2023: ROCK, POP, SONGWRITING... (CLASSIC + ALTERNATIVE)

 

(Sempre e comunque) 

PATRIMONI DELL’UMANITA’

 

Iggy Pop - Every Loser (Gold Tooth-Atlantic)

John Cale - Mercy (Domino-Double Six)

 Neil Young - Chrome Dreams + Before and After (Reprise)

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Australian Carnage (Goliath)

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms (Owl - Legacy)

Peter Gabriel - i/o (Real World)

Pretenders - Relentless (Parlophone)

Pere Ubu -  Trouble On Big Beat Street (Cherry Red)

Robyn Hitchcock - Life After Infinity (Tiny Ghost Records)

Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill (Domino)

Yusuf/Cat Stevens - King of a Land (BMG-Dark Horse)

 

 

ROOTS HIGHWAYS, BLUES HIGHWAYS

 

(Americana, Country, Roots-Rock, Folk, Blues….)

 

Bob Martin - Seabrook (Worried Songs)

Cat Power - Sings Dylan; The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Domino)

Dom Flemons - Traveling Wildfire (Smithsonian Folkways)

Jeffrey Martin - Thank God We Left the Garden (Fluff And Gravy)

Joe Henry - All the Eye Can See (Ear Music)

 Kassi Valazza - Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing (Fluff And Gravy Records)

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives - Altitude (Snakefarm)

 Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage (Nonesuch)

Nat Myers - Yellow Peril (Easy Eye Sound)

Peter Case - Doctor Moan (Sunset Blvd Records)

Tom Ovans - The Cure (NSR Sound Recordings)

 

 

 

 

INDIE HEROES

 

Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (Section 1 Records)

Blur - The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone-Warner Records)

Daniel Johnston - Love Lives Forever (BBC Sessions 2003-2011) (Trussed)

Drop Nineteens - Hard Light (Wharf Cat Records)

The Folk Implosion - Music for KIDS (Domino-2CD)

Guided By Voices - La La Land + Welshpool Frillies + Nowhere To Go But Up (G.B.V.)

Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward - Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars)

Jesus And Mary Chain - Sunset 666 (Fuzz Club Records)

PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan Records)

Robert Forster - The Candle And The Flame (Tapete Records)

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)

Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current Records)

The Van Pelt - Artisans & Merchants (Spartan Records)

Wilco - Cousin (dBpm Records)

YoLa Tengo - This Stupid World (Matador)

 

 

 

 

ALTERNATIVE SOUP

 

(Indie Pop, Jangle Pop, Chamber Pop, Indie-Folk)

 

Being Dead - When Horses Would Run (Bayonet Records)

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)

En Attendant Ana - Principia ( Trouble in Mind)

 Mac DeMarco - Some Other Ones (Captured Tracks) Instrumental

The Tubs - Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)

RVG - Brain Worms (Fire Records)

The Small Intestines - Hide in Time (Meritorio Records)

Swansea Sound - Twentieth Century (Skep Wax)

Teenage Fanclub - Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge-Pema)

 

 

 

(Alt Song, Alt-Folk, Alt-Country)

 

DM Stith - Fata Morgana (Historical Fiction Records)

James Yorkston, Nina Persson & Second Hand Orch. - The GreatWhite Sea Eagle (Domino)

John Francis Flynn - Look Over the Wall, See the Sky (River Lea Records)

Jonathan Day - Sakura (Niimiika -Jonathan Day)

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)

M. Ward - Supernatural Thing (Anti-)

Matt Elliott - The End Of Days (Ici D'Ailleurs)

Meg Baird - Furling (Drag City)

 Modern Nature - No Fixed Point In Space (Bella Union)

P.G. Six - Murmurs & Whispers (Drag City)

Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection 2 (Full Time Hobby)

Sparklehorse - Bird Machine (Anti)

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)

(Art Rock, Electro-Rock, Art Pop, Avant Pop, Prog Pop, Psych Pop,..)

 

Aksak Maboul - Une Aventure De VV (Songspiel)  (Crammed Disc)

 Asher White - New Excellent Woman (Ba Da Bing!)

 American Cream - Presents (Quindi Records)

 Cornelius - 夢中夢 - Dream in Dream (Warner Music Japan)

 King Krule - Space Heavy (XL Recordings-Matador)

Monde Ufo - Vandalized Statue To Be Replaced With Shrine (Quindi)

Peter Brewis - Blowdry Colossus (Daylight Saving)

The South Hill Experiment - Moonshots + Sunstrikes (S.H.E.)

Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X (Fire Records)

The Waeve - The Waeve (Transgressive Records) 

 

 

(LOST GIRLS)

Anohni and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (SecretlyCanadian)

Daniela Pes - Spira (Tanca-Trovarobato) Italy

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (Rabid)

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)

Maria BC - Spike Field (Sacred Bones Records)

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (Pias-Rough Trade)

Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer (Ninja Tune)

Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! (Perpetual Flame Ministries)

RuthGarbus - Alive People (Orindal Records)

Seaming To - Dust Gatherers (O SingAtMe)

 

(Noise, Post-Rock, Post-Punk, Psych-Rock, Kraut)

 CEREMONY east coast. - Lovesick (Ceremony East Coast)

Italia 90 - Living Human Treasure (Brace Yourself Records)

Ghost Woman - Hindsight Is 50-50 (Full Time Hobby)

Goat - Medicine (Rocket Recordings, 2023)

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody (True Panther)

Ping Pong - Ping Pong (Raw Culture, 2023) Italy

Shame - Food for Worms (Dead Oceans)

SQÜRL - Silver Haze (Sacred Bones Records) 

Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy... (Flensen Records)

 Swans - The Beggar (Young God)

Tropical Fuck Storm - Submersive Behaviour (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Upper Wild - Jupiter (Thrill Jockey Records)

 

 

 

SAVAGE RHYTHM

 

(Garage, Punk’N’Roll, Cow-Punk, Boogie Trash, Surf, Power Pop... )

 

The Arrogants - Brainwash (Dirty Water Records)

Bang Bang Band Girl - 12 Super Duper Extraordinary Girl..(Voodoo Rhythm)

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Glory (Folc Records)

The Bomboras - Songs from Beyond! (MuSick Recordings)

Brian Setzer - The Devil Always Collects (Surfdog Records)

Civic - Taken By Force (ATO Records)

Daddy Long Legs - Street Sermons (Yep Roc Records)

The Men - New York City (Fuzz Club Records)

The Midnight Kings - Last Chance To Dance (Wild Honey) Italy

Thee Headcoats - Irregularis (The Great Hiatus) (Damaged Goods)

Thunder Bomber - Dangerous Pills (Nasty Brigade) Italy

 Upchuck - Bite The Hand That Feeds (Famous Class)