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THE EDITORIAL STAFF'S FAVOURITES

ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi
166
TIM HECKER - Ravedeath, 1972
156
JAMES BLAKE - James Blake
107
4
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
89
5
Wild Beasts - Smother
85
6
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
83
7
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
76
8
Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
74
9
Luup - Meadow Rituals
70
10
Low - C'mon
69
11
Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
68
12
Andy Stott - We Stay Together/Passed Me By
65
13
Seefeel - Seefeel
64
14
Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
56
15
Peaking Lights - 936
54
16
Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
53
17
John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
49
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Charter One: Les Gens de Coleur Libres
49
19
Destroyer - Kaputt
48
20
Alva Noto - Univrs
44
Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
44
Tenhi - Saivo
44
23
Austra - Feel It Break
43
Deniz Kurtel - Music Watching Over Me
43
25
Grouper - A I A
42
Scott Matthews - What The Night Delivers
42
27
Mist - House
41
ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi

The extraordinary debut from the British singer-songwriter. With a swollen, scorching voice, Anna Calvi draws and twirls the romantic sword of an endless flamenco. An erotic duel with no holds barred, between spine-chilling noir ballads and demonic blues.
28
Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
40
29
Anna Aaron - Dogs In Spirit
39
30
Chapel Club - Palace
38
Demdike Stare - Tryptich
38
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
38
33
Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
37
Hezekiah Jones - Have You Seen Our New Fort?
37
Magazine - No Thyself
37
36
Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
36
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
36
Verdena - Wow
36
Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
36
40
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
35
Liturgy - Aesthethica
35
Mirrors - Lights And Offerings
35
Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
35
44
Burning Hell - Flux Capacitor
34
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
34
Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
34
Zun Zun Egui - Katang
34
48
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
33
Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02
33
Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
33

CLAUDIO FABRETTI'S FAVOURITES

ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi
JOHN FOXX & THE MATHS - Interplay
DEAD SKELETONS - Dead Magick
4
Sopor Aeternus & - The Ensemble Of Shadows; Have You Seen This Ghost?
5
Magazine - No Thyself
6
Mirrors - Lights And Offerings
7
Austra - Feel It Break
8
Morphosis - What Have We Learned
9
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
10
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
11
Vinicio Capossela - Sailors, Prophets and Whales
12
Anna Aaron - Dogs In Spirit
13
Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
14
Ulterior - Wild In Wildlife
15
Planningtorock - – W
16
Atlas Sound - Parallax
17
S.C.U.M - Again Into Eyes
18
Tenhi - Saivo
19
Loscil - Coast/Range/Arc
20
Esben And The Witch - Violet Cries
21
Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument.02
22
Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
23
Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer
24
Byetone - Symeta
25
Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
26
Pete Astor - Songbox
27
Mushy - Faded Heart
28
Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
29
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
30
Luup - Meadow Rituals
31
Francesca Lago - Siberian Dream Map
32
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
33
Lucinda Williams - Blessed
34
Alessandro Mannarino - Supersantos
35
El Santo Nada - Tuco
36
Phil Manley - Life Coach
37
Zola Jesus - Conatus
38
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
39
Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
40
Metronomy - The English Riviera
41
Verdena - Wow
42
Destroyer - Kaputt
43
Amor De Dias - Street Of The Love Of Days
44
Seefeel - Seefeel
45
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
46
Alela Diane - Alela Diane & Wild Divine
47
The Cars - Move Like This
48
In The Nursery - Blind Sound
49
Ectoplasm Girls - TxN
50
Boris - Attention Please/ Heavy Rocks
ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi

Absolute agreement with the rest of the staff on the top spot. Then the return of techno-waver John Foxx and the breakout band from the Icelandic scene.

THE 2011 "OSCARS"


Best Band:
Dead Skeletons

Best Male Performer:
Howard Devoto (Magazine)

Best Female Performer:
Anna Calvi

Best Male Songwriter:
Brent Cash


Best Female Songwriter:
Anna Calvi

Best Composer:
Anna Varney Cantodea (Sopor Aeternus)

Best tracks (in no particular order):
John Foxx & The Maths – Destination
Anna Calvi – Suzanne And I
Vinicio Capossela – La bianchezza della balena
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows; Where The Ancient Laurel Grows
Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra
Morphosis – Too Far
Mirrors – Hide And Seek
Magazine – The Worst Of Progress
Pete Astor – Slip Away
Brent Cash – How Strange It Seems
Anna Aaron – Sea Monsters
Atlas Sound – Angel Is Broken
Planningtorock – Doorway
S.C.U.M – Days Untrue
Ulterior – Big City, Black Rain
Zola Jesus – Avalanche
The Cars – Soon
El Santo Nada – El Perdido
Ladytron – White Elephant
Austra – Lose It
Mushy – Child Of Light Will Burn
Debut of the Year:
Mirrors

Disappointments of the year:
Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
Black Keys - El Camino
Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters
Italy:
1. Vinicio Capossela - Sailors, Prophets and Whales
2. Mushy - Faded Heart
3. Francesca Lago - Siberian Dream Map
4. Alessandro Mannarino - Supersantos
5. Verdena - Wow

THE EDITORS' FAVOURITES

MARCO BERCELLA

asdas
  1. BRENT CASH - How Strange It Seems
  2. Mirrors - Lights And Offerings
  3. Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
  4. Austra - Feel It Break
  5. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
  6. Zun Zun Egui - Katang
  7. Jonny - Jonny
  8. John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
  9. Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
  10. Music For Headphones - Life.In.Mono
  1. Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating City
  2. John Foxx and The Maths - The Shape of Things
  3. Jeremy Jay - Dream Diary
  4. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
  5. S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes
  6. The Cars - Move Like This
  7. Wire - Red Barked Tree
  8. Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
  9. Friendly Fires - Pala
  10. Duncan Sheik - Covers 80's
  11. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
  12. Washed Out - Within And Without
  13. Destroyer - Kaputt
  14. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
  15. Esben And The Witch - Violet Cries
  16. Twin Sister - In Heaven
  17. Tunnels - The Blackout
  18. Sean Rowe - Magic
  19. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
  20. Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?

