Top 2012

Un petite récap' avant l'été s'impose !

dans le désordre...


Très bons albums :

FIRST AID KIT – The Lion's Roar
NADA SURF – The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
SHARON VAN ETTEN - Tramp
MARK LANEGAN BAND – Blues Funeral
THE MARS VOLTA – Noctourniquet
THE MEN – Open Your Heart
THE SHINS – Port of Morrow
JACK WHITE – Blunderbuss
22-20s – GOT IT IF YOU WANT IT
FATHER JOHN MISTY – Fear Fun
PATRICK WATSON – Adventures in Your Own Backyard
THE WALKMEN – Heaven
BAHAMAS – Barchords
MICROFILM – AF127
ANDREW BIRD – Break I Yourself

Albums sympas :

AU – Both Lights
BEACH HOUSE - Bloom
BLOCKHEAD – Interludes After Midnight
YOUNG MAGIC - Melt
DIRTY THREE – Toward the Low Sun
CLARK - Iradelphic
PETRA JEAN PHILIPSON – Notes on Death
TINDERSTICKS – The Someting Rain
TENNIS – Young and Old
PORCELAIN RAFT – The Strange Weekend
DUSTIN WONG – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
BOWERBIRDS – The Clearing
EMMA RUTH RUNDLE – Electric Guitar 1
GRIMES - Visions
LANA DEL REY – Born to Die
SLEIGH BELLS – Reign of Terror
SLEEPY SUN – Spine Hits
HERE WE GO MAGIC – A Different Ship
SIGUR ROS – Valtari
ALOONALUNA – Bunny
ALOONALUNA – Diadem or Halo
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – A Different Kind of Fix
THE FLAMING LIPS – The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Aufheben
MY NAME IS NOBODY – The Good Memories
TU FAWNING – A Monument
MV & EE – Space Homestead
MARISSA NADLER – The Sister
WILL STRATTON – Post Empire
SIGUR ROS - Valtari

Mes highlights de l'année sont pour l'instant:

Chromatics: Kill for Love
Beach House: Bloom
Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
Hot Chip: In Our Heads
The Shins: Port of Morrow
Poliça: Give you the Ghost
The Walkmen: Heaven

Autres bons albums:

Andrew Bird: Break it Yourself
Chairlift: Something
Jack White: Blunderbuss
Sigur Ros: Valtari
Perfume Genius: Put Yout Back N 2 it
Django Django: Django Django
of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks
Grimes: Visions
John Talabot: fin
Cloud Nothing: Attack on Memory

Album qui me fait fuir:

Lana del Rey: Born to Die

Puisqu'on en est qu'au milieu de l'année, le Top 10 devient un Top 5


L'album de l'année (pour l'instant)
PLAISTOW - Lacrimosa

Mais eux, ils sont aussi pas trop mal:
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI & JONNY GREENWOOD - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia
LIARS - WIXIW
GET THE BLESSING - OC DC
TINDERSTICKS - The something rain

Top complet à voir plus loin.

Sigur Ros 8 a écrit:

Mes highlights de l'année sont pour l'instant:

Poliça: Give you the Ghost

Hmmmm? Après trois morceaux, c'est triste à dire, mais je m'emmerde royalement. M'enfin, vu que c'est hype...

Petit bilan semestriel et partiel (ordre alphabétique au sein de chaque catégorie):

Excellents
All the Saints – Intro to Fractions
Oren Ambarchi – Audience of One
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Stare EP
James Blackshaw – Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
Clark – Iradelphic
Demdike Stare – Elemental
Dictaphone – Poems from a Rooftop
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Leyfðu Ljósinu
Monolake – Ghosts
Quakers – Quakers
Shifted – Crossed Paths

Très bons
Dominique A – Vers les lueurs
Actress – R.I.P.
Badbadnotgood – BBNG 2
Bersarin Quartett – II
Chapelier Fou – Invisible
Disappears – Pre Language
El-P – Cancer for Cure
Extra Life – Dream Seeds
Forward Strategy Group – Labour Division
Harmonious Thelonious – Listen
JK Flesh – Posthuman
La Gale – La Gale
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral
Liars – WIXIW
The Men – Open your Heart
Motorpsycho & Stale Storlokken – The Death defying Unicorn
OM – Advaitic Songs
Plankton Wat – Spirits
Shearwater – Animal Joy
SpaceGhostPurrp – Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles Of SpaceGhostPurpp (hip hop)
Turing Machine – What is the Meaning of what
Voices from the Lake – Voices from the Lake
White Hills – Frying on this Rock

