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- RetrogradeJames Blake After seeing him yesterday how can I not talk about this song. The melancholic vocals and sensitive chords get my heart, but then they’re drowned in a flood of synths that fall like a sky. Now my brain is fizzing. But then he sings passionately to compete? Only to suck everything away as if it was all a fever dream.
- Go It AloneBeck Such a playful album and this song has all the range. The la la la sample makes me smile so much.
- Death MaskAa This has always been my headphone quality check song.
- primadonnaBlue Not often I hear a pop song that surprises me and has a gritty melancholy. Just two singles out; an artist to watch.
- VoisinsClogs Never realised how much this song sounds like autumn, until hearing it now driving through the countryside in the rain. I also wonder what this genre is classical music you can nod your head to?
- BugjuiceEugene + The Lizards Perfect little side project EP that feels like a rough gem in a cave. My precious.
- AndromedaWeyes Blood The harmonies in this song break my heart every single time. “Stop calling. It’s time to let me be.”
- Icy Windy SkyUgly (UK) Something about waiting for a huge drop and it arrives as a Cello makes me headbang.
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Summer
Barnstorm Paul Spring
GravitronSpring by name, this devoured my summer. Problematically catchy. Classically driven head nodders in minor keys.
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Summer
Trying Times James Blake
I Had a Dream She Took My HandFeels more grounded with each album. This year I was lucky enough to catch him at an intimate gig.
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Spring
3D Country Geese
Mysterious LoveI can’t believe I discover Geese and there’s a whole other album that rocks just as hard!
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Spring
Getting Killed Geese
Getting KilledThis album became my morning painting ritual.
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Blizzard Dove Ellis
Away You StrideSupporting Youth Lagoon we had no idea who this was but that voice in person had the whole room stunned. I can see why people compare him to Jeff Buckley.
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Icy Windy Sky Ugly (UK)
Icy Windy SkySomehow these six songs feel like a double album.
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Bones Son Lux
You Don't Know MeOne of those concerts you never manage to relive. I love this kind of nerdy classical emotional balance. Perfect fit for the Everything Everywhere All At Once soundtrack years later.
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You Are All I See Active Child
You Are All I SeeThe beginning of my new life. This album soothed me for years.
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A Different Ship Here We Go Magic
Alone But MovingA perfect album that whenever I hear it I feel like it resonates with my soul. It’s like a mirror for how I feel day to day.
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The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do Fiona Apple
Hot KnifeI missed the earlier Fiona Apple stuff and jumped on here where I feel she truly found her uninhibited strangeness. Lyrically and rhythmically this is perfect and untouchable.
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Autumn
I Think I Can Animal Collective
I Think I CanThe end of my four year Animal Collective obsession. I had synesthesia for the first time (I saw dark greens and purples) listening to this song.
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Bitte Orca Dirty Projectors
Temecula SunriseI saw them as a support band when I was seeing live music all the time and was mesmerised by the weirdness. The songs twist song structure to almost breaking point and drag weirdness into confidence.
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Veckatimest Grizzly Bear
While You Wait For The OthersI remember bouncing from this to Animal Collective over and over. The harmonies are truly joyous and were 99% perfect level of indie pop.
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Hello, Voyager Evangelista
Truth Is Dark Like Outer SpaceAn album so angry and poetic you can’t listen to it without your blood boiling.
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Visiter The Dodos
Joe's WaltzMy peak festival years. I danced so hard at the front to Dodos I remember someone looking over and enjoying my freedom. I have a signed CD from the two members saying “To the man with six sisters” because my sister was on the guest list after being sick, and the manager misheard.
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Summer
Panic Prevention Jamie T
If You Got The MoneyWoolecombe with the Ipswich boys. This is the last blast of my teens.
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Marry Me St. Vincent
Jesus Saves, I SpendThis period of my life I was downloading and listening to multiple albums a day. I got to see Annie perform tiny gigs multiple times and shyly chat to her. Mesmerising human and intoxicatingly good at guitar.
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Person Pitch Panda Bear
Take PillsPeak obsessed with music, went to a concert alone in London and missed the last train home, to listened to this over and over until 5am first train home. Beach Boys on drugs.
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The End of History Fionn Regan
Be Good or Be GoneRight in the middle of my songwriting years this album came out and taught me finger picking. Storytelling in a sweet untethered way.
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Demon Days Gorillaz
O Green WorldOf all Damon Albarn’s projects this is his peak. Genre defying and culture permeating. Writing pop this good is so hard and should be called genius.
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Feels Animal Collective
Banshee BeatThis album single handedly made me obsessed with finding new music. The grossest thing is that this was recommended to me by Amazon based on my music purchases! I went on to see AC over five times and spend a decade on a fan site with strangers who I’d go on to make music with.
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Frances the Mute The Mars Volta
The WidowThe follow up to my favorite album has five tracks, one song over half an hour, now not only prog emo but also jazz and Latin. I listened to this on a 20 hour coach journey to Prague on a college trip. Broke a girl’s heart that trip. Sorry. Also my first vinyl purchase ever.