MICHELE SARAN

asdas
  1. FUCKED UP - David Comes To Life
  2. Demdike Stare - Tryptich
  3. Pharoah Chromium - Electric Cremation
  4. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
  5. James Blake - James Blake
  6. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
  7. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
  8. Unmade Bed - Mornaite Muntide
  9. Flaming Lips - Strobo Trip
  10. Rich Aucoin - We're All Dying To Live
  1. Kenneth Kirschner - Twenty Ten
  2. Ponytail - Do Whatever You Want All the Time
  3. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
  4. Death Grips - Exmilitary
  5. Iceage - New Brigade
  6. Vampillia - Alchemic Heart
  7. Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
  8. Hum Of Gnats - Purge the Weevil from Her Midst
  9. Wye Oak - Civilian
  10. Musica Per Bambini - Of the New Animals
  11. Machinist - Of What Once Was
  12. Youth Lagoon - Year Of Hibernation
  13. Braids - Native Speaker
  14. Butcher Mind Collapse - Night Dress
  15. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
  16. Sense Of Akasha - Splendid Isolation
  17. Gem Club - Breakers


Playlists:

1. Iceage: Count Me In
2. Tune-Yards: Bizness
3. Bearsuit: Giant Archaeopteryx
4. Ponytail: Easy Peasy
5. Fucked Up: Under My Nose
6. Cults: Oh My God
7. Iceage: Collapse
8. Bearsuit: Jim Henson’s Creature Workshop
9. St Vincent: Neutered Fruit
10. Lykke Li: I Follow Rivers
11. Vaccines: Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra)
12. Fucked Up: The Other Shoe
13. Musica Per Bambini: Amore Di Marmo
14. Bon Iver: Towers
15. Man Man: Dark Arts
16. Akron Family: Another Sky
17. Balam Acab: Expect
18. Lykke Li: Youth Knows No Pain
19. Decemberists: Don’t Carry It All
20. Iceage: Broken Bone
21. St Vincent: Cruel
22. Real Estate: It’s Real
23. Go Team: Buy Nothing Day
24. Fleet Foxes: Battery Kinzie
25. Panda Bear: Tomboy
26. Musica Per Bambini: Quarto, Naso Mutante
27. Wye Oak: Holy Holy
28. Fleet Foxes: Grown Ocean
29. OneFuckOne: Fuck 3 Crimes Of The Future In The Past
30. Cults: Go Outside
31. Lykke Li: Sadness Is A Blessing
32. N Sambo: Arance
33. Anna Calvi: Blackout
34. Musica Per Bambini: Nuovo Animale
35. Next Life: Re-Animated
36. Cults: Abducted
37. Architecture In Helsinki: Yr Go To
38. Asobi Seksu: Trails
39. Radiohead: Little By Little
40. Found: Johnny I Can’t Walk The Line
41. Verdena: E' Solo Lunedì
42. St Vincent: Northern Lights
43. Destroyer: Savage Night At The Opera
44. Machinedrum: Sacred Frequency
45. Mariposa: Pterodattili

Suite:
1. Flaming Lips: I Found A Star On The Ground
2. Pharoah Chromium: Feral Side
3. Unmade Bed: Luna And The Great Parade Of Creatures Tiptoeing Around The Scarecrow
4. Kenneth Kirschner: January 18, 2011
5. Machinist: Of What Once Was
6. Amen Dunes: Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Thee Oh Sees: The Dream
8. Vampillia: Land
9. Eric Copeland: Spangled
10. Deaf Center: The Day I Would Never Have
11. Hum Of Gnats: Hex-Ercises in Stalisnism
12. Cex: Critterpated
13. Woods: Sol Y Sombra
14. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Rifle Eyesight
15. Remora: Angels Falling Through Water
16. Kenneth Kirschner: January 4, 2011
17. EMA: Grey Ship
18. Butcher Mind Collapse: The Loss
19. Cut Copy: Sun God
20. Unmade Bed: At Twilight Giant Farflies
21. Coh: War End War
22. Braids: Native Speaker
23. Mathon: Curse
24. Moonface: Fast Peter
25. Destroyer: Bay Of Pigs
Live:
1. Ruben Jais (Milan – Auditorium La Verdi, 22/04)
2. Joanna Newsom (Ferrara – Teatro Comunale, 27/07)
3. Petrina (Mestre – Flat, 17/04)
4. Uochi Toki (Padua – Unwound, 14/01)
5. Controllo Elettronico Della Velocità (Cipressina – Parco Hayez, 04/06)
6. Fleet Foxes (Bologna – Estragon, 19/11)
7. I’m From Barcelona (Bastione Santa Croce, Padova – 13/07)
8. Fast Animals And Slow Kids (Roncade – New Age Club – 11/11)

ROBERTO MANDOLINI

asdas
  1. TIM HECKER - Ravedeath, 1972
  2. Lüüp - Meadow Rituals
  3. Mist - House
  4. James Blake - James Blake
  5. Alva Noto - Univrs
  6. Seefeel - Seefeel
  7. John Foxx And Harold Budd - Nighthawks (featuring Ruben Garcia)
  8. Birds Of Passage - Winter Lady
  9. Implodes - Black Earth
  10. United Vibrations - Galaxies Not Ghettos
  1. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  2. Christina Vantzou - N°1
  3. Grouper - A I A
  4. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  5. Panda Bear - Tomboy
  6. Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
  7. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
  8. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
  9. Vladislav Delay Quartet - Debut
  10. Steve Roach, Brian Parnham - The Desert Inbetween
  11. Byetone - Symeta
  12. Birds of Passage - Without The World
  13. Roll The Dice - In dust
  14. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
  15. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
  16. Autumn's Grey Solace - Eifelian
  17. Epic45 - Weathering
  18. John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
  19. The Nova Saints - Newfoundland
  20. Netherworld - Over the Summit
  21. Workhouse - The coldroom sessions
  22. Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud - Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
  23. Hammock - Asleep In The Downlights
  24. Dustin O'Halloran - Lumiere
  25. Biosphere - N-Plants
  26. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
  27. Ensemble - Excerpts
  28. Kip Hanrahan - At Home In Anger
  29. Enten Hitti - La Solitudine del Sole
  30. Luomo - Plus

