Small Bones in a Fist

  Discreet Music by Brian Eno  1975 I remember exactly how this record came into my life. Unlike other important records, it did not come during some late-night study session,  algorithmic recommendation or YouTube sidebar hopping spree. I don't return to this often, but when I do I'm reminded why this hour-long gem has lodged itself into my psyche. Brian Eno was the first ambient composer that I discovered, and I was immediately pulled into the strange and beautiful worlds that seemed baked into the music. I was, up until this point, interested in finding music that discarded genre and form as I knew it (just pop music,  basically). I was drawn to bands like  A Place to Bury Strangers  with their supernova-like, ear-crushing loudness that wouldn't sound too out of place on an airport tarmac, experimental artists like  Dreamcrusher  who are about as abrasive as one can get and  Lightning Bolt , who sound like pushing a marching band down a fl...