 | Lorca by Tim Buckley
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £4.49 Everyone seems to think that Starsailor is Tim buckley's shining light, but this gem is by far the greater album.
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 | Confusion Is Sex by Sonic Youth
Buy new: £3.52 / Used from: £2.99 Back in the day when they really were the Sonic Youth, this album is terrifying!
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 | Spiderland by Slint
Reaching further than their first album Slint pretty much started post rock
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 | Secret Name by Low
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £5.39 Probably Low's best album, Two-Step is an amazingly beautiful song.
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 | Handwriting by Rachel's
Buy used from: £6.31 A mix of modern-classical music and a bit of loungy jazz put together with a rock attitude? Surely not?!
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 | Mi Media Naranja by Labradford
Buy new: £4.98 Sometimes Labradford can come off as a little bit boreing, but I felt my heart strings being plucked with the first track of this one, beautiful.
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 | Young Team by Mogwai
Buy used from: £4.55 This album started my affair with the avantgarde/post-rock genre, I couldn't believe that anyone could make a song last for 16 minutes1
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 | 1 by Black Heart Procession
Buy used from: £6.20 With seven of it's eleven songs having the word heart in them, and their name being The Black Heart Procession, expect tales of twisted heartbreak.
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 | F# A# Oo by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £6.20 So sad and terrifying all in one, it's difficult not to put this in any list.
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 | Tortoise by Tortoise
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £5.80 Tortoise's first venture into the world of funky instrumentals, in my opinion much better than their later stuff.
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 | He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corners of Our Rooms by Silver Mt. Zion
Buy used from: £6.26 ASMZ's first album; a very melancholic album of what can only be described as chamber music.
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 | L'eclat Du Ciel Etait Insoutenable by Hrsta
Buy new: £4.21 / Used from: £4.46 Go for their debut first, and then move on to the Constellation released Stem Stem in electro, one of the few records with a saw!
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 | Those Who Tell the Truth by Explosions In The Sky
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £4.64 I bought The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place and was slightly disappointed by EITS, but you will not be wronged if you buy this, their second album, brilliant stuff!
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 | Lateralus by Tool
Buy used from: £4.99 A lesson in thinking above our station, you try and work it out!
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 | The Argument by Fugazi
Buy used from: £4.04 I hadn't really heard anything from Fugazi before, so when I bought this on a whim I was pleased to find that it was blooming fantastic!
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 | Sea Change by Beck
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.41 I had Odelay from Beck and when I saw him on TV doing an acoustic performance of the beautiful songs on this album, I had to get it.
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 | Finally We Are No One by Mum
Buy new: £20.48 / Used from: £7.23 Very different from their first album, mum manage to create a perfect blend of cute pop and melancholy.
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 | () by Sigur Ros
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.48 I love the dark-side/light-side thing with this album, the first four tracks are quite attractive little ditties, whereas the last four delve deeper into the darker side of Sigur Ros.
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 | As the Crow Flies by Steve Von Till
Buy used from: £13.30 I call it gothic-folk as it takes on a far more primal side to your average acoustic driven stuff.
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 | This Is Our Punk Rock Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing by Silver Mt. Zion
Buy new: £10.48 / Used from: £7.52 ASMZ make their third album different from the first two and its good for it, I would have paid full price for the first track alone!
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 | Stand With the Stillness of This Day by Elizabeth Anka Vajagic
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £7.64 So depressing you can feel yourself sinking into the ground...
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 | The Eye of Every Storm by Neurosis
Buy new: £11.71 / Used from: £7.50 Shockingly low down in amazon's order of Bestselling Neurosis albums, this is Neurosis' finest moment, a mature, intellegent album that is apparently overlooked!
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 | Horses in the Sky by Silver Mt. Zion
Buy used from: £5.92 ASMZ have evolved into a choral driven group and my God, they use it to staggering effect!
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 | Aurora by Esmerine
Buy used from: £9.88 I have a thing for the melancholic use of Cello throughout the various releases on the Constellation label, and it is all culminated here in Esmerine.
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 | Music Has the Right to Children by Boards Of Canada
Buy used from: £3.99 Flittering between darkness and amusement, this electronic affair from Boards of Canada has the most extraordinary sense of nostalgia about it. Really brilliant stuff!
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