FRANCESCO GIORDANI

asdas
  1. ANNA CALVI - Anna Calvi
  2. Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
  3. Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
  4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  5. Wild Beasts - Smother
  6. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
  7. Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
  8. John Maus - We Must Be The Pitiles Censors Of Ourselves
  9. Drums - Portamento
  10. Chapel Club - Palace&Wintering EP
  1. Horrors - Skying
  2. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
  3. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
  4. Metronomy - The English Riviera
  5. Girls - Father, Son & Holy Ghost
  6. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
  7. Cat’s Eyes - Cat’s Eyes
  8. Magazine - No Thyself
  9. Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
  10. Those Dancing Days - Daydreams & Nightmares

LORENZO RIGHETTO

asdas
  1. JOSH T. PEARSON - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
  2. Tenhi - Saivo
  3. The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
  4. Owen - Ghost Town
  5. Anna Järvinen - Anna Själv Tredje
  6. Puzzle Muteson - En Garde
  7. Richard Buckner - Our Blood
  8. Real Estate - Days
  9. Scott Matthews - What The Night Delivers
  10. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  1. Loch Lomond - Little Me Will Start A Storm
  2. Oh No Oh My - People's Problems
  3. Deep Dark Woods - The Place I Left Behind
  4. Bart & Friends - Stories With The Endings Changed
  5. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
  6. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  7. East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms
  8. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
  9. Mikal Cronin - Mikal Cronin
  10. Amor De Dias - Streets Of The Love Of Days
  11. Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
  12. Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
  13. Comet Gain - Howl Of the Lonely Crowd
  14. Various Artists - Ondadrops Vol. 4: One Way Ticket To Nowhere
  15. Brown Bird - Salt For Salt
  16. Atlas Sound - Parallax
  17. Richmond Fontaine - The High Country
  18. Feist - Metals
  19. Jens Carelius - The Architect
  20. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
  21. Low - C'Mon
  22. Spokes - Everyone I Ever Met
  23. Megafaun - Megafaun
  24. Tennis - Cape Dory
  25. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  26. Monorail - Bedroom Recordings
  27. Papercuts - Fading Parade
  28. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
  29. Idaho - You Were A Dick
  30. Small Sur - Tones
  31. Treefight For Sunlight - Treefight For Sunlight
  32. Bats - Free All The Monsters
  33. J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why
  34. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
  35. Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
  36. Annie Hall - Annies
  37. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
  38. Uniform Motion - One Frame Per Second
  39. Little Wings - Black Grass
  40. Crash Of Rhinos - Distal

DAVIDE SECHI

asdas
  1. VAN HUNT - What Were You Hoping For
  2. Zun Zun Egui - Katang
  3. Kuedo - Severant
  4. John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
  5. Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
  6. The Burning Hotels - Burning Hotels
  7. Holy Ghost - Holy Ghost
  8. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
  9. Architecture In Helsinki - Moment Bends
  10. Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer

GIANFRANCO MARMORO

asdas
  1. COLIN STETSON - New History Warfare Vol 2:Judges
  2. Wild Beasts - Smother
  3. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
  4. Fionn Regan - 100 Acres Of Sycamore
  5. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
  6. Scott Matthews - What The Night Delivers
  7. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  8. Metronomy - The English Riviera
  9. Trembling Bells - The Constant Pageant
  10. Testbild! - Barrikad
  1. Real Tuesday Weld - Songs For The Last Werewolf
  2. Gotye - Making Mirrors
  3. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
  4. Tinariwen - Tassili
  5. Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used to Sing
  6. Josh T.Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
  7. Veda Hille - Young Saint Marie
  8. Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
  9. Mary Fahl - From The Dark Side Of The Moon
  10. Kip Hanrahan - At Home In Anger
  11. Toby Burke - Mexico City
  12. Israel Nash Gripka - Barn Doors And Concrete Floors
  13. Memory Band - Oh My Days
  14. Orka - Oro
  15. Gablé - Cute Horse Cut
  16. Teitur - Let The Dog Drive Home
  17. Unthanks - Last
  18. Mimi Goese & Ben Neill - Songs For Persephone
  19. Low - C Mon
  20. Peaking Lights - 936
  21. Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
  22. Birdsong At Morning - Annals Of My Glass House
  23. Orwell - Continental
  24. Pete Astor - Songbox
  25. Pugwash - The Olympus Sound
  26. Piers Faccini - My Wilderness
  27. James Blake - James Blake
  28. Mara Carlyle - Floreat
  29. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
  30. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
  31. Aaron Wright - Aaron Wright
  32. St. Vincent - Strange mercy
  33. Mary Hampton - Folly
  34. Glasvegas - Euphoric ///Heartbreak
  35. Hhymn - In The Depths
  36. Real Estate - Days
  37. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  38. Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
  39. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  40. Matt Berry - Witchazel
50 more in alphabetical order:
Agf & Craig Armstrong - Orlando
Alela Diane - Alela Diane & Wild Divine
Alina Orlova - Mutabor
Amor De Dias - Streets Of The Love Of Days
Anna Aaron - Dogs In Spirit
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
Ari Hest - Sunset Over Hope Street
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Austra - Feel It Break
Autumn Defense - Once Around
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Black Keys - El Camino
Bodies Of Water - Twist Again
Bonnie Prince Billy - Wolfroy Goes To Town
Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells
Brigitte Fontaine - L'un N'empeche Pas L'autre
Camille - Ilo Veyou
Cashier No. 9 - To The Death Of Fun
Cass McCombs - Wit's End
Cosmo Jarvis - Is The World Strange Or Am I Strange?
Daniel Martin Moore - In The Cool Of The Days
David Sylvian - Died In The Wool
Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
Decemberist - The King Is Dead
Destroyer - Kaputt
Duncan Sheik - Covers
East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Plays "High Gospel
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys
Ema - Past Life Martyred Saints
Erland & The Carnival - Nightingale
Feist - Metals
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
Gangpol & Mit - The 1000 Softcore Tourist People Club
Giorgio Tuma - In The Morning When We Meet
Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
In Fear Of Olive - In Fear Of Olive
Jon Allen - Sweet Defeat
Jorane - Une Sorciére Come Les Autres
Karl Culley - The Owl
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer
Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know
Luke Haines - 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970s & Early '80s
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Madam Gone Before Morning
Madeleine Peyroux - Standing On The Rooftop
Magnus Moriarty™ Kodachromerockopera
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Charter One: Les Gens De Coleur
Marc Almond & M. Cashmore - Feasting With Panther
Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler
Mark Fry / The A. Lords I Lived In Trees
Mark Nevin - Stand Beside Me In The Sun
Marketa Irglova Anar
Michael Franks Time Together
Mogway - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
Nat Baldwin - People Changes
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Nik Freitas - Saturday Night Underwater
Noah And The Whale - Last Night on Earth
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Over the Rhine - The Long surrender
Penguin Cafe - A Matter of Life…
Phaedra - The Sea
Pj Harvey - Let England Shake
Poland - The Sun and the Sitting Room
Puzzle Muteson - En Garde
Reads - Stories From The Border
Remember Remember - The Quickening
Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon
Sarah Slean - Land & Sea
Secret Cities - Strange Hearts
Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Snowblink - Long Live
Steve Adey - These Resurrections
Stuart Moxham - Six Winter Morning
Talons' - Songs For Boats
Teddy Thompson - Bella
The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart
The Horrors - Skying
Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Tv On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Vinicio Capossela - Sailors, Prophets and Whales
Washed Out - Within and Without
White Denim - D
Widowspeak - Widowspeak
Wilco - The Whole Love
Wim Oudjik - Tree
Wye Oak - Civilian
Zola Jesus - Conatus
This year's reissues:

