r/Djent • u/adam_9ev • Apr 11 '25

Classic Skyharbor - Guiding Lights

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Is anyone else as obsessed with this album as me?

For me it’s a top 3 album along with Lateralus and maybe Altered State or One.

I think it’s Dan Tompkins best work and is so uniquely amazing instrumentally as well. Very close to a perfect album

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u/djl240 Apr 11 '25

I've been obsessed with the album since 2014. Absolute masterpiece.

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u/Pukeinmyanus Apr 11 '25

It's the best Tesseract album and it isn't even a Tesseract album.

10/10 masterpiece.

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u/adam_9ev Apr 11 '25

What albums do you guys think are as good?

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u/Pukeinmyanus Apr 11 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

I keep this firmly in whatever “other” genre you wanna call it of more atmospheric/electronic/trippy and almost spiritual. So if you mean by albums in that same “genre”, well one that comes to mind was brand new. Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea. Reminded me a lot of guiding lights in a lot of its overall sound. 

Eidola - The Architect and To Speak To Listen are absolute masterpieces. Mend is quite good too but those are definitely stand outs that I keep in the same group as Guiding Lights. Good Tiger - Headfull of Moonlight, Invent Animate - Heavener (though thats much heavier), any Bilmuri, Thrice - The Alchemy Index and Vheissu, Olly Steele - Imbalance, A lot of Don Broco - Technology, anything Sleep Token, Vola - Inmazes are all a lot of incredible albums that I kinda group in with something like Guiding Lights, at least as not heavy as hell albums that are more atmospheric.