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By Nirvana, 1989
Bleach is the debut album by the American grunge band Nirvana. It was released on June 15, 1989 through the independent record label Sub Pop. Bleach originally sold a mere 30,000 copies, but following the enormous success of the band's second album, Nevermind (1991), fans discovered Nirvana's...
- The White Stripes
By The White Stripes, 2008
The White Stripes is the debut studio album by American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on June 15, 1999. The album was produced by vocalist, guitarist and pianist Jack White and Jim Diamond and recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders and Third Man Studios in Detroit. White...
- Kid A
By Radiohead, 2000
Kid A is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in October 2000. A commercial success worldwide, Kid A went platinum in its first week of release in the UK. Despite the lack of an official single or music video as publicity, Kid A became the first Radiohead...
- Funeral
By Arcade Fire, 2004
Montreal's Arcade Fire brings a theatricality, an intensity, an insanity, and a penchant for amazing hooks to their debut full-length album. You've never heard such energy, beauty, and emotion from such a young band. Fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, Broken Social Scene, and Roxy Music's first two albums...
- Transatlanticism
By Death Cab for Cutie, 2003
With songs equal to those on We Have the Facts and a lush, brilliant production that continues what The Photo Album started, Transatlanticism is easily Death Cab's best record to date. Much attention has duly been focused on doe-eyed singer/lyricist Ben Gibbard, co-star of the Postal Service...
- Silent Alarm
By Bloc Party, 2005
Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was recorded in Copenhagen and London in mid-2004 and was largely produced by Paul Epworth. It was released on 2 February 2005 in Japan through V2 Records and on 14 February in the British Isles on Wichita Recordings...
- The Suburbs
By Arcade Fire, 2010
The Suburbs is the third album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire. Written, arranged, performed and produced by the Arcade Fire and co-produced by Markus Dravs, The Suburbs was recorded around Montreal and New York over two years.
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
By The Flaming Lips, 2002
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin. Guest artist Yoshimi P-we plays with psyche-noise-experimental group the Boredoms and leads her own band OOIOO. The Yoshimi in the songs, however, is a fictional character.
- For Emma, Forever Ago
By Bon Iver, 2008
Justin Vernon began recording as Bon Iver following the breakup of DeYarmond Edison, an indie folk group similar in tone and manner to Iron & Wine, Little Wings and, to a certain extent, Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Pronounced 'bohn eevair', it is French for "good winter" which is spelled wrong...
- Elliott Smith
By Elliott Smith, 1995
Recorded mildly better than his debut (Roman Candle on Cavity Search), the self-titled second solo album is one of the most understated and incredible albums to emerge from the indie-rock scene in the 1990s. With his nimble picking fingers behind him, Smith writes sad, little songs about drugs and...
- Surfer Rosa
By Pixies, 2003
Before the Breeders and Frank Black, there was this Boston quartet, playing hardcore's rush and terseness against the acoustic grit and the minor-key flourish of Latin pop. Their first full-length album is their starkest, harsh and trebly, with the drums right in your face, and songs edited to...
- The Creek Drank the Cradle
By Iron & Wine, 2002
Iron & Wine is Sam Beam, a back-porch Florida singer-songwriter whose sad little songs pack a helluva wallop. Beam's immediately likable tunes paint such clear pictures that songs like "Southern Anthem" and "Muddy Hymnal" are more akin to short stories by Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor than...
- Daydream Nation
By Sonic Youth, 1993
The essential New York rock band of the post-punk era, Sonic Youth care as much about the quasi-symphonic, microtonal art-guitar music of composers like Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca as they do about the rock-song form, and with Daydream Nation, they struck their greatest balance between the two.
- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
By Neutral Milk Hotel, 1998
Just from the opening seconds of Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, you know it's going to be special: the acoustic guitar strum is catchy beyond belief, and Jeff Magnum's intonation lends credibility even to a line like "When you were young, you were the King of Carrot Flowers.
- Either/Or
By Elliott Smith, 1997
Blessed with the voice of a wispy angel, Elliott Smith creates sad little pop songs, which, like the work of Nick Drake (to whom he's been compared) threaten to disappear into the night air. Several of the tracks here were featured in Gus Van Zant's movie Good Will Hunting, and they're among the...
- Broken Social Scene
By Broken Social Scene, 2005
The massively anticipated follow-up to "You Forgot It In People," the Canadian cult BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE deliver an amazing new LP, filled with monumental songs layered with huge choruses, symphonic arrangements to compliment their many instruments and vocalists, and the intimate/experimental/hooky...
- More Adventurous
By Rilo Kiley, 2004
Are they alternative-country rockers or alternative rock crooners? That was the conundrum following Rilo Kiley’s 2002 release, The Execution of Things, and with More Adventurous, the band’s first record with major label support, we have our answer. Jolted by the divinely pure vocals of Jenny...
