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Blow Up Critics’ List 2000

Best Album

• Daniel Givens-Age
• Trans Am-Red Line
• Storm & Stress-Under Thunder And Fluorescent Light
• David Maranha-Circunscrita
• Giant Sand-Chore Of Enchantment
• Songs:Ohia – Ghost Tropic
• Cat Power-The Covers Record
• Laurent Garnier-Unreasonable Behaviour
• Steve Peters-In Memory Of The Four Winds
• DJ Assault-Belle Isle Tech
• Kev Hopper-Whispering Foils
• Photek-Solaris
• Gogogo Airheart- Gogogo Airheart
• Sonic Youth Nyc-Ghosts & Flowers
• Yo La Tengo-And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
• Jolly Music-Jolly Bar 2000
• Pillow-Field On Water
• Klaxon Gueule-Muets
• Burkhard Stangl / Christof Kurzmann-Schnee
• Dean Roberts-The Grand Cinema
• Primal Scream-Xtrmntr
• San Agustin-Amokhali
• Shannon Wright-Maps Of Tacit
• Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
• Mojave 3-Excuses For Travellers
• Broadcast-The Noise Made By People
• Kletka Red-Hybrid
• Blonde Redhead-Melodies Of Certain Damaged Lemons
• Vinicio Capossela-Canzoni A Manovella
• Jackie-O Motherfucker –Fig.5
• Radiohead-Kid A
• Etienne De Crecy-Tempovision
• Jim O’rourke / Mats Gustafsson-Xylophonen Virtuosen
• In Gowan Ring-Abend The Knurled Stitch
• Kevin Drumm / Martin Tétreault-Particles And Smears
• Ma Cherie For Painting-Autres Directions
• Piano Magic-Artists’ Rifles
• Tarantel-From Bone To Satellite
• Sun City Girls-Carnival Folklore Resurrection Series
• Aloha-That’s Your Fire
• Arab On Radar-Soak The Saddle
• Anti Pop Consortium-Tragic Epilogue
• Calexico-Hot Rail
• Sodastream-Looks Like A Russian
• C-Schulz & Hajsch- C-Schulz & Hajsch
• Radian-Tg 11
• 90 Day Men-(It (Is) It) Critical Band
• A Short Apnea-Illu Ogod Ellat Rhagedia
• Mum-Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok
• Jimi Tenor-Out Of Nowhere


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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Album 2001

1. Radiohead - Amnesiac
2. Clouddead - Clouddead
3. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
4. Old Time Relijun - Witchcraft Rebellion
5. Jackie - O Motherfucker - Liberation
6. David Thomas & Two Pale Boys - Surf’s Up
7. Fennesz - Endless Summer
8. Bjork - Vespertine
9. Neotropic - La Prochaine Fois
10. Jim O’rourke - I’m Happy, And I’m Singing And 1,2,3,4
11. Green Velvet - Whatever
12. Arab On Radar - Yahweh Or The Highway
13. Us Maple - Acre Thrills
14. Daft Punk - Discovery
15. Ryoji Ikeda & Carsten Nicolai - Cyclo
16. Missy Elliott - So Addictive
17. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Ease Down The Road
18. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
19. Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
20. Canyon - Canyon
21. Felix Da Housecat - Kitten And The Glitz
22. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album
23. White Stripes - White Blood Cells
24. Nmperign - Bhob Rainey/Greg Kelley:Nmperign
25. Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda IV
26. Slow Motion - Days Of Station Wagon
27. Matmos - A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
28. Mercury Rev - All Is Dream
29. Vert - Nine Types Of Ambiguity
30. Mark Lanegan - Field Songs

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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Albums 2002


