Best of 2010

Top 40

Uns dias de férias permitiram uma escuta reforçada das últimas aquisições, e após muita “reflexão”, anexo a sempre polémica lista dos melhores do ano. Como é usual está por “grupos”, para ser mais democrático

Top 3
Deerhunter – “Halcyon Digest” (2010 4AD)
Foals – “Total Life Forever” (2010 Transgressive)
The Black Keys – “Brothers” (2010 V2)

Top 10
Beach House – “Teen Dream” (Sub Pop)
Caribou – “Swin” (Merge/ City Slang)
Four Tet – “There Is Love In You” (Domino)
Midlake – “The Courage Of Others” (Bella Union)
The National – “High Violet” (4AD)
The Soft Pack – “The Soft Pack” (2010 Kemado)
Walls – “Walls” (Kompakt)

Top 40
Actress – “Splazsh” (Honest Jon’s)
Arcade Fire – “The Suburbs” (Merge)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti – “Before Today” (4AD)
Barn Owl – “Ancestral Star” (Thrill Jockey)
Edwyn Collins – “Losing Sleep” (Heavenly)
Efterklang – “Magic Chairs” (4AD)
Field Music – “Field Music” (Memphis Industries)
Gil Scott-Heron – “I’m New Here” (XL)
John Grant – “Queen Of Denmark” (Bella Union)
Mark McGuire – “Living With Yourself” (Mego)
Matthew Dear – “Black City” (Ghostly International)
Matthew Herbert – “One One” (Accidental)
No Age – “Everything In Between” (Sub Pop)
Peter Broderick – “How They Are (Bella Union)
Phantogram – “Eyelid Movies (Barsuk)
Rangda – “False Flag” (Drag City)
Richard Skelton – “Landings” (Type)
Sleigh Bells – “Treats” (Mom & Pop)
Spoon – “Transference” (2010 Merge)
Swans – “My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky” (Young God)
Tame Impala – “Innerspeaker” (Modular)
Teenage Fanclub – “Shadows” (PeMa)
The Album Leaf - “A Chorus of Storytellers” (2010 Sub Pop)
The Besnard Lakes - “The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night” (2010 Jagjaguwar)
The Phantom Band – “The Wants” (Chemikal underground)
The Walkmen – “Lisbon” (Fat Possum)
Trentemoller – “Into The Great Wide Yonder” (2010 In My Room)
Vampire Weekend - “Contra” (2010 XL)
Wavves – “King Of The Beach” (2010 Fat Possum)
Women – “Public Strain” (2010 Jagjaguwar)

Best of 2009

Top 40

Uns dias de férias permitiram uma escuta reforçada das últimas aquisições, e após muita “reflexão”, anexo a sempre polémica lista dos melhores do ano. Como é sempre difícil a ordenação, mais uma vez a selecção está por “grupos”, para ser mais democrático.

Top 3
Animal Collective – “Merriweather Post Pavilion”(Domino)
Bill Callahan – “Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle” (2009 Drag City)
The Phantom Band – “Checkmate Savage” (2009 Chemikal Underground)

Top 10
Atlas Sound – “Logos” (2009 Kranky)
Dirty Projectors – “Bitte Orca” (Domino)
Fuck Buttons – “Tarot Sport” (ATP Recordings)
Grizzly Bear – “Veckatimest” (Warp)
Lindstrom and Prins Thomas – “II” (2009 Eskimo)
Noah & The Whale – “The First Days Of Spring” (Vertigo)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “It’s A Blitz” (Polydor)

Top 40
Alasdair Roberts – “Spoils” (Drag City)
Andrew Bird – “Noble Beast” (Fat Possum)
Arbouretum – “Song Of The Pearl” (Thrill Jockey)
Blues Control – “Local Flavor” (Siltbreeze)
Boozoo Bajou – “Grains” (!K7)
Dan Auerbach – Keep It Hid” (V2)
David Sylvian – “Manafon” (Samadhi Sound)
Do Make Say Think – “Other Truths” (Arts & Crafts)
Girls – “Album” (True Panther Sounds/ Matador)
Howling Bells – “Radio Wars” (2009 Independiente)
Japandroids – “Post-Nothing” (Polyvinyl)
Jon Hassell – “Last Night The Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in The Street” (ECM)
Mono – “Hymn To The Immortal Wind” (2009 Temporary Residence)
Regina Spektor – “Far” (2009 Warner)
Richard Hawley – “Truelove’s Gutter” (Mute)
Sa-Ra Creative Partners – “Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love” (Ubiquity)
Seeland – “Tomorrow Today” (2009 Loaf)
Sonic Youth – “The Eternal” (Matador)
Soulsavers - Broken” (2009 V2)
Sunset Rubdown – “Dragonslayer” (Jagjaguwar)
The Antlers – “Hospice” (Frenchkiss)
The Horrors – “Primary Colours” (XL)
The Skygreen Leopards – “Gorgeous Johnny” (Cosmos)
The Very Best – “Warm Heart Of Africa” (Moshi Moshi)
The Whitest Boy Alive – “Rules” (Groove Attack)
Timber Timbre – “Timber Timbre” (Arts & Crafts)
Tó Trips – “Guitarra 66” (Mbari)
Tortoise – “Beacons Of Ancestorship” (Thrill Jockey)
Wilco – “Wilco” (Nonesuch)
Yo La Tengo – “Popular Songs” (2009 Matador)

Best of 2008

Algum dinheiro extra recolhido nesta fase de Natal e aniversário (é verdade), ainda permitiu a aquisição de mais alguns discos, e após muita “reflexão”, anexo a sempre polémica lista dos melhores do ano. Como é sempre difícil a ordenação, a selecção está por “grupos”, para ser mais democrático.

