23-02-2005

Top ten 2004

Anne Bacheley, Jessica Bailiff, Barrel Harbor, Barzin, Sean Bouchard, Burzinski, Antoine D., Daktari, Dave DeCastro, Don Nino, Matt Dornan, Arnaud G., Alex Gwinnett, James William Hindle, Kenyon, LunDi, Tami Means, Arman Méliès, Misplaced Music, Laurent Orseau, øslo Telescopic, Michel Pampelune, Rivulets, Jean-Marc Sache, Sépia, Eloïse Stéclebout, Alex Stevens, Tomek, The Transmissionary Six, toniduran, Triptonic, Vincent Vanoli, Cathy Viale

Nathan Amundson (Rivulets)
Paul Austin (The Transmissionary Six)
Anne Bacheley
Jessica Bailiff
Barzin
Sean Bouchard (Talitres)
Antoine D. (Millefeuille)
Dave DeCastro (Steve Wynn)
Matt Dornan (Comes with a Smile)
Christophe Ehrwein (Daktari Music)
Jan Fiévé (Arman Méliès)
Florent (Sépia)
Arnaud G. (Millefeuille)
Alex Gwinnett
Claude-Marin Herbert (LunDi)
James William Hindle
Franck Lafay (Tomek)
Pierre Laplace (kenyon)
Nicolas Laureau (Don Nino, NLF3 trio)
Tami Means (The Tami Show)
Laurent Michel (triptonic)
Bill Nehill (Barrel Harbor)
Laurent Orseau (hinah)
An øslo Telescopic Boy (øslo Telescopic)
Michel Pampelune (Fargo Records)
Jean-Marc Sache (Le Zata)
Laurent Sanchez (Burzinski)
Sara (Misplaced Music)
Eloïse Stéclebout (hinah)
Alex Stevens (webzine Nameless)
toniduran
Vincent Vanoli
Cathy Viale (Abus Dangereux, Vicious Circle)



Nathan Amundson
(Rivulets)
- arco "Restraint"
- Björk "Medulla"
- Circle Brothers / Karina Esp "split"
- The Cure "Join The Dots"
- Stafrænn Hákon "Ventill / Poki"
- Mirah "C'mon Miracle"
- múm "Summer Make Good"
- Pan American "Quiet City"
- þórir "I Believe In This"
- Vollmar "13 Or So People Who Need Chances"
+ films
- Galaxie 500 "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste"
- Jandek on Corwood


Paul Austin
(The Transmissionary Six - Fear Of Speed)
- American Music Club "Love Songs For Patriots"
- Slowdive "Catch The Breeze"
- Devotchka "How It Ends"
- Aqualung "Still Life"
- Flunk "Morning Star"
- Chris Eckman "The Black Field"
- Max Richter "The Blue Notebook"
- Sondre Lerche "Two Way Monologue"
- Tom Waits "Real Gone"
- Le Tigre "This Island"
- Ulrich Schnauss "A Strangely Isolated Place"
- Magnet "On Your Side"
+
- lot of Alice Cooper and R.L. Burnside


Anne Bacheley
(site)
- Electralane "The Power Out"
- Morrissey "You Are The Quarry"
- The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
- Joy Zipper "American Whip"
- The Radio Dept "Lesser Matters"
- Daniel Darc "Crèvecoeur"
- Graham Coxon "Happiness in Magazines"
- The Go! Team "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"
- Franz Ferdinand "s/t"
- Denise James "It's Not Enough To Love"
+
- The Tables "Shady Whims & Obstacles"


Jessica Bailiff
(site)
- Elliott Smith "From Basement To The Hill"
- Clive Palmer "All Roads Lead To Land"
- cLOUDEAD "Ten"
- The Dead Texan "s/t"
- flashpapr "s/t"
- Nick Drake "Made To Love Magic"


Barzin
(site)
- The Concretes "s/t"
- Sondre Lerche "Two Way Monologue"
- Elliott Smith "From Basement To The Hill"
- Camera Obscura "Underachievers Please Try Harder [US Bonus Tracks]"
- The Walkmen "Bows & Arrows"
- Sam Phillips "A Boot And A Shoe"
- Original Soundtrack to "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
- Xiu Xiu "Fabulous Muscles"
- Air "Talkie Walkie"
- The Arcade Fire "Funeral"


Sean Bouchard
(Talitres)
- Hood "The Last You ep"
- Soundteam "demo"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands"
- The Walkmen "Bows & Arrows"
- Luna "Rendez Vous"
+ films
- "Nobody Knows" Kore-eda Hirozaku
- "Gerry" Gus Van Sand
- "Uzak" Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- "Shara" Naomi Kawase
- "Head On" Fatih Akin


