émission du 1er janvier 2009

Haute Fidélité vous propose ce soir ses 25 albums favoris de l'année 2008.

Bonne année 2009 !

25. TV ON THE RADIO - Love Dog (Dear Science / Interscope, 2008)
24. SIGUR ROS - Festival (Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust / XL, 2008)

23. PARLOVR - Palace Of Identical Things (Parlovr / Dine Alone, 2008)
22. DUNGEN - Sätt Att Se / Maleras Finest (4 / Kemado, Subliminal Sounds, 2008)
21. WOLF PARADE - California Dreamer (At Mount Zoomer / Sub Pop, 2008)
20. PLANTS AND ANIMALS - Good Friend (Parc Avenue / Secret City, 2008)

19. THE DODOS - Winter (Visiter / Frenchkiss, 2008)
18. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - Missing One (Lie Down In The Light / Drag City, Palace, 2008)
17. CHAD VANGAALEN - Bare Feet On Wet Griptape (Soft Airplane / Flemish Eye, Sub Pop, 2008)
16. WHY? - Fatalist Palmistry (Alopecia / Anticon, Tomlab, 2008)

15. BEACH HOUSE - Gila (Devotion / Carpark, 2008)
14. JEREMY JAY - A Place Where We Could Go (A Place Where We Could Go / K, 2008)
13. DEERHUNTER - Little Kids (Microcastle / Kranky, 4AD, 2008)
12. MOUNT EERIE, avec JULIE DOIRON et FRED SQUIRE - Grave Robbers (Lost Wisdom / P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd., 2008)

11. PAS CHIC CHIC - Se Mirer Mare (Au Contraire / Semprini, 2008)
10. LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION - Galaxy Of The Lost (Falling Off The Lavender Bridge / Domino, 2008)
09. BORN RUFFIANS - Kurt Vonnegut (Red, Yellow & Blue / Warp, 2008)

08. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - Please Stop Dancing (Distorsion / Nonesuch, 2008)
07. NO AGE - Ripped Knees (Nouns / Sub Pop, 2008)
06. XIU XIU - F. T. W. (Women As Lovers / Kill Rock Stars, 2008)
05. CRYSTAL CASTLES - Alice Practice (Crystal Castles / Last Gang, 2008)

04. THE WALKMEN - New Country (You & Me / Gigantic, Fat Possum, 2008)
03. THE RAVEONETTES - Lust (Lust, Lust, Lust / Vice, 2008)
02. PORTISHEAD - Hunter (Third / Mercury, Island, 2008)

01. THE DEARS - Lights Off (Missiles / Dangerbird, 2008)

émission du 25 décembre 2008

Ce soir, on célèbre le réveillon avec une émission spéciale de Noël. Au menu, compositions originales et pièces traditionnelles, telles qu'interprétées par des artistes de la scène rock indépendante actuelle.

Passez un bon temps des fêtes et un joyeux Noël !

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - Carol Of The Bells (7th Annual Holiday Extravaganza / Indépendant, 2007)

LE LOUP - Shenandoah (Compilation I'll Stay 'Til After Christmas / Animal World, 2008)
RILO KILEY - Xmas Cake (Compilation Maybe This Christmas Too / Nettwerk, 2003)
PEDRO THE LION - I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree / Nettwerk, 2004)
LOW - Just Like Christmas (EP Christmas / Chairkickers' Union Music, 1999)

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Are You Coming Over For Christmas? (Simple Are You Coming Over For Christmas? / Matador, 2007)
THEIR HEARTS WERE FULL OF SPRING - Winterlong (EP Winter / Strange Torpedo, 2008)
FOXES! - Santa's Coming To Town (EP Christmas Songs / Indépendant, 2008)
THE WEDDING PRESENT - Holly Jolly Hollywood (Acoustic Version) (EP Holly Jolly Hollywood / Vibrant, 2008)
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - Christmastime (Compilation A Very Special Christmas 3 / A & M, 1997)

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - Spotlight On Christmas (Compilation Maybe This Christmas Too / Nettwerk, 2003)
EUX AUTRES - Another Christmas At Home (EP Another Christmas At Home / Bons Mots, 2009)
SUFJAN STEVENS - Come On! Let's Boogey To The Elf Dance! (Songs For Christmas / Asthmatic Kitty, 2006)
OF MONTREAL - Christmas Isn't Safe For Animals (Compilation Christmas Two / Kindercore, 1999)
PARENTHETICAL GIRLS - If It's A Time For Christmas (A Parenthetical Girls Family Christmas / Slender Means Society, 2006)