1. Oneida Each One Teach One
2. El Guapo Super / System
3. Low Trust
4. The Books Thought For Food
5. Anti Pop Consortium Arrhythmia
6. Spring Heel Jack Amassed
7. The Streets Original Pirate Material
8. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots
10. Blaze Spiritually Speaking
11. Liars They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument...
12. L’altra In The Afternoon
13. Super_Collider Raw Digits
14. Johnny Cash The Man Comes Around
15. Tom Waits Alice/Blood Money
16. Mclusky Do Dallas
17. The Hunches Yes. No. Shut It
18. Primal Scream Evil Heat
19. Asa Chang & Junray Jun Ray Song Chang
20. William Basinski The Disintegration Loops
21. Suicide American Supreme
22. Beck Sea Change
23. Eliane Radigue Adnos I-Iii
24. Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
25. Crossover Fantasma
26. Ekkehard Ehlers Plays
27. Gus Gus Attention
28. Masters At Work Out Time Is Coming
29. Pere Ubu St. Arkansas
30. Xiu Xiu Knife Play
31. Steve Von Till If I Should Fall To The Field
32. Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
33. David Grubbs Rickets & Scurvy
34. Club 8 Spring Come Rain Fell


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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Album 2003


• Daniel Johnston - Fear Yourself
• Wire - Send
• Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Master And Everyone
• Black Eyes - Black Eyes
• El Guapo - Fake French
• The White Stripes - Elephant
• Rechenzentrum - Director’s Cut
• Robert Wyatt - Cockooland
• Hell N.Y. - Muscle
• Animal Collective - Here Comes The Indian
• Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
• The Rapture - Echoes
• Matmos - The Civil War
• The Microphones - Mount Eerie
• Cat Power - You Are Free
• Flim - Helio
• Outkast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below
• Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
• Velma - Ludwig
• Agf - Westernization Completed
• Alan Licht - A New York Minute
• Belle And Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• Keith Rowe, John Tilbury - Duos For Doris
• David Sylvian - Blemish
• Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
• Loose Fur - Loose Fur
• Manitoba - Up In Flames
• Songs: Ohia - The Magnolia Electric Co
• Spring Heel Jack - Live
• The Dirtbombs - Dangerous Magical Noise
• Ursula Rucker - Silver Or Lead
• Guther - I Know You Know
• Vert - Small Pieces Loosely Joined
• Audio Bullys - Ego War
• Buck 65 - Talkin’ Hony Blues
• Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers
• Drm - Haiku
• Fonica - Ripple
• Herman Dune - Mas Cambios
• Marlene Kuntz - Senza Peso
• Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia - My Elixir; My Poison
• Noxagt - Turning It Down Since 2001
• Okkervil River- Down The River Of Golden Dreams
• Plastikman - Closer
• The Books - The Lemon Of Pink
• Pulseprogramming - Tulsa For One Second
• Sole - Selling Live Water
• The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn
• The Hospitals - The Hospitals


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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Albums 2007


• Burial - Untrue
• Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter
• Battles - Mirrored
• Sightings - Through The Panama
• Panda Bear - Person Pitch
• Grinderman - Grinderman
• Alog - Amateur
• Talibam! - Ordination Of The Globetrotting Conscripts
• Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
• Om - Pilgrimage
• Alex Delivery - Star Destroyer
• Gowns - Red State
• The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
• Akron Family - Love Is Simple
• Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
• David Maranha - Marches Of The New World
• Dirty Projectors - Rise Abose
• Exploding Star Orchestra - We Are From Somewhere Else
• Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
• Supersilent - 8
• Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
• Bachi Da Pietra - Non Io
• Aa – Big A Little A - Gaame
• Aa.Vv. - Pisspounder
• Ananda Project - Fire Flower
• Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
• Armand Van Helden - Ghettoblaster
• Bob Frank & John Murry - World Without End
• Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds
• Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
• Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
• Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
• Peven Everett - Power Soul
• Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
• Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
• Shannon Wright - Let In The Light
• The Bird And The Bee - The Bird And The Bee
• The National - Boxer
• Peeesseye - Mayhem In The Mansion, Shivers In The Shack
• Anthony Pateras - Chasms
• Broken Social Scene / Kevin Drew - Spirit If
• Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
• Richard Youngs - Autumn Response
• Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum’s Embrace
• Osunlade - Elements Beyond
• Paolo Angeli - Tessuti
• People - Misbegotten Man
• Pinback - Autumn Of The Seraphs
• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Zu & Nobukazu Takemura - Identification With The Enemy A Key To The Underworld

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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Of 2008