Antoine D.
(Millefeuille)
- Birchville Cat Motel "Beautiful Speck Triumph"
- Jack Rose "Two Originals of..."
- Deathprod "Deathprod boxset"
- Bardo Pond & Tom Carter "4/23/03"
- Tatsuya Yoshida & Satoko Fujii "Erans"
- irr. app. (ext.) "Ozeanische Gefühle"
- Black Dice "Creature Comforts"
- Kemialliset Ystävät "Alkuhärkä"
- Fennesz "Venice"
- Pan American "Quiet City"


Dave DeCastro
(site - Steve Wynn)
- Fripp & Eno "The Equatorial Stars"
- Patti Smith "Trampin'"
- Jay Farrar-Stone "Steel & Bright Lights"
- Chris Cacavas "Self Taut"
- Sam Phillips "A Boot And A Shoe"
- Joanna Newsom "The Milk Eyed Mender"
- Mike Watt "The Secondman's Middle Stand"
- The album leaf "In A Safe Place"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands"
- John Lennon-acoustic
+
- Brian Eno re-issues


Matt Dornan
(Comes with a Smile)
- Art of Fighting "Second Storey
- Daryll-Ann "Don't Stop"
- Dolorean "Violence in the Snowy Fields"
- Karate "Pockets"
- Maritime "Glass Floor"
- matt pond PA "Emblems"
- Tara Jane ONeil "You Sound, Reflect"
- Elliott Smith "From a Basement on the Hill"
- Kevin Tihista "Wake Up Captain"
- Unbunny "Snow Tires"


Christophe Ehrwein
(Daktari Music)
- Dictaphone "'m.=addiction'"
- The Dead Texan "s/t"
- Tigran Mansurian & Kim Kashkashian "Monodia"
- Clogs "Stick Music"
- Grails "Burden Of Hope"
- Tuatara "Cinemathique"
- Lars Horntveth "Pooka"
- Arve Henriksen "Chiaroscuro"
- Swod "Gehen""
- Donato Wharton "Trabanten"


Jan Fiévé
(Arman Méliès - Bizarre K7)
- Blonde Redhead "Misery Is A Butterfly"
- Cyann & Ben "Happy Like A Autumn Tree"
- Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo" & "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
- Don Nino "On The Bright Scale"
- Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
- Shannon Wright "Over The Sun"
- The Berg Sans Nipple "Life If (In Four Parts)"
- Julie Doiron "Goodnight Nobody"
- Flotation Toy Warning "Bluffers Guide To The Flight Deck"


Florent
(Sépia)
- Piers Faccini "Leave No Trace"
- Feist "Let It Die"
- Sophia "People Are Like Seasons"
- James Yorkston & the Athletes "Just Beyond The River"
- Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
- Gonzales "Solo Piano"
- Kings Of Convenience "Riot Of An Empty Street"
- Slowblow "Noi Albinoi"
- Fern Knight "Seven Years Of Severed Limbs"
- T.Griffin Coraline "Redbirds"


Arnaud G.
(Millefeuille)
- The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
- The New Year "The End is Near"
- PG Six "The Well of Memory"
- Isis "Panopticon"
- Jason Molina "Pyramid Electric Co."
- Laura Veirs "Carbon Glacier"
- Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
- Tara Jane O'Neil "You Sound, reflect"
- Shannon Wright "Over the Sun"
- Rand and Holland "Tomorrow Will be Like Today"


Alex Gwinnett
(site)
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus"
- cLOUDEAD "Ten"
- Hayden "Elk-Lake Serenade"
- Sufjan Stevens "Seven Swans"
- Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
- Bola "Gnayse"
+
- Johnny Cash "Unearthed"
- Pavement "Crooked rain crooked rain / L.A's Desert Origins"
- Low "A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief"


Claude-Marin Herbert
(LunDi)
- Arto Lindsay "Salt"
- Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
- Andrew Bird "Weather Systems"
- Jesse Sykes "Oh My Girl!"
- Elliott Smith "From Basement To The Hill"
- Laura Veirs "Carbon Glacier"


James William Hindle
(site)
- Joanna Newsom "The Milk Eyed Mender"
- Black Dice "Creature Comforts"
- Animal Collective "Sung Tongs"
- Panda Bear "Young Prayer"
- P.G. Six "The Well Of Memory"
- Susanna And The Magical Orchestra "list of lights and bouys"
- Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo" & "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Karate "Pockets"
- Of Montreal "satanic panic in The attic"
- Tower Recordings "Futuristic Folk Vol 1 & 2 (re-issue)"


