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Best of 2010 - Honorable Mentions

This year I decided to make a top 10 with the disc that I liked, was outside this Puchito record that, under explicit reasons, failed to be on that list. However, discs are highly recommended for those with desire to hear something new and good.

Tift Merritt - "See You On The Moon"
On this album there are two essential things: inspiration and emotion. The Merritt does that odious pop folk are so fond of the Yankees, but she goes well. Beautiful singing, the lyrics are simple and straightforward, and when he sings you'll note that I'm sorry you're saying (something that not many years ago, for example, Jewel). The production is austere, there is little but well used. There are no excesses of any kind, all is well calculated and placed neatly ... and therein lies the problem disk. Having such beautiful songs as "Six more days of rain", "Papercut" and (especially) "Mixtape", the almost obsessive thoroughness in music takes away spontaneity to the disk and towards the end everything ends up diluted. Same disc is a nice background to a meeting. Unfortunately disc is a nice background to a meeting.

Paula Cole - "Ithaca"

complicated I was very, very hard to talk about the new Paula Cole. It is a mine capable of writing things grosísimas, themes with great lyrics great ("I have a piece of my soul in the sole of your shoe"), sung with an unstoppable force ... and yet always ends up doing something to shit his records. "This Fire", his masterpiece of 1996, his lungs had a couple of really disturbing. After forgettable made two albums, with a break in between to raise her daughter. And this year, almost without warning, came out "Ithaca." Those who had heard said it was a return to "This Fire", and half of the album are right. "The hard way", "Something I've gotta say," Come on inside "and" Music in Me "(Best of the disc) have such force that Paula Cole gave the recognition he deserved. But at the same time flagging and sends a kitsch like "Waiting on a miracle" or unjustifiable "Sex." Paula did it again, both the good and bad. Same, only for "Music in Me" is worth the drive. Note

deserves what is in the middle of the album: half serious and half in joke, it sends a "prenup", a song whose chorus is cortita "prenup baby, go baby prenup" and spelling the name ends the subject. She laughs at the end, but I do I remove my WTF face.

Kate Nash - "My Best Friend Is You"
This girl carries the karma of having made a very good song ("Foundations") in a time when girls with little piano and enojaditas lots of pop production became fashionable. It was not rock, it was not pop, it was not too upset but it was not too happy. I have understood that to Kate Nash label fits perfectly on one hit wonder, but they still pulled out a second album (which obviously was not released here, but brings a suicide in February) that against all odds is fine. Pros: this disc was not what was happening in the first, that when finished could not distinguish a subject from the other. This may be merit in production, the guitars sound more dirty and the voice does not sound as polished (especially in "I just love you more", which seems an issue of Yoko Ono), there are violins that create environments. Cons: Kate neglected letters. Not that it really so important, as is the case Chumbawamba album. But the strong suit of "Made Of Bricks" were those chronicles of daily life he had written and sung with so much resignation. If ever Kate Nash album gets a release combining the power that has "My Best Friend Is You" with the vision of poet who shone in "Made Of Bricks", the mine will be very successful. Meanwhile, enjoy this disquito. It is recommended in doses with strong volume and lots of energy to download.

Ida Maria - "Katla"

And after that incredible piercing cry of "Oh my god" and the other great new songs that had their first album, what could I do Ida Maria? The answer is neither good start "Katla" send to hell and keep doing what comes out of my ass. The first theme is a little calm valsesito, light years ahead of what to expect from Norway. To "Bad Karma" and we have the Ida Maria we all know, shouting, trying to survive a mountain of dirty guitars that smash. If you can make a comparison, this album is more the thread of "I Like You So Much Better When You're naked" than "Oh my god", which would not be wrong because "I like you ..." is a very good song and its sequels here makes you really move the leg (especially "Cherry red"). There are punk to move the leg and dance happy, but sometimes Ida Maria simply loses his way and do not understand what to do. In "I eat boys like you for breakfast" there trumpets and castanets, and do not understand if the topic is a parody or if done in earnest. "Devil" is fine, but the final stretches, stretches and stretches and ends touching the ten minutes! at least half would have been more than good. I do not know what happened on this record, and that leaves me feeling "Katla" at the end is that Ida Maria does not know.

Chumbawamba - "ABCDEFG"

If a band is difficult to comment, that is Chumbawamba. It costs a lot to tell when they're serious because the entire time they are to fuck. The closest thing to a serious issue was "Tubthumping", and yet this song was an absolute pit alive. Chumbawamba previous albums (which are many, many, many) all time walking the line between the frenetic punk and alternative rock of the '90s, the exception is perhaps "Inglés Rebel Songs 1381-1914", an album with songs sung a capella nineteenth century, many of them written by workers and soldiers of that era. Yes, the same people who made "Tubthumping." "ABCDEFG" could relate a bit to "Inglés Rebel ...": the focus is on the voices (vocal harmonies are everywhere) and letters. The instruments that were once violent distorted guitars and drums, are now just an acoustic guitar here, a little piano over there, in such cases "at the Wagner opera" minimalism is going to end and everything is a scraper, a can and a whistle. According to the same Chumbawamba, "ABCDEFG" is an album about music, but the funny thing is that the focus is on the letters. If you do not have the letters by hand, many do not understand what it's disc. But well worth the effort to sit down and pay attention to songs like "Torturing James Hetfield" or "Dance, Idiot, Dance."

Charlotte Sometimes - "Sideways EP"

This girl was hired by a major label, did a very good pop album ("Waves And The Both Of Us"), the disc did not work, seal rescinded the contract (although the fault was theirs because they did not get promotion that corresponded) and she stayed in Pampa and the track. Charlotte Sometimes formula is good, with falsetto vocals, lyrics fucking depressed and choruses that run almost forever. Without departing from that formula, the EP (released independently and digital editing as it gave the same Charlotte in Facebook) shows that not having the pressure of the seal was given carte blanche to compose. You can tell the league that is not pressure to have a hit, and it falls incredibly well, the clearest example is "Ooh love", where the voice of Charlotte and a cushion of strings oscillate nervously throughout the song, something hardly can be heard on a pop album today today. Two other gems are "Call me up" and "Bad bad world", but the whole EP is great. Why is only an indication and not included it in the list? Well they are only six songs. If the next disc Charlotte Sometimes maintains this level will be a favorite in my collection of heads.