Beach Boys - Smile
Bible - Walking The Ghost Back Home
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
Disco Inferno - The 5 Eps

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Jim Ford - Harlan County

Mickey Newbury - An American trilogy

Phil Spector - Phillies Album
Rufus Wainwright - House Of Rufus
Smiths - Complete

ALESSANDRA REALE

asdas
  1. HEZEKIAH JONES - Have You Seen Our New Fort?
  2. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
  3. Monorail - Bedroom Recordings
  4. Honey Watts - Honey Watts
  5. Daniel Martin Moore - In the Cool of the Day
  6. The Burning Hell - Flux Capacitor
  7. Big Harp - White Hat
  8. Pete Astor - Songbox
  9. David Simard - Slower, Lower
  10. David Lowery - The Palace Guards
  1. St. Even - Spirit Animal
  2. Pickering Pick - Tiger Balm
  3. Uniform Motion - One Frame Per Second
  4. Old Lost John - Bringing Down the Sky
  5. Ezza Rose - Jacob
  6. Tyler Butler - Winter King
  7. Ilya Monosov - Sailor Man
  8. The Singing Skies - Routine and War
  9. Brown Bird - Salt for Salt
  10. Ghosts I've Met - From A Spark
  11. Dolorean - The Unfazed
  12. Nicolai Dunger - Ballad of This Land
  13. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
  14. Shakey Graves - Roll the Bones
  15. Mark Wynn - Stories, Rags and Stomps
  16. The Never Surprise - The Never Surprise
  17. Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
  18. The Sudden Lovelys - Red Rose in a Yellow Army
  19. a Jigsaw - Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates
  20. Sachin Raj - Things/Ideas

FRANCESCO AMOROSO

asdas
  1. Amor De Dias - Street Of The Love Of Days
  2. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
  3. Epic45 - Weathering
  4. Low - C'mon
  5. Gem Club - Breakers
  6. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
  7. The Lowland Hundred - Adit
  8. Uniform Motion - One Frame Per Second
  9. Mark Fry/The A. Lords I Lived In Trees
  10. Real Estate - Days
  1. Birds Of Passage - Without The World
  2. Pete Astor - Songbox
  3. Butcher Boy - Helping Hands
  4. Damon & Naomi - False Beats And True Hearts
  5. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  6. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everythings Getting Older
  7. Jonny - Jonny
  8. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  9. Minks - By The Hedge
  10. East River Pipe - We Live In Rented Rooms
  11. Arborea - Red Planet
  12. Dakota Suite & Quentin Serjiaq - The Hearts Of Empty
  13. Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities - Blue Highways
  14. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
  15. Bart & Friends - Stories With The Endings Changed
  16. Paisley & Charlie - Songs In Black & White
  17. Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
  18. Sleepingdog - With Our Heads In The Clouds And Our Hearts In The Fields
  19. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
  20. Kesang Marstrand - Our Myth
Runners
The Ladybug Transistor - Clutching Stems
Sóley - We Sink
Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
Owen - Ghost Town
Laura Arkana Met Peter Broderick - Lentemusiek
Laura Marling A Creature I Don't Know
Lanterns On The Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour
Ezza Rose – Jacob
Small Sur - Tones
Alessi's Ark - Time Travel
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Chris Bathgate - Salt Year
St. Even – Spirit Animal
Daniel Martin Moore - In The Cool Of The Day
Darren Hayman - The Ship's Piano
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Heirlooms Of August - Forever The Moon
Hhymn - In The Depths
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why
Norabelle - Wren
Special mention (out too late!)
Aspidistrafly - A Little Fable
Janis Crunch & Haruka Nakamura - 12 & 1 Song
EP
1. Noah Gundersen - Family
2. Mogwai - Earth Division
3. Beach fossils - What A Pleasure
4. Tiny fireflies - Change
5. Memoryhouse - The Vears
Songs
Alela Diane - Suzanne
Alessi's Ark - Kind Of Man
Amor De Dias – Wild Winter Trees
Arborea – This Little Light Of Mine
Big Deal - Homework
Bill Callahan - Drover
Birds Of Passage – Fantastic Frown
Bon Iver - Holocene
Butcher Boy - Helping Hands
Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities – Blue Highways
Chris Bathgate – Poor Eliza
Dakota Suite - You Will Take All That I Love
Damon And Naomi – Ophelia
Epic45 – The Village Is Asleep
Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
Gem Club – 252
Girls Names - Seànce On A Wet Afternoon
Heirloom Of August - Incidental Music For Oboe
Help Stamp Out Loneliness – Record Shop
Hhymn - Land Of Souls
Iron & Wine - Tree By The River
J Mascis - Not Enough
Jonathan Wilson - Natural Rhapsody
Jonny - English Lady
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats In The Attic
Laish - She Is Clever
Laura Arkana Met Peter Broderick – Souvenirs
Leonard Cohen – Show Me The Place
Lonesome Ghost - Love Is A Dream
Louise Le May - A Tale Untold (Demo)
Low - $ 20
Mark Fry/The A. Lords – Even The Sky Goes Blue
Mazzy Star - Common Burn
Mogwai - Music For A Forgotten Future (The Singing Mountain)
Noah Gundersen – San Antonio Fading
Paisley & Charlie - Julia Misbehaves
Pete Astor - Tree Of Birds
Pickering Pick - I Didn't Know Your Rivers Flowed
Puzzle Muteson - En Garde
Real Estate - It's Real
Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
Scott Matthew - Sweet Kiss In The Afterlife
Sleepingdog - He Loved To See The World Through His Camera
Still Corners - Cuckoo
The Ladybug Transistor - Fallen And Falling
The Lowland Hundred - The Husing
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Heart In Your Heartbreak
Tiny Fireflies - Your Love
Uniform Motion – An Island
Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard

