What are some albums you can completely lose yourself in?

Sigur Ros -- ( )
Godspeed You! Black Emperor -- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Yndi Halda -- Enjoy Eternal Bliss
The Mars Volta -- De-Loused in the Comatorium

I have to mention my favourite album, Porter Robinson - Worlds. To me, this album is the definition of fantasy and letting your mind roam to imaginary places. Relevant lyrics from another Porter Robinson song:

Every place you've ever imagined: it's real.
There is a fictional city in your mind, and you know every corner of it.
Your mind is a world, each of us is a place.

My next choice is Astrix - He.art. Psytrance is absolute magic, and to me is the best music to lose yourself in, especially when you’re really tired (or tripping, but I’m not planning on that anytime soon :P). This is the best psytrance album I’ve ever heard, and it really showed me how powerful the genre can be.

Why? - Alopecia
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Lucius - Good Grief
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
The Growlers - Are You in or Out?
Beck - Midnight Vultures
Any album by St. Vincent

In no particular order:

Beck: Sea Change
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese
Elliott Smith: Either-Or
Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid
Alabama Shakes: Sound and Color

These are albums I keep in rotation and invariably come back to when I’m in need of an “album experience.” I’ve got a handful more but don’t want to flood the thread. At any rate, they all fit the same lyrical and sonic bliss criteria for me as your pick.

Can’t wait to listen to Trophy Eyes!

• Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon (especially if you’re able to get your hands on the Alan Parsons quadraphonic mix and a good audio system to play it on)
• Blue Man Group — Audio
• BT — This Binary Universe
• Delirious? — Glo
• Ulrich Schnauss — Far Away Trains Passing By
• The Beatles — Love (Cirque du Soleil soundtrack)

Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION
I (아이) - I Dream
YG - Still Brazy
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

I listen to most of my music in the background playing video games, but whenever these albums come on I always take notice. The first two are super poppy and happy, and even though I'm a always a bit embarrassed whenever it comes up that I like that kind of music, I can't deny that I do. The second two are hip-hop/rap, but still pretty different. For Still Brazy all I really care about is the beat (DJ Mustard is great), and I think it delivers hard. But for Mecca and the Soul Brother, it's way more lyrical and fun to listen to. I guess I just like upbeat music.

The Cure - Pornography
Motorpsycho - Demon Box
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Ulver - Perdition City
Sun Ra - Space is the Place
Vyva Melinkolya - Vyva Melinkolya
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

Looking at this, it isn't much different from just a favorites list for me. I value that kind of experience a lot.

Here we go.

I mean there are so many, but ...

I lose every single music popularity thread. Yet I always keep posting because there might be just one special person who gets what I get from them and if I can give that experience to someone I can die happy. If you're out there - bless you and enjoy....

• Troum - Sigqan - but quite honestly virtually any album by them. Other notable albums - Eald-Ge-Stréon and Shutûn, but seriously everything.
• Coil - Time Machines - this is a truly unique electronic music album - designed and deliberately crafted to lose track of time and yourself.
• Mono - Requiem for Hell - This is actually a playlist for a gig last January in Seoul because it was after the album was released and I also really enjoyed Jambinai's set. East Asian Post-Rock forever!. I love post-rock in general and GYBE, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Caspian etc are all great, but something about Mono gives me goosebumps. I don't know why but their music just goes so much deeper than any other band in the genre. Hard to choose just one and this is probably recency bias - very close runners up: Hymn To The Immortal Wind and Under The Pipal Tree.
• Pan Sonic - A - Experimental, electronic sound design at its peak. I can't find it on youtube or bandcamp. RIP Mika Vainio - I will forever mourn there will be no more of his creative output after this

I'll leave it there. I have a tendency to overshare and there's already more than than most people would follow anyway :)

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid;Maad City; DAMN.; To Pimp A Butterfly

John Coltrane - Darkar; A Love Supreme; John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman; Both Directions at Once

The Decemberists - Hazards of Love

Bill Evans - Sundays at the Village Vanguard; Waltz for Debby

Mewithoutyou - Brother, Sister

Toe - For Long Tomorrow

Asian Kung-Fu Generation - World World World

The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

The Roots - Undun

Not an album, but my top is Nujabes Eternal [mix]. It's a solid hour, the same length of my gym routine, and I can't but lose myself and jam out the entire time, every time.

