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❝ 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.
❝ After forty years, evolving is not taken for granted, and often it is done in the opposite direction. But not here, not this time.
❝ My band and I never talk about this album, and we don’t even play it at concerts.
❝ No doubt, this album is an absolute must-have.
❝ 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.
❝ We all remember Nada Surf thanks to their splendid debut "High/Low" released back in 1996, when with the single "Popular," which was highly played even by MTV, they achieved a good international success.
❝ She is very young and already a promise of jazz.
❝ He plays jazz. He plays the double bass. He sings divinely. He has a good appearance.
❝ It is impossible not to be swept away by the drive of "Carry on Wayward Son".
❝ Kansas means great hard rock with progressive virtuosity and hints of country, also thanks to the presence of the violin.
❝ This sublime album represents one of the cornerstones of 70s rock, with ten tracks marking one of the last worthy events of Progressive ROCK, and I write in capital letters ROCK because subsequently Prog Metal will be born.
❝ "Gossip in the Grain" is truly a masterpiece, one of those albums that grow on you listen after listen, and then you want to hear it again; in short, one of those that will never tire you.
❝ Trouble (RCA-2004), his debut album, is the proof.
❝ 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.
❝ Santana is sweat, it is eroticism, it is shaking your ass to the relentless rhythm even if you're at a funeral.
❝ So let's confidently be guided by our expert shaman and embark on this adventure called "Caravanserai."
❝ This album should be listened to with company, because it must be danced to.
❝ “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”
❝ But go see him.
❝ It's impossible to detach from the hypnosis of this album,
❝ "The Calm Before" nears musical perfection and grace, tickles sensitive souls, offers forty minutes of sorrowful apparent calm before "something or someone" unleashes within our soul.
❝ This is "Mariner".
❝ This beautiful "One", piano solo from 2005, contains 12 original compositions, with a duration of 40'.
❝ 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.
❝ King Of Limbs is the opposite, a record made by Radiohead for Radiohead, experimental well beyond excess. Fake. Pretentious. Artificial. An exercise in style without spirit.
❝ It has everything: power, sweetness, the difficulty of living, irony, social criticism, harmony, love.
❝ Thom Yorke is undoubtedly capable of evoking forgotten sensations and distant memories.
❝ What you hear on this album - and perhaps this is the most important thing, the first thing to say - is a performer with no more limits, a singer with a stratospheric command of his technical means.
❝ And I hate you Romans, I hate you all, a nasty gang of sycophants and intriguers, poorly or well disguised, as intellectuals and saints, I hate you Romans all of you.
❝ "Dedicated to John Lennon, sung in room 2 of Abbey Road Studios in London, the favorite room of The Beatles, with the valve microphone used for Strawberry Field. In the string quartet of Fragole infinite, summoned by Sir George Martin, the viola and first violin played in Sgt. Pepper... For me, these are great satisfactions"
❝ 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.
❝ 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.
❝ this is the land of broken dreams
❝ The long farewell of Richmond Fontaine is probably completed with this last unexpected album (El Cortez/Decor Records), a sort of appendix that the group wanted to add to “You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing To Go Back To” (2016) and which was recorded on the occasion of the release of the singer, musician, and writer Willy Vlautin’s latest novel.
❝ It’s tough to consider this their last album.
❝ "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."
❝ In short: the album theoretically sucks but, in practice, I really like it.
❝ But the awkwardness is an essential part of Weezer, just like the awkward people who listen to them.
❝ Welcome back Weezer, oddballs that you are.
❝ Sia's career is one of the most paradoxical in recent pop history: a successful songwriter for artists like Rihanna and Katy Perry, when she works for herself, she doesn't achieve the same accolades.
❝ 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 let my fears materialize. I let my skills deteriorize.
❝ Insane flow, impossible metrics, monstrous speed changes, metaphors so cultured and cryptic and an unbelievable use of alliteration; here and there some enjambment (as if it were poetry) and most importantly: the content!
