 | Codename: Dustsucker by Bark Psychosis
Buy used from: £29.84 Recalling Talk Talk more often than their Napalm Death roots, BP are highly underrated cerebral rockers.
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 | The Colour Of Spring by Talk Talk
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £2.99 Speaking of which... Spring is the bridge between conscious pop and intelligent rock.
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 | Souvlaki by Slowdive
Fuzzy and miasmic. Great for anything.
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 | Strange We Should Meet Here by Idiot Pilot
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £1.37 Really good post-hardcore.
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 | Chrome by Catherine Wheel
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £3.54 Very Smiths meets Pearl Jam. Fantastic production and exhilarating ensemble playing.
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 | Now You Know - Limited by Machine Drum
Buy used from: £24.94 Bass-heavy intricate digital electro hip-hop, put against delicate morning air keyboard.
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 | Sounds of the Satellites by Laika
Buy used from: £1.61 Pop melodies hang out with a crisp mixing desk in which all live instruments create a hive of buzzing fusion and house.
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 | Frances the Mute by The Mars Volta
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £3.49 The most awesome and precise meltdown of heady hardcore. Bixler + Rodriguez-Lopez are the Plant + Page of our time.
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 | Dark Magus by Miles Davis
Buy new: £17.68 / Used from: £6.95 Witchdoctors, black powder, deep hypnosis and tension.
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 | The Sun Is Often Out by Longpigs
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.39 Honest and very sweet. The one where you look in it's eyes at the pound and yes that's the one mummy.
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 | N'Écoutez Pas by Fly Pan Am
Buy new: £14.19 / Used from: £3.49 Incorporeal, palatial experimental rock. It's post-punk tendencies get offset against poor magnetic tape.
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 | Vini Reilly by The Durutti Column
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.49 I return to the Durutti Column. I didn't think with a name like his, the music would sound like that.
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 | Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.03 Shucks.
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 | ISDN (Remix) by The Future Sound of London
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £2.98 If you only want one, then choose this one. They are without peer, and I think they've not made a poor record.
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 | Unholy by Martin Grech
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.48 Epic and monstrous. This is a behemoth of a record, and his ability to proclaim his schizophrenic (and everyday) faults and fears is astounding.
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 | There Is a Season by The Byrds
Buy new: £45.49 / Used from: £34.52 The Byrds have many great albums. They are great.
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 | Inside Out by John Martyn
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.70 My favourite John Martyn album, because Grace & Danger sucked. But if I loved a woman that much then maybe it'd be fun.
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 | Surfing on Sine Waves by Polygon Window
Buy new: £12.78 / Used from: £7.08 If I had to pick my bestest AFX records, this would be top. It's hip it's cool it's Noah's Arcade.
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 | Go Hawaii by Casino Vs Japan
Buy used from: £24.13 Layers and layers of beautiful melody frollicking amongst the dandelions like bunnies.
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 | Selection Sixteen by Squarepusher
Buy new: £8.18 / Used from: £3.71 Anything by Squarepusher is worth having.
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 | Good News for People Who Love Bad News by Modest Mouse
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.19 Really good-time jagged rock and roll; punky, country southern, classic attitude. Clever, eclectic and fun.
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 | The Return of Lord Quas by Quasimoto
Buy new: £7.78 / Used from: £4.37 Always coming up with new elements each time you listen. The very best in crazy underground rap.
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 | Arrhythmia by Antipop Consortium
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.49 Sharp and hard-edged. Digital, eloquent, and it's half-one now so my descriptions are a bit off.
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 | The Hissing of Summer Lawns by Joni Mitchell
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £2.89 Favourite Joni.
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 | Dubnobasswithmyheadman by Underworld
Buy used from: £2.76 Contains all of the above. In varying degrees.
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