1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
2. São Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationship
3. Portishead - Third
4. Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - Recomposed
5. Fennesz - Black Sea
6. Megafaun - Bury The Square
7. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes The Dusk
8. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
9. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. Tv On The Radio - Dear Science
11. Raiders Of The Lost Arp - Tema 5
12. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
13. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
14. Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica - Canzoni Da Spiaggia Deturpata
15. Micah P. Hinson - And The Red Empire Orchestra
16. Woven Hand - Ten Stones
17. Alan Licht & Aki Onda - Everydays
18. Bachi Da Pietra - Tarlo Terzo
19. Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh - Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh
20. Mark Stewart - Edit
21. Tape - Luminarium
22. Women - Women
23. Anthony Pateras, Sean Dexter, David Brown - Interference
24. Aufgehoben - Khora
25. Baustelle - Amen
26. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
27. Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
28. Boris - Smile
29. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
30. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
31. No Age - Nouns
32. Neptune - Gong Lake
33. Renderizors Submarine
34. Wire - Object 47
35. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
36. Kenny Larkin - Keys, Strings & Tambourines
37. Mgmt - Oracular Spectacular
38. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
39. Soulphiction - Do You Overstand?
40. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
41. Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
42. Alexander Tucker - Portal
43. Black Mountain - In The Future
44. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
45. The Chap - Mega Breakfast
46. Dredd Foole - Kissing The Contemporary Bliss
47. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager!
48. Grace Jones - Hurricane
49. Prurient - And Still, Wanting
50. Times New Viking - Rip It Off

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Blow Up Critics’ List Best Of 2009

1. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
3. Broadcast And The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
4. Shackleton - Three Eps
5. Animal Collective - Merryweather Post Pavilion
6. Dm Stith - Heavy Ghost
7. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
8. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
9. Black Dice - Repo
10. Harvestman - In A Dark Tongue
11. Dj Sprinkles Aka Terre Thaemlitz - Midtown 120 Blues
12. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
13. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
14. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
15. Vic Chesnutt - At The Cut
16. Vladislav Delay Tummaa
17. 2562 - Unbalance
18. Aa.Vv. - 5: Five Years Of Hyperdub
19. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
20. Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be
21. Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
22. Blank Dogs - Under And Under
23. Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
24. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
25. Gus Gus - 24/7
26. Il Teatro Degli Orrori - A Sangue Freddo
27. Jean-Luc Guionnet - Non-Organic Bias
28. Johnny Dangerous - Problem 13
29. Josephine Foster - Graphic As A Star
30. Land Of Kush - Against The Day
31. Maisie - Balera Metropolitana
32. Martyn - Great Lenghts
33. Peter Wright - Snow Blind
34. Pontiak - Maker
35. Rain Machine - Rain Machine
36. Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night
37. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimension
38. Uncode Duello - Tre
39. A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
40. Action Beat - The Noise Band From Bletchley
41. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Thankyou Very Much
42. David Sylvian - Manafon
43. Fine Before You Came - Sfortuna
44. Furt - Sense
45. Moderat - Moderat
46. Mountains - Choral
47. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
48. Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020
49. Richard Youngs - Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits
50. The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2010

• The Books - The Way Out
• Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor
• Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
• Caribou - Swim
• Exploding Star Orchestra - Stars Have Stripes
• Neil Young - Le Noise
• Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
• Yannis Kyriakides - Antichamber
• Massimo Volume - Cattive Abitudini
• Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
• Eels - Tomorrow Morning
• Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
• Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart
• Denseland - Chunk
• Scuba - Triangulation
• The Vaselines - Sex With An X
• Robert Hood - Omega
• Oval - O
• Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
• Locrian - The Crystal World
• Belfi, Grubbs, Pilia - Onrushing Cloud
• Arandel - In D
• Grinderman - Grinderman 2
• Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra
• Peeesseye & Talibam - Peeesseye & Talibam!
• The Chap - Well Done Europe
• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• C. W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues
• Monolake - Silence
• Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
• Joe Gideon & The Shark - Harum Scarum
• Ergo Phizmiz - Things To Do And Make
• Four Tet - There Is Love In You
• Richard A Ingram - Consolamentum
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
• Andrea Tich - Siamo Nati Vegetali
• Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
• These New Puritans - Hidden
• Wolf+Lamb - Love Someone
• Cheikh Lô - Jamm
• Boduf Songs - This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything
• Chemical Brothers - Further
• Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
• Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
• Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
• St.Ride - Cercando Niente
• Sun Araw - On Patrol
• The Machine - Redhead
• Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
• Jack Rose - Luck In The Valley

