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5.0 classic
Adrianne Lenker Songs
Bill Evans You Must Believe In Spring
John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Joni Mitchell Blue
Joni Mitchell Hejira
Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate
Natalia Lafourcade De Todas las Flores
Nick Drake Pink Moon
Radiohead OK Computer
The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
There is beauty in ambiguity: to write tunes such as these, where there is enough room for both melody and experimentation, is remarkable. Abundant chromaticism and tonal/modal ambiguity go almost unnoticed. There is delicacy, sorrow, and uncertainty here, sometimes all at once. The music flows like the late-night confession of a person who takes their time to go into as many digressions as they want without ever losing focus.

4.5 superb
ABBA The Visitors
Andrew Bird The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet
Anouar Brahem Blue Maqams
Bela Bartok Mikrokosmos Sz. 107, BB 105
Bela Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Sz. 106
Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
Big Thief Two Hands
Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz
Billy Bragg Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy
Brad Mehldau 10 Years Solo Live
Brad Mehldau Trio Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3
Buck Meek Two Saviors
Can Tago Mago
Cannonball Adderley Somethin' Else
Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um
Chick Corea Children's Songs
Chick Corea and Return To Forever Light as a Feather
Courtney Marie Andrews Honest Life
David Torn Cloud About Mercury
Gazpacho Tick Tock
Genesis A Trick of the Tail
Genesis Selling England by the Pound
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Genesis Seconds Out
Gentle Giant Octopus
Gentle Giant In a Glass House
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞
Harmonium Harmonium
Harmonium Les Cinq Saisons
Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage
Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
Jean Leloup Le Dôme
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick
John Coltrane My Favorite Things
John Coltrane Africa/Brass
John Coltrane Crescent
Karkwa Le Volume du Vent
Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert
Out of every experimentation Jarrett has made, with countless different arrangements and rinteresting ideas, what ultimately reveals itself as perhaps the best formula for his music was rstripping down to the most minimal jazz instrumentation - the piano. Throughout this one-hour - rand partly improvised - solo, he walks between themes with such incredible agility, flow and rcohesion. The concert, of course, showcases great virtuosic talent, but it is, above all, for me rat least, a work of timeless beauty, authenticity and sheer brilliance. In the end, The Kln rConcert might actually be the most impressive and poignant jazz performance on the piano ever rrecorded.
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson Red
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon
Leo Ferre Il N'y a Plus Rien
Leo Ferre L'Été 68
Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen
Lou Reed Transformer
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
Modest Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Nick Drake Five Leaves Left
Nina Simone 'Nuff Said
Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Pat Metheny Group The Way Up
Pat Metheny Unity Group Kin <-->
Patrick Watson Adventures in Your Own Backyard
Patrick Watson Wave
Paul Simon The Rhythm of the Saints
Pererin Haul Ar Yr Eira
Philip Glass Glassworks
Pierre Lapointe La forêt des mal-aimés
Pink Floyd Animals
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd Meddle
Porcupine Tree Nil Recurring
Porcupine Tree Stupid Dream
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
Radiohead In Rainbows
Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
Renaissance Scheherazade and Other Stories
Scott Walker Scott 3
Sigur Ros ( )
Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
Soft Machine Third
Steven Wilson The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Steven Wilson Grace for Drowning
Steven Wilson Get All You Deserve
Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion
Supertramp Even In the Quietest Moments
Supertramp Crime of the Century
Talk Talk Laughing Stock
The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles Let It Be
The Beatles Revolver
The Beths Expert in a Dying Field
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out
The Decemberists Picaresque
The Decemberists The King Is Dead
The Hotelier Goodness
The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
The Tallest Man on Earth The Wild Hunt
The Tallest Man on Earth I Love You. It's a Fever Dream.
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
Thelonious Monk Misterioso
Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser
Tigran Hamasyan Mockroot
Tom Waits Rain Dogs
Tom Waits Real Gone
Tom Waits Small Change
Tool Lateralus
Tool Ænima
Toumani Diabate The Mande Variations
Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas
Yes The Yes Album
It is only recently that I realized it was actually The Yes Album which, for me, could rival Close rto the Edge. Establishing the archetypal symphonic prog sound that would define the band's golden ryears, building on what Time and a Word had partly accomplished, this album, in my opinion, beats rFragile in that it has a deeper warmth and immediacy. Where Fragile can get a bit lost in its own rambition, The Yes Album always innovates, while retaining a small part of this charming melodic rpop of the late 60s that had characterized the beginnings of the group. The rich harmonies - that rhave always been present in Yes's music - are often at the forefront here, and the group succeeds rmore than ever to marry them with the complexity and the incredible energy of certain passages, rgiving birth to some classic and timeless pieces such as Starship Trooper, I've Seen All Good rPeople, Yours Is No Disgrace and Perpetual Change. Musical performance is also impeccable; this rline-up of Yes might actually be my favorite. As much as I generally appreciate Wakeman?s playing ron subsequent albums, the absence of his virtuosic and sometimes pompous style may serve as an rasset to The Yes Album. But then again, Patrick Moraz also existed.
