Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

This album is slightly jittery energy from start to finish. Singer Corbin Tucker sounds perpetually on the edge of losing control of her vocals, but she never quite does, with emotion dripping from every sharp, sometimes wobbly note in a way that makes my voice crack in sympathy with her vocal chords. The effect only adds to the forward drive of the album, which lets up only briefly like a car creating a hill and getting ready to hit the downslope on the other side.

From the roundup Greatest Albums of 1997.