My favourite album: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy

Continuing our new series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Dorian Lynskey says consider yourself ... warned!To find, at an impressionable age, a record that not only expands your sense of what music can do but offers a new way of reading the world, is a remarkable privilege. For my 16-year-old self, undergoing a political awakening, the musical epiphany was Public Enemy's 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet but its pr...

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