Boris Grebenshchikov - 501 - Лучшие Альбомы 2014 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The best albums 2014,

December 21, 2014

Hello!

Winter solstice is coming tonight. This means today - the shortest day and the longest night. This time has long been considered especially sacred - well, it would be, because the winter solstice is the peak of winter, which means that winter has reached its highest point and begins to decline, ahead of the new year, it already smells in the air in the spring. And on such a special day, sin would not take the results of the outgoing year. And since the entire musical press is filled with lists of the best albums of the past 12 months, let's draw our conclusions and we.

War on Drugs - Red Eyes

This, for example, was the young American group War on Drugs, the third album of which "Lost in the Dream", according to many, earned the title of "Best Album of the Year." This group stands under the banner that the midwife of good art is misfortune. And the leader of the group Adam Grandusiel says: "During the recording of the album, I was incredibly uncomfortable in my own skin and with my own thoughts; as if I had failed in a fucking hole." And critics write: "The album turned personal sadness to public catharsis."

Well, speaking of sadness with the creation of outstanding works, one cannot help but mention the album of the "moralizing stories" of the Eels group that was released this year. They also stand under the banner of sadness, and without any doubt their album is one of the best 2014.

Eels - Lonely Lockdown Hurricane

But unlike Eels, Mark Kozelek is a name known only to people who really carefully monitor modern music. For 22 years, the goat has been at the head of the Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon groups, and critics consider it to be "the author of infrequently encountered genius." Whatever happens, success or indifference, the goat continues to write his songs, and not to knock it out of this.

As if Brodsky wrote about him:

He will not fall from the wave of an ax

And you will not surprise him with a flame.

From stormy waves to the exclamations of "Hurray"

He will jump more quarrel than Fish.

And such stubborn standing on its own bear fruit - this year the album of the group Sun Kil Moon Benji is named among the 50 best albums of the year.

Sun Kil Moon - Ben's My Friend

"The artist previously known as TTIGS" in life is the name of the waist Barnett; It comes from the quiet English suburbs of Cheltenham, but in full accordance with the words of Federic Chopin, "Music does not have the Fatherland; its fatherland-the whole universe" FKA TWIGS shoots futuristic videos, and in general all seemed to come out of some future.

FKA Twigs - Two Weeks

As Mao Ze-Dun said: "To merge with the people, to grab the roots among the people and bloom." In full accordance with these words, one of the most fashionable music is now on Earth is an "American". According to the definition of the American music association "American is modern music, which includes elements of different root of American music-country, blues, rhythm end blues, blues and routes. The result is a sound oriented to the world that lives in the world, far away standing from prototypes. "

In other words, people playing American came up with a certain perfect America in which there is a specific and accurately “American ideal music” specifically and accurately, and having learned to play such music, these people sing about their current experiences. And people of such a legion: from the bright memory of the elder Jay Cale to the newfangled group "Sunnered by Turtles."

And after all, the idea, in fact, is brilliant; Without any doubt, it can be applied to other cultures, and when modern sounds become boring, it is worth taking up ancient techniques and singing about today's and their experiences, using ancient forms.

Here is the Hiss Golden Messenger group (in fact, just a gentleman's pseudonym named MC Taylor) tried to play different music, but came to the style of "American", and their album entered the best albums of 2014.

Hiss Golden M.