Best artist of 2017

1° Matthew Shipp Trio

2° Keb' Mo'

3° Portugal. The Man

❝ 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.

01 Reviews 37 Charts

4° The Black Angels

❝ "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.

06 Reviews 32 Charts 03 Definitions

5° Craig Taborn

12 Charts

6° Ty Segall

❝ This decade has chosen its star: the 1987-born Ty Segall.

❝ Ty Segall is a Californian bloke, raised on bread and garage, just as God intended.

❝ Ty Segall is born a fool, no one will ever take this label from him.

03 Reviews 16 Charts 03 Definitions

7° Quicksand

❝ Post-Hardcore, simplement.

❝ The debut is called Slip, it's 1993.

❝ Yes, anyway, I just wanted to say that the new Quicksand album is really beautiful.

04 Reviews 05 Charts 01 Definitions

8° Taj Mahal

❝ A debut with a bang.

❝ In conclusion, "The Natch'l Blues" is an excellent (soft) blues album that offers 37 minutes of pure relaxation, ideal for starting a day or giving a smile, simply the artist's highest point alongside the subsequent "Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home" which in the future will show particular interest in African music, funk, and world music.

❝ Paying homage to Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, passing through T-Bone Walker and jazz pianist Horace Silver, Taj Mahal creates a homogeneous album (winner of a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album) despite the diversity of genres interpreted, fun and fresh from the first to the last note.

04 Reviews 15 Charts

9° Dan Auerbach

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

01 Reviews 17 Charts

10° Guided by Voices

❝ “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…”

03 Reviews 34 Charts 02 Definitions

11° The New Pornographers

❝ It’s one hell of an album!

❝ At first listen, it is amazing, engaging, powerful.

❝ There are no words to describe what I believe is and will remain the best album of the year.

04 Reviews 30 Charts

12° Converge

❝ “"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.”

22 Reviews 22 Charts 15 Definitions

13° Samantha Fish

08 Charts

14° North Mississippi Allstars

❝ When the debut of the North Mississippi Allstars; "Shake hands with shorty", was released, many hailed it as a miracle.

01 Reviews 10 Charts

15° Imelda May

05 Charts

16° The Charlatans

❝ One To Another is the essence of rock n roll.

❝ They are still the same, unmistakable Charlatans.

❝ A great return, very much a definitive consecration, for a band never quite appreciated and praised enough.

09 Reviews 34 Charts 03 Definitions

17° Aimee Mann

❝ 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.

06 Reviews 20 Charts 01 Definitions

18° Son Volt

10 Charts

19° Charnett Moffett

03 Charts

20° Half Japanese

❝ 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.

06 Reviews 03 Charts 01 Definitions

21° Lawrence English

❝ Sounds lightly painted on a living canvas, free to move in a liberating motion. Expressive freedom.

❝ This is an album that fails to live up to its promises, that irreparably bores, and that does not express anything of significance.

02 Reviews 01 Charts

22° Fleet Foxes

❝ 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.

04 Reviews 13 Charts 02 Definitions

23° Beach Fossils

❝ -Do you like the idea of a new-wave record whose only noteworthy feature is the complete absence of keyboards?

❝ “Somersault” with its desire to take risks could represent the exclamation point of the Beach Fossils, the sudden leap that delivers at perfect timing the ideal pop record to play this summer under the beach umbrella.

02 Reviews 04 Charts

24° Cleo T.

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25° Real Estate

❝ A formally impeccable album, with all the elements in their place, that stands on its legs, but fails to leap and take flight.

❝ an album to be savored from top to bottom.

❝ No rainbow flicks, elastics, and step-overs to provoke standing ovations from the whole stadium, and no jaw-dropping performances, but you could still feel satisfied if Mac DeMarco is on your list, you are looking for sweet caresses on the face, and you are patient enough to reach the closing credits.

03 Reviews 16 Charts

26° Unsane

❝ “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.”

15 Reviews 10 Charts 08 Definitions

27° Thundercat

❝ It Is What It Is: a hollow tautology.

❝ Thundercat is a bit heretical because he plays six strings, the instrument of the evil one, and uses auto wah, which sooner or later should be demonized like Rockit and Adinolfi.

❝ Keep your proto-whatever organic jazz mush contained in this record, if you like.

03 Reviews 03 Charts

28° At the Drive-In

❝ Sound bomb of rare beauty!

❝ These are At The Drive-In: acid and sweeteners. Migraine and ecstasy. Cross and delight. Black and white. Good and evil.

❝ Indescribable and indispensable.

