Caetano Veloso - Transa (1972)

Caetano Veloso is easily one of the GREATEST OF ALL TIME no matter what language you speak, and it's a damn shame that at the time of this writing a majority of his albums are unavailable on Spotify (in the US at least). Thankfully, however, this album is on here, recorded during the period in which he was exiled by the Brazilian dictatorship and living in London. While not necessarily representative of his work as a whole, Transa is probably one of the best introductions for a newcomer to Caetano's music, as well as one of his greatest albums. It's certainly an accessible record to get into, although the lyrics (mostly in English here) and mood can understandably get a little dour. The music is with a full band but pretty stripped down and spare, a welcome relief from the arrangements on some of his other records which can feel overstuffed at times.  A couple tracks on here ride out into these really cool trance-like repetitive grooves and they go on for like 7 or 8 minutes but you don't want them to end and then you get sad when they do end and then you start playing them again. A classic.
https://open.spotify.com/album/49cBF5iGpJ7nx6EAR8BLga