Best artist of 2009 secondo DeBaser.

❝ It is, in fact, a very pleasant album from start to finish, a delicate, sometimes gentle album, in which Mike Stern, while being in the forefront with his guitar, showcases his great talent without exceeding in unnecessary protagonism and deplorable mannerisms.

❝ and above all, a “Moodswings” to die for.

❝ The record is beautiful; as mentioned, the tracks follow one another without straining the ear, which luxuriates in the cascade of scales, arpeggios, and patterns played almost in a whisper, with the rhythmic accompaniment wisely reduced to the essential.

❝ This is love, I admit it.

❝ An album composed and played in a state of grace.

❝ Reel To Real is the DNA of Simple Minds.

❝ Bonamassa is possessed, driven by a musical passion and specifically by guitar playing that grants him infinite energy.

❝ One of Joe Bonamassa's best albums: “Richmond,” “Ball Peen Hammer” and the ending of “One of These Days” are poetry to me: four and a half stars.

❝ Bonamassa never creates trash. Just things a bit useless, now and then, but only because he arrived last, out of time, and is objectively devoid of a strong personality, too manipulated by the manic passion for those who did what he loves so much before him.

❝ "Davis and Coltrane, not by chance, use modality to recover, within a context until then mainly characterized by the dialectic between European and African musical traditions, elements of the Asian, oriental one: sometimes borrowed - in the case of Davis - from the Spanish civilization, sometimes inspired - as in the case of John Coltrane - by Indian music. But in this, Jazz also manages to achieve a sort of historical reunion with the 'oriental' origins of Western music: Greek and then Gregorian modes, from which the modern major-minor conception was born, in turn come from ancient Asian modes. The curious fact is that the theoretical basis of this work, having great anthropological significance, carried out by Coltrane, was derived by the colored saxophonist from the study of the treatise Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns by Nicholas Slonimsky, a Russian composer and musicologist who emigrated to the United States..."

❝ I witnessed the extraordinary concert of a guy who, at 28, can easily be considered a living legend;

❝ N.Y.C. Year 2000, the "virtuosic hi-tech" Randy Brecker, as our artist is called, offers a product to the market that will not only win the approval of the jazz scene but also attract admirers and sympathizers of rock, jazz rock, funk jazz, pop funk, and pop jazz.

❝ Nothing is the same as before... this is what I feel about myself once the Dinosaur Jr. concert is over.

❝ Dinosaur Jr. is the creation of J Mascis, a versatile artist and despotic leader, here ("You’re Living All Over Me" is his second album, released by SST in 1987) still accompanied by Lou Barlow, who will soon be ousted for "artistic differences" and will find greater success with his Sebadoh first and Folk Implosion later.

❝ J is a strange guy, at least as much as I am: long white hair, a characteristic belly, and always wearing something purple.

❝ Nothing. I hope I have left you with enough curiosity to abandon the attempt of understanding "Crash" through the eye: here the only way is the ear!

❝ The DMB consists of sacred monsters in perfect harmony. Carter is an octopus, and his drums seem like extensions of his fast, powerful, elegant limbs.

❝ Listening to the albums of the Dave Matthews Band, I've learned to "musikimmaginarmeli" with the ear of someone who wants to hear them live, because it's live that the band of the Johannesburg native performs at 200%.

❝ I like to think that "In This Light And On This Evening" is the album that Joy Division didn’t have time to write.

❝ "Violence" is a good album, and the Editors continue consistently in their search for a definitive identity that seems never to arrive, however commendable the attempts are.

❝ We are faced with 6/7 potential singles without any decline in quality.

❝ Do you want the square box style Sabbath riff? Here’s "Woman".

❝ That Wolfmother live are a damn seventies band that rocks!

❝ It’s a good album, but after not too many listens, it might end up in oblivion.

❝ Riverside continues to be Riverside and nothing else!

❝ a band hailing from Poland, a country relatively unknown musically to the general public, but which proved capable of producing talents that could rival those from more recognized countries.

❝ In theory, it is an album of remixes, bonus tracks, and unreleased material, but in practice, it is in every respect a true album...

❝ Take the Oasis, tell them you love them they'll write you love songs send them roses, poems give them even juice from the heart; always make them feel important, buy all the CDs originals, always be present at the concerts, watch even the DVDs.

❝ "Sounds from a Future Past"

❝ "Rtz" is not music, it’s not entertainment, it’s an atmosphere.

