Well, now, after much delay the case, start with those who for me were the top ten best albums that came out this year. For those interested (and lazy to google), this year I put a link so you can download the album. Notice in advance that I will not go up but the googling and looking for other places, so if you fall I do not look.
10 - Cathy Davey - "The Nameless" knew of the existence of Cathy Davey because I read that Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy) had helped to compose a song that appears on this album. The truth is that if you do not say that this song is "Army of tears", you would not know what it is. This rare genre called "chamber pop" (stupid name if any), epitomized by The Divine Comedy, is quietly making pop songs that could be part of a Broadway musical. Davey does not have an orchestra of one hundred and forty violins accompanying violins, but does not. His staging is more austere (along with the idea of \u200b\u200ba musical), and the emphasis is on his childlike voice. There is a childish tone in the album (especially "Happy slapping" and "Dog"), while it seems that the man bag is to get out from under the bed ready to attack. Perfect album for a rainy winter day or an autumn afternoon, while walking down the street kicking leaves the mountains of knowing that a neighbor is watching you.
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9 - Aqualung - "Magnetic North" Personally, I do not understand why success is so elusive to him Aqualung (whose real name is Matt Hales). Is as good as winning the Quini, writes ballads that of, Ponele, Coldplay, experimentation can play without going to hell as he goes to Radiohead. And yet, he formula "Cute guy who plays the piano" to do so famous. In his previous album terribly bored playing the guitar and singing softly, if this album was by that wave was going to be a disaster. But "Magnetic North" sounds more like "Memory man", with lots of sound effects, voices and violins are processed next to the piano. But the difference lies in the influences: there is an air of the '60s and '70s throughout the album, courtesy of the black backing vocals on "New friend" or the playful chorus of "Fingertip." Special mention two issues. First, "Hummingbird," which begins as if the piano had been playing the same three notes and had had four minutes Hales drive to silence him. The second song that stands out is "Reel me in, I do not know why it reminds me to Peter Gabriel for his first solo album.
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8 - Joanna Newsom - "Have One On Me CD1" Joanna Newsom is exaggerated. When you do not take out a disk with 16 minute songs, you out a triple album. Logically, it always ends like having too much things that do not work. Of the three discs of "Have One On Me", which I really liked and listened with pleasure is the first, the other two hit a plunger me comatose. "Have One On Me" has as its main attraction Joanna Newsom sings like no a cat attacked by a pack of hyenas with adenoids, but now sounds like a human. And he is very good, because the truth still hard for me to hear some songs from their first album. The new voice of sweetness Newsom has stated that need songs like "Easy" or "Baby birch." "'81" Is the usual Joanna Newsom, voice and harp alone, and if it is a beautiful song captures all the attention the issues that have an orchestra, as the already named "Easy" or "Have one on me ". But all the applause they are taken "Good Intentions Paving Company, the perfect and undreamt of Kate Bush to Joni Mitchell.
Clicking here you can download the entire disc, but clicking here you get off only CD1.
7 - Dawn Kinnard - "Wrong Side Of The Dream" 'm in love with "The Courtesy Fall ', the debut album Dawn Kinnard. The album is a drop side by side, each song is filled with sadness and resignation, and voiced Kinnards shit does not help to think otherwise. "Wrong Side Of The Dream" is a tad more cheerful, even with songs that are called "Indescribably blue" or "My favorite ghost" (the saddest song on the disc). Kinnard's voice is more falls and broken before, and that you realize just the first song. The music, except few exceptions, German cabaret sounds more like, Tom Waits. And the comparison to Tom Waits is very successful, not only because they both sing as if gargling with studs making but because "Wrong Side ..." has the same atmosphere as any of the albums Waits "Mule Variations" for later. In that sense, it emphasizes "Death is a shark" that sounds like ... well, like this: as you're in the middle of the sea drunk after a shipwreck and a shark begins to circle around you.
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6 - Sarah Harmer - "Oh Little Fire" Thank god! Sarah Harmer gave up his experiments with bluegrass and returned to doing what it does best: contemporary folk, with choruses gancheros, voices overlap and then separate in different ways and metaphors that only they understand ("I did not go to Washington , INSTEAD I swept the floor "). "Oh Little Fire" sounds a bit more electric in the first half, if there is even a bit of distortion on "Captive" (song that I've caught myself whistling down the middle of the street as if nothing else). It's an album optimistic but not happy, happy but at the point just hard not to be a jerk. It is ideal to sing while cooking, courtesy of slogans such as "Late Bloomer" or "One match" (which actually has no chorus, but has the phrase "If I Had only one match left Would I try to light a fire under you", that's cool).
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