Jon Hopkins - Immunity (album "Immunity" - Domino Records, 2013)

Κι εκεί που μπαίνεις σε Λονδρέζικο δισκάδικο και ακούς διάφορα, σκαλώνεις με κάτι, πας σα δωδεκάχρονος στο αφεντικό και του λες, "με συγχωρείς, τι ακούμε;". Σου λέει "αυτό". Το παίρνεις και φεύγεις. Δίσκος της χρονιάς; 

The Dears - "No Hope Before Destruction" (album: "Protest EP" - MapleMusic Recordings, 2002)

No hope. 

No love. 

No trust. 

No fun. 

No peace. 

No mirth. 

No calm... 

Before... 

No right! 

No help! 

No truth! 

No worth! 

No light! 

No end! 

No hope... 

Before... 

Destruction.

(Αν έχουμε ακόμη μια ελπίδα, τη χρωστάμε σ' αυτούς που δεν έχουν καμιά)

The Beatles - "For no one" (album: "Revolver" - EMI, 1966)

You day breaks, your mind aches

You find that all her words

Of kindness linger on

When she no longer needs you

She wakes up, she makes up

She takes her time and doesn't

Feel she has to hurry

She no longer needs you

And in her eyes, you see nothing

No sign of love behind the tears

Cried for no one

A love that should have lasted years

You want her, you need her

And yet you don't believe her

When she says her love is dead

You think she needs you

And in her eyes, you see nothing

No sign of love behind the tears

Cried for no one

A love that should have lasted years

You stay home, she goes out

She says that long ago she knew someone

But now he's gone

She doesn't need him

Your day breaks, your mind aches

There will be times when all the things

She said will fill your head

You won't forget her

And in her eyes, you see nothing

No sign of love behind the tears

Cried for no one

A love that should have lasted years

The Who - "Love, Reign o'er Me" (album: "Quadrophenia" - MCA, 1973)

Only love 

can make it rain 

The way the beach 

is kissed by the sea 

Only love 

can make it rain 

Like the sweat of lovers 

layin' in the fields 

Love, reign o'er me 

Love, reign o'er me 

Rain on me, 

rain on me 

Only love can bring the rain 

That makes you yearn to the sky 

Only love can bring the rain 

That falls like tears from on high 

Love, reign o'er me 

Rain on me, rain on me 

Love, reign o'er me 

Rain on me, rain on me 

On the dry and dusty road 

The nights we spend apart alone 

I need to get back home to cool, cool rain 

I can't sleep, and I lay, and I think

The night is hot and black as ink 

Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain 

Love, reign o'er me 

Reign o'er me, o'er me, o'er me 

Love, reign o'er me, o'er me 

Love

(Αλήθεια είναι αυτό που απομένει όταν δεν έχεις κάτι άλλο να πιστέψεις)

The Factory - "Path Through The Forest" (album: "Path Through The Forest", Guerssen, 2008)

2008 λέει η κυκλοφορία αλλά τούτο εδώ ηχογραφήθηκε το 1968 από μια μπάντα που είχε, όπως θα ακούσετε, προοπτικές - αλλά δυστυχώς, καθόλου μέλλον. Κάτι οι δισκογραφικές που τους ψιλοέγραψαν, κάτι ο οργασμός κυκλοφοριών του είδους που, το '68 που βγήκε το single, κυκλοφορούσαν με το πεντόκιλο, ε, χάθηκαν μέσα στην όλη βαβούρα. Το βινύλιο δεν έχει στίχους μέσα, και στο net δεν τους βρήκα. Ε, και πάλι όμως...

Purity Ring - "Lofticries" (album: "Shrine" - 4AD & Last Gang Records, 2012)

Bring, bring the thunder 

and the loud, loud rain 

Lead our woes asunder 

'neath the proud, proud veins 

Of traits that bleed the gunmen 

of our pumping, earthly hearts 

Ween our joys in plunder 

Feel our shining teeth 

Bet our hold on happiness 

Bead-weighted tests with lofticries 

Lofticries with trembling thighs 

Weepy chests with weepy sighs 

Weepy skin with trembling thighs 

You must be hovering over yourself 

watching us trip on each other's sides 

Dear brother, collect all the liquids off of the floor 

Use your oily fingers 

Make a paste, let it form 

Let it seep through your sockets and earholes 

into your precious, fractured skull 

Let it seep, let it keep you from us 

Patiently heal you 

Patiently unreel you 

Bead-weighted tests with lofticries 

Lofticries with trembling thighs 

Weepy chests with weepy sighs 

Weepy skin with trembling thighs 

You must be hovering over yourself 

watching us trip on each other's sides 

Dear brother, collect all the liquids off of the floor 

Use your oily fingers 

Pick up paste, let it form 

Lofticries 

Bead-weighted tests with lofticries 

Lofticries with trembling thighs 

Weepy chests with weepy sighs 

Weepy skin with trembling thighs 

Lofticries 

You must be hovering over yourself 

watching us trip on each other's sides 

(Tears on the dance floor 

στις πιο ευαίσθητες γωνιές 

της απαστράπτουσας pop)

DIIV - "Doused" (album: "Oshin" - Captured Tracks, 2012)

Never had you run so far 

but you really gotta get away 

you know it in the nighttime 

running to it. 

Caught a rising star 

but then you let it drop into the ocean 

now the water's running through it. 

Now you've gone so far 

you really had to get away 

you knew it in your lifetime 

running to it. 

Acting like you've come so far 

the bed you made yourself and this house and me 

are all falling apart. 

Never thought you'd go so far 

but you're really gone and it's been so long 

I never really think about it. 

You made a beating heart 

Whatever, now that amber light has faded 

and it's yours to commit to it. 

Act like it stops and starts 

a gesture here and there 

for me is one thing 

but I felt it every time you blew it 

Now you've gone too far 

your urge to runaway is back 

and we all know. 

(Από τα καλύτερα αλμπουμ που άκουσα το 2012
Καλή χρονιά, έστω και καθυστερημένα)