 | Hounds of Love by Kate Bush
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £3.27 mind blowing imagination, spellbinding music, totally before its time.
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 | Homogenic by Björk
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.89 Bjork's masterpiece; when all the genius elements came together, truly stirring stuff.
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 | Sunny Border Blue by Kristin Hersh
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.55 the most honest and raw writer around today delivers a knockout set of immensly personal but infectious rock songs.
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 | Blue by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.47 the mother of all intospective songwriters, beautiful and sad while at times funny and very catchy. a milestone in songwriting.
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 | Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £6.03 atmospheric, cinematic, otherworlly yet very real; an incredible voice singing some of the finest cover-versions ever recorded! emmylou has totally made these songs her own, a stunning achievment!
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 | Blacklisted by Neko Case
Buy used from: £24.99 an awesome collection from one of the most interesting alt.country singers, actually singers in general, around today. dark, sexy and thoroughly involving.
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 | Blackened Air by Nina Nastasia
Buy used from: £6.00 dark yet strangely uplifting, angular and sparse and very beautiful indeed.
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 | Boys for Pele by Tori Amos
Buy used from: £0.79 hugely ambitous and often difficult, but its challenging and rewarding, possibly Tori's masterpiece.
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 | Miss America by Mary Margaret O'Hara
Buy used from: £5.00 a strange and beautiful creation from an enigmatic singer containing several moments of sheer genius.
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 | Life Is Sweet by Maria McKee
Buy used from: £1.59 wow! what an under-appreciated, crazy and exciting album this is! dynamic, suprising, sometimes hilarious and altogether quite brilliant.
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 | Catalpa by Jolie Holland
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £5.49 a beautifully ghostly and haunting album, the songs are sometimes barely there. like finding an ancient lost treasure.
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 | Time (The Revelator) by Gillian Welch
Buy used from: £10.04 an album of such soul, grit and beauty. a rare talent, with the wonderful assistance of Dave Rawlings on guitar, they are such a great partnership. this is the real deal.
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 | Carbon Glacier by Laura Veirs
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.49 a magical collection of charming little songs, gorgeous arrangements, wonderfully atmospheric.
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 | I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You by Aretha Franklin
Buy new: £6.78 / Used from: £3.91 what can i say? one of the most important voices of all time captured in her prime. life affirming stuff!
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| Jet by Katell Keineg
Buy used from: £2.95 the ability to make your hair stand on end, a compelling album, intelligent and moving.
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 | Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £4.44 impossibly funky and ridiculously cool!
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 | You Are Free by Cat Power
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £6.50 a really special voice writes some of her most spine-tingling songs to date!
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 | Dusty In Memphis (Expanded Version) by Dusty Springfield
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.37 the silkiest voice in the business finally got the songs she deserved. magnificent soul music.
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 | The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £13.89 Her voice won't be to everyone's liking but this is a weird and magical little gem!
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 | Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday
Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £3.59 despite the somewhat cheesy orchestration billie will still break your heart. how could anyone not fall for that voice!
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 | To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.90 a darkly twisted and theatrical album, this masterpiece combines all pj's many qualities and is a wonderfully wierd and brooding affair.
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 | And She Closed Her Eyes by Stina Nordenstam
Buy new: £7.08 / Used from: £4.72 a rather beautiful little album; its cute and lovely but has hidden depths, an altogether magical collection!
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 | Horses by Patti Smith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.50 right from the opening few lines you know you're in for quite a ride. still holds up as one of the most important statements in rock music.
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 | Out of Season by Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £3.25 its almost unbearably sad music, but some of the most beautiful songs you're likely to hear.
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 | The Lion and the Cobra by Sinéad O'Connor
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.00 its easy to slag her off but this album was a powerful and very influential statement with brave and rousing songs.
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