Sunset Mission

It's Sunday, February 26 1933. You're in Berlin At a Jazz club. You have a bad feeling. But you're also very horny.

This will be a very useful album if I ever have to find some conspicuous footsteps and other wacky clues with my handy dandy magnifying glass in a dark alleyway while wearing a black coat and a hat. It's alright. Extremely Twin Peaks, to the point where you'll have yourself saying: "Why am I not just listening to the Twin Peaks soundtrack right now."

"Doom jazz" is a micro-genre that barely exists outside of Bohren and a handful of others apparently. This is music for people who think regular jazz is too upbeat and doom metal is too energetic. It's aggressively niche. And I'm all here for it. Not sure if such a niche album should be on a 1001 album list, but this is one of the best things I've heard in a while. Insanely slow tempos, beats landing at exactly the right moment. My Dying Bride if they made noir jazz. The rock influences have disappeared, this is all atmosphere. Everything drags, everything lingers. An atmosphere of calm with an ominous menace underneath. The dark power of the saxophone in all its glory. Even the aesthetic of the album cover is pure film noir/neo-noir This isn't an album with standout tracks. You put it on and let it wash over you. It sustains its 50-minute runtime completely. So delightfully moody, balanced perfectly.

I just had Helloween, German speed metal and now this, German doom jazz. Turns out I like German speed metal but I *love* German doom jazz. This album is the bomb. Great share!

From the album art and artist names I was expecting some sort of weird dub/IDM LP, so I was pleasantly surprised to get a strong dose of excellent Jazz. The album name fits perfectly – this LP is evening embodied, incredibly strong nighttime vibes conveyed by perfect instrumental performances and a strong sense of melodic presence. The runtime could have flirted with disaster, but each track embodies such a different feeling that the 75-minute experience never drags or wears on the listener. I do think one has to be in the right mindset to listen to this album in full (I was stuck on a morning shift watching the sun rise, and it fit perfectly), but I hope everyone here has the chance to experience this in the right mood and feel as immersed as I did. Amazing add!

Listen to this while reading Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon”. Big mood shit. Big vibes. Not too much going on, but it also is a very rich album. I enjoyed a lot. 4/5

Really good and chill..... I would like to mention Angelo Badalamenti though? Still, very good.

Interesting... I started listening to this not having any idea what it was at the gym and decided it was a kind of dark jazz, then when I looked at the Wikipedia later saw it was indeed dark jazz... which I didn't know was a thing. Reminds me of something Duke Silver would play. I liked it!

Simple but perfect. I love jazz and it sounds like it would fit perfectly in any film noir movie with a private detective, which is one of my favorite things. This was awesome.

Precis så här ska jazz låta. La till hela plattan på min Spotifylista.

Only listened to the first two tracks so far, while taking (very) short stroll to the shops and back. I suspect that I'll very much enjoy the rest of this cool, laid back jazz very much, so it'll get a preemptive top score. Nice. Smooth. Great. 👌

Gorgeous dark melancholic background saxophone jazz. It has a job, and it does it beautifully.

This is like a modern take on film-noir style jazz. I love it.

I always thought Darkjazz was too agressive of a term. I call this Jazz Noir. The Youtube for one of these songs used ro be amazing. Everybody felt the vibe and created an ominous story, one sentence at the time. I know this leans on its atmosphere, but what an atmosphere!

I love jazz and I love ambient so this really hit for me. The extensive use of sax was great.

Loved this vibe on a lazy rainy morning. Very Lynchian. Kind of perfect for today.

Very cool slice of doom-jazz. Twin Peaks vibes. Hard to pick faves when it's all instrumental, but Prowler sets the scene and Dead End Angels bookends it nicely.

Apple Music said this was ‘alternative’ but I found it to be laid back slowly evolving jazz. Wikipedia described it as DARK JAZZ which is extremely badass. Good listen better genre

What a vibe wasn’t sure at first as I was putting up Christmas decorations. Kind of made it melancholy but nostalgic at the same time. Cool stuff.

Wow really interesting jazz album, very atmospheric really enjoyed this one I’ll hopefully come back to.

I'm a hard boiled detective and it's a rainy night..

Very relaxing jazz. I like this more than some of those chaotic kinds

very chill, almost detective noir vibe

Jazz fit for a moody, hardboiled film noir. A sleazy saxophone, a drifting piano, and a subdued-yet-steady rhythm from the drums makes up much of this iconic sound. Sunset Mission feels like a benchmark for this kind of jazz, but can find itself relegated to background music more often than not. Ambient music can have that effect on me, so I won't hold it against the spirit of the album. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: This feels more like a specialty/niche kind of a jazz rather than a particularly important part of the genre so, I don't think it would be a good fit for the list.

This band was my introduction to dark jazz back in 2018, a genre clearly inspired by film noir soundtracks. This is all atmosphere, smooth night music good for listening to or just having on in the background.

Tää menee soimaan seuraavan kerran kun kaipaan kovaksikeitettyä tunnelmaa! Ihan hieno mikrogenren esittely. 3.5/5

Jazz, dark ambient. Agradable pero muy lento. Ni fu ni fa.

Based on the band name I was expecting something much more terrible than a lofi jazz album. This was truly enjoyable and was easy to get lost into the slow tunes of the piano and brass. Not sure why it’s doom jazz as a good bit of jazz is best with darker undertones but it’s solid. I’d listen to this again and would explore more of this band. Very nice choice. 7.3/10

Like listening to the Twin Peaks Soundtrack on quaaludes.

