Top 2015

Le traditionnel top de l'année à mi-parcours!

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Enfin... euh... je lance le sujet parce que je suis à la recherche de trucs bien qui m'auraient échappé.
Du moins, jusqu'à maintenant, beaucoup de trucs sympas écoutés, mais rien qui m’ait touché plus que ça

Je n'ai pas écouté des tonnes de trucs cette année donc je fais une petite liste des albums que j'ai le plus appréciés.

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala - Currents
My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
Dutch Uncles - O Shudder
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Bjork – Vulnicura
Hot Chip - Why Makes Sense?
Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Other Lives – Rituals
Calexico - Edge of the Sun
Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
Curtis Harding - Soul Power
Mew – + -
Petite Noir – The King Of Anxiety
Jaakko Eino Kalevi – Jaakko Eino Kalevi

À ce stade, mes découvertes et/ou petits plaisirs de l'année, dans un ordre plus ou moins alphabétique (en gras, le disque à ne pas louper, m'est avis):

Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT2 EP (Warp, 2015)
Beppu – Persuasion (Other Ideas, 2015; techno orientée indus et noise)
Best Available Technology – Form and Void (Opal Tapes)
Black Breath – Slaves beyond Death (Southern Lord, 2015)
Black Rain & Shapednoise – Apophis EP (Cosmo Rhythmatic, 2015)
Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh (Sacred Bones Records, 2015)
Charles Cohen – Brother I prove you wrong (Morphine, 2015)
Cherubs – 2 Ynfynyty
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was (Constellation, 2015)
Czarface – Every Hero Needs A Villain (Brick Records, 2015; rap)
Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia (Erased Tapes, 2015)
Destruction Unit – Negative Transistor Effect (Sacred Bones)
Dominique A – Eleor
Erland Dahlen (ex-Madrugada) – Blossom Bells (Hubro)
Evan Caminiti – Meridian (Thrill Jockey)
Föllakzoid – III (Sacred Bones)
Goatsnake – Black Age Blues (Southern Lord, 2015)
Guapo – Obscure Knowledge (Cuneiform Records, 2015)
James Blackshaw – Summoning Suns (Important, 2015)
James Welburn – Hold (Miasmah Records, 2015)
JK Flesh – Nothing is Free (Avalanche Recordings, 2015)
The Kvb – Mirror Being (Invada, 2015)
Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop, 2015)
Lumisokea – Mnemosyne (Alter, 2015)
Maïak – A very pleasant Way to die (Fluttery Records, 2015; post-rock)
Mario Batkovic – Batkovic Solo (Veruston, 2015; de l'accordéon, juste un accordéon, mais le résultat est bluffant)
Moon Wheel – Ökant Land (Where to Now)
Oiseaux-Tempête – Ütopiya (Sub Rosa, 2015; post-rock)
Oren Ambarchi – Live Knots (PAN, 2015)
Orphx – The Sonic Groove Releases pt. 2 (Hymen Records)
Other Lives – Rituals (TBD Records)
Phaedra – Blackwinged Night (Rune Grammofon)
Positive Centre – Monad XIX (Stroboscopic Artefacts; techno)
Sigha – Techno Derivatives EP (Avian; techno)
Strïe – Struktura (Serein)
Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian, 2015)
Vril – Portal (Delsin; techno)
White Hills - Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey, 2015)

j'avoue, Mario Batkovic c'est bluffant !

Je n'ai pas écouté énormément d'albums cette année ni fait beaucoup de découvertes mais voici les albums que j'ai le plus appréciés:

Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell
Tame Impala: Currents
Joanna Newsom: Divers
The Tallest Man on Earth: Dark Bird is Home
Dutch Uncles: O Shudder
Julia Holter: Have You in my Wilderness
Bjork – Vulnicura
The Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
Low: Ones and Sixes
Deerhunter: Fading Frontier
My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall
Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass
Hot Chip - Why Makes Sense?
Pond - Man It Feels Like Space Again
Susanne Sundfør – Ten Love Songs
Jamie XX: In Colour
Belle & Sebastien: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Jason Isbell: Something More Than Free

Comme j'en ai encore pour plusieurs semaines à écluser ma liste d'attente (cf. plus bas), je largue mon top in progress:



Coup de coeur de l'année:

Mario Batkovic – Batkovic Solo (Veruston, 2015): un mec et son accordéon, simplement. Et voilà que j'aime l'accordéon!


