Abbiamo perso il conto di quante giornate lente e noiose abbiamo svoltato grazie a NPR e i suoi ‘first listen’.
Negli ultimi anni la National Public Radio (NPR), in particolare appunto con la rubrica “First Listen” sezione del sito dove vengono proposti con settimane di anticipo rispetto alle release-date ufficiali esclusivi streaming integrali di dischi, si è imposta come media musicale di riferimento.
In quest’ottica accogliamo con interesse la classifica dei migliori 50 album del 2015 redatta da NPR solo pochi giorni fa.
In rigoroso ordine alfabetico la lista conferma gli ottimi lavori di Jamie XX, Kendrick Lamar, Courtney Barnett e Sufjan Stevens ma mette a segno anche clamorose esclusioni: Bjork, Grimes, Beach House, Chvrches e Kurt Vile su tutti.
Di seguito la “NPR Music’s 50 Favorite Albums Of 2015” completa:
AFRICA EXPRESS PRESENTS – Terry Riley’s In C Mali
ALABAMA SHAKES – Sound & Color
ANTHONY de MARE – Liaisons “” Re-imagining Sondheim From The Piano
ASHLEY MONROE – The Blade
BEAUTY PILL – Describes Things As They Are
BOMBA ESTEREO – Amanecer
BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT – Play (Andrew Norman)
BRANDI CARLILE – The Firewatcher’s Daughter
CARLA MORRISON – Amor Supremo
CARLY RAE JEPSEN РEӢMOӢTION
CECILE McLORIN SALVANT – For One To Love
CHRIS STAPLETON – Traveller
CHRISTIAN SCOTT aTUNDE ADJUAH – Stretch Music
COLLEEN – Captain of None
COURTNEY BARNETT – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
DAYME AROCENA – Nueva Era
DEAD TO A DYING WORLD – Litany
DJ SOTOFETT – Drippin’ For A Tripp
EARL SWEATSHIRT – I Don’t Like S***, I Don’t Go Outside
FLOATING POINTS – Elaenia
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
FOUR TET – Morning/Evening
FUTURE – DS2
THE GAME – The Documentary 2
GIRLPOOL – Before The World Was Big
IBEYI – Ibeyi
ICE – In the Light of Air (Anna Thorvaldsdottir)
THE INTERNET – Ego Death
JAMIE XX – In Colour
JASON ISBELL – Something More Than Free
JAZMINE SULLIVAN – Reality Show
JOAN SHELLEY – Over and Even
JOANNA NEWSOM – Divers
KACEY MUSGRAVES – Pageant Material
KAMASI WASHINGTON – The Epic
KENDRICK LAMAR – To Pimp A Butterfly
LOW – Ones and Sixes
MBONGWANA STAR – From Kinshasa
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING – Hamilton
PATTY GRIFFIN – Servant of Love
RHIANNON GIDDENS – Tomorrow Is My Turn
SAM LEE & FRIENDS – The Fade In Time
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY – Absolute Jest (John Adams)
SUFJAN STEVENS – Carrie & Lowell
TORRES – Sprinter
TY DOLLA $IGN – Free TC
VIJAY IYER TRIO – Break Stuff
VINCE STAPLES – Summertime ’06
WORRIERS – Imaginary Life
XAOS – Xaos
