The finest boyband breakout since Robbie Williams’s Life Thru a Lens, and that’s not damning with faint praise: Timberlake’s Neptunes/Timbaland-helmed debut was slick, sexy and most importantly, convincing. Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features 87 Justin Timberlake Justified (2002) Listen to the album.īreakout … Justin Timberlake.
No disposable vocalist or featured artist, the charismatic, club-savvy south Londoner gave dubstep its first real star. Two Malian greats met for this soothing, spontaneous record of guitar and kora that is as subtly textured as it is generous. 91 Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté In the Heart of the Moon (2005) Part state-of-the-nation opus, part eye-opening trawl through the unexplored depths of Badu’s brain. 92 Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (2008) 93 Low Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)įilled with crushing, funereal dirges and a song about wanting to encase a newborn baby in metal to prevent its growth, the Duluth group’s fifth album was nonetheless inexplicably beautiful. Merrill Nisker grafted sweaty, human filth on to the clean machine shock of electroclash on her hilarious, titillating debut as Peaches. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian 94 Peaches The Teaches of Peaches (2000) XCX stopped waiting around for mainstream acceptance and showed the normies what they were missing with this bracingly eclectic, guest-laden mixtape. 96 Missy Elliott Miss E … So Addictive (2001)ĭrawing from house, psychedelia and even Bollywood soundtracks, Missy’s third – the one responsible for Get Ur Freak On – forced pop to catch up with her yet again. Trip-hop duo Moloko was dead, and Murphy teamed up with Matthew Herbert for this eclectic, saucy – and still underrated – pop record that anticipated the arrival of Lady Gaga by three years. The Malian guitarist set a new career benchmark with this intimate set, adding classical western harp and African ngoni to her subtle, bluesy electric guitar. The first album album from an artist whose records had previously propped up killer singles with passable fillers turned her disaffection and disappointment into generational anthems. Seven years after her previous album, Apple’s return sidelined her orchestral trademarks for an austere, homespun sound that exposed her insular lyrics even more starkly. 100 Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
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