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Yes, my dear friends shifty-eyed ... I promised
over and over again that I updated the site and what better time of the publication of THE LAIR OF THE NICHE 2010 TOP 5 "?
now become an annual event, my personal Top 5 (not so hidden a tribute to a wonderful book and a movie like "High Fidelity") was born from the desire to highlight the things that I appreciated the most during the past year spent and to share with you what excited me more in the music. A
2010 that was generally one year, a little weak. Despite a number of very welcome return, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel through the international production has given little pearls. Great artists complain about the lack of inspiration and radio frequencies are too flat on the demands of the majors. Radiogas, fortunately, is an exception in 2010 and has made known to a growing population and new genres, new collective phenomena that deserve attention.
There is also to say that, in my opinion, it is very easy to sit on the lack of personality in music sales worldwide. Good ideas are there, and I'm around to be discovered slowly, just like little gems hidden away in dusty trunks in dark corners of the room.
THE LAIR OF NICHE, therefore, seeks to play a social function: shake music from your slumber and give you some good inspiration. Listeners will not be lazy, never.
year, partly due to the explicit text of the premises, was duretta choose my number 1 ... and I must say that between the first and second place was added to a photo finish. But I hope I have made the right choice ...
As always, I am ready also to your infamous!
Without further hesitation, here you ... "THE LAIR OF THE NICHE 2010 TOP 5".
1st place
THE NATIONAL - "High Violet"
Three years after the acclaimed "Boxer", the National's Matt Berninger and families gathered Dessner and Devendorf, pack a album that stands out among the other works for cohesion and consistency. Twilight Inspired by poets, from a certain ill-concealed love for the atmosphere of Joy Division and Leonard Cohen to the songwriting, the group manages to Cincinnati for their fifth effort to enter the heart indie rock world. Perhaps overshadowed by the phenomenon preceded the Interpol years (a phenomenon that is rapidly disintegrating) manage to rise above the mass of inconsistent thanks to the atmosphere full of solemnity, filled with guitars but never invasive, string arrangements and piano that blend perfectly with the sounds and sights rarely foggy typical of the band. This is supported very well by the voice of the same Berninger: icy, narcotic, mellifluous.
A great record in fact. Little to say. For the nostalgic and the avant-garde. For those who think that the sad music is always the best and for those who remain of the view that emotion is the rock with a good deal of trade.
Recommended Tracks: Lyle Vander Crybaby Geeks; Bloodbuzz, Ohio; Runaway
2ND PLACE
JONS - "Go"
Well, yes. Our Jonsi there has made for very little. I was undecided until the very last second on the fate of the singer's first solo release of Sigur Ros, but in the end I wanted to reward the close stylistic flights of fancy of the National Icelandic elf. What remains is a wonderful disc, which may differ slightly from the previous adventure with fellow Nordic countries but which still retains the magic of a beautiful voice that catapults the listener into a world muffled and light, where the suspension of rationality and the mind is the leitmotif of the 9 tracks on the album. Jonsi, who made his infinite weakness into strength difficult to scratch, leave the long suite typical of Sigur Ros, comes close to classic pop and draws impressive vocal range, compact and does not cheat. Remains the extraterrestrial that is, live and experience tell me that is huge.
We fly in the skies of Iceland. Without any fear of falling.
Recommended Tracks: Go Do; Animal Arithmetic; Grow Tall Till
3 ° PLACE
CARIBOU - "Swim"
can get a mathematician to make music and be able to do so well? It 's the case of Daniel Victor Snaith, the Canadian-London (Ontario) but resident in London, the capital of the British Empire. He graduated from Imperial College of the capital and then plunge headlong electronics and psychedelic pop. He founded the project "Manitoba" and later launched the operation "Caribou". At the third work in this direction completes a kind of parable that began with "The Milk of Human Kindness" (2005) and "Andorra" (2008), inspiring his compositions to more rational and scientific, rather than genuine inspiration. The result is a album that makes a great use of synth, bass-drums rhythm blood, some schitarrata atmosphere, voices that remind us of the black music alternating with howls funkeggianti. A good disc for both ballroom alternative both the dark lounge with curtains on the lamps to create a climate fatal.
Some have compared the work of Snaith to the last period of Kraftwerk. Without saying such heresy, let's say the guy has a 'good stuff, who shall be verbose, which can move you and leave you restless at the same time.
For a mathematician, not a trivial matter.
Recommended Tracks: Odessa, Kaili; Hannibal
4th place
THE SOFT MOON - "The Soft Moon"
A fulminant debut. A lonely man in charge of a project that is in serious danger of inflaming the hearts of those who like to put the word "post" any other genre. Luis Vasquez, San Francisco, sets an introspective tone dark and articulated by the board. As if Jesus and Mary Chain had lost their instruments in the Mojave Desert. A voice miles away, which is distinguished with difficulty in the sea of \u200b\u200bsound echoes natural (and lying on a bed that can not be more than 80 years), enclosed in a glass case by the scorching sun beat and guarded by the moon (of course) at night. Heat and cold are alternated in a succession of ecstatic hallucinations fleshed by a low that is the undisputed master of the disc and that will embrace synthesizers capable of driving a wedge between what the emotional mind says and what the body does.
difficult to fit a genre for this album: post punk? new wave? old wave? We say that is something completely different, which is the most beautiful new year and I might even start to love them to death.
So why only 4 °? Waiting for the second disc. That confirmation.
Recommended Tracks: Tiny Spiders, When It's Over; Parallels
5th place
THE ARCADE FIRE - "The Suburbs"
Okay ... repeat the miracle of "Funeral" was virtually impossible. Okay ... as confirmed with "Neon Bible" was difficult. But "The Suburbs" is still an album more than above average. Although now more people claiming the moon by the collective of Montreal, in this third work is known as the artistic needs of the band are far more the wishes of the public. For some the feeling of being at the table was prepared by Win Butler and his associates (who are, perhaps, one of the few groups that really know how to spell and how to play a piece), in fact, not to relive the moments of pure ecstasy of "Funeral", but has the distinct feeling that everything runs as it should flow. Usual airy and harmonious vocals that blend perfectly with a great sound scaffold that alternates the baroque, the shoegaze, glam, punk. Do not make mistakes when the song speeds up and his voice to harmonize Butler is still a monster of expression.
What is the beginning of a new era for the Arcade Fire? If you must do Coldplay's end I hope not ...
Recommended Tracks: Ready To Start; Empty Room; We Used To Wait
WINNERS
2007 - Battles, "Mirrored"
2008 - HAVE A NICE LIFE, "Deathconciousness"
2009 - Antony and the JONHSONS, "The Crying Light"
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