Classifiche | Pubblicato il 29 dicembre 2014
Liste 2014 – Donatello Corona: I Migliori Album
A cura di: Donatello Corona
L’anno delle donne, così può essere definito musicalmente questo 2014; infatti ancor di più dell’anno scorso, molti dei dischi più interessanti hanno portato una firma femminile (Carla Bozulich, Angel Olsen, Grouper, FKA twigs, Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, Vashti Bunyan, Marissa Nadler, Pharmakon, Mica Levi, Birds of Passage) o presentano comunque una voce femminile al canto. Ma la stella più splendente dell’anno è quella di Mark Kozelek, che con Benji ci offre un disco che potrebbe venir ricordato tra le migliori pagine autoriali del decennio. Da segnalare anche i notevolissimi dischi di Swans, Wovenhand, Shellac, Current 93 e Flying Lotus, che si confermano sui loro altissimi livelli. In campo d’elettronica da citare il troppo dimenticato Fennesz, autore di uno dei dischi più nel contemporaneo. Ma anche, sia in campo ambient che techno: (Ian William Craig, Andy Stott, Lawrence English, Lakker, Ben Frost, Aphex Twin, A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Arca).
Altri dischi interessanti, per il post rock e affini: (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, The Antlers, Have A Nice Life, Esben and the Witch, Her Name Is Calla) e per il metal: (Thou, Electric Wizard, Earth, Yob, Godflesh, Boris, Agalloch) a cui vanno aggiunti i tanti, troppi, dischi revival. Revival dei più svariati generi, alcuni spudoratamente nostalgici, altri nonostante tutto davvero ben fatti e degni di nota.
Ecco la lista dei cento dischi internazionali che mi hanno accompagnato quest’anno, più o meno in ordine di preferenza:
Sun Kil Moon – Benji
Swans – To be Kind
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
Carla Bozulich – Boy
Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate
Shellac – Dude Incredible
Current 93 – I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel
Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness – Dust
Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Fennesz – Bécs
The Antlers – Familiars
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
Grouper – Ruins
Nine Inch Nails/Coil – Recoiled
Have A Nice Life – The Unnatural World
The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
Lawrence English – Wilderness Of Mirrors
Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love
Thou – Heathen
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Sea When Absent
Nothing – Guilty Of Everything
Electric Wizard – Time to Die
Vessel – Punish, Honey
Wild Beasts – Present Tense
Esben and the Witch – A New Nature
Her Name Is Calla – Navigator
Natural Snow Buildings – The Night Country
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused
Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap
Lakker – Containing A Thousand / Mountain Divide EP
Earth – Primitive And Deadly
Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Ben Frost – A U R O R A
Aphex Twin – Syro
Beck – Morning Phase
FKA twigs – LP1
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
Perfume Genius – Too Bright
A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos
Jozef Van Wissem/ Sqürl – Only Lovers Left Alive OST
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels2
Arca – Xen
St Vincent – s/t
Cult of Youth – Final Days
Ought – More Than Any Other Day
Marissa Nadler – July
Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament
Pharmakon – Bestial Burden
King Creosote – From Scotland With Love
Yob – Clearing The Path To Ascend
Goat – Commune
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Then It All Came Down
Will Stratton – Gray Lodge Wisdom
Mica Levi – Under The Skin OST
Tinariwen – Emmaar
Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom
The Horrors – Luminous
War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else
Fear of Men – Loom
Birds Of Passage – This Kindly Slumber
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
Real Estate – Atlas
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Lose
Brian Eno & Karl Hyde – High Life
Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Fire
Boris – Noise
Agalloch – The Serpent & the Sphere
Fucked Up – Glass Boys
Ex Hex – Rips
Lisa Gerrard – Twilight Kingdom
Death from Above 1979 – The Physical World
Ty Segall – Manipulator
Penguin Cafe – The Red Book
This Will Destroy You – Another Language
Thurston Moore – The Best Day
Scott Matthews – Home Part 1
Micah P. Hinson – Micah P. Hinson And The Nothing
White Lung – Deep Fantasy
Hookworms – The Hum
Adult Jazz – Gist Is
Pontiak – Innocence
Damien Jurado – Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Sun
The Van Pelt – Imaginary Third
The Gloaming – s/t
Indian – From All Purity
The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits
Interpol – El Pintor
Gold Zebra – s/t
Caribou – Our Love
Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love
Glass Animals – Zaba
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Days of Abandon
Warpaint – s/t
J Mascis – Tied To A Star
Spoon – They Want My Soul