Best artist of 2012 secondo DeBaser.

❝ The alternation between Petrucciani’s ever-emotional piano and Miller's precise bass pulse is, in fact, a real pleasure, as are Garrett's sax forays.

❝ M2, an album released in 2001, winner of a Grammy award, represents the pinnacle of Miller's most mature and prolific phase;

❝ This album represents everything that is Miller's music, it is and remains his most beautiful record, and it is certainly one of the greatest fusion releases ever.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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%.

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

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

❝ “Moon Safari” is a masterpiece!

❝ An album nobody needed.

❝ 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"

❝ 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.

❝ An exclamation point can sometimes really make a difference.

❝ Alongside the renowned "Marquee Moon," "77," "Suicide," "Pink Flag," "Horses," "Modern Dance," "Are We Not Men," "First Issue," "Unknown Pleasures," "Buy Contortions," "Killing Joke," this magical "Ultravox!" deserves a place in the showcase of dazzling debuts that changed the course of alternative rock, founding the various "new waves" in the late '70s.

❝ "This means nothing to me," a phrase shouted with all the breath Ure has in his body and soul, for those who can listen to it, it has the same effect as a stab, of something now lost and what is sadder than the end of something?

❝ Shirley Manson, beautiful and charismatic leader of Garbage, is approaching fifty.

❝ Their success is mainly due to the skill of the members, established producers (...) who arrive at a sound balancing between dance, trip hop, and the noise rock of My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth.

❝ Garbage is a rock/alternative music group created in 1994 by Butch Vig (producer, drummer), Steve Marker (guitarist), Duke Erikson (bassist, synth, keyboardist), and of course the charismatic Shirley Manson (singer, author, composer, guitarist, backing vocals).

❝ Wandering through jazz and its immediate surroundings, it’s practically impossible not to encounter Armando Anthony Corea, known as “Chick”.

❝ Unmissable; especially now that it has thirteen tracks. Mandatory. Absolutely.

❝ They make a winning, perfect pair.

❝ 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.

❝ 'Exit... Stage Left' is their second double live album and the best record ever made by the boys from Toronto, and I’m categorical about that.

❝ One of the most underrated rock albums is the right definition for 'Caress of Steel'.

❝ The Canadian band Rush is a trio with undeniable technical and compositional skills, and in this excellent 1988 live album, they provide a brilliant demonstration of them.

❝ 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!

❝ But it's still elevator music.

❝ An album with monstrous additive capabilities, born from a 360° vision of today's psychedelia married to an enviable "pop" writing. Chapeau!

❝ But in the four and a half minutes of the single "Lucidity", Tame Impala achieves this precious distinction, perfect for putting on infinite repeat in your stereo headphones and waiting for something to grow.

❝ 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.

❝ Neil Young: the singer-songwriter, the rocker. The forerunner, the anti-hero par excellence, the Loner.

❝ "Rust Never Sleeps" is probably the Canadian's most significant work.

❝ There isn't a single weak moment in this album which moreover cements him as the putative father of the Seattle grunge generation

❝ If I were asked to describe a band like Overkill in one word, the choice would be quite simple. Unstoppable.

❝ Okay, enough now. Maybe I've exaggerated with enthusiasm and have been quite banal, but the truth is that "Ironbound" is everything you want from a Thrash Metal album: ferocious, hellish, and killer rhythms, fast solos without unnecessary technicalities and with a touch of melody that adds to it, and above all a voice (Blitz's, always a mix between Mustaine Udo and maybe a bit of Bon Scott) nastier and more bastardized than ever.

❝ This album, the seventh of their career, should be considered one of their most significant and representative.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ A luminous pop-auteur dazzlement in monotonous greyness.

❝ “Filemone e Bauci” is the new EP by Amor Fou. A work full of poetry, hope, and disappointment, like a page from a diary torn out with force by someone who never had the courage to accept reality, by someone who has always given up without fighting and let their feelings die.

❝ "I Moralisti" is not just an album; it would be too cold and unobjective to consider it as such.

❝ It was supposed to be a messed-up evening.

❝ GENNAIO!!!!! Damn, GENNAIOOOOO!

❝ I won’t say more because this record must simply be listened to.

❝ “The cost for recording Alien Lanes, if you leave out the beer, was about ten dollars.” [James Greer]

❝ “There wasn't enough music I liked, so I started making it myself!”

❝ “I write the lyrics in a notebook and record the music. Just a regular recorder, nothing special. In theory, I do things very simply…”

❝ 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.

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Getting lost in something immense. Excessive. Indefinite. An ocean.

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I no longer know what to expect from Motorpsycho.

❝ "When silence beckons And the day is closing When the light of your life sighs And love dies in your eyes Only then will I realize What you mean to me"

❝ A once in a lifetime experience that words can barely do justice

❝ Anathema no longer play metal.

