I'd put 13 in alongside a range of turn-of-the-century albums by guitar-oriented bands which have direct or indirect themes of disintegration and atomisation.
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Kid A
NYC Ghosts and Flowers
Machina
To Record Only Water For Ten Days
Echolalia
Not saying they're all of comparable quality, but they are all tapping into that same mood in the zeitgeist. The same one that produced a huge number of disaster/apocalypse films, even before Sept 11
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