Hard To Explain, Last Nite, The Modern Age… all calls to arms for a new era.
Rock and roll seemed dead and buried at the turn of the century, but these New Yorkers took the codes and cliches of the genre and gave them a Chelsea-booted kick up the arse. Songs include Mr Brightside, Somebody Told Me and the anthemic All These Things That I Have Done. Hot Fuss is a compendium of the greatest moments of British rock through an American eye: sardonic, sincere, glamorous indie rock and roll. The multi-layered sounds on tracks like Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) and Cosmic Love make this a rewarding listen, with the excellent cover of You Got The Love a fine showstopper.įlorence And Machine - Lungs album cover.Ĭooped up in plastic Las Vegas, Brandon Flowers and his like-minded bandmates looked to the music of the UK for their inspiration. What started as a conceptual project gained form and substance with Welch’s distinctive voice. Watching Florence Welch evolve from performance artist to genuine pop diva has been a fascinating phenomenon, with Lungs the first step on the journey. Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood album cover. From the opening Red Morning Light, through Molly’s Chambers and California Waiting, this is classic rock and roll. We’d say that the Followills were “fresh-faced” when they made the aptly-named Youth And Young Manhood, but this is the Kings at their hairiest: leaving their Southern home behind, but wearing their roots on their sleeves. Kings Of Leon - Youth And Young Manhood.Best moment: The swagger of Little Monster. It hit the Number 1 spot in the album charts, too. Straight out of the traps came the Brighton duo with this ferocious collection of noise meeting melody. The classic, choppy guitar action on the album is accompanied by Alex Kapranos’s gentlemanly vocals, investigating romantic affectation and social ennui perfectly on songs like The Dark Of The Matinee, Michael and This Fire.įranz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand album cover. Lots of people were recycling old post-punk Gang Of Four riffs in 2004, but when Take Me Out dropped that year, we knew we’d heard something special. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights album cover. The New York post-punk revivalists issued their excellent debut album in 2002, which included PDA, NYC, Untitled and Obstacle 1. Top tune: I Bet That You Look Good On the Dancefloor.Īrctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not album cover. Young Yorkshiremen with attitude fronted by the greatest lyrical talent since Morrissey. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album cover. Endlessly influential from the sparse, evocative cover to the looming baritone of the tragic singer Ian Curtis, the songs are dark thumbnail sketches. Young Manchester punks lift off into space and create their own sonic landscape. And what tunes! Supersonic, Live Forever, Cigarettes And Alcohol, Slide Away… It ushered in Britpop, Cool Britannia and took the country out from the shadow of American-dominated rock. Literally, a generation-defining debut album.
The compositions are so strong, they released a remix album that’s every bit as good as the original.
Sometimes quiet and vague, sometimes tense and angry, Bloc Party’s opening salvo is a fully rounded creation with such great songs as Helicopter, So Here We Are and Banquet. Rivers Cuomo’s persona was a fascinating meld of mathematics student and idiot savant and the hits (The Sweater Song, Buddy Holly) sit comfortably alongside some great album tracks (In The Garage, Surf Wax America). American rock made by the REAL outsiders – the nerds and the geeks, given a voice via the medium of power chords and singalong choruses.
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Which bands hit the ground running first time out? Here's our selection of the greatest debut albums in indie and rock history from Arctic Monkeys to Bjork.Įffortlessly fusing dancefloor rhythms with classic jangle guitar, plus a soupçon of psychedelia, this supremely confident debut was an instant classic from the ponderous I Want To Be Adored to the closing I Am The Resurrection.
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