If a couple of years ago I had been told that Ariel Pink would have made my hard-of-the-years-2010 I probably would have said that an author so dispersed, marginal, off stage, ran the risk, in my opinion, to remain only a great curiosity for lovers of the underground more marginal and is unlikely to be able to make a record with the strength to come out well-protected niches of the music of absolute worship. But no. Not only because then he has succeeded in creating an aesthetic music over the past two years has resulted in several vital currents in contemporary music - after all, the hypnagogic pop, the glo-fi or whatever you want to call it, has a lot to him - but also because in the end was able to channel everything good that has done over the years into a record that is exemplary ability to synthesize, pure and simple beauty of the songs, the idea of \u200b\u200bsound and arrangement. At the end Before Today reveals Ariel Pink, quite simply, as one of the greatest writers of songs came out over the year zero.
So here is my year of music in a list. The 15 albums that I listened to slash more appreciated during the year: very electronic, dubstep and neighboring areas (James Blake, Mount Kimbe) and others (Flying Lotus, Gonjasufi, Caribou, Four Tet, LCD Soundsystem), extraordinary returns like the Swans or confirmations as important as that of Wovenhand, hip hop (Kanye West and Big Boi), only one disk, say, indie-rock, that of Deerhunter. Here is the list of 2009. Separately, below the 5 Italian records in alphabetical order. And the list of the forty songs on the link to listen.
1. Ariel Pink, Before Today (4AD)
2. Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest (4AD)
3. Gonjasufi, A Sufi and a Killer (Warp)
4. Flying Lotus, cosmogram (Warp)
5. Caribou, Swim (Merge)
6. Swans, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God Records)
7. Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles (Fiction/Last Gang/Universal Motown)
8. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam/Roc-a-fella)
9. Janelle Monae, The Archandroid (Bad Boy/ Wondaland Arts Society)
10. James Blake, Klavierwerke/ CMYK (R&S)
11. Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
11. Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
12. Four Tet, There Is Love in You
13. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (EMI/DFA)
14. Wovenhand, The Threshing Floor (Glitterhouse)
15. Mount Kimbie, Crooks & Lovers (Hotflush)
Italians, in alphabetical order : Bachi from stone, quartz (Wallace). Buzz Aldrin, S / T (Unhip Records / Ghost). Iosonouncane, La macarena on Rome (props). Massimo Volume, Bad habits (The Tempest). Movie Star Junkies, A Poison Tree (Voodoo Rhythm)
Italians, in alphabetical order : Bachi from stone, quartz (Wallace). Buzz Aldrin, S / T (Unhip Records / Ghost). Iosonouncane, La macarena on Rome (props). Massimo Volume, Bad habits (The Tempest). Movie Star Junkies, A Poison Tree (Voodoo Rhythm)
Lyrics
1. Deerhunter, Helicopter (4AD)
2. Caribou, Sun (Merge)
3. Four Tet, Plastic People (Domino)
4. Ariel Pink, Round and Round (4AD)
5. Sleigh Bells, Rill Rill (NEET / Mom & Pop)
6. Kanye West Blame Game (Def Jam/ Roc-a-Fella)
7. Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith, Not in Love (Fiction)
8. The National, Bloodbuzz Ohio (4AD)
9. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (Merge)
10. Liars, Scarecrows on a Killer Slant (Mute)
11. James Blake, I Only Know (What I Know) (R&S)
12. LCD Soundsystem, I Can Change (EMI/DFA)
13. M.I.A., Born Free (XL)
14. Ariel Pink, Bright Lit Blues Skies (4AD)
15. Deerhunter, We Would Have Laughed (4AD)
16. Caribou, Odessa (Merge)
17. Swans, Eden Prison (Young God Records)
18. Gill Scott Heron, Me and the Devil (XL)
19. Twin Sister, All Around Away We Go (Domino)
20. Big Boi, Shine Blockas (feat. Gucci Mane)
21. Janelle Monàe feat. Big Boi, Tightrope (Bad Boy)
22. Kaney West, Runaway (Def Jam/ Roc-a-Fella)
23. Twin Shadow, Castles in the Snow (Terrible/4AD)
24. How To Dress Well, Lover’s Start (Lefse)
25. Wovenhand, The Threshing Floor (Glitterhouse)
26. Dum Dum Girls, Jail La La (Sub Pop)
27. Real Estate, Out of Tune (Matador)
28. Girls, Heartbreaker (True Panther)
29. Gill Scott Heron & Jamie XX, NY Is Killing Me (XL)
30. Coyote Clean Up, Dowhill Express (I Had an Accident)
31. Drake feat. Alicia Keys, Fireworks (Deadly Slo Mo House Edit)
32. Crystal Castles, Celestica (Fiction)
33. Darkstar, Gold (Hyperdub)
34. Mount Kimbie, Would Know (Hotflush)
35. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Heart in Your Heartbreak (Slumberland)
36. Arcade Fire, We Used to Wait (Merge)
37. Deerhunter, Desire Lines (4AD)
38. Emeralds, Now You See Me (Editions Mego)
39. James Blake, Limit to Your Love (Atlas)
40. Crystal Castles, Vietnam (Fiction)
