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Melody (8 Minute Version)
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Loveless
Carries a strong pull into film through longing and after-hours.
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The Shape of Jazz to Come
Carries a strong pull into film through power and urban isolation.
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Certain Women
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and after-hours.
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Loveless
1990s
Shoegaze's magnum opus. Guitars as texture, noise as beauty, melody buried in distortion.
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Certain Women
2010s
Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...
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Histoire de Melody Nelson
1970s
A concept album of obsession, orchestral sweep, and spoken-word seduction. French pop at its most literary and cinematic.
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The Shape of Jazz to Come
1950s
Free jazz's opening salvo. Lonely Woman and the liberation of melody from harmony.
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Great Wall
Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.