❝ “Kick Me Under the Table All You Want / I Won’t Shut Up”

❝ “This world is bullshit, and you shouldn’t model your life on what we think is cool, and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying”

❝ “If I’m butter, If I’m butter// If I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife”

❝ "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.

❝ An album that will make you move both your ass and your brain, and quite possibly the album of the year for me.

❝ “Commune” is a complete album from start to finish. And that’s no small feat.

❝ I was finally listening to something new and so great and different from everything that we neo-psychedelia enthusiasts usually listen to.

❝ They’ve been in the same formation for over fifty years, damn: maximum respect.

❝ "Eliminator" is the eighth studio album by the Texan trio ZZ Top, and their most known and appreciated work.

❝ Long beards.

❝ A warm and intimate ray of sunshine appears in the music of Black Marble...

❝ Derivatives? Sure. Even my grandmother's pasta alla norma is derivative.

❝ In short, don't miss this album that will know how to leave you, at first listen, with one foot in each shoe.

❝ "44 minutes of future-black-music to be listened to all in one go, preferably standing very close to Mr. Subwoofer"

❝ He manages to create a Titan, forges a Leviathan composed of small indissoluble parts.

❝ An album that offers something unexpected with every new listen.

❝ The genius of Matt Pike has struck again. The third album of his new band, High on Fire, indeed buries everything and everyone... Cavernous, dark, relentless...

❝ before the thunderous Lombardian patterns of 'Spiritual Rites' and the malignant epicness of 'King of Days' purify you of all evils and make you give thanks to our lord Pike.

❝ These epigones of the aforementioned sacred monsters, among whom I would not forget to include Metallica and (why not?) Melvins in their tremendously angrier version if you'll allow me, confirm to be the best evolution that metal has brought in our times.

❝ Beware of imitations...

❝ The Soen tried: they attempted to distance themselves from the label of "Tool clone band", but without succeeding.

❝ I feel sorry for the nostalgics, but in this review, you won't hear about Tool or Opeth.

❝ “"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.”

❝ Good: this is an album that my friend and guitarist (with whom I have undeservedly played for about ten-twelve years) has called “the eighth wonder”.

❝ Victoriaindustrial, or the Art of seducing or utterly repulsing through the world of Music, this is how Emilie Autumn, American singer and violinist, defines her Art.

❝ It is true that the dark scene abounds with talents, but allow me to state (with confidence) that such a genius had not been seen before.

❝ Little Emilie is not a genius, but she knows how to do her job as an entertainer well, like a good artisan.

❝ I grew up on bread and Guccini, and Guccini has always been there for me (when the aforementioned girl dumped me, when my grandmother died, and so on).

❝ It’s truly a shame, in a time like this of great cultural poverty, more than economic, that a Singer-Songwriter like Francesco Guccini decides to leave the stage, to self-scrap.

❝ "LINKIN PARK IS THE GREATEST BAND IN THE WORLD"

❝ Emily Armstrong said she does not want to replace Chester Bennington; her goal is to make him proud.

❝ I’m lost in these memories

❝ "I am not a slave to a God that doesn’t exist. I am not a slave to a world that doesn’t give a shit."

❝ for five years Manson was thepublicenemynumber1 of American pop, probably the most perfect and memorable it has ever had.

❝ Marilyn Manson is the perfect sci-fi metaphor of Christianity.

❝ All my life I've had bad dreams

❝ If shit were music, you'd be a brass band

❝ I'm the only one left alive

❝ Besides, when Al Cisneros begins his grunted mantra drop out of life with bong in hand you're already over the Ligurian mountains, and I swear, if it doesn't give you the precise idea of what it's like to feel omnipotent, perhaps you don't have even a shred of self-love, young one.

❝ Kneel in silent reverence before this monolith and don't break the balls that "The Druid Sleeps In Meditation!"

❝ If you are looking for a band that best represented the doom-stoner scene of the '90s and still haven't found it, Sleep will put your mind at ease.

❝ "Take Ben Harper, whiten him to make him look like Jack Johnson, give him a surfboard and send him surfing with Frankenreiter, make him play anything that makes a sound, stick a didgeridoo up his ass and voilà, you have Xavier Rudd."

❝ it's absolutely worth listening to for a nice revival (which isn't a revival).

❝ The album is good.

❝ Clothes don't make the man (at most, the altar boy).

❝ "The swans have returned."

❝ "We need a dream to escape."

❝ "This is one of the truest works you’ll ever hear, whether you like it or not."

❝ It pains me to speak ill of a great artist, but this "The Proposition" is a colossal mess, minimal music that aims to be evocative but fails miserably, with barely hinted melodies that don’t even give you time to be absorbed, there is nothing else.

