lundi 23 juin 2008

émission du 26 juin 2008



Haute Fidélité ROCKS. Littéralement.

MUDHONEY - Touch Me I'm Sick (Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles / Sub Pop, 1990)

FREE KITTEN - Seasick (Inherit / Ecstatic Peace!, 2008)
MEHO PLAZA - George Washington (Meho Plaza / Better Looking, 2008)
MT. ROYAL - Banjo Song (Mad Foxes / Indépendant, 2007)

SUICIDE - Shadazz (Suicide, aka Second Album / Antilles, Mute, 1980)
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS - Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans) (EP A David Horvitz Picture Disc With / Aagoo, 2008)
SHEARWATER - Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five (Palo Santo / Matador, 2007)

THE ANNIVERSARY - The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Designing A Nervous Breakdown / Vagrant, Heroes & Villains, 2000)
THE GET UP KIDS - Stay Gone (On A Wire / Vagrant, Heroes & Villains, 2002)
PINBACK - This Red Book (Summer In Abbadon / Touch & Go, 2004)

LITTLE WINGS - Look At What The Light Did Now (Light Green Leaves / K, 2002)
FEU THÉRÈSE - À Nos Amours (Ça Va Cogner / Constellation, 2007)
SUBURBAN KIDS WITH BIBLICAL NAMES - Trees And Squirrels (#3 / Labrador, Minty Fresh, 2005)

EVANGELICALS - Paperback Suicide (The Evening Descends / Dead Oceans, 2008)
!!! - Myth Takes (Myth Takes / Warp, 2007)

THE TING TINGS - Great DJ (We Started Nothing / Columbia, 2008)
THE ORGAN - Steven Smith (Grab That Gun / Mint, 2004)
MERMAIDS - Say You're Alive (Simple Say You're Alive / Indépendant, 2008)

ALBERT HAMMOND JR. - Blue Skies (Yours To Keep / Rough Trade, New Line, 2006)
NEKO CASE - The Needle Has Landed (Fox Confessor Brings The Flood / Anti-, 2006)

THE BRUNETTES - Loopy Loopy Love (Mars Loves Venus / Lil' Chief, Microfiche, 2004)
LYKKE LI - Dance Dance Dance (Youth Novels / LL, 2008)
THE BOOKS - None But Shining Hours (Lost And Safe / Tomlab, 2005)
PAWA UP FIRST - Broadcast (Introducing New Details / Dare To Care, 2006)

SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO INTERGALACTIC INFINITY ARKESTRA - Space Is The Place (Space Is The Place / Blue Thumb, Impulse!, 1973)

samedi 21 juin 2008

émission du 19 juin 2008

Pour démentir les dires de ceux qui prétendent que je fais du zèle - et pour cette raison uniquement -, je vous propose cette nuit une rediffusion de l'émission de la semaine dernière, datée du 12 juin 2008.

Pas de panique cependant ; Haute Fidélité (l'original) sera de retour en poste la semaine prochaine.

samedi 14 juin 2008

émission du 12 juin 2008



Épisode 17 de Haute Fidélité. La leçon : ne pas sous-estimer les produits des années 80. Le plaisir coupable : les synthétiseurs et la pop dépressive.

GANG OF FOUR - To Hell With Poverty (Return The Gift / V2, 2005)

PARTS & LABOR - New Crimes (Mapmaker / Jagjaguwar, 2007)
BEAT HAPPENING - Red Head Walking (Dreamy / K, 1991)
THE SEA AND CAKE - Up On Crutches (Everybody / Thrill Jockey, 2007)

OKKERVIL RIVER - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe (The Stage Names / Jagjaguwar, 2007)
DEVOTCHKA - Along The Way (A Mad And Faithful Telling / Anti-, 2008)
THE SHINS - Kissing The Lipless (Chutes Too Narrow / Sub Pop, 2003)