CLAUDIO LANCIA

asdas
  1. WILCO - The Whole Love
  2. Walkabouts - Travels In The Dustland
  3. Verdena - Wow
  4. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
  5. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
  6. Yuck - Yuck
  7. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
  8. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  9. Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
  10. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
  1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lenses Alien
  2. War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
  3. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
  4. Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
  5. Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
  6. Wire - Red Barked Tree
  7. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
  8. Atlas Sound - Parallax
  9. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
  10. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See

SALVATORE SETOLA

asdas
  1. FUCKED UP - David Comes To Life
  2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  3. Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
  4. James Blake - James Blake
  5. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
  6. Brown Bird - Salt For Salt
  7. Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
  8. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  9. Tenhi - Saivo
  10. Giorgio Canali & Rossofuoco - Rojo
  1. Low - C'mon
  2. Butcher Mind Collapse - Night Dress
  3. Dephosphorus - Axiom
  4. Cloudkicker - Let Yourself Be Huge
  5. Mist - House
  6. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  7. Rocket From The Tombs - Barfly
  8. Tyler, The Creator - Goblin
  9. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls
  10. Luup - Meadow Rituals
  11. Human Eye - They Came From The Sky
  12. Tinariwen - Tassili
  13. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
  14. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
  15. Dark Dark Dark - Wild Go

ANDREA VASCELLARI

asdas
  1. VESSELS - Helioscope
  2. Low - C'mon
  3. Luup - Meadow Rituals
  4. Dale Cooper Quartet - Metamanoir
  5. Pontiak - Comecrudos
  6. Rivulets - We're Fucked
  7. Desertshore - Drawing Of Threes
  8. Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows - Have You Seen This Ghost?
  9. Astrid Williamson - Pulse
  10. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

ROBERTO RIZZO

asdas
  1. TIM HECKER - Ravedeath, 1972
  2. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libres
  3. Kreng - Grimoire
  4. Peaking Lights - 936
  5. Seefeel - Seefeel
  6. Anthony Paul Kerby & Tomas Weiss - Distant Shadows
  7. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
  8. AGF - Beatnadel
  9. Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
  10. Andy Stott - We Stay Together
  1. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  2. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
  3. Big Sexy Noise - Trust The Witch
  4. Implodes - Black Earth
  5. John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
  6. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
  7. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges
  8. Winter Family - Red Sugar
  9. Björk - Biophilia
  10. Cut Hands - Afro Noise I

FABIO RUSSO

asdas
  1. CLOUD SHEPHERD - Helioscript
  2. Quiet Evenings - Transcending Spheres
  3. The Necks - Mindset
  4. Axs - Arctic Circle
  5. Grouper - A I A
  6. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
  7. Motion Sickness of Time Travel - White Candle
  8. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  9. Kreng - Grimoire
  10. Kaboom Karavan - Barra Barra

MATTEO LAVAGNA

asdas
  1. THE FIELD - Looping State Of Mind
  2. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  3. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  4. Andy Stott - Passed Me By/We Stay Together
  5. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Dj Kicks
  6. Burial - Street Halo
  7. Kode 9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun
  8. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
  9. Walls - Coracle
  10. Rebolledo - Super Vato
  1. Roll The Dice - In dust
  2. Byetone - Symeta
  3. Battles - Gloss Drop
  4. Alva Noto - Univrs
  5. Atlas Sound - Parallax
  6. Deniz Kurtel - Music Watching Over Me
  7. Panda Bear - Tomboy
  8. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  9. Verdena - Wow

MAURO ROMA

asdas
  1. PRURIENT - Bermuda Drain
  2. Liturgy - Aesthethica
  3. Seefeel - Seefeel
  4. Jenny Hval - Viscera
  5. Heinali & Matt Finney - Ain't No Night
  6. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  7. Autumn's Grey Solace - Eifelian
  8. Mamiffer - Mare Decendrii
  9. I Break Horses - I Break Horses
  10. Epic45 - Weathering
  1. Jon Porras - Undercurrent
  2. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
  3. Andy Stott - Passed Me By/We Stay Together
  4. Ulver - Wars Of The Roses
  5. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
  6. Burzum - Fallen
  7. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  8. Mika Vainio - Life (... It Eats You Up)
  9. Implodes - Black Earth
  10. Higuma - Pacific Fog Dreams
Shorts:
Burial - Street Halo
Raime - Hennail
Clams Casino - Rainforest Ep
Salem - I'm Still In The Night
Holy Other - With U

GABRIELE BENZING

asdas
  1. DAVID SIMARD - Slower, Lower
  2. Burning Hell - Flux Capacitor
  3. Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
  4. Hezekiah Jones - Have You Seen Our New Fort?
  5. Chris Bathgate - Salt Year
  6. Brown Bird - Salt For Salt
  7. Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Roots
  8. John Vanderslice - White Wilderness
  9. O'Death - Outside
  10. Decemberists - The King Is Dead
  1. Low - C'mon
  2. The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart
  3. Daniel Martin Moore - In The Cool Of The Day
  4. Wilco - The Whole Love
  5. Joseph Arthur - The Graduation Ceremony
  6. Vandaveer - Dig Down Deep
  7. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  8. Dog Is Blue - Tortoise
  9. Green Like July - Four-Legged Fortune
  10. Bats - Free All The Monsters
  11. Maria In The Shower - The Hidden Sayings Of Maria In The Shower
  12. Klifton Filente - Breaking The Clouds
  13. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
  14. Feist - Metals
  15. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
  16. Brilliant Beast - Neighbors
  17. Levi Weaver - The Letters Of Dr. Kurt Gödel
  18. Oliver Swain - In A Big Machine
  19. Big Harp - White Hat
  20. Marcellus Hall - The First Line

