22 décembre 2018

Le top de la pop 2018 en 99 albums, et nos 18 préférés en playlist !



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 :
  1. Part Time - Spell #6 (Burger Records)
  2. Jorge Elbrecht - Here Lies (autoproduction)
  3. Holy Wave - Adult Fear (The Reverberation Appreciation Society)
  4. Wild Nothing - Indigo (Captured Tracks)
  5. Mutual Benefit - Thunder Follows The Light (Transgressive Records)
  6. The Lemon Twigs - Go To School (4AD)
  7. Of Montreal ‎– White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood (Polyvinyl Record)
  8. Laura Jean - Devotion (Chapter Music)
  9. Still Corners - Slow Air 
  10. The Internet - Hive Mind (Columbia)
  11. Ty Segall & White Fence - Joy
  12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Sex & Food / IC-01 Hanoi  (Jagjaguwar)
  13. White Denim - Performance (City Slang)
  14. Blood Orange - Negro Swan (Domino)
  15. Frog Eyes - Violet Psalms (Paper Bag Records)
  16. Madeline Kenney - Perfect Shapes (Carpark Records ‎)
  17. Mitski - Be The Cowboy (Dead Oceans)
  18. George Clanton - Slide (100% Electronica)




  19. Anderson .Paak - Oxnard
  20. Arp - ZEBRA
  21. Ava Luna - Moon 2
  22. Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - Bugge Wesseltoft & Prins Thomas - 2018
  23. Calvin Love - Highway Dancer
  24. Cavern Of Anti-Matter - Hormone Lemonade
  25. Chromatics - Camera (EP)
  26. Cloud Grazer - Duel
  27. Connan Mockasin - Jassbusters
  28. Current Joys - A Different Age
  29. Dean Wareham, Cheval Sombre - Dean Wareham vs. Cheval Sombre
  30. Deerhunter - Double Dream Of Spring
  31. Delroy Edwards & Dean Blunt - Desert Sessions
  32. DJ Koze - Knock Knock
  33. Doug Paisley - Starter Home
  34. Drinks - Hippo Lite
  35. Eleanor Friedberger - Rebound
  36. Fenster - The Room
  37. Field Music - Open
  38. Gary War - Gaz Forth
  39. Grounders - Coffee And Jam
  40. Grouper - Grid Of Points
  41. Gruff Rhys - Babelsberg
  42. Gum - The Underdog
  43. Gwenno - Le Kov
  44. Handsome Jack - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
  45. Helena Hauff - Qualm
  46. Horse Feathers - Appreciation
  47. Ilyas Ahmed - Closer to Stranger
  48. J Mascis: Elastic Days
  49. Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Out of Touch
  50. Jeff The Brotherhood - Magick Songs
  51. Jennifer Castle - Angels Of Death
  52. Jerry Paper - Like a Baby
  53. John Maus - Addendum
  54. Johnny Jewel - Vapor / Digital Rain / Themes For Television
  55. Jon Hopkins - Singularity
  56. Jonathan Bree - Sleepwalking
  57. Jonathan Wilson - Rare Birds
  58. Julia Holter - Aviary
  59. Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo
  60. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In
  61. Makeness - Loud Patterns
  62. Maston  - Darkland
  63. Matthew Dear - Bunny
  64. Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore - Ghost Forests
  65. Molly Nilsson - Twenty Twenty
  66. Moonface - This One's For The Dancer & This One's For The Dancer's Bouquet
  67. Motorama - Many Nights
  68. Mr Twin Sister - Salt
  69. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
  70. Papercuts - Parallel Universe Blues
  71. Porches - The House
  72. Pure Bathing Culture - Hats 
  73. Ricewine - Mornings
  74. Richard Swift - The Hex
  75. Rival Consoles - Persona
  76. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Hope Downs
  77. S. Carey - Hundred Acres
  78. Scott Matthews - The Great Untold
  79. Sean Nicholas Savage - Screamo
  80. Soft Kill - Savior
  81. Speedy Ortiz - Twerp Verse
  82. Steve Hauschildt - Dissolvi
  83. Strand of Oaks - Harder Love
  84. Surface To Air Missive - Surface II Air Missive 
  85. The Advisory Circle - Ways Of Seeing 
  86. The Amazing - In Transit
  87. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Something Else
  88. The Field - Infinite Moment
  89. The Love Language - Baby Grand
  90. The Men - Drift
  91. The Sea And The Cake - Any Day
  92. Tim Cohen - Modern World
  93. Tommy Guerrero - Road To Knowhere
  94. Triptides - Visitors
  95. TV Girl - Death of a Party Girl
  96. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin
  97. Vinyl Williams - Opal
  98. Wye Oak - The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
  99. Young Gun Silver Fox - AM Waves