Pink Floyd
Seminal. Indispensable. Essential. Contemporary music would have been different without them. more
Comes With The Fall -Beyond The Last Light
An album to discover, it gives intense and powerful emotions! more
Osanna
A group with enormous potential ended up in obscurity. The best flute player of little Italy. more
Peter Sellers
The triple Seller seen in Dr. Strangelove is something absolutely fantastic. Unforgettable actor. more
The Moody Blues -On the Threshold of a Dream
The man sets foot on the moon, and the Moody Blues, with a skillful touch, celebrate the event: late-beat melodies and folk moods intertwine with gothic bursts of mellotron and spaceships lost in space-time. They will never return to these heights, yet they remain excellent pop craftsmen. more
Peter Sellers
Immense actor, from the surrealism of Being There to the contagious madness of Hollywood Party. Also an excellent musician, his ukulele performance in Commoner's Crown by Steeleye Span is a fabulous cameo in pop music. more
Ashes Divide -Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
An intimate album, emotionally engaging, sentimental in the highest sense of the term, without ever falling into the cloying. more
Rush -Snakes & Arrows
Absolute class album, confirming a fourth youth for the Canadian trio. Wonderful! more
Mike Oldfield -Ommadawn
In the fertile seclusion of Hergest Ridge, with a remarkable cut-and-paste job, Oldfield creates a shimmering tapestry that continuously shifts between ethereal and oppressive moments, juxtaposing humble folk instruments (harps, bagpipes, pan flutes) with hordes of overdubbed guitars. The crescendo of the first part is memorable, driven by the force of African drums alongside the ritual singing of female voices and the ecstatic dance of the guitar. On Horseback is a final invitation to join him in his madness. more
Gotye
Decent, all things considered. more
King Crimson -Discipline
Farewell to the British romanticism of the past and welcome to the wild young blood of the Yankees Levin and Belew. Thus are born the new KC new wave musicians who look to the minimalism of Reich and Balinese Gamelan. They enchant with the dazzling mathematical precision of the title track and Frame by Frame, the hypnotic exoticism of The Sheltering Sky, the roaring onomatopoeia of Elephant Talk, the urban funk of Tela Hun Ginjeet, and the chaotic fury of Indiscipline. More "normal" is the country ballad Matte Kudasai. more
King Crimson -In The Wake Of Poseidon
It was supposed to be a double (with McDonald's Birdman suite). As it stands, it inevitably faces comparison with the debut, especially in the initial sequence, but Pictures is more jazz, Cadence more pop, and the title track (in which the 12 archetypes of the cover are listed) more solemn. Now a producer with Sinfield, Fripp employs a more dramatic use of the mellotron, especially in The Devil’s Triangle, drawn from Holst's The Planets. Tippet's dada piano shines on Cat Food, an anti-consumerism satire. more
Kate Bush -Aerial
I return everything to the family (with brother, husband, and son) after 12 years. It's, like Hounds of Love, divided between a 1st CD of songs (highlighted by the reggae-like King of the Mountain dedicated to Elvis, the Renaissance ode to son Bertie, the atmospheric trip-hop Joanni, which evokes Joan of Arc, and the piano solo A Coral Room on the elaboration of grief) and a 2nd with a pastoral suite that, through the Latin jazz of Sunset, culminates in the vital pulse of Aerial complete with distorted funk guitar. more
Franco Battiato -"Clic"
Battiato avant-garde with the iconoclastic dadaist zapping of Ethika fon ethica (later widely abused in subsequent albums) and the relentless sequencer of Propiedad Prohibida (the legendary theme of TG2 Dossier) softened only by the genius insert of strings and oboe giving it the ethnic touch of Aries. In the gates of memory, distant pianos resurface, liquid keyboards, furious saxophones, cutting guitars, and disconnected percussion. The spiritual quest is not missing in No U Turn: "To know myself and…” more
One Direction
I didn't even know of their existence until now (and even now I'm not really sure they actually exist), and I'll keep my distance from them, but let's be clear, I'm absolutely sure they are worth this beautiful 1! more
Duke Ellington
The unattainable, inimitable Duke. more
One Direction
Fake angelic Bieber-like boys that are not very convincing. more
Duke Ellington
At 13, I believed it was the Paradise of music; now I’m 16 and I still see it "partially" the same way I did when I was a child. more
One Direction
Shit of low quality. more
The Who
They've gotten some parts right too, but who can't make it? more