❝ Pretentious, very pretentious. The most "I’ve got a big dick" record of Ben’s entire career, there’s little to say, there’s little to do, the evidence travels between anvil and hammer.

❝ If Southern Rock didn’t die with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 'Sweet Home Alabama' or the Allman Brothers Band's 'Jessica,' it’s precisely thanks to “Shake Your Money Maker,” the debut of the Black Crowes dated 1990.

❝ This 2010 double album was the last from the Black Crows for a long time, followed by yet another brawl between the two bosses of the group, namely singer and guitarist brothers Robinson.

❝ Warmth, introspection, feeling, cohesion are adjectives that well describe the current status of the band, which seems to have been reborn after the entry of Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All Stars) on guitar.

❝ A sensational track that opens brilliantly in a record where the flavors and colors are never the same from one track to the next.

❝ their most complete and high-quality album since their debut "To Lose My Life..."

❝ Strangers don’t hide. The morning hunts you down, and there’s nothing stranger than to love someone.

❝ Let's cut the crap, there are no other bands like Oneida.

❝ Nowadays, old ladies with strange teeth no longer ask you to paint their fences.

❝ Sometimes it happens that I tell myself "...thank goodness albums like this come out!"

❝ “Is the Actor Happy?,” his fourth album, represents a temporary exit from this tunnel of loneliness.

❝ “North Star Deserter” is a heavy, powerful, almost mean recording, so physical that it scratches the skin, pervaded by deep melancholy and suffering.

❝ And so, two years after the beautiful “North Star Deserter,” “At The Cut” is released; an album that does not differ much from the previous one, but draws an even sharper line on the fascinating union between songwriter and post-rock orchestration.

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

❝ Unforgettable album.

❝ This little gem, easy to listen to yet very classy, encloses 18 minutes of authentic and emotional music.

❝ Be that as it may, my compliments to the minstrels of Oregon. Rating 4.8

❝ three and a half hours of "Total Music," free, wild, without limits and patterns.

❝ The Mars Volta are without a doubt one of the greatest novelties in the current global Rock scene.

❝ I belong to a third group: "A nail right in the face for me"

❝ Andy Sheppard, if you didn't know, is a (white. Ps: thanks!) English saxophonist.

❝ All things considered, this second album by Paolo Nutini surprises for the independent and sincere approach given to each single song, a rather rare quality nowadays.

❝ This artist and this album are anachronistic today, but God only knows how much music needs young talent like this to stay alive.

❝ PAOLO NUTINI arrives out of nowhere, with force, with the super hit "new shoes" that invades the world, and a face of a spoiled kid, handsome enough, quite sure of himself.

❝ “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.”

❝ His Jazz-Rock flows over your skin, envelops you, plays at drawing a labyrinth on your goose-bumped skin, has fun vibrating all your hidden places and layers.

❝ Pratically if the title had been: "I'm so great I'm amazing, and now I'll prove it to you," it would have done it more justice.

❝ Experimental yet rooted in tradition, acrobatic both in tension and tranquility, it is a milestone: it fits perfectly into the kaleidoscopic musical scene of the seventies, a hotbed of innovative and always fresh solutions.

❝ 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.

❝ "There's some really dark stuff and some psychedelic rumba. It's all that stuff I grew up with: all those bluegrass harmonies. I experimented a little with the instruments" Dan Auerbach to Billboard Magazine.

❝ A rock, psychedelic journey.

❝ You heard that right, these guys pick up their instruments and go at it fiercely.

❝ Massive accumulation of Acid- Psych- Hard- / -Blues -Rock -Garage revival with a Parker Griggs all-rounder, perfectly at ease between guitars, drums, fuzz, wah wah, tube amps, and all that vintage equipment dated no later than 1975 or that sounds like it.

❝ 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.

❝ Released by Warp (now less and less a label symbol of avant-garde electronics), "Yellow House" hides small pearls, but often hidden by dark and sleepy corners, much like the dimly lit album cover foreshadows.

❝ But the problem is precisely this, there has been no evolution, everything is the same as three years ago!

❝ How difficult is it to lose oneself and then find oneself again? But how rewarding it is.

❝ If listened to in the dead of night, it is incredibly sweet and dreamy.

❝ It's "Sweet Disposition", a song already known to the Anglo-Saxon audience, practically unknown in Italy.

❝ Behind that frosty name lies a pianist with an incredibly delicate touch, melodic but never saccharine, incredibly warm, elegant, and light.