Franck Lafay
(Tomek)
- Stina Nordenstam "The World Is Saved"
- PJ Harvey "Uh Huh Her"
- Shannon Wright "Over The Sun"
- Blonde Redhead "Misery is a butterfly"
- Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright "s/t"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands"
- Don Nino "On The Bright Scale"
- Laetitia Sheriff "Codification"
- David Sylvian "Blemish"
- Philippe Poirier "Qu'est-ce qui m'a pris"


Pierre Laplace
(Kenyon)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus"
- American Music Club "Love Songs For Patriots"
- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter "Oh, My Girl"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Johnny Cash "Unearthed"
- Laura Veirs "Carbon Glacier"
- James Yorkston & the Athletes "Just Beyond The River"
- Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
- Tom Waits "Real Gone"
- Morrissey "You Are The Quarry"

Nicolas Laureau (Don Nino, NLF3 trio)

Nicolas Laureau
(Don Nino - NLF3 trio - Prohibited Records)
- Chadkytrapp (JulianKytasty / Eugene Chadbourne / Evan Rapport) CDr Chadbourne (2004)
- Yagi Michiyo "Shizuku" (Tzadik - 1999)
- Seigen Ono "Maria and Maria" (Saidera Records - 2002)
- CocoRosie "La maison de mon rêve" (CD Touch & Go - 2004)
- Dragibus "Tutti Frutti" (Autobus - 2004)
- Juana Molina "Tres Cosas" (Domino - 2002)
- Six organs of Admittance "Compathia" (Holy Mountain - 2002)
- Berg Sans Nipple "Play The Immutable Truth" (Acuarela - 2004)
- Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright "s/t" (Vicious Circle/Ici D'ailleurs - 2004)
- Crescent "Collected Songs" (1999)


Tami Means
(The Tami Show)
- P.J. Harvey "Uh Huh Her"
- Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Boredoms "Seadrum"
- Nagisa Ni Te "Same As A Flower"
- Jack Rose "Raag Manifestos"
- Elliott Smith "From Basement To The Hill"
- Haino Keiji "Black Blues"
- Tom Waits "Real Gone"
- Joanna Newsom "The Milk-Eyed Mender"


Laurent Michel
(Triptonic)
- Low "A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief"
- The Shins "Chutes To Narrow"
- Girls In Hawaii "From Here To There"
- Pinback "Summer In Abaddon"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Stina Nordenstam "The World is Saved"
- Spide "Rodent"
- The New Year "The Endless is Near"
- Elliott Smith "From A Basement On The Hill"
- Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
+
- Radio Dept. "Lesser Matters"
- Gravenhurst "Flashlight Season"
- Barzin "Songs For hinah"
- Julie Doiron "Goodnight Nobody"
- Blonde Redhead "Misery Is A Butterfly"
- Exsonvaldes "Time We Spent Together"
- Tara Jane O'Neil "You, Sound Reflect"


Bill Nehill
(Barrel Harbor)
- American Music Club "Love Songs For Patriots"
- Brian Wilson "Smile"
- Richmond Fontaine "Post To Wire"
- Beauty Pill "The Unsustainable Lifestyle"
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus"
- The Anomoanon "The Derby Ram"
- Califone "Heron King Blues"
- Undesirable "Unreleased album"
- The Magnetic Fields "i"
- Plush "Underfed"


Laurent Orseau
(hinah - site)
- oRSo "My Dreams Are Back And They Are Better Than Ever"
- Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo" & "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Califone "Heron King Blues"
- Jean-Louis Murat "A Bird On A Poire"
- South San Gabriel "Welcome, Convalescence"
- Windsor For The Derby "We Fight Till Death"
- Glenn Jones "This is The Wind That Blows It Out"
- Vetiver "s/t"
- Hayden "Elk-Lake Serenade"
- The Transmissionary Six "Get Down"
+
- Bohren & Der Club Of Gore "Black Earth" (2002)
- Black Heart Procession "1"


An øslo Telescopic Boy
(øslo Telescopic)
- Blonde Redhead "Misery Is A Butterfly"
- Shannon Wright "Over The Sun"
- The Married Monk "The Belgian Kick"
- Florencia Ruiz "Cuerpo"
- Ween "Quebec"
- Chocadores "Electronicos"
- The Bumblebeez "WHite & Red Printz"
- Løzninger "Here I Stand ep"
- Juana Molina "Tres Cosas"
- PG Six "The Wall Of Memory"


