I’m a huge fan of hidden gems! Feel free to restack and share some of yours. Here are some of my favorites:

Album/Artist: Almost Remembered by Erick Ark Elliot. This album is just a whole experience to me, I don’t know. There’s only like two just decent songs and the rest are great. It all goes together well. It reminds me why I love listening to whole albums so much. I’m someone who really likes music for the way the beats make me feel, and the art of the lyricism, so while I know not everyone loves rap/hip-hop, I know most people could appreciate the artistic image and poetry of the album

Movie/Video: Deep Fried Pescado by Deep Fried on YouTube. If you’ve ever lived in San Francisco, and/or love skateboarding, you will be glad you found this skate video. It reminds me so much of the golden era of skate movies, while beautifully capturing all the nostalgia I have for San Francisco at the same time. I think even someone who doesn’t usually watch skate videos would develop a sense for the art behind them, and what we love so much about city skating and community (even if I scooter with the group).

Fiction Book/Author: Schild’s Ladder, by Greg Egan. Oh man, this book. Maybe the best fiction book I’ve ever read, for my interests in Physics, Philosophy, Psychology, etc. I think anyone would love it, but some would find it very hard to read. I think of it as the second book in a series with his other book Diaspora, which sets some of the Sci-fi backdrop of the book. I’ve never read universe exploring futuristic sci-fi before them, and it was so much better than anything I could have expected from the context of like Star Trek or David Mitchell or Vonnegut or something.

Nonfiction: Longitude by Dava Sobel, I think there are lots of books I’d like to put in this category, as well as for fiction if I thought harder, but one books stands out that I think anyone could get sucked into if they gave it a chance. Longitude is the story of the invention of the first pocket watch. I just so happened to find this book, because it’s cover stuck out to me, like Egan’s books. And I’m so glad I did. Sobel just tells the story so well. Her writing really captures the way that great inventions can be spurned by creative solutions to a problem that needs to be solved, and how competition and jealousy can almost rob us of great things and societal progress as much as they can be conducive to them.