❝ Ten are the stones, like the commandments. Our visionary preacher David Eugene Edwards throws his frontier art in our faces, a music that emits a poetic breath of rare intensity.

❝ The distorted bard of Christianity, the Indian of dark country, the shaman of desert folk, the ever-more abrasive composer of a personal and disorienting gothic western.

❝ This album is immense, insanely unsettling, apocalyptic, classic, it's everything you desire in moments of anger.

❝ It feels serene and claustrophobic at the same time.

❝ The music of BH is made from the same substance as dreams, and “Thank Your Lucky Stars” is no exception.

❝ In my opinion, it is Beach House’s best album, and in all honesty, I would be surprised to hear a better album than this coming out in 2018.

❝ The piano is struck, often violated, with a physical attitude that is audible on the album, while the troubled voice vomits fears emerging from childhood.

❝ Piano and laptop immediately engage in a dialogue with an intense voice, comparable to the pathos of Nico, but with a more gentle aftertaste.

❝ Here she comes, our little sad girl.

❝ 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:

❝ The Mumford & Sons attempt the leap towards their final step, the ultimate maturation, with this new “Delta,” the fourth studio album from the British group.

❝ Take the Fleet Foxes and move them to England. Mix them together with some good country rock and you have Mumford & Sons.

❝ “Anastasis” comes from Greek and means “resurrection”: this is what you find written everywhere.

❝ 1981, the Dead Can Dance are born: one of the most innovative and mysterious bands of the decade.

❝ Solemn and mystical ceremonial, “Spleen and Ideal” presents itself as the ideal boundary between popular music and medieval religious chant.

❝ 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.

❝ Can we perhaps say that the Bride is truly dying?

❝ Melancholy, death, faith, love, anguish, gloomy scenarios, pain.

❝ There are records that you may or may not like, that can move those who listen, that can make you reflect, albums to listen to quickly on the beach or while jogging, and albums that need time to be fully absorbed.

❝ The Men is a project that hasn't always convinced me and, in some cases, I even found it absolutely negligible (off the top of my head, "New Moon" and "Tomorrow's Hits" come to mind).

❝ Manuel sings well and never slips up, his voice and his Thai-Chi-forged biceps both in top shape.

❝ Hai paura del buio? is an album in which fragments of hardcore, folk, electronic, psychedelia, jazz, grunge, and even pop coexist, yet it never gives the impression of being confused or scattered and instead manages to captivate with the class it displays in virtually every single moment.

❝ A violent album. These words would be enough to give an idea of "Germi."

❝ The Enslaved have a special gift. A twenty-year career without ever missing a beat or losing focus: very few can boast of such a feat.

❝ This disc embodies paganism in music without ever being garish or redundant.

❝ Released in the now distant 1994, it lives on those epic-funereal atmospheres that made the fortune of Nordic metal;

❝ there is a crack in everything and that's where the light gets in.

❝ Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.

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"We are all children of the same Mother Earth, without differences in religion or race".

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"I cannot help but consider that Mark Tremonti is not just a guitarist, at least not anymore."

❝ an immersive headphone listen

❝ Deep deep talent/And we’ve lost a big one

❝ 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.

❝ "Queen of Golden Dogs" is an album that captivated me from the very first listen.

❝ Athletics is a band from Asbury Park, New Jersey, composed of vocalist Garret Yager along with Jimmy Boyce, John Cannon, Howie Cohen, and Zachary West.

❝ I certainly think so, Ariel Pink is to be taken as he is, or left.

❝ If we stripped away the patina of low fidelity that permeates the 23 songs that make up "Grandes Exitos", which is also an integral part of the fascination the whole work exerts on me, we would be faced with tracks that wouldn’t pale in the productions of S. Merrit, B. Eyes, or C. F. T. P. A., albeit with due distinctions and just to mention some similar yet much more celebrated figures.

❝ But I still prefer to define him as an evoker of memories: after many listens you realize that it’s not easy at all to “copy” as he does. And he does it excellently.

❝ Toy manage to sound fresh and inspired even though the specific weight of their proposal, in terms of innovative impact, is zero or almost.

❝ An album that can be loved or hated but certainly does not leave one indifferent upon listening.

❝ La cura si sente già, la cura si sente già, la cura si sente, lo so che mi sta giovando anno dopo anno...

❝ I met you during the day and I find you here / You didn't talk to me about Tom Verlaine four years ago / You don't remember that you told me you're a punk / You're looking for trouble

❝ 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.

❝ An indisputable masterpiece of the last decade signed by Dr. J. Spaceman!

❝ That said, “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space” remains a timeless masterpiece of alternative music, a sort of “Dark Side of the Moon” of the ’90s.

❝ It’s space rock that cannot, and does not want to, overcome the force of gravity.

❝ 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.

❝ Simplicity is a virtue.

❝ A record to be listened to strictly with eyes closed.

