émission du 31 juillet 2008

Osheaga. Festival MEG. Francofolies. Haute Fidélité anticipe le weekend qui tue.

ART BRUT - Good Weekend (Bang Bang Rock & Roll / Downtown, 2005)

THE LIBERTINES - What Katie Did (The Libertines / Rough Trade, 2004)
LUKE DOUCET AND THE WHITE FALCON - The Lovecats (Blood's Too Rich / Six Shooter, 2008)
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN - Kingdom Of Doom (The Good, The Bad & The Queen / EMI, 2007)

ORANGE PEELS - So Far (So Far / Quattro, 2000)
ELK CITY - Cherries In The Snow (New Believers / Friendly Fire, 2007)
THE APPLES IN STEREO - Winter Must Be Cold (Fun Trick Noisemaker / spinART, 1995)

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - Two-Headed Boy (In The Aeroplane Over The Sea / Merge, 1998)
DEVENDRA BANHART - I Feel Just Like A Child (Cripple Crow / XL, 2005)
PLANTS AND ANIMALS - Lola Who? (EP With / Avec / Secret City, 2007)

FALL HORSIE - Billy Blue Eyes (From The Seam Of Doors, A Cone Of Light / Youth Club, 2007)
SONGS: OHIA, avec SCOUT NIBLETT - Lioness (Simple Lioness / Miss My Lion / Secretly Canadian, 2001)

NEIL HALSTEAD - Two Stones In My Pocket (Sleeping On Roads / 4AD, 2001)
MOJAVE 3 - Bringin' Me Home (Excuses For Travellers / 4AD, 2000)
TALKING HEADS - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking In Tongues / Sire, 1983)

LAND OF TALK - Breaxxbaxx (L'Aventure Acoustique / One Little Indian, 2008)
ARCADE FIRE - Age Of Consent (Live) (Simple Age Of Consent / Indépendant, 2005)
SEBASTIEN GRAINGER & THE MOUNTAINS - Love Can Be So Mean (Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains / Saddle Creek, 2008)

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl (You Forgot It In People / Arts & Crafts, 2002)
THE GO! TEAM - Ladyflash (Thunder, Lightning, Strike / Memphis Industries, Columbia, 2004)
DUCHESS SAYS - Rabies (Baby's Got The) (Anthologie Des 3 Perchoirs / Alien8, 2008)

SILVER APPLES - Seagreen Serenades (Silver Apples / Kapp, 1968)
DAN DEACON - Pink Batman (Spiderman Of The Rings / Carpark, 2007)

THE KILLS - The Good Ones (No Wow / RCA, Rough Trade, Domino, 2004)
TINDERSTICKS - Dancing (Curtains / PolyGram, 1997)

émission du 24 juillet 2008

L'épisode hétérogène. Du très vieux et du tout nouveau. Du vraiment intense et du mélo mielleux. Du shoegaze décalé et des ballades mélodique. Voilà.

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Do It Clean (Crocodiles / Sire, 1980)

THE FALL - Open The Boxoctosis #2 (The Real New Fall LP / Narnack, 2003)
MISSION OF BURMA - Falling (OnOffOn / Matador, 2004)
THE BREEDERS - Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Compilation And Your Bird Can Sing: A Collection Of Beatles Interpretations / Mercury, 1996)

THE WEDDING PRESENT - Red Shoes By The Drugstore (Compilation Step Right Up: The Songs Of Tom Waits / Manifesto, Caroline, 1995)
TOM WAITS, avec KEITH RICHARDS - That Feel (Bone Machine / Island, 1992)
SCARLETT JOHANSSON, avec DAVID BOWIE - Falling Down (Anywhere I Lay My Head / ATCO, Rhino, 2008)

SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME - Money In The After Life (Fill Up The Room / K, 2007)
TROY VON BALTHAZAR - Dogs (Troy Von Balthazar / Olympic, La Tribu, 2005)
VINCENT GALLO - Honey Bunny (When / Warp, 2001)
DOVES - M62 Song (The Last Broadcast / Heavenly, Capitol, 2002)