Remarquablement bons
And Also The Trees – Hunter not the hunted
Beak > – Beak > > (N.B. seulement 3 écoutes en streaming, donc encore susceptible de grimper)
Blockhead – Interludes after Midnight
Chaos E.T. Sexual – Ov
Meshuggah – Koloss
Esbjörn Svensson Trio – 301
Unsane – Wreck
The Walkmen – Heaven
16 – Deep Cuts from dark Clouds

Et Paste commence la bataille des listes des meilleurs albums de 2012 avec Frank Ocean en no. 1. C'est vrai que son album est excellent!

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/11/the-50-best-albums-of-2012.html?p=5

Sinon NME me surprend en bien.Ok l'odre est un peu bizarre et il manque quelques groupes évidemment (Chromatics, Sigur Ros et Divine Fits entre autres) mais pour une fois, je suis surpris de ne pas voir the Killers, Rihanna, Muse ou je ne sais qui dans le top (bon il y a quand même Lana Del Rey.......). Dans l'ensemble je suis assez d'accord et c'est rare avec NME:

1. Tame Impala – Lonerism
2. Grimes – Visions
3. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
4. Crystal Castles – III
5. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
6. The Maccabees – Given To The Wild
7. Pond – Beard Wives Denim
8. The Cribs - In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
9. Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
10. Jack White – Blunderbuss
11. Django Django – Django Django
12. David Byrne & St Vincent – Love This Giant
13. DIIV – Oshin
14. The XX – Coexist
15. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
16. Melody’s Echo Chamber – Melody’s Echo Chamber
17. Grizzly Bear – Shields
18. Tribes – Baby
19. Toy – Toy
20. Howler – America Give Up
21. Cat Power – Sun
22. Beach House – Bloom
23. Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky’s Edge
24. Merchandise – Children Of Desire
25. Ariel Pink – Mature Themes
26. Spector – Enjoy It While It Lasts
27. Jessie Ware – Devotion
28. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
29. Mac DeMarco - 2
30. Breton – Other People’s Problems
31. Kanye West – Cruel Summer
32. Graham Coxon – A+E
33. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
34. Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man
35. Metz – Metz
36. The Vaccines – Come Of Age
37. Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour
38. TEED – Trouble
39. Liars – WIXIW
40. Polica – Give You The Ghost
41. Ty Segall – Twins
42. Paul Weller – Sonik Kicks
43. Ratking – Wiki93
44. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, MAAd City
45. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
46. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man In The Universe
47. John Talabot – Fin The
48. 2 Bears – Be Strong
49. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes
50. Purity Ring – Shrines

Mon (double) album de l'année :

1. ANDREW BIRD – Break It Yourself / Hands of Glory

deux albums en un an pour Andrew Bird et d'une qualité !






et les autres albums qui ont marqués mon année 2012 :

JULIE DOIRON – So Many Days
BALMORHEA – Stranger
CALEXICO - Algiers
HUNDRED WATERS – Hundred Waters
JAMES YORKSTON - I was a cat from a book
NADA SURF – The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
SHARON VAN ETTEN - Tramp
MARK LANEGAN BAND – Blues Funeral
THE MARS VOLTA – Noctourniquet
THE MEN – Open Your Heart
FATHER JOHN MISTY – Fear Fun
PATRICK WATSON – Adventures in Your Own Backyard
THE WALKMEN – Heaven
BAHAMAS – Barchords
JACK WHITE - Blunderbuss
22-20s - Got it if you want it
PURITY RING – Shrines
LE KLUB DES LOOSERS – La Fin de l'Espèce
B. FLEISCHMANN – I'm not ready for the grave yet
FIRST AID KIT – The Lion's Roar
MV & EE – Space Homestead
MARISSA NADLER – The Sister

Mathemagic Melon a écrit:

Mon (double) album de l'année :

1. ANDREW BIRD – Break It Yourself / Hands of Glory

deux albums en un an pour Andrew Bird et d'une qualité !






et les autres albums qui ont marqués mon année 2012 :

