Nungiukulu Teevee, Yesterday. Stonecut and stencil, Cape Dorset, 2008.

Ten Influential Albums

Numbers 6–10

Here is the second instalment of the list I drew up in May for the so-called Ten Album Challenge. In revising the text for these last five albums, I discovered a rather pressing urge to say something more about Billie Holiday and Captain Beefheart in particular. The first because her far-reaching shadow seemed to touch, almost to the point of obscuring, every other artist on the list; and the second…