ATLAS SOUND - Balcony (EP Amsterdam Midi / Indépendant, 2008)
DEERHUNTER - Nothing Ever Happened (Microcastle / Kranky, 4AD, 2008)
SHOCKING PINKS - I Want U Back (Shocking Pinks / DFA, EMI, Astralwerks, 2007)

AIR - Kelly Watch The Stars (Moon Safari / Caroline, Astralwerks, 1997)
BECK - Gamma Ray (Modern Guilt / DGC, 2008)

KATIE STELMANIS - In My Favour (Join Us / Blocks Recording Club, 2008)
CAT POWER - I Found A Reason (The Covers Record / Matador, 2000)
EMILY HAINES & THE SOFT SKELETON - Nothing & Nowhere (Knives Don't Have Your Back / Last Gang, 2006)

HARMONY TROWBRIDGE - New York Again (EP Amoraphobe /Nettwerk, 2004)
JULIE DOIRON - Untitled (Woke Myself Up / Endearing, Jagjaguwar, 2007)

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - Girl In A Tree (Scared Famous / Human Ear Music, 2007)
THUNDERBIRDS ARE NOW! - Panthers In Crime (Make History / Frenchkiss, 2006)
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI - Like It Or Not (Version 2) (EP Like It Or Not / Polyvinyl, 2008)

KILL THE LIGHTS - Skinny White Girls (Buffalo Of Love / Maple Music, 2007)
CSS - Rat Is Dead (Rage) (Donkey / Sub Pop, 2008)

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Styrofoam Plates (The Photo Album / Barsuk, 2001)

émission du 17 juillet 2008

Un mot. Post-punkiesque.

NO AGE - Teen Creeps (Nouns / Sub Pop, 2008)

SWELL MAPS - Let's Build A Car (Simple Let's Build A Car / Rough Trade, Rather, 1979)
TEENAGE FANCLUB - Song To The Cynic (Thirteen / Creation, Geffen, 1993)
PAVEMENT - Here (Slainted And Enchanted / Matador, 1992)

THE CREEPING NOBODIES - Treachery (Sound Of Joy / Blocks Recording Club, 2006)
HAPPY MONDAYS - 24 Hour Party People (Double Easy: The US Singles / Elektra, 1993)
THE HALO BENDERS - Virginia Reel Around The Fountain (The Rebels Not In / K, 1998)

SOUTH AMBULANCE - Take Them Out (South Ambulance / Rollerderby, 2005)
THE LEGENDS - Nothing To Be Done (Up Against The Legends / Labrador, 2004)
ABERDEEN - Miss You Now You're Gone (The Boy Has Gone Away / The Tremolo Arm Users Club, 2003)

EAST RIVER PIPE - Astrofarm (The Gasoline Age / Merge, 1999)
ACID HOUSE KINGS - Will You Love Me In The Morning? (Sing Along With Acid House Kings / Labrador, 2005)

JEREMY JAY - Airwalker (EP Airwalker / K, 2007)
JASON ANDERSON - If I'm Waiting (The Wreath / K, 2005)
THIS IS IVY LEAGUE - The Richest Kids In Town (This Is Ivy League / Twentyseven, 2008)

SAID THE WHALE - This City's A Mess (Howe Sounds / Taking Abalonia / Pop Machine, 2008)
FLEET FOXES - White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes / Sub Pop, 2008)
RECEIVERS - Petrograd (Consider The Ravens / Either/Or, 2008)

BRENDAN CANNING - Hit The Wall (Something For All Of Us... / Arts & Crafts, 2008)
UTAH RANGERS - Theme Song (EP Old Statistics / Anorak, 2008)
SHAPES AND SIZES - Alone / Alive (Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner / Asthmatic Kitty, 2007)