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2011 




• Pinch & Shackleton - Pinch & Shackleton
• Tom Waits - Bad As Me
• Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
• Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
• Demdike Stare - Triptych
• Rhys Chatham - Outdoor Spell
• Kaboom Karavan - Barra Barra
• Beirut - The Rip Tide
• Kurt Vile Smoke - Ring For My Halo
• Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
• Peaking Lights - 936
• Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
• Bon Iver - Bon Iver
• Leyland Kirby - Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
• Amon Tobin - Isam
• Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
• Arbouretum - The Gathering
• Battles - Gloss Drop
• Boris - Attention Please
• Brian Wilson - In The Key Of Disney
• Chris Forsyth - Paranoid Cat
• Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol.2
• D. Charles Speer - Arghiledes
• Dadavistic Orchestra - Dokument .02
• David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
• Dirty Beaches - Badlands
• Fovea Hex - Here Is Where We Used To Sing
• Gable’ - Cute Horse Cut
• Gang - La Rossa Primavera
• Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
• Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun
• Kuedo - Severant
• Luciano Maggiore & Francesco “Fuzz” Brasini - Chàsm Achanès
• Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem 3
• Meg Baird - Seasons On Earth
• Moon Duo - Mazes
• Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
• Panda Bear - Tomboy
• Pj Harvey - Let England Shake
• Roly Porter - Aftertime
• Rotterdam - Cambodia
• Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
• Sightings - Future Accidents
• Six Organs Of Admittance - Asleep On The Floodplain
• St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
• Starlicker - Double Demon
• Sun Araw - Ancient Romans
• The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
• The Necks - Mindset

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2012




• Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The .....
• Swans - The Seer
• Demdike Stare - Elemental
• Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
• Yusef Lateef Roots Run Deep
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah!
• Neneh Cherry & The Thing - The Cherry Thing
• Shackleton Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ Eps
• Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank
• Zz Top - La Futura
• Bob Dylan - Tempest
• John Talabot - Fin
• Julian Cope - Psychedelic Revolution
• Paul Buchanan - Mid Air
• Peter Broderick - These Walls Of Mine
• Robert Hood - Motor – Nighttime World 3
• Neptune - Msg Rcvd
• Bill Fay - Life Is People
• Mark Lanegan Band - Funeral Blues
• Chicago Underground Duo - Age Of Energy
• Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk
• Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
• Xabier Iriondo - Irrintzi
• Scuba - Personality
• Om - Advaitic Songs
• Mattia Coletti - The Land
• Moon Duo - Circles
• Vcmg - Ssss
• Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
• Andrea Belfi - Wege
• Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
• Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
• Sycamore Age - Sycamore Age
• Lambchop - Mr. M
• Beach House - Bloom
• Bark! - Fume Of Sighs
• Death Grips - The Money Store
• Goat - World Music
• St.Ride - Tutto Va Bene
• Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
• Edda - Odio I Vivi
• Dr. John - Locked Down
• Aufgehoben - Fragments Of The Marble Plan
• Father Murphy - Anyway Your Children Will Deny It
• Chromatics - Kill For Love
• Andre Vida - Brud: Volumes I-Iii
• Lhf - Keepers Of The Light
• Bass Clef - Reeling Skullways
• Paolo Angeli - Sale Quanto Basta
• Tame Impala - Lonerism



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BLOW UP  Best Album of the Decade 2000-2009


