(Beach House) 20 JONS - Go
Jonsi - real name: Jon Thor Birgisson - is the leader of Iceland's Sigur Ros, a band of the most 'important of the past decade. On his solo debut, the stunning vocalist tries to distance itself by focusing on nursery rhymes and weird pop immediacy and freshness that leaves its mark.
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Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
Gonjasufi - real name: Sumac Valentine - is a character but quirky: rasta, yoga teacher, intellectual, mystical and restless, DJ and ex-rapper, artist, now leading the team WARP. His first work mixes irreverence with class and the more 'different music genres: trip hop and blues-rock, electronics and vintage disco music, quotes and third world psychedelic acid-rock, and makes an angle strictly lo-fi suggests - as well as Frank Zappa - the first, great, Beck.
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FOUR TET - There Is Love In You
Category: electronics in 2010 saw a series of excellent works.
environment may of Balmorhea and The Album Leaf, the drone of Yellow Swans and Pan Sonic, the alchemy grooves and samples of Flying Lotus.
Over all, the Four Tet's masterpiece Angel Echoes: amazement the liquid state, even sound.
17 RADIO DEPT - Clinging To A Scheme
Sweden is notable for a pop scene alive and kicking (XX, Sonnets).
The Radio Dept are a trio of Lund who has published his third album at the beginning of the year, dozers label Labrador. They play a sophisticated pop and melancholic, without great pretensions or ambitions, but very pleasant.
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HINDI ZAHRA - Handmade
Originally from Morocco, Zahra Hindi music begins playing in the cultural melting pot typical of southern France, where the traditions of Arab and Berber heritage blend with sophisticated songwriting school of the Alps.
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AMPARO SANCHEZ - Tucson Habana
After twelve years at the helm of Amparanoia, the Andalusian singer Amparo Sánchez started his career as a soloist for help with Calexico. The result could only be excellent: Tucson Habana is a disk elegant and refined, featuring a melancholy atmosphere just tinged Latin jazz and blues accents.
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VILLAGERS - Becoming A Jackal
Those of us who are wearing the heart in Ireland can only welcome this first feature by the young Dubliner Conor J. O'Brien, Villagers alias, which sports a delicate folk phrasing and a great freshness and immediacy of communication. It plays the wonderful Pieces, the best piece of the whole collection was suspended between vaguely jazzy atmosphere and a masterful vocal interpretation.
13 JOHN GRANT - The Queen Of Denmark
Texans Midlake are among the bands more 'active time. Here they are acting as co-producers of the work before John Grant, overseas dall'Ova accepted almost unanimously by critics (5 out of 5 stars for Mojo): The former leader of the Czars is actually capable of writing good songs, clearly inspired by the classics of the past, first of all the great American rock of the year seventies.
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AND THE CARNIVAL Erland - Erland And The Carnival
Hastily cataloged in the psych-folk across the Channel, this self-titled debut of Erland & The Carnival is a real revelation.
expert at mixing genres and influences more 'diverse, revive a repertoire of traditionals revisited with intensity and originality, and to this add some pearls Copyright: all Trouble In Mind, which is an amazing piece indie-pop - in a normal world - would remain long on the charts and in heavy rotation of radio and TV.
11 NEIL YOUNG - The Noise
alienated and disturbed, sometimes even paranoid, yet another disc is a Canadian singer-songwriter listen to all 'other than granted. Crazy Horse is no percussion, alone with his guitar - never so distorted - and with a sequence of noises, feedback, reverb and electronic echoes (helped by Lanois). We therefore salute
PiacenzaSera one of our heroes of all time, appreciating the courage and the desire to experiment, to constantly challenge.
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PAUL WELLER - Wake Up The Nation
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Master in excess of the student, this time it's appropriate to say.
most convincing 'and reviving the old Weller, a true British national monument, taken here to with a rage never died down and a scratching sound (albeit in the name of tradition), the student Albarn with his famous cartoon-band: Plastic Beach contains a handful of good songs, but overall is characterized by a tedious parade of stars and for the triumph of postmodern eclecticism more 'trendy and cool.
09
CARIBOU - Swim Canada
on shields: Arcade Fire, Neil Young with three positions in the standings.
Caribou is an eclectic artist and with his third book gives us a vortex of psychedelic sounds impressive, a fluid space in progress, a kaleidoscope of pure emotion.
