Best artist of 2011 secondo DeBaser.

❝ There is always a certain reverential fear when approaching Beethoven.

❝ The purest talent in the history of music was named Ludwig Van Beethoven. He broke the strings and hammers of all the pianos he touched because he had no limits. And he broke souls.

❝ Art, just art held me back

❝ “It's like when you light the zarsa, you feel it burn a bit in your mouth but the taste is so good.”

❝ “Dan Auerbach, the redhead, and Patrick Carney, the nerd.”

❝ “There is no heart or soul; in Let's rock, there are few ideas, banal and stale riffs, no potential hits, just lots and lots and looooooots of boooooooring boredom.”

❝ On the contrary, liveliness, fascinatability, communicativeness characterize the album from a musical perspective, particularly in the tracks where the magnificent voice of Jennifer Sanon is present.

❝ 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

❝ Gary Clark Jr. has no idea what he will do next, but he knows well and also very much where he comes from.

❝ “I don't even have a seed when I start playing. It's like starting from scratch. [...] Jazz is letting the light shine. Not trying to enhance it, just letting it be” (K. Jarrett).

❝ “The heart is where the music is”

❝ “relax, because I certainly cannot”

❝ Despite all the philanthropists and jerks in the world, Wakin On A Pretty Daze will endure.

❝ Every moment of this "Nocturne" (2001) is the product of a perfectly successful fusion between jazz technique and Latin creativity, in this case Cuban and Mexican.

❝ A metaphorically perfect record.

❝ A mesmerizing record.

❝ 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.

❝ Alberto's psalmody unfolds with disconnected phrases because not even words can give us easy comfort.

❝ They are here because it’s a generational event, like coming home after seven years of wanderings.

❝ This album contains a lot of mellotron, which I, as a progster, adore.

❝ Unmissable, for aficionados and not.

❝ How much I adored that refined touch, that artistic elegance, and the style always precise and impeccable.

❝ The true gem of this album remains "Tears In Heaven" – inspired by the tragic passing of his little son – and a timeless hit.

❝ Is Eno right to claim that Calvi is the best female artist to emerge since the days of PattiSmith?

❝ "Sing To Me" is the apex of the album, a song that slowly ascends from the outskirts of the heart, then rises supported by strings in a marvelous Morricone-like breath.

❝ The debut is prophetic: a solitary guitar heroically casts its warm and shaky notes into infinite spaces, desert oceans, and radiates between the molecules of oxygen, while among the common mortals, empty cities materialize, built with such poor wood yielding among the cracks of desolate lands bordering the sky (Rider To The Sea).

❝ This could well be the best chapter in the Foo Fighters’ discography; the following album, The Colour and The Shape, is already more stadium-rock oriented and perhaps has more memorable songs, like the immortal Everlong, but also suffers from bigger lows.

❝ With Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (a shorter title no, eh?) the Foo take a step too far, inserting songs that on a first listen seem challenging, but after three, four listens are already memorized and feel familiar.

❝ Impossible not to have this album, the best in F.F. discography.

❝ “I know I am imperfect, and it is this imperfection that makes me want to improve. If I became perfect, and were no longer vulnerable, maybe I wouldn't experience the same emotional shock that makes me feel the need to write music.”

❝ “We dive down? We dive down??? We dive deeper and deeper?”

❝ “Reaching out for the star / reaching out for the star that explodes”

❝ The references are there, the 78-84 hardcore matrix is undeniable.

❝ After two hardcore and pure albums of Hardcore and Post-Hardcore Punk, Iceage decide to take a leap forward.

❝ You're Nothing speeds like a train running away at full speed, rightly doesn't reach the half-hour mark, it simply doesn't need to, it immediately achieves its objectives (short-term objectives), showing no signs of faltering: in half an hour Iceage reshape punk material in an unprecedented decadentist perspective (is there a dark punk label?), delivering a bitter, dark, personal work that will undoubtedly offer more than one point of interest for those like me who cannot be defined as fans of the genre in its most canonical form.