❝ Ana Popovic is a Serbian guitarist and singer, born in Belgrade on May 13, 1976.

❝ 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?

❝ An obese album is never beautiful.

❝ A fucking bomb!!! This album is a bomb... truly beautiful.

❝ Capovilla was born in 1968 and debuted with Teatro in 2007;

❝ “Our Secret Ceremony” marks a point of no return in Julie's musical journey.

❝ “Invocation...” puts a foot back into song form, while keeping the third eye wide open, always towards Dusseldorf and Cologne.

❝ Instead, “Ashram Equinox” walks confidently on its own, made of cosmic dust and hymns to its own“inner space”; it asks for a bit of attention but rewards you with an interesting dose of endorphins.

❝ Everything else is noise. The rest is Zu.

❝ The Zu are from Rome. Yes, it's good to start right off like this: clearly.

❝ Zu are drums, saxophone, and bass, with numerous collaborations from more or fewer prestigious and/or famous names from the worldwide jazz/avant/blabla scene.

❝ Absolutely to be overlooked.

❝ “Overcome” is among the most aggressive tracks ever written by Mark Tremonti.

❝ Maybe I’m exaggerating, but a song like this could have been written by Zeppelin 20 years ago.

❝ And then glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch, glitch and more glitch.

❝ Listening to Unieqav, it feels as though the artist has reached a milestone, successfully reconciling the sounds of "errors" with a musical form close to techno and IDM.

❝ In short, you can’t say these guys don’t know how to play live.

❝ Ultimately, and without hesitation, already among the albums of the year.

❝ These are Black Mountain, standard-bearers of 21st-century neo-psychedelia. Open applause.

❝ “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.”

❝ Jovanotti made his debut in 1988 with “Jovanotti For President”.

❝ Naturally, the audience reaches a frenzy with the rousing “L’ombelico del mondo,” which envelops everyone with a truly remarkable rhythm and freshness.

❝ I find it a pure, sincere CD, and much less “commercialized.”

❝ “We are the number one band in the world.”

❝ “If we were dinosaurs, we would be velociraptors. Because we are a pack, we are united, we are a rock band.”

❝ “Rock is dead,” said Serge Pizzorno (not news)

❝ The wind slams the half-opened veranda door, an old Texan man with a white beard armed with a guitar and harmonica is intent on accompanying the arrival of the evening, seated on an old creaking chair.

❝ Angelini, on the other hand, proves to be pure, passionate, and sincere.

❝ Roberto Angelini has completed his redemption and with "La vista concessa", he has earned all my admiration and respect.

❝ Works like this save.

❝ Four tracks, two twelve-inch vinyls, 45 RPM, one track per side, about 30 minutes of dark, blood-weeping dub filth.

❝ A calvary, a sacrificial ritual, an exhausting massacre dripping with blood, this is Fabric 55, each track flows into another in an unstoppable maelstrom.

❝ "3Eps" by Shackleton: the album I wanted to hear from Massive Attack.

❝ In history books, in a few years, this era will be referred to as the "Berlusconi era", characterized by an overcoming of traditional political alignments and pentapartite fragmentation, by a return to political representation based on charisma, by a close relationship between consensus and tools for creating consensus as a determining factor for adopting certain decisions of collective relevance.

❝ The noise that becomes sound and melody at the same time.

❝ A carpet of drones that crush, annihilate, oppress until they release into vaporous exhalations.

❝ The new album by Fuck Buttons is like a luxury trans: it was the missing transgression, but one that was already there, something dirty yet classy, natural and unnatural;

❝ And I kept calling my failures misfortune. Damn S F O R T U N A.

❝ "S F O R T U N A", 2009: bad luck has a new charm.

❝ 'Sfortuna' is better than medicine.

❝ Desolate Notes of Faith and Devotion.

❝ For me, it was that image of the Rose Bowl. At one point, during the song "Never Let Me Down Again," I jumped onto one of the pillars and saw a couple of people in the audience waving their arms in the air, I started doing it too, and suddenly there were seventy thousand people doing the same thing! I was overwhelmed, feeling something like tears inside me, and sweat running down my face, but that was pure joy! A feeling like, "It can't get better than this!" It was wonderful, the Basildon boy had made it...

❝ The thrill of the crowd's roar as "In Chains" is played is wonderful.

❝ 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.

❝ John's voice turns into a rabid dog's sneer, the razor strokes of his slide peel off the wallpaper in the neat little houses of Fort Wayne, and his new name is Freddie J IV.

