#668 Patti Smith - Horses

One of the strangest punk albums ever made, strange in Smith's otherworldly delivery, strange in its sprawling structure spun around half-silences, strange in its spacetime-bending musings. The finest moments are the upbeat, culture-wielding songs, including the raucous opener and closer and the velvety eternity of Land. In between are sunny dirges that drag you into the depths, and sometimes just drag, and that sometimes smack of self-indulgence, but this is an undeniably original work, a defiant slash of voice and will, and that's worth something. That's possibly worth more than anything 4/5