❝ It can't be said that Steven Wilson spends time twiddling his thumbs. This is already the third album he's released in 2011.

❝ Over twenty years. That's how long it took for Steven Wilson to forge his masterpiece.

❝ "The Harmony Codex" is a great album. One of the peaks of his career.

❝ The Mancunians Elbow are one of the most talented British bands currently around.

❝ Asleep In The Back is their dazzling debut dated 2001.

❝ The Take Off and Landing of Everything is an album to recover, even in pieces, before it one day recovers you.

❝ It is incredibly painful to talk about this album with the awareness that we are facing the last work in the thirty-year career of this formidable group; it is incredibly painful to do so at such a short distance from the death of Mimi Parker, the heart and soul of the group along with her partner Alan Sparhawk.

❝ Double Negative is one of those albums that provoke a sense of alienation after the first listen, greater awareness after the second, and a sudden and irreversible love from the third onwards;

❝ buy this album and don't listen to it. Put it on the shelf and forget about it.

❝ "You can't hold no groove if ain't got no pocket".

❝ Victor Wooten was particularly inspired by the master Jaco Pastorius, uses the slap like perhaps no other bassist can, the musical taste of his phrasing is worthy of Marcus Miller and Stanley Clarke, and his technique is elevated to disproportionate levels;

❝ Wow, what an album!An ethereal floating in the grip of a spring breeze.

❝ His voice may be liked or not, but it has a fundamental trait: recognizability.

❝ but in reality, "Crack-Up" represents a work in which the Fleet Foxes achieve their full artistic maturity.

❝ Eight total tracks, eight almost perfect hits. A rarity in these times.

❝ To paraphrase the album’s title, rather than a purifying fire we are faced with a calm ritual ablution.

❝ Simple, poor, rustic music, without the pretense of amazing the crowds, and perhaps precisely because of this, so original.

❝ A record with a magical aura.

❝ 22, A Million is a cathartic album because it clarifies its musical contents in relation to the predisposition of the listener.

❝ Close your eyes, another dimension opens up.

❝ Blessed Youth (sonic, but not that much)

❝ 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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ Pino Scotto, like it or not, is a cult figure in the Italian hard'n'heavy scene:

❝ About forty minutes of pure and genuine hard rock, direct, powerful, with a perfect production.

❝ In conclusion, this is undoubtedly Pino Scotto's best solo album.

❝ “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 Dead Skeletons show us the dark and untamed side of the Island, made of geysers, volcanoes and glaciers, atmospheres that bring us back to primordial chaos, but also capable of mesmerizing and tripping.

❝ Furthermore, the singer creates paintings during the performance on stage.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ Scofield possesses one of the greatest qualities of the great jazz musicians: you recognize him after two notes.

❝ John Scofield (b 1951 USA) is among the few guitarists, in the vast musical landscape, capable of 'giving' their instrument a distinctive, original, and unmistakable sound.

❝ As soon as I pop it in the player, it reveals itself to be one of the most pleasantly funky albums I have ever listened to.

❝ The genre is decidedly typical shoegaze: MBV and J&MC.

❝ Something decidedly listenable, danceable, whistleable.

❝ "Colour Trip" is the most classic shoegaze that in 2011 manages to sound new.

❝ Yuck are four atypical Englishmen, raised on tea and Pavement, even before Jesus & Mary Chain.

❝ Isn't this Indie at its core?

❝ The standout songs are "Georgia," "Rubber," "Rose Gives A Lilly," and "Suicide Policeman."

❝ “I don’t wanna live in this fucking world for one minute more So I’m gonna go to the corner store and buy another one” [Fucked Up]

❝ Sometimes I am quite happy to have lived long enough to witness live the release of albums that are now legendary.

❝ Le Orme should be considered as one of the greatest Italian rock bands of all time.

❝ Are Le Orme no longer the fantastic trio Collage–Uomo Di Pezza–Felona e Sorona? Who cares!

