En ce début d’année 2009, il est temps pour nous d’élaborer un bilan… Contrairement à ceux que vous avez peut-être eu l’occasion/le malheur de découvrir ailleurs, celui-ci est absolument garanti, le label « approuvé par le gang des canards » ajoutant encore à son évidente qualité. Pour les scientifiques, qui posent toujours des questions incongrues, voici la composition du susnommé bilan : 98% d’objectivité totale, 2% de sel.
Pour accompagner cette courte mais néanmoins essentielle lecture, nous avons compilé quelques un des nos morceaux préférés de l’année écoulée dans une RadioGong.
À oublier / faute de parcours / les disques inutiles :
BLACK KIDS – Partie Traumatic (Almost Gold)
BLOC PARTY – Intimacy (Wichita)
BLOOD RED SHOES – Box of secrets (Mercury)
COLDPLAY – Viva la vida! (Parlophone)
The DANDY WARHOLS – Earth to the Dandy Warhols (Beat The World)
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS – Romance at first notice (Mercury)
FOXBORO HOT TUBS – Stop drop and Roll!!! (Jingle Town Records)
The FRATELLIS – Here we stand (Island)
The FUTUREHEADS – This is not the world (Nul Records)
Albert HAMMOND Jr – Como te llama? (RCA / Rough Trade)
KINGS OF LEON – Only by the night (RCA)
KAISER CHIEFS – Out Of Their Heads (B-Unique)
The KOOKS – Konk (Virgin)
The LONG BLONDES – Couples (Rough Trade)
The PADDINGTONS – No Mundane Options (Universal)
The PIGEON DETECTIVES – Emergency (Dance to the radio)
RAZORLIGHT – Slipway Fires (Vertigo)
Sébastien TELLIER – Sexuality (Record Makers)
TOWERS OF LONDON – Fizzy Pop (TVT)
The VINES – Melodia (Ivy League)
The VON BONDIES – We are kamikazes aiming at your heart (EP) (In the Act)
The ZUTONS – You can do anything (Deltasonic)
Agréable / acceptable / peut mieux faire :
BABYSHAMBLES – Oh what a lovely tour (Parlophone)
The BELL RAYS – Hard, sweet and sticky (Red Eyes)
BE YOUR OWN PET – Get awkward (XL)
Isobel CAMPBELL & Mark LANEGAN – Sunday at Devil Dirt (Pias)
The DRAYTONES – Up in my head (1965 Records)
The DUKE SPIRIT – Neptune (You are here)
The KILLS – Midnight Boom (Domino Recordings)
LITTL’ANS – Primitive World (Revtone)
LOUIS XIV – Slick dogs and ponies (Atlantic)
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Columbia) Weekend Wars
The MUGGS – On With The Show (Stormy Records)
Jim NOIR – Jim Noir (My dad records)
OASIS – Dig Out Your Soul (Big Brother)
The RIFLES – The Great Escape EP (679 Recordings)
SECOND SEX – Petite Mort (Because)
Les SHADES – Le meurtre de Vénus (Tricatel)
SSM –Komodo (Howl)
SUPERGRASS – Diamond Hoo Ha (Parlophone)
YOUNG KNIVES – Superabundance (Transgressive)
A retenir / Les valeurs sûres / Les découvertes :
The ALIENS – Luna (Pet Rock)
BECK – Modern Guilt (XL)
The Beep Seals – Things That Hurt (Heron)
The BLACK ANGELS – Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the attic)
BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES – A Touch of Someone Else’s Class (Alive)
The BLACK KEYS – Attack & Release (Nonesuch Records / V2)
BLACK MOUNTAIN – In the Future (Jagjaguwar)
BRIMSTONE HOWL – We came in peace (Alive Records)
BUFFALO KILLERS – Let it ride (Alive Records)
CHEVEU – Cheveu (Born Bad)
The CORAL – Singles Collected (Deltasonic)
CRYSTAL STILTS –Alight Of Night (Slumberland)
THE DATSUNS – Head Stunts (Cooking Vinyl)
GRAHAM DAY – Triple Distilled (Damaged Goods)
The DIRTBOMBS – We have you surrounded (In The Red Records)
FLEET FOXES – Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
The GO – Tracking The Trail Of The Haunted Beat (Bellyache Records)
Adam GREEN – Sixes and Sevens (Rough Trade)link
HACIENDA – Loud Is The Night (Alive Records)
HUMAN EYE – Fragments of the Universe Nurse (Hook and Crook)
The LAST SHADOW PUPPETS – The age of the understatement (Domino)
LET’S WRESTLE – In loving memory of… (EP) (Stolen Recordings)
LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION – Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino)
The RACONTEURS – Consolers of The Lonely (XL)
The RASCALS – Rascalize (Deltasonic)
Jay REATARD – Matador Singes 08 (Matador)
SEASICK STEVE – I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of It Left (Warner)
SONIC CHICKEN 4 – Sonic Chicken 4 (In The Red)
TERRIBLE TWOS –Terrible Twos (X!)
The URGES – Psych Ward (Wicked Cool)
Mr David VINER – Among The Rumours And The Rye (Loose)
VIVIAN GIRLS – Vivian Girls (Mauled by tigers / In The Red)
WHIRLWIND HEAT – Scoop du jour (Heat Enterprise)
YETI – The Legend of Yeti Gonzales (Get up and Go)
Groupes ayant sorti des albums dont nous avons choisi de ne pas parler (pour des raisons qui ne seront pas expliquées) : LATE OF THE PEAR, FOALS, The QUARTER AFTER, The SUBWAYS, The HOLD STEADY, The VERVE, The STREETS…