 | My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess by Kimya Dawson
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £5.64 Kimya Dawson's message of love and acceptance, and her delicate, untrained voice make her albums feel like being sung to by your best friend.
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 | Hidden Vagenda by Kimya Dawson
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £7.70 More from the earnest and sincere Goddess of friendship!
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 | A Sun Came by Sufjan Stevens
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £5.27 I'm grateful to Sufjan for releasing this wildly divergent and comprehensive collection of earlier works... great to see what he was playing with before seven swans and Michigan.
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 | Seven Swans by Sufjan Stevens
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £5.40 A whispering, rustic gem.
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 | Greetings from Michigan: the Great Lake State by Sufjan Stevens
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £5.97 Prolific and talented, Sufjan's Michigan album is a rustic and dynamic celebration of the state. This album chimes, roars, and whispers its way through a very personal account of place.
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 | The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £5.62 Joanna Newsom's harp with untrained voice is delicate AND visceral... she's a superduperstar.
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 | Oh Me Oh My... the Way the Day Goes By the Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs of the Christmas Spirit by Devendra Banhart
Buy new: £5.74 / Used from: £4.39 Crackly account of Banhart's early works.
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 | Rejoicing In The Hands (Of The Golden Empress) by Devendra Banhart
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £6.25 Amazing vocal innovator, guitar plucker... Banhart is like a jester and a shaman.
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 | Vetiver by Vetiver
Buy new: £10.94 / Used from: £5.18 This one is straight out of the woods... campfires, rituals, and Earth.
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 | Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.58 Banhart's biggest inspiration, I gather, Vashti sings like an Angel about living simply. The purity of her vision is medicine, at times.
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 | Oh Vanille/Ova Nille by Diane Cluck
Buy new: £5.55 / Used from: £5.64 Contemporary NY Singer-Songwrite marries nature imagery with heartbreaking honesty. Her discourse on relationships is wise and inspirational. Her words are poetry.
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 | Through the Sun Door by White Magic
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £7.99 Dark, rock-style witchy pagan folkrock.
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 | Young Prayer by Panda Bear
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £6.51 Delicate, soulful offering from one of the Animal Collective musicians... a beautiful, ambient, heartfelt journey, this album was made while the artist's father was dying.
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 | Sung Tongs by Animal Collective
Buy new: £5.87 / Used from: £6.99 Indescribably wild, textured, unexpected, acousto-electonic noise joy. Folk? Electronica? Rock? Experimentation? Noise band? Sorta all of that and then some.
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 | Kuutarha by Lau Nau
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £6.05 Fascinating Finnish Vocal/acoustic arrangements. Very ambient, very textured... extremely complex organisation of different musical elements... breathtaking vocals.
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 | Cathedral by The Castanets
Buy new: £8.78 / Used from: £5.27 Eclectic arrangement of rock/blues/folk/indie. Some amazing numbers on here... surprising variety of different forms of joy.
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 | Light Green Leaves by Little Wings
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £4.92 Very highly recommended celebration of nature/folk/joy from this playful band of funloving musicians.
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 | The Golden Morning Breaks by Colleen
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.49 Incredibly magical acoustic/electric/ambient chiming. Like a meditation. But more interesting.
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 | La Maison De Mon Reve by CocoRosie
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £5.50 voices, noisy toys, and field recordings collage into bliss on this indescribably wierd release.
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 | Tripper by Efterklang
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £5.87 This is a breathtaking journey through amazing electonic/acoustic/vocal landscapes. Pure, delicate, strong, this is massive.
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 | This is Tunng - Mother's Daughter and Other Songs by Tunng
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £5.23 The best folk/electronica blend I've ever heard. Just buy it.
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