La playlist da ascoltare mentre Caronte ci traghetta all'inferno.
01. SUMMERTIME IS COMING/JULIAN PLENTI
(JULIAN PLENTI LIVES...)
02. SLEEPING UTE/GRIZZLY BEAR
03. WAIT/ADVENTURE CLUB FEAT. KAREN O
04. HENRIETTA/YEASAYER
(FRAGRANT WORLD)
05. QUATRE MAINS/dEUS
(FOLLOWING SEA)
06. LAST MAN STANDING/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
(ALL THE WARS)
07. WOULD THAT NOT BE NICE/DIVINE FITS
(A THING CALLED DIVNE FITS)
08. LONGEST DAY/SOULSAVER FEAT. DAVE GAHAN
(THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE)
09. REVOLVING/2:54
(2:54)
10. AIR CONDITIONING/DIIV
(OSHIN)
11. WIXIW/LIARS
(WIXIW)
12. PARA/CALEXICO
(ALGIERS)
13. OBSERVATIONS/THE RAVEONETTES
(OBSERVATOR)
14. CRYSTALLISE/GLASS VAULTS
(CRYSTALLISE Single)
Bonus Tracks
NO MORE POWER/EAUX
(LUTHER Single)
SLEEP ALONE/CHAPEL CLUB
01. ALL THE ROWBOATS/REGINA SPEKTOR (WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS) 02. MYTH/BEACH HOUSE (BLOOM) 03. TRINITY/COMPUTER MAGIC (ORION) 04. LEPÄÄN AALLOILLA/REGINA (SOITA MULLE) 05. NIGHT COMES OUT/THE RAVEONETTES (INTO THE NIGHT) 06. BLOOD FOR POPPIES/GARBAGE (NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE) 07. STRANGERS/LOTUS PLAZA (SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE) 08. TALL SHADOWS/WORLD'S MOST (TALL SHADOWS/HONEY EYED Single) 09. ASHES IN THE AIR/THE FLAMING LIPS FEAT. BON IVER (THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS) 10. WEIGHTS & MEASURES/DRY THE RIVER (SHALLOW BED) 11. ANOTHER STORY TO TELL/CRYSTAL VOYAGER (DEMOS) 12. EVERYTHING IS BURNING/MESITA (THE COYOTE) 13. THE MARVELOUS DREAM/DAMON ALBARN (DR DEE) 14. TALLER/FLIGHTS (ANYWHERE BUT WHERE I AM) 15. EKKI MÚKK/SIGUR RÓS (VALTARI)
Bonus Tracks
ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER/ARCADE FIRE (THE HUNGER GAMES Soundtrack) WATERLIGHT PARK (Demo)/CHAPEL CLUB LOOKING FOR A SIGN/BECK (JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME Soundtrack)
A mild month for weather but a late storm sees The first berries torn from the rowan trees Their bodies stain the stone in Waterlight Park Small deaths, unmourned by the gathering dark
And as you might suppose, my mind finds a start Turn on the radio and dreams they drift apart Here in London town where Every child's a Herod to himself and others I hear a lonesome whistle
I watch and the only answer made Comes from a black-suited cannonade Pounding the corpses with a stern expression Shaming the loud blood's indiscretion
And as you might suppose, I'm that bleeding heart I believe in something more than you can fix upon a chart Here in London town where Every man's a Judas to himself and others I hear a lonesome whistle
But there is another answer, now I see In the up-thrown arms of the rowan trees Crazed with dismay by what the storm has done Cradling in shadow their fallen sons
And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart And as you might suppose, I've a broken heart
Where to begin? This snake has left us with last years skin Eyeless diamonds of a life that's been and done Memory is blind Where did it end? We fell together like an accident Two lives colliding like continents There be mountains between us and time
Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Oh lie, you can take me for a long ride My heart is high like a returning tide Highlight your body like a coast line
Hey miss I always said I wouldn't reminiscence Become too busy with regrets to create a kiss But i was unwise Once I thought I was the hero they were waiting for And with my words I would change the law And remake it as mine
Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Low slung and highly strung she said run with that Oh lie, you can take me for a long ride My heart is high like a returning tide Highlight your body like a coast line
