 | Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £7.25 This album ain't sweet romantic business that speaks of heartbreak,unless heartbeak be seen in cosmic proportions.This is cosmically tragic stuff.Torrents of beauty crammed within a 1hour recording.
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 | Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward by The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.50 Post-rock but seriously bordering on classical - an album of painful, overwhelming, impossible, tragic beauty. Nothing quite like it.
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 | Televise by Calla
Buy used from: £3.75 Calla is one of the most understated art rock outfits. This looks like an average rock album with all usual ingredients,but it has the heavy beauty of a symphony. And, guess what? - it IS a symphony.
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 | Summer Make Good by Múm
Buy new: £9.79 / Used from: £4.00 An album on which the wind blowing and the creaking of a wooden floor mingle with music. Delicacy and heartbreak in a lonely dusty light house. Unexpectedly profound.
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 | Amnesiac by Radiohead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.44 A classic of despair, depression and angst. Only Radiohead could turn such monumental sadness into something novel and entertaining and ... well, beautiful.
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 | Labradford by Labradford
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.80 What an album! A lunatic's whispers mingle with a dark dense texture of sound. The whole thing seems mumbled but the harmonies that grace it bring the beauty of another sad deserted world...
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 | Ba Ba/Ti Ki/Di Do by Sigur Rós
Buy used from: £1.99 A short album - an EP - but so perfect. Fragile harmonies intersecting and growing, finally erupting into an intensity of lunacy. So powerful that it couldn't 've been longer.
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 | Happy Songs for Happy People by Mogwai
Buy used from: £10.99 At first seems like a good instrumental album, refined and sophisticated. On longer listen though the polish of refinement and sophistication unveils an ever deeper and stirring experience. Magical.
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 | Dropsonde by Biosphere
Buy used from: £133.80 The atmosphere on this album is so intense that it somehow transcends reality and engulfs you completely. The atmosphere of a rainy day, spent by a fireplace, in an old wooden house. Heart-warming.
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 | Venice by Fennesz
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £15.72 It might be electronic music but sounds like nothing else. Outworldy harmonies distorted and fractured by too much beauty that are sure to break and fracture your heart.
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