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans
Tales is a strange album. In 1973, inspired by the four "sacred books" of Hinduism, Anderson
guided the group through his idea of an album consisting of four "large-scale compositions"
interlocking and complementing each other. In perspective, this may appear as an excessively
ambitious concept, and the result does indeed seem to reflect this idea. Disjointed, way too
adventurous at the expense of its cohesion, Tales covers a huge, imperfect ground (see, isn't that
very topographic?), but between the superfluous and dispensable passages, some of the band?s most
glorious and monumental moments are scattered here and there (take, for instance, the a cappella
introduction to The Revealing Science of God - and the fifteen minutes that follow - or The
Remembering's central section). However, if that doesn't seem convincing, I shall say that many of
the less striking passages end up making sense, as they contribute to the album's overall richness
and incredible depth. Thus, my perspective of the album has changed; I have come to set it apart
from every other Yes work, as I think it was intended as a rather unorthodox experiment. Tales is,
I think, intended to be listened to as an experience, as a sequence of indirectly related ideas
forming a whole, rather than as an album in the conventional sense. This may or may not justify
lack of attention and rigor that spawned many flaws and some less significant passages, but it
certainly qualifies the record as an interesting approach to the structure and format in which
popular music is presented. But Tales stays, indeed, a somewhat strange album.
Yes Relayer
If several guiding lights of the prog scene were at the time pulling structural influences from
classical music, a significant portion of the genre's leading - and more obscure - artists
preferred borrowing for jazz. Yes was undeniably part of the former category - although it would
be ignorant to separate the scene into two categories - Close to the Edge, a perfect example,
being constructed in a way so often compared to the structure of a sonata. However, was it the
arrival of the brilliant Patrick Moraz, or anything else, Relayer sees Yes experimenting with
brand new refreshing ideas borrowed to the jazz-fusion movement that was flourishing at the time.
And the result is a nothing less than a sonic explosion, one that is rather hard to absorb after
only the first few listens. Getting used to it, you nevertheless begin to discern the lushness and
depth of the music, of which new subtleties are discovered at every subsequent listen. The
contrast game played between complex and heavy jazzy passages and soft lyrical divagations reveals
itself as especially effective; transitions which originally seemed clumsy start making sense;
everything is set to form one of the band's most interesting works. And Yes seem more sonically
united than ever - additionally, Alan White, whose playing can sometimes be rather uninteresting
when compared to Bruford?s, proves himself here as being more than brilliant.

4.0 excellent
Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate In the Heart of the Moon
Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi
And So I Watch You From Afar Gangs
Andrew Bird I Want to See Pulaski at Night
Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
Andrew Bird Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
Anouar Brahem The Astounding Eyes of Rita
Arachnoid Arachnoid
Arcade Fire Her
Art Zoyd Berlin
Art Zoyd Symphonie pour le jour ou bruleront les cites
Asia Minor Between Flesh And Divine
Bedouine Bedouine
Bedouine Waysides
Bernard Adamus Brun
Big Thief U.F.O.F.
Big Thief Masterpiece
Big Thief Capacity
Big Thief Live At The Bunker Studio
Big Thief Demos Vol. 1 - Topanga Canyon, CA - Feb 2018
Bill Bruford's Earthworks Random Acts of Happiness
Bill Evans Explorations
Bill Evans Moon Beams
Bill Evans Trio 65
Billy Bragg Between the Wars
Billy Bragg Workers Playtime
Birds And Buildings Bantam To Behemoth
Birds And Buildings Multipurpose Trap
Bjork Vulnicura
Bjork Homogenic
Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Brad Mehldau Live In Tokyo
Brad Mehldau After Bach
Brad Mehldau Trio Seymour Reads The Constitution!