NIGHTWOOD - Cave Of The Spleen (EP Big City / Grenadine, 2008)
THE CONCRETES - Song For The Songs (In Colour / Licking Fingers, EMI, 2006)
CAMERA OBSCURA - Let's Get Out Of This Country (Let's Get Out Of This Country / Merge, 2006)

CLUB 8 - What Shall We Do Next? (Strangely Beautiful / Labrador, 2003)
IVY - I've Got A Feeling (Apartment Life / 550 Music, Atlantic, 1997)
FILM SCHOOL - Activated (EP Alwaysnever / Amazing Grease, 2003)

émission du 10 juillet 2008

Ce que je dois faire ce soir : travailler jusqu'à tard en soirée.

Ce que je ne ferai pas ce soir : animer Haute Fidélité pour vous.

Ce que cela implique : vous entendrez cette nuit une rediffusion de l'émission de la semaine dernière, datée du 3 juillet 2008.

émission du 3 juillet 2008

... ou l'édition indie-pop-rétro-post-punk-twee-C86-bla-bla-bla.

TV ON THE RADIO - New Health Rock (EP New Health Rock / Touch & Go, 2004)

TELEFAUNA - Put Your Hands Together For The Offbeat (EP Their 1st EP / Indépendant, 2005)
NADA SURF - Ice On The Wing (Lucky / Barsuk, 2008)
THE CLEAN - Stars (Getaway / Merge, 2001)

TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - Smashing Time (Yes Darling, But Is It Art? (Early Singles And Rarities / Fire, Seed, 1995)
THE GO-BETWEENS - Caroline And I (Bright Yellow, Bright Orange / Jetset, 2003)
PETER BJORN AND JOHN - The Chills (Writer's Block / Wichita, AlmostGold, 2006)

TULLYCRAFT - Twee (Beat Surf Fun / Magic Marker, 2002)
CUB - Your Bed (Come Out, Come Out / Mint, 1995)
FIRE ENGINES - Get Up And Use Me (Hungry Beat / Acute, 2007)
BUNNYGRUNT - G.I. 2k (Action Pants! / No Life, 1995)

GHOSTWOOD - Red Version (EP Ghostwood / Modular, 2007)
THE MARY ONETTES - Lost (The Mary Onettes / Labrador, 2007)
AUTOLUX - Audience No. 2 (Simple Audience No. 2 / Indépendant, 2008)

THE RAVEONETTES - Aly, Walk With Me (Lust Lust Lust / Vice, 2007)
CHROMATICS - In The City (EP In Shining Violence / Italians Do It Better, 2007)
PORTISHEAD - Machine Gun (Third / Island, Mercury, 2008)

BETH GIBBONS & RUSTIN MAN - Sand River (Out Of Season / Sanctuary, Go! Beat, 2002)
THE BATS - Shoeshine (Couchmaster / Flying Nun, Mammoth, 1995)
AMÉLIE - Where Dreams Go (The Real Nature Of The Fantastic Ice Cream Car / Boxson, 2007)
PJ HARVEY - When Under Ether (White Chalk / Island, 2007)

NICK DRAKE - They're Leaving Me Behind (Family Tree / Tsunami Label Group, 2007)
CALEXICO - Letter To Bowie Knife (Garden Ruin / Quarterstick, 2006)
JOSEPH ARTHUR - Honey And The Moon (Redemption's Son / Real World, 2002)

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (If You're Feeling Sinister / Matador, 2006)
THE RADIO DEPT. - Ewan (Lesser Matters / Labrador, Shelflife, 2003)

TORNGAT - Alberta Song (EP La Rouge / Alien 8, 2005)

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)

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.

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)

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)

émission du 29 mai 2008

Ce soir, à Haute Fidélité, vous entendrez une rediffusion de l'émission de la semaine dernière, datée du 22 mai 2008.

Mettez ça sur le compte des imprévus liés à la vie moderne...