❝ the four present themselves as a small orchestra in Piazza San Marco

❝ In “Dance Fever,” however, this problem does not arise; quite the opposite, thanks to the production handled by the now ubiquitous Jack Antonoff, the band seems to have found new vigor: the sonic and vocal baroque elements are back but are managed much better, and old and new musical influences are channeled into the album in a much more measured and intelligent way than in the past.

❝ A solid, cohesive, and well-crafted pop album as rarely heard, which has no pretension other than to be listened to.

❝ The glue being her voice, this wonderful gift that Florence found between her lungs to which she rightly pays tribute by giving the album its title.

❝ The Raein are eternal, in simple words.

❝ Perhaps less aggressive in sound but still unmistakably Raein.

❝ Raein offers songs full of pathos, and with dark and catastrophic tones combined with typically emo lyrics.

❝ Catharsis. This album is catharsis. This album is one of the pinnacles of post-rock reached this year.

❝ Within it, Sigur Ros and Neurosis coexist harmoniously, expansions and explosions; cosmic music and field recording on one side, sludge and guitar explosions of unusual heaviness on the other.

❝ But at the end of the day, what really matters is quality. And there is truly plenty of it here.

❝ The Black Lips are one of the best things that could have happened to today's music scene.

❝ It’s hard to pick the best tracks, “Arabia Mountain” hardly has any weak tracks.

❝ The Black Lips’ concert was truly a blast, more than an hour of incandescent, joyful garage, danceable, played with enviable energy and rhythm.

❝ Album of the year (along with that of Mikal Cronin)

❝ Each of us chooses a God to devote ourselves to. A wise choice might be the God of fuzz.

❝ In my opinion, there are few bands around at the moment capable of conveying the same energy live as the Thee Oh Sees.

❝ Finally a group that bewilders my senses.

❝ It’s no coincidence they are called Arbouretum.

❝ This is rock.

❝ It is a sonic collage that absorbs different sound particles not strictly related to each other: there are shards of the post-rock melancholy of Sigur Ròs, fragments of Aphex Twin's mutant electronica, splashes of grunge/noise never too hostile (more Nirvana than Sonic Youth) and a jazzy attitude that especially peeks through certain percussive intuitions.

❝ “The Destruction of Small Ideas” is a masterpiece.

❝ the stray and I position ourselves in the front row, take off our sweatshirts, and we're ready to die.

❝ And without further ado, “Gently Disturbed” is an extraordinary album in the purest and simplest sense of the term; the written translation of an uncommon approach to understanding music.

❝ Before writing this review, I waited for some time and several listens because Avishai Cohen is one of the most interesting and creative bassists and composers in the global jazz scene.

❝ there is a sensation of walking on tiptoes while being possessed by waves of vertigo.

❝ Devastating piece. Among the most unforgettable I have ever listened to.

❝ "Like blood, but even deeper and darker".

❝ Christ, what the hell... this is the heaviest stuff I've ever heard!

❝ This is madness.

❝ Jazz fusion, flamenco, and Latin American music, these are the ingredients of an immortal music that after thirty years continues to thrill...

❝ An enfant prodige of the guitar, at only nineteen he joined Chick Corea's Return to Forever taking part in the recording of three successful albums...

❝ it is with the second album "Elegant Gipsy" of 1977 that I can say I truly fell in love with the sound of this man's music

❝ A man and his guitar...

❝ “West” confirms Williams’ compositional verve and is truly a beautiful album, of rare depth, capable of fully revealing the heart of this woman, who doesn’t hide but instead gives of herself generously without fear, evoking her travels, her dramas, her life.

❝ It’s an enjoyable album right from the start and yet it falls into the category of those that require several listens to fully appreciate.

❝ Here is the true, splendid Lucinda Williams: between country, Tapestry, and folk-rock d’auteur à la Joni Mitchell.

❝ 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.

❝ The plain and simple fact is that “Celestite” is a beautiful album.

❝ “Celestial Lineage” is an excellent album that deserves to be listened to and appreciated over and over again.

