2003 whisked by, for us, in a blur of early Athlete and a copy of the Rolling Stone's Forty Licks we found in our mum's collection. In retrospect there was a lot of quality music going on. Some real fucking bangers, and a lot of overlooked masterpieces.Bertine Zetlitz, 'Madonna of Norway' released Sweet Injections, one of her most delicious and cohesive pop confections, Kelis gave R&B a swift kick up the front bottom with her brilliant and odd ode to 'food' (as in SEX: DO YOU SEE), Patrick Wolf launched his deranged genius on an unsuspecting world, Madonna similarly went off on an experimental tangent with brave and underrated American Life and Metric, one of our absolute favourite bands, went all art-rock-power-pop replete with Beach Boys harmonies and some fabulously original lyrics.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Fever To Tell, their most successful and critically acclaimed albums of their career, Goldfrapp underwent a spectacular transformation from trippy-noire folksters to full on disco-glam pioneers, Peaches released her (arguably) best work, stunning and career-defining, Regina Spektor proved she wasn't just another anti-folk hipster and Siobhan Donaghy delivered easily the best, most rich and artfully beautiful debut albums post-chart-pop-girl-band, yet seen. A vintage year.
- Bertine Zetlitz - Sweet Injections
- Kelis - Tasty
- Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
- Madonna - American Life
- Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
- Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
- Peaches - Fatherfucker
- Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
- Siobhan Donaghy - Revolution in Me
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