Top 5
Deerhunter – “Microcastle” (Kranky)
Fleet Foxes – “Fleet Foxes” (Bella Union/Sub Pop)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!” (Mute)
Portishead – “Third” (Island)
TV On The Radio – “Dear Science” (4AD)

Top 15
Atlas Sound - “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” (Kranky)
Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago” (Jagjaguwar)
Drive-By Truckers – “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark” (New West)
Foals - "Antidotes" (Transgressive)
High Places – “High Places” (Thrill Jockey)
My Brightest Diamond – “A Thousand Shark’s Teeth” (Asthmatic Kitty)
Ra Ra Riot - “The Rhumb Line” (Barsuk)
The Ruby Suns – “Sea Lion” (Sub Pop)
Why? – “Alopecia” (Anticon)
Young Knives – “Superabundance” (Transgressive)

Top 40
Awesome Color – “Electric Aborigines” (Ecstatic Peace)
Beck – “Modern Guilt” (XL)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Lie Down In The Light” (Drag City)
British Sea Power – “Do You Like Rock Music?” (Rough Trade)
DeVotchka - “A Mad & Faithful Telling” (Anti)
Erykah Badu – “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” (Motown)
Evangelista - “Hello, Voyager” (Constellation)
Foge Foge Bandido – “Foge Foge Bandido” (Turbina)
Fuck Buttons - “Street Horrrsing” (ATP)
Fujiya & Miyagi – “Lightbulbs” (Grönland)
Human Bell - “Human Bell” (Thrill Jockey)
No Age – “Nouns” (Sub Pop)
Mogwai – “The Hawk Is Howling” (Rock Action)
Ricardo Villalobos – “Vasco” (Perlon)
Robert Forster - “The Evangelist” (Yep Roc)
Santogold – “Santogold” (Downtown/Lizard King)
School of Language - “Sea From Shore” (Thrill Jockey)
Spiritualized – “Songs In A&E” (Fontana)
Stereolab - “Chemical Chords” (4AD)
The Fall – “Imperial Wax Solvent” (Sanctuary)
The Kills – “Midnight Boom” (Domino)
The Walkmen – “You & Me” (Gigantic)
The Week That Was – “The Week That Was” (Memphis Industries)
Two Banks of Four - “Junkyard Gods” (Sonar Kollektiv)
Xiu Xiu - “Women as Lovers” (Kill Rock Stars)

Best of 2007

Custou, mas para não deixar que fiquem com má opinião sobre o blog, anexo uma selecção pessoal dos melhores discos adquiridos no ano de 2007:

Os 15 que mais me fascinaram
Andrew Bird - "Armchairs Apocrypha"(Fat Possum)
Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"(Merge)
Battles - "Mirrored" (Warp)
Burial - "Untrue" (Hyperdub)
Electrelane - "No Shouts No Calls" (Too Pure/Beggars)
Iron & Wine - "The Shepperd's Dog" (Sub Pop)
LCD Soundsystem - "Sound of Silver" (DFA)
Liars - "Liars" (Mute)
Panda Bear - "Person Pitch"(Paw Tracks)
Robert Wyatt - "Comicopera" (Domino)
Stars of the Lid - "And Their Refinement of the Decline" (Kranky)
The Fiery Furnaces - "Widow City" (Thrill Jockey)
The National - "Boxer" (Beggars Banquet)
The Shins - "Wincing the Night Away" (Sub Pop)
Yesterdays New Quintet - "Yesterdays Universe" (Stones Throw)

Mais 15 que me surpreenderam
Antibalas - "Security" (Anti)
Band of Horses - "Cease To Begin" (Sub Pop)
Beirut - "The Flying Club Cup" (4AD)
Caribou - "Andorra" (Merge)

Field Music - "Tones of Town" (Memphis Industries)
Jens Lekman - "Nights Fall Over Kortedala"(Secretly Canadian)
Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - "Joystone" (Sahko)
Lobster - "Sexually Transmited Electricity" (Borland)
Micro Audio Waves - "Odd Size Baggage" (Magic Music)

Mudd - "Claremont 56" (Rong)
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - "You Follow Me" (Fat Cat)

Pinch - "Underwater Dancehall" (Tectonic)
P J Harvey - "White Chalk" (Island)
Spoon - "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" (Merge)

The Field - "From Here We Go Sublime" (Kompakt)

5 Maxis que fizeram o velhinho SL 12000 trabalhar muito
LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great" (DFA)
Pop Dell'Arte - "Querelle" (Bloop)
Tony Allen - "Kilode" (Carl Craig Remixes) (Honest Jon's)
Faze Action - "In The Trees" (Carl Craig Remixes) (Juno)
!!! - "Must Be The Moon" (Emperor Machine Remix) (Warp)