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Here's the annual recommendations by Magazine Télérama from France. What I love with these guys is their eclectism (and maybe the fact that they gave Animal Collective a 2/5
There's no ranking and the records are divided into categories
Rock et pop
Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a Mayday
Wilco - The Album
Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light
Pete Doherty - Grace/Wastelands
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
Kings Of Convenience - Declaration of Independance
Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
Sony Youth - The Eternal
Michael J. Sheehy - With These Hands
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost channels
Chanson (French)
Benjamin Biolay - La Superbe
Brigitte Fontaine - Prohibition
Lhasa - Lhasa
La Grande Sophie - Des vagues et des ruisseaux
Emilie Simon - The Big Machine
BabX - Cristal Ballroom
World
Salif Keita - La Difference
Cesaria Evora - Nha Sentimento
Diego El Cigala - Dos Lágrimas
Don Cherry & Latif Khan - Music / Sangam
Angélique Ionatos & Katerina Fotinaki - Comme un jardin la nuit
Novalima - Coba Coba
String Tradition
jazz :
Daniel Mille - L'Attente
Pierrick Pedron - Omry
Steve Kuhn - Mostly Coltrane
Melody Gardot - My One and Only Thrill
Joshua Redman - Compass
Enrico Rava - New York Days