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The Weather Station från Canada spelar på sång nr 1.

1. The Weather Station (CAN) is a Canadian folk music band fronted by Tamara Lindeman, formed in 2006. he fourth album from Tara Lindeman aka The Weather Station is this year’s most remarkable feat of songwriting. It shares a commonality with the greats. Lindeman is an orator of life, one that is so superb that she is beyond it, while simultaneously being embodied within its light, colours, joy. Although Lindeman is often compared to fellow Canadian Joni Mitchell, their methods are incomparable. While Mitchell proverbialises complexity, Lindeman makes it stark.  DrownedinSound

2.The Church (Au) After the release of 2014's Further/Deeper, Australia's the Church spent much of the next three years touring, splitting their live set between new songs and revisiting tracks off their 1982 sophomore effort The Blurred Crusade. It was also a period that introduced fans to new member, former Powderfingerguitarist Ian Haug, who stepped in after the departure of Marty Wilson-Piper in 2013. It was in this spirit of balancing the old and the new, the past and the future, that they recorded their expansive 25th studio date, 2017's astral-tinged Man Woman Life Death Infinity. AllMusic.com

3. Pere Ubu (US)  20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo does not share the same dark, exploratory sense of its predecessor, Carnivals of Souls. The tone is vibrant, and there is something electrifying about Pere Ubu when the band explores the standard rock form and interprets it through hooking choruses and bombastic verses, as they appear in “Funk 49”. PopMatters

4. Linda Perhacs (US)  Like her 2014 comeback record, the new album from psych-folk artist Linda Perhacs features collaborations with Julia Holter and electronic touches, expanding the borders of her sound. After releasing her 1970 debut Parallelograms—which for decades was her only album—Perhacs became a sort of vanished flower child for the folk/psych collector set. I’m a Harmony is her first record in three years.  Pitchfork

5. St Vincent (US)  Los Angeles tends to inspire two types of songs: reverential tributes to the city’s beauty, glamour, and opportunity and sour critiques of its vanity. File Annie Clark’s nod to her adopted home in that latter category. Unlike her recent St. Vincent single “New York,” a tender ballad flushed with admiration for a city that refuses to meet you halfway. Pitchfork

6. Loney Dear (SWE)  Allt Loney Dear gör föds ur de starkaste av känslor. ”Dark was the night, cold was the ground/And now I give you everything I own”. Loney Dear, eller Emil Svanängen som han egentligen heter, inleder sitt självbetitlade album med dessa rader.  I lysande ”Humbug” möts de ljuvliga stråkarna av dansande rytmer samtidigt som trollbindande syntriff och basslingor vävs samman. Aftonbladet

7. Lunatic Soul (Pol)  Lunatic Soul is Mariusz Duda. Best known for the part he plays in Polish progressive groundbreakers Riverside. His fifth  album in this guise is different…yet familiar. Duda has  talked about Fractured as the most original album he’s made and the most accessible of the five LS albums.  louderthanwar

8. Marilyn Manson (US) Marilyn Manson is officially back to wreak havoc on what remains of this sick, sad world. The iconic rock star has unleashed a raunchy music video for "We Know Where You Fucking Live" and it's as dark and demented as fans would expect. The visual follows a troop of leather-clad nuns carrying around guns in a hopeless suburb.  thefader

9. New Candys (Ita)  Venetians New Candys were formed in 2008 and have gone from strength to strength, increasing their popularity and appeal with every rotation of the sun.  Bleeding Magenta offers a collection of finely tuned sounds, blended into a heady mixture of sinewy psychedelic rock creating brooding, other-worldly soundscapes, with just a sprinkling of hazy fine tuned sensibility thrown in for good measure. backseatmafia

10. Four Tet (UK) Kieran Hebden’s pursuit of new sounds has found him digging into his own catalog. New Energy is a wide-ranging album that connects the warmth of his early work to his latest club experiments. With his legacy as one of the 21st-century’s finest electronic musicians all but assured, Hebden has become more of a populist, making few distinctions between working with Burial or Skrillex, Terror Danjah or Rihanna.  Pitchfork

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