Matteo Maioli Awards 2023

Top 75 Album

1. WEDNESDAY – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans, Asheville USA)
2. RVG – Brain Worms (Fire, Melbourne AUS)
3. THE CLIENTELE – I Am Not There Anymore (Merge, London UK)
4. PJ HARVEY – I Inside The Old Year Dying (Partisan, London UK)
5. CUT – Dead City Nights (Improved Sequence, Bologna ITA)
6. DOT ALLISON – Consciousology (Sonic Cathedral, Edimburgh UK)
7. MARTA DEL GRANDI – Selva (Fire, Abbiategrasso ITA)
8. YO LA TENGO – This Stupid World (Matador, New York USA)
9. THE MURDER CAPITAL – Gigi’s Recovery (Human Season, Dublin IRL)
10. MAIIAH & THE ANGELS OF LIBRA – S/T (Waterfall, Hamburg GER)
11. BAR ITALIA – Tracey Denim (Matador)
12. THE WAEVE – S/T (Transgressive)
13. FEIST – Multitudes (Polydor)
14. ALEX PESTER – Better Days (Violette)
15. WILCO – Cousin (dBpm)
16. DAVID HOLMES – Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly)
17. FORTUNATO DURUTTI MARINETTI – Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean (Quindi)
18. BLONDE REDHEAD – Sit Down For Dinner (Section 1)
19. RAT COLUMNS – Babydoll (Tough Love)
20. NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS – Council Skies (Sour Mash)
21. TINY RUINS – Ceremony (Ba Da Bing)
22. ROBERT FORSTER – The Candle And The Flame (Tapete)
23. TEENAGE FANCLUB – Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge)
24. GAZ COOMBES – Turn The Car Around (Caroline)
25. THE NATIONAL – First Two Pages Of Frankenstein (4AD)
26. THE SEXTONES – Love Can’t Be Borrowed (Record Kicks)
27. ITALIA 90 – Living Human Treasure (Brace Yourself)
28. KRISTIN HERSH – Clear Pond Road (Fire)
29. SHARP CLASS – Tales Of A Teenage Mind (Heavy Soul!)
30. PROTOMARTYR – Formal Growth In The Desert (Hardly Art)
31. EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – Fuse (Virgin)
32. YVES TUMOR – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Warp)
33. THE CORAL – Sea Of Mirrors (Modern Sky)
34. ANNA B SAVAGE – in/Flux (City Slang)
35. CUT WORMS – S/T (Jagjaguwar)
36. SPECIAL FRIEND – Wait Until The Flames Come Rushing In (Skep Wax)
37. THE VAN PELT – Artisans And Merchants (La Castanya)
38. BARRENCE WHITFIELD AND THE SAVAGES – Glory (Folc)
39. KING TUFF – Smalltown Stardust (Sub Pop)
40. ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA – Lightning Dreamers (Int. Anthem)
41. SHANA CLEVELAND – Manzanita (Hardly Art, Kalamazoo USA)
42. JALEN NGONDA – Come Around And Love Me (Daptone, London UK)
43. QUASI – Breaking The Balls Of History (Sub Pop, Portland USA)
44. SUN DIAL – Messages From The Mothership (Sulatron)
45. MILES KANE – One Man Band (Modern Sky)
46. SCOTT WILLIAM URQUHART/CONSTANT FOLLOWER – Even Days Dissolve (Golden Hum)
47. GRAHAM DAY AND THE GAOLERS – Reflections In The Glass (Damaged Goods)
48. THE REDS PINKS & PURPLES – The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
49. BLUR – The Ballad Of Darren (Parlophone)
50. GRAND DRIFTER – Paradise Window (Subjangle)
51. THE WHIFFS – Scratch ‘N’ Stiff (Bachelor)
52. SLEAFORD MODS – UK Grim (Rough Trade)
53. THE WARLOCKS – In Between Sad (Cleopatra)
54. JULIAN NEVER – Pious Fiction (Mt StMtn)
55. WHATITDOARCHIVEGROUP – Palace Of A Thousand Suns (Record Kicks)
56. CRIME & THE CITY SOLUTION – The Killer (Mute)
57. THE TUBS – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)
58. SLOWTHAI – Ugly (Method)
59. SCOTT McMICKEN and THE EVER-EXPANDING – Shabang (Anti)
60. LEATHERETTE – Small Talk (Bronson Recordings)
61. THOMAS WALSH – The Rest Is History (Curation)
62. THE MEN – New York City (Fuzz Club)
63. YOUTH LAGOON – Heaven Is A Junkyard (Fat Possum)
64. AESOP ROCK – Integrated Tech Solutions (Rhymesayers)
65. GIRLESS – Los De Afuera Son De Palo (To Lose La Track)
66. SLOWDIVE – Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)
67. CHEATER SLICKS – Ill Fated Cusses (In The Red)
68. THEEE RETAIL SIMPS – Live On Cool Street (Total Punk)
69. ANA FRANGO ELETRICO – Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua (Mr. Bongo)
70. MANDY, INDIANA – I’ve Seen A Way (Fire Talk)
71. BONDO – Print Selections (Quindi)
72. ZAC – Zac II (Wild Honey)
73. NIGHT BEATS – Rajan (Fuzz Club)
74. STRANGE ATTRACTOR – Good Boy Bad Boy (Drunken Sailor)
75. THE LATHUMS – From Nothing To A Little Bit More (Island)

In questa playlist li potete ascoltare tutti ma non figurano Sun Dial e Cheater Slicks, assenti da Spotify, in favore di Ibisco e The Declining Winter comunque ottime “riserve”.

