Editors' Choice for January 2004

Album cover for Boy in da Corner

Boy in da Corner

XL Recordings/Matador Records
Rap

Dylan Mills' highly animated, Mercury Prize-winning debut album took grime to the mainstream.

— Andy Kellman

Album cover for Underneath the Stars

Underneath the Stars

Compass

She defined what she did well on her first solo album. Since then she's been refining it, and herself, until this unquestionably stands as her best, and each new record becomes an event.