08
Hey Marseilles - To Travel And Trunks
Bizarre band of seven musicians, hippies, the Hey Marseilles propose a folk orchestra and turn their attention to the great Celtic tradition. Their debut album reveals a pleasant listening, over an hour of melancholic ballads revisited with an air of almost progressive and / or naive in style and bucolic, but resigned rather gloomy: caciarone often far from the climate - and a high rate Alcohol - the British indie-folk.
07
Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid
While Pitchfork and Stereogum are about to crown the stronzissimo rapper Kanye West and his Twisted Dark Fantasy My Beautiful Album of the Year - his exceptional sampling of the 21 Century Schizoid Man King Crimson dell'opener Power - we prefer to bet (actually not bad even the Black Keys, but blacks are not ...) about this girl of twenty-five years and its irresistible mix of r'n'b, pop, funk, soul .
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the new queen of black music.
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MICE PARADE - What It Means To Be Left-Handed
The eighth labor of Mice Parade, solitary creature of New York percussionist Adam Pierce, a job is impossible to categorize, as the result of a myriad of different influences and of seemingly irreconcilable creative ideas, or the attempt to blend harmoniously said the seriousness of ethnic and jazz with the immediacy index more 'alternative (and sophisticated). To listen
absolutely.
05
NATIONAL - High Color Purple Violet
The title is a perfect romance and gloomy twilight of the band is now New York, which has become an icon in a short indie classic rock of the new Made in USA. Although he opted for a line of continuity with the usual, sophisticated blend of post-punk, rock singer-songwriters and intellectual, than in the recent past, their sound is less claustrophobic and tense, and turns to sounds and arrangements more 'airy and sophisticated, even epic.
04 Menomena - Mines
TU fawning - Hearts On Hold
The so-called scene of Portland, Oregon is one of the most 'beautiful news of the year.
Waiting for the new register of Decemberists - King is Dead, to be released next January - that's two great works (criticism also promotes the Typhoon, which still do not know anything). Most 'sailed Menomena propose a progressive art-rock leanings and ethnic beats. I Thou fawning, their supporters during the last U.S. tour, do even better work with dark veins, with abrasive guitars and accordion gypsy, Litany trip-hop vocals and terribly grim.
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03
ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
now superstar index-rock, acclaimed by audiences and critics, the collective of Montreal reach the difficult goal of the third album: tight nell'insanabile doubt one already proposed a repetition of patterns and the risk of looking for new sounds, choose not to choose, and in so doing extend far beyond the duration of the album, taking away something to the ruthlessness and the emotional tension of the beginnings. The Suburbs
However you listening pleasure for its refined pop and folk for a successful amalgam / wave, as well as a description - in a sort of concept album - a contemporary landscape of alienated and alienating, made up of shopping centers and outlets, car wash and highways, voids and sunny yards of asphalt, vast areas of parking and endless rows of terraced houses.
02 Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People (EP)
Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
Another shotgun.
Sufjan Stevens does not dispute his reputation as a composer crazy and bizarre, as well as prolific and verbose, and comes out with an EP for almost an hour of music and, every few months, a majestic album of more than 75 minutes. While the former takes the acoustic patterns of the past (the extraordinary title track), the second represents a turning point: The Age Of Adz is an album of electronic music. E ', for fans ours, a real shock.
The excessive length of the album is reflected in some change to empty, but the collection contains passages fucking genius, with which Sufjan reached the height of pomposity and of self. A separate deserves Soul Impossible, yet another, very long, suite - over 27 minutes! - Supper's Ready a postmodern atmosphere characterized by constant change and reversals in the face, like a great baroque collage of quotations.
01
BEACH HOUSE - Teen Dream
Surprise?
The truth is that for twelve months, we waited for the masterpiece album step that could undermine the more 'top of the podium this great, last work of the Beach House, from Baltimore, output in February for the legendary independent label Sub Pop.
Nothing. A final hearing, and - even time to finish it - that's the decision to proclaim it album of the year.
The first part - what we once called the Side A - even touches perfection. What a sequence! Zebra, and his extraordinary acoustic intro, the fantastic ballad "Silver Soul (the Cocteau Twins in slow motion), the single dreampop Norway, then Walk In The Park, with the voice of Victoria Legrand, which really reminds one of Nico, and addressing critical , piano, Used To Be. And in the remaining part
The disc remains at high levels, without voltage drop or style until the final Take Care, velvettiana to the marrow.