When you were born the golden apple Tell them I'll answer instead You are my one, my only sad maid Go and present my head Go and present my head Go and present my head
Oh lie, you can take me for a long ride My heart is high like a returning tide Highlight your body like a coast line
01. BRICK BY BRICK/ARCTIC MONKEYS (LAST NIGHT ON EARTH) 02. ANTI-D/THE WOMBATS (THE WOMBATS PROUDLY PRESENT... THIS MODERN GLITCH) 03. TRUST ME/THE STREETS (COMPUTERS AND BLUES) 04. MACHU PICCHU/THE STROKES (ANGLES) 05. LOST AT SEA/PURO INSTINCT (HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY) 06. WAKE AND BE FINE/OKKERVIL RIVER (I AM VERY FAR) 07. GET OVER/PS I LOVE YOU (MEET ME AT THE MUSTER STATION) 08. JESUS IS A ROCHDALE GIRL/ELBOW (BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!) 09. STATE OF COLLIDING/BOAS (GRAVE DREAMS) 10. SEPARATOR/RADIOHEAD (THE KING OF LIMBS) 11. ALBATROSS/WILD BEASTS (SMOTHER) 12. THE PAST, THE PRESENT & THE POSSIBLE/THAITI 80 (THE PAST, THE PRESENT & THE POSSIBLE) 13. BELONG/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART (BELONG) 14. THE MAN WHO STOLE A LEOPARD/DURAN DURAN (ALL YOU NEED IS NOW) 15. WAR IN HEAVEN/THE RAVEONETTES (RAVEN IN THE GRAVE) 16. I FEEL WRONG ((HOMOSEXUALITY PT.1))/GLASVEGAS (EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) 17. EGO/BURIAL + FOUR TET + THOM YORKE (EGO/MIRROR 12")
Bonus Tracks
GLASS IN THE PARK/ALEX TURNER (SUBMARINE Soundtrack) THINK YOU CAN WAIT/THE NATIONAL (WIN WIN SOUNDTRACK) ROADS/CHAPEL CLUB (iTUNES LIVE SXSW)
01. BEATING HEART/LA SERA (LA SERA) 02. IS LOVE/WHITE LIES (RITUAL) 03. EUPHORIA, TAKE MY HAND/GLASVEGAS (EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) 04. BE THE ONE/MOBY (BE THE ONE EP) 05. UBERLIN/R.E.M. (COLLAPSE INTO NOW) 06. WILL DO/TV ON THE RADIO (NINE TYPES OF LIGHT) 07. TOMORROW HAS TO WAIT/PETER BJORN AND JOHN (GIMME SOME) 08. FORGET THAT YOU'RE YOUNG/THE RAVEONETTES (RAVEN IN THE GRAVE) 09. SILKY EYES/PURO INSTINCT (HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY) 10. UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS/THE STROKES (ANGLES) 11. MERMAID/OKKERVIL RIVER (MERMAID Single) 12. MARCHING SONG/ESBEN AND THE WITCH (VIOLET CRIES) 13. CODEX/RADIOHEAD (THE KING OF LIMBS) 14. OH DAE-SU/WE MADE GOD (IT'S GETTING COLDER) 15. ALL AND EVERYONE/PJ HARVEY (LET ENGLAND SHAKE) 16. BLIND/CHAPEL CLUB (PALACE) 17. FRANCIS THOMPSON/EMPHEMETRY (A LULLABY HUM FOR TIRED STREETS)
01. THE WORLD IS YOURS/GLASVEGAS (EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\) 02. SURFACING/CHAPEL CLUB (PALACE) 03. BREAKER, BREAKER/PETER, BJORN AND JOHN (GIMME SOME) 04. ARIEL/STATELESS (MATILDA) 05. REVOLVING DOORS/GORILLAZ (THE FALL) 06. STILYAGI/PURO INSTINCT FEAT. ARIEL PINK (HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY) 07. ALL DIE YOUNG/SMITH WESTERNS (DYE IT BLONDE) 08. DO YOU LOVE IT?/MEW (EGGS ARE FUNNY) 09. PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES (RITUAL) 10. WARPATH/ESBAN AND THE WITCH (VIOLET CRIES) 11. LIPPY KIDS/ELBOW (BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!) 12. LETTERS TO THE METRO/MOGWAI (HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL) 13. SUZANNE AND I/ANNA CALVI (ANNA CALVI) 14. RABBIT WILL RUN/IRON AND WINE (KISS EACH OTHER CLEAN) 15. THE LAST LIVING ROSE/PJ HARVEY (LET ENGLAND SHAKE) 16. I AM HOME/EX LIBRAS [CUT(S)] 17. IODINE AND IRON/THE VEILS (TROUBLES OF THE BRAIN EP)
Bonus Tracks
ADDICTED TO THE CURE/THE WOMBATS (JUMP INTO THE FOG EP) AUSTRALIA/AMANDA PALMER (GOES DOWN UNDER)
