Best artist of the 2000s secondo DeBaser.

❝ “Tucson, Arizona.”

❝ “At the remarkable milestone of their tenth studio album, Burns and Convertino do not relent and gift us yet another little gem in their discography.”

❝ “The new album by Calexico is immediately set to be one of the greatest disappointments of the year 2018.”

❝ Known simply as "the album that united rock with dance", "Screamadelica" was much, much more.

❝ The Primal always renew themselves (which doesn't necessarily mean they revolutionize or renounce what has been done before), but you never know with them how the next album will be

❝ One of the strangest musical careers I know is certainly that of Primal Scream.

❝ "If you play the saxophone, you’ll get pulmonary emphysema".

❝ An essentially nocturnal record, a master of the sax able to stir emotions with three long notes held just right, and then lightly flying away on a sudden arpeggio.

❝ Voyeur brings the fusion that started a few years earlier into the ’80s, keeping at a good level, before the total downfall that from the mid-’80s onward would have sunk the genre.

❝ Album from 1989 and first recording as a leader for Roy Hargrove, then a twenty-year-old emerging jazz trumpet talent.

❝ A debut with a bang.

❝ In conclusion, "The Natch'l Blues" is an excellent (soft) blues album that offers 37 minutes of pure relaxation, ideal for starting a day or giving a smile, simply the artist's highest point alongside the subsequent "Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home" which in the future will show particular interest in African music, funk, and world music.

❝ Paying homage to Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, passing through T-Bone Walker and jazz pianist Horace Silver, Taj Mahal creates a homogeneous album (winner of a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album) despite the diversity of genres interpreted, fun and fresh from the first to the last note.

❝ Those seeking strong sensations can safely steer clear of this, as well as all Sade's albums, but those looking for excellent background music will find it absolutely perfect, even if they can't help but notice the absence of that spark of genius and creativity that usually marks masterpieces.

❝ “Lovers Rock” is the album I prefer the most: more cohesive and structured than its predecessors, it flows more smoothly and has a more defined personality;

❝ A “lullaby for adults” before falling asleep, sung (or sometimes whispered) by the sensual, enchanting, and delicate voice of this lazy 50-year-old who in 25 years of career has made 5/6 albums without infamy or praise.

❝ Spices from every corner of the world.

❝ 18 tracks = 18 different flavors, places, colors, sensations rendered in sound with enviable mastery

❝ A pleasant, delicate, homogeneous album, never identical to itself. It deserves to be listened to and re-listened to several times with the same attention.

❝ There is an adjective that more than any other can qualify this album, the debut of the now-famous Morcheeba: sensual.

❝ A seductive album, not a masterpiece of its genre, yet fascinating, capable of soothing and lightening, for a moment, the weight of a day.

❝ Apparently, trip-hop is dead (critics rarely spread such news, perhaps they hide it even from themselves to avoid sending two flowers to the funeral).

❝ Their music is instrumental: rarefied, enveloping, penetrating deep within you.

❝ You will love this album and you will love the “Friends Of Dean Martinez”.

❝ “Lost Horizon” is not a mass-produced product, it does not come out just to ensure the fulfillment of the contract, it is a further step on the ladder of increasing quality, moving towards a mature, outgoing, vibrant, experimental, and courageous sound,

❝ King Of Limbs is the opposite, a record made by Radiohead for Radiohead, experimental well beyond excess. Fake. Pretentious. Artificial. An exercise in style without spirit.

❝ It has everything: power, sweetness, the difficulty of living, irony, social criticism, harmony, love.

❝ Thom Yorke is undoubtedly capable of evoking forgotten sensations and distant memories.

❝ Funeral is a paradox. It should express absence, loss, discouragement. Instead, it sounds so euphoric and life-affirming that it's impossible not to have your ears sucked in by the "alien" voice of frontman Win Butler and that of his wife Régine Chassagne

❝ Arcade Fire SUCCEEDED!!

❝ It's difficult to compare with "Funeral," which remains a benchmark for music of these years.

❝ Claustrophobia.

❝ Portishead's "Third" disconcerts, and immerses the beloved and iconographic sound of the Bristol trio in dark/industrial waters.

