Albums of the year, 2006...(27/12)

Looking back of 2006, I found that my music box is actually dull. It is dull in a sense that the year was of no surprise nor new sounds...to pick the best ten is like choosing the second best of the groups who produced actually somewhat more thrilling ones in the past. There is always a cycle of ups and downs in the music scene but after the last britpop/trip-hop movement, it's been quite a while since we have delightful music of the new generation. The debut album of the Arctic Monkeys should be the only great hit of the year. Nonetheless, it was all the 'oldies' and classics that have haunted me in the 365 days. Listening to the sound of the Stones, Television, the Velvet Underground, Can, Barbara or Lou Reed has been extraordinarily herbed. The only thing is summer has gone so quick...

1. Whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not, arctic monkeys
2. Black holes & revelations, muse
3. Nevermind the living dead, stuck in the sound
4. Rather ripped, sonic youth
5. Fab four suture, stereolab
6. The loon, tapes'n'tapes
7. Pearl jam, pearl jam
8. Pieces of the people we love, the rapture
9. Late night tales, air
10.Sam's tour, killers

Rapture the ecstasy...(26/9)

The three golden letters written as D.F.A. - a never-disappointing brand of dance and fun...the Rapture played live at Batalan tonight shortly after their release of the 2nd album, but instead the group played quite a lot songs from their Echoes. The show reminds me the performance of another DFA fellow LCD Soundsystem. Full of raw and punky elements, their music simply pushes the cells to ecstasy high.


The show was attended by a few hundred audience though, the energy and atmosphere was magnificent. When you saw Gabriel Andruzzi playing stagediving himself, Vito Roccoforte performing his stylish dancing saxophone and percussion or Mattie Safer rebounded fiercely from the kaleidoscopic drums, you have to admit the power of music.