La chronique-playlist à découvrir sans attendre part depuis 5 ans à la recherche des artistes créateurs de la pop indépendante d'aujourd'hui, en débordant esthétiques, genres et courants : lo-fi, psychedelic rock, jangle pop, rock electro, synthpop, dream pop, chillwave, alt-country, shoegaze, garage rock, math rock, indie folk, soul, hip-hop, ...
Cette année, 99 albums ont été flashés par notre radar sonore,
... et parce qu' il faut respecter un peu la part de cerveau disponible de chacun, voici une playlist de 18 titres resserrée autour des plus mémorables :
- Part Time - Spell #6 (Burger Records)
- Jorge Elbrecht - Here Lies (autoproduction)
- Holy Wave - Adult Fear (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
- Wild Nothing - Indigo (Captured Tracks)
- Mutual Benefit - Thunder Follows The Light (Transgressive Records)
- The Lemon Twigs - Go To School (4AD)
- Of Montreal – White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood (Polyvinyl Record)
- Laura Jean - Devotion (Chapter Music)
- Still Corners - Slow Air
- The Internet - Hive Mind (Columbia)
- Ty Segall & White Fence - Joy
- Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food / IC-01 Hanoi (Jagjaguwar)
- White Denim - Performance (City Slang)
- Blood Orange - Negro Swan (Domino)
- Frog Eyes - Violet Psalms (Paper Bag Records)
- Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes (Carpark Records )
- Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
- George Clanton - Slide (100% Electronica)
- Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
- Arp - ZEBRA
- Ava Luna - Moon 2
- Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - 2018
- Calvin Love - Highway Dancer
- Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
- Chromatics - Camera (EP)
- Cloud Grazer - Duel
- Connan Mockasin - Jassbusters
- Current Joys - A Different Age
- Dean Wareham, Cheval Sombre - Dean Wareham vs. Cheval Sombre
- Deerhunter - Double Dream Of Spring
- Delroy Edwards & Dean Blunt - Desert Sessions
- DJ Koze - Knock Knock
- Doug Paisley - Starter Home
- Drinks - Hippo Lite
- Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
- Fenster - The Room
- Field Music - Open
- Gary War - Gaz Forth
- Grounders - Coffee And Jam
- Grouper - Grid Of Points
- Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
- Gum - The Underdog
- Gwenno - Le Kov
- Handsome Jack - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
- Helena Hauff - Qualm
- Horse Feathers - Appreciation
- Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
- J Mascis: Elastic Days
- Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Out of Touch
- Jeff The Brotherhood - Magick Songs
- Jennifer Castle - Angels Of Death
- Jerry Paper - Like a Baby
- John Maus - Addendum
- Johnny Jewel - Vapor / Digital Rain / Themes For Television
- Jon Hopkins - Singularity
- Jonathan Bree - Sleepwalking
- Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds
- Julia Holter - Aviary
- Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
- Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
- Makeness - Loud Patterns
- Maston - Darkland
- Matthew Dear - Bunny
- Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore - Ghost Forests
- Molly Nilsson - Twenty Twenty
- Moonface - This One's For The Dancer & This One's For The Dancer's Bouquet
- Motorama - Many Nights
- Mr Twin Sister - Salt
- Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
- Papercuts - Parallel Universe Blues
- Porches - The House
- Pure Bathing Culture - Hats
- Ricewine - Mornings
- Richard Swift - The Hex
- Rival Consoles - Persona
- Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
- S. Carey - Hundred Acres
- Scott Matthews - The Great Untold
- Sean Nicholas Savage - Screamo
- Soft Kill - Savior
- Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
- Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
- Strand of Oaks - Harder Love
- Surface To Air Missive - Surface II Air Missive
- The Advisory Circle - Ways Of Seeing
- The Amazing - In Transit
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Something Else
- The Field - Infinite Moment
- The Love Language - Baby Grand
- The Men - Drift
- The Sea And The Cake - Any Day
- Tim Cohen - Modern World
- Tommy Guerrero - Road To Knowhere
- Triptides - Visitors
- TV Girl - Death of a Party Girl
- Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
- Vinyl Williams - Opal
- Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
- Young Gun Silver Fox - AM Waves