❝ The dirtiest, sweatiest duo from Mississippi is back, and they up the ante.

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"These guys are criminals."

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"The fact remains that these three gentlemen have now returned to being the best power trio around."

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"We are the Motorpsycho. Your musical and cultural characteristics will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

❝ This record is insanely sexy. Period.

❝ Easily the rock 'n' roll album of 2009.

❝ In short, an album that's practically perfect, rough and sweet at the same time, like every rock'n'roll record should be.

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"After 10 years of inactivity, Uncle Jerry, the diabolical mind behind Alice in Chains, after the loss of one of the greatest singers of the '70s, a frontman of immense charisma such as Layne Staley, calls back the incredibly talented drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Inez and recruits a new singer, one William DuVall, already with the Comes With The Fall, and decides to release a new album under the name Alice in Chains (bad taste or a brilliant idea?)."

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"If suffering had a voice, it would not be much different from Staley's, and if it had a soul, Alice's could perfectly personify it."

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"If you ever get the chance, go see Alice in Chains. Bring your mother, your father, your partner, and your lover together, bring the dog, the cat, and even your canary."

❝ “"Jane Doe" is universally (and rightfully) considered the masterpiece of the Boston band; the compositional skills of Bannon-Ballou & Co. unarguably reach their peak here.”

❝ “Because I've always considered Converge a band of madmen, lunatics, mentally ill...”

❝ “Here’s the thing I love about Converge: they don't have a low-gear speed.”

❝ A supergroup can't help but write a superalbum.

❝ For this reason, it’s hard to find models: more Pink Floyd than Mogwai.

❝ The price of admission, however, is justified alone by “Bastogne Blues,” or: twelve minutes of god.

❝ Holy moly, what a striking album!!!

❝ A song that is a punch in the face towards the cages of passion and general bigotry, where the blonde tuft untangles itself masterfully, assuming the role of a liberating prophet.

❝ 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.

❝ It was instant infatuation with this album.

❝ One of the most beautiful albums released last year.

❝ Otto Ohm are simply themselves and continue to present music as they like it, a rhythmic dub that becomes, when needed, playful reggae or dreamy ballad.

❝ Mature album for the Roman band, dedicated to a pop/reggae veiled with electronics.

❝ their music is truly a mix of many different things, not only of musical genres (electronic, pop, reggae, classic rock, etc...)

❝ Phycho-delicatessen.

❝ A metempsychosis of rhythm.

❝ “We Ask You To Ride”, which opens the album, quietly glides between doorsian organ and Neu rhythm, only to suddenly ignite with wild guitar outbursts.

❝ Perhaps one of the saddest albums of the year, certainly also one of the most intriguing and fascinating.

❝ When you compose a song like “Kettering”, with that sad piano riff, as if it were coming from the next room.

❝ The Antlers, or their ghosts, I find them elegant, with their feet on the ground and heads in the clouds.

❝ Hayden Thorpe and company delight us with layers of arpeggios and falsettos as lyrical as they are improbable, with bass on daring lines and epileptic changes of rhythm and atmosphere.

❝ Wild Beasts are succeeding in paving the way for new pop tinged with old sounds, even venturing into dream-pop (the darker kind), thanks to their uninhibited sensuality, but embellished by growth, the one they say is of the third album, the growth towards adult pop.

❝ Minimal guitars, rhythmic tribalisms, and the voices of the two leaders (Thorpe’s falsetto and Fleming’s baritone) never so dissimilar yet complementary, intent on dialoguing, sometimes, in the same song.

❝ Understanding, knowing, and appreciating this album is like getting to know a person: you cannot skip the steps, you need time, to wait for things to settle, silence.

❝ Several friends, to whom I played this album, said to me, "Beautiful, but take it off because it gives me anxiety!"

❝ "Massimo Volume" represented in the '90s, along with other groups such as Afterhours, C.S.I., Marlene Kuntz, the new Italian rock, strongly characterizing and influencing our local music scene.

❝ Power is nothing without control

❝ The past answers present

❝ Pontiak is the joints you smoke with your cousin at three in the afternoon after a family lunch at a farmstead.

❝ Om was the sound that God uttered when He expressed this will: "I am One; I shall become the many."

❝ Inside Emil, outside Chris.

❝ the sound that comes out of Cisneros' bass is something you don't hear every day, thrilling!

❝ “I See A Darkness” is one of the most dramatic, moving, and profound albums one might come across.

❝ Will is a foreigner of the world, an alien storyteller.

