Twenty Year Treasures

Recommendations Based On Favourite Albums

  1. Sweet Whirl

    A borrowed piano somewhere late at night in an old empty theatre late at night. Authentically wistful without bells or whistles.

  2. The Zenmenn, John Moods

    Grounding in a Green House

  3. Todd Rundgren

    A devastating 1979 synth pop masterpiece.

  4. Swervedriver

    Kick out the blues while you gaze at yr shoes.

  5. Supergrass

    Slept on this soaring Supergrass suite.

  6. Goo
    Sonic Youth

    Start here, or try again some other time.

  7. R. Stevie Moore, Kramer, Dave Gregory, Shooby Taylor

    Making Plans For Nothing

  8. Roxy Music

    Let go into more than what you were taught.

  9. The Roches

    Sunday School was weird, now what?

  10. Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends

    The Sgt Pepper of Sunshine Pop.

  11. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

    If you don’t get early R.E.M. you’ll get this.

  12. Robert Wyatt

    The documentary soundtrack to how on earth we got to where we are.

  13. Richard Wright

    Nervous breakdown break throughs in the Bahamas.

  14. A soundtrack for surviving suburbia.

  15. my bloody valentine

    Wash away the useless noise you’ve heard before with the beautiful noise you forgot about.

  16. ML Buch

    Making sense of what you can before the sun rises.

  17. Deconstructing everything with synths and drums at the top of a lighthouse.

  18. Karla Bonoff

    Southern love after Woodstock in a well-kept house.

  19. Jamie Hutchings

    The hardest season through a Super 8 camera and an analog 4-track.

  20. Whiskey that doesn’t leave you wallowing.

  21. Ian McCulloch

    A final salvation for anyone in 1989 dreading 1990.

  22. Happy Mondays

    Record store hopping on a rainy day

  23. All your go-to books next to the bed

  24. Faith No More

    Soundtrack for a storm warning.

  25. The blisteringly beautiful sound of surrendering to the chaos.

  26. Chris Darrow

    Nashville Skyline meets Sweetheart Of The Rodeo.

  27. The Byrds

    The Byrds do country better than country does country.

  28. Strongest Yacht Rock album if you don’t count Steely Dan’s Aja.

  29. The Beach Boys

    The other Pet Sounds, there I said it.

  30. Belle and Sebastian

    A non-depresso solo espresso

  31. Antonia Lamb

    Sublime 70s psych folk artefact

Twenty Year Treasures is an album list curated by Dee Colman.

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