The three hundred and fourty-third album: #343 Patti Smith - Horses
Listed as early punk, Patti Smith's first studio album has a clear identity despite the number of co-writers involved. The result is an album with distinct tracks, but her voice all over it, veering between art rock, garage and what is at this point early punk. The latter is a genre coming up at this point, and some of its track are clearly punk while others stay away from it. It especially gets me in the larger epic tracks, where it has that feel of a journey, reaching the heights but having that punk tuning in the guitars. Not knowing what was coming, this was a real unexpected delight.