 | Brookland / Oaklyn by Alias & Tarsier
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £6.16 This list is a bit leftfield. Not much point putting Massive Attack. You've all got it. And no double-ups either. Alias and Tarsier album a shimmering multi-layered jewel. perfection. Download: Anon
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 | The World Is Gone by Various
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £1.20 being perverse enough to call yourself Various is worthy of acclaim in itself. but this is an amazing mix of folk and minimalist techno. Also try Red Seal for dub happiness. Download: Sweetness
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 | Sound Echo Location by Honeyroot
Buy new: £12.98 insanely underrated. dont listen to bleep and tweak electronica. this is soulful singalong stuff Download: Summer Sky. New album a cracker too.
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 | A Strangely Isolated Place by Ulrich Schnauss
Buy used from: £8.97 if you dont know ulrich, start here and be transported to a world of cool dreamy landscapes. Download: In All the Wrong Places. New album also essential.
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 | Forwards by The Egg
Buy used from: £0.98 yes, yes. obvious. but none the less necessary just in case you dont have it. is not Angel of My Soul the most beautiful thing ever?
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 | Ballroom Stories by Waldeck
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £10.00 The guy's a chameleon. About as far removed from his takes on Massive Attack as you could imagine. This is tune-heavy electro-swing and it's brilliant. Download: Midsummer Night Blues
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 | E Ghost on the Motorway by Michael J. Sheehy
Buy used from: £6.98 The best of southern Gothic - atmosphere, narrative and great great tunes. See also - Songs:Ohia, Bergushkin; Bonnie Prince Billy, Gravenhurst, 16 Horsepower. Download: Company Man
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 | Pappelallee by Naomi
Buy used from: £8.60 available rarely so when it pops up, snap it up. cult electro-pop classic, Download: Rainfall
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 | Gran Hotel Buenos Aires by Federico Aubele
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £6.92 tango. electro. and the thievery corp producing. what more could you want. simply brilliant. Download: Contigo. New album excellent too.
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 | An Interlude to the Outer Most by Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
The prog-folk revolution starts here. Sea-shanty-tastic. Try too the EP that has an 18-minute epic consisting mainly of someone sharpening steel and a rant about spiders.
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 | The Vessel by Broadway Project
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.76 Short and not exactly sweet. this is tough, emotional and draining trip hop but i love it. Download: For The One.
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 | Sinking by The Aloof
Buy used from: £9.39 I CANNOT overestimate how much you should have this. transport yourself to 1930s berlin. you will not regret getting this. buy Absinth too if you can find it. Download: Kim Fowley's Gonna Die
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 | Trafik-Bullet by Trafik-Bullet
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.50 more uptempo but a tour de force. the closer, Surrender, is one of the sexiest songs ever written. Shame new album is a stinker.
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 | Splendid Isolation by Yonderboi
Buy new: £13.69 / Used from: £8.98 Has divided opinion after his first downtempo album but full marks for eclecticism. Soulbitch is a stormer. OTHERS: Stratus - Fear of Magnetism; Hood - Outside Closer.
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 | You All Look the Same to Me by Archive
Buy used from: £12.50 Not strictly electronica, more post-rock, but this deserves to be heard. Includes two 15-minute prog rock epics. Download: Again. Follow up album Noise is also fantastic.
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 | They Died for Beauty by Ilya
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £1.93 Shirley Bassey meets Ennio Morricone. a match made in horn-driven heaven. Download: Pretty Baby. OTHERS: Autour de Lucie - Faux Mouvement; Au Revoir Simone - Verses of Comfort
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 | Country Falls by Husky Rescue
Buy used from: £6.26 Reeta, we love you. New Light of Tomorrow will touch your soul. New album - Ghost is Not Real - is also exquisite.
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 | Radiodread: Tribute To OK Computer by Easy Star All Stars
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £5.49 Quite clearly better than the original, just check out Toots's skanking version of Let Down. Others: Sinematica - Original Soundtrack (Amazon US only); Urbs
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 | The Dark Third by Pure Reason Revolution
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 Progrock-tastic. Anyone who sings about the bright ambassadors of morning for 30 minutes has got to be loved. Download: Bullits Dominae
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 | Sing Along with Acid House Kings by Acid House Kings
Buy new: £12.69 Sweden's Mamas and Papas. Sure to have you humming tunes all day long. Download: This Heart is a Stone
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 | Jet Sound Inc. by Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited
Buy new: £16.09 / Used from: £21.28 We all need a summery boogie to the funkiest electro-surf album ever. Oh, It's called Jet Sound Inc, not ID123396. Download: Drunken Camel
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 | Verdergallning by Garmarna
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £6.99 Swedish Goth folk may not be everyone's smorgasborg but sounds pretty tasty to me. Download: Gamen
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 | Stereo Also Playable As Mono by Makrosoft
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £4.56 The best cover album ever. Too many treats to mention but the spaghetti western Losing My Religion is a cracker with the ska take on Kraftwerk's Das Modell not far behind.
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 | Thinking About the Good Times by Reno
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £0.73 country rocking classic. yes, it really is about tunes. Download: Costa, It's a Beautiful Day. New album soon! OTHERS: Deadly Avenger - Deep Red
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 | I Find You Very Attractive by Touch & Go
Buy new: £4.98 a bit cross-genre, but if you have no place in your heart for a mix of Glenn Miller big band pastiche and squabbly latino rhythms, quite frankly you're already dead. Download: Tango in Harlem.
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