Camel Mirage
Camel Rajaz
Can Ege Bamyasi
Caravan For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Carole King Tapestry
Cecil Taylor Unit Structures
Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau
Codona Codona 3
Courtney Marie Andrews Loose Future
Courtney Marie Andrews Old Flowers
Culpeper's Orchard Culpeper's Orchard
David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Deluge Grander August In The Urals
Dream Theater Awake
Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater Score
Egonon Risveglio
Explosions in the Sky The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Fiori-Seguin Deux Cents Nuits A L'Heure
Frank Zappa Hot Rats
Frank Zappa Apostrophe
Gazpacho Night
Gazpacho Night of the Demon
Gazpacho Molok
Genesis Foxtrot
Genesis Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant Three Friends
Gentle Giant Acquiring the Taste
George Harrison All Things Must Pass
Gnidrolog Lady Lake
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui U.X.O.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Gong Camembert Electrique
Gutbucket Flock
Gutbucket Dance
Guthrie Govan Erotic Cakes
Haley Heynderickx I Need to Start a Garden
Harmonium L'heptade
Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles
Ibrahim Maalouf Kalthoum
Incredible Expanding Mindfuck Complete I.E.M.
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time
Island (CHE) Pictures
Jacques Brel Brel (Les Marquises)
Jan Dukes de Grey Mice and Rats in the Loft
Jean Leloup La vallée des réputations
Jeff Rosenstock WORRY.
Jethro Tull Heavy Horses
Jethro Tull Minstrel in the Gallery
Jethro Tull Songs from the Wood
Jethro Tull A Passion Play
John Coltrane Blue Train
John Coltrane Impressions
Jon Anderson Olias Of Sunhillow
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell Clouds
Joni Mitchell Mingus
Joni Mitchell For the Roses
Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon
Jorge Ben Samba Esquema Novo
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division Closer
Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness
Karkwa Les Tremblements s'immobilisent
Karkwa Les Chemins de Verre
Karkwa Karkwa Live
Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow
Kayo Dot Coffins on Io
Keith Jarrett La Scala
Keith Jarrett Up for it
Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne
Keith Jarrett The Melody at Night, With You
King Crimson Starless and Bible Black
King Crimson Lizard
King Crimson Islands
Land Of Kush Against The Day
Landberk One Man Tells Another
Leo Ferre Et... Basta !
Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen Songs From a Room
Leonard Cohen Thanks For The Dance
Leonard Cohen Recent Songs
Leyla McCalla The Capitalist Blues
Liquid Tension Experiment Liquid Tension Experiment 2
Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Lunatic Soul Walking on a Flashlight Beam
Magma Mekanïk Destruktïẁ Kommandöh
Malajube Trompe-l'oeil
Maneige Les Porches
Marco Minnemann EEPS
Mark Hollis Mark Hollis
McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy
McCoy Tyner Nights of Ballads and Blues
McLuhan Anomaly
Melissa Aldana Visions
Messenger Illusory Blues
Miles Davis Jack Johnson
Miles Davis My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert
Monogrenade Tantale
Muse Origin of Symmetry
Musk Ox Woodfall
Nektar A Tab in the Ocean
Nick Drake Bryter Layter
Nina Simone Black Gold
Nirvana In Utero
Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
No-Man Together We're Stranger
No-Man Returning Jesus
No-Man Schoolyard Ghosts
Nosound Afterthoughts
Nubya Garcia SOURCE
Opeth Heritage
While I do understand what could repel a few, I think this is simply a proof of the band's own
versatility; every single element of Opeth's musical atmosphere and melodic identity is present,
in the end it's merely a different interpretation. To me, this is Opeth at their absolute creative
peak
Opeth Damnation
Opeth Ghost Reveries
Opeth Still Life
Oregon Winter Light
Ornette Coleman Science Fiction
Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
Pascal Duffard Dieu est Fou
Pat Metheny Group Travels
Pat Metheny Unity Group Unity Band
Pat Metheny Unity Group The Unity Sessions
Patrick Watson Close To Paradise
Patrick Watson Wooden Arms
Patrick Watson Love Songs for Robots
Paul Simon Graceland
Peter Gabriel So
Peter Gabriel Melt
Peter Gabriel Security
Philip Glass Metamorphosis I-V, for piano
Philip Glass Etudes for Piano, Vol. 1
Pierre Lapointe Pierre Lapointe
Pierre Lapointe Punkt
Pierre Lapointe Sentiments humains
Pierre Lapointe Seul au Piano
Pink Floyd The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pink Floyd The Division Bell
Plini Sweet Nothings
Plini The End of Everything
Plini Trilogy
Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree Deadwing
Porcupine Tree Recordings
Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Radiohead Kid A
Ragnarok (SWE) Ragnarok
Renaissance Turn of the Cards
Renaissance Ashes Are Burning
Renaissance A Song for All Seasons
Riverside Second Life Syndrome
Riverside Anno Domini High Definition
Rush Hemispheres
Samla Mammas Manna Maltid
Saor Aura
Scale the Summit The Migration
Sigur Ros Kveikur
Sigur Ros Med Sud i Eyrum vid Spilum Endalaust
It sure is different from the band's other albums, but it has some of the most interesting and intriguing pop songs I've ever heard.
