Echo & The Bunnymen – Crocodiles (LP Vinyl)

Liverpool's Echo & The Bunnymen arrived fully formed with their 1980 debut, a record that announced post-punk's more atmospheric, psychedelic possibilities at a moment when the genre was still being defined. Ian McCulloch's baritone and Will Sergeant's shimmering guitar work drew as much from The Doors and Velvet Underground as from their contemporaries, pointing toward the sound that would influence a generation of American college rock and beyond.