Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of The BewilderbeastReleased in May 2000 to widespread acclaim, 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast' beat other shortlisted nominees including Coldplay, Doves, Leftfield and Richard Ashcroft to that year's Mercury Music Prize. Like all great debuts, it captured the zeitgeist of the moment, managing that rare feat of sounding both completely of its time, and utterly timeless. The album went platinum and Damon was then asked to write the soundtrack the film of Nick Hornby's book

Sonic Youth proved they could harness their energy into a combustible engine

Tiger‰۪s Milk‰۪s debut LP ‰Û÷Peru Maravilloso‰۪

a piano-laced paean to their newborn son

Green vinyl

dizzyingly complex songs that vein this

graceful lines and open space embodied in sound

but we've done it with a quality that cannot be rivaled

it‰۪s desert-dusted guitar raga appearing like a mirage as the rhythm section rises in the mix

This melodic yet mountainous soundworld was sculpted at Breakglass

It all seemed harmless but when Birth Records honcho Tim Presley rolled up in his long white limousine and began to spin tales of folk rock glory

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Reed's songwriting moved beyond the armed-to-disarm approach of the previous two albums towards a spiritual level of empathy with the human race - a change that wouldn't go unnoticed