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Best debut

The first album, and often the hungriest. The best debut albums in the collection.

All 34Rock 11Pop 1Soul, funk and R&B 2Hip hop 7Electronic 4Folk, country and song 3Hard rock and metal 6
  1. 1 Portishead Dummy 1994 · Electronic Trip hop got its face: Beth Gibbons’s voice over dusty samples. Timeless classic
  2. 2 Massive Attack Blue Lines 1991 · Electronic Bristol’s sound-system culture became a record. “Unfinished Sympathy” is still just as huge. Timeless classic
  3. 3 Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85–92 1992 · Electronic Made by a teenager in Cornwall, and almost everything electronic that followed owes it a debt. Timeless classic
  4. 4 Röyksopp Melody A.M. 2001 · Electronic Two young lads from Tromsø made an album that became the soundtrack to a whole era of adverts and cosy evenings. Modern classic

34 artists in the list.