is "All Blown Out " and love his music. This from an old fart who joined the KISS Army in the 70's as a kid and thought ACDC were heavy metal Gods when Bon Scott was alive. 
mayostudent
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Probably my Steely Dan Gaucho MCA 1984 MCAD-37220 DIDX 56.
middlemass
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Not recent. 1974 I purchased from the local Peaches an import record before actually hearing anything on it (did that a lot in those days.)  Fripp & Eno ‎– (No Pussyfooting). Didn't really care for it and had no idea I was listening to what many people would later say was the birth of the ambient genre.
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