FRANCESCO NUNZIATA

asdas
  1. FUCKED UP - David Comes To Life
  2. Destroyer - Kaputt
  3. Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
  4. Braids - Native Speaker
  5. Mitochdondrion - Parasignosis
  6. Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
  7. Colin L. Orchestra - Infinite Ease/Good God
  8. Demian Johnston & Mink Stole - Trailed & Kept
  9. Broken.Heart.Collector - Broken Heart Collector
  10. Circle of Ouroborus - Eleven Fingers
  1. Anna Aaron - Dogs In Spirit
  2. Butcher Mind Collapse - Night Dress
  3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  4. Bruce Lamont - Feral Songs for the Epic Decline
  5. Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
  6. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
  7. Gnaw Their Tongues - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
  8. Vampillia - Alchemic Heart
  9. Winter Family - Red Sugar
  10. Leisure Society - Into the Murky Water
  11. Big Blood - Big Blood & The Wicked Hex
  12. Liturgy - Aesthethica
  13. Hauschka - Salon Des Amateurs
  14. Cut Hands - Afro Noise I
  15. Dephosphorus - Axiom
  16. Tele.S.Therion - Tele.S.therion
  17. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
  18. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
  19. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  20. Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death - Some of Us Are in This Together
  21. Dodos - No Color
  22. Advisory Circle - As the Crow Flies
  23. Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
  24. Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
  25. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
  26. Devon Williams - Euphoria
  27. Kreng - Grimoire


Best band: Fucked Up
Best male performer:: Daniel Bejar (Destroyer)
Best female performer: Anna Aaron
Debut of the year: Braids
Best composer: Maurice De Jong (Gnaw Their Tongues)
Best reissue: Vas Deferens Organization & Brad Laner - Transcontinental Conspiracy (Niklas Records)

 

Tracks (in no particular order):

Fucked Up - Truth I Know; Inside A Frame
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis/Banishment (Undecaphosphoric)
Destroyer - Savage Night at the Opera; Kaputt
Dephosphorus - Indulge Me In Silence
Colin L. Orchestra - You Need Sleep; Best Thing
Big Blood - Water
Vaccines - Under Your Thumb
Circle of Ouroborus - Warpath
Anna Calvi - Desire
Ulcerate - Cold Becoming
Lykke Li - Love Out Of Lust; Sadness Is a Blessing
Soft Powers - Blanc-Ramayana
Arbouretum - The White Bird
Anna Aaron - Sea Monsters
WU LYF - We Bros
Winter Family - Red Sugar
Ash Borer - My Curse was Raised in the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence
Braids - Native Speaker
Broken.Heart.Collector - Another Heart Bites The Dust; Wolves
Kreng - Wrak
Burmese - Untitled
St. Vincent - Year Of The Tiger
Butcher Mind Collapse - The Loss
Corrupted - Gekkou no Daichi
Dead Skeletons - Ljósberinn
Esoteric - Disconsolate
Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat, Parts 1-3
Gigan - Transmogrification Into Bio-Luminoid
Gum Takes Tooth - Tannkjøtt
Wold - SOL
Demian Johnston & Mink Stole - Burn Under Our Fingernails
Deniz Kurtel - Make Me Feel
Liturgy - Generation
Jens Carelius - Waiting By The Wall
Lucy - Gas
Vampillia - Sea
Julia Holter - The Falling Age
Mi Ami - Dolphins
Cian Nugent - Sixes & Sevens
The Psychic Paramount - DDB
Balam Acab - Expect
Robedoor - Parallel Wanderer
Antonio Marotta - Fuoco
Tele.S.Therion - The Pyrgi Tablets
Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death - Salt
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Louhos
Weyes Bluhd - Romneydale

GIULIANO DELLI PAOLI

asdas
  1. JAMES BLAKE - James Blake
  2. Deniz Kurtel - Music Watching Over Me
  3. Morphosis - What Have We Learned
  4. S.C.U.M - Again Into Eyes
  5. Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02
  6. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
  7. Andy Stott - We Stay Together/Passed Me By
  8. Conforce - Escapism
  9. Anstam - Dispel Dances
  10. Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
  1. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
  2. Esperanza - Esperanza
  3. DJ Rashad - Just a Taste: Vol. 1
  4. Brunori Sas - Poveri Cristi
  5. Planningtorock - W
  6. J.Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuf
  7. Agoria - Impermanence
  8. Gus Gus - Arabian Horse
  9. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
  10. Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

ANTONIO CIARLETTA

asdas
  1. PEAKING LIGHTS - 936
  2. Demdike Stare - Tryptich
  3. Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
  4. Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02
  5. Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
  6. Roly Porter - Aftertime
  7. Haunted House - Blue Ghost Blues
  8. Kaboom Karavan - Barra Barra
  9. Luciano Maggiore & Francesco "fuzz" Brasini - Chasm Achanes
  10. Psychedelic Horseshit - Laced
  1. The Necks - Mindset
  2. Andy Stott - Passed Me By
  3. Call Back The Giants - The Rising
  4. Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem 3
  5. Sandwell District - Feedforward
  6. Religious Knives - Smokescreen
  7. Lucy - Wordplay For Working Bees
  8. Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
  9. Mamuthones - Mamuthones
  10. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

