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It isn't hard to make the case for
as a
progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the
by a year or so: the simple, crudely played
, featuring
's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of
's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic.
is a
critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s
as she is in French Symbolism;
carries on from
'
marking her as a successor to
, while the borrowed choruses of
and
are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s. Producer
respected
's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new
/musical art form:
was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple
song." ~ William Ruhlmann