Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Neil Young, Unplugged (Reprise Europe, 1993)
This album has no business being any good. Neil didn’t want to make it: his manager dragged him…
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Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Nara Leao, Os Meus Amigos São Um Barato (Philips Brazil, 1977)
Nara Leao can do no wrong in my eyes. The run from her 1964 Elenco debut to her…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: John Cale, Paris 1919 (Reprise Germany, circa 1973)
John Cale is my favourite member of the Velvet Underground, and even though his 1970s solo work sounds…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959; Atlantic, 1966)
Is there a more perfect moment in music than when, after some atmospheric scene-setting by Charlie Haden on…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: El Perro Del Mar, El Perro Del Mar (The Control Group, 2006)
I love girl groups and I love experimental pop — so obviously I love this record, which exists…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Quarteto Em Cy, De Marré De Cy (Elenco, 1967)
This record is pure candy for me. I’m a huge fan of Quarteto Em Cy, whose four-part harmonies…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: The Blue Nile, A Walk Across the Rooftops (Linn Records, 1984)
Dismissed by music fans as a hifi test record… looked down upon for the same reason by fans…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Mal Waldron with Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin, The Quest (1962; Prestige trident mono press, 1964)
This is one of the records that hooked me when I was getting into jazz. It’s the album…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Yo La Tengo, Fakebook (Bar/None, 1990)
Don’t you just love it when your favourite records also happen to sound incredible?? Since I first heard…
Amazing Records That Sound Incredible: Polvo, Celebrate the New Dark Age (Merge, 1994)
Discovering this record for a huge deal for highschool-age me: it was the weird, and I liked it; …