Twenty Years Of Treasures
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Sweet Whirl
You discover your friend writes the greatest wistful songs you’ve ever heard, finding her at a piano in an empty room in the theatre after the audience cleared out. She didn’t know you stayed an hour in the corner.
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The Zenmenn, John Moods
A group grounding in an enormous greenhouse when the temperature breaks and the cool summer afternoon breeze enters.
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Todd Rundgren
A devastating 1979 synth pop masterpiece.
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Swervedriver
Kick out the blues while you gaze at yr shoes.
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Supergrass
Don’t sleep on this sublime Supergrass suite.
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Sonic Youth
Start here, or try again some other time.
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R. Stevie Moore, Kramer, Dave Gregory, Shooby Taylor
80s demos of the best 60s songs never written.
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Roxy Music
Let go into more than what you were taught.
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The Roches
Sunday School was weird, now what?
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Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends
The Sgt Pepper of Sunshine Pop.
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Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
If you don’t get early R.E.M. you’ll get this.
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Robert Wyatt
How Did We Get Here? The Documenary Soundtrack.
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Richard Wright
Tropical nervous breakdown revelations.
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A soundtrack for surviving suburbia.
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my bloody valentine
Wash away the useless noise you’ve heard before with the beautiful noise you forgot about.
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ML Buch
Making sense of what you can before sunrise.
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Kate Bush
Processing everything at the top of a lighthouse with digital gear and perfect afternoons.
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Karla Bonoff
Post-Woodstock love in a tidy Southern house.
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Jamie Hutchings
A hard season through a Super 8 camera.
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Jacobites
Whiskey that doesn’t leave you wallowing.
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Ian McCulloch
The last great record of the 80s.
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Happy Mondays
Record store hopping on a rainy day.
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The Go-Betweens
All your go-to books next to the bed in a record.
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Faith No More
Soundtrack for a storm warning.
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The blisteringly beautiful sound of surrendering to the chaos.
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Chris Darrow
Nashville Skyline meets Sweetheart Of The Rodeo.
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The Byrds
The Byrds do country better than country does country.
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Boz Scaggs
The strongest Yacht Rock album that exists, if you don’t count Steely Dan’s Aja.
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The Beach Boys
The other Pet Sounds, there I said it.
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Belle and Sebastian
A non-depresso solo espresso.
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Antonia Lamb
Sublime 70s psych folk artefact.
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