Some others I always get really into:

Turisas – Battle Metal (folk metal)

Pat Metheny – Secret Story (jazz fusion)

Chilly Gonzales – Ivory Tower (can't find full-album link, hip-hop/disco?, had a film arranged around it)

Gasoline – A Journey Into Abstract Hip-Hop (Electronic, Hip-Hop)

Radiohead: In Rainbows

Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool

Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly

Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2

Tool: Lateralus

Gorillaz: Demon Dayz

GZA: Liquid Swords

Swans: The Seer

Tame Impala: Liberian

Rage Against the Machine: self titled

Rage Against the Machine: Battle for Los Angeles

Eiffel 65 - Europop

I usually don't find whole albums where I like every song in the album, but LIGHTS by Voices in Your Head is an exception for me. It is quite honestly one of the best albums I have ever listened to, and I lose myself in it every time I listen.

There are a ton of them, but rather than list all of them, I'll just cover the most recent one I have come across: Yorlga. Sung by Noriko Mitose and written by Yoshitaka Hirota (of Shadow Hearts fame). It takes a while for the songs to completely sink in, but it's incredibly rewarding when it does. Listening to each song paints a different living scenery in my mind.

I found this "vaporwave?" thing on some youtube channel that aggregates things and it's been my goto for a while. Elyphant : Bellwether. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-6z9BzM2AQ. Imo it's not too close to vaporwave so I'm not entirely sure why it's on that channel, unless its just interest overlap.

It's a really relaxing album with a few interesting "off kilter" effects spattered throughout the songs so there's always something to catch my ear (namely the 2nd? song) but it lends itself to zoning out quite well because of the de-emphasis of lyrics in favour of melody.

That reminds me of this; also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrenNlr1Wzo It's an original score for the show "utopia" although the album linked is the season 2 one, both are superb and eerie.

I often put the two on loop while i read audiobooks because why not? I did it for Artemis recently and it was phenomenal when the music would be "on tone" with the book. Plus when it wasn't entirely fitting; It's never too commanding to actually draw your focus away from anything.

Next is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BZhPIut3U8. It's the soundtrack to the film "Waking Life". Another bizarre piece of content, but the soundtrack itself isn't that experimental. It's mostly violins, pianos, and whatnot. Maybe classical? I'm not a huge buff on the genres so I'm not actually sure. I just love how tender it can be. The film it's from is quite "out there" but I think the music is quite even-keel

Kanye - graduation
Kanye and Jay Z - watch the throne
Nujabes - modal soul
The Weeknd - my dear melancholy,
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

A few I haven't seen others mention: OK Computer, In Rainbows, Whatever People Say I Am, Illinois, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Is This It

And a few I have seen others mention: ITAOTS, Souvlaki, Lift Your Skinny Fists...

Tycho - Past is Prologue / Dive, I enjoy tycho because whichever mood I tend to be in mad, sad, anxious, stressed, listening to tycho always brings me to a sense of equilibrium.

Lonerism by tame impala is pretty good for losing youself

Rush - 2112
Rush - Moving Pictures
Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun.
Boston - Boston
Seal - Seal
Styx - Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology
YES - 90125
Journey - Greatest Hits
Foreigner - The Definitive

The head and the heart - the head and the heart. Their first album.

Jeff Buckley - Grace

John Martyn - Solid Air

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Levellers - Mouth To Mouth

And a recent one: Ross From Friends - Family Portrait

Most albums by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, though Polygondwanaland stands out.
Also, A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead.

• Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus
• Nujabes - Metaphorical Music
• El Camino - Black Keys
• Act 1 - The Protomen
• God of Love - Stereo Alchemy - I put this one in last because there's actually a couple of songs I tend to skip sometimes

Frank Ocean - Blonde

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

Radiohead - In Rainbows

AJJ - Can't Maintain

Any concept album really. Pink Floyds the wall is my favorite concept album, followed by The Who's Tommy.

Other than than concept album I really get lost in Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Double disc and 28 tracks give plenty of variety, not to mention I think it's some of John Frusciantes greatest work.

F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor is one that I always get lost in.

Act II - The Father Of Death by The Protomen

The second act of a musical that’s based of the rough story of mega man, the album really brings you on a journey and I completely get lost in it quite often. It’s actual a prequel to the first act, so you can go ahead and listen to it without previous context, but the first act is also very, very good.

Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

Nirvana - Nevermind.

It’s an album that always scratches the nostalgia itch for me.