2015 Favs

Inspired by…

 

One more time, here are my recommendations. The list of my 30 favorite albums of the year. For Your Consideration.

 

30. Unkown Mortal Orchestra “Multi-Love”

29. Julia Holter “Have You In My Wilderness”

28. U.S Girls “Half Free”

27. Chvrches “Every Open Eye”

26. Neon Indian “VEGA INTL. Night School”

25. Thundercat “The Beyond. Where The Giants Roam”

24. Lightning Bolt “Fantasy Empire”

23. Happyness “Weird Little Birthday”

22. Future “DS2”

21. Shamir “Ratchet”

20. Low “Ones And Sixes”

19. Courtney Barnett “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit”

18. Natalie Prass “Natalie Prass”

17. Drake “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late”

16. Kurt Vile “b’lieve i’m going down…”

15. Miguel “Wildheart”

14. Tobias Jesso Jr. “Goon”

13. Arca “Mutant”

12. Father John Misty “I Love You, Honeybear”

11. Björk “Vulnicura”

10. Blur “The Magic Whip”

9. Kamasi Washington “The Epic”

8. Titus Andronicus “The Most Lamentable Tragedy”

7. Deerhunter “Fading Frontier”

6. Oneohtrix Point Never “Garden Of Delete”

5. Jamie XX “In Colour”

4. Tame Impala “Currents”

3. D’Angelo “Black Messiah”

2. Kendrick Lamar “To Pimp A Butterfly”

1. Sufjan Stevens “Carrie & Lowell”

 

2014 Favs

One more year, the list of my 30 favorite albums. I left out a few that could be part of this selection, but that I started to listen to them only recently (TV on the Radio, Actress, Felice Brothers, …) And of course, there are more that I’m still missing. However, here are my recommendations. The order is just a guide, not definitive.

 

1. The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream

2. Lykke Li I Never Learn

3. Swans To Be Kind

4. Aphex Twin Syro

5. Todd Terje It’s Album Time

6. Beck Morning Phase

7. Caribou Our Love

8. Real Estate Atlas

9. Grouper Ruins

10. Sharon Van Etten Are We There

11. Damon Albarn Everyday Robots

12. Rustie Green Language

13. Clark Clark

14. Run the Jewels Run The Jewels 2

15. Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness

16. Flying Lotus You’re Dead

17. Metronomy Love Letters

18. Shellac Dude Incredible

19. Electric Youth Innerworld

20. Los Punsetes LPIV

21. Arca Xen

22. Jessie Ware Tough Love

23. Andy Stott Faith In Strangers

24. Ariel Pink Pom Pom

25. Ex Hex Rips

26. Strand of Oaks HEAL

27. Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell

28. Broncho Just Enough Hip To Be Woman

29. Elbow The Take Off And Landing of Everything

30. Schoolboy Q Oxymoron

 

Waiting for 2015…

 

 

 

New Release: Servants

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The original idea was an electro album, with saturated guitars in the place of traditional synthesizers’s sounds. Minimalist percussions inside noisy ambients. Soft rhythms, very light and ethereal, in general. Progressive, even.

But when I started to record, ideas took another direction. The guitars were made with the almost complete domination of the sound. The acustic drums appeared and the original elegant ambient dried. Electronic arrangements and programmations became the background. The music turned in something direct and powerful.

The soft sounds and quiet scenes turned into rage.
The result is “sevants”, classic rock and blues inspired riffs that flirt with the industrial sound.

Some influences … White Stripes, NIN, a day of rage, abandoned industrial buildings, rust, drunk steps, Grinderman…