SONIC YOUTH - Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope (Compilation Just Say Noël / Geffen, 1996)
YEAH YEAH YEAHS - All I Want For Christmas (Simple All I Want For Christmas / Indépendant, 2008)
THE RAVEONETTES - Come On Santa (EP Wishing You A Rave Christmas / Vice, 2008)
THE RAVEONETTES - The Christmas Song (Compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree / Nettwerk, 2004)
WEEZER - Christmas Celebration (EP Christmas CD / Geffen, 2000)

I HEART LUNG - Let It Snow (EP I Heart Christmas / Sounds Are Active, 2006)
DEERHOOF - Xmas Tree (Halfbird / Menlo Park, 2001)
LES AMIS AU PAKISTAN - Noël Soft, Doux Christmas (Espace Libidinal / Tir Groupé, 2oo7)
TRICOT MACHINE - 25 Décembre (Tricot Machine Chante Et Raconte 25 Décembre / Grosse Boîte, 2008)
MOGWAI - Christmas Song (EP Mogwai [EP + 6] / Chemikal Underground, 2001)

BRIGHT EYES - Blue Christmas (Compilation Maybe This Christmas / Nettwerk, 2002)
THE DECEMBERISTS - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) (Compilation Alternative Rock Xmas / EMI, 2007)
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY - Christmas Tree On Fire (Simple Christmas Tree On Fire / Damaged Goods, 2006)

THE WALKMEN, avec NICOLE SHEANAN - Christmas Party (EP Christmas Party / Record Collection, 2004)
THE KNIFE - Christmas Reindeer (Simple Christmas Reindeer / Rabid, 2006)
GÉRALDINE - Lance Le Sapin À Géraldine (Simple Lance Le Sapin À Géraldine / Indépendant, 2007)
OTARIE - Baby, Y Fait Frette Dehors (Melting Pot! / Indépendant, 2007)

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (Compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree / Nettwerk, 2004)

émission du 18 décembre 2008

De ces sons de 2008 qui n'ont pas fait le Top 25 de Haute Fidélité: albums avec mention spéciale.

JAY REATARD - See Saw (Matador Singles '08 / Matador, 2008)

THE KILLS - Tape Song (Midnight Boom / Domino, 2008)
TIMES NEW VIKING - Another Day (Rip It Off / Matador, 2008)
PONYTAIL - Small Wevs (Ice Cream Spiritual / We Are Free, 2008)

BECK - Modern Guilt (Modern Guilt / DGC, 2008)
CRYSTAL STILTS - Graveyard Orbit (Alight Of Night / Slumberland, 2008)
THE LONG BLONDES - Nostalgia (Couples / Rough Trade, 2008)

LADYTRON - Ghosts (Velocifero / Nettwerk, Cobraside, 2008)
SEBASTIEN TELLIER - Roche (Sexuality / Record Makers, 2008)
CUT COPY - Midnight Runner (In Ghost Colours / Modular, 2008)

MGMT - Weekend Wars (Oracular Spectacular / Red Ink, Columbia, 2008)
NO KIDS - Bluster In The Air (Come Into My House / Tomlab, 2008)
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - M79 (Vampire Weekend / XL, 2008)

EMPIRE OF THE SUN - Walking On A Dream (Walking On A Dream / Astralwerks, EMI, 2008)
NOAH AND THE WHALE - Shape Of My Heart (Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down / Interscope, 2008)
THE NOTWIST - Hands On Us (The Devil, You + Me / Domino, 2008)

SAY HI - Shakes Her Shoulders (The Wishes And The Glitch / Euphobia, 2008)
ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS - Stupid Ocean (Amethyst Amulet / Pome, 2008)
OKAY - Beast (Huggable Dust / Absolutely Kosher, 2008)
DESTROYER - Libby's First Sunrise (Trouble In Dreams / Merge, 2008)

LADYHAWK - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying (Shots / Jagjaguwar, 2008)
HUMAN HIGHWAY - Moody Motorcycle (Moody Motorcycle / Secret City, Suicide Squeeze, 2008)
SHE & HIM - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today (Volume One / Merge, 2008)
FLEET FOXES - Quiet Houses (Fleet Foxes / Sub Pop, 2008)

FINAL FANTASY - The Butcher (EP Spectrum, 14th Century / Blocks Recording Club, 2008)
THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA & TRA-LA-LA BAND - Black Waters Blowed / Engine Broke Blues (13 Blues For Thirteen Moons / Constellation, 2008)

émission du 11 décembre 2008

Un peu du meilleur de Sub Pop, quelques albums oubliés de 2008 et de la (petite) musique sombre.