Le haut du panier (ordre alphabétique) :

Black Breath – Slaves beyond Death (Southern Lord, 2015)
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was (Constellation, 2015)
Czarface – Every Hero Needs A Villain (Brick Records, 2015)
Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia (Erased Tapes, 2015)
Guapo – Obscure Knowledge (Cuneiform Records, 2015)
Hey Colossus – Radio Static High (Rocket Recordings)
James Welburn – Hold (Miasmah Records, 2015)
Julia Kent – Asperities (Leaf, 2015)
The KVB – Mirror Being (Invada, 2015)
LAND – Anoxia (Important, 2015)
M.E.S.H. – Piteous Gate (PAN)
Max Richter – Sleep (Deutsche Grammophon, 2015)
Oiseaux-Tempête – Ütopiya (Sub Rosa, 2015)
Shapednoise – Different Selves (Type, 2015)
Vril – Portal (Delsin)
With the Dead – With the Dead (Rise Above, 2015)


Bons albums (à peu près par ordre de préférence) :

Regis – Manbait (Blackest Ever Black)
Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments PT2 EP (Warp, 2015)
Beppu – Persuasion (Other Ideas, 2015)
Oren Ambarchi – Sleepwalker's Conviction (Black Truffle, 2015)
HOX (A.Karperyd/G.Lewis) – Duke of York (Edtions Mego, 2015)
Lightning Bolt – Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey)
White Hills - Walks for Motorists (Thrill Jockey, 2015)
Ken Mode – Success (Season of Mist)
Wilco – Star Wars (dBpm Records)
Liberez – All Tense Now Lax (Night School, 2015)
Sigha – Techno Derivatives (Avian)
Housewives – Work (Hands in the Dark, 2015)
Suuns & Jerusalem in My Heart - Suuns and Jerusalem in My Heart (Secretly Canadian, 2015)
Strïe – Struktura (Serein)
Kerridge – Always Offended Never Ashamed (Contort, 2015)
Matter – Paroxysmal (Kvitnu, 2015)
Best Available Technology – Form and Void (Opal Tapes)
Container – LP (Spectrum Spools, 2015)
Randomer – Kid’s Play (L.I.E.S., 2015)
Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House, 2015)
Circle – Pharaoh Overlord (Ektro Records, 2015)
Coil – Backwards (inédit enregistré entre 1992 et 1996 ; Cold Spring, 2015)
My Disco – Severe (Temporary Residence, 2015)
Vince Staples – Summertime ’06 (Def Jam)
Conforce – Presentism (Delsin, 2015)
Moon Wheel – Ökant Land (Where to Now)
La Gale – Salem City Rockers (Vitesse, 2015)
Dominique A – Eleor
Marilyn Manson – The Pale Emperor (Cooking Vinyl)
Erland Dahlen (ex-Madrugada) – Blossom Bells (Hubro)
Destruction Unit – Negative Transistor Effect (Sacred Bones)
Evan Caminiti – Meridian (Thrill Jockey)
Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop, 2015)
Maïak – A very pleasant Way to die (Fluttery Records, 2015)
Orphx – The Sonic Groove Releases pt. 2
Refused – Freedom (Epitaph)
Blanck Mass – Dum Flesh (Sacred Bones Records, 2015)
JK Flesh – Nothing is Free (Avalanch Recordings, 2015)
Cherubs – 2 Ynfynyty
Enablers – The Rightful Pivot
Goatsnake – Black Age Blues (Southern Lord, 2015)
Föllakzoid – III (Sacred Bones)
Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio (Hospital Productions, 2015)
Metz – II (Sub Pop)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower - No Wave Dance Party 2015 (Bronzerat/Shove Records, 2015)