❝ It's like being in Chicago in the '30s, with too much LSD in your system.

❝ This is the best album ever composed by a band of semi-deities, and anyone who denies it doesn’t understand a damn thing about True Music!

❝ Tool is a group that undeniably has managed to create a style distinctly different from any other.

❝ The album starts immediately rough, hard, and uncensored: "Stinkfist" is a perhaps ambiguous metaphor in which the "sweet" experience of fist-fucking symbolizes the desensitization of the spirit and the constant pushing of boundaries to continue feeling emotions.

❝ “Moon Safari” by Air is universally recognized as one of the cornerstones of 90s electronica.

❝ “Moon Safari” is a masterpiece!

❝ An album nobody needed.

❝ In conclusion, listening to a Sarah Brightman album truly represents a kind of daydream, as refined and evocative are the atmospheres that her music intends to recreate.

❝ Little post scriptum, I rate the CD with the highest marks.

❝ "Dreamchaser" is, in short, a well-made and meticulously curated album from every point of view, showing a Sarah always ready to take risks to experiment with new sounds (while not straying from those airy melodies that perfectly complement her voice).

❝ “One thing I’ve learned about Johnny Cash is that you don’t tell him what to sing.”

❝ “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,”

❝ “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”

❝ I’m not the girl you once put your faith in, just someone who looks like me

❝ Melancholy is the emotion that permeates the entire record and makes it a perfect travel companion for the autumn/winter season.

❝ Aimee Mann is a singer-songwriter characterized by great class and sensitivity, with an intricate, elaborate, and seductive songwriting style, making melancholy and introspection her almost unbeatable axe of war.

❝ It’s one hell of an album!

❝ At first listen, it is amazing, engaging, powerful.

❝ There are no words to describe what I believe is and will remain the best album of the year.

❝ in their productions, easy-listening has truly been elevated to an art form.

❝ Their sound is crystal clear, clean, polished to a shine.

❝ And they call it “Easy listening”...

❝ Music is not made of technique, but of emotions.

❝ The only rule is: there are no rules.

❝ But why does this guy, if he's so good, insist on staying with the Red Hot?

❝ When the debut of the North Mississippi Allstars; "Shake hands with shorty", was released, many hailed it as a miracle.

❝ Silence the detractors of this flight of fancy! We’re talking about PASSION!

❝ Pure emotions. That’s all you can expect when Steven Wilson is involved, one of the many misunderstood geniuses of today’s music scene, on par with the likes of Daniel Gildenlow, Roine Stolt, Neal Morse, and the rest...

❝ After forty years, evolving is not taken for granted, and often it is done in the opposite direction. But not here, not this time.

❝ My band and I never talk about this album, and we don’t even play it at concerts.

❝ No doubt, this album is an absolute must-have.

❝ “Take away to add,” Mark used to say.

❝ Morphine consists of: Mark Sandman (vocals and bass), Dana Colley (saxophone), Jerome Dupree (drums from 1989 to 1993 and from 1998 to 1999), Billy Conway (drums from 1993 to 1998).

❝ The Morphine were one of the most original bands of the ’90s, and Cure For Pain is their worldwide fame album, as well as their highest creative peak.

❝ The impossibility of finding oneself again.

❝ Sigur Rós don’t play Post-Rock, they play the way Sigur Rós play, which is like no one else plays.

❝ The feeling is that of being part of an important moment in the History of Music:

❝ And then it happens, you know, that one night you raise your eyes and look at the stars in the sky.

❝ Grandiose. Epic. Minimal. Neoclassical.

❝ Choosing a Yo La Tengo album is not easy. One of the very few bands, alongside Fugazi and even more than Sonic Youth, to have maintained a huge qualitative standard throughout their career, adhering to a simple precept: expressive freedom. Nothing more, nothing less.

❝ Fade puts you in front of yourself, it forces you to question your entire existence.

❝ Yo La Tengo are aliens.

❝ “Mr. E is crazy.”

❝ “For me a Masterpiece of art and life!”