Artist   Title   Year

1 Sufjan Stevens Come On Feel The Illinoise 2005
2 Clouddead Clouddead 2001
3 Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 2003
3 Radiohead Amnesiac 2001
5 Burial Untrue 2007
5 Fennesz Endless Summer 2001
7 Battles Mirrored 2007
7 Burial Burial 2006
7 Daft Punk Discovery 2001
10 Arcade Fire Funeral 2004
10 Björk Vespertine 2000
10 Daniel Givens Age 2000
10 Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing 2008
10 J Dilla Donuts 2006
10 Joanna Newsom Ys 2005
10 LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005
10 Radiohead Kid A 2000
10 Richard Youngs The Naive Shaman 2005
10 Storm & Stress Under Thunder And Fluorescent Lights 2000
10 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 2002
21 Animal Collective Here Comes The Indian 2003
21 Anti Pop Consortium Arrhythmia 2002
21 Brian Wilson Smile 2004
21 Clouddead Ten 2004
21 Cocorosie La Maison De Mon Rève 2004
21 Converge Jane Doe 2001
21 Dälek Absence 2005
21 Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca 2009
21 Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around 2002
21 Kylie Minogue Fever 2001
21 Liars They Were Wrong, So We Drowned 2004
21 Matmos A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure 2001
21 Oneida Each One Teach One 2002
21 Portishead Third 2008
21 Radiohead Hail To The Thief 2003
21 Six Organs Of Admittance The Sun Awakens 2006
21 The Microphones The Glow, pt. 2 2001
21 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow 2003
21 Various Improvised Music From Japan 2002
21 William Basinski The Disintegration Loops 2002
21 Xiu Xiu Knife Play 2002

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2014
Albums of the year


Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
Fire! Orchestra - Enter
Riccardo Sinigallia - Per tutti
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Swans - To Be Kind
Clipping. - Clppng
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate
C'mon Tigre - C'mon Tigre

Eno & Hyde - High Life
Mac Demarco - Salad Days
Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
Caribou - Our Love
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
Lawrence English - Wilderness of Mirrors
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Rhythm
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Goat - Commune

Battiato/Pinaxa - Joe Patti's Experimental Group
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper - Cantos De Lisboa
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Paolo Conte - Snob
FKA Twigs - LP1
Jack White - Lazaretto
Temples - Sun Structures
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Carla Bozulich - Boy
Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light of Day

Plastikman - Ex
GustoForte - Quinto Quarto
Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Pere Ubu - Carnival Of Souls
Maurizio Abate - A Way To Nowhere
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
The Young Mothers - A Mothers Work Is Never Done

HHY & The Macumbas - Throat Permission Cut
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
The Bug - Angels & Devils
Those Pure Bastards - Vicious Losers
Edda - Stavolta come mi ammazzerai?
Aphex Twin - Syro
Esben and the Witch - A New Nature
Linda Perhacs - The Soul Of All Natural Things
Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism
Micah P. Hinson and The Nothing - S/T

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2015
Albums of the year

• Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
• Flavio Giurato - La scomparsa di Majorana
• Algiers - Algiers
• Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
• Holly Herndon - Platform
• Jerusalem In My Heart - If He Dies, If If If If If
• Kamasi Washington - The Epic
• John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Prssure
• James Brandon Lewis - Days Of Freeman
• Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs

• Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
• Liberez - All Tense Now Lax
• Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
• Mike Cooper - Fratello Mare
• FFS - FFS
• Iosonouncane - Die
• Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down
• Robert Aiki, Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow
• Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
• Sightings - Amusers and Puzzlers

• Ibeyi - Ibeyi
• The Necks - Vertigo
• Uochi Toki Il - limite valicabile
• Björk - Vulnicura
• Duane Pitre - Bayou Electric
• Joanna Newsom - Divers
• Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
• Membranes - Dark Matter / Dark Energy
• Rocket From The Tombs - Black Record
• Giovanni Di Domenico, Jim O'Rourke - Arco

• Arca - Mutant
• Bachi da Pietra - Necroide
• Deerhunter - Fading Frontier
• Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People
• Henry Threadgill Zooid - In for a Penny, in for a Pound
• Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart
• Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
• Rabit - Communion
• Mbongwana Star - From Kinshasa
• Heroin In Tahiti - Sun and Violence

• Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance - Synovial Joints
• Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
• Blanck Mass - Dumb Flesh
• Brian Wilson - No Pier Pressure
• Cesare Basile - Tu prenditi l'amore che vuoi e non chiederlo più
• Floating Points - Elaenia
• Momus - Turpsycore
• Mumdance & Logos - Proto
• Philip Jeck - Cardinal
• The Fall - Sub-Lingual Tablet