Sigur Ros Agætis byrjun
Sigur Ros Takk...
Simon and Garfunkel Sounds of Silence
Soft Machine Fourth
Spring Spring
Stephen Bennett Music From Tsenacommacah
Steven Wilson Insurgentes
Steven Wilson Cover Version
Steven Wilson Drive Home
Steven Wilson 4 1/2
Sting If On A Winter's Night...
Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell
Supertramp Crisis? What Crisis?
Supertramp Breakfast in America
Swans To Be Kind
Swans The Seer
Swans Various Failures
T2 It'll All Work Out in Boomland
Talk Talk Spirit of Eden
The Aristocrats The Aristocrats
The Aristocrats Culture Clash
The Be Good Tanyas A Collection (2000-2012)
The Beatles Help!
The Beatles The Beatles
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles Rubber Soul
The Dear Hunter Act II: The Meaning of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
The Dear Hunter Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Decemberists The Tain
The Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World
The Decemberists Her Majesty the Decemberists
The Decemberists We All Raise Our Voices to the Air
The Doors Strange Days
The Doors The Doors
The Mars Volta Frances the Mute
The Pineapple Thief All the Wars
The Pineapple Thief Little Man
The Pineapple Thief What We Have Sown
The Tallest Man on Earth Shallow Grave
The Tallest Man on Earth Henry St.
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Tigran Hamasyan Arratha Rebirth: Red Hail
Tigran Hamasyan Shadow Theater
Tigran Hamasyan A Fable
A wonderful album, filled with very creative jazz/Armenian folk piano tunes, and with deep, complex and emotional moments. Highlights are A Fable and The Legend of the Moon.
Tigran Hamasyan An Ancient Observer
Tim Bowness Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
Tom Waits Blue Valentine
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones
Tom Waits Closing Time
Toumani Diabate Toumani & Sidiki
Triumvirat Illusions On A Double Dimple
Univers Zero Heresie
Utopia Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff
Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
Vijay Iyer Sextet Far from Over
Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff
Wayne Shorter Juju
Wolfgang Muthspiel Where the River Goes
Yes Fragile
Yes Close to the Edge
The detractors of progressive rock will speak of pretention, excess of virtuosity, pointless
intellectualization of music. Close to the Edge is the perfect counter-example to such criticism.
What Yes and early progressive musicians are attempting to achieve is to make "serious", musically
dense and interesting stuff, out of rock music. In that sense, CttE represents, to me, the
quintessence of everything the classic era of progressive rock was about: a very organic fusion of
musicality and complexity. Ostentation and self-indulgence are part of the game of innovation: you
need to believe in the quality and significance of what you're doing.
Yes Drama
"Video Killed the Radio Star" certainly stands among the most unpleasant and unbearable hits of
the 1970s; however, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes - The Buggles - were at the time experiencing
huge worldwide success. Yes, on their side, were still trying to recover from the first misstep in
their career, but the situation was made all the more discouraging as they were abandoned by two
of their key members, Anderson and Wakeman. An unusual collaboration imposed itself, while Downes
and Horn joined Yes in 1980. Unusual, yet very surprising, this collaboration appeared as
fruitful; new-wave, applied reasonably to the band's music proved to be tolerable. And even more:
enjoyable. This new hard rock edge doubled by a fondness for synthpop, although frightening in
perspective, seemed to bring a newfound freshness to the band that, barely two years earlier, had
sounded so tired and lifeless on Tormato. And with Drama yet again, it is virtually impossible to
defend the record as successful on the compositional aspect; this new sonic exploration and this
unprecedented field of experimentation is in fact what saved Drama from falling into
insignificance. And it did make quite a nice record.
Yonin Bayashi Ishoku-Sokuhatsu

3.5 great
A Winged Victory for the Sullen A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Agnes Obel Philharmonics
Agnes Obel Citizen Of Glass
AKKU Quintet Molecules
Al di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia Friday Night in San Francisco
Al di Meola/John McLaughlin/Paco de Lucia The Guitar Trio
Alan Sorrenti Aria
All Over Everywhere Inner Firmaments Decay
Anathema Weather Systems
Anathema Distant Satellites
Anathema We're Here Because We're Here
And So I Watch You From Afar And So I Watch You From Afar
And So I Watch You From Afar All Hail Bright Futures
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Andrew Bird Break It Yourself
Andrew Bird Hands of Glory
Andrew Bird HARK!