MARCO SGRIGNOLI

asdas
  1. THE LEISURE SOCIETY - Into the Murky Water
  2. Lüüp - Meadow Rituals
  3. Polinski - Labyrinths
  4. Gablé - CuTe HoRSe CuT
  5. Rubik - Solar
  6. Hauschka - Salon des Amateurs
  7. Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped
  8. Destroyer - Kaputt
  9. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  10. Friendly Fires - Pala
  1. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
  2. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die
  3. IAMX - Volatile Times
  4. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
  5. Factor Burzaco - II
  6. Magnus Moriarty™ Kodachromerockopera
  7. Gotye - Making Mirrors
  8. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous
  9. Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used to Sing
  10. Mazal - Axerico en Selanik
... and then
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory
- Songs to Test By - Portal 2 Soundtrack Volume I
Rich Aucoin - We're All Dying to Live
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
Hyetal - Broadcast
Jens Carelius - The Architect
Jazzsteppa - Hyper Nomads

SIMONE COACCI

asdas
  1. SHABAZZ PALACES - Black Up
  2. Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
  3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  4. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  5. James Blake - James Blake
  6. Scott Matthews - What The Night Delivers
  7. Peaking Lights - 936
  8. Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
  9. Tyler The Creator - Goblin
  10. My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
  1. Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told
  2. Chapel Club - Palace
  3. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
  4. Van Hunt - What Were You Hoping For?
  5. St. Vincent - Strange mercy
  6. Paolo Benvegnù - Hermann
  7. Marissa Nadler Marissa Nadler
  8. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  9. Das Racist - Relax
  10. Drake - Take Care
  11. Dargen D’Amico - CD'
  12. Malachai - Return To The Ugly Side
  13. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
  14. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
  15. The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down
  16. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
  17. Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour
  18. Black Keys - El Camino
  19. Verdena - Wow
  20. The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient

ALESSANDRO BIANCALANA

asdas
  1. KREIDLER - Tank
  2. Deniz Kurtel - Music Watching Over Me
  3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  4. Malachai - Return To The Ugly Side
  5. Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles
  6. Rotterdam - Cambodia
  7. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
  8. Mist - House
  9. Falty DL - You Stand Uncertain
  10. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  1. Low - C'mon
  2. Caroline - Verdugo Hills
  3. Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
  4. Atmosphere - The Family Sign
  5. Christina Vantzou - N°1
  6. Alexis OHara - Ellipsis
  7. Cyclo - Id
  8. Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
  9. Erland & The Carnival - Nightingale
  10. Kuedo - Severant
  11. Stimming - Liquorice
  12. Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup
  13. Gus Gus - Arabian Horse
  14. James Blake - James Blake
  15. Agoria - Impermanence
  16. Keren Ann - 101
  17. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
  18. John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
  19. Sparkle In Grey - Mexico
  20. Obsil - Close
  21. The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - Mr. Machine
  22. The Dø - Both Ways Open Jaws
  23. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  24. Stendeck - Scintilla
  25. Mint - The Metronomical Boy
  26. Tiger & Woods - Through The Green
  27. Anstam - Dispel Dances
  28. COH - Iiron
  29. Jenny Hval - Viscera
  30. Lia Ices - Grown Unknown
  31. Sepalcure - Sepalcure
  32. Julia Kent - Green And Grey
  33. Soley - We Sink
  34. Seefeel - Seefeel
  35. Little Dragon - Ritual Union
  36. Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer - Re: ECM
  37. Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
  38. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
  39. Phaedra - The Sea
  40. Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger
  41. Zomby - Dedication
  42. Morphosis - What Have We Learned
  43. Son Lux - We Are Rising
  44. Pursuit Grooves - Frantically Hopeful
  45. The Black Dog - Liber Dogma
  46. Circuit Des Yeux - Portrait
  47. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
  48. Washed Out - Within And Without
  49. Wire - Red Barked Tree
  50. Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam

ALBERTO ASQUINI

asdas
  1. WASHED OUT - Within And Without
  2. Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
  3. Grouper - A I A
  4. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  5. Tiger & Woods - Through The Green
  6. Seefeel - Seefeel
  7. Alva Noto - Univrs
  8. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
  9. Mark McGuire - Get Lost
  10. Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
  1. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
  2. Gus Gus - Arabian Horse
  3. Byetone - Symeta
  4. Higuma - Pacific Fog Dreams
  5. Kuedo - Severant
  6. Wild Beasts - Smother
  7. Mist - House
  8. Peaking Lights - 936
  9. Verdena - Wow
  10. Deepchord - HashBar Loops

  11. Agoria - Impermanence
  12. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
  13. Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
  14. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
  15. 6th Borough Project - One Night In The Borough
  16. Vladislav Delay Quartet - Debut
  17. Mika Vainio - Life (...It Eats You Up)
  18. Cv313 - Seconds To Forever
  19. Luomo - Plus
  20. Netherworld - Over the Summit

  21. The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
  22. Sven Schienhammer - Altostratus Translucidus
  23. Omar S - It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It
  24. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
  25. Morphosis - What Have We Learned
  26. Esperanza - Esperanza
  27. Xela - Exorcism
  28. Elektro Guzzi - Parquet
  29. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
  30. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

ALESSANDRO LICCARDO

asdas
  1. ANNA AARON - Dogs In Spirit
  2. Adele - 21
  3. Zola Jesus - Conatus
  4. Magazine - No Thyself
  5. Craft Spells - Idle Labor
  6. Sarah Slean - Land & Sea
  7. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
  8. Black Keys - El Camino
  9. Brett Anderson - Black Rainbows
  10. Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now
  1. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  2. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
  3. Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
  4. Cars - Move Like This
  5. Cut/Copy - Zonoscope
  6. Amor De Dias - Street Of The Love Of Days
  7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  8. Rem. - Collapse Into Now
  9. Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
  10. Mirrors - Lights And Offerings

STEFANO FIORI

asdas
  1. LYKKE LI - Wounded Rhymes
  2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  3. Friendly Fires - Pala
  4. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
  5. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
  6. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
  7. The Horrors - Skying
  8. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
  9. JAY Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
  10. Drake - Take Care
  1. Is Tropical - Native to
  2. Guillemots - Walk The River
  3. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
  4. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  5. Monarchy - Around The Sun
  6. Bjork - Biophilia
  7. James Blake - James Blake
  8. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
  9. Patrick Wolf - Brumalia
  10. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

