#TTLessentials - Must-Have Records In Your Collection

Nothing much more to say about this... it changed mi life! black vinyl pressing original release year: 1993 music label: Jive 2015 reviewed by th...

You might've listened to this back when it first came out, but it's definitely worth a revisit. I know my ears were a little more biased a decade ...

Antena's Camino Del Sol is a classic work of dark psychedelic pop, made way back in 1982. It meets all reissue hype requirements: Factory Records c...

Originally released in 1995 by Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do was his third full length effort. It was the first of his albums to break away fro...

An indispensible artifact from an era when the Aphex Twin could do no wrong. In the mid 90s, Richard D. James led the charge of the IDM world, live...

Bad Brains' first LP from 1982. Considered by many as one of the best hardcore LPs ever, the Bad Brains self titled debut brought a new dynamic to ...

Capacity is the second album by Big Thief, recorded in snowbound upstate New York with now-frequent collaborator Andrew Sarlo. The tracks on Capaci...

Best album of the 90s? Possibly maybe! For her second album, Bjork and her cast of collaborators escaped to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point ...

Vespertine was a departure from the sultry downtempo and chic IDM of Bjork’s previous albums, trading big room extravagance for reticent experiment...

Finally reissued! Boards Of Canada's highly anticipated follow up to their Warp debut gets a long overdue repress. Geogaddi arrived four years afte...

Another in-demand repress from the Warp crew! Boards fourth full length album released with no pre-hype, very typical of this low key Scottish duo....

Bob Marley & The Wailers' seminal 1973 album, and first for Island Records. While this isn't exactly a tough piece to find, looking for an uns...

Debut full-length from Birmingham, England’s Broadcast. The Noise Made By People came after the band signed to Warp Records and spent nearly three ...

Dreampop essential! By the time Cocteau Twins released Heaven Or Las Vegas, they had been perfecting their singular sound for nearly 10 years, reco...

30 years old and still potent as ever... Cypress Hill's self-titled debut. The album, available on colored vinyl, features audio remastered from th...

After a spell of being aggravatingly out of print, Daft Punk's Discovery finally repressed on their own Daft Life imprint. Here's Woodman's OG Lab ...

Daft Punk's 1997 debut album took the raw foundation of Chicago house to prog rock levels of high concept and grandiosity... looking over the odd ...

This was the first LP released on Greensleeves, and it couldn't get much more classic than this. It's basically a showcase for Dr. Alimantado, comp...

"Bitches ain't shit but hos and tricks, lick on the nuts and suck the dick..." Ahhh, quality ish. My earliest memory of this record was when Dr. Dr...

LA's Flying Lotus is being setup as the next Madlib-Diplo-DJ Shadow-type producer cash cow. The hype is well-warranted in my opinion, as Flying Lot...

Classic '94 full length from Guru and Primo on official double vinyl. Hard To Earn was finally supposed to make Gang Starr go gold, but was once ag...

You all know the "Think" break. You've heard it on "It Takes Two" and countless hip hop, B-more and jungle records. And by now you know it comes fr...

Simply put, this is one of the most important records of all-time and a damn good listen to boot. If you don’t already own it, you should pick up t...

Now on deluxe colored vinyl! For me, buying MF Doom records is one of the few activities that captures that feeling of refuge found in thrift store...

20th anniversary edition! To celebrate 2 decades with one of MF DOOM's most beloved projects, Big Dada have made the album available in its origina...

There's a lot of hubbub in the rap cognoscenti around this new release from Daniel Dumile, man of a thousand (well, at least 5) names. He's hardly ...

It's been called a landmark session, the best jazz album of all time, one of the greatest musical works of the 20th century… and with good reason....

Mos' classic full length solo debut, back on official double vinyl! Black On Both Sides is one of the crown jewels in the Rawkus catalog - an esse...

Official 12" reissue of this Lab all-timer! 2024 pressing with the original 6+ minute mix of "Bizarre Love Triangle" on side A, "Bizarre Dub Triang...

I have a folder with every Lab review written for the site. There's definite themes that emerge when you read the older ones. Let me set this one u...

This is the album that New Order fans pretend not to like. As in: "I prefer their early, formative stuff like Movement or Power Corruption Lies." W...

Reissue of NOW's most popular album from 1995, Smoker's Delight, from the good folks at Warp. I always thought the cover and title had a lot to do ...

We'll spare you the Woodman review where he would write about drinking a 40 "in an hour dude," or that time he puffed a blunt and saw visuals while...

Original Lab review: Third full length from the UK trip hop powerhouse. I know you've all been waiting for another installment from our favorite do...

It’s hard to imagine a world today without Kid A. In October of 2000, the incorporation of sampling, synthesizers and computers in rock music was a...

Fresh off high-profile remixes and collaborations with A Tribe Called Quest, Janet Jackson and The Pharcyde, Jay Dee aka J Dilla was eager to draw ...

A daunting task reviewing this record, but here's a try. Not to get all textbook, but 93 Til Infinity is one of finest embodiments of youthful expr...

Stereolab's fifth studio album from 1997, and arguably their best! Their sound here had tightened up even more (read: less rock-ish) since Emperor ...

There's so much to the Breeders' Last Splash. The sophomore album, from what was originally Kim Deal's side project from the Pixies, packs in a be...

Wow, official 2LP vinyl reissue of this seminal 1992 rave album. I'm not gonna lie, this was my shit back then and it still kinda is (even though s...

This is it, the big one. The Rolling Stone five star all time great Smiths album. I don't really believe in this kind of stuff, especially with thi...