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The title of Low’s debut album embodies the band’s aesthetic, especially in their early years—understated, pure and beautiful.
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The duo’s dynamic debut soundtracked countless parties and inspired plenty of fond memories during the mid ‘90s, cementing its place as one of the decade’s quintessential albums.
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Stephen Malkmus and crew’s second studio album captures the youthful ennui of grunge, while offering a glimpse into the slacker culture to come in the following years.
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Leslie’s debut album proves that he performs just as well on the main stage as he does behind the curtain, where his career first took off.
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Across Bunton’s second album, the heroines and heroes of the “Swinging Sixties” popular music epoch act as her aural touchstones and pair well with her own established musical persona.
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Whereas previous albums cast Simple Minds as a band looking for a voice, ‘Sparkle In The Rain’ had them finding it.
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Complex and ambitious, ‘Spirits Having Flown’ embodies the realized dreams of three brothers who dedicated themselves guilelessly both to their craft and to their millions of fans.
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While definitions, interpretations and implications of the “indie” qualifier run the gamut, Built to Spill’s fourth studio affair is most simply put, a solid and seminal, indie rock album.
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When Kwamé represented hip-hop’s late 1980s youth movement with his debut album, he showed that the genre’s future was bright.
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