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19. The Ex - 'Turn' (2004). This long-running Dutch postpunk institution was always fearlessly ambitious, but they really went for it with this one: A double-CD flush with African jazz rhythms and up-with-artists rhetoric. Albini kept their sound severe, but he also gave them a chance to loosen up a bit. And the band's version of the Eritrean revolutionary song "Huriyet" is as joyous as they ever got.