❝ Sunday... no more meh, replaced by a total addiction that has now been going on for a month and shows no signs of stopping.

❝ The Orange Goblin are damn hard metalheads by now.

❝ Blue Snow is like a punch right to the face, dirty, rough, and cursed.

❝ Beer and sand from gloomy England.

❝ Entities unclassifiable are the Liars.

❝ They titled their latest album "Drum's Not Dead" and damn it if that drum is alive and kicking.

❝ One of the best releases of 2004: the Liars, a New York trio led by Angus Andrew, leave behind what they had achieved in their first release and in the split with Oneida to amaze us, with a capital A.

❝ The stereo plays "Gemini" by Wild Nothing, an ethereal lo-fi creation by Jack Tatum, an unknown and eclectic singer-songwriter from Virginia in his first endeavor, and the walls dissolve, the floor melts under the weight of a sugary shoegaze caramelized that fills the entire room with very eighties dream-pop sounds.

❝ An interesting foray of the Wild Nothing trademark into contiguous territories but not precisely those of origin.

❝ Pitch black, dominant darkness. The debut of the Belgians Amenra is something perverse, possessed, monotonous.

❝ Dealing with an Amenra show is an unforgettable sonic and visual experience.

❝ with heavyweight tracks like "Solitary Reign", among the most beautiful ever written by Amenra.

❝ "The wind, the smells. No. A distant song. Or my step on the cobblestones. In the darkness, I don't know. But I know I'm home." Elio Vittorini, Return - Sicilian Almanac.

❝ this Sicilian singer-songwriter, Lorenzo Urciullo, known as Colapesce, is exactly a little gem who is making his way more and more into the Italian independent music scene: his second album (released in February 2015), "Egomostro", is testament to this.

❝ Few bands open their hearts to serve it on a twelve-centimeter-diameter platter. 

❝ Novelty is the watchword for this group, always.

❝ The Gathering has always proven to be a chameleon-like band, emblematic in its musical directions.

❝ “Belus” is simply Burzum, and this statement should suffice to silence all the black champions of the extremes of the noughties.

❝ "Filosofem" by Burzum is a beautiful album.

❝ But, in the end, what truly matters is that the music of Burzum, whether it be beautiful or ugly, precious or negligible as it may appear, can answer to one single, indisputable word: Freedom.

❝ “Sometimes They Come Back”

❝ “Mark Lanegan has a frayed voice and the words fall from his throat.”

❝ “I’ll get to the point; there is no trace of self-pity, only disarming sincerity.”

❝ “Certain albums you listen to at the wrong moment. Or at the right moment.”

❝ This "Begin To Hope" is, in short, an excellent work, engaged and uncommitted just enough, aimed at those who miss the eccentricity of the pre-motherhood Tori Amos and those who are tired of having only Fiona Apple as the sole heroine of female singer-songwriters.

❝ And then there's this fresh voice, full-bodied, sullen yet playful, fluttering, at times terribly confidential as if it seemed to address You directly.

❝ The show, even amidst your tears, your heart-wrenching cries, will go on, until that girl lifts her hands from her instrument.

❝ A voice and a guitar, guitar and voice, seven acoustic ballads, thirty-four minutes: these are the numbers of “The Wake”, which only on a couple of occasions is tainted by the poised electricity of a slide guitar (by Frank Sullivan), while Daemon Kelly is credited on bass, without his instrument disrupting the coordinates of a work that remains the superhuman effort of a man and his guitar.

❝ Nothing but his voice, at times whispered, at times clearer and brighter, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and very little else.

❝ During the performance of "Sky is Over", the impression that Serj's voice absolutely commands the situation is confirmed, and the choice of symphonic-lyrical arrangements is no accident.

❝ this is not a Nu Metal album, it is not a musically aggressive album, it seems not to be a Serj Tankian album, it seems.

❝ We are herds that hurt each other with lies.

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It’s pointless now if you come to tell me "yes, but Siamese Dream was something else" because yes, even Manowar knows that Siamese Dream was something else.

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Okay, "Mellon Collie..." is the album everyone considers the undisputed manifesto of the Smashing Pumpkins, but I much prefer this "Adore", to the point that I consider it the true masterpiece of the group.

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This album is something beyond music, something precious that Billy wanted to gift to the world.

❝ One of the most beautiful of those years, an example of high-level symphonic rock, on par with the great classics.

❝ Locanda delle Fate declared they wanted to aim, without tricks and gimmicks, at an ordinary pop-rock…

❝ Sasso confirms himself as a charismatic and expressive singer, an excellent performer of that romantic progressive that has always been the group’s trademark.

❝ “If hatred could be perfectly put into music, that music would belong to Unsane.”

❝ “Unsane: the perfect band to play at your 5-year-old child's birthday party.”

❝ “They are three, but they make noise for thirty.”