Banco De gaia - Maya
multi-layered, multi-textured global soundscape | 
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M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
neo-electro noise avalanche. bruised yet overwhelming - reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine |  |
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
beguiling masterpiece finds them at their most fluent and inventive moment. post garage rawness, pre stadium rock mediocrity |  |
The Fall - Middle Class Revolt
ruefully splenetic collection of essays chronicling the psyche of the tail end of the Thatcherite era |  |
Radiohead - Kid A
monumental diffidence, trailblazing electro experimentation masked as subdued twiddling,behold the crown jewels of rock shrouded in twilight mist |  |
Augustus Pablo - Earth's Rightful Ruler
king of melodica's finest hour, lush rythmic layers of dub seeped in natural spirituality - play on |  |
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Philip Glass - Mishima Soundtrack
high water Mark of classicist electro minimalist, |  |
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Roy Orbison meets the Comsat Angels doing a mix of Curve songs listening to Bowie in a Camper van parked at Reading circa 1988 |  |
Radiohead - Amnesia
further exploration into boundaries of rock and electro leaves rivals trailing in wake |  |
Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean Basically?
the definitive voice of 80s post-industrial post punk |  |
Misty In Roots - Live at the Counter Eurovisio
rich, spiritual reggae delivered with "medieval intensity" (John Peel) |  |
Ensemble Sirin - Putnik
mesmerising performance of ancient eclesiastical chants with traditional instruments |  |
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