 | Ma Fleur by The Cinematic Orchestra
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.76 It cannot get much better than this, beautiful music in a variety of genres. You really can imagine this as a film score.
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 | Ani DiFranco by Ani DiFranco
Buy new: £5.98 Ani Di Franco's debut album is without a doubt her masterpiece, capturing perfectly the experience of a dawning independence in powerful and intimate folk songs.
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 | I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £1.74 Jazzer drop your axe, it's Jazz Police!
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 | YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE by Broken Social Scene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.14 'Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl' will break your heart.
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 | Friend Opportunity by Deerhoof
Give it a few listens and you will be hooked.
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 | Darkness at Noon by A Hawk And A Hacksaw
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £3.99 Jeremy Barnes has exceeded all expectations. Portlandtown is one of the most beautiful covers I have heard.
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 | Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.19 Twelve years on, this one continues to get better every time. Unparalleled in anything else Linkous has done.
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 | VU by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.13 Essential.
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 | i by Magnetic Fields
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £9.18 I resisted the temptation to stick '69 Love Songs' in this spot in favour of the more recent 'I'. A bittersweet selection of songs following in the footsteps of '69LS' - an incredible encore.
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 | Show Me How The Spectres Dance by Liam Frost & the Slowdown Family
Buy used from: £3.40 Perhaps the most underrated album of 2006. Ridden with despair and a longing for the dead - full of pain and feeling.
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 | Hyacinths and Thistles by The 6th's
Buy used from: £13.28 More Merritt. Bizarre, extravagant, and strangely peaceful.
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 | Moment Returns by Triosk
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £4.94 This creeps into my nightmares.
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 | Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Buy used from: £5.48 I thought I would give 'Loveless' a break in favour of it's lesser-known predecessor.
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 | Gold Mine Trash by Felt
Buy new: £5.98 A great introduction to the melancholy genius of 'Lawrence'
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 | The Creek Drank the Cradle by Iron and Wine
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £7.04 Worth it for 'Faded From The Winter' alone.
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 | Wild and Undaunted by Lisa Knapp
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £6.42 Traditional English folk songs - akin to early Di Franco.
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 | Churning Strides by Stranded Horse Thee
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.50 I heard this recently when a friend bought a copy. Unlike anything else, a harrowing and malleable voice, reminds me of Neil Young.
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 | Pretty Little Lightning Paw by Thee Silver Mountain Reveries
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £23.91 An EP for a deceased dog. Somehow, it moves the listener. Haunting and epic.
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 | If You're Feeling Sinister by Belle & Sebastian
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £3.68 Every kid's dream. The only B&S album that I have carried over to adulthood.
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 | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £5.54 It has to be here. Apocalyptic, this feels like the end of the world.
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 | Les Ondes Silencieuses by Colleen
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.81 Her third studio album is perhaps the best thing to come out of 2007 thus far. 'Les Ondes Silencieuses' radiates an almost classical ambience. Perfect in a dark room.
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 | Ballad of the Broken Seas by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.25 Undescribable.
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 | Souvlaki by Slowdive
This must be what it sounds like as you float through space. Listen and you will know what I mean.
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 | One Way, It's Every Way by Clue to Kalo
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £0.79 I'll let you work this one out for yourself.
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 | Alice by Tom Waits
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.81 Speaks for itself.
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