SIX FINGER SATELLITE - Deadpan (The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird / Sub Pop, 1993)

SEBADOH - License To Confuse (Bakesale / Sub Pop, 1994)
DINOSAUR JR. - Hide (Where You Been / Sire, Warner Bros., 1993)
MERCURY REV - Bronx Cheer (Boces / Beggars Banquet, Columbia, 1993)

AUTOLUX - Helter Skelter (Simple Audience No. 2 / Indépendant, 2008)
BEDHEAD - Lepidoptera (EP Lepidoptera / Trance Syndicate, 1998)
MODEST MOUSE - Convenient Parking (The Lonesome Crowded West / Up, Matador, 1997)
SUN KIL MOON - Convenient Parking (Tiny Cities / Caldo Verde, 2005)

SHEARWATER - My Good Deed (Winged Life / Misra, 2004)
THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET - Gone To Earth (Know By Heart / Tiger Style, 2001)
GEOFF FARINA - Already Told You (EP Already Told You / Southern, 2005)

PAPER TIGER - Falling Asleep To... (Paper Tiger / Indépendant, 2003)
STEREOLAB - Silver Sands (Chemical Chords / 4AD, 2008)
THE BLOW - Sweetheart (The Concusive Caress, Or, Casey Caught Her Mom Singing Along With The Vacuum / K, 2004)

ENVELOPES - Isabelle And Leonard (Demon / Brille, 2005)
NAVET CONFIT - Limousine (EP EP1 / Dry And Dead, 2004)
NAVET CONFIT - Même Pas Mort (EP EP2 / Dry And Dead, 2005)
CRYSTAL STILTS - Bright Night Nursery (EP Crystal Stilts / Feathery Tongue, Woodsist, 2008)

VAN SHE - Here With You (EP Van She / Modular, 2005)
MY MORNING JACKET - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 1 (Evil Urges / ATO, 2008)
DAMIEN JURADO - Go First (Caught In The Trees / Secretly Canadian, 2008)
ALBERT HAMMOND JR. - Lisa (Como Te Llama? / Black Seal, Rough Trade, 2008)

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - Far Away (Martha Wainwright / Maple Music, Zoë, Drowned In Sound, 2005)
DEAN AND BRITTA - White Horses (Back Numbers / Zoë, 2007)
AVEC PAS D'CASQUE - Vas-y (Fais-le Pour Toi) (Trois Chaudières De Sang / Dare To Care, 2006)
WESLEY WILLIS - Fugazi (Rock 'N' Roll Will Never Die / Oglio, 1996)

NIRVANA - Something In The Way (Nevermind / DGC, 1991)
TEETH MOUNTAIN - Black Jerusalem (EP Teeth Mountain / SHDWPLY, 2008)

émission du 4 décembre 2008

Au pays du lo-fi, Haute Fidélité est roi. (C'est un de ces paradoxes qui défient la logique...)

LONGWAVE - No Direction (Secrets Are Sinister / Original Signal, Chrysalis Music Group, 2008)

WHITE LIES - Black Song (EP Death / Geffen, 2008)
THE MARY ONETTES - Pleasure Songs (The Mary Onettes / Labrador, 2007)
LIARS - What Would They Know (Liars / Mute, 2007)
KARL BLAU - Fire Riding A Dove (A Second Culling / Knw-Yr-Own, 1999)

THANKSGIVING - Off With Yr Hat (Nothing / Marriage, 2003)
JONATHAN RITCHMAN - Back In Your Life (Back In Your Life / Wooded Hill, 1979)
THE CHANNEL - The Tide (Tones Are Falling / C-Side, 2003)
FLIN FLON - Cardigan (Dixie / Teenbeat, 2006)

WHITE DENIM - Let's Talk About It (Workout Holiday / Full Time Hobby, 2008)
RUBY COAST - More Than Television (EP Projectable Collections / Indépendant, 2008)
YUSSUF JERUSALEM - We Ain't Coming Back (A Heart Full Of Sorrow / Floridas Dying, 2009)

MINUS THE BEAR - Ice Monster (Planet Of Ice / Suburban Home, Suicide Squeeze, 2007)
TV ON THE RADIO - Family Tree (Dear Science / Interscope, 2008)
MASCOTT - History, As Planned (The Avantgardian) (Follow The Sound / Le Grand Magistery, 2000)
MAQUILADORA - Ritual Of Hearts (Ritual Of Hearts / Better Looking, 2002)

ALSACE LORRAINE - Alex Runs The World (Through Small Windows / Darla, 2001)
AIR, avec GORDON TRACKS - Playground Love (Bande Originale du Film The Virgin Suicides / Astralwerks, 2000)
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - Everything I Cannot See (5:55 / Because Music, Vice, 2006)

ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN - Seafaring Song (Sunday At Devil Dirt / V2, 2008)
MARK KOZELEK - Carry Me Ohio (7 Songs Belfast / Caldo Verde, 2008)
WILCO - How To Fight Loneliness (Summerteeth / Reprise, 1999)
NEW ORDER - Age Of Consent (Power, Corruption & Lies / Factory, 1983)

PAWA UP FIRST - February (The Scenario / Dare To Care, 2005)