Michel Pampelune
(Fargo Records)
- Jesse Sykes "Oh My Girl"
- Andrew Bird "Weather Systems"
- Richmond Fontaine "Post To Wire"
- Vetiver "Vetiver"
- The Czars "Goodbye"
- Allison Moorer "The Duel"
- Devendra Banhart "Rejoicing In The Hands"
- Ben Kweller "On My Way"
- Micah P Hinson "s/t"
- Rocky Votolato "Suicide Machine"
- Social Distorsion "Sex Love and Rock'n Roll"
- The Solution "Communicate"
- Wilco "s/t"


Jean-Marc Sache
(Le Zata)
- A Girl Called Eddy "A Girl Called Eddy"
- Arovane "Lilies"
- Diplo "Florida"
- Durutti Column "Tempus Fugit"
- Little Wing "Magic Wand"
- Juna Molina "Tres Cosas"
- Philippe Poirier & Stephan Schneider "Automne Six"
- Thalia Zedek "Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch Of Madness"
- The Anomoanon "The Derby Ram"
- Tortoise "It�??s All Around You"


Laurent Sanchez
(Burzinski)
- The Mountain Goats "We shall all be healed"
- Tamara Williamson "The arms of ed"
- Hayden "Elk lake serenade"
- The Cure "The Cure"
- Barzin "Songs For hinah"
- Great Lake Swimmers "s/t"
- Under Byen "Det er mig der holder traerne sammen"
- Cocorosie "La maison de mes rêves"
- Pavement "Crooked rain crooked rain / L.A's Desert Origins"
- The Walkmen "Bows + Arrows"


Sara
(Misplaced Music)
- Empress "The Sounds They Made"
- Khonnor "Handwriting"
- Al Duvall "Coroner & Knives"
- Charlie Parr "King Earl"
- Magnetic Fields "I"
- V/A "Mento Madness"
- Micah P. Hinson "The Gospel of Progress"
- The Shins "Chutes Too Narrow"
- Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
- Modest Mouse "Good News for People Who Love Bad News"


Eloïse Stéclebout
(hinah)
- Morrissey "You Are The Quarry"
- Brian Wilson "Smile"
- Jean-Louis Murat "A Bird On A Poire"
- Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo" & "Rejoicing in The Hands"
- Adem "Homesongs"
- The Transmissionary Six "Get Down"
- Arman Méliès "Néons blancs et asphaltine"
- James Yorkston & the Athletes "Just Beyond The River"
- Andrew Bird "Weather Systems"
- Iron & Wine "Our Endless Numbered Days"
+
- Bohren & Der Club Of Gore "Black Earth" (2002)
- The Tami Show "s/t" (2000)
+
- V/A "Utrophia Compilation 02"
- V/A "Cash Covered" [Mojo]


Alex Stevens
(Webzine Nameless)
- Blonde Redhead "Misery Is A Butterfly"
- Franz Ferdinand "s/t"
- Migala "La Increible Aventura"
- Lali Puna "Faking With Books"
- Sonic Youth "Sonic Nurse"
- Blues Explosion "Damage"
- Pinback "Summer I Abaddon"
- Programme "Bogue"
- Zita Swoon "Song For A Girls"
- Soldout "Stop Talking"


toniduran
(site)
- Philippe Poirier "Qu'est-ce qui m'a pris ?"
- Cocorosie "La maison de mes rêves"
- To Rococo Rot "Hotel Morgen"
- Einstürzende Neubauten "Perpetuum Mobile"
- Don Nino "On The Bright Scale"
- Bed "Spacebox"
- The Go! team "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"
- Jonathan Wolf & Andrew Broder "Hymie's Basement"
- General Electrics "Cliquety Kliqk"
- Sébastien Martel "Re-ragalet"


Vincent Vanoli
(site)
- Electrelane "The Power Out"
- Sons and Daughters "Love The Cup"
- Kelley Stoltz "Antique Glow"
- JC and Amphibius "Resurrection Jingles"
- The Scene is Now "Songbirds Lie"
- Fiery Furnaces "Gallowsbird's Bark"
- Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band "No Roses"
- The Danielson Family "A Prayer For Every Hour"
- Television Personnalities "A Painted Word"
- Devendra Banhart "Nino Rojo"


Cathy Viale
(Abus Dangereux & Vicious Circle)
- Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright "s/t"
- The Dears "No Cities Left"
- Elliott Smith "From A Basement On The Hill"
- Andrew Bird "Weather Systems"
- Mark Lanegan "Bubblegum"
- Julien Ribot "La métamorphose de Caspar Dix"
- Minor Majority "Up For You And I"
- Ben's Symphonic Orchestra "Drifting"
- Paul James Berry "Nations"
- Clogs "Stick Music"