8. NicoDesertshore
I heard this for the first time just a few years ago. I was driving in Arizona to visit a friend and a big storm blew up as I went over a small mountain as ‘Janitor Of Lunacy’ came on. I’d been listening to Chelsea Girls and I liked that a lot. But I’m very slow with records and I’ve still never heard The Marble Index. It’s like ‘Black Woman’ where I listened to just that one song for 10 years, and then moved on to another song by Sonny Sharrock. But it kind of shocked me a little bit, how Nico’s presented in the culture. It seems like she’s made many great albums but I’m not sure she’s held up that way, you know?
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Gwenno, Xiu Xiu, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Anna Von Hausswolff, Alasdair Roberts, Luke Haines