- Turn on the Bright Lights
By Interpol, 2002
Australian version of the absolutely stunning full-length debut from New York's Interpol. Think Joy Division meets Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Smiths. Includes the bonus track, 'Specialist'. Matador. 2002.Interpol create literate, atmospheric, moody, trashy post-punk music that...
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 2005
One of the biggest critical successes of the year, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH is proving it can reach beyond the realm of critic darlings. With rapidly expanding commercial, specialty and college radio, sold out tour dates around the globe, and high profile television appearance s scheduled, this is...
- Dear Science
By TV on the Radio, 2008
Dear Science, Tunde Adebimpe-Vocals Kyp Malone- Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Synths David Andrew Sitek-Programming, Guitars, Samples, Bass, Synths Gerard A Smith- Bass, Organ, Synths, Samples, Rhodes Jaleel Bunton-Drums, Guitars, Rhodes, Organ, Synths, Bass, Programming "A lot of bands have something...
- You Are Free
By Cat Power, 2003
The first album in four years from Chan Marshall, one of the premier female singer-songwriters of our generation. This album explores the world of relationships and fame. Catchy, intense, and beguiling. Matador. 2003.Chan "Cat Power" Marshall's performances have become legendary marathons...
- The Soft Bulletin
By The Flaming Lips, 2009
Their follow-up to the experimental four-disc Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin is an emotional, lush, often symphonic pop masterpiece with distinct melodies amidst the swirl of textures and tones. Yet for all its headphone- friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing...
- Fevers and Mirrors
By Bright Eyes, 2000
The most focused and conceptually complete release to date, Bright Eyes' 'Fevers and Mirrors' is a modern day masterpiece from one of the most important songwriters of our time. Twelve songs of brutal honesty and ingenious storytelling bring us a bit closer to this undeniable talent.
- Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
By Pavement, 2002
Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe is a double album by Pavement featuring a remastered version of the band's first studio album Slanted and Enchanted, as well as outtakes & live tracks from the same era as the original release. The album was released in the USA on October 20, 2002.
- Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
By Bright Eyes, 2002
Full title - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Born in 1980 in Omaha and recording since he was 13, Conor Oberst owns a voice that quakes with the tumultuous energy that only youth can produce. Slipcase. 2002.Nebraskan wunderkind Conor Oberst writes songs so naked...
- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
By Pavement, 1999
On their second full-length album (not counting a compilation of early singles and EPs), Pavement emerge from the noisy clang and clutter to reveal the once-hidden songcraft and passion that made their previous recordings so mysteriously fascinating. The mystery may have receded on Crooked Rain...
- Album
By Girls, 2009
Born into the extremist Children of God cult before escaping to live on the streets at 16, Christopher Owens knows misery. But on Girls' debut, he's made peace with his past and crafted ace tunes to go with his tales of redemption. Owens sings about dancing and hanging with California girls on...
- 69 Love Songs
By Magnetic Fields, 1999
1999 and first new material in four years by Stephin Merrit 's main band (his side projects include Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and The 6ths). Limited three disc set f eaturing more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! Features all three...
- Nine Types of Light
By TV on the Radio, 2011
TV On The Radio's fourth full-length album, Nine Types of Light (Interscope), is a lush and beautiful album that stands apart from the group's previous work. If their other albums had shades of dystopia and distress, this album, sung by Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, is filled with songs about...
- Helplessness Blues
By Fleet Foxes, 2011
Engineered and mixed by Phil Ek and co-produced by Phil and the band, the sophomore Fleet Foxes record is called Helplessness Blues. Recording for Helplessness Blues began in April 2010 at Dreamland Recording in Woodstock, NY and continued off and on through November of that same year back in...
- Twin Cinema
By The New Pornographers, 2005
The third album from Vancouver's pop maestros continues to feature Neko Case and Dan Bejar (Destroyer), as well as new vocalists Kathryn Calder and Nora O'Connor. These songs veer more toward the rocking and the personal than the sugar of earlier works.
- Expo 86
By Wolf Parade, 2010
Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, with Howard Bilerman, in late February and early March of 2010, EXPO 86 is the name of the new and third album by Montreal s Wolf Parade. EXPO 86 follows the band s 2008 album, At Mount Zoomer, which itself followed their 2005 debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary.
- There's Nothing Wrong With Love
By Built to Spill, 1994
Ever since Boise, Idaho, trio Built to Spill emerged on national radar with its major label release Perfect from Now On (Warner), its earlier recordings are infused with a certain prediscovery mystique. On 1994's There's Nothing Wrong with Love, the roots of Built to Spill's shimmering orchestral...
- Yuck
By Yuck, 2011
A deliciously maverick streak shows up once again on Yuck's 2011 debut album. Self-produced, it unveils the full breadth and scope of Yuck, showcasing a band capable of sprinting off in pretty much any direction, so diverse and fully realized is its vision. It also shows that their previous...
