2020, un palmarès

2020 touche à sa fin, en voici le bilan avant tout musical.

Un chiffre qui dit tout : je ne suis allé qu'à deux concerts sur toute l'année. J'espère pouvoir vite me rattraper ! On commence par l'habituel top 10 album, dans un ordre sujet à modification.

Les Albums

Woods - Strange To Explain

Adrianne Lenker - Songs

Cindy Lee - What’s Tonight To Eternity

Of Montreal - UR FUN

Pool Holograph - Love Touched Time and Time Began to Sweat

Arandel - InBach

String Machine - Death of the Neon

Porridge Radio - Every Bad

jarv is... - Beyond the pale

the Microphones - Microphones in 2020

Mais aussi

Arab Strap pour tous les live mis en ligne sur leur bandcamp

Bartees Strange - Live Forever

Coriky - s/t

David Grubbs and Taku Unami - Comet Meta

Destroyer - Have we met

Empty Country - s/t

Field Medic - Floral Prince

the Flaming Lips  - American Head

Glauque - s/t

Hamilton Leithauser - the loves of your life

Les marquises - la battue

M. Ward - Migration Storie

Moaning - Uneasy Laughter

Muzz - s/t

Other lives - for their love

Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna

Pole - Fading

the Proper Ornaments - Mission bells

the Reds, Pinks & Purples - You Might Be Happy Someday

Ron Sexsmith - Hermitage

the Strokes - The new abnormal

Taulard - Dans la plaine

Thao and The Get Down Stay Down - Temple

Thousand - Au paradis

Touché Amoré - Lament

Trace Mountains - Lost In The Country

Walter Martin - The World At Night (**)

Les morceaux

(en plus de tous ceux figurant dans les albums ci-dessus) :

2nd Grade - Velodrome ; Arab Strap - The Turning of Our Bones ; Car Seat Headrest - Can't Cool Me Down ; Feldup - Falling apart ; Cabane - Take Me Home Pt. 2 ; Fontaines D.C. - Televised Mind ; Hen Ogledd - Trouble ; Julien Gasc - L'appel de la forêt ; Little wings - zephyr ; the Notwist - Where You Find Me ; Popular Music - The Way Love Used To Be ; Protomartyr - Processed By The Boys ; Sufjan Stevens - the Ascension ; This is the Kit - This Is What You Did ; Quasi - Last Days of the Thin Blue Line Lie ; Sophia - Strange Attractor ; the Shifters - Left Bereft ; Tocotronic - Hoffnung

Des concerts

06/03 Modern Nature @ International

02/03 Diiv @ Gaîté Lyrique

Des séries

the Virtues / Better Call Saul

Des films

Light of my life (Casey Affleck), Perdrix (Erwan Le Duc, 2019), Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)

(**) envisagés pour faire partie du top10

10 ans, 40 albums (Part.7)

Avant dernier volet de mon top décennal, cette fois dans une veine prog / psyche / dream pop / shoegaze

Imaginez le bonheur de découvrir a posteriori une grande et belle réussite, side project d'un auteur/compositeur/interprète que vous adorez et que vous pensiez à tout jamais reclus. C'est ce qui m'est arrivé avec Fontarabie, aka Julien Mineau de feu-Malajube. Superbe album, qui plus est doublé d'un EP tout aussi convainquant (Eclipse EP). Autre francophone, autre rescapée, Melody Prochet avec ce deuxième album sous l'appellation Melody’s Echo Chamber, dreamy à souhait et d'une richesse musicale remarquable. Choix moins personnels mais auxquels je tiens tout autant, Beach House et Diiv. On finit par un groupe que je m'en veux de n'avoir pas suffisamment distingué, surtout vu le génie parolier et musical de la personne qui l'incarne (Kevin Barnes) : Of Montreal. Pour cette décennie, je retiens Paralytic Stalks, disque psyche pourtant mal aimé parmi la discographie pléthorique du groupe (16 albums), mais avec à mon sens une très grande réécoutabilité rejouabilité.