Andrew Bird Inside Problems
There is a lot of space on this Afro-Jazz-influenced album ; the focus is on grooves and atmosphere more than melody, often for entrancing results (Underlands, Stop n'Shop, Eight) though at times it falls flat (Lone Didion) or becomes repetitive. There is not a lot of guitar here: the sparse arrangements mostly center violin, bass, drums and vocal harmonies. Pleasant and groovy, but ultimately suffers from the inclusion of a few unremarkable songs and a slight lack of energy. 3.7/5
Angel Olsen Big Time
Arcade Fire Funeral
Babe Ruth First Base
Bark Psychosis Hex
Beardfish The Void
Bernard Adamus N°2
Bill Evans The Bill Evans Album
Bill Evans and Jim Hall Undercurrent
Billy Bragg Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Blackfield Blackfield
Blackfield Blackfield II
Blackfield Blackfield V
Blue Effect Modry Efekt & Radim Hladik
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
Buck Meek Haunted Mountain
Camel Moonmadness
Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool
Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat
Cathedral (US) Stained Glass Stories
The decline of the genre in Europe had just started when the prog wave hit the American continent, and with it came all the clich?s that new bands would need to re-interpret to create a sound of their own. Few bands like Rush and Kansas succeeded in appropriating themselves the prog sound, while many others, like Cathedral, suffered from having their influences written on their forehead. Walking from clich? to clich?, they weren't able to really develop any original ideas, but, nonetheless, created a very enjoyable listening experience for anyone asking for more Peter Gabriel-era Genesis albums.
Chick Corea The Vigil
Coldplay Parachutes
Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
Complete Freedom Inner Thoughts
Cosmograf Capacitor
Cressida Asylum
Cristobal Tapia de Veer Utopia OST
Czeslaw Niemen Aerolit
David Bowie Blackstar
David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie Space Oddity
Dream Theater Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Dream Theater Images and Words
Dream Theater Octavarium
Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Druid Toward the Sun
Dylan Howe Subterranean - New Designs on Bowie's Berlin
East of Eden Mercator Projected
Elliott Smith Either/Or
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Engineers Always Returning
Florence and the Machine Lungs
Flying Colors Flying Colors
Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
Gazpacho March of Ghosts
Gazpacho Missa Atropos
Gazpacho Demon
Gazpacho Firebird
Genesis Trespass
Genesis ...And Then There Were Three...
Goblin Roller
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Goggi & Orri Circe
Grant Green Idle Moments
Greenslade Bedside Manners Are Extra
H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft II
Haken The Mountain
Hawkwind Warrior on the Edge of Time
Henry Fool Men Singing
Herbie Hancock Head Hunters
Holderlin Holderlins Traum
Hypnos 69 Legacy
iamthemorning ~
iamthemorning Belighted
Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden Powerslave
Iron Maiden The Book of Souls
ISIS In the Absence of Truth
Jean Leloup Les Fourmis
Jean Leloup À Paradis City
Jeff Rosenstock HELLMODE
Jethro Tull Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!
