Best artist of 2013 secondo DeBaser.

❝ 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.

❝ 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...

❝ In the aftermath of the well-known 1990 helicopter accident that deprived the world of the crystal-clear talent of a Stevie Ray Vaughan at the peak of his career, some of the major American labels specializing in blues-rock immediately set out in search of someone who could at least partially fill the void left by the Dallas guitarist, axemen capable of satisfying the growing number of \u0022hard-blues\u0022 enthusiasts that developed during those years, thanks especially to the lightning career of Mr. SRV.

❝ The essence of New Order is here, along with the origins of much of the music produced in recent years.

❝ Fuck U2, this is New Order!

❝ Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!

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

❝ Sweet Tea is nothing but an extremely gritty, raw blues record, with nothing sweet about it.

❝ Buddy Guy this time leaves the electric guitar at home and doesn’t leave it because he forgot... quite the opposite... he leaves it because this time he doesn’t need it, this time a good acoustic guitar and a good microphone are enough and more to create yet another great blues masterpiece.

❝ How many guitar styles this artist has influenced is impossible to say, but it is worth remembering how a great like Eric Clapton said that his career as a musician was strongly influenced by him.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ The question here isn’t whether you own 'Made In Japan', but: which version do you have?

❝ The Deep Purple, then! Even though they are all more or less in their sixties, except for Steve Morse, our guys manage to rock like never before.

❝ I am "selfish," I wish that Deep Purple had stopped making records after "Perfect Stranger";

❝ "\u201COrchestrion\u201D is Pat Metheny’s latest madness."

❝ "undoubtedly delivers one of the masterpieces of his decades-long career."

❝ "... a new milestone in electric guitar music... searing, soaring, twisted chords of action guitar/thought process. An incendiary work by an unpredictable master, a challenge to the challengers..."

❝ 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).

❝ When the alien DavidBowie, restless astronaut of the deepest spaces of the human soul, encounters the musical architect of perfect cosmic spaces BrianEno, an extraordinary album emerges.

❝ HE'S OUTRAGEOUS, HE SCREAMS AND HE BAWLS

❝ We know, David Bowie is not a man of this planet, not in a strict sense, at least.

❝ The narrative plot stripped down, streamlined, and summarized: Android 57821 aka Cindy Mayweather, that is, Janelle, has the task of liberating Metropolis from the Great Divide, a dark force dedicated to suppressing freedom and love, against a backdrop borrowed directly from Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

❝ The ArchAndroid is probably the richest and densest sound cauldron of recent years, a nearly perfect blend of tones, moods, flavors, inspirations, and suggestions.

❝ In short, what we have on our hands is a remarkable album, a worthy successor to “The Archandroid” and a candidate for the title of neo-soul milestone.

❝ This record is the freshest thing I've heard in these times that have been very stingy with beautiful things to listen to: it practically blends African rhythms with indie sounds (with an art-pop aftertaste), creating an extremely enjoyable, and here's the beauty, airy, danceable, light, intense work.

❝ Really, even with all the cynicism and acidity in this world, it cannot be denied that they performed a handful of simple but fun songs, naturally derivative (two names come to mind: Police and Jonathan Richman) but with a personal touch, which is all you can ask of today's rock-pop-punk-etc (I correct myself: of all time).

❝ Here of the old VW remains only the trace in 3 songs: the whimsical "Ya hey", the irreverent "Finger back", and the ungainly downtempo ballad "Step".

❝ 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 Man Who” is an absolute masterpiece, an album that will influence countless bands in the years to come (even Chris Martin often candidly admits the enormous influence of Travis on the sound of the earliest Coldplay).

❝ “The radio is playing all the usual and what's a wonderwall anyway”

❝ “Cause you say you love me/ And then you do it again, you do it again”

❝ “Ultimately, we are witnessing the peak creative moment of the 'Phonics, as well as one of the best albums produced by post-britpop Britain.”

❝ “One of the most beautiful debuts of the late nineties, this “Word Gets Around,” highly recommended for anyone who wants to get an idea of Jones and company’s (good) music.”

❝ “Stereophonics continue their positive streak and give us an intense and convincing album, undoubtedly among their best.”

❝ 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.

❝ “Fading Frontiers” is POP, in the most genuine sense of the term. An accessible and positive album: (for newcomers) the ideal way to immerse yourself in the weirdness of Cox’s world.

❝ Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space.

❝ If only there were more bands like Deerhunter.

❝ They confirm themselves as true masters of the Apocalypse translated into the seven notes of the pentagram; grumpy but also ready for openings with strong melodic tints, as already happens in the masterful first track Three Bridges.