❝ "life's not a bitch, life is a BEEEEOOOTCH who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace out searching for the g-spot! Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests or maybe you're just an asshole and maybe I'M JUST AN ASSHOLE"
❝ 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.
❝ "These guys are criminals."
"These guys are criminals."
❝ "The fact remains that these three gentlemen have now returned to being the best power trio around."
"The fact remains that these three gentlemen have now returned to being the best power trio around."
❝ "We are the Motorpsycho. Your musical and cultural characteristics will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
"We are the Motorpsycho. Your musical and cultural characteristics will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
❝ No fillers, a great display of craftsmanship by the now-trusted producer James Ford (of Simian Mobile Disco) and a perfect balance between the voices of the two protagonists magnificently complete the picture.
❝ Dreamy, intense, virile, and at times dark, "The Age of Understatement" is a record where our puppets seem to become aware of their personal and artistic maturation; and I add: it's an album that hits like a rapier in a contemporary English scene today perhaps very overrated, in some respects.
❝ The Puppets' pop manages to be unusual and at the same time titillating, while always keeping in mind that these are still 22-year-olds dealing with countless influences, often tending to overdo it.
❝ Surely this Aftertime is not an album for everyone, obsessive, noisy, disharmonic and deafening.
❝ Third Law "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction".
❝ We are men, but we sleep in deep holes dug in the ground, we nourish ourselves with what we can.
❝ This new, latest disc by Ulan Bator is beautiful.
❝ Ulan Bator, to be fair, have never missed the mark, not a single album that was a failed experiment, not a single album below average, and two phases must be distinguished:
❝ Tracks like "Soeur Violence" or "Pensées Massacres" cut through the air like sharp blades, not to mention European indie landmarks like "Santa Lucia", whose expanded final drift was a real suspension in limbo.
❝ More than just a simple collection of songs or a generational manifesto: a lesson in life.
❝ An eternal, timeless creation. Most likely not just for me.
❝ Works like this are priceless in today’s world.
❝ The Descendents are one of the best bands in history, period, end of story.
❝ Despite their historical importance on American soil, and beyond, the Descendents remain an underrated band that has surely not been given the proper recognition relative to their value, merits, and strong influence on many future bands.
❝ The Descendents have never been seriously a band, more of a project to make fun music and captivate girls by the band's own admission, never too well-known to the general public but a small phenomenon in the underground.
❝ Jad Fair is a true genius. A true amateur. A true alternative.
❝ Crazy. Absurd. Shocking. In one word: genius.
❝ The blindest noise has never been so creative.
❝ 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.
❝ “Scenes From the South Island” was the first album (instrumental) of his solo career and it is a true tribute and declaration of love to the southern islands of his homeland: New Zealand.
❝ …and then, suddenly, she arrives. Death.
❝ A masterpiece of psychedelia
❝ Raised on bread and gospel, with practically no contact with popular culture due to her father's wishes, an Adventist pastor whose work required him and his family to move around the globe, Diane Birch is a talented singer-songwriter and pianist who, in 2009, after gaining attention on MySpace and signing a contract with S-Curve Records, released "Bible Belt", a remarkable debut album entirely written and composed by her.
❝ Just when I was beginning to wonder what had happened to her, I find out that Diane Birch has released a new album.
❝ 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.
❝ Radian, Viennese class of the 90's
❝ 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.
❝ Fire! are now a well-established reality in the world of avant-jazz and fusion music.
❝ Massive album, amen.
❝ One of the most shocking musical discoveries made in recent years!
❝ Probably the album of the year.
❝ A little John Martyn making progress, but also progressive. And then there’s a lot of jazz, besides the solid and indestructible foundation of 60s style folk references.
❝ This guy from Rockford, Illinois certainly has an extraordinary talent that he continues to develop more and more with each album.
❝ Material goods as a metaphor to analyze the sense of finitude and precariousness of people and their emotions.
❝ Who are Quercia? A band from Iglesias formed at the beginning of the year that is about to end, and in September they released Non è vero che non ho più l'età.
