CONSIGLI PER GLI ASCOLTI Gen-Feb 2025

 

ANNA B SAVAGE (2025) You & I Are Earth

Genere: Alternative singer-songwriter, Indie folk-rock

Simili: The Weather Station, Penelope Houston, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Grace Cummings, Basia Bulat, Phoebe Bridgers, Joni Mitchell

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Donegal, Mo Cheol Thù, I Reach For You In My Sleep

CHRIS ECKMAN (2025) The Land We Knew The Best

Genere: Dark Singer-songwriter, Goth-country

Simili: Simon Joyner, Mark Eitzel, Johnny Cash (American Recordings), Mark Lanegan (acoustic), Damien Jurado, The Walkabouts, Sivert Hoyem, Bill Fay, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Laments, Last Train Home, The Cranes

DAVID GRAY (2025) Dear Life

Genere: Singer-songwriter 2.0, Folktronica

Simili: Ben Howard, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Nick Mulvey, Harrison Storm, (Nick DrakeàEd Sheeran)

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Leave Taking, Sunlight On Water, After The Harvest

INHALER (2025) Open Wide

Genere: Rock ’80, Brit-pop

Simili: U2, The Killers, Strokes, Sam Fender, The Maccabees

Voto Microby: 7.6

Preferite: Your House, Eddie In The Darkness, Concrete

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, JULIE FOWLIS & KARINE POLWART (2025) Looking For The Thread

Genere: Folksinger

Simili: Bonny Light Horseman, Anais Mitchell, Joan Shelley, Sarah Jarosz, Laura Veirs, Iris DeMent, Nancy Griffith, Shelby Lynne

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Looking For The Thread, A Heart That Never Closes, Satellite

MATT BERRY (2025) Heard Noises

Genere: Psychedelic pop ‘60

Simili: The Coral, Gruff Rhys, Pretty Things, Silver Apples, Zombies, Love, The Doors

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Why On Fire?, Wedding Photo Stranger, Sky High

SAM FENDER (2025) People Watching

Genere: Heartland Rock, Electric Singer-songwriter

Simili: Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Brian Fallon

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Nostalgia’s Lie, Crumbling Empire, Arm’s Lenght

SHARON VAN ETTEN (2025) Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Genere: New wave, Synth pop

Simili: St. Vincent, Caroline Polachek, Eurythmics, Lykke Li, Debbie Harry, Depeche Mode, Torres, Courtney Barnett

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Idiot Box, Afterlife, Southern Life

SIVERT HOYEM (2025) Dancing Headlights

Genere: Dark Singer-songwriter, New wave

Simili: Madrugada, Nick Cave, Wovenhand, Mark Lanegan, Cousteau, Duke Garwood

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Love Vs. The World, Summer Rain, Dancing Headlights

SQUID (2025) Cowards

Genere: Post-rock, Kraut-math rock, Alternative Rock

Simili: Black Midi, Pere Ubu, Neu!, Can, Black Country New Road, Gentle Giant, The Smile, Pop Group, Gang of Four

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Building 650, Crispy Skin, Cro-Magnon Man

THE DELINES (2025) Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

 Genere: Noir country-soul  

Simili: Cowboy Junkies, Spain, Richmond Fontaine, The War and Treaty, Yola

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: Maureen’s Gone Missing, Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, Don’t Miss Your Bus Lorraine

THE GENTLE SPRING (2025) Looking Back At The World

Genere: Indie Pop, Chamber pop

Simili: The Field Mice, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Aberfeldy, Tracyanne & Danny, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, The Orchids

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Untouched, The Girl Who Ran Away, Looking Back At The World

THE VEILS (2025) Asphodels

Genere: Chamber pop, Singer songwriter

Simili: Nick Cave, Aqualung, Embrace, Tindersticks, Sivert Hoyem, Tom Odell

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: Melancholy Moon, Mortal Wound, The Ladder

