Gal Costa
In 1969, Gal Costa released 'Gal Costa.' A tropicalia fever-dream where pop sweetness and political electricity share the same breath.
Jamie Hutchinson
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Philosophy of the World
In 1969, The Shaggs released 'Philosophy of the World.' A record with one of the strangest origin stories ever told.
Tous Les Garçons et Les Filles
In 1962, Françoise Hardy released 'Tous Les Garçons et Les Filles.' A debut album that made loneliness fashionable and gave pop music a new emotional vocabulary.
Safe as Milk
In 1967, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band released 'Safe as Milk.' A blues record bent just far enough out of shape to feel dangerously unhinged.
Urban Driftwood
In 2021, Yasmin Williams released 'Urban Driftwood.' A record that reframed solo guitar as something physical, percussive and quietly radical.
Rain Dogs
In 1985, Tom Waits released 'Rain Dogs.' A record that dragged blues, theatre, junkyard percussion and street poetry into a battered, ecstatic vision of New York after midnight.
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