AOTY #3. EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring

I want to explain to outsiders that the people where I come from arent beyond hope and reason , says EMA, I want this record to bridge a divide. The album is unique in its mingling of gender politics with American working-class anxiety. The voices we hear in these songs druggy, surly societal outcasts; Byronic nihilists bringing down fire speak to a kind of rebellion that s typically reserved for men, and the archetype of the dirtbag teenage boy dominates the album. Yet EMA claims some of that same dirtbag alienation for women a woman who swallowed a scumbag teen boy whole, as EMA puts it and uses it to interrogate both her own vulnerability and how male violence shapes the world, as on the anthemic Aryan Nation. The result is a deeply personal, confrontational, but ultimately redemptive album from a quintessentially American artist at the peak of her form. A Magnum Opus!

AOTY #4. Fever Ray - Plunge

‘Plunge’ is an album that was worth waiting for. It’s a bold and exciting body of work that pushes and pulls and confuses and delights in equal measure. Maybe it will be another 7 or 8 years before the next release by FEVER RAY, but one thing is for certain. Cool is still intact.

AOTY #8. Feist - Pleasure

So this is what we get after six years away. Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist’s long-awaited fifth LP Pleasure continues the trend of 2011’s Metals, heading in an even more esoteric direction than her smash hit record The Reminder. Mostly recorded live in studio, this latest offering is a cagey and defiant record that is admirable for its obstinacy. Pleasure is easily Feist’s most difficult album, far from the immediate accessibility of The Reminder, but she's a captivating performer and it may well be her richest statement. Feist has no need to impress anymore, having long earned the right to live however she likes. By the sounds of it that satisfaction has been hard-won.

Giannis Aggelakas & Giogros Xylouris

Give a chance to something that you never heard yet and you will never hear again. Feel the energy from these great really great Greek artists that puts the Greek music to an other level beyond our imagination (at list mine)!

Giannis Aggelakas is a Greek singer, songwriter and poet. He maintains a productive solo career since 2000 having experimented with Greek Folk Music and collaborated with lots of artist. In my opinion his music is from an other planet make me believe that there is still hope in Greek music. Giannis Aggelakas really cant make bad music. Everything is above average! Here i will give his whole new album. Enjoy

Xylouris plays the lute as a solo instrument, in contrast to the traditional accompaniment role the lute has in Cretan music. Normally in an ensemble the laouto provides the rhythmic backing to the lyra. In this role Giorgos is peerless. In the less usual role of lead instrument he has made the laouto a melodic instrument to frame and adorn song. Xylouris has performed extensively both in his native Crete, in his second home Australia, and internationally at world music festivals, collaborating with musicians from both folk and rocktraditions. This is Greek Metal people !

Emily Wells

This sweet voice is Emily Wells, a violinist whose style merges hip-hop and classical".[1] She also uses many other instruments in her work, including glockenspiels, analog synthesizers, and even toy pianos and other toy instruments.