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30. The Unfinished Sympathy "It's A Crush!" (p)BCore Disc
After spending 7 dormant years that helped to establish and develop the solo careers of
Eric Fuentes and
Joan Colomo,
The Unfinished Sympathy returned this year with the
BCore Disc's reissue of "
We Push You Pull" (their last effort before dissolution initially released via
Subterfuge) and absolutely new release "
It's A Crush" also on
BCore that found one of the Spain's most important millenial alt-rock bands in the perfect form.
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29. Kitai "Piromanos" (p)Entrebotones/Sony
The enormous progress for the Madrid-based alternative rock quartet whose masterful performance techniques somehow overshadowed their songwriting abilities. Led by my compatriot
Alex the band starts to move from funk-rock crossover of their previous "
Que Vienen" LP to
Deftones-like alternative rock with stunning melodies and huge choruses.
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28. Murciano Total "Cencia" (p)El Genio Equivocado
This year
Jose Lozano's talents in audiovisual productions (especially his trademark 'moving collages' style) became popular within the local indie community making him quite busy with providing his abilities to the third parties (as to fellow labelmates
Birkins as to the all-Spanish indie giants
Los Planetas) but this didn't spoil his musical achievements at all. "
Cencia" is the third LP of the duo released within the three consecutive years, and it sounds even better than the previous ones that were awesome themselves.
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27. Tulsa "Centauros" (p)I*M Records
I've purchased the album via iTunes, downloaded it to my iPod and then headed to the railway station to catch the train to Moscow. In the carriage I put my headphones on and… fell in love with this strange genre-bending form of pop music that's peculiar for the modern days' 'girls with guitars' from
Feist to
Butterfly Boucher and many others.
SPTF
26. Saim "Accidents" (p)Bubota Discos
The clear evidence to the fact that The Catalan Post Hardcore ™ splashes out the birthplace reigning over the nearby territories. The Mallorcan trio recorded an album that precisely reflected the genre's most attractive features without sounding too much thought over or artifcial.
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25. Captains "Captains" (p)Jabalina Musica
Fee Reega has put out two albums this year: one (darker, moodier, more foggy) under her own name via
Humo Records, and another as
Captains via
Jabalina Musica. "
Captains" contains the post punk'y rhythm section aggregated with the one-of-a-kind vocals of
Fee and the lots of influences from the 80's synth-pop to krautrock and shoegaze that as a result brings us the inventive and purely underground album of good pop potential.
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24. Mordem "Fragments To Dominate The Silence" (p)The Winter Hunters
The album created by
Elba Fernandez sits perfectly within the borders demarcated by the quieter moments of
Madonna's "
Ray Of Light" (which upon release was honored as a sound production masterpiece), the hip hop-less side of
Massive Attack and the darker emanations of the contemporary female-fronted acts like
Florence and the Machine who pave their convoluted ways through the pop/trip hop-bordered sonic experimentalism.
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23. I Am Dive "Music For Silent Running" (p)WeAreWolves
Being released in December of 2016 this wordless soundtrack never entered the 2016 annual polls, though as all other works of
I Am Dive it deserves the closest attention. Not the planned album itself, "
Music For Silent Running" is an imaginative soundtrack for 1972's science fiction movie "
Silent Running" recorded by the duo back in 2015. But even the by-product by this band is of the highest quality possible.
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22. Anchord "As A Real Return" (p)Saltamarges/ BCore Disc
Initially released via
Saltamarges imprint and later commissioned by
BCore Disc this album is all what you have ever wanted from the classic post-hardcore album: the energy, the unpolished sound, the tight melodies wrapped up in the harsh guitars.
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21. Birkins "Aqui Hay Dragones" (p)El Genio Equivocado
The trilingual Canarian band abandons the article 'the' in its name simultaneously abandoning the english language almost completely as if acquiring additonal valency instead: "
Aqui Hay Dragones" is way more eclectic musicwise than the previous
Birkins' efforts, but in the same time it sounds tighter and more coherent.
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