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90s: Zoyd Portishead Pram Stereolab Swans Tortoise
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Poll Question: Choose an album duo from the list.
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    Posted: October 14 2022 at 20:19
Just a quickly put together poll. Six sequential albums from the 90s by six bands.

Art Zoyd - Faust (1996) and Häxan (1997)
Portishead - Dummy (1994), Portishead (1997)
Pram - Helium (1994) and Sargasso Sea (1995) (tempted by North Pole Radio Station)
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) and Dots and Loops (1997)
Swans - The Great Annihilator (1995) and Soundtracks for the Blind (1996)
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) and TNT (1998) (tempted by the debut)

And feel free to mention what your favourite sequential album duos from the 90s are.

I will allow multiple votes if one wishes to vote for more than one duo.

Edited by Logan - October 14 2022 at 20:31
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Thanks to you I dived a bit in the music of Pram, Swans and listened to more of Stereolab. Tortoise have never really convinced me. I quite like the two Portishead albums, but up against Art Zoyd... (and these albums are not even my favourite AZ albums...).

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I adore Art Zoyd. It’s probably been the most important band over the past 20 years for me. Those 90s albums are my favourite of Zoyd’s post 80s ones (I return to Faust more than Haxan), but I really love the pre 90s period. My favourite depends on the day, but Generation sans Futur, Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer, Les espaces inquiets, Phase IV and the later Fast are likely the ones I have returned to the most over the past 10 years.

I couldn’t comfortably choose one duo here, as I care enough for all of these (as one might expect with it being my poll of ones that I often refer to). Just with Pram and Tortoise I was unsure which duo to go with.
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As multiple vote is allowed ,
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Portishead and Art Zoyd
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I can't get much out of Stereolab but like all the others I know (that's all minus  Sargasso Sea and Dots and Loops).

The Art Zoyd duo is extremely strong and high up my list. The Swans albums are good but in my view a bit below their best period. Portishead is not quite up with AZ and Tortoise, and even though I'd rank the AZ duo still higher, I will also vote for Tortoise as this band never disappoints me and I come back regularly to them.
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