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2016
Albums of the year

(n. 223, December 2016, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2016


• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
• David Bowie - Blackstar
• Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
• Raime - Tooth
• Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
• Frank Ocean - Blonde
• PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
• Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
• Lambchop - FLOTUS
• Clipping. - Splendor & Misery
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Bes
• Motta - La fine dei vent’anni
• Anohni - Hopelessness
• Parquet Courts - Human Performance
• Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Nerissimo
• Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What's Your Sign?
• Afterhours - Folfiri o Folfox
• Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
• Gnod - Mirror
• Cosmo - L'ultima festa
• Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's of Imhotep
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
• Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Same Language Different Worlds
• Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
• Swans - The Glowing Man
• Christopher Chaplin - Je Suis Le Ténébreux
• Guido Möbius - Batagur Baska
• Kaytranada - 99.9%
• Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
• Juri Camisasca / Rosario Di Bella - Spirituality
• Angel Olsen - My Woman
• Elysia Crampton Demon City
• I Cani - Aurora
• Shirley Collins - Lodestar
• Zomby - Ultra
• Charles Bradley - Changes
• Floorplan - Victorious
• Henry Threadgill's Ensemble Double Up - Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
• Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh - Ears Are Filled With Wonder
• Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone - Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
• Steve Mason - Meet the Humans
• Asa-Chang & Junray - Mahou
• Brian Eno - The Ship
• Paolo Conte - Amazing Game
• Preoccupations - Preoccupations
• Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
• BADBADNOTGOOD - IV
• Imarhan - Imarhan
• Valerio Tricoli - Clonic Earth


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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2017
Albums of the year

(n. 235, December 2017, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2017

• King Krule - The Ooz
• The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?
• Arto Lindsay - Cuidado madame
• Jlin - Black Origami
• Pere Ubu - 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo
• Flavio Giurato - Le promesse del mondo
• Meridian Brothers - ¿Dónde estás María?
• LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
• The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
• Baustelle - L’amore e la violenza

• Mélanie de Biasio - Lilies
• Algiers - The Underside of Power
• Man Forever - Play What They Want
• Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
• Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async
• Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
• The Fall - New Facts Emerge
• Sa Yuu - Conversation
• Black Grape - Pop Voodoo
• Andrea Laszlo - De Simone Uomo donna

• Paolo Benvegnù - H3+
• Caterina Barbieri - Patterns of Consciousness
• The Heliocentrics - A World of Masks
• Cesare Basile - U fujutu su nesci chi fa?
• Perfume Genius - No Shape
• Ibeyi - Ash
• Peter Perrett - How the West Was Won
• Harvestman - Music for Megaliths
• In Zaire - Visions of the Age to Come
• Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson Presents The Holy Strangers

• Alan Vega - It
• Sparks - Hippopotamus
• Cody Chesnutt - My Love Divine Degree
• Cornelius - Mellow Waves
• Gold Dime - Nerves
• The Weather Station - The Weather Station
• Arca - Arca
• Sampha - Process
• Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
• Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent

• Golden Cup - Futura
• Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
• Ekin Fil - Ghosts Inside
• Irresistible Force - Kira Kira
• Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
• Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
• Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse - Morphogenesis
• Randy Newman - Dark Matter
• Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
• The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody

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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2018
(n. 247, December 2018, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2018


• Low - Double Negative
• Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance
• Ry Cooder - The Prodigal Son
• Spiritualized - And Nothing Hurt
• Marianne Faithfull - Negative Capability
• Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
• Autechre - NTS Sessions 1-4
• Anna Calvi - Hunter
• Sophie - Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
• Oneida – Omance

• Drinks - Hippo Lite
• Maisie - Maledette Rockstar
• Daniel Blumberg - Minus
• Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
• Sons of Kemet - Your Queen Is a Reptile
• Mitski - Be the Cowboy
• Abul Mogard - Above All Dreams
• Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose
• IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance.
• Tim Hecker - Konoyo

• Neneh Cherry - Broken Politics
• Elza - Deus é mulher
• Eric Chenaux - Slowly Paradise
• Jlin - Autobiography
• Micah P. Hinson and the Musicians of the Apocalypse - When I Shoot at You With Arrows, I Will Shoot to Destroy You
• Serpentwithfeet - Soil
• Cloud Nothings - Last Building Burning
• The Young Mothers - Morose
• Thom Yorke - Suspiria
• Ty Segall & Freedom Band - Freedom's Goblin