12 Reviews 16 Charts 12 Definitions

29° Metz

❝ Open your ears wide, crank up the volume on your latest-generation i-pods, and be ready to welcome rivers of distortion that will lash your eardrums like a whip.

❝ The plaster has fallen. My kitchen has a hole.

04 Reviews 02 Charts 01 Definitions

30° Dropkick Murphys

❝ It's a bit reductive to label the Dropkick Murphys simply as "punk" because they are not the usual band with one-hit wonder songs and albums all the same with melodies borrowed from NOFX.

❝ Let's Go Murphys!

02 Reviews 02 Charts 05 Definitions

31° Spoon

❝ "Transference" is the album of charm, that charm you discover little by little. And in the end, it doesn't disappoint.

❝ Gimme Fiction is a rock of suspended time, wrapped in a mist of subtle mystery, where it is beautiful to abandon oneself without knowing what is happening or what will happen, because trust in this case is always rewarded with vibrant emotions.

❝ Adding to this mix, with the inclusion of more experimental songs (see Wilco) such as the darker "The Ghost Of You Lingers" and the Hispanic "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case", the guys from Austin brush against (or achieve) a masterpiece.

03 Reviews 12 Charts

32° John Garcia

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33° Elbow

❝ 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.

10 Reviews 20 Charts 02 Definitions

34° Duke Garwood

03 Charts

35° The Bats

❝ If the world were going in the right direction (or at least in a better one than this), in a beautiful world in short, it would be the songs from this album that would be the singles on mainstream radio, this would be a "commercial" band"….

❝ The Bats were among its foremost exponents.

02 Reviews 01 Charts 01 Definitions

36° The Body

01 Reviews 01 Charts

37° Lorde

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"an album about being alone, with its pros and cons"

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I am not a white teeth teen

02 Reviews 01 Charts 01 Definitions

38° Steve Coleman

03 Charts

39° Ufomammut

❝ “8 is a wild and compact, cyclical album. It has neither beginning nor end, a metaphor for the divine fury that harnesses elements and marks the perpetual cosmic flow of Everything.”

❝ “The band from Tortona offers us a concept album that is certainly not easily assimilated, capable of embracing within original and coherent coordinates all the elements of heavy and more distorted psychedelia.”

❝ “A great album: excellently played and produced by Lorenzo Stecconi (from Lento).”

17 Reviews 24 Charts 10 Definitions

40° Bonobo

❝ 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.

04 Reviews 07 Charts 01 Definitions

41° The Charles Lloyd Quartet

02 Charts

42° Charlotte Martin

❝ Well, at the top of my list is the beautiful (the album cover reviewed here does her no justice) American singer-songwriter and pianist Charlotte Martin, practically unknown beyond the borders of her homeland, where she nonetheless has a rather modest following, despite having released nine studio albums and eight EPs.

01 Reviews 06 Charts 01 Definitions

43° Mogwai

❝ 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.

34 Reviews 64 Charts 15 Definitions

44° Scott H. Biram

❝ A "dirty old one-man band" rowdy and a bit flashy (from the notes: lead and harmony vocals, CB radio, loudspeaker, breathing, harmonica, gut all acoustic & electric guitars, Hammond B3 organ, homemade footstomp board, hi-hat, tambourine, claps, hambone, bible thump, special effects and random noises)

01 Reviews 02 Charts 01 Definitions

45° Thalassa

01 Charts

46° Brand New

❝ A devastating masterpiece without even a filler and more generally one of their best albums ever.

❝ I'm on my way to hell.

❝ The track is masterfully driven by the bass, which outlines a simple yet effective and recognizable rhythmic line.

07 Reviews 03 Charts 04 Definitions

47° Harvestman

❝ The beauty of this album transcends any attempt to describe it: a drone delicacy that pervades the simple intertwining notes sprung from Steve Von Till's guitar.

❝ Von Till is a master of electricity and nothing bad can come out of his amplifier.

02 Reviews 02 Charts

48° The Brian Jonestown Massacre

❝ “Come and play folks, you are welcome here. Sure you can smoke!”

❝ “If it's not broken, don't replace it. Leave it alone.”

❝ “Third World Pyramid is just another record from our band: out of focus, out of time, and out of fashion.”

19 Reviews 16 Charts 06 Definitions

49° Chelsea Wolfe

❝ Hiss is the white noise of the universe, the comforting sound. Spun is the addiction and the withdrawals.

07 Reviews 07 Charts 03 Definitions

50° Protomartyr

❝ The opener "Maidenhead," for example, is almost a ballad (central explosion permitting) and is Interpol in its purest form.