❝ “The biography of Mr. E (Mark Oliver Everett, holder of the name Eels and the only actual member of the band) is a river of drama.”

❝ “Make sure to have this album, and you'll never part from it.”

❝ “This album is everything 'Turn On The Bright Lights' would have been if we had the experience we have today,”

❝ “The great comeback we were all waiting for.”

❝ I would play Sunset Mission when I get in the car on a winter evening, heading for an almost endless journey along the highways swallowed by darkness.

❝ It is not at all simple to talk about Piano Nights, the eighth nocturnal wonder by Bohren & Der Club Of Gore.

❝ Bohren & der Club of Gore play a type of slow and unhurried doom jazz.

❝ “The usual sick melodies aren’t missing, irreproducible combinations of beauty and brutality.”

❝ “The solo debut of Elliott Smith is the classic CD to listen to on a sleepless night, between a packet of cigarettes to empty and a glass of Johnny Walker.”

❝ “The usual Elliott Smith: perhaps no one in the ’90s represented his demons in music so touchingly and inspirationally.”

❝ “For I am every forest, I am every tree, I am everything, I am you and me, I am every ocean, I am every sea, I am all the breathing”

❝ WE WILL ALWAYS BE SO MUCH MORE HUMAN THAN WE WISH TO BE..

❝ An album like this comes along once in a while in history, but when it does, it keeps a large number of enthusiasts glued.

❝ Wake Up! Wake Up! This is not a test! It's time to meet the concrete!

❝ The best album of 2008

❝ this is my panic, this is my call to arms

❝ Cult Of Youth is urban rage, alcoholic desperation and an apocalyptic imagination that, without fear, pays a clear tribute to Douglas P. and his morbid aesthetic attraction to runes and remote eras.

❝ The Cult of Youth marry, not perfectly but almost, the English imagery of bands like Death In June and the less experimental Current 93 with the American tradition of Velvet Underground, Gun Club, and Violent Femmes.

❝ Their Neo-Folk tied to Post-Punk in their previous works is very derivative, in this one they add something more that fits perfectly.

❝ I cried, I think, like never before in my life. Like only a child knows how.

❝ Few have their ability to dream and make others dream through instruments.

❝ The moment of truth has now arrived for EITS.

❝ Calm, storm, and calm again (live, it seems they are irresistible: three guitars, two basses, two drums, violin, cello, and visual projections!).

❝ A work of art.

❝ post-rock devotees will have one of the absolute pinnacles of the entire genre in their hands.

❝ “To me, it seems the best existing attempt to translate the spirit of these times into sound form.”

❝ “Burial is a wizard, capable of finding new solutions like few others, and enriching his palette.”

❝ “It is music to be faced alone. It cannot be shared: so slippery, shapeless, and shadowy, always different depending on who looks at it.”

❝ The Dirty Three are a band with an exceptional ability to stir emotions and evoke images in the listener, and this album, a concept-album about the sea, is probably their masterpiece

❝ A violin. A guitar. A drum. Three instruments, yet they are enough, indeed, more than enough.

❝ A dreamy violin, a strident guitar, a drum as precise as never before: this is Dirty Three, unknown ferrymen, emblem of that compelling and experimental movement we call post-rock.

❝ For the person writing to you, the best band of the last 25 years.

❝ Go without bread, for once, but by divine goodness, not without a work like this one.

❝ These gentlemen are extraordinary, no doubt about it: enjoy listening and welcome back to Isis.

❝ Lifelover were geniuses and were overshadowed by medium-value bands like, for example, the much-talked-about Shinning.

❝ “Konkurs” (translated Bankruptcy) is a perfect mix of the ferocity of “Pulver” [...] and the melancholy of “Erotik,” but it surpasses both “Pulver” and “Erotik.”

❝ A work that hurts. Extreme but in its own way. Morbid but without falling into the tacky satanic or splatter.

❝ “Between Angels And Insects” is practically Roach's identity card, but the other two singles are also excellent (the post-grunge of “Broken Home” and the punk/funkish “Last Resort”)

❝ It starts with”Getting Away With Murder”, one of the most intense pieces from Papa Roach's repertoire, which live unleashes the maximum energy and adrenaline.