❝ The Swedish band needs no introduction, and “Vertikal” is without a shadow of a doubt the confirmation (yet another one) of the worth of an ensemble that can boast the status of a leading force in the post-hardcore realm.

❝ Cult of Luna are post-metal scientists, completely aware of their capabilities,

❝ 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.

❝ Gov’t Mule is not a group, they are a combo; they are dense, powerful, and varied.

❝ Deja Voodoo is an exceptional album; the sound is compact, powerful, and much darker compared to the group’s other works...

❝ Classifying Gov’t Mule under a single label is becoming increasingly difficult over the years and albums.

❝ "eh, but they haven't changed at all, they're just like twenty years ago."

❝ "What you hear on \"Loveless\" really exists. And it's not a wall of sound, it's a vortex, something in front, behind, above, and below you, something you feel in your belly, under your tongue, something that suffuses you."

❝ Stage Four is Jeremy's dedication to his mother, Sandy.

❝ This is survived by a love. This is survived by a fear; that all that's left when said and done is words you will never ever hear.

❝ Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me is the album of the definitive confirmation of a huge, brilliant, and exciting band. Applaudable.

❝ Indeed. The Altar of Plagues of “White Tomb” were pure poetry.

❝ No longer four long tracks (a scheme adopted in both previous works), but nine disjointed and alienating shards for about forty-eight minutes of distorted and at times sensational post-black metal.

❝ Mammal is this, it’s a train projected towards the end, laden with despair and tragic malaise, but a light, after that last final percussion, seems to appear...

❝ An enormous Shakespearean doubt has always tormented me: who are the singers mentioned in the song "Li Immortacci" by Elio e Le Storie Tese, featured in their 1996 album "Eat The Phikis", where the entertaining and very amused participations of Giorgia and Edoardo Vianello stand out?

❝ There is genuine genius in the words.

❝ It’s a sort of mantra but also an admission of guilt.

❝ 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.

❝ Singularity is designed to be listened to from start to finish without any interruption, without distinction between the various tracks.

❝ In any case, Immunity, a melancholy work of the night, shines in all its modernity, acclaiming Jon Hopkins in all his genius, finally autonomous.

❝ "I'm dying." - "Is it blissful?" "It's like a dream." "I want to dream."

❝ Deafheaven know how to be devastating and desperately invigorating, that is their greatest ability.

❝ Extreme album, but with class.

❝ 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..

❝ 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:

❝ Boards Of Canada are a mystery.

❝ It is a nocturnal journey within oneself and simultaneously through thirty years of avant-garde electronics.

❝ The rest is almost unlistenable.

❝ A classical guitar and a microphone.

❝ Never have I listened to an album as flawless and perfect as this "Veneer": tracks that reveal themselves as true sung Haikus evoking inaccessible immateriality in a true sophisticated aesthetic triumph; an ode to thoughtfulness, in a hypnotic and seductive sound flow.

❝ The new Nick Drake comes from Northern Europe.

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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."

❝ Drums and two guitars – who plays what and how are insignificant details – no bass.

❝ The Oblivians were born in the wrong era; the big garage rock boom would explode only five or six years later.

❝ A kind of carbonara of rock n' roll: A well-known recipe that, when executed with skill, never disappoints;

❝ The return of the Colonel.

❝ A nice distorted and lucid journey at the same time, a vortex of deep trance, a frenetic and obsessive tribal dance, explosions and blows of pure malice, a cosmic ritual from which you will wake up fully satisfied if what you were looking for was an hour of (un)healthy escape from reality.

❝ The important thing is to get there, once more.

❝ A BLAST BEAT. IN A DOOM PIECE! OK!!

❝ Aviary by Julia Holter is one of the best albums of the last 20 years and a masterpiece of all music.

❝ Pretentiousness? Ambition, rather, for an artist who redefines what it means, in the second decade of the third millennium, to be an avant-garde singer-songwriter.

❝ Holter's voice enchants and prefers to move on expanded bases, using reverbs and echoes that enhance its depth and volume.

❝ Today, I am very pleased to talk about one of the most interesting bands in the entire underground scene of the Marche region.

❝ "Phosphene Dream" is a tormented and lysergic high, a psych'n'roll through desert hallucinations that traverse the well-trodden ground halfway between the psychedelia of compatriots 13th Floor Elevators and the paranoid and decadent style of Velvet Underground.

❝ What comes out of the speakers is more than an Easter, it is an epiphany. An epiphany of fascinating 60s acid residues.

❝ Directions To See A Ghost is a magnetic, carcinogenic, and "dangerous" album. A wicked thought that fades the rainbow, a wicked snake in the grass.

❝ 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 tremendously expressive voice that echoes and amplifies that nostalgic aura permeating every song in the young discography of our group.