Déceptions :

Elephant9 with Reine Fiske – Silver Mountain (Rune Grammofon, 2015)
Kangding Ray – Cory Arcane (Raster-Noton)
Killing Joke – Pylon (Spinefarm Records, 2015)
Two Gallants – We are undone (ATO Records)


Live :

Oren Ambarchi – Live Knots (PAN, 2015)
Voices from the Lake – Live at Maxxi (Editions Mego, 2015)


Plaisir coupable :

Other Lives – Rituals (TBD Records)


Rééditions :

Spectre – Ruff Kutz (PAN): une mixtape rap de 1998 qui sonne actuelle, par ses instrus minimales, lourdes et glauques.
Craw – 1993-1997 (Northern Spy): Craw, un groupe génial, simplement.


À écouter/réécouter :

Abdulla Rashim – A Shell of Speed (Northern Electronics, 2015)
Acronym – June (Northern Electronics, 2015)
Aidan Baker – Ecliptic Plane (Dronarivm, 2015)
Anthony Pateras/Erkki Veltheim – Entertainment = Control
Arthur Russell – Corn (Audika, 2015)
Christina Vantzou – N°3 (Kranky, 2015)
Demdike Stare – The Age of Innocence
Eomac – 25122015
Filiamotsa – Like it is (Aagoo Records, 2015)
Final (Justin Broadrick) – Black Dollars (Downwards, 2015)
Food – This is not a Miracle (ECM, 2015)
Guy Garvey – Courting the Squall (Fiction Records, 2015)
Harmonious Thelonious – Santos (Italic, 2015)
Intronaut – The Direction of Last Things (Century Media, 2015)
Kendrick Lamar – To pimp a Butterfly (Aftermath/Interscope)
Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs (Drag City, 2015)
Kreng – The Summoner (Miasmah)
Lydia Lunch & Cypress Grove & Spiritual Front – Twin Horses EP (Rustblade)
Maserati – Rehumanizer (Temporary Residence, 2015)
Nadja – Tabernanthe (Envelope Collective, 2015)
Natural Snow Buildings – The Ladder / Terror’s Horn (Ba Da Bing !, 2015)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Loin des hommes BO
Northern Structures – Articulation Pressure (Sonic Groove)
Paradise Lost – The Plague within (Century Media)
Phaedra – Blackwinged Night (Rune Grammofon)
Philip Jeck – Cardinal (Touch)
Pigs – Wronger
Pile – You're Better Than This (Exploding in Sound Records)
Psyk – Human EP (Mote-Evolver)
Pye Corner Audio – Prowler (More the human, 2015)
Rex Ilusivii – In the Moon Cage (Offen Music)
Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together (Hospital, 2015)
Ryuichi Sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Deupree – Perpetual (12K)
SaffronKeira – Synecdoche (Denovali, 2015)
Shed – Constant Power (The Final Experiment)
Shining – International Blackjazz Society (Spinefarm Records, 2015)
Silent Harbour – Hinterland (Deep Sound Channel)
Stephen O’Malley – Gruidés (DDS)
Steve von Till – A Life unto itself (Neurot Recordings)
Sunn O))) – Kannon (Southern Lord, 2015)
Traams – Modern Dancing (FatCat Records, 2015)
Tzusing – A Name out of Place pt. II
Ufomammut – Ecate (Supernatural Cat)
Varg – Star Alliance (Posh Isolation)
Varg – Story of K (Northern Electronics)
Varg – Ursviken (Northern Electronics)
Varg – Under The Roman Lash (Ascetic House)
Violet Poison – Absence Generator (Veleno Viola)
Volor Flex – The Exclusives
Zeitgeber – Monad XX (Stroboscopic Artefacts)

Merci pour ce top cynosargos, ça va me faire pleins de choses à découvrir une nouvelle fois