John Coltrane Transition
John Lennon Mind Games
John Petrucci An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess
Jonesy Keeping Up
Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Jordan Rudess Notes on a Dream
Jordan Rudess Explorations
Juha Kujanpää Kivenpyörittäjä (Tales And Travels)
Julia Jacklin Crushing
Julian Jay Savarin Waiters on the dance
Katatonia Dead End Kings
Katatonia Dethroned & Uncrowned
King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair
Krokodil An Invisible World Revealed
Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence
Leonard Cohen Old Ideas
Leonard Cohen New Skin for the Old Ceremony
Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man
Leprous Bilateral
Leprous The Congregation
Les Colocs Dehors Novembre
Les Colocs Les Colocs
Les Colocs Les Colocs Live 1993-1998
Les Cowboys Fringants La Grand Messe
Levin Minnemann Rudess Levin Minnemann Rudess
Leyla McCalla A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
Lianne La Havas Lianne La Havas
Lines Taking Shape Tabula Rasa
Louis-Jean Cormier Les Grandes Artères
Lucinda Williams Sweet Old World
Marco Minnemann Broken Orange
Marco Minnemann Evidence of Humanity
Marco Minnemann Symbolic Fox
Marillion Fugazi
Marillion Script for a Jester's Tear
Marillion Brave
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun
Methadone Skies Enter The Void
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
Miles Davis Tutu
Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
Monogrenade Composite
Muse Absolution
Muse Black Holes & Revelations
My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Natalia Lafourcade Musas
Natalia Lafourcade Musas Vol. 2
Nightwish Imaginaerum
Nightwish Dark Passion Play
Nina Simone Nina Simone and Piano
Nina Simone Emergency Ward
Nirvana Nevermind
No-Man Wild Opera
No-Man Flowermouth
No-Man Heaven Taste
Nordic Giants Build Seas
North Atlantic Oscillation Fog Electric
North Atlantic Oscillation The Third Day
Nothing Guilty of Everything
Novalis Sommerabend
Nubya Garcia When We Are
Octobre Octobre
Opeth Watershed
Opeth Blackwater Park
Oregon 45th Parallel
Oregon Roots in the Sky
Oregon Ecotopia
Oregon Oregon
Oregon Out of the Woods
OSI Blood
Owel Owel
Pallas (UK) The Sentinel
Patrick Watson Just Another Ordinary Day
Paul Simon So Beautiful or So What
Paul Simon Surprise
Peter Gabriel New Blood
Peter Gabriel Car
Peter Gabriel Scratch
Phoenix (ROM) Cantofabule
Pierre Lapointe Les Callas
Pierrot Lunaire (ITA) Pierrot Lunaire
Pink Floyd Ummagumma
Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Pink Floyd Obscured by Clouds
Platypus (US) When Pus Comes To Shove
Plini Other Things
Porcupine Tree The Sky Moves Sideways
Porcupine Tree Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree Signify
Porcupine Tree Up the Downstair
Porcupine Tree In Absentia
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R
Radiohead The Bends
Radiohead In Rainbows Disk 2
Ramases Glass Top Coffin
Riverside Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Raising Sand
Rush A Farewell to Kings
Rush Signals
Rush Grace Under Pressure
Rush Permanent Waves
Rush Working Men
Rush Clockwork Angels
Rush Moving Pictures
Samurai (UK) Samurai
Scale the Summit V
Schicke, Fuhrs & Frohling Symphonic Pictures
Scott Walker Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel
Se Delan The Fall
Sebastian Hardie Four Moments
Serge Fiori Serge Fiori
C'est clairement tres loin des sommets atteints par Harmonium dans les annees 70, mais, considerant son age et ses 30 annees d'inactivite, je ne pense pas qu'il aurait pu faire mieux.

Sommes toutes, l'album est une jolie collection de chansons penchant vers un style folk-blues. Ceux qui ont aime les paroles au penchant parfois politique et satirique d'Harmonium ne seront pas decus ici ("Le Monde est Virtuel" et "Crampe au Cerveau" en sont de bons exemples). Il y a tout de meme bon nombre de chansons aux paroles plutot pathetiques qui rendent ennuyant le milieu de l'album...

Bref, meme si Fiori a pris de l'age, son retour n'en est tout de meme pas decevant, et reste un "must" pour tout fan d'Harmonium.

Sibylle Baier Colour Green
Sigur Ros Valtari
Simon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon and Garfunkel Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Soccer Mommy Clean
Spock's Beard The Light
Stark Naked Stark Naked
Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes
Sun Kil Moon Benji
Sun Ra My Brother the Wind, Vol. 2
Walking on the Moon is among the most unsettling pieces of music I've ever heard.
Supertramp Brother Where You Bound
Supertramp Supertramp
Swans Love of Life
Thank You Scientist Maps of Non-Existent Places
The Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound When Sweet Sleep Returned
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night
The Cure Disintegration
The Decemberists The Hazards of Love
The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts
The Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the Killer
The Enid Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Jelly Jam The Jelly Jam
The Pineapple Thief Someone Here Is Missing
The Pineapple Thief Variations on a Dream
The Pineapple Thief Magnolia
The Pineapple Thief Your Wilderness
The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now
The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico
Thelonious Monk Thelonious Himself
There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright
Tigers on Trains Grandfather
Tigers on Trains Antarctica In Color
Tim Bowness Stupid Things That Mean The World
Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits Foreign Affairs
Tonton Macoute (UK) Tonton Macoute
Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die
Trettioariga Kriget Elden Av Ar
Triumvirat Spartacus
U.K. U.K.
Van der Graaf Generator The Least We Can Do Is Wave to...