❝ Few albums achieve total perfection.
❝ A Tribe Called Quest is a rap group that was part of the Zulu Nation back in the day.
❝ And if you wanna get the rhythm... Then you have to join a Tribe.
❝ 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.
❝ 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.
❝ All good things come to an end.
❝ A particularly capable musician who is aware of what he is doing and trying to propose to his audience, we can liken Doug Tuttle to his great masters like a musician such as Dino Valente and particularly to a guitarist and composer like George Harrison.
❝ At the beginning of 2015, Dr. Dre, after hearing him on Knxwledge productions, called him to contribute to 6 tracks (more than any other guest) on “Compton,” the soundtrack of the biopic “Straight Outta Compton” and the recording comeback of the ex-NWA producer; Paak responded in the best way, attracting numerous accolades.
❝ The ease with which SOIA makes my adrenaline rise is a quality that not many possess.
❝ They manage to produce one of the best hardcore punk records ever immediately placing themselves alongside giants like Minor Threat and Black Flag, taking up the reins of the movement that would inherit these groups' legacy.
❝ Sick Of It All are like a train.
❝ A joyful, whimsical, sunny, spring-like, bizarre, and eclectic album, well played and even better produced.
❝ In short, a mess. Actually, a beautiful mess.
❝ With this new work, The Coral decidedly return to levels more befitting their talent; great news, considering that at full capacity, they are a band fully capable of producing instant classics of absolute caliber.
❝ A shiver down the spine, accompanied by the phenomenon commonly known as goosebumps.
❝ The Underworld, aka Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, and Darren Emerson, are the group that more than any other, in the last decade of the past century, have revolutionized the concept of "club culture", profoundly marking the evolution of modern "dance" electronic sounds.
❝ Hypnotic masterpiece.
❝ Behind the pseudonym "Birdy" we find a sixteen-year-old English girl who I honestly believe possesses great talent.
❝ Birdy is a nice revelation, in my opinion, alongside Diane Birch, one of the best young talents to have made their way in the music field in recent years.
❝ in an incredibly flat pop context like the current one, "Beautiful Lies" stands out for being honest and sounding out of time and trends
❝ These four Scottish guys (two guitars, bass, drums, and percussion, with the addition of keyboards, melodica, and a mandolin) release an album that's entirely their own work even if filled with echoes of things they love.
❝ A nice surprise, 11 pieces suspended in the most classic British atmospheres leaning towards the 70s folk.
❝ It's important to clarify what "Dookie" actually is: it's "poop," but not only that; it's the boredom, anger, fun, and "meanness" of three guys.
❝ This results in "American Idiot", a public denunciation of George W.'s administration set like a rock opera.
❝ The real gem is in the simplicity of "Time Of Your Life", in those strings that give you goosebumps!
❝ From now on, for a barbecue "Nude With Boots" is like charcoal: essential.
❝ few bands on this planet can boast as much influence on the entire rock scene as the Melvins.
❝ The rock historiography tells us that the Melvins chose their band name in honor of an unfortunate Christmas tree thief from Aberdeen, named Melvin.
❝ In short, it is not music, but a true musical anabasis.
❝ I LOVE YOU.
❝ In my opinion, a clear 2-0, and we’ll see each other again in a couple of seasons.
❝ My approach to the music of BADBADNOTGOOD was random.
❝ Everything is resolved in the performance, in the musical act, in the interaction between the instruments
❝ Everything is improvised and recorded live. It's something incredible, absolutely extraordinary.
❝ the Norwegian Supersilent undoubtedly represent one of the most interesting and original realities in the contemporary music scene.
❝ “Suede must be unpleasant”
❝ “We are in tune with 18-year-olds who buy vinyls, not with bands that adapt to the radio. I want to appeal more to this kind of people than the mainstream. I want to go completely against the current trends.”
❝ Never take anything for granted, in life as in the music field.
❝ 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.
