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The Queen is Dead is the Smiths' great leap forward, taking the band to new musical and lyrical heights. The album is harder rocking record than anything the band had attempted before. Jo...

With both men known for their stunning soundscapes, rhyming skills, and schizophrenic personalities, the duo decided to have Madlib concentrate on the beats and let Doom handle the lyrics...

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Donuts is accessible without being typical or easily defined: it's hip hop without MCs; electronic music that at times sounds like a 70s soul mixtape; J Dilla doing what he does best - cr...

It is a truly eccentric rock record: bizarre at turns and recognizable elsewhere, equally beautiful and harrowing, theatrical and sincere. At times, the album's total disregard of formula...

The XX are four precocious youngsters from South West London who provide the hushed minimal strokes of Young Marble Giants and early Cure but through the minds of a young act obsessed wit...

Consisting of simple drum machine beats, funk samples, scratching, and the trio's infectious rapping style, the album became a instant worldwide hit helping spawn the gangsta rap phenomen...

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Although retaining the darkest elements of the earlier albums, it pointed the way towards the band's later, more commercial work. The intoxicating music draws the listener inexorably down...

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Released in 1979 Fear of Music is Talking Heads third album. Although often overlooked in favour of it's successor Remain in Light, this album represents a peak for Talking Heads that the...

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'The Blue Notebooks' from 2004 is Max Richter's second solo album. Opening with a text from Franz Kafka over a sparse piano melody, the album moves through heart-wrenching strings of On T...

It is just as linked to James Murphy's record collection, with traces of post-punk, disco, Krautrock, and singer/songwriter schlubs, but the references are evidently harder to pin down; t...

The infinite vistas of Europe Endless and Endless Endless' bookend the album, which includes the unsettling kafka-esque fable The Hall of Mirrors' and Showroom Dummies - Kraftwerk's elega...

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In 1994, Buckley released his first album Grace, composed of ten tracks. While sales were slow, the album quickly received critical acclaim and appreciation from other musicians (among th...

Punk energy and aesthetic (Territorial Pissings, Drain You) are its lifeblood; pop melody, harmony, and structure (Something in the Way, Come as You Are) its selling points; Kurt Cobain's...

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It's over 10 years old but still stands head and shoulders above every other dance album ever. You could say they just updated the sound of Chicago but they added their own touch and Pari...

With the four Beatles playing like session men on each other's songs, the making of the album was fraught with tension. John Lennon's songs included a bitter take on people who read too m...

Gil Scott-Heron's landmark albums of the 1970's, and work with long-time collaborator Brian Jackson have influenced a myriad of musical styles from rap, acid jazz, neo soul and spoken wor...

It anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emo...

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Originally released in April 1991 on the Circa imprint through Virgin records, Blue Lines concoction of break beats, sampling and rapping mixed with live instruments, together with influe...

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It expresses Frahm's love for experimentation and answers the call from his fans for a record that truly reflects what they have witnessed during his concerts. Breaking the convention of ...

The tracks balance jazz, soul, and even reggae influences with pure hip-hop to arrive at a completely distinctive Tribe sound, the logical evolution of the bop-inflected hooks which chara...

Available for the first time in 25 years Death Waltz Recording Company are immensely proud to reissue the score to Twin Peaks an era defining TV show and Soundtrack. Freshly re-mastered f...

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In 1988, when this album was released, Public Enemy's music cut with a wholly revolutionary edge. Rarely has fear, anger, paranoia and anxiety been so masterfully compressed onto a record...

In 1988, when this album was released, Public Enemy's music cut with a wholly revolutionary edge. Rarely has fear, anger, paranoia and anxiety been so masterfully compressed onto a record...

This really is an album that no collection is complete without! With a&m junior popmeister Richard Perry, jack of all trades Ry Cooder and songwriting genius Russ Titelman, the Captai...

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In celebration of the 2016 35th anniversary of the December 12, 1981, recording of Manuel Göttsching's legendary E2-E4, one of electronic music's most influential recordings, Göttsching's...

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Television's leader, Tom Verlaine, professed admiration for Moby Grape and the folk rock of early Fairport Convention. Elements of the latter appear on this album's title track, which off...

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After years of obscurity, Pulp shot to stardom in Britain with 1994's His 'n' Hers. On the heels of such excitement, anticipation for Different Class ran high, and not only does it delive...

It is hard to overstate the importance of the seven tracks on Suicide, which paved the way for punk, industrial, hip hop, noise and beyond. Ghost Rider accelerates with brutal anguish and...