❝ The Detroit group, led by the always off-kilter and drunken voice of Joe Casey, achieves the admirable feat of giving us 12 easily assimilated tracks

03 Reviews 04 Charts

51° Matthew Shipp

❝ This beautiful "One", piano solo from 2005, contains 12 original compositions, with a duration of 40'.

01 Reviews 15 Charts

52° The Shins

❝ 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.

07 Reviews 08 Charts

53° Ben Frost

❝ Four long suites in continuous evolution and involution.

❝ there’s no trace of extreme, no too much to succumb to and no drone to suffer for suffering, on The Centre Cannot Hold.

❝ It is not background Ambient music, at most, it is a violent dreamlike journey.

04 Reviews 05 Charts

54° Goldfrapp

❝ Welcome to the Goldfrapp atelier!

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

❝ We had lost her, Alison.

12 Reviews 08 Charts 06 Definitions

55° Kasabian

❝ “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)

26 Reviews 17 Charts 15 Definitions

56° Queens of the Stone Age

❝ 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.

26 Reviews 34 Charts 25 Definitions

57° The Paperhead

01 Reviews 01 Charts

58° Alan Vega

❝ This guy, together with his old pal Martin Rev in Suicide, has influenced more musicians than Beethoven.

❝ well done Alan, you've managed to create a sound sculpture worthy of you: monstrous, but compelling.

❝ This is music for Kenny Loggins, the one who sings the song from "Top Gun" (and that goes "Highway to the danger zone"...), and Vega is the wrong singer in the wrong place.

09 Reviews 04 Charts 03 Definitions

59° Styx

❝ “Pieces Of Eight” is the meeting point between prog and pop.

❝ Styx, first and foremost, are an AOR band—a brilliant and solid presence in American rock, with that typical overseas flair, a band capable of crafting energetic, effective, and all-in-all catchy songs.

❝ “Paradise Theatre” (with the horrid bileteral inversion so cherished overseas) is a concept album: it echoes the thirty-year inglorious history of the cinema of the West Side of Chicago, from the pomp of its debut to the sadness that envelops its cold materials.

11 Reviews 09 Charts 03 Definitions

60° Ulan Bator

❝ 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.

05 Reviews 06 Charts 03 Definitions

61° Ulaan Passerine

❝ The magical strings of Steven R. Smith fly in a solitary desert amidst psychedelic aromas and imaginary unspoiled landscapes. Solitary lands, time is slowed down, enclosed in an hourglass where the grains of sand are solitary guitar notes, ethno-Asian drone suspensions, electric flashes, dialogues between ambient sighs, violins, and rare percussion. Grains of notes are scented with unspoiled nature, endless spaces rippled by winds that whisper forgotten folk legends of lands suspended in time.

01 Reviews 01 Charts

62° Le luci della centrale elettrica

❝ “LLDCE is an angel pissing on them.”

❝ “This album is beautiful.”

❝ “Vasco is like that: either you love him or hate him, but you can't help giving him at least a listen.”

20 Reviews 08 Charts 36 Definitions

63° The National

❝ “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.

11 Reviews 19 Charts 06 Definitions

64° Bardo Pond

❝ 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.”

06 Reviews 13 Charts 06 Definitions

65° Electric Wizard

❝ “Legalize Drugs & Murder”

❝ “Yet they rock.”

❝ “The first time it's kind of like being hit by a steam train hurtling at enormous speed (20bpm) while you sink into concrete.”

16 Reviews 28 Charts 15 Definitions

66° St. Vincent

❝ It’s a champagne year full of sober months.

02 Reviews 06 Charts 03 Definitions

67° Linda Oh

01 Charts

68° Cloud Nothings

❝ It is an album at times wonderfully schizophrenic in holding together the two souls that are power-pop and post-hardcore, and this can be perceived even from the multiple vocal nuances that dress the individual songs.

❝ “Attack on Memory” is objectively an excellent and yet baffling record for those who have heard the previous ones.

❝ Attack on Memory was, in many ways, a defining moment for Cloud Nothings: the transition from a solo project to a rock band, the departure from more carefree sounds in favor of a rougher, rawer, and more menacing approach.

04 Reviews 05 Charts 01 Definitions

69° Julie Byrne

01 Charts

70° Neil Young

❝ "On the Beach" is Neil Young's masterpiece: the work in which the threads of his aesthetics magically converge, through an astonishing sonic alchemy.

❝ Le Noise should be listened to at night when darkness takes over your sight and you remain solitary with your doubts and thoughts.

❝ An epochal record, essential for every rock music enthusiast who doesn't already have the dozen-plus albums on their shelf from which these songs are taken.

