Top musical 2015 I

Pasada ya la resaca de las preguntas hoy empiezo a desgranar el top 20 musical de este año que ya agoniza. Como podéis suponer viniendo de mí va a haber demasiada variedad pero espero que encontréis cosas que os gusten o al menos os sorprendan.

20. The Weeknd - Beauty Behind the Madness

Aunque ya conocía a este cantante canadiense de origen etíope nunca le había prestado demasiada atención. Más allá de un peinado que recuerda a un cuervo disecado y de las polémicas por un supuesto machismo que puede que exista pero no consigo ver por ningún lado me parece justo reivindicar su labor musical. Dependiendo de a quien se le pregunte este año ha sacado su quinto disco o el segundo porque en algunos sitios se toman Trilogy, la reedición de sus mixtapes House of Balloons, Thursday y Echoes of Silence, como un recopilatorio y no como un disco triple pero lo que no se puede negar es que este es el año de Abel Tesfaye, su nombre real, y el comienzo de algo más grande.



Your man on the road, he doing promo
You said keep our business on the low-low
I'm just tryna get you out the friend-zone
'Cause you look even better than the photos

I can't find your house, send me the info
Driving through the gated residential
Found out I was coming, sent your friends home
Keep on tryna hide it but your friends know

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time that I'll be by your side
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time I'd ever call you mine
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe

I'mma let you know and keep it simple
Tryna keep it up don't seem so simple
I just fucked two bitches 'fore I saw you
And you gon' have to do it at my tempo

Always tryna send me off to rehab
Drugs start to feelin' like it's decaf
I'm just tryna live life for the moment
And all these motherfuckers want a relapse

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time that I'll be by your side
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time I'd ever call you mine
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe

Hills have eyes, the hills have eyes
Who are you to judge, who are you to judge?
Hide your lies, girl hide your lies
Who are you to trust, who are you?

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time that I'll be by your side
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah

I only call you when it's half past five
The only time I'd ever call you mine
I only love it when you touch me, not feel me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me
When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe

19. Bring Me The Horizon - That's the Spirit

Reconozco que me encanta cuando la gente se rasga las vestiduras porque un grupo ha cambiado demasiado en su nuevo disco y esto es ni más ni menos lo que le ha pasado a este grupo de hardcore británico. A muchos se le olvida que fue hace dos discos (colaboración con la cantante Lights, el número 19 de mi top del año pasado para los despistados, incluida) cuando comenzaron a abrir su sonido a otras influencias con lo cual no sólo estamos hablando de gente que se ofende gratuitamente sino que lo hace con efecto retardado.


Remember the moment you left me alone and
Broke every promise you ever made
I was an ocean, lost in the open
Nothing could take the pain away

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

The sticks and the stones that
You used to throw have
Built me an empire
So don’t even try
To cry me a river
Cause I forgive you
You are the reason I still fight

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

I’ll leave you choking
On every word you left unspoken
Rebuild all that you’ve broken
And now you know
I’ll leave you choking
On every word you left unspoken
Rebuild all that you’ve broken
And now you know
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

18. Sirenia - The Seventh Life Path

Ya he hablado más de una vez de este grupo noruego en el que canta la granadina Ailyn, a la que conozco de la época en la que era bastante habitual que coincidiéramos en eventos manga, ella cantando con el grupo que tenía entonces y yo de público. Siempre ha sido un amor de chica, muy agradable y sensata y nada creída y cuando en 2008 el grupo noruego Sirenia le propuso ser su nueva cantante no se lo pensó dos veces e hizo las maletas camino a Stavanger. En todas las entrevistas le preguntan si no le da miedo durar un suspiro en el grupo pero lo cierto es que siendo este ya su cuarto disco con Sirenia (y el séptimo del grupo en total) está durando más que sus cuatro predecesoras juntas.


Deception smiles at you, derisive
Reflections so divisive
Conception of your deceit
Divides all of my inner feelings

This is the language of the dark
Asphyxiation of the heart
Your very soul all torn apart
Contemptuous quietus

Perceptions falling through, failing you
Becoming your own doom
Self-deception digs a grave for you
Where your regrets will come through

You're the torn in my heart
You will tear me apart
You're a plague and a curse
Contemptuous quietus

You're the pain in my soul
Spinning out of control
Ominous dusk
Contemptuous quietus

17. Editors - In Dream

Con una evolución constante  pero siempre orbitando entre el indie y el synthpop llega el quinto disco de Editors y es la primera vez que me da la impresión de que comienzan a sentar las bases de su sonido, el cual describiría como el centro de un triangulo formado por The Killers, Depeche Mode y Coldplay. Quien sabe, igual hasta es verdad eso de que este es el disco con el que pasan a un escalafón superior. Yo, desde luego, me alegraría.



Life is a fear of falling
Life is a fear of falling through
All the cracks

Wait around here long enough, you'll see
Another junction, line up and lay down for me
You fall wonderfully
If I question everything you say
Another answer crumbles the birth of my day
It's when you were here

You, calling out my name
You, swimming to me through a dream

Life is a fear of falling
Life is a fear of falling through
All the cracks

Every siren lost in my lullaby
Every heartbeat functioning thrown to the night
I'm quenched in your light
See the floor rising through a dream
Forgotten thoughts lost in a memorable theme
And soaked to the skin

You, calling out my name
You, swimming to me through a dream

Life is a fear of falling
Life is a fear of falling through
All the cracks

And I wanted to tell you that
And I wanted to tell you that

You, calling out my name, oh
You, swimming to me through a dream

Life is a fear of falling
Life is a fear of falling through
All the cracks

Life is a fear of falling
Life is a fear of falling through
All the cracks

16. TesseracT - Polaris

Bien podrían haber estado TesseracT más arriba del top de este año pero se pueden tomar este puesto como mi pequeña revancha por haber echado a Ashe O'Hara y su prodigiosa voz para que vuelva Dan Tompkins a encargase del micro. No es que tenga nada del bueno de Tompkins pero sólo un disco (Altered State, el anterior de TesseracT) bastó para que O'Hara se convirtiera en uno de mis cantantes favoritos. Además no puedo enfadarme con estos británicos porque ya sea con uno u otro siempre aciertan.



Will I disappear with a vision of tomorrow?
Will I disappear?
Will I disappear with a vision of tomorrow?
Will I disappear until I can't feel the light?
Will I disappear with a memory of your sorrow?
Will I disappear until I can't feel the light?

Ten years of hope have past
You felt alone and pictured life a little differently
And people say that life has just begun
You waited patiently, a lotus in the sun
You radiate for me in luminescent light
And people say that life has just begun
When you're not a part of me I feel dead inside

Disturbed; will I disappear with a vision of tomorrow
Until I can't feel the light?
Disturbed; when I get the feeling I've been here before
I'm the abandoner

Ten years of sorrow passed
No pleasure in the sun
You couldn't cope in all honesty
The secrets of the past will come undone
Seasons of change elapse
Honour no mistrust
Faithfully until the day you die
And people say the journey's just begun
When you're not a part of me I feel dead inside

Disturbed; will I disappear with a vision of tomorrow
Or will I fall?
Disturbed, when I get the feeling I've been here before
Disturbed, will I disappear with a vision of tomorrow
Or will I fall?
Disturbed, when I get the feeling I've been here before
I'm the abandoner