• Allen Ravenstine - Waiting for the Bomb
• Ezra Furman - Transangelic Exodus
• Mr. Fingers - Cerebral Hemispheres
• Sarah Davachi - Gave in Rest
• Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and friends - FRKWYS Vol. 14: Nue
• Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
• Donato Dozzy Filo Loves the Acid
• Gnod - Chapel Perilous
• Gosheven - Bivaq
• Jazzanova - The Pool

• Josephine Foster - Faithful Fairy Harmony
• Kittin - Cosmos
• Lucero Among the Ghosts
• Nightmares on Wax - Shape the Future
• The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Rats Don't Eat Synthesizers
• The Necks - Body
• Brötzmann / Leigh - Sparrow Nights
• Jack White - Boarding House Reach
• Marc Ribot - Songs of Resistance 1942 - 2018
• Dream Weapon Ritual - The Uncanny Little Sparrows


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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2021
(n. 283, December 2021, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2021

1 Low - HEY WHAT
2 Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
3 Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage
4 Orchestre tout puissant Marcel Duchamp - We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway
5 Black Country, New Road - For the First Time
6 Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
7 IOSONOUNCANE - IRA
8 Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
9 Madlib - Sound Ancestors
10 Space Afrika - Honest Labour
11 Squid - Bright Green Field
12 Fire! - Defeat
13 Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
14 Sons of Kemet - Black to the Future
15 For Those I Love - For Those I Love
16 The Bug - Fire
17 Bawrut - In the Middle
18 Dialect - Under ~ Between
19 Elegiac - Elegiac
20 Esperanza Spalding - Songwrights Apothecary Lab
21 Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit
22 Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
23 Eris Drew - Quivering in Time
24 GCOM - E2-XO
25 Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
26 Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
27 Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou
28 William Doyle - Great Spans of Muddy Time
29 Tirzah - Colourgrade
30 Lambchop - Showtunes
31 Kanye West - Donda
32 Shackleton - Departing Like Rivers
33 Tomasz Sroczyński - Symphony n°2 / Highlander
34 Los Pirañas - Infame Golpazo en Keroxen
35 Olivia Block - Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea
36 Steve Roden - Gradual Small Fires (And a Bowl of Resonant Milk)
37 Terrence Dixon - Reporting From Detroit
38 Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble - Now
39 Blak Saagan - Se ci fosse la luce sarebbe bellissimo
40 Natural Information Society with Evan Parker - descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
41 Ryley Walker - Course in Fable
42 Genesis Owusu - Smiling With No Teeth
43 Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopian Ashes
44 John Grant - Boy From Michigan
45 Luke Haines - Setting the Dogs on the Post Punk Postman
46 Skee Mask - Pool
47 Barbara Ellison - CyberSongs
48 John Murry - The Stars Are Gods Bullet Holes
49 Big Red Machine - How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
50 Degurutieni - Dark Mondo


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Blow Up Critics Playlist 2022
(n. 295, December 2022, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)


BEST ITALIAN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

Mai Mai Mai
Rimorso


Not Moving L.T.D. Love Beat
Whitemary Radio Whitemary
Post Nebbia Entropia Padre Pio
Bebawinigi Stupor

Le Forbici di Manitù & Friends Incredibile?!
Alessandro Fiori Mi sono perso nel bosco
Maisie Dal diario di Luigi La Rocca, cittadino
Monofonic Orchestra Carnival - the Roger Stanza Sessions
Calibro 35 Scacco al maestro – Vol. 1 e Vol. 2

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore
Ossi Ossi
Almamegretta Senghe
The Strange Flowers Crossing a Wasteland
Massimo Zamboni La mia patria attuale

Il Lungo Addio Tropico romagnolo
Mario Pigozzo Favero Mi commuovo, se vuoi
Avvitagalli None corsa
Paolo Angeli Rade
Assalti Frontali Courage


BLOW UP.
(n. 296, January 2023, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2022