❝ "Malverde" has the power of a granite slap straight to the teeth.
❝ But the masterpiece of “Behavior” is certainly the poignant “Being Boring”, in our view one of the peaks of pop of all time, also thanks to a video clip that made history.
❝ “B-sides allow you to be creative. No rules to follow, no need to sound radio-friendly, the possibility to experiment and broaden the catalog.”
❝ “We wanted twelve potential singles”, Neil declared in 2001.
❝ 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.
❝ With the refinement work of producer Justin Meldal-Johnson, "New Material" is clearly an album inspired by a certain dark aesthetic and subculture typically of the eighties and with clearly destructive and nihilistic content.
❝ Do not rest on your laurels, change, take risks, shed skin, try new solutions: all of this is Thrice.
❝ Thrice confirm themselves as one of the most interesting contemporary bands in the Rock field. Why let them slip away?
❝ Now on their eighth album, they still manage to surprise after 11 years of constant evolution with countless experiments and changes in sound that have not prevented them from getting it right every single time.
❝ The moon reflects its brilliance in the splendid still waters of a black lake.
❝ Magic, this disc is pure auditory magic, and I could even end it here, this review, but I have to explain why.
❝ Because this is the level of ignorance, brazenness and "musical" insolence that you can find among the tracks of this work by the Savannah trio, whose genre is self-defined as "swamp metal" (what a mega-galactic bullshit).
❝ Yes, strange to say, but the Wave matrix is somewhat the keystone, the essence of Santigold’s offering, though generously disguised as Hip Hop.
❝ An explosive mix of electronic rock, dub, rock steady, and new wave, which builds its strength on hypnotic ditties, for which many of her colleagues would pay gold,
❝ “Raise,” which continues the recording collaboration with We Were Never Being Boring, marks an evolution in the band's sound, signaling a transition from a monochromatic synthetic winter to a fresh and airy spring night.
❝ The trio draws inspiration from the 80s, halfway between jangle pop in the c86/Sarah Records style and more new wave sounds, shoegaze, and more contemporary references like Crocodiles, Crystal Stilts, and certain groups from Captured Tracks (see Beach Fossils and DIIV).
❝ 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.
❝ History probably doesn’t even pass through these parts, but what a masterpiece this "Faking Gold & Murder" is!
❝ Faking Gold and Murder is a successful alchemy between evocative melodies and noisy sounds, an elegant racket with a strong emotional impact and nonetheless a sustained rhythm, characterized by a strong rhythm section with two percussionists with guts.
❝ Best consumed in small doses.
❝ Pelvic oscillations and the brain out of phase.
❝ I am convinced that although it is still April, 'Monographic' will be among those I will consider the must-have albums of 2016 by the end of the year.
❝ Who said that pop must necessarily be banal?
❝ This French duo has an incredible sense for melody and at the same time knows what it truly means to play garage and psychedelic music.
❝ In true Gainsbourg tradition, the duo renews the glories of the 60's toxic-male-femme fatale singing duo, spiced with practically perfect Farfisa and fuzz ("Je Ne Suis Pas Tres Drogué", "Mountain"), sitar, percussion, and dizzying bass lines ("Tigre du Bengale"), minimal ballads ("Chocolate In My Milk"), and amphetamine-laden folk ("Funeral Baby").
❝ They feed on quirky lo-fi like only Pavement can afford, and then they thrive on repetition à-la The Fall, Velvet Underground, Television.
❝ 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.
❝ In the stomach of a pantagruelian space-rock, tingling gastric juices corrode Time, and the psychedelic cyclicity of hyper-noise radiations horribly disfigures the line of the horizon.
❝ Their debut album is a hefty seventy-two-minute colossus and is a masterpiece, no doubt about it.
❝ “Limerick” is a nocturnal storm, a perpetuation of gigantic waves, a continuous swirl inside the ocean, wind and water and night, one of the most intense tracks you can listen to in that fanfare to the futile form that after 1991 went under the name of “post-rock.”
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