THE WEATHER STATION (2025) Humanhood

Genere: Alternative Singer-songwriter, Indie Folk

Simili: Joni Mitchell (Hejira), Anna B Savage, Red River Dialect, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Basia Bulat, Phoebe Bridgers, Cassandra Jenkins

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Neon Signs, Window, Humanhood

TUNNG (2025) Love You All Over Again

Genere: Folktronica

Simili: Devendra Banhart, Andrew Bird, Patrick Wolf, Espers, Nick Mulvey, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Will Oldham

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Didn’t Know Why, Snails, Deep Underneath

LE CLASSIFICHE DEL 2024

Intanto Buon 2025 a tutti!

E' passata anche la Befana, quindi rompo il ghiaccio con le consuete classifiche di inizio anno postando le mie personali riguardanti il 2024, e confidando che la pigrizia che nell'anno bisestile si è impossessata perfino del fondatore di Ol'55 Luca "esca dal suo corpo"... 

Chiunque voglia postare le proprie classifiche anche parziali, o segnalare singoli album o film o libri (o fumetti/donne/birre...), o aggiungere commenti sarà non solo benvenuto, ma farà scattare l'applausometro!

Cominciamo con le mie (Microby) preferenze:

 

 

I DISCHI PIU’ BELLI PUBBLICATI NEL 2024

 

     01.THE SMILE – Cutouts (9)

2.     02. VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Only God Was Above Us (8.4)

3.     03. KULA SHAKER – Natural Magick (8.3)

4.     04. JJ GREY & MOFRO – Olustee (8.3)

5.     05. ANOTHER SKY – Beach Day (8.2)

6.     06. BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY – The Future Is Our Way Out (8)

7.     07. EELS – Eels Time! (8)

8.     08. VILLAGERS – That Golden Time (8)

9.     09. MARIKA HACKMAN – Big Sigh (8)

11 10.THE LEMON TWIGS – A Dream Is All We Know (8)

11 11.THE DECEMBERISTS – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again (8)

1   12. MICHAEL McDERMOTT – Lighthouse On The Shore (8)

1   13. ELLES BAILEY – Beneath The Neon Glow (8)

1   14. ANDERS OSBORNE – Picasso’s Villa (8)

1   15. ANDY ALEDORT – In A Dream (8)

1   16. ALBERT CUMMINGS – Strong (8)

1   17. THE BLACK CROWES – Happiness Bastards (8)

1   18. THE CURE – Songs of A Lost World (7.8)

1   19. FONTAINES D.C. – Romance (7.8)

2   20. BETH GIBBONS – Lives Outgrown (7.8)

2024 – UN DISCO CONSIGLIATO PER GENERE (e sottogenere)

 

ROCK: Kula Shaker – Natural Magick

CLASSIC ROCK: The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards

RETRO POP-ROCK: The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know

INDIE POP-ROCK: Another Sky – Beach Day

POP-ROCK: Eels! – Eels Time

POP: The Strumbellas  – Part Time Believer

ALT-POP:  Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us

CHAMBER POP: My Brightest Diamond – Fight The Real Terror

AVANT-POP: The Smile – Cutouts

NEW WAVE: Fontaines D.C. - Romance

SOUL: Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes

SOUL-ROCK: Warren Haynes – Million Voices Whisper

SOUL-R&B: DeWolff – Muscle Shoals

RETRO-SOUL: Jeremie Albino – Our Time In The Sun

NU-BLACK: Gary Clark Jr. – JPEG RAW

BLUES: Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth

ROCK-BLUES: Albert Cummings – Strong

SOUTHERN ROCK: JJ Grey & Mofro – Olustee

FOLK: Sam Lee – Songdreaming

FOLK-POP: Tapir! – The Pilgrim, Their God and The King of My Decrepit Mountain

FOLK-ROCK: The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

SINGER-SONGWRITER: Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown

AMERICANA: Elles Bailey – Beneath The Neon Glow

COUNTRY: Jamey Johnson – Midnight Gasoline

COUNTRY-ROCK: Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive

PROGRESSIVE: David Gilmour – Luck and Strange

DEBUT-ALBUM: Brigitte Calls Me Baby – The Future Is Our Way Out

I FILM PIU’ BELLI VISTI NEL 2024

 