STEFANO BARTOLOTTA

asdas
  1. PETER KERNEL - White death & black heart
  2. Scott Matthew - Gallantry's Favouite Son
  3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  4. Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours
  5. Joan As Policewoman - The Deep Field
  6. Wild Beasts - Smother
  7. Cesare Basile - Seven stones to keep the devil at bay
  8. Francesca Lago - Siberian dream map
  9. Verdena - Wow
  10. News For Lulu - They know
  1. Es - Everyone against everyone, flying goalkeeper
  2. The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
  3. Chapel Club - Palace
  4. Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Help Stamp Out Loneliness
  5. Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
  6. Lanterns On The Lake - Gracious Tide, Take Me Home
  7. Vegetable G - The Earthly Almanac
  8. Welcome Back Sailors - Yes/Sun
  9. Ratafiamm - Low budget invasion
  10. I Cani - The surprising debut album by cani

MICHELE PALOZZO

asdas
  1. KING CROSOTE & JON HOPKINS - Diamond Mine
  2. Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used to Sing
  3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
  4. Immanu El - In Passage
  5. Liturgy - Aesthethica
  6. My Brightest Diamond - All Things Will Unwind
  7. Jenny Hval - Viscera
  8. Lüüp - Meadow Rituals
  9. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
  10. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  1. Tenhi - Saivo
  2. Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
  3. Destroyer - Kaputt
  4. Alva Noto - univrs
  5. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Bordeaux
  6. Braids - Native Speaker
  7. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
  8. Low - C'mon
  9. Peter Gabriel - New Blood
  10. Trouble Books & Mark McGuire - Trouble Books & Mark McGuire
  11. Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
  12. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the country gentlemen
  13. epic45 - Weathering
  14. Jesu - Ascension
  15. Wild Beasts - Smother
  16. Austra - Feel it break
  17. Papaye - La Chaleur
  18. Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
  19. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
  20. Burmese - Lun Yurn

MIMMA SCHIROSI

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  1. DIRTY BEACHES - Badlands
  2. Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
  3. Cannibal Movie - Avorio
  4. Wild Beasts - Smother
  5. Death Grips - Exmilitary
  6. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Charter One: Les Gens de Coleur Libres
  7. Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
  8. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
  9. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo
  10. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

GIANNI AVELLA

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  1. ALEXANDER TUCKER - Dorwytch
  2. Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
  3. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
  4. James Blake - James Blake
  5. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
  6. Matana Roberts Coin Coin Charter One: Les Gens De Coleur Libres
  7. Cut Hands - Afro Noise I
  8. Wild Beasts - Smother
  9. Belong - Common Era
  10. Implodes - Black Earth
  1. Matt Berry - Witchazel
  2. Psychic Paramount - I I
  3. Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
  4. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  5. Andy Stott - We Stay Together
  6. Panda Bear - Tomboy
  7. SØlyst - Sølyst
  8. Architeuthis Rex - Urania
  9. Disappears - Guider
  10. Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love

GAETANO LA MONTAGNA

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  1. DEAF CENTER - Owl Splinters
  2. Date Palms - Honey Devash
  3. Opeth - Heritage
  4. Cave - Neverendless
  5. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
  6. Active Child - You Are All I See
  7. Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
  8. Circle Of Ouroborus - Eleven Fingers
  9. Austra - Feel It Back
  10. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
  1. Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
  2. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine
  3. Destroyer - Kaputt
  4. Disappears - Guider
  5. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
  6. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
  7. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
  8. The Go Team! - Rolling Blackouts
  9. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Luminaries & Synastry
  10. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Other excellent releases (in alphabetical order):
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare
Battles - Gloss Drop
Braids - Native Speaker
Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
Crystal Stilts -; In Love with Oblivion
Esben And The Witch - Violet Cries
Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Russian Circles - Empros
tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L
Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
Vinicio Capossela - Marinai, Profeti e Balene
Other noteworthy releases (in alphabetical order):
Black Lips - Arabian Mountain
Brad Paisley - This is Country Music
Chapel Club - Palace
Cristina Donà - Walking Back Home
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Deerhoof - Deerhoof vs. Evil
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Friendly Fires - Pala
Gnaw Their Tongues - Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus
James Blake - James Blake
Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mates of State - Mountaintops
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Peter Murphy - Ninth
The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
The Psychic Paramount - II
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Wooden Shjips - West
Best jazz album of 2011:
Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Faithful
Best reissue 2011:
Can - Tago Mago (40th Anniversary)

FORUM FAVORITES

CHAPEL CLUB - Palace
THE HORRORS - Skying
THE VACCINES - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
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Trucebaldazzi - Odio La Scuola
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Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
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Washed Out - Within And Without
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Mirrors - Lights And Offerings
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James Blake - James Blake
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S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes
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Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
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Destroyer - Kaputt
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Low - C'mon
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Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
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Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
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Cut Copy - Zonoscope
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Dead Skeletons - Dead Magick
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Verdena - Wow
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Wild Beasts - Smother
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Peaking Lights - 936
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Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
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Tom Waits - Bad As Me
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Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
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King Creosote & - Jon Hopkins ; Diamond Mine
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Pj Harvey - Let England Shake
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Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
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Vinicio Capossela - Marinai, Profeti E Balene
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Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
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Lüüp - Meadow Rituals
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Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
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Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
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Ulterior - Wild In Wildlife
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Friendly Fires - Pala
CHAPEL CLUB - Palace

All-British podium in our forum. At the top, the new champions of shoegaze, with an eagerly awaited debut poised between pop romanticism and wave temptations. Then Horrors and Vaccines. Here's the full chart (thanks to the users good vibrations e cerezo).
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Shannon And The Clams - Sleep Talk
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Austra - Feel It Break
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Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger
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Real Estate - Days
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Mikal Cronin - Mikal Cronin
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Alva Noto - Univrs
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Vladislav Delay - Vantaa
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Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
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Birds Of Passage - Without The World
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
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Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
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Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
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The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
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Sandwell District - Sandwell District
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Dirty Beaches - Badlands
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John Foxx And The Maths - Interplay
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Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
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Byetone - Symeta
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Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
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Deniz Kurtel - Music Watching Over Me
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Tenhi - Saivo
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The Walkabouts - Travels In The Dustland
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Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
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Grouper - A I A
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Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
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M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
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The Black Keys - El Camino
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The Cars - Move Like This