My mind is a night garden Heavy with shadow it stares Your eyes adjust to the dark All the eastern girls Are wondering back from St. Martins Skin all pale I'm sold out in every department Got nothing left for the world Eyes won't adjust to the light
But all the eastern girls They arrive like a king's pardon To the sound of bells Only just getting to know you Running the flag up to mean it Acted like I was you saviour The shepard instead of the lamb
Night falls in and the skyline hardens Colours dissolving untill Faces are lost among the stars All the eastern girls Are like stars as the night sharpens They remind me of Let's just wait and see if we take things too far I think we should wait and see how we feel apart Did I mean that or didn't i? Did I know what I was saying? One decade down and I just
Only just getting to know you Running the flag up to mean it Acted like I was you saviour The shepard instead of the lamb Been walking around with my eyes closed Keeping away from your windows Fearful eviction horizons But you took my life in your hands All the eastern girls passing by All the eastern girls remind me that This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song This is a love song
Only just getting to know you Running the flag up to mean it Acted like I was you saviour The shepard instead of the lamb Been walking around with my eyes closed Keeping away from your windows Fearful eviction horizons When you took my life in your hands
Strange, the god of your name is piscean too Shells and silvery scales and torrents of blue One more pilot fish come to swim with the shark Dreams of bloodiest extremes picks me from their mouth
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me
Cold, your blood is your soul but blood is the lie Soul, the hand that you hold before you arrive You're perfect, you're worth it, your friends said I guess that it's true You mean it, I've seen it The poets got nothing on you
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me
Stars shining bright above you Night breezes seem to whisper I love you Bodies swinging in the sycamore tree Dream a little dream of me
Dream a little dream Dream a little dream Dream a little dream of me Dream a little dream Dream a little dream Dream a little dream of me
01. ROADS/CHAPEL CLUB (WINTERING EP) 02. HEART IN YOUR HEARTBREAKER/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART (HEART IN YOUR HEARTBREAKER Single) 03. MEDITERRANEA/DURAN DURAN (FROM MEDITERRANEA WITH LOVE EP) 04. DISCOVERER/R.E.M. (COLLAPSE INTO NOW) 05. RAZZI, ARPIA, INFERNO E FIAMME/VERDENA (WOW) 06. TAOS/MENOMENA (MINES) 07. DESIRE LINES/DEERHUNTER (ALCYON DIGEST) 08. BLOOD/THE DEARS (DEGENERATION STREET) 09. INTO A WEREWOLF/ALOAN (PRETTY FREAKS) 10. AMARILLO/GORILLAZ (THE FALL) 11. WRITTEN ON THE FOREHEAD/PJ HARVEY (LET ENGLAND SHAKE) 12. THE GHOST WHO WALKS/KAREN ELSON (THE GHOST WHO WALKS) 13.( STILL A) WEIRDO/KT TUNSTALL (TIGER SUIT)
Bonus Tracks
ASHES TO ASHES/WARPAINT (ASHES TO ASHES Single) THE PALE BLUE DOT/KLAXONS (LANDMARKS OF LUNACY EP) NEW PIANO SONG/JÓNSI (GO LIVE)
"Ho forse troppa influenza nella band, perché se qualcosa non mi piace non la canto. Questo significa che solo le canzoni che mi piacciono andranno poi sul disco. Non è giusto, ma le cose stanno così." In questa dichiarazione di Matt Berninger, leader dei National, c'è la chiave di lettura per apprezzare al meglio le qualità di High Violet: elegante e compatto, ma allo stesso tempo sporco ed irregolare, da Terrible Love ad England, passando per Anyone's Ghost, Little Faith, Bloodbuzz Ohio e Conversation 16, il quinto lavoro della band newyorkese è un concentrato incredibile di melodie straordinarie, rese profonde ed avvolgenti dalla voce baritonale del cantante di Cincinnati. Un album eccezionale, uno dei migliori degli ultimi tempi.