01 La terra promessa (2023, di Nicolaj Arcel) 4.5/5

02 The Holdovers – Lezioni di vita (2023, di Alexander Payne) 4.5/5

03 The Creator (2023, di Gareth Edwards) 4.5/5

04 La sala professori (2023, di Ilker Catak) 4.5/5

05 Civil War (2024, di Alex Garland) 4/5

06 Inside Out 2 (2024) 4/5

07 Dune – Part 2 (2024, di Dennis Villeneuve) 4/5

08 Giurato numero 2 (2024, di Clint Eastwood) 4/5

09 Adagio (2024, di Stefano Sollima) 4/5

10 Dogman (2023, di Luc Besson) 4/5

11 Challengers (2024, di Luca Guadagnino) 4/5

12 Green Border (2023, di Agnieszka Holland) 4/5

13 American Fiction (2023, di Cord Jefferson) 4/5

14 Io capitano (2023, di Matteo Garrone) 4/5

15 La zona d’interesse (2023, di Jonathan Glazer) 4/5

16 Saltburn (2023, di Emerald Fennell) 4/5

17 Vermiglio (2024, di Maura Delpero) 4/5

18 Le torrent (2022, di Anne Le Ny) 4/5

19 La memoria dell’assassino (2023, di Michael Keaton) 4/5

20 Estranei (2024, di Andrew Haigh) 4/5

Consigli per gli acquisti - LucaF 2° semestre 2024

KASABIAN (2024) Happenings

Genere: Alternative-Rock, Indie Rock

Simili: Kaiser Chiefs, Arcade Fire, The Killers, Liam Gallagher, Verve

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Algorithms, Coming Back to Me Good, Call

VILLAGERS (2024) That Golden Time 

Genere: Alternative Rock, Indie Folk, Singer-Songwriter

Simili: John Grant, Lisa Hannigan, James Vincent McMorrow, Elbow, The Magnetic Fields, Nick Mulvey, Damien Jurado

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Brother Hen, First Responder

PHISH (2024) Evolve

Genere: Alternative Rock, Jam Bands, Neo Psychedelia, Fusion, Jazz-Rock

Simili: Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Pearl Jam

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Oblivion, Evolve, Wave of Hope

THE DECEMBERISTS (2024) As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again 

Genere: Alternative Rock, Indie Pop, Chamber Pop

Simili: The Shins, Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Arcade Fire, Laura Veirs, Pernice Brothers, Blitzen Trapper, Father John Misty

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: America Made Me, Long White Veil, Oh No!

RICHARD THOMPSON (2024) Ship to Shore 

Genere: Indie, British Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Folk-Rock

Simili: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Kurt Vile, Bruce Cockburn, Steeleye Span, John Martyn

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: What’s Left to Lose, Life’s a Bloody Show

KATE NASH (2024) 9 Sad Symphonies 

Genere: Pop, Indie Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Simili: Lily Allen, KT Tunstall, Ingrid Michaelson, Regina Spektor, Katie Melua, Newton Faulkner

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Vampyre, Millions of Heartbeats

PAUL WELLER (2024) 66 

Genere: Alternative Rock, Singer-Songwriter, British Traditional Rock

Simili: Noel Gallagher, The Who, Ocean Colour Scene, Bob Geldof, David Grey, , Richard Hawley

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: I Woke Up, Rise Up Singing, My Best Friend's Coat

DAVID GILMOUR (2024) Luck and Strange 

Genere: Rock, Prog-Rock

Simili: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Bad Company, Steven Wilson, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, The Pineapple Thief

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Between Two Points, Luck and Strange