❝ Overall, “Lovehatetragedy” can be defined as a transitional album, with which Papa Roach attempts to give themselves a new identity, with all the understandable uncertainties of the case.

❝ Are you in the mood for cheerfulness? You've come to the wrong place.
Emo is as Emo does.

❝ As far as I’m concerned, the album deserves the highest marks.

❝ There is nothing predictable, nothing heard before, every break, every scream, hits like arrows to the heart.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ “Summerteeth is the sound of quiet desperation.”

❝ “The first great masterpiece of the millennium.”

❝ “Attending a Wilco live is like participating in a sacred performance.”

❝ Hello, Tom DeLonge here. I have a new band, it's called Angels And Airwaves. And it's the most beautiful music I've ever written

❝ We all are love and love is hard, it breaks my heart

❝ I want to have the same dream again, the one where I wake up, and I'm alive

❝ Sully Erna, the band's frontman, without any frills and in a very honest way, has announced that “Lighting Up The Sky” will be the “swan song” for the Boston four and will close a quarter-century of prolific music production (nine studio albums and three compilations), to pave the way for life on the road, focusing exclusively on the live dimension.

❝ If you are among those who find distinctly derivative bands a bit hard to digest, then you can stop right here.

❝ Godsmack...Alice In Chains, Faceless...Facelift. The parallel is evident, perhaps a bit too much.

❝ Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic music composer.

❝ Hecker is nature. Hecker is industry. Hecker is sacredness.

❝ A record played on the long take of inhuman forces that find their profound reason for being in the human gaze.

❝ In the beginning was, and still is, the voice of Stuart Murdoch.

❝ This album, completely self-produced, would remain hidden for years (in Italy it would be released only in 1999 - three years after its release in the UK - following the surprising success of "The Boy With The Arab Strap") but contains some of the greatest classics of this group whose name is a tribute to the famous novel by Cecilie D'Aubry.

❝ In short, never has beauty been more found in simplicity. Belle&Sebastian are exactly what was needed!

❝ "Break up or continue?" they must have asked themselves.

❝ The fairest final judgment would be four and a half, but since it can't be, for now, it's a nice four.

❝ the sweet melancholy of catatonic Slint.

❝ “slow, ruthless and inexorable”

❝ This album has the flavor of the night, and McMahan seems to immerse himself in it.

❝ It’s Ragnarök. It’s the apocalypse. It’s armageddon. It’s the end of days.

❝ The object that has been tickling my desires for weeks and made me smile like a kid on Christmas day when the courier rang my doorbell to deliver it, is composed of three vinyl records, the third of which contains six tracks not included in the CD, the CD itself, a DVD, and different knick-knacks, like a poster and a piece of cloth with the word Mogwai.

❝ And Holy Christ, they've done it again.

❝ Qotsa: probably the best fucking rock band on the planet!

❝ An album that combines sophistication with a lack of pretentiousness, it's enjoyable without tiring, flowing rapidly: a small hallucinogenic masterpiece!

❝ This is the key to understanding (or rather listening to) the latest and newest masterpiece by the band of Josh Homme, the soul and mind of the stoner scene worldwide for over 10 years now.

❝ Do not watch it... Do not stare into its eyes... Do not dare to cast your gaze upon it... It wants to devour your soul, and it wants it now.

❝ Stop making that big face!

❝ it’s probably good (for the album), but it actually makes me think I’m pretty shit

❝ their music is mostly banal and simplistic.

❝ "I’m a fucking genius" (Noel Gallagher)

❝ This is undoubtedly the masterpiece of the Gallagher brothers

❝ “Scenes From the South Island” was the first album (instrumental) of his solo career and it is a true tribute and declaration of love to the southern islands of his homeland: New Zealand.

❝ …and then, suddenly, she arrives. Death.

❝ A masterpiece of psychedelia

❝ But remember: it's always just rock'n'roll.

❝ This Boris produce music at the same speed with which an eighty-year-old pees.

❝ The ever-evolving hydra from the Land of the Rising Sun mocks those who can't seem to evolve..

❝ “This will not be an objective review, I realize that.”