67 Reviews 97 Charts 46 Definitions

71° Rafael Toral

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For those who don't know him, Rafael Toral is a Portuguese guitarist fascinated by the sound of airplanes, a researcher of "alternative" sound sources who, until a few years ago, was looking for a bridge to record (this is just to give you an idea of the character).

01 Reviews 04 Charts

72° Tomasz Stańko

18 Charts

73° Tonstartssbandht

❝ A group that easily reaches the top 5 of the two characteristics listed above could be Tonstartssbandht, two brothers originally from Florida who have now moved to Brooklyn.

01 Reviews 01 Charts

74° All Them Witches

❝ dark, melodic, and slow, it marks the pace, settles into the cold of winter and makes one wait for spring, but it echoes with quality even though it doesn't resonate with anything new.

01 Reviews 02 Charts

75° SZA

01 Charts

76° Daniel Menche

02 Charts

77° L'Aura

❝ L'Aura returns with a wonderful album that restores the dreamlike dimension, the childlike digressions, and experimentation in the alternative rock field of her debut, amplifying its impact with resounding results.

❝ This album is not the usual product crafted at the office that record companies try to sell us as the new revelation of Italian pop.

❝ Those who do not love are the only ones who take

05 Reviews 05 Charts 05 Definitions

78° Slowdive

❝ This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the seminal “Souvlaki” album, initially overlooked but later reevaluated to become a cornerstone of the shoegaze movement over the years.

❝ Nine tracks of calm melancholy, always ready to emerge through tear-inducing feedbacks.

❝ Slowdive were one of the best bands of the ’90s, as talented as they were overlooked.

10 Reviews 24 Charts 16 Definitions

79° King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

❝ Flying Microtonal Banana is an excellent album because, firstly, it's very listenable and, not insignificantly, a great new find all to be discovered.

❝ In any case, King Gizzard confirms itself as a very solid and mature group, capable of playing very well and giving the impression of being able to veer aside at will whenever we delude ourselves into understanding their trajectory.

❝ In “Nonagon Infinity”, King Gizzard takes this idea of musical repetition to its extreme consequences, offering nine tracks deliberately conceived as a continuous jam, where there is practically no clear-cut break, and if listened to on repeat, they practically transform into an infinite loop.

11 Reviews 03 Charts

80° Akua Dixon

01 Charts

81° Ariel Pink

❝ Ariel Pink no no no, NO! ARIEL PINK NO!

❝ It took longer to read the title than to fall in love with that song.

❝ It’s not difficult to exist in this world, but it’s much harder to survive.

04 Reviews 04 Charts 01 Definitions

82° Gorillaz

❝ Despite their two-decade-long career, the Gorillaz, the cartoon band born from the brilliant minds of singer and multi-instrumentalist Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett, manage to maintain their stature, releasing yet another intriguing piece of a solid and colorful discography.

❝ The Gorillaz, a creation (never was a term more fitting) of Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett, finally return after six years of silence with this new work entitled "Humanz".

❝ Gorillaz ARE NOT A BAND.

20 Reviews 14 Charts 16 Definitions

83° Prurient

❝ The walls of white noise no longer scare anyone.

01 Reviews 02 Charts 02 Definitions

84° The xx

❝ The XX possess this gift, an enigmatic couple that together implode with identity: XX, equal, human beings, yet different, opposite sexes that love each other, speak of love, and together merge to create an incredible sound.

❝ The voices of the two guys, Romy and Oliver, are like they're recorded through cracks in the walls, humid and clandestine.

❝ Coexist is all the same, flat and it seems just a faded copy of the debut album.

05 Reviews 02 Charts 02 Definitions

85° Temples

❝ The first word—and the most frequent—that comes to mind, almost like a refrain or a mantra, is: “Finally!”.

❝ They come from Kettering, Northamptonshire, they make great psychedelic music and they are the rock band of the future.

❝ In the end, I like those who entertain while having fun, and when someone has fun, you can see it. And you can hear it.

03 Reviews 07 Charts

86° Valerie June

❝ Valerie has an extraordinary voice – between childlike and nasal, the first impact is unsettling

❝ And, if it wasn't clear, I like this album, it's good, and all the lines between the first and the last might not even need to be there.

02 Reviews 01 Charts

87° Circa Survive

❝ I won't beat around the bush: "Blue Sky Noise", together with "Recitation" by Envy, is for me the album that most shook this 2010.

01 Reviews 08 Charts 03 Definitions

88° Mastodon

❝ The music of Mastodon is the sound of nature.

❝ We waited for them for years!

❝ Crack The Skye is a work that needs time to be fully appreciated.

