#149 Bjork – Homogenic

Björk’s third album, and the one from which her astonishingly original and creative vision fully exploded upon the world like the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. This album contains some of my favourite Björk songs, and is a masterclass in creative collaboration. For although there’s several producers on this album: Howie B, Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, Guy Sigsworth and Mark …

#821 Massive Attack – Protection

I wasn’t really into Massive Attack at the time. Somehow their brilliant debut album, Blue Lines, passed me by when released in 1991. Maybe because I was focusing on my A levels at the time, but most likely because I just wasn’t cool enough. I recall clearly the brilliant video for Unfinished Sympathy but they …

#1015 Portishead – Dummy

I can recall exactly the moment I first heard Portishead. I was in my attic room of a shared student house whilst at university. It was late, my housemates already asleep, I was listening to the radio, mooching around my room when Glory Box came on and I paused whatever I was doing, stopped still …

#780 Madonna – Ray of Light

This is the singer’s seventh album, appearing after quite a gap in which she treaded water for a while releasing a compilation of ballads and the Evita soundtrack. It’s not the first where she self-consciously reinvents herself, borrowing and remoulding in her own image musical and cultural trends of the time (see also: Vogue from …

#386 DJ Shadow – The Private Press

It took me a while to find this CD, and I was beginning to wonder if I’d perhaps got rid of it in a fit of idiocy or if it was only on a wishlist and I’d imagined I owned it. This was because I was incorrectly looking under S for Shadow when in fact …