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Album

Baaba Maal

Lam Toro

Badly Drawn Boy

Hour Of Bewilderbeast

I don't mind if it takes 20 years for people to realise how good an album this is, says Damon Gough of the Badly Drawn Boy debut, The Hour of Bewilderbeast. I totally didn't write it to fit in with what's going on, or is accepted, right now. I just wanted it to be considered as a classic piece of work. The Hour of Bewilderbeast is everything that a classic album should be and maybe something more. From the uplifting sound of the French horn and cello that herald The Shining right through to the faded birdsong that closes the lovely Epitaph, this is an album that is destined to encapsulate the summer of 2000, in much the same way The Stone Roses and Definitely Maybe were the only soundtracks for the best moments of 1989 and 1994.

Barry Adamson

Oedipus Schmoedipus

Basement Jaxx

Remedy

Bebel Gilberto

Tanto Tempo

Beck

Guero

Three years after the critically acclaimed and heartwrenching opus Sea Change, three time Grammy Winner and five time MTV Video Music Award Winner Beck returns with his most diverse, accomplished and compelling work to date: GUERO. With the raucous first single E-Pro triumphantly na-na-na -ing Beck's return with a must-be-seen-to-be believed video by Shynola (Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead), GUERO both reunites Beck with classic co-conspirators the Dust Brothers and explores territories uncharted by even this most innovative artist of his generation.

Odelay

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Sea Change

The Information (w/ Bonus DVD)

Over a decade of criss-crossing genres makes it easy to forget that Beck's first big hit was, essentially, a rap song. It's not surprising, then, that about half of the songs on 2006's The Information are some shade of hip-hop, house, or dance-floor funk. And while no one's going to mistake Beck for Young Buck, he brings his own brand of intelligent, laid-back confidence to every track, from the stuttering brilliance of 1000 BPM to the lolling funk of Elevator Music to the lo-fi house grooves of Cellphone's Dead to the 10 minutes of atmospheric chill-out that close the album. But the presence of Nigel Godrich--who produced both the most beloved (Mutations) and underrated (Sea Changes) of Beck's albums--insures that this isn't going to be a one- note affair. Godrich shapes the more pop-leaning songs into low-gloss gems, exercising both imagination and restraint: the intensity of New Round comes not from big, fancy production but from multiple layers of the same insistent vocal line. Think I'm in Love is a sticky little garage-rocker with a hyper bass line, while Strange Apparition is a bit of Laurel Canyon folk-rock amidst all the funk & crunk. It's reassuring to know that on his seventh full-length album, neither Beck nor his best collaborator have run out of fresh ideas. The release comes with a bonus dvd + a sticker sheet to design your own album cover.

Belle & Sebastian

Tigermilk

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If You're Feeling Sinister

Beth Orton

Central Reservation

Billy Bragg and Wilco

Mermaid Avenue

Birdman and lil' Wayne

Like Father, Like Son

Bjork

Debut

Medulla

Bjork is one of the most recognized stars in the world. She has sold millions of copies of her groundbreaking albums, she is an icon of cutting edge style, and she has received worldwide acclaim as an actress. Medulla, Bjork's first new studio album in three years, finds her delving deeper than ever before into her haunting and exhilarating sound and vision. Innovative as always, Bjork has this time built the songs on Medulla entirely from vocal tracks, with no insturments appearnig on the album, creating a soundscape unlike anything you've ever heard before. Special guests include Rahzel from The Roots, Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, an Inuit throat singer, an Icelandic choir, the world's greatest human beatboxes and more.

Vespertine

Multi-talented Superstar Bjork returns with her long awaited solo album Vespertine, featuring groundbreaking songs such as Harm Of Will, and Cocoon. The new disc caps a breakthrough year for the mercurial vocalist, which has seen her receive a Best Acting Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the award winning movie Dancer In The Dark, as well as snag an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for I ve Seen It All.

Blink 182

Take Off Your Pants & Jacket (Explicit Version)

Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

Blur

. Blur

. Modern Life is Rubbish

. Parklife

Boards of Canada

Music Has the Right to Children

Bob Dylan

Live 1966-Royal Albert Hall Concert

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Time Out of Mind

Modern Times

It's arguable that at no point since his 1960s heyday has Bob Dylan been as celebrated as in the decade following his critically acclaimed 1997 album Time Out of Mind. Numerous films, books, and albums--mostly Columbia's impressive archive series of reissues--have been part of a universal canonization of the singer and met with considerable enthusiasm by fans and critics alike. 2006's Modern Times, the third album to have been released in nearly 10 years and part of a trilogy that also includes 2001's brilliant and upbeat Love and Theft, is easily deserving of such enthusiasm and is further reason for the formal veneration. Musically, the album finds Dylan once again mining the stately traditionalist sound first heard on Love and Theft Lazy blues numbers, piano-based songbook pop, and jumpin' country swing provide the backdrop for Dylan's continuing study of the vicissitudes of life, love, and death. Although he is certainly world-weary, a lot of life is lived in the verses of these songs and there is a dogged spirituality that provides, if not hope (a rather prosaic notion for Dylan by this point, to be sure), at least a means to finding contentment. Finally, a word about Dylan's voice here: while his singing has always been unconventional and never pretty in any traditional sense, in its raspy magnificence it is simply perfect for this timeless music.

Bon Jovi

Slippery When Wet

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New Jersey

Bonnie " Prince " Billy

I See a Darkness

Brian Wilson

Smile

Brian Wilson's Smile is inarguably the most long awaited album in modern pop history. It's been more than 37 years since the title first appeared on a label release schedule, intended as the January, 1967 follow-up to the groundbreaking art-rock of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. But Smile never made its initial release date. Today, this album is not a mere reconstruction of past performances, but something entirely new, a serious summation of a project that has been gestating for nearly four decades.

Brightblack Morning Light

Britney Speares

Baby One More Time

Bruce Springsteen

The Rising

The Rising is Bruce Springsteen s first studio album recorded with The E Street Band since 1984 s Born In The U.S.A. and was produced by Brendan O Brien (Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Train). The album features 15 tracks--14 new songs and a studio version of My City Of Ruins, which Springsteen debuted on the America: A Tribute To Heroes telethon last year.

We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions (DualDisc)

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Buena Vista Social Club