29 Reviews 23 Charts 26 Definitions

89° Scott Kelly

❝ 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.

02 Reviews 03 Charts 02 Definitions

90° Speedometer

01 Charts

91° Japandroids

❝ one is involved in a noisy party, full of sweat, above-average alcohol levels, and, well, let's be a bit pathetic, emotions and memories that need to be preserved from the passage of time.

❝ The guitar is on an overdose of adrenaline, capable of avoiding the banality of the power chord at all costs; the drums are a sort of hormonal storm, with so many rolls, cymbal crashes, and hi-hat inserts.

❝ There are still eight songs and under 40 minutes, the perfect formula for an album according to Japandroids.

03 Reviews 02 Charts 01 Definitions

92° Benjamin Clementine

❝ Mistakes make you learn.

❝ If Nina Simone had been born a man, her debut would most likely sound exactly like this.

02 Reviews 03 Charts 02 Definitions

93° Oxbow

❝ We are in the presence of an album that hurts.

❝ Explosions of blind fury and moments of tenderness between a punch in the stomach and a smile with a blood rose.

❝ It’s beautiful when you feel bad.

06 Reviews 01 Charts 01 Definitions

94° Felix Kubin

01 Charts

95° Nelly Furtado

❝ It’s only pop but we (I) like it.

❝ If there were an award for the best transformation of the year, 2006 would crown her, surpassing even her majesty Madonna...

❝ As a first work, Whoa. Nelly! was truly a good album, which for the copies sold was even named a platinum record!

09 Reviews 02 Charts 12 Definitions

96° Tinariwen

❝ captivated, enchanted, hypnotized by the percussion, the detuned guitars, the clapping, without understanding a single word.

❝ A desert blues with psychedelic guitars.

02 Reviews 01 Charts 01 Definitions

97° Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!

❝ The philosophy of essentiality adopted as one’s own creed and followed with meticulous passion.

❝ Not bad these guys from Foligno: only one album under their belt before this EP of 4 tracks and they’ve already been to the States three times, the last being this year at the legendary South by Southwest in Austin.

02 Reviews 01 Charts

98° Prophets of Rage

❝ "Unfuck the World" is the battle cry.

01 Reviews 01 Charts

99° Elf Power

❝ I am indeed faced with an album already reserved for a spot among the top 10 of 2004: the recent (May 2004) "Walking With The Beggar Boys" by Elf Power.

01 Reviews 01 Charts

100° LCD Soundsystem

❝ To cut it short: they are essentially still the same, but paradoxically they have brought a breath of fresh air.

❝ LCD Soundsystem, today, are a terrible band.

❝ Believe the Hype.

07 Reviews 04 Charts

Welcome to DeBaser!

Best artist of 2017 secondo DeBaser.

1° Matthew Shipp Trio

2° Keb' Mo'

3° Portugal. The Man

4° The Black Angels

5° Craig Taborn

6° Ty Segall

7° Quicksand

8° Taj Mahal

9° Dan Auerbach

10° Guided by Voices

11° The New Pornographers

12° Converge

13° Samantha Fish

14° North Mississippi Allstars

15° Imelda May

16° The Charlatans

17° Aimee Mann

18° Son Volt

19° Charnett Moffett

20° Half Japanese

21° Lawrence English

22° Fleet Foxes

23° Beach Fossils

24° Cleo T.

25° Real Estate

26° Unsane

27° Thundercat

28° At the Drive-In

29° Metz

30° Dropkick Murphys

31° Spoon

32° John Garcia

33° Elbow

34° Duke Garwood

35° The Bats

36° The Body

37° Lorde

38° Steve Coleman

39° Ufomammut

40° Bonobo

41° The Charles Lloyd Quartet

42° Charlotte Martin

43° Mogwai

44° Scott H. Biram

45° Thalassa

46° Brand New

47° Harvestman

48° The Brian Jonestown Massacre

49° Chelsea Wolfe

50° Protomartyr

51° Matthew Shipp

52° The Shins

53° Ben Frost

54° Goldfrapp

55° Kasabian

56° Queens of the Stone Age

57° The Paperhead

58° Alan Vega

59° Styx

60° Ulan Bator

61° Ulaan Passerine

62° Le luci della centrale elettrica

63° The National

64° Bardo Pond

65° Electric Wizard

66° St. Vincent

67° Linda Oh

68° Cloud Nothings

69° Julie Byrne

70° Neil Young

71° Rafael Toral

72° Tomasz Stańko

73° Tonstartssbandht

74° All Them Witches

75° SZA

76° Daniel Menche

77° L'Aura

78° Slowdive