The Byrds -- The Notorious Byrd Brothers

  Will dealing with a boat load of internal strife, The Byrds pull out probably my favorite one of their albums, it's a kinda baroque rock record, just imagine where Big Star's Third/ Sister Lovers started from. 

The Jimi Hendrix Experience -- Electric Ladyland

  The third and final chapter for the experience, not saying this album isn't great but way too much of a stereotypical Hendrix style musical masturbation than I'd like to endure.

Sufjan Stevens -- Carrie And Lowell

  In the aftermath of a devastatingly strange break up, my hazy mind and destroyed spirit needed some understanding, I heard from friends that Sufjan Stevens minimalist kinda self throwback album was drenched in self deprecating epic sadness and it did not fail to represent.  The music is beautifully orchestrated folk and the lyrics are unhesitatingly bare, revealing very personal truths that make it easy to identify with, although it may not be the best album to play when you are in a great mood, but when you are down and feeling alone this record is exactly what you need.

Lewis -- L'amour

   In 1982 Lewis shows up at the Beverly Hills hotel with his model girlfriend driving a white Mercedes, hires a producer and photographer, and makes a brilliant lofi piano driven electro album, like Twin Peaks Badalamenti atmosphere meets the minimalism of Springsteen's Nebraska with a Serge Gainsbourg cool.  Once the album's complete Lewis skips town, his cheques start bouncing and the record barely sees the light of day for decades, even after its rediscovery the label had to hire a private investigator to track down, what turned out to be a charismatic Alberta stock broker ... 

Scout Niblett -- The Calcination Of ...

  Finely, Steve Albini, produced, played like Sleater Kinney meets the Pixies lofi 90's throwback music.  The Calcination of Scout Niblett is sonically fragile but tough, like I'm a sensitive person but it doesn't mean I'm going to take any shit!

Neil Young

  You can hear the bridge between Buffalo Springfield and solo Neil Young music in this album, a reinvention of the past to make the future, it's maybe not his best but it tells you volumes of who he will be and where he came from!

Early Folk Blues

  Between the 20's and early 50's there was a grass roots musical revolution in American culture rising out of the countries most unwanted.  The blues artists never stood a chance at any financial success during their lifetimes, but they went on playing in juke joints, recorded where and when they could, for little recognition and even less money.  Like the punk rockers of the 70's and 80's or avant-garde artists they played their music out of sheer need, never catering to what the mainstream wanted or expected, instead they bashed out a raw, guttural and influential sound, that birthed modern music as we know it.