❝ Emotionally, it is challenging to listen to, but as reiterated at the beginning, the tracks, though set on a single mood, ingeniously alternate in an LP that, all things considered, proves honest and sincere, unlike many other bands where melancholy and similar moods seem a bit too forced and not genuine.

❝ The result is music for perfectly matching parallel universes, where every full is faced with the void it creates, and vice versa.

❝ What moves the music of These New Puritans is risk.

❝ I'm constantly thinking of our legacy, and how it'll be looked back on in ten years' time. The dream would be for people to still not 'get' what we were trying to do

❝ A fantastic example of musical autonomy, people who don't care much about pleasing others!

❝ 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.

❝ “So what the fuck you are going to do, kid?”

❝ “This stage tonight is not mine, it’s yours too, feel free to come up here with me, you are us”

❝ “Old Fears, New Frontiers”

❝ “Fake Empire”, piano, drums, and voice crescendo, is simply a great song.

❝ “I’m just so tired of thinking about everything / I’m not afraid of being alone,”

❝ Essentially a collection of nocturnal laments, 'Sleep Well Beast' is a kind of lullaby that cradles the listener in a comforting scale of grays and soft lights, ultimately making them dream with open eyes while putting that 'beast' we all carry inside us to sleep and that we need to keep at bay to purify our soul.

❝ 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.

❝ The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have that something extra.

❝ Welcome to the Goldfrapp atelier!

❝ This album is exactly like that, like a calzone.

❝ We had lost her, Alison.

❝ Tomahawk is what many would call a supergroup because of the distinguished figures from notable bands within a certain scene present in its lineup.

❝ this first Tomahawk album is a real trip, which makes me think of trashy fake chic hotel rooms with black sheets and lines of coke spread out on the table.

❝ Every piece is a rearrangement of very old songs from the Native American tradition, and the results are wonderfully diverse from one another.

❝ The firstborn is dead... let the sky break, spew out its tears and dress in mourning this red earth.

❝ I don't believe in an interventionist God but if I did I would ask Him to watch over you

❝ Nick Cave was probably (surely) the greatest rock star of the last thirty years.

❝ 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.

❝ Blessed Youth (sonic, but not that much)

❝ Finally a group that bewilders my senses.

❝ It’s no coincidence they are called Arbouretum.

❝ This is rock.

❝ 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.

❝ Neil Fallon is the soul of Clutch, the band’s lyricist, who sometimes screams and attacks nearly in a growl without mercy, providing a perfect counterbalance to the massive and aggressive riffs that Tim Sult skillfully blends, creating a savage, deliberately raw, vintage, and catchy sound, and at times almost whispers teasingly, irreverent and mischievous, among Sult’s heavy melodic lines.

❝ Clutch can be trusted, you can be assured, they know hard rock like the back of their hand and they don’t try to screw you over

❝ Neil Fallon, the man with more whiskey in his body and cigarettes smoked than history remembers.

❝ Well you can lead a horse to water
But you're never gonna make him drink
And you can lead a man to slaughter
But you're never gonna make him think

❝ the merry consumer who ends up being the food at a bigger feast

❝ And that voice, damn what a voice! Everything is perfect, a sonic paradise.

❝ I say Voivod and I immediately write PERFECTION!!! Never a wrong album in 35+ years of career. Psychedelic-mutant, evolutionary, space Thrash Metal.

❝ They are Voivod, the flying Canadian masters...THE WORLD TODAY...

❝ Killing Technology” is the third phase of that process of deconstructing the thrash genre that will lead Voivod to the most beautiful pages of their career.

❝ A winter melancholy, fresh snow trip hop and lulling electronics. 

❝ O God of Progressive Metal, give me the strength to properly celebrate this immortal, powerful, heartbreaking, rocky, emotional, deeply suffered MASTERPIECE.

❝ Dream Theater is either loved or hated, there are no middle grounds, almost like Juventus.

❝ The void. The nothingness.

❝ Then they discovered post-rock: "Low Level Owl Vol. 1-2" is a monumental treatise on how to make ethereal rock with gusto: expanded chords, liquid voice used as if it were an additional instrument, icy melancholy slathered on bare backs.

❝ This album proves to be a fundamental milestone for the band, elevating them to heights where the air is more rarefied, and allowing them to gaze at the horizon from above a cold, foggy landscape that is at once serene, still, and of great spiritual impact.

❝ With “Mare Vitalis,” the band finds its own original sound oriented towards Post Rock, which will later become their primary genre, yet consistently creating excellent albums.

❝ “One of the things I am most proud of, in my heart, is that Black Sabbath was not created by any big shot... we were four losers who wanted to try to make a dream come true, which ultimately did, exceeding all expectations.”