Da quando gli Interpol l'hanno resa disponibile in download gratutuito sul loro sito ufficiale, nella scorsa primavera, anticipando il nuovo album e di fatto tornando sulle scene dopo tre anni di silenzio, difficilmente riesco ad alzarmi la mattina senza averla in testa, senza intonarne l'attacco. Un pezzo potente, oscuro, evocativo, dal crescendo grandioso. La canzone-simbolo di questo 2010.
LA PLAYLIST DEL 2010
01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL 02. ANYONE'S GHOST/THE NATIONAL 03. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR 04. GIVING UP THE GUN/WAMPIRE WEEKEND 05. READY TO START/ARCADE FIRE 06. THE SHORE/CHAPEL CLUB 07. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES 08. ECHOES/KLAXONS 09. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC 10. IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MOON/WOLF PARADE 11. WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER/EELS 12. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER 13. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK 14. SPANISH SAHARA/FOALS 15. ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ 16. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF 17. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA 18. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH 19. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH 20. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS 21. NIGHT & DAY/CHIEF 22. IT'S EASIER/JOHN GRANT 23. THE CURSE/JOSH RITTER
BONUS TRACKS
HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS
IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)
Non solo e non esattamente un videoclip. Il progetto The Wilderness Downtown, realizzato dal regista Chris Milk per il brano We Used To Wait, è infatti un vero e proprio strumento interattivo che permette di associare la musica della band canadese alle immagini satellitari dei luoghi della memoria dello spettatore: sia che si tratti della via di casa, che del posto che non si è mai visitato. Un po' come Google Maps, ma molto più melodico.
Può bastare una manciata di ottime canzoni per essere eletti rivelazione dell'anno? Da queste parti, evidentemente si. I Chapel Club vengono da Londra, sono giovanissimi e pubblicheranno il loro primo album alla fine del prossimo mese di gennaio. La sfida ai White Lies nella corsa a nuovi-Editors, o nuovi nuovi-Interpol, e via dicendo fino ai Cure ed ai Joy Division, è già lanciata.
Una trasferta memorabile, e due eventi straordinari in 24 ore: perchè sceglierne uno? I concerti dell'anno sono quelli dei National e degli Interpol a Milano, lo scorso 16 e 17 novembre. Caldi, discreti, persino amichevoli i primi, con Matt Berninger che si fa tutta la platea sulla linea finale di Terrible Love; eleganti, precisi, praticamente perfetti Paul Banks e compagni. Un'esperienza indimeticabile.
"Puntiglioso ai limiti del patologico, ma amabilmente attento e corretto". Romanzo epistolare al tempo di internet, Le Ho Mai Raccontato Del Vento Del Nord è un libro intimo ma discreto, divertente e romantico. Daniel Glattauer, giornalista e scrittore austriaco, fa entrare Emmi e Leo l'una nella vita dell'altro, e li lascia sospesi, leggeri, eppure profondamente legati. In attesa di rincontrarsi nella Settima Onda.