Fontarabie – st (2014)

Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks (2012)

DIIV – Deceiver (2019) 

Beach House – Bloom (2012)

Melody's Echo Chamber – Bon Voyage (2018) 

 A très vite, pour la clôture de cette série d'articles (et avant une synthèse éventuelle)

Bonus Tracks :

Non retenus, dans une veine pas trop éloignée :

Candy Claws – Ceres and Calypso in the Deep Time

Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains – Piano Ombre

Whirr – Pipe Dreams

Always want more time with you

Listening to your heartbeat, realizing it's my heartbeat too

'Cause if something were to happen to you

I would lose my mind and I'd never get it back

Listening to your breathing, realizing it's my breathing too

Because if something were to happen to you

Oh, no, I don't even want to think about that

I don't even want to think about that

There never seems to be enough time

I no longer feel like dying is just a form of self-love

At least not to the same degree

Diamanda Galás said that mortality is insulting and now

I tend to agree

Ooh, now I treasure the day we made the promise

To always sing "No More Lonely Nights"

You've inspired me unconsciously

Into somehow living my favorite life

Listening to your heartbeat, realizing it's my heartbeat too

Because if something were to happen to you

I would lose my mind and I'd never get it back

Listening to your breathing, realizing it's my breathing too

Because if anything happens to you

Oh, no, I don't even want to think about that

I don't even want to think about that

There never seems to be enough time when the time is over

There never seems to be enough time

Always want more time with you

Always want more time with you

I no longer have to wonder who or what that I belong to

'Cause I belong to you

I never been so proud to be tied up and to be spoken for

'Cause I belong to you

I remember when you dropped me off at JFK

We kissed in traffic 'til the cops started bugging out

Middle finger in the air as that's our way of PDA

You've had me everywhere

(All over the world, all over the world

All over the world, all over the world)

Listening to your heartbeat, realizing it's my heartbeat too

Because if something were to happen to you

I would lose my mind and I'd never get it back

Listening to your breathing, realizing it's my breathing too

Because if anything happens to you

No, I don't even want to think about that

There never seems to be enough time, oh-ooh

Never seems to be enough time

We need a little more time

Always want more time with you

Of Montreal, Youve Had Me Everywhere

(UR FUN, 2020)

I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could appreciate Georges Bataille

Il y a quelque chose que vous devez absolument faire ce soir ou cette nuit, une fois revenus chez vous, c'est écoutervivre ce morceau de Of Montreal de bout en bout (soit 11min55).

En voici déjà les paroles.

The past is a grotesque animal and in its eyes you see
How completely wrong you can be

The sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday
Makes you wonder why it bothered

I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met
Who could appreciate Georges Bataille
Standing at a Swedish festival

Discussing the “Story of the Eye”

It’s so embarrassing to need someone like I do you
How can I explain? I need you here and not here too

I’m flunking out I’m gone I’m just gone
But at least I author my own disaster
Performance breakdown and I don’t want to hear it
I’m just not available
Things could be different but they’re not

The mousy girl screams "violence, violence"
She gets hysterical cause they’re both so mean
And it’s my favorite scene
But the cruelty’s so predictable
It makes you sad on the stage
Though our love project has so much potential
but it’s like we weren’t made for this world
(though I wouldn’t really want to meet someone who was)

Do I have to scream in your face?
I’ve been dodging lamps and vegetables
Throw it all in my face, I don’t care
Let’s just have some fun
Lt’s tear this shit apart
Let’s tear the fucking house apart
Let’s tear our fucking bodies apart
But let’s just have some fun

Somehow you’ve red rovered the gestapo circling my heart
And nothing can defeat you
No death no ugly world
You’ve lived so brightly, you’ve altered everything
I find myself searching for old selves
While speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells

I’ve played the unraveler, the parhelion
But even apocalypse is fleeting
There’s no death no ugly world
Sometimes I wonder if you’re mythologizing me like I do you

We want our film to be beautiful not realistic
Perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams
You can betray me but teach me something wonderful
Crown my head crowd my head with your lilting effects
Project your fears on to me I need to view them
See there’s nothing to them
I promise you there’s nothing to them
I’m so touched by your goodness
You make me feel so criminal

How do you keep it together? I’m all unraveled
But you know no matter where we are
We’re always touching by underground wires
I’ve explored you with the detachment of an analyst
But most nights we’ve raided the same kingdoms
And none of our Secrets are physical now

Of Montreal, the Past is a grotesque animal

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl, 2007)

Of Montreal sera en concert à Paris au Trianon le 27 avril, et... il faut venir.