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Name the albums that bring you back to a specific time and place in your life.
1. The Verve - Urban Hymns: sitting at the family PC aged 13-14 around 1997-98 playing the version of Championship Manager where Pires joins Juve at the start of every game.
2. The Roots - Do You Want More?: getting into smoking weed in school around 98-99.
3. Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure 1: getting into the rave scene a bit around 00-01. In fairness there’s a bunch of albums bring me back to this time, a lot of the Global Underground mixes especially.
4. Tom Waits - Asylum Years: working as a bicycle courier in Dublin around 04-05.
5. Zero 7 - Simple Things and When it Falls, and Air - Talkie Walkie: traveling in the Middle East and Asia 05-06, especially long bus journeys at night.
6. Beck - Sea Change: on a train and/or bus in Turkey in summer 2008. Think this album provokes the strongest nostalgia for me, I can properly sense the atmosphere of Turkey whenever I listen.
7. Florence and the Machine - Lungs and Bonobo - Days to Come: traveling in South-East Asia in 2010. Specifically, the first one takes me to a bus journey along the coast of Bohol in the Philippines, the second one to a bus journey from Chumphon to Bangkok at night.
8. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns, The XX - XX and Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur: living in Tel Aviv 10-12. Especially the latter album, it brings me back to being out in really heavy rain on a specific day just after I’d moved apartments.
9. Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Far Enough and Immolate Yourself: living in Rabat 2013, walking around the Medina at night.
10. Radiohead - Kid A: weekly early Monday morning Ryanair flights to the UK, 15-17.
1. The Verve - Urban Hymns: sitting at the family PC aged 13-14 around 1997-98 playing the version of Championship Manager where Pires joins Juve at the start of every game.
2. The Roots - Do You Want More?: getting into smoking weed in school around 98-99.
3. Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure 1: getting into the rave scene a bit around 00-01. In fairness there’s a bunch of albums bring me back to this time, a lot of the Global Underground mixes especially.
4. Tom Waits - Asylum Years: working as a bicycle courier in Dublin around 04-05.
5. Zero 7 - Simple Things and When it Falls, and Air - Talkie Walkie: traveling in the Middle East and Asia 05-06, especially long bus journeys at night.
6. Beck - Sea Change: on a train and/or bus in Turkey in summer 2008. Think this album provokes the strongest nostalgia for me, I can properly sense the atmosphere of Turkey whenever I listen.
7. Florence and the Machine - Lungs and Bonobo - Days to Come: traveling in South-East Asia in 2010. Specifically, the first one takes me to a bus journey along the coast of Bohol in the Philippines, the second one to a bus journey from Chumphon to Bangkok at night.
8. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns, The XX - XX and Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur: living in Tel Aviv 10-12. Especially the latter album, it brings me back to being out in really heavy rain on a specific day just after I’d moved apartments.
9. Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Far Enough and Immolate Yourself: living in Rabat 2013, walking around the Medina at night.
10. Radiohead - Kid A: weekly early Monday morning Ryanair flights to the UK, 15-17.