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Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.98 Stark, icy and monolithic in scope - Sigur Ros are turning into an unstoppable force. The year's best! Key Tracks - 1, 2, 3, 4
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 | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco
Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £8.00 The previously resolutely traditional Wilco go experimental and pull it off in style. Key Tracks - War on War, Jesus,etc, Ashes of American Flags, Poor Places
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 | Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £5.24 BOC try for a more organic sound on their second album proper and produce another classic in the process. Key Tracks - 1969, Dawn Chorus, The Beach At Redpoint, Alpha and Omega
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 | Oceanic by Isis
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.80 Isis blur the lines between post rock and prog metal on this hulking album. Key Tracks - Carry, Weight, Other
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 | Songs For The Deaf by Queens Of The Stone Age
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.47 A drummer's delight with Grohl on the sticks - this is the definitive Queens album. Key Tracks - No One Knows, Millionaire, First it Giveth
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 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £1.90 Nothing was going to live up to 'The Soft Bulletin' so the Flips change tack and do paired down electro pop. Key Tracks - Ego Tripping, Do You Realise, Fight Test
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 | Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers by The National
Buy used from: £14.99 They haven't quite found their distinct voice on this release but some of the songs are among their very best. Key Tracks - Cardinal Song, Slipping Husband, 90 Mile Water Wall
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 | Sea Change by Beck
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.32 Beck goes sincere in lyric and Nick Drake in sound on a very different album for him. Pretty solid. Key Tracks - Paper Tiger, Lost Cause, The Golden Age
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 | Heroes & Villians by Palo Alto
Buy new: £29.79 Wow, these guys have listened to 'The Bends' even more than me! Quality is quality no matter how derivative. Key Tracks - Sleeping Citizens, Throwing Stones, Fade In/Out
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 | Melody A.M. by Röyksopp
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £1.13 A chillout pop record in a similar vein to Air's 'Moon Safari'. Key Tracks - Sparks, In Space, Poor Leno
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 | Source Tags & Codes by ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.10 Diverse and full of energy - this shares common experimental ground with Sonic Youth among others. Key Tracks - Relative Ways, Source Tags and Codes, Monsoon
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 | Trust by Low
Buy new: £15.08 / Used from: £6.88 Not as bleak as 'Things We Lost....' this is more loose and experimental. Key Tracks - Canada, Point of Disgust, Last Snowstorm
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 | Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.00 Off-puttingly impenetrable at first - this reveals itself slowly over repeated listens. Newcomers should start with 'Skinny Wrists' though. Key Tracks - Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls, Motherf*cker=Rede
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 | Heathen by David Bowie
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 A return to form for Bowie after the totally forgettable 'Hours' - some carefully chosen cover versions take the strain off Dave to write a complete album of new songs. Key Tracks - Cactus, Your Slave
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 | Lateralus by Tool
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £5.99 Some of the band's mystique has gone astray and the whole thing is a bit 'MTV friendly' comparedd to 'Aenima'. Still powerful. Key Tracks - Schism, The Grudge, Ticks and Leeches
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 | The Private Press by DJ Shadow
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.96 This was always going to suffer in comparison to 'Endtroducing' and so it proves. A decent effort. Key Tracks - Six Days, Blood On The Motorway, Mongrel...Meets His Maker
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 | Hinterland by Aim
Buy used from: £1.49 If the DJ Shadow album doesn't tickle your fancy perhaps this jazzier offering from Aim will. Key Tracks - No Restriction, Guimar, Vipco
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 | Night on My Side by Gemma Hayes
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £0.87 Sweet delivery and sour sentiment from Gemma with production courtesy of Dave Fridmann. Key Tracks - Ran for Miles, Over and Over, My God
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