Dopo le schede dedicate al primo semestre, eccoci tra le brume invernali e voilà le mie personalissime preferenze tra gli album pubblicati nel 2023 e da me ascoltati nella seconda parte dell'anno, per affrontare al meglio i bagordi natalizi. Segnalo solo i dischi che per me hanno meritato almeno le 4 stelle (8/10): pur senza capolavori, il 2023 si sta chiudendo con molti ottimi lavori. Quindi "keep on rockin' in a free world!" (Nello il Giovane)
BEN
FOLDS (2023) What Matters Most
Genere: Singer-songwriter, Adult pop
Simili: Bruce
Hornsby, Billy Joel, Neil Finn, Regina Spektor, Tori Amos, Guster, Joe Jackson,
Burt Bacharach
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: Kristine From The 7th Grade, But Wait There’s More, Clouds With Ellipses, Winslow Gardens
BLUR (2023) The Ballad of
Darren
Genere: Alternative
british pop-rock
Simili: Damon Albarn, The Waeve, David
Bowie, Teardrop Explodes, Graham Coxon
Voto Microby: 8
Preferite: Barbaric, The Narcissist, The
Ballad
GLEN
HANSARD (2023) All That Was East Is West of Me Now
Genere: Singer-songwriter, Indie-rock, Heartland rock
Simili: Michael
McDermott, The Frames, Vic Chesnutt, Sturgill Simpson, Bruce Springsteen, Nathaniel
Rateliff, John Mellencamp
Voto
Microby: 8.2
Preferite: There’s
No Mountain, Bearing Witness, Short Life
HALF
MOON RUN (2023) Salt
Genere: Alt-pop
Simili: Alt-J,
Run River North, Crowded House, Lord Huron
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: Alco,
You Can Let Go, Dodge The Rubble, 9 Beat
JASON
ISBELL & The 400 Unit (2023) Weathervanes
Genere: Classic rock, Roots rock, Southern rock
Simili: Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lukas Nelson, Neal
Casal, Lee Bains III, The Avett Brothers
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: Save
The World, Miles, Strawberry Woman
JOE
BONAMASSA (2023) Blues Deluxe Vol. 2
Genere: Electric Blues
Simili: Mike
Zito, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Walter Trout, Eric Clapton
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: I
Want To Shout About It, Is It Safe To Go Home, Hope You Realize It (Goodbye
Again), Win-O
JONATHAN
WILSON (2023) Eat The Worm
Genere: Progressive, Folk-pop
Simili: Roger
Waters, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Todd Rundgren
Voto Microby: 8
Preferite: Charlie
Parker, Marzipan, B.F.F., Hey Love
MATT ANDERSEN (2023) Big
Bottle of Joy
Genere: R&B,
Soul, Rock-blues
Simili: DeWolff, Joe Cocker, Tas Cru, Levon
Helm, Zucchero
Voto Microby: 8.2
Preferite: Golden, How Far Will You Go, What’s
On My Mind, Keep Holding On
NOEL
GALLAGHER’s High Flying Birds (2023) Council Skies
Genere: Britpop
Simili: Oasis,
Beady Eye
Voto Microby: 8
Preferite: Pretty
Boy, Dead To The World, I’m Not Giving Up Tonight, Council Skies
PRETENDERS
(2023) Relentless
Genere: Alternative Rock
Simili: Patti
Smith Group, Lou Reed, R.E.M., Iggy Pop, The Runaways, PJ Harvey
Voto
Microby: 8.5
Preferite: A
Love, Just Let Go, Let The Sun Come In, Domestic Silence
STORNOWAY
(2023) Dig The Mountain!
Genere: Pop-folk, Indie pop
Simili: The
Leisure Society, Fanfarlo, Fleet Foxes, Decemberists, Guillemots, Mumford &
Sons, James, Neil Finn
Voto
Microby: 8.5
Preferite: Trouble
With The Green, Bag In The Wind, Anwen, The Navigator
SUSANNE
SUNDFOR (2023) Blòmi
Genere: Alternative singer-songwriter, Avant-pop, Chamber Folk-pop
Simili: Agnes Obel, Lisa Hannigan, Sòley,
Meg Baird, Ane Brun
Voto Microby: 8
Preferite: Leikara Ljòo, Blòmi, Alyosha, Runa
THE
CLIENTELE (2023) I Am Not There Anymore
Genere: Chamber pop, Baroque pop
Simili: The
Lilac Time, Penguin Cafè, Camera Obscura, Louis Philippe, Alfie, Felt
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: Blue
Over Blue, Lady Grey, Fables of The Silverlink, Through The Roses
THE
ROLLING STONES (2023) Hackney Diamonds
Genere: Classic Rock, Rock blues
Simili: The
Animals, Faces, The Pretty Things, Free, Steppenwolf, CCR, Aerosmith, Joan Jett
Voto
Microby: 8.4
Preferite: Angry,
Get Close, Mess It Up, Whole Wide World
TRE’
BURT (2023) Traffic Fiction
Genere: R&B, Soul-rock
Simili: Garland
Jeffreys, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Joe Strummer & The
Mescaleros, Willy DeVille, Percy Sledge, DeWolff, Nataniel Rateliff
Voto
Microby: 8
Preferite: Piece
of Me, To Be A River, Santiago, Traffic Fiction
YUSUF-CAT
STEVENS (2023) King of a Land
Genere: Singer-songwriter
‘70
Simili: James Taylor, Ralph McTell, Gordon
Lightfoot, Graham Nash
Voto Microby: 8
Preferite: Pagan Run, Train On a Hill, All
Nights All Days, How Good It Feels
