Pop 'n Cherries

Best album or EP  :

Could have done this in 3 parts : best indie album, best electro album and best EP, but I’m getting tired with all these charts so I’m gonna do it all at once. Ooooh, and if you’re a twee boy or girl, do not forget the traditional TweeNet Poll end-of-year reflex!!

01. Ponies in the Surf                         Ponies on Fire

This album simply deserves the top for its delicate melodies and its brilliant minimalist outline. At the era of the 0,99 € e-song and the i-pod, this handmade sleeve and  this rock-bottom price (4$) are the incontrovertible evidences that the best pop quality remains the affair of passionate people.

02. Tender Trap                                  6 Billion People

A very dense and mature work, perfectly synthesizing all Amelia Fletcher’s personal background, from Heavenly’s sonic spaces to Marine Research’ grace.

03. Love is All                                   Nine Times that same Song

The first Pop ‘n Cherries post back in April and a home fave since 2 years now. A unique saxo-saturated heady post punk sound, male choirs from beyond the grave and J.O’s transcendent sputters. The best live experience of the year and a truly classic album, recently re-released on a major !

04. The Radio Dept.                          Pet Grief

05. Cats on Fire                                 Draw in the Reins EP

06. Pipas                                           Sorry Love

07. Belle and Sebastian                      The Life Pursuit

08. Stereolab                                     Fab Four Suture

09. Little Name                                  How to Swim and Live (streamed on the web)

10. The Hit Parade                             The Return of the Hit Parade

11. Bears                                            S/T

12. The Electric Pop Group                 S/T

13. The Happy Couple                       Happy Times & Petty Crimes

14. Pants Yell                                     Recent Drama

15. Casiotone f.t.p. Alone                   Etiquette

16. Cannonball Jane                           Street Vermacular (Europe release)

17. Dominique A                                L’horizon

18. The Most Serene Republic            Phages EP + Underwater Cinematographer

19. Junior Boys                                  So this is Goodbye

20. Postal Blue                                   Road to Happiness EP

21. Mirafiori                                       No Podemo Volver a Casa

22. Momus                                         Ocky Milk

23. Destroyer                                     Destroyer’s Rubies

24. Hypo and EDH                             The correct Use of Pets

25. The Embassy                                Tacking (Worldwide release)

26. Hot Chip                                      The Warning

27. Poni Hoax                                    S/T

28. Pas/Cal                                         Dear Sir EP

29. Nathan Fake                                 Drowning in a Sea of Love

30. El Perro del Mar                           S/T

31. Holden                                         Chevrotine

32. Voxtrot                                        Mother, Sisters, Daughters and Wives EP

33. Farina                                           Allotments

34. Swan Lake                                   Beast Moans

35. Gossip                                          Standing in the Way of Control

36. All my Friends                              All my Friends get hung up

37. The Airfields                                 Laneways EP

38. Lo Fi FNK                                    Boylife

39. Math and Physics Club                 S/T

40. The Pipettes                                 We are the Pipettes

41. Orval Carlos Sibelius                    S/T

42. Dat Politics                                   Wow Twist

43. Miou Miou                                    La la grande finale

44. My Brightest Diamond                   Bring Me the Workhouse

45. Camera Obscura                          Let’s get out of this Country

46. Mates of State                              Bring it Back

47. Electroluvs                                    Bubblewrapped

48. The Long Blondes                        Someone to drive you home + EP’s

49. The Cathouse                               Bloody Hours EP

50. Peter, Bjorn and John                   Writer’s block

Must have forgotten some…

Of course, many stories to be checked in the archives…