JULIE DOIRON – So Many Days
BALMORHEA – Stranger
CALEXICO - Algiers
HUNDRED WATERS – Hundred Waters
JAMES YORKSTON - I was a cat from a book
NADA SURF – The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
SHARON VAN ETTEN - Tramp
MARK LANEGAN BAND – Blues Funeral
THE MARS VOLTA – Noctourniquet
THE MEN – Open Your Heart
FATHER JOHN MISTY – Fear Fun
PATRICK WATSON – Adventures in Your Own Backyard
THE WALKMEN – Heaven
BAHAMAS – Barchords
JACK WHITE - Blunderbuss
PURITY RING – Shrines
LE KLUB DES LOOSERS – La Fin de l'Espèce
B. FLEISCHMANN – I'm not ready for the grave yet
FIRST AID KIT – The Lion's Roar
MV & EE – Space Homestead
MARISSA NADLER – The Sister

Purée en voyant ta liste je me rend compte que j'ai zappé l'Andrew Bird, le Marissa Nadler, Le Patrick Watson et le Balmorhea. Va valoir que je rattrape ça....

Et ça me rappelle qu'il faut que j'écoute le dernier Mars Volta aussi.

Mon Top 2012 au niveau des concerts

Antony and The Johnsons (ici et là)
Current 93 (Volksbühne)
Sigur Rós (Winterthur)
The Cure (Paléo)
Björk (Fourvière)
Mark Lanegan (Docks + Abart)
Tindersticks (ici et là)
Wovenhand (Rote Fabrik)
Fink (Komplex)
And Also The Trees (CPH)
Scott Matthew (Viadukt)
Dirty Three (Usine)
Crime and The City Solution (Docks)
Dead Skeletons (Psyche Fest)
Iggy Pop (Rock'Oz)
Andrew Bird (Paradiso)
Ólafur Arnalds (Moods)
Daniel Darc (Antigel)
Dead Can Dance (BFM)
Radiohead (St-Triphon)

D'autres bonnes choses, mais on va se limiter à 20.

Mention 'spécial découverte':
+ Poison Heidi (Duo Bar) dans la catégorie 'régional de l'étape'
+ Masaki Batoh (Baz'Art) dans la catégorie 'surdité assurée'
+ Planningtorock (Bâtie) dans la catégorie 'quand je pense qu'ils ont joué dans ma ville l'année passée mais qu'à l'époque je ne les connaissais pas'

niveau top concerts ça va être vite fait étant donné le peu de concerts :

1. TOE - Bad Bonn
2. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE - Primavera
3. WILCO - Primavera
4. THE WALKMEN - Primavera
5. WHITE DENIM - Primavera
6. REAL ESTATE - Primavera
7. THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Bad Bonn
8. PETER KERNEL - Gravière, Genève
9. SHARON VAN ETTEN - Primavera
10. PANDOUR - Bad Bonn

Top concerts en salle

Thee Oh Sees – Kab
Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – Montreux Jazz
Cave + Bombers – Kab
Frustration – Zoo
Electric Electric – Kab
Beak> - Romandie
Mermonte – Parenthèse
Tame Impala – Docks
DIIV – Nouveau Casino
Goth Trad – Kab
John Spencer Blues Explosion – PTR
Ivan Smagghe - Zoo
Cat Power – Victoria Hall
The Dandy Warhols – La Rodia
David Carretta - Bloc
Chad Van gaalen - Romandie
Modeselektor – D! Club
Alt-J – Montreux Jazz
Puppetmastaz – PTR
A Place to Bury Strangers – Romandie
Connan Mockasin – Salle communale Plainpalais
Stupeflip – Moloco
Reptile Youth – La Rodia
Beach House – Les Docks

Allez je me lance aussi:
Top cds 2012:

1) Grizzly Bear - Shields
2) Chromatics - Kill For Love
3) Hot Chip - In Our Heads
4) Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
5) The Shins - Port of Morrow
6) Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
7) Efterklang - Pyramida
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
9) Tame Impala - Lonerism
10) Polica - Give Up the Ghost
11) Beach House - Bloom
12) Purity Ring - Shrines
13) John Talabot - Fin
14) Twin Shadow - Confess
15) Grimes - Visions
16) Jack White - Blunderbuss
17) Chairlift - Something
18) Wild Nothing - Nocturne
19) Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
20) Perfume Genius - Put your back N 2 it
21) The xx - Coexist
22) Cat Power - Sun
23) Halls - Ark
24) Jens Lekman - I know What Love Isn't
25) Alt-J - An Awesome Wave

Top concerts 2012, sans ordre particulier car bien trop compliqué!

