 | Failer by Kathleen Edwards
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £3.90 Excellent alt-country
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 | The Bairns by Rachel Unthank And The Winterset
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.58 Best album of last year, should win the mercury prize. One of the most original albums listened to in ages
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 | Nolita by Keren Ann
Buy used from: £3.85 Her best album, French bliss and very melancholic
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 | The Imagined Village by The Imagined Village
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £8.58 Innovative mash-up of different folk styles that breathes new life into a tired genre
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 | Fingers & Thumbs by Polly Paulusma
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £2.75 Virtually unheard of...loads of emotional depth and heart-wrenching at times
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 | Blacklisted by Neko Case
Buy used from: £4.99 What an amazing voice, dark alt-country album... help from Calexico...'Runnin out of fools' and 'Deep Red Bells' are great songs.
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 | Asking For Flowers by Kathleen Edwards
Buy new: £8.48 / Used from: £6.77 Just as good as, if not better than her earlier albums, 'Goodnight, California' is exceptional
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 | Year of Meteors by Laura Veirs
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.24 Laura Veirs definitely deserves more attention, Great instrumentation, lyrics have a poetic quality if somewhat eccentric in places.
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 | The Bird of Music by Au Revoir Simone
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.50 Heartfelt synthpop, with simple uplifting melodies and elegant harmonising. Whimsical in some songs (which is no bad thing) but with an underlying current of darkness elsewhere.
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 | Long Gone Before Daylight by The Cardigans
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.99 Completely amazed by this album, countryish in places, but with other songs sounding almost like dreamy lullabies. Tinged with sadness and heartbreaking.
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 | Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.50 Stripped back country, this is her bleakest offering.
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 | Vespertine by Bjork
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.13 The orchestration within this album is beautiful and the textured snyth sounds are great. Bjork is always good value in trying to create fresh sounds.
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 | Comatised by Leona Naess
Buy used from: £2.24 A bit more poppy this, her first and best album which retains a raw quality
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 | 29 by Ryan Adams
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.34 The guy is a loose cannon, he can be hit and miss, but this album demonstrates his best qualities. One of best songwriters of our time.
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 | Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.28 Rilo Kiley vocalist goes down the alt-country route with some sweet melodies added by the Watson Twins
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 | Speak For Yourself by Imogen Heap
Epic in scope, sounds on top of sounds and the infamous 'hide and seek' (which is great). Deffo worth a listen
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 | Hello Love by The Be Good Tanyas
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £7.20 Country, blues and folk with banjos galore and a real old time feel to this album. These songs are beautiful.
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