❝ Black Sabbath practically invented heavy metal out of nothing.

❝ We were not hippies, and we hated the hippies

❝ Born in the early eighties to emulate the characteristics of the purest classic "heavy metal," Fates Warning will be remembered for their direct contribution to the development of Progressive Metal undertaken after a succession of integral and radical changes both in their line-up and in the sound they produced.

❝ "Parallels" (1991), in my opinion, is the best starting point for listening to Fates Warning, especially for those who have never heard of them.

❝ A Pleasant Shade Of Gray, which is almost unanimously considered their masterpiece.

❝ A seminal work, (such as Radiohead's "Kid A," for instance) but above all, of great quality.

❝ 1997, Warp Records: Rob Brown and Sean Booth release their absolute masterpiece, a concentrate of creativity and experimentation like never heard before within the then-hot IDM phenomenon.

❝ “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”, and the impression is that Autechre, notwithstanding two or three tracks, have produced a good album, simple and listenable as hasn't happened for a decade.

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

❝ Obaro Ejimiwe, known as Ghostpoet, a London artist with Nigerian-Dominican origins, has long been, thanks to his alien spoken word, the true heir to the slurred, slacker hip hop of Tricky, as well as a 2.0 hipster on the verge of success and attentive to the right radical chic collaborations.

❝ Recorded once again by Steve Albini, it is a partly difficult work, yet direct.

❝ Scout Niblett is essential, her songs are voice, guitar, and sometimes drums; her voice can get inside you and unsettle you: it's haunting, but also angry, much like her guitar, clean and crystalline, but ready for distortion and the drum's entrance in the more explosive parts.

❝ I finally understand what "ear-splitting" means.

❝ Until not so long ago, I didn't know who Teho Teardo was, or rather, I didn't know that the music, the soundtracks for films by Salvatores and Sorrentino were his: blissful ignorance.

❝ Personal, passionate, rough, heavy, captivating, and wonderfully dirty as always.

❝ the disc (excuse the archaic definition, but we folks born with vinyl in hand are like that) in the end is good and I like it: it doesn't break eardrums because it doesn't want to. It's something else.

❝ They proved to be an energetic, raw, definitely rough band (from a guitar perspective, I expected more from the two Fender-strapped minstrels, but Collins' big hands didn't always slide away artfully), very tight but not overwhelming in the rhythm section and enjoyable in the particularity of the two drums (Blackwell & Pantano, precise, not overflowing, truly tight) and with Troy Gregory (with an old Rickenbacker) doing his part well without overdoing it.

❝ Our Caroline has always been a scholar of jazz music, as well as a vocal teacher of the same genre, which in her records gets mixed with almost hip-hop beats and electronic sounds (consider singles like "Stuck" or "Back It Up"); to crown it all, there is an exquisitely elegant voice with a level of interpretive class that is increasingly rare to find.

❝ Her voice evidently draws inspiration from the way of singing of bygone years: she seems to have stepped out of a cabaret show.

❝ 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.

❝ In the vast sea of alternative-indie-experimental-canadian-rock offerings, "Images de Futur" (released in 2013 after their first 2010 release "Zeroes QC") emerges like a gigantic rogue wave of overwhelming beauty.

❝ they show a more oppressive and even more kraut aesthetic than in previous releases, which evolves their music like a path that widens while remaining straight;

❝ I get very scared when an artist announces a "return to roots": in 99% of cases it is a terrible euphemism to avoid declaring themselves dead, without creativity, and devoid of ideas, but in this case, luckily, none of that.

❝ Stromae uses very (and sometimes too) simple and elementary sounds to craft a pleasant collection of electro-house tracks,

❝ A reclusive and solitary character, yet a musician capable of delivering significant works in the subdued world of doom metal.

❝ Avatarium remains one of the few certainties.

❝ the album seems to push forward a true concept of dehumanization of music, with an extremely mechanical execution and obstinately resistant to any form of progression.

❝ Electroma is a masterpiece of images and sounds comparable to a Stanley Kubrick film!

❝ If this relationship achieves a 50/50 proportion in Tron Legacy (putting aside for now a screenplay from which I expect nothing good), we could say that Daft Punk did a good job.

❝ Fragments is indeed a product of our times, characterized by detachment, reflection, solitude.

❝ the liquid atmosphere felt within the title track with a backdrop of distant melancholic vocal echoes, which features a piano collaboration by Jon Hopkins, is sublime.

❝ The entire album is a journey within different genres and styles, skillfully mixed into a sound that can only be categorized as Bonobo.

❝ Atmosphere, music that captures the mind, transports you to a world of despair, it’s not just the voice that screams emotions; it’s the notes.

❝ I wasted more time reflecting on this than on the entire rest of the album.