❝ Bonnie “Prince” Billy's records slip into your home unnoticed.

❝ Daydream Nation is a masterpiece. Without a doubt.

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

❝ Youth against time!

❝ There is nothing to discard in twenty years of Red Red Meat and Califone: countless chests full of minute emotions, a timid world whose substance is in the details, where little is grandiose and everything is nuanced and intimate.

❝ "Roots & Crowns" is undoubtedly an album that defies categorization, one that cannot simply be liked or disliked, because it eludes most aesthetic standards and criteria.

❝ His albums shouldn’t be reviewed, they should just be listened to.

❝ it has the quality of being listened to and re-listened to (which is what matters), until in the end, you really convince yourself that you’re in front of something extraordinary.

❝ It’s his Apocalypse. But also his rebirth. More personal than this is impossible.

❝ If this is "made in Italy", it's better to buy in China.

❝ Those who love real Music will reserve a place for D'Alessio and his album where it belongs, in the trash.

❝ When My Life Will Change, well what can I say: a masterpiece!!!

❝ Patrick Wolf: singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Londoner, born in 1983, that's what matters, stripping away a whole series of unnecessary critical/commercial labels of which I just don't know what to make.

❝ Patrick Wolf is an enormous talent. One on whom I would bet.

❝ No pressure, Paddy, but... No need to further dilly-dally, Patrick Wolf is great: he has a style easily recognizable but with broad horizons, voice, personality, energy, impact, no significant shortcomings.

❝ The Last Vegas, rock trash garage glam from Chicago, IL.

❝ From the first minute of "Beat to Hell," it becomes crystal clear where they're heading: the drums forcefully pound, a guitar roars, and a scream from Chad Cherry flings open the doors to the realm of unapologetic, angry choruses that will stubbornly get stuck in your head.

❝ Maybe it's just noise, but for a die-hard lover of shoegaze and the most dizzying psychedelia, this album is a godsend, as well as one of the best releases of the past year.

❝ GET IT!

❝ Transfixiation is the fourth album from A Place to Bury Strangers, or APTBS to friends.

❝ This new work is - in my opinion - one of the best albums of 2009 (strange that no one had reviewed it yet..).

❝ This does not detract from "The Bride" being an intense and in its own way important album, remarkable as a whole and capable of emotional peaks of great intensity.

❝ A memorable debut.

❝ The Whitefield Brothers are Max and Jan Weissenfeldt, teutonic brothers who are nothing short of nostalgic for the jazz-funk sounds of the early 70s.

❝ Let's talk then about the Blank Dogs: a one-man band dedicated to the gloomy sound of the early '80s without, for this reason, being boring as others, unfortunately, know how to do well.

❝ "Under and Under" definitively consecrates, once and for all, the ultimate scrapping of 1980s new wave.

❝ Cadaverous Synth-Pop for people in pieces. Drum-machine with a heart, American stuff.

❝ Chickenfoot III is indeed a perfectly accomplished album, which sounds amazing from start to finish and presents no missteps.

❝ The debut album by Chickenfoot is pure rock & roll.

❝ The self-titled debut by Health (Lovepump United, 2007) leaves exactly this impression: it devours within itself the litanies of Liars bastardized by the noise of Black Dice, all filtered through the ether of My Bloody Valentine.

❝ Pressing the play button on our player after inserting "Flight of the Behemoth," is equivalent to finding ourselves in the middle of the roadway and raising our middle finger against an angry truck driven by Satan himself: the damage is done, all that's left is to make the sign of the cross (north-south-west-east) and perish. Amen.

❝ This is why it's advisable to listen to the record at unbearable volumes, you have to be submerged and overwhelmed by the breadth and height of the sound, you really have to be completely enveloped by it.

❝ Maximum Volume Yelds Maximum Results

❝ A monumental collection that traces the history of Tortoise through b-sides, collaborations, outtakes, assorted rarities, remixes, covers, videos, live performances, and every piece of goodness related to the band, mainly from the period 1995-2001.

❝ ...And to your left, we have "Millions Now Living Will Never Die", the greatest album by Tortoise, released in 1996 and already become an absolute masterpiece of 90s rock, you can admire it in all its magnificence...

❝ It is always about instrumental post-rock with sporadic dips into minimal electronics and glimpses (this time structural, however) of jazz with soft and dreamy hues, but never as with this album have I had the impression that every detail is exclusively aimed at the whole, managing to be both sharp and blurred simultaneously.