❝ The Wolves come out with yet another masterpiece that will garner as many positive opinions as possible due to the charm and warmth it manages to emanate track after track, riff after riff, atmosphere after atmosphere.

❝ Talking about a pop star like Lady Gaga is an endeavor comparable to a double-edged sword: on one hand, there's the risk of falling into exaltation and idolatry, and on the other, of excessively diminishing her skills, reverting to the usual contrast between “underground” and “mainstream”.

❝ And it is genius. Stephanie Germanotta creates nothing... Yet she's genius.

❝ Lady GaGa: love or hate. There is no alternative.

❝ His suffering way of interpreting the vocal part distinguishes him from all other singers in the scene.

❝ This album isn’t a miracle, mind you, but it guarantees emotions.

❝ In a nutshell: take Helios and blend him with the tropical and linear atmospheres of Tycho, and hand a microphone to our friend.

❝ They haven’t released a CD or a vinyl. Just a cassette tape.

❝ The new garage phenomenon from the UK is called The Horrors.

❝ The Horrors have created a great album.

❝ "Still Life": a true shoegaze mantra with its oscillating progression between suggestive layers of keyboards, feedback effects, electronic drums, and a vocal style balancing between a more educated Jim Morrison and an Ian McCulloch fresh from an alien encounter.

❝ “The undisputed heralds of melodic hc beneath the stars and stripes and worldwide, remain them once again.”

❝ “A masterpiece in its genre, from the great punk reality of the new millennium.”

❝ “Unfortunately, yes and there's no trace left of heart, passion, or healthy anger.”

❝ "Whoever doesn't love the Blues has a hole in their soul," was read on the wall of an old record store in Mississippi...

❝ "What happened is what you hear, we kept it as real as possible"

❝ Another quality of Guano Apes is their ability to reproduce in their music the typical Central-European atmosphere.

❝ The swan song. Here's the perfect description for this album. It's the last work before the breakup of a band that has always managed to bring out the best of itself live.

❝ "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.

❝ “Pressure and Time” is the second album from Los Angeles-based Rival Sons, following the self-produced “Before the Fire” from 2009.

❝ The band’s strong point is definitely Jay Buchanan, a vocalist among the best in the rock scene without a doubt, but also Scott Holiday is a fine musician capable of churning out significant riffs.

❝ I say that their music is certainly not avant-garde, but it is played in a fresh and authentic manner because they have chewed, ruminated, and assimilated the ’60s/’70s rock and cannot play otherwise.

❝ An album that, in its driven derivativeness, mixes the aforementioned influences with such perfect balance, that it can easily rise to a classic of the genre.

❝ The Gazebo Penguins do emocore the old-fashioned way, emo before it got dumb.

❝ Porta is an anthem to be sung at the top of your lungs with clenched fists.

❝ RETURN OF THE BASTARDS...

❝ Primus sucks!!

❝ Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to complete madness!

❝ I don't recommend the album; I think you'll hate it.

❝ Halfway Home (a sonic Eurostar between synthetic bursts, high-speed avant-rock, Ramones choruses, and contagious hand-clapping)

❝ Fantastic, entirely a cappella, gospel atmospheres, accompanied by a hidden double bass, blending vocal choruses, whistles, finger snaps... It all fades away, leaving us open-mouthed.

❝ Noel Gallagher is now a songwriter.

❝ I stare at the walls of hotel rooms and wonder: where didn't I go wrong?

❝ This is a "metareview" (or if you prefer, a half-review).

❝ A journey lasting 9 minutes and 21 seconds.

❝ And well, the DJ set is hard.

❝ This is Surrender.

❝ I found myself entangled in the emotional net that James Blake constructs; ensnared with no possibility of turning back and never regretting having taken a step into the unknown.

❝ It’s obvious you’d like James Blake’s music: it’s melodic music, about love, melancholic, soothing.

❝ the guy who thought it good to finally combine both, dubstep and pop, to create the perfect “trip” music of the new millennium.

❝ We like it that way.

❝ Giuseppe Povia has made a life choice, The Choice: to go against the System and throw away his previous career in the name of artistic and existential coherence.