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Held on the Tips of Fingers Sebastian Rochford, Polar Bear
BeartownAt uni surrounded by electro-heads, I was shown Beartown, the opening track, and was finally in love with contemporary jazz for myself. I’d go on to see Polar Bear seven times, more than any other artist.
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Illinois Sufjan Stevens
John Wayne Gacy, Jr.A friend sat me down and made me sit and listen to a few songs from this, gleefully sure I was going to love it. It took a moment but oh boy is this album a bit of me. All being accounted for more it might be my favorite EVER.
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Smash Jackson And His Computer Band
Radio CacaObsessed with Warp Records slick website, this was integrated into the home page and auto played. Like Daft Punk meets Aphex Twin.
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Takk... Sigur Rós
Svo HljóttA had such a lovely girlfriend who was obsessed with music and there’s no way I can think of Sigur Ros without her. We listened together on my sofa cuddling.
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Deloused in the Comatorium The Mars Volta
Take The Veil Cerpin TaxtA college mate sent me .mp3s of this over msn messenger and I could not get my head round it. But as I untangled it, this became my all time favourite album for decades. A monster. Where youth and energy and emo burst into complex and sprawling madness.
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Drukqs Aphex Twin
Vordhosbn17 years old, on the top deck of a rainy bus, mind exploding. I listened so intently.
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Elephant The White Stripes, Jack White
Ball and BiscuitListening to John Peel I had misheard the Wide Stripes years ago. Luckily, they went massive in 2003. I thought Seven Nation Army was cool, but when it burst into Black Math I knew I was in love.
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Fever To Tell Yeah Yeah Yeahs
MapsI remember the girl at college with the YYY T-shirt and I just knew she was the coolest. I listened to this album so much and also watched the live DVD in awe of Karen Os sexiness.
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Hail To the Thief Radiohead
A Wolf At the DoorHUGE album for me as it was my first Radiohead album I’d anticipated coming out and was excited for. So long and deep and complex. An underrated masterpiece.
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More Or Less Mono Dub Tractor
A SecondHeading to Brick Lane on the weekends with my girlfriend to hang at cafe 1001. We ran up to the staff to ask who the beautiful beeps and boops were by.
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Placebo Placebo
Come HomeI think this is one of the bands I got into from my Sister, or she was so into them I can’t separate the memory. They had about four albums out by this point but their debut is the best for me.
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Kid A Radiohead
Everything In Its Right PlaceI was a couple of years behind as Kid A was the first Radiohead album I heard. I remember listening on the bus home from college after a girl lent me the CD and was excited by how weird track 2 was. If this and Amnesiac were a double album it’d easily by my number one ever.
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Songs For The Deaf Queens of the Stone Age
No One KnowsCollege lunch breaks that seemed to go on forever, with MTV forever blasting out Go With The Flow. This is my ultimate stay awake while driving through the night album.
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Gorillaz Gorillaz
Sound Check (Gravity)I had a weird phase at school being known as the Kid that liked Gorillaz. First hearing the Garage remix of Clint Eastwood (I mean I was a 15 year old in Essex) I actually had to slowly warm up to the smoky, harmonica soaked energy.
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Grace Jeff Buckley
So RealAh college. And Art class. That I failed. But I’m grateful to the cute girl that introduced me to Jeff, his angelic voice and the main reason I ever picked up a guitar and sang.
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Rayleigh, Essex.
Origin of Symmetry Muse
Plug in Baby15 year old me thought was peak music and it does still bang.
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Animal Magic Bonobo
Sleepy SevenMy friend was a few years older and always cooler. This was one of the album he used to pioneer. It’s the exact balance of filling a room with an ambience while being subtly detailed enough you could listen to each second.
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Since I Left You The Avalanches
Close To YouBack when I would walk into HMV and spend hours at the listening booths. This won their album of the year. Every time I listen (always start to finish) it feels like a holiday.
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The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem
StanThe first album I ever bought with my own money.
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White Pony Deftones
Change (In the House of Flies)For a long time I only had a tape that came free with a magazine that had Change in the House of Flies on it but eventually I was able to expand into this whole, sultry metal album. Still perfect.
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Play Moby
Run OnMy mums silver all in one cd and tape mini hi fi. TV adverts being the main source of music discovery. Top of the Pops. Getting Moby on CD from Woolworths.
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Ms. Lauryn Hill
Ex-FactorSetting this album in a school helped me connect to it as 12 year old. To this day it’s the most melodic rap album ever and I don’t think it can be topped.
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The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
NarayanMy red homework diary was decorated with the inner art of this album. I was too young to even understand the rave scene but I knew amazing music when I heard it.
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Black Sunday Cypress Hill
I Ain't Goin' Out Like ThatMy memories of this start from when I lived in England. I’m grateful to my mum for liking rap as much as other genres. I still think this album hones in on a vibe more than any other album.
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The Score Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean
How Many MicsAgain so grateful to my mum for having great taste and fill our house with rnb and rap.
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Nevermind Nirvana
Breed5 year old me and 23 year old mum went to a friends house to listen to this on tape. My eyes wide as I fell in love with it. My mum’s mate told me it was his band, so for an adorably long time I thought I knew Kurdt Cobain.