1 Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
2 Eric Chenaux - Say Laura
3 Širom - The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
4 Horse Lords - Comradely Objects
5 Makaya McCraven - In These Times
6 The Dream Syndicate - Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions
7 Oneida - Success
8 Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
9 Julian Cope - England Expectorates
10 Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
11 Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles
12 Porridge Radio - Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
13 Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
14 Weyes Blood - And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
15 Yard Act - The Overload
16 Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
17 Ghost Power - Ghost Power
18 Dopplereffekt - Neurotelepathy
19 King Hannah - I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
20 Matmos - Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer
21 Danger Mouse & Black Thought - Cheat Codes
22 The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
23 Monofonic Orchestra - Carnival - the Roger Stanza Sessions
24 Kali Malone - Living Torch
25 Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters
26 Guido Möbius - A Million Magnets
27 Wilco - Cruel Country
28 Rosalía - MOTOMAMI
29 Breathless - See Those Colours Fly
30 Hurray for the Riff Raff - LIFE ON EARTH
31 Denis Frajerman & Antoine Volodine - Variations Volodine
32 Cate Le Bon - Pompeii
33 Angel Olsen - Big Time
34 Arctic Monkeys - The Car
35 Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
36 Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band Dear Scott
37 Stefano Pilia Spiralis Aurea
38 Alessandro Fiori - Mi sono perso nel bosco
39 The Chats - Get Fucked
40 Bill Callahan - YTILAER
41 Le Forbici di Manitù & Friends Incredibile?!
42 Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker - Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d‘amore
43 Wovenhand - Silver Sash
44 Wu-Lu - Loggerhead
45 Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century
46 Lambchop - The Bible
47 Lucrecia - Dalt ¡Ay!
48 Adi Newton - Newtones
49 Built to Spill - When the Wind Forgets Your Name
50 Keeley Forsyth - Limbs

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(n. 307, December 2023, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYLIST 2023


1 PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
2 Fire! Orchestra - Echoes
3 Pere Ubu - Trouble on Big Beat Street
4 Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War))
5 ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
6 Lankum - False Lankum
7 The Necks - Travel
8 Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers
9 Clock DVA - Noesis
10 Blur - The Ballad of Darren
11 Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
12 Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy
13 Holy Tongue - Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare
14 John Cale - Mercy
15 Laurent Garnier - 33 tours et puis s'en vont
16 Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio
17 L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog
18 Radian - Distorted Rooms
19 Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED!
20 billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
21 Dorothy Moskowitz & The United States of Alchemy - Under an Endless Sky
22 Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson - Celestial Shores
23 Marta Salogni & Tom Relleen - Music for Open Spaces
24 Mats Gustafsson - Hidros 9 - Mirrors
25 Mélanie de Biasio - Il viaggio
26 My Cat Is an Alien - Spiritual Noise – Rinascimento
27 Roots Magic Sextet - Long Old Road
28 Algiers - Shook
29 Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage
30 Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM
31 The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
32 The Dwarfs of East Agouza - High Tide in the Lowlands
33 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
34 The WAEVE - The WAEVE
35 Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
36 Goat - Medicine
37 Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation
38 slowthai - UGLY
39 Wilco - Cousin
40 Sparklehorse - Bird Machine
41 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
42 Madame - L'amore
43 Home Front - Games of Power
44 Ruth Anderson / Annea Lockwood - Tête-à-tête
45 X-Press 2 - Thee
46 Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings - Resolve
47 James Holden - Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
48 Khalab - Layers
49 Aya Metwalli & Calamita - Al Saher
50 Colapesce Dimartino - Lux Eterna Beach


BLOW UP.
(n. 307, December 2023, http://www.blowupmagazine.com/)

PLAYTALIA 2023

BEST ITALIAN ALBUMS OF THE YEAR


1 Daniela Pes - Spira
2 Enrico Gabrielli - Le canzonine
3 IOSONOUNCANE & Paolo Angeli - Jalitah
4 Hermetic Brotherhood of Lux-or - OHR
5 Andrea Belfi - Eternally Frozen
6 FM and Alex Spalck - Franz Schubert's Winterreise
7 Cigno - Nada! Nada! Nada!
8 Stato Nero - Zernar: La Grande Estasi Dell'intagliatore
9 Paolo Saporiti - La mia falsa identità
10 Claudio Rocchetti - Labirinto verticale