ELECTRIC SOFT PARADE - Shore Song / Surfacing (No Need To Be Downhearted / Truck, 2006)
THE NOTWIST - Good Lies (The Devil, You + Me / Domino, 2008)
VOILÀ ! - Clouds (EP Voilà! / Indépendant, 2008)

MICE PARADE - Double Dolphins On The Nickel (Mice Parade / FatCat, 2007)
SIGUR ROS - Gobbledigook (Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust / XL, 2008)

THE STROKES, avec REGINA SPEKTOR - Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men (Simple Reptilia / Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men / RCA, 2004)
NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE - There Is No Train (You Follow Me / FatCat, 2007)

M. WARD - Songs From Debby's Stairs (Duet For Guitar #2 / Merge, 2007)
MARK KOZELEK - Up To My Neck In You (What's Next To The Moon / Badman, 2001)
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS - I Am Part Of A Large Family (Ongiara / Nettwerk, 2007)

ELLIOTT SMITH - Waltz #2 (XO) (XO / DreamWorks, 1998)
PATRICK WATSON - Mary (Just Another Ordinary Day / Indépendant, 2003)
THE CARDIGANS - My Favourite Game (Gran Turismo / Stockholm, Mercury, 1998)

YANN TIERSEN - Monochrome (Le Phare / Labels, 1998)
BLONDE REDHEAD - The Dress (23 / 4AD, 2007)
CIBO MATTO - Sugar Water (Pom Pom: The Essential Cibo Matto / Rhino, Warner Bros., 2007)

BAT FOR LASHES - I Saw A Light (Fur And Gold / Caroline, 2007)

mercredi 4 juin 2008

émission du 5 juin 2008



Édition historique de
Haute Fidélité ce soir. Le mot clé est V-A-R-I-É-T-É. Aussi, une couverture on ne peut plus complète du Festival Suoni Per Il Popolo, qui se déroule en sol montréalais du 1er au 30 juin 2008.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk (Poses / DreamWorks, 2001)

ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS - Bumble Bee (Amethyst Amulet / Pome, 2008)
MATES OF STATE - Help Help (Re-Arrange Us / Barsuk, 2008)

JEREMY JAY - Hold Me In Your Arms Tonite (A Place Where We Could Go / K, 2008)
PIPER DAVIS - Academics (EP Piper Davis / Indépendant, 2008)
KLAXONS - Golden Skans (Myths Of The Near Future / Modular, Polydor, Geffen, 2007)

THE DEATH SET - Had A Bird (Worldwide / Counter, Ninja Tune, 2008)
LADYTRON - Seventeen (Light And Magic / Emperor Norton, 2002)
STYROFOAM - A Thousand Words (A Thousand Words / Nettwerk, 2008)
POP LEVI - Sugar Assault Me Now (The Return To Form Black Magick Party / Counter, 2007)

ELFIN SADDLE - The Sun (Gigantic Mother / Wounded Child / Kill Devil Hills, 2008)
SANDRO PERRI - Sky Histoire (Sandro Perri Plays Polmo Polpo / Constellation, 2006)
PICASTRO - I Can't Fall Asleep (Metal Cares / Polyvinyl, 2005)

THE LUYAS - Flickering Lights (Will Likely Fail You) (Faker Death / Indépendant, Pome, 2007)
BOB WISEMAN - The Henry Moore Room (Themes And Variations / Recording Club, 2006)

GREG MACPHERSON - Wide Turn (EP Maintenance / G7 Welcoming Committee, 2004)
VIC CHESNUTT - Glossolalia (North Star Deserter / Constellation, 2007)

FUGAZI - By You (Red Medicine / Dischord, 1995)
RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR - They Knew You Well (Retribution Gospel Choir / Caldo Verde, 2008)

THE MICROPHONES - Mt. Eerie (Mount Eerie / K, 2003)
TIM HECKER - I'm Transmitting Tonight (Radio Amor / Mille Plateaux, Alien8, 2003)

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - Yasmin The Light (Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever / Temporary Residence, 2001)