Concerts incroyables:
Radiohead @ Arènes de Nîmes/St. Tryphon
Jeff Mangum @ Primavera Sound festival
Bon Iver @ Paléo festival
The Cure @ Primavera Sound festival
Björk @ Arènes de Nîmes
Sigur Ros @ Winterthur Musikwochen
Jack White @ HMV Forum, Londres
Anthony & the Johnsons @ Théatre Antique de Fourvière

Concerts excellents
The Shins @ Lüften Musik festival, Francfort
Sharon Van Etten @ Scala, Londres
The xx @ Métropole, Lausanne/ Primavera Sound festival
of Montreal @ Koko, Londres
Chromatics @ Primavera Sound festival
Feist @ For Noise festival
Kings of Convenience @ Primavera Sound festival
M83 @ Laiterie, Strasbourg/ Paléo festival
Bat For Lashes @ Docks, Lausanne
Cat Power @ Antigel festival
The Walkmen @ Primavera Sound festival
Amon Tobin, ISAM, Brixton Academy, Londres
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Heartland festival
Wilco @ Primavera Sound festival
Animal Collective @ Docks, Lausanne
Bonnie Prince Billy @ Bourg, Lausanne
Death Cab For Cutie @ Primavera Sound festival
Tame Impala @ Docks, Lausanne

Dans les grandes lignes

Excellent
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Mature Themes
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Attack on Memory
DIIV - Oshin
HEAVENLY BEAT - Talent
THE HELIO SEQUENCE - Negotiations
HELVETIA - Nothing In Rambling
MAC DEMARCO - Rock and Roll Night Club EP
MIGUEL - Kaleidoscope Dream
TAME IMPALA - Lonerism
TINDERSTICKS - The Something Rain
VIOLENS - True
THE WALKMEN - Heaven

Très bon
ALLAH-LAS - Allah-Las
BENJAMIN DAMAGE & DOC DANEEKA - They!Live
CAT POWER - Sun
CHAIRLIFT - Something
DADS - Punishment
FIRST AID KIT - The Lion's Roar
FRANK OCEAN - channel ORANGE
FRANKIE ROSE - Interstellar
GOAT - World Music
GRIMES - Visions
HERE WE GO MAGIC - A Different Ship
JOEY BADA$$ - 1999
KING TUFF - King Tuff
KISHI BASHI - 151a
LOWER DENS - Nootropics
MAC DEMARCO - 2
MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER - Melody's Echo Chamber
RACE HORSES - Furniture
RICHARD HAWLEY - Standing At The Sky's Edge
SHEARWATER - Animal Joy
TOPS - Tender Opposites
THE WEDDING PRESENT - Valentina
TRUST - TRST
TWO GALLANTS - The Bloom and the Blight

Bon
ALT-J - An Awesome Wave
BAHAMAS - Barchords
BOWERBIRDS - The Clearing
DAMIEN JURADO - Maraqopa
DJANGO DJANGO - Django Django
GRAVENHURST - The Ghost In Daylight
HOLOBODY - Riverhood
JOHN TALABOT - ƒin
LOTUS PLAZA - Spooky Action at a Distance
MARIEE SIOUX - Gift for the End
NADA SURF - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
PINBACK - Information Retrieved
PURITY RING - Shrines
THE SHINS - Port Of Morrow
STURQEN - Rala
TENNIS - Young And Old
TWIN SHADOW - Confess
YELAWOLF - Radioactive

Sans plus
ALPINE - A Is for Alpine
ANGEL HAZE - RESERVATION
BEACH HOUSE - Bloom
CHIP TAYLOR & THE NEW UKRAINIANS - Fuck All The Perfect People
KINDNESS - World, You Need a Change of Mind
KLAUS & KINSKI - Herreros y Fatigas
LANA DEL REY - Born To Die
LA SERA - Sees the Light
MAC MILLER - Macadelic
MEMORYHOUSE - The Slideshow Effect
POLICA - Give You The Ghost
ROCKIE FRESH - Driving 88
SEBASTIEN TELLIER - My God Is Blue
SOKO - I Thought I Was An Alien
STARS - The North
USHER - Looking 4 Myself
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME - Triple F Life: Friends, Fans & Family
WEIRD DREAMS - Choreography

A oublier
DOM KENNEDY - Yellow Album
LIL B "THE BASEDGOD" - White Flame
LIL REESE - Don't Like
SOULJA BOY - Obey