Vince Guaraldi Trio Oaxaca
Wilco Star Wars
Yes Going for the One
After three albums consisting solely of epic tracks lasting more than 9 minutes, and a growing rfondness for experimentation which earned them some harsh reviews, Yes is again joined in 1977 by rWakeman, and aims for a return to its rather "classic rock" roots. When compared to the esoteric rand ambitious collection Tales from Topographic Ocean and the chaotic jazz-infused rocker Relayer, rGoing for the One perhaps shows the first signs of the subsequent mainstream turn the group would rtake a few years later. Indeed, we are generally done with long, complex instrumental moments ; rthe quality of the composition rather ranks on the side of the weaving of great melodies, the rvoice again being at the forefront. We found songs lasting between 3 and 8 minutes - with one rexception - yet written in a completely different fashion than on the band's first few albums. But rit still is a return to their roots - for lack of a better term - and a well-handled one. Between rthe rock 'n' roll influences of the title-song and Parallels, the calm acoustic tracks and the rinteresting but slightly pompous Awaken, we are still certainly within the Yes universe, but with ra newfound melodic focus and a more instant character. In the end, although not nearly as bold and rinteresting as its predecessors, Going for the One is rewarding in its sturdy songwriting, and roffers us some of Yes's most melodically endearing pieces and genuinely heartfelt moments.
Yes Yes
Yes having been formed by Squire and Anderson as a result of their shared passion for the vocal
harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel and the blend of various musical influences, it is understandable
that this debut album appears as a sort of sonic amalgam and an oscillating search of identity.
With songs like the surprisingly jazzy and sufficiently excellent I See You, the powerful and
charming Before & Beyond and the sublime Everydays, we often find ourselves much closer to the
psychedelic movement than to the progressive scene that was still barely entering the dawn of its
development at the time. And that psychedelic pop twist is a rather interesting one, as Yes offer
us their own - and quite interesting - approach to the genre. Indeed, in this record are hiding
many wonderful 60s pop jewels, which, although sadly lacking proper production, are perfectly
authentic and beautifully built. Of course, it has mainly nothing to do with the brilliance they
would later spawn, and probably covers a bit too much ground for its own good, but it makes for
such a fun, refreshing and lovely listen.
Yes Time and a Word
Time and a Word has a great value really only when its role is considered within the development of the band. If it?s rarely truly interesting, it perfectly marks a transition to the golden age of their career. Songs like Then, Astral Traveller and, especially, the title-track, show early signs of the band?s melody/complexity duality which would later become emblematic of their sound. Many ideas throughout the record have an undeniable potential, but are developed in a clumsy, unskillful manner, and longer songs, The Prophet and Everydays, in which are thrown many ideas, seem, in the end, kind of incoherent. The use of a studio orchestra is, similarly, sometimes interesting, but rarely well-developed, to the point where the strings generally seem out of place. In sum, Time and a Word is among those albums from which you need to identify the highlights - there's still quite a few of them - and come back only to them.
Yes Like It Is: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome

3.0 good
A Formal Horse A Formal Horse
A Formal Horse Morning Jigsaw
A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms
A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step
And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs
While I didn't thoroughly enjoy All Hail Bright Futures, some of the ideas it developed were rundeniably very interesting and refreshing. Hearing the first singles released for this album rearlier this year, I was starting to acknowledge the fact that their songwriting had become runinspired. The same boisterous, cerebral riffs and buoyant group vocals - still charming as ralways, but lacking any sense of renewal and refreshment. I was, fortunately, wrong, for the most rpart. This, while still not quite reaching the heights of their first two albums, is definitely a rmature evolution, perfectly blending the anthemic vocals and occasional atmospheric and electronic relements explored in the previous album to the band's trademark sound. The result is a rsurprisingly cohesive and lush piece of work. Its only issue: despite the success in expanding the rband's sound, it is at its core that the songwriting is, at times, lackluster. The very cerebral rmath-rock songwriting can be extremely engaging and interesting, but its heart and essence have to rbe "redesigned a million times", and not only by simply adding more elements to the mix, for it to rkeep our interest.