TOP 10 (+1) Canzoni Fuori Classifica

FIXTURES – Song Of Last Summer from “Hollywood Dog” (Bobo Integral)

HANNAH JADAGU – What You Did from “Aperture” (Sub Pop)

SOFIA KOURTESIS – Si Te Portas Bonito from “Madres” (Ninja Tune)

SEABLITE – Melancholy Molly from “Lemon Lights”(Mt StMtn)

LIFEGUARD – Alarm from “Dressed In Trenches” EP (Matador)

VERA ELLEN – Homewrecker from “Ideal Home Noise” (Flying Nun)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS – Stolen Moments from “Stories From A Rock’n’Roll Heart” (Thirty Tigers)

MODEL/ACTRIZ – Mosquito from “Dogsbody” (True Panther)

GRIAN CHATTEN – Fairlies from “Chaos For The Fly” (Partisan)

BEACH FOSSILS – Don’t Fade Away from “Bunny” (Bayonet)

Bonus track: JW FRANCIS – Swooning from “Dream House” (Sunday Best)

Top Ten Ristampe/Compilation

HEAVENLY – Le Jardin De Heavenly (Sarah/Skep Wax, originally 1992)

THE EXPLODING HEARTS – Guitar Romantic Expanded (Third Man Records, originally 2003)

SUPERSUCKERS – Must’ve Been High (Sub Pop/Improved Sequence, originally 1997)

THE STOMACHMOUTHS – Speed Freak (Busy Bee)

BABY CHARLES – S/T 15th Anniversary Edition (Record Kicks)

KEVIN FINGIER COLLECTIVE – El Sonido De Fingier Records (Acid Jazz Records)

THE CELIBATE RIFLES – The Turgid Miasma Of Existence (Area Pirata)

THE WEDDING PRESENT – 24 Songs (+ 5) (Clue)

CIVIC – New Vietnam & Singles 2018-2019 (Anti Fade)

COCO MARIA presents CLUB COCO AHORA! The Latin Sound Of Now (Les Disques Bongo Joe)
Inoltre le ottime segnalazioni da altri: CLASS, “If You’ve Got Nothing” (Feel It); MISS CHAIN & THE BROKEN HEELS, “Storm” (Wild Honey) e FLAT WORMS, “Witness Marks” (Drag City)

I Dieci Live dell’Anno

SUPERCHUNK, ROBYN HITCHCOCK e KID CONGO POWERS, TPO, Bologna
CUT, Covo Club, Bologna
WILCO, Villa Torlonia, San Mauro Pascoli (FC)
MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR, Bronson, Ravenna
MICAH P. HINSON, Bronson, Ravenna
IDLES + MURDER CAPITAL, Beky Bay, Bellaria-Igea Marina (RN)
THE SCIENTISTS, Freakout Club, Bologna
SUBSONICA, Velvet, Rimini
DOWNTOWN BOYS, Covo Club, Bologna
DATURA 4, Sghetto Club, Bologna

Libri, Film, Mostre

Strade E Storie. Paesaggi da Hokusai a Hiroshige – Museo Delle Cappuccine, Bagnacavallo (RA). A ingresso gratuito fino al 14 Gennaio 2024.
Killers Of The Flower Moon di Martin Scorsese, OST di Robbie Robertson
(RIP, con Shane McGowan, Gianluca Vialli, Burt Bacharach, David Crosby, Sinead O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Andrea Purgatori, Jane Birkin, Carlo Mazzone, Bobby Charlton, Matthew Perry, Jeff Beck, Fernando Botero, Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Antonio Bacciocchi – Quadrophenia. Gli Who e la storia del disco e del film che hanno definito un genere (Interno 4)
The Old Oak di Ken Loach
Gainsbourg Scandale! di Jennifer Radulovic
L’Arte Della Moda. L’età dei Sogni e delle Rivoluzioni, 1789-1968 – Musei San Domenico, Forlì
Robert Doisneau – CAMERA, Torino
Mixed By Erri di Sydney Sibilia
Buon proposito di inizio 2024: recuperare Le Schegge di Bret Easton Ellis e Il Male Non Esiste

Carrello Dei Bolliti

SIGUR ROS
THE KILLS
THE ROLLING STONES
KING KRULE
ALISON GOLDFRAPP
Rimandati SUFJAN STEVENS, DEUS, YOUNG FATHERS, BOYGENIUS, OLIVIA RODRIGO, TIRZAH, LANKUM

That’s All Folks!