❝ Imperfetto alludes to the quality of the recording, all done in the basement and entirely self-played.

❝ We were all moved by listening to "I bambini fanno ooh," an absolute masterpiece of the last twenty years of Italian music,

❝ I’m going out as the sun is setting.

❝ Samarcanda is a jewel of Italian music, a beautiful and well-crafted text.

❝ Eh, no, dear professor, this time we missed the mark.

❝ PEACE PIPE, by the American bassist Ben Allison, merges the sounds of jazz with those of the African kora, to give us an eclectic product beyond labels and classifications, involving world music, ethnic jazz, certain ambient constructions, and concepts of electronic music (even though electronics aren’t present here, not a trace of it!) and it manages to mark a new path on the “instrumental” level: both purely in terms of timbre and rhythm.

❝ “Cowboy Justice” is not for the faint of heart; starting with the rather unusual lineup of guitar (Steve Cardenas), trumpet (Ron Horton), drums (Michael Sarin), and double bass (Ben Allison).

❝ Circles is an album of tracks that might seem like masses without a center of gravity: a multilayer of fine sonic fabrics settle in the mind in a spiral manner, and any possible hypnosis would aptly counterbalance the album's monolithic nature.

❝ “Mazes” is the second album, following the more kraut-dark “Escape”, and it's anything but labyrinthine in the unfolding of its 8 tracks.

❝ Ripley Johnson defined volume two as 'the palace of crystals' and clearly specified that both works are part of the same cosmological thought and as such should be understood separately but also as two parts of a whole depending on different situations.

❝ Conclusion: for the undersigned, one of the greatest songs ever, both for the lyrics and the music, not only of Venditti but of all Italian music,

❝ Now, Modena represents for me his best piece, and it is the one I would include in a top 10 of the greatest Italian songs of all time.

❝ Lilly ultimately marks the dawn of a great musical season

❝ Mark Sultan has played all over the world: from North to South America, from Japan to Israel to Africa, promoting records released by the most prestigious independent labels: Fat Possum, Norton, Bomp!, Sub Pop, Vice, In The Red.

❝ Ramesses is something that leaves little to the imagination. If anything, it disturbs its contents.

❝ This new CD sounds much more precise compared to the previous one and, so to speak, satisfies everyone.

❝ All in all, listen to it yourself and come to terms with it.

❝ 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.

❝ I didn’t marry a man, I married a mule

❝ GOOD EVENING

❝ And now all of you go to hell.

❝ Press the play button, and you’ll have your 50 minutes of tranquility.

❝ It lacks that something extra that would allow it to become a classic like the 2011 album, but this remains the electronic music we like and the one we need as an antidote to the enduring and continuous stress of life.

❝ His tropical-scented chill-out, sometimes more ambient (“Past Is Prologue” and “Dive”), sometimes more timidly post-rock (“Awake”), has gently pushed the waves toward the shore, accompanying sunsets and spiritual journeys, leaving a sense of total peace of mind.

❝ a band in name only since the sole author of music and lyrics (strictly in his native language) of this amazing avantgarde metal project is the clever fox Kátai Tamás, a poet, photographer, and, it seems, an eclectic multi-instrumentalist musician.

❝ These kids from Philadelphia have memorized the various projects of the Kinsella and are reproducing them in 2008 without any conceptual originality!

❝ Rosso Noemi is the second album by the singer Noemi who a few years ago became famous for participating in X Factor, but who is now much more than the usual singer who emerges from TV shows.

❝ From the outset, it must be said that Orchid are derivative.

❝ "The Mouths Of Madness" is the work of a group with enormous potential.

❝ "Capricorn" is a chapter that any lover of doom should try to obtain, as it succeeds in reprising with modern sounds and a more "polished" conception the music of bands like Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, and to a lesser extent Kyuss.

❝ New York and avant-rock have never really been two entirely foreign entities to each other in recent decades, and after listening to this album, I consider the trio Psychic Paramount worthy of continuing this tradition.

❝ 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.