❝ “It is surprisingly expressive in capturing every delicate emotional nuance in the duality of love-death: good and evil, opposites that are inseparably intertwined...”

❝ “Valo is aware of it. He does not do metal. Simply, he uses the structures of metal to build around them gothic elegies of love and death of a neoclassical flavor.”

❝ Few albums possess an intensity comparable to Through Silver In Blood.

❝ The Eye of Every Storm is therefore a work to be promoted with full marks, another success in the catalog of the Californian band, to be worthily placed in your discotheque, alongside the other masterpieces of the group.

❝ A Neurosis concert isn't a concert: it's a journey, at the end of which you're not exhausted, you're destroyed. Physically and psychologically.

❝ Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful...

❝ "I worry about how this album will sell, because I believe it will determine the amount of SEX I will have in the future..."

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

❝ This is "Confusion Is Sex". An aural assault.

❝ Youth against time!

❝ Just listen to the seismic "Defenestration Song" to understand that the two American musicians are not kidding at all.

❝ In my opinion a must-have of contemporary music.

❝ With Have a Nice Life and the debut work "Deathconsciousness", we are faced with a work of pure perfection, a concept album born from the same melancholy mentioned above and reworks it, modifies it in the composition, but carries it along like pure affection, like pure love, almost as if it were an essential genetic factor.

❝ You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals/ So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

❝ We await the next, stupid and ludicrous work of the jesters of the third millennium.

❝ Coldplay continue to garner antipathies and criticisms, but they forge ahead on their path and release another album in which they prove to be a moderately more valid and refined pop band than much of the rubbish circulating.

❝ The abyss into which Coldplay is descending seems to have no end.

❝ I have always considered Coldplay as the only true successors to the Beatles.

❝ AND STILL WE WILL BE HERE STANDING LIKE STATUES!!

❝ the synths with the tacky riffs are absolutely terrible!!!

❝ The quartet from St. Albans has officially become a charity ONLUS in every respect.

❝ You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

❝ It’s fucking rock’n’roll after all, it’s live, it’s blood and sweat.

❝ A complete and essential album in music history.

❝ "Let your tears flow one last time and reach the world you come from"

❝ an album so kitsch, tearful, plasticky, redundant, self-indulgent, boring, dull and indigestible (in one word, false) simply makes me cry with bitterness.

❝ A sunny but dark record, a happy but sad record.

❝ "More than ever" is a crescendo that manages to be dramatic in the slow layering of instruments without ever exploding or raising its voice.

❝ I read this definition about them, "lazy rock for melancholic hearts"

❝ Do Make Say Think propose a mix of Jazz/Electronic solutions rooted in Tortoise with elements relatively common to certain German cosmic music, a more eclectic sound that is not as dark as that of their fellow magnificent Godspeed You! Black Emperor (and the very first A Silver Mt. Zion).

❝ Inspired by the evocative place where they recorded the tracks, a barn not far from Toronto, DMST delivers a delightful organic work, more reflective and experimental, rational and at the same time impulsive, in which rock elements blend with jazz tradition in an orderly and harmonious manner, a work in front of which one cannot help but be enchanted.

❝ Do Make Say Think (I do things, I see people) are not just that kind of post-rock, a label that would be too narrow for them, or anyway out of focus.

❝ As an old proverb says: if you want something done right, do it yourself!

❝ The debut album of the blond Marshall Mathers (aka Eminem) is a true milestone of modern hip hop.

❝ Eminem is undoubtedly one of the most talked-about figures in the music field in recent years.

❝ 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons is truly a work of sublime human desolation, perfectly marking the difficult moment we are living in...

❝ This music is not a pastime, but a violent punch to the stomach, strong enough to make you cry and spit blood.

❝ Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything is the band's seventh album in fourteen years, and it is the most violent, the loudest, the most vocal, and also the most direct.

❝ I won't beat around the bush: "Blue Sky Noise", together with "Recitation" by Envy, is for me the album that most shook this 2010.

❝ The release of Dialogue (1998) was a revelation, Kieran Hebden aka Four Tet was twenty-one, immediately considered a genius, and today he is defined as the "father" of the glitch or folktronica genre.