Il film racconta in modo divertente ed appassionato l'inizio della carriera dell'allenatore Brian Clough, Mourinho ante litteram che sul finire degli anni '70 guidò il Nottingham Forest (club di una piccola città nel centro dell'Inghilterra, mica uno squadrone pieno zeppo di campioni strapagati) alla conquista di due Coppe dei Campioni consecutive. Storie d'altri tempi, quando il calcio era ancora una favola, e tutto era possibile. La pellicola è stata girata nel 2009, ma nelle sale italiane non è mai arrivata: solo nella primavera di quest'anno la Sony Pictures si è degnata di distribuirla, direttamente in dvd.
LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS
THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY
Trent Reznor, si sa, è un'autorità in fatto di colonne sonore. Con la collaborazione di Atticus Ross, musicista e produttore britannico, costruisce per The Social Network, l'attesissimo lungometraggio di David Fincher su Mark Zuckerberg, l'ideatore di Facebook, un tappeto di suoni elettronici ora di grande ambientazione, ora estremamente potenti, che sottolineano con grande efficacia le scene del film.
IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA
LA MAREGGIATA DEL '66
Nel panorama piuttosto desolato della musica indipendente italiana, divisa tra cantanti troppo scanzonati e gruppi che si prendono maledettamente sul serio, la band piemontese Non Voglio Che Clara riesce miracolosamente a coniugare la passione per la canzone d'autore con arrangiamenti e suoni contemporanei. Qualche momento di compiacimento cantautorale non manca, ma brani come Il Tuo Carattere E Il Mio e La Mareggiata Del '66 sono ottimi esempi di come può suonare, e bene, il rock in lingua italica.
DISCO: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS CANZONE: EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS VIDEO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE (Patrick Daughters) DEBUTTO: WHITE LIES CONCERTO: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP (Roma/Teatro Tendastrisce) 03/12/09 LIBRO: LA MORTE DI BUNNY MUNRO (The Death Of Bunny Munro)/NICK CAVE (Feltrinelli) FILM: BASTARDI SENZA GLORIA (Inglourious Basterds)/QUENTIN TARANTINO COLONNA SONORA: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON/Artisti Vari DISCO ITALIANO: SOGNANDO CONTROMANO/NEFFA
I'm having a Billboard time On this aimless train ride It seems we spend the best hours of our lives In flower markets on balconies Wasted and wanting More than we've the power to achieve Hopeless and haunted By a thousand ghosts of opportunity Look to the setting sun There's blood on the water Nothing will be undone We're dancing along the edge
You liar, you coward, you snake He is your lion, your flower, your maker And yet the night has freed you to reason You and your noiseless dreams defeat him
I slept long only to wake And watch the same land tesellate I dusted for forgotten fingerprints of grace In every hidden place along the shore Waiting and wasting More than I've the power to restore Hopeless, unsated One more thief abandoned by the law
You liar, you coward, you snake He is your lion, your flower, your maker And yet the night has freed you to reason You and your noiseless dreams defeat him
Golden-shadowed one, you are your own god Golden-shadowed one, you are your own god Golden-shadowed one, you are your own god Golden-shadowed one, you are your own god
You liar, you coward, you snake He is your lion, your flower, your maker And yet the night has freed you to reason You and your noiseless dreams defeat him You liar, you coward, you snake He is your lion, your flower, your maker And yet the night has freed you to reason You and your noiseless dreams defeat him
I remember coming out that tunnel mouth Singing high and in the water, spring and sing before us The palms hung like reconsidered suicides From the red ponds of mountain sides Preserved as a lion was preserved at the start This was along time ago
Run The echos were turning slow It doesn't mater The echos were turning slow The echos were turning slow It doesn't mater It doesn't mater
The echos were turning slow It doesn't mater It doesn't mater It drives before my lips close It doesn't mater It doesn't mater My gift to you was a lake of tears What a day for 8 long years My gift to you was a lake of tears A lake of
The echos were turning slow It doesn't mater It doesn't mater The echos were turning slow It doesn't mater It doesn't mater
