Cuvée 2011, les chroniqueurs

Les fines plumes de la Pinkushion Team proposent leur sélection personnelle des disques marquants de l’année.

Paul Ramone

Future Islands – On The Water

Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

Battles – Gloss Drop

Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient

Michel Cloup (Duo) – Notre Silence

Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen

Maison Neuve – Joan

Timber Timbre – Creep on, creepin’ on
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Bill Orcutt – How The Thing Sings

Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
John Shannon & Wings of Sound – Songs of the Desert River

Mehdi Zannad – Fugue

Shimmering Stars – Violent Hearts

My Jazzy Child – The Drums

Boris – Heavy Rocks / Attention Please

Idaho – You Were a Dick

John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

The Konki Duet – Let’s Bonappetons
Male Bonding – Endless Now
The Feelies – Here Before

Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island

Glenn Jones – The Wanting

Bibio – Mind Bokeh

Mars Red Sky – S/T

The Leisure Society – Into The Murky Water

Real Estate – Days

Rééditions :
Beach Boys – Smile Sessions Boxset (EMI)
Phil Spector – Boxset Philles records (Sony Legacy)

Disco Inferno – The 5 Eps
Michael Chapman – Fully Qualified Survivor
Bobby Conn – Rise up (Fire Records/ Thrill Jockey)
U2 – Achtung Baby démos (Boxset, 20 ans)

Concerts : Sun Kil Moon, Trail Of Dead, Anna Calvi, Bill Callahan, Battles, Bon Iver, M. Ward, Tim Hecker, Wire (Black Sessions), Other Lives…

Films :
Drive, de Nicolas Winding Refn (comme tout le monde)
Essential Killing, de Jerzy Skolimowski

Lectures :
Gerard Nguyen – Atem (1975-1979) éd. Camion Blanc.
Eric Reinhardt, Le système Victoria

Pascal Amoyel

EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
Timber Timbre – Creep on, creepin’ on
Future Islands – On The Water

Le Prince Miiaou – Fill the blank with your own emptiness

Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine

Destroyer – Kaputt

Maison Neuve – Joan

Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo

Ludovic Dutheil

Pete Astor – Songbox

Laetitia Shériff Thomas Poli François Jeanneau – Often False

Metronomy – The English Riviera

Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Idaho – You Were a Dick

Other Lives – Tamer Animals
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine

The Feelies – Here Before

The Bats – Free All The Monsters

Chad Vangaalen – Diaper Island
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX – We’re New Here

Billy Budd

Austra – Feel it Break

Blouse – Blouse

Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love

John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

Joakim – Nothing Gold

Planningtorock – W

Puro Instinct – Headbangers in Ecstasy

The Naked and Famous – Passive Me, Aggressive You

Washed Out – Within and Without

WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

Julien Schuers

Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine

Low – C’mon
Mina May – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient

Umut Ungan

Barn Owl – Lost in the Glare
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
Vatican Shadow – Kneel Before Religious Icons
Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek – Grower
Prurient – Bermuda Drain
Lawrence English – The Peregrine
Mars Red Sky – S/T
Terror Bird – Human Culture
Stephan Mathieu – Remain
Niggas With Guitars – Ethnic Frenzy

Outsiders

Cunninlynguists – Oneirology
Indian – Guiltless
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Cotonou Club

Jean-Philippe Cavaillez

Dix albums :
The Roots – Undun
The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
Zola Jesus – Conatus
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Apparat – The Devil’s Walk
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
James Blake – Jame Blake
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse

Par-ci, par-là, des morceaux :
Lykke Li – I Know Places
Low – Especially Me
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
Cults – Abducted
Dengue Fever – 2012 (Bury Our Heads)
Toro Y Moi – Still Sound
Pete & the Pirates – United
Milkymee – Boys Like Us
St. Vincent – Cruel
Cut Copy – Where I’m Going
Alexander – Truth
Discodeine – Synchronize (Feat. Jarvis Cocker)
Okkervil River – The Valley

Julien Sauvageot

Pete Astor – Songbox
The Horrors – Skying
The Drums -Portamento
Wilco –The Whole Love
The Bats – Free All The Monsters
The Leisure Society – Into The Murky Water
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong

Bertrand Pinsac

Les établis :
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
J. Masics – Several Shades Of Why
Wilco – The Whole Love
The Black Keys – El Camino
Low – C’Mon
Bill Callahan – Apocalypse

Les besogneux :
David Bazan – Strange Negotiations
Rival Schools – Pedals
Chad Vangaalen – Diaper Island
Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
Wooden Wand – Death Seat
Black Lips – Arabian Mountain

Les nouvelles têtes (ou presque) :
Timber Timbre – Creep on, creepin’ on
Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
Middle Brother – Middle Brother
Limousine – II
Shimmering Stars – Violent Hearts
Kim Novak – The Golden Mean
Peter Wolf Crier – Garden Of Arms
Mina May – Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
Crystal Stilts – Love With An Oblivion

Les brutaux :
Anthrax – Workship Music
Mastodon – The Hunter
The Haunted – Unseen
Dub Trio – IV
Solstafir – Svanti Sandar
Glassjaw – Coloring Book

Les coffrés :
Mickey Newbury – American Trilogy
Phil Spector presents – The Philles Album Collection
The Fame Studios Story 1961-73 – Home Of The Muscle Shoals Sound
How Many Roads – Black America Sings Bob Dylan
Come Together – Black America Sings Lennon and McCartney

Pour une poignée de eps :
Ty Segall – Ty rex
Besnard Lakes – You Lived In The City
Crystal Stilts – Radiant Door
The Fresh and Onlys – Secret Walls
Richard Swift – Walt Wolfman
Kurt Vile – So Outta reach