Andrew Bird Are You Serious
Anekdoten Gravity
Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion
Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders
Anubis Hitchhiking to Byzantium
Arcade Fire The Suburbs
Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
Avenged Sevenfold City of Evil
BADBADNOTGOOD III
BADBADNOTGOOD BBNG2
Black Ox Orkestar Nisht Azoy
Blackfield Welcome To My DNA
Bruce Soord with Jonas Renkse Wisdom of Crowds
Chevelle La Gárgola
Chuck Mangione Feels So Good
Coldplay Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Dead Obies Montreal Sud
Dream Theater Falling into Infinity
Dream Theater Dream Theater
Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Dream Theater Systematic Chaos
Dream Theater Train of Thought
Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity Demos
Dysrhythmia Test Of Submission
Florence and the Machine How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Flying Colors Second Nature
Foo Fighters Sonic Highways
Gazpacho When Earth Lets Go
Groenland The chase
HAIM Women In Music, Pt. III
Half Moon Run Dark Eyes
Herbie Hancock Dis Is Da Drum
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance
Leonard Cohen Death of a Ladies' Man
Les Colocs Atrocetomique
Lorde Melodrama
Louis-Jean Cormier Le Treizième Étage
Mike Oldfield Crises
Mothlite Máthair
Mugstar ...Sun, Broken...
Mumford and Sons Sigh No More
Mumford and Sons Babel
Muse The Resistance
Nickel Creek A Dotted Line
Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse
Opeth Morningrise
Opeth Orchid
Opeth Pale Communion
Opeth Deliverance
Patrick Watson Waterproof9
Pearl Jam Ten
Pierre Lapointe Les vertiges d'en haut
Pink Floyd The Endless River
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Porcupine Tree On the Sunday of Life
Porcupine Tree Transmission IV
Punch Brothers The Phosphorescent Blues
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime
Riverside Love, Fear and the Time Machine
Rush 2112
2112 is one of progressive rock's most overrated albums ever, and definitely the band's weakest reffort of its classic era ('76-'81). It has, indeed, a pretty fucking great epic. That being said, rproportionally to its length, 2112 also has some awful fillers, which is quite rare in prog. The ralbum can't possibly be a classic for me, as it still sees the band developping its sound, and is rnowhere near the heights they'd reach on their six following albums
Sand (Sam Healy) Sand
St. Vincent St. Vincent
Steven Wilson To the Bone
Steven Wilson The Future Bites
Supertramp Some Things Never Change
System of a Down Toxicity
Tantalus Cement Love
Taylor Swift Folklore
Terminal Sound System Tour EP
The Beatles Please Please Me
The Beatles With the Beatles
The Cure Three Imaginary Boys
The Decemberists Florasongs
The Odious That Night a Forest Grew
The Pineapple Thief 10 Stories Down
The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania
The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird
The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home
The Winery Dogs The Winery Dogs
Transatlantic Kaleidoscope
Tuomas Holopainen Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge
Unexpect Fables of the Sleepless Empire
Wilco Schmilco
the first three songs are excellent... from there it kind of dwindles into various degrees of forgettable.
Yes Fly from Here
We could spend quite some time criticizing Yes's recent career; for a long time, the group has
been constantly oscillating between touring the world revisiting past hits note for note, and
producing uninspired and nostalgic music that looked with too much nostalgia at the band's golden
years. That is unless their most recent work, Heaven and Earth, can be considered as "moving
forward." Still, with Fly From Here in 2011, Yes had perhaps found the right formula to fit their
current situation; reusing pieces composed in more prolific years, and reworking them with a
slight modern touch. Such an idea might seem to abound in nostalgia, but if nostalgia is the way
the group has decided to take - which is perfectly legitimate, given their status as veterans -
why not accept it completely? While some compositions here have a new wave touch that sounds dated
to me at least, we are left with a Fly From Here with great melodic sensibilities bringing us back
to the more accessible but still interesting side that 1980's Drama unashamedly bore. Plus, Benoit
David does quite a job at emulating Anderson while actually maintaining his own musical identity.
Yes 90125
Yes Magnification
Yes Tormato

2.5 average
A Perfect Circle eMOTIVe
Arcade Fire Reflektor
Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold Waking the Fallen
Beyond the Bridge The Old Man and The Spirit
Blackfield Blackfield IV
Pills and the few satisfying, well-written tunes like Springtime and Jupiter are the only rtracks really worthy of the project's potential. The interest that was generated on the duo's rfirst two records was the sort of quintessential merging of prog and pop rock that Aviv Geffen rseemingly chose to sacrifice here. Without their slightly experimental edge, the songs blatantly rloose their appeal to me, many of them lacking in texture and emotion.
Coldplay Ghost Stories
Dead Obies Gesamtkunstwerk
Dream Theater Greatest Hit
Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite
Every Time I Die From Parts Unknown
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
Muse The 2nd Law
My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
The Black Keys Turn Blue
The Decemberists I’ll Be Your Girl
Young the Giant Young the Giant

2.0 poor
Yes Big Generator

1.5 very poor
Avenged Sevenfold Hail to the King
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