Bleep

The connoisseur's Nirvana record here. Unplugged In New York may not have the thrash of Bleach, the cache of In Utero or the Nevermindyness of Nevermind, but the stripped-back sound of this 1993 MTV Unplugged session shines new light onto the group’s catalogue. Kurt Cobain’s voice arguably never sounded better than it did here. The way his low mumble suddenly breaks into a serrated shriek on the likes of ‘Pennyroyal Tea’, ‘All Apologies’ and ‘Come As You Are’ makes the hairs stand up. The covers are fantastic - Nirvana’s take on David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ has usurped the original as the definitive version - and there’s generally just an intimate, haunting quality to this thing that you won’t find anywhere else in the band’s output.