❝ The beauty of this circular electronic music is that it lets go.

❝ Synthesis is the key word.

❝ Firstly, the guitar is replaced by a harp (!), which is played in a rather unusual way, more like a Folk guitar actually; the effect is very pleasant and spot on.

❝ The Joanna of “Have One On Me” is no longer the whimsical child of “The Milk-Eyed Mender,” and even the incredible suites of “Ys,” with their frantic tempo and chatter, seem a distant memory.

❝ Controversial.

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And in the end it happened, it was to be expected, and it's beautiful and right like this…

❝ La Quiete means sonic confusion, instability, sensory loss, cosmic hallucination, it means "unrest".

❝ you say emoviolence and (perhaps unjustly) think of La Quiete, you say screamo and equally unjustly think of La Quiete.

❝ “Tenpeun” is a collection that La Quiete released in 2006, exactly two years after that masterpiece “La Fine Non è La Fine,” nineteen tracks recorded starting from 2001, scattered almost randomly over thirty-two minutes of music.

❝ The music of Mastodon is the sound of nature.

❝ We waited for them for years!

❝ Crack The Skye is a work that needs time to be fully appreciated.

❝ “With APC the process is much more mechanical and computer-oriented but at the same time much more emotional and intuitive.”

❝ “A Perfect Circle is a rock band led by Maynard Keenan from Tool and guitarist Billy Howerdel.”

❝ “The long, very long wait is over, and after fourteen long years, one of the most beloved bands among Maynard James Keenan’s formations has released “Eat The Elephant,” a new studio work.”

❝ In music, there's room for everyone.

❝ Few bands manage to divide like Phish.

❝ Delving into the live world of Phish is a daunting task, especially because each of their concerts is followed by an official bootleg of the same.

❝ Phish, like all my favorite music, is intelligent.

❝ “In short, a timeless album, it could be from the 70s or from next year.”

❝ “The Strokes are an indie-rock band formed in New York in 1998, composed of Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Fabrizio Moretti, Nikolai Fraiture, and Albert Hammond.”

❝ “Welcome back, at last.”

❝ Accessible yet stimulating, with a surreal otherworldly quality, made of echoes and reverberations, beautiful noises and sounds that marry with sunny and explosive melodies: it's spring and Panda Bear knows it well.

❝ this record is not played, it is a direct offspring of imagination,

❝ It's difficult to be more crystal clear.

❝ Gas, ass and grass... go with the Fu!

❝ Fu Manchu is the most earthy and horizontal band on the planet: the hyperamplification of a sound as explosive and sunny as it is cavernous and barbaric.

❝ Fu Manchu have no rivals and they play it every time in the best way!

❝ From now on, for a barbecue "Nude With Boots" is like charcoal: essential.

❝ few bands on this planet can boast as much influence on the entire rock scene as the Melvins.

❝ The rock historiography tells us that the Melvins chose their band name in honor of an unfortunate Christmas tree thief from Aberdeen, named Melvin.

❝ In summary: a must-buy.

❝ So, this album is perfect for the average listener that New Found Glory targets.

❝ Coming Home, although not offering anything original, is a good album that will perhaps suffer criticism from long-time fans.

❝ “We can never go back, we can only remember”

❝ “Home is where beds are made and butter is added to toast. On a cold afternoon you can float room to room like a ghost”

❝ Storm And Stress were born with the intent: "forget the songs while playing them".

❝ Well, the debut of Storm & Stress provides an effect very similar to watching that movie, where every two and a half minutes you had to ask yourself what the hell was happening.

❝ Animal Collective are constantly on the move.

❝ Animal Collective is the psychedelic group assigned to us for the new millennium. We should be grateful to them. They are unique.

❝ Compact, cohesive, at the same time cunningly pop by their standards and subtly psychedelic in the cyclical repetition of loops.

❝ A devastating masterpiece without even a filler and more generally one of their best albums ever.

❝ I'm on my way to hell.

❝ The track is masterfully driven by the bass, which outlines a simple yet effective and recognizable rhythmic line.