FONTAINES D.C. (2024) Romance 

Genere: New Wave, Post Punk, Alternative Rock

Simili: Idles, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Marr, The Cure, The Strokes, Violent Femmes, The Clash

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Bug, Starburster

SNOW PATROL (2024) The Forest Is The Path 

Genere: Alternative Pop-Rock, Indie

Simili: Coldplay, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Wilco, Feeder, Elbow

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Talking About Hope, This Is The Sound Of Your Voice

WIDESPREAD PANIC (2024) Snake Oil King 

Genere: Southern Rock, American Traditional Rock

Simili: Phish, Warren Haynes, Allmann Brothers Band, Dr. John, Hot Tuna, Grateful Dead, Drive-By Truckers

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: We Walk Each Other Home, Little By Little

BLIND PILOT (2024) In The Shadow Of The Holy Mountain 

Genere: Alternative Pop-Rock, Indie Folk, Indie Pop, 

Simili: Dawes, Band of Heathens, The Decemberists, Fanfarlo, Okkervil River, Greg Laswell

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite: Believe Me, Jacaranda

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (2024) Wild God 

Genere: Alternative Rock, Alternative Indie-Rock, Post-Punk

Simili: PJ Harvey, Pixies, Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Cure, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Conversion, Frogs

NERINA PALLOT (2024) A Psalm for Emily Salvi 

Genere: Alternative Pop-Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Simili: Aimee Mann, Natalie Imbruglia, Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  You Could Be so Pretty, Carolina Light Up, Regrets, High Time

BEN FOLDS (2024) Sleigher 

Genere: Alternative Pop-Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Christmas

Simili: Regina Spektor, Ben Lee, Sara Bareilles, Tori Amos, Ben Kweller, Fountains of Wayne

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  We Could Have This, Me and Maurice

LAURA MARLING (2024) Patterns In Repeat 

Genere: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk, Chamber folk-pop

Simili: Mumford & Sons, Florence & The Machine, Sufjan Stevens, Regina Spektor, Joni Mitchell, The Tallest Man on Earth, Alela Diane, Clara Luzia, Sophie Zelmani

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Patterns In Repeat, Patterns

NEAL MORSE (2024) Late Bloomer 

Genere: Pop, Neo Prog, Alternative Pop-Rock

Simili: Flying Colors, Camel, Mars Volta

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  I Can't Find The Words, I'm Gonna Miss You When You Go, Late Bloomer, Already There

MICHAEL KIWANUKA (2024) Small Changes 

Genere: Soul, Singer-Songwriter 

Simili: Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Leon Bridges, Black Pumas, Curtis Harding

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Follow Your Dreams, Floating Parade

DREW HOLCOMB & THE NEIGHBORS (2024) Strangers No More, Vol. 2 

Genere: Alternative Pop-Rock, Southern Rock, Country-Rock 

Simili: Donovan Woods, Lumineers, Amos Lee, Avett Brothers, Joshua Hyslop

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Imagination, The Sound of Moving Water, Soul’s a Camera

ELLES BAILEY (2024) Beneath the Neon Glow 

Genere: Americana, Southern Country-rock 

Simili: Allison Moorer, Miranda Lambert, Beth Hart, Susan Tedeschi, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Gillian Welch

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Truth Ain't Gonna Save Us, Ballad of a Broken Dream

FATHER JOHN MISTY (2024) Mahashmashana 

Genere: Pop-rock orchestrale, Adult contemporary Singer-songwriter 

Simili: Scott Walker, Harry Nilsson, Jonathan Wilson, Richard Hawley, Embrace, Phosphorescent

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All, Mahashmashana

WARREN HAYNES (2024) Million Voices Whisper 

Genere: Blues-Rock, Hard-Rock, Southern Rock

Simili: Gov't Mule, Joe Bonamassa, Trey Anastasio, Sonny Landreth, Allman Brothers, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Voto: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Preferite:  Go Down Swinging, Real Real Love