A neat vibe, but I can't help but yearn for the vocals of Alison Goldfrapp or Beth Gibbon, and the tone, in my opinion, was mastered by Akira Yamaoka for his work on the Silent Hill franchise. It would be foolish to call this album bad, but a couple tracks was enough to capture what the album was going for, and I was exhausted by the hour mark. Perfect for a nightime drive, surely. But it's midday and I'm at home playing Fire Emblem, so I don't think it was ever going to truly work out.

Way atmospheric (maybe one means vibesy) and one fully enjoys (being a firm believer that slow is better than fast [and more difficult to play] and quiet should be the new loud everywhere it's not already). Then again, listening to this, one keeps looking up to see if the movie has started (a movie one will almsot certainly like). One likes the genre and rounding up because jazz needs friends and glad recommender reecommended but one suspects this will be rather easy picking for Algo and the Bots to cover.

Rating: 7/10

From the very first notes, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore's compositions in *Sunset Mission* instantly point towards Angelo Badalamenti's work for *Twin Peaks* -- to the point where the whole thing borders on pastiche from point A to point Z. That said, Badalamenti's original work for David Lynch's films was drawing very much on the idea of pastiche itself anyway, and the dark ambient / jazz tones of this record are pulled off so well, you sort of daydream about this music becoming the soundtrack of a Twins Peaks spin-off series. I could see myself buying this album to set up a film noir mood in my living room at night. I only wish there were more variations to those tones -- Badalamenti's soundtracks were actually far from being one-note, contrary to this record -- a very nice one, but not the stuff "essential" albums are made of in my book. File under "too derivative" for the 1001 album list. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 75 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 91 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 178 (including this one) ---- Émile, tu trouveras ma dernière réponse sous le *Inside* de Bo Burnham

This album firmly establishes its mood.

Jazz, Electronica: Dark Jazz. Musical, amable.

Tan amenazante

Sunset Mission is a noir jazz album. Also ambient is stated everywhere, but that is the tempo and atmosphere, not the style. It is a nice album with soundscapes that fit perfectly to a film noir movie. That is also a bit my problem with this album as it sounds like background music. It doesn't really grab your attention. Still very entertaining and southing music.

Frequently asked question, is this a new song yet? Ambient with sax I guess? Fine but it just faded into the background for me. Maybe more active listening or a more sophisticated palate on my part would have revealed a greater depth.

Pretty nice 3

To be frank it was gore

Real nice

Cool jazz. Nothing to be annoyed about here.

It's fine but once you've heard one song you've heard the rest. If you think of background jazz music, this is exactly what you think it wound sound like. It's not bad, it's just there. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Nice relaxing music

I felt like I was in a film noir or a sensual movie. It practically sounds like one long melody. Actually, this album is one of those I can't evaluate on the same level because it's all melody without lyrics. Rating: 2.5 stars

Música relajada, totalmente ambiental. Casi todo, piano. Sin ninguna estridencia. Para entornos muy sosegados.

Jazz, dark ambient. Agradable pero muy lento. Ni fu ni fa.

Angelo Badalamenti type beat

doomjazz

Why do y'all wanna put me to sleep? Not that it's poor music, but I'm at work.

I’ve never heard of… this band before, and I’m not very knowledgeable about jazz music, but I enjoyed most of the German albums that I reviewed on the main list, so maybe this album will be up my alley. I have no idea what makes dark jazz dark, but it does sound kinda cool. I wouldn’t say that I got a whole lot out of this album, but it was enjoyable to listen to. There was definitely a darker vibe that permeated this album that I enjoyed, but other than the saxophone, I really didn’t find much for my ears to focus on, other than the general vibe of the album. I kinda wish there had been a bit more differentiation between the songs on this album, because everything somewhat ran together to my ears. I wouldn’t be opposed to listening to another album from this group, but I don’t know that their music would ever be more than something nice to have on in the background.

oh interesting. I love an album title that hints what time of day it should be listened to. What the heck is dark jazz? edit: I have looked up the definition of dark jazz. And of course it's something I've already listened to. The Twin Peaks soundtrack. Also Barry Adamson's TWO albums on the original 1001, maybe the detail about the book that continues to confuse me the most. Update: yeah na, this is a lot like Twin Peaks. What's fascinating about this group in particular is that the members came from an extreme metal background, which helps my appreciation of what they were trying to make here. The deep, foreboding ambience evokes drone/doom metal more than any jazz subgenre. While I commend the user who added this unique fusion, I have a feeling a future listen will be more rewarding than the one tonight, now that I know what Sunset Mission is. This time, I felt the tension between the part of my brain that likes ambient and the part that likes jazz. With ambient, I can sit in a mood or 'colour' a lot longer than I would other genres (see: Texan-based musicians Stars of the Lid. What a way to make two hours fly by). With jazz, especially something as sparse as this band is, I'm looking for different 'colours', especially if its going to be an almost 80-minute ride. Throw in, I don't know, circular breathing, or some other weird shit. Jingle those keys, get back my attention! 7/10 HL: "On Demon Wings", "Black City Skyline" June 4, 2026

Dark, slow jazz. Both kind of cool to hear a modern spin, yet still unbearably boring

Sunset Mission brings moody, dark jazz to the party. Not really a party though, it's just background music. 2.

Punky gothy jazzy and weird. Not for me, but potentially interesting to some.

Great music as background for an interim scene in a David Lynch movie. Not so great as a soundtrack for exercise.

Great for background music but if I'm actively trying to listen to this I'm going to go crazy. 4/10

Boring & Der Club Of Bore.

Why? Of all the music in the world this is the one you chose??

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