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Les Inrocks EOY lists

France main music magazine striked again with a list full of underrated gems and overrated hypes, like every year !
The lists are not yet in their site, but already available on stores.

Albums :
1. Black Keys - El Camino
2. Metronomy - The English Riviera
3. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
4. François & the Atlas Mountains - E volo love
5. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
6. Daniel Darc - La Taille de mon âme
7. Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
8. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9. The Shoes - Crack My Bones
10. Tyler, the Creator - Goblin
11. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
12 Cults - Cults
13. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
14. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
15. James Blake - James Blake
16. Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
17. Tinariwen - Tassili
18. Dirty Beaches - Badlands
19. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
20. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
21. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
22. Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestra
23. Yelle - Safari Disco Club
24. Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
25. The Drums - Portamento
26. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
27. Feist - Metals
28. Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
29. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
30. The Rapture - In The Grace of Your Love
31. Beirut - The Rip Tide
32. Drake - Take Care
33. Miles Kane - Colour of the Trap
34. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
35. Salem - King Night
36. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
37. The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
38. The Horrors - Skying
39. The Do - Both Ways Open Jaws
40. Zola Jesus - Conatus
41. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
42. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
43. Orelsan - Le Chant des Sirènes
44. Hanni El Khatib - Will the Guns Come Out
45. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
46. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
47. Theophilus London - Timez Are Weird These Days
48. Mansfield.TYA - Nyx
49. Miossec - Chanson Ordinaires
50. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See
51. Yuck - Yuck
52. David Lynch - Crazy Clown Time
53. Jay-Jay Johanson - Spellbound
54. Austra - Feel It Break
55. Discodeine - Discodeine
56. Hollie Cook - Hollie Cook
57. Piers Faccini - My Wilderness
58. Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
59. Sebastian - Total
60. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
61. Housse de Racket - Alesia
62. Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves
63. Le Prince Miiaou - Fill the Blank with Your Own Emptiness
64. Brazzaville - Jetlag Poetry
65. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
66. Yuksek - Living on the Edge of Time
67. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines
68. Keren Ann - 101
69. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here
70. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
71. Zomby - Dedication
72. Michel Cloup - Notre Silence
73. Friend Fires - Pala
74. John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
75. Mehdi Zannad - Fugue
76. Emmanuelle Parrenin - Maison Cube
77. The Antlers - Burst Apart
78. Planningtorock - W
79. Weekend - Sports
80. Smith & Burrows - Funny Looking Angels
81. Jeffrey Lewis - A Turn in the Dream-Songs
82. Kouyaté-Neerman - Skyscrapers & Deities
83. Apparat - The Devil's Walk
84. The Middle East - I Want That You Are Always Happy
85. Battles - Gloss Drop
86. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
87. Jono McCleery - There Is
88. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
89. Alex Beaupain - Pourquoi battait mon coeur
90. Puro Instinct - Headbangers in Ecstasy
91. Drive Original soundtrack
92. The Kills - Blood Pressure
93. The Kooks - Junk of the Heart
94. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
95. Class Actress - Rapprocher
96. Saul Williams - Volcanic Sunlight
97. Cascadeur - The Human Octopus
98. Birdy Nam Nam - Defiant Order
99. Foster the People - Torches
100. Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship

Songs :

1. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
2. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
3. Metronomy - The Looks
4. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
5. Kanye West & Jay-Z - Otis
6. Miles Kane - Closer
7. The Rapture - How Deep is Your Love?
8. WU LYF - Dirt
9. The Kills - Satellite
10. SBTRKT - Wildfire
11. Massive Attack & Burial - Four Walls
12. Beirut - Santa Fe
13. Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
14. Yelle - Safari Disco Club
15. Cults - Go Outside
16. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
17. Blood Orange - Sutphin Boulevard
18. Drake - Take Care
19. Girls - Vomit
20. Theophilus London - Wine and Chocolates
21. Das Racist - Michael Jackson
22. Other Lives - For 12
23. Baxter Dury - Claire
24. Zomby - Natalia's Song
25. Yuksek - On a Train
26. Woodkid - Iron
27. Cass McCombs - County Line
28. Hanni El Khatib - Dead Wrong
29. François & the Atlas Mountains - Les Plus Beaux
30. Cyril Mokaïesh - Communiste

It's not clear if the 70 next songs are ranked or not. On the past 2 years they were not and were given in alphabetical order, since this year they are not in alphabetical order, I will assume they are ranked.

31. Africa Hitech - Our Luv
32. Black Lips - Modern Art
33. College (feat. Electric Youth) - A Real Hero
34. Zulu Winter - Let's Move Back to Front
35. Breton - Governing Ice
36. Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
37. Juveniles - We Are Young
38. Beyonce - Run the World (Girls)
39. Orelsan - Suicide Social
40. Elbow - Lippy Kids
41. Feist - How Come You Never Go There
42. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
43. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
44. Portugal. The Man - So America
45. John Maus - Hey Moon
46. Arctic Monkeys - She's Thunderstorms
47. Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain
48. Planningtorock - Doorway
49. Cat's Eyes - I'm Not Stupid
50. Iron & Wine - Tree by the River
51. Timber Timbre - Black Water
52. Mansfield. TYA - Logic Coco
53. Jonathan Wilson - Waters Down
54. Dum Dum Girls - Bedroom Eyes
55. Kim - Radio Lee Doo
56. Bon Iver - Calgary
57. Is Tropical - Land of the Nod
58. Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
59. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
60. Keren Ann - My Name is Trouble
61. The Drums - In the Cold
62. Tamikrest - Aratan N Tinariwen
63. dEUS - Keep You Close
64. Apparat - Song of Los
65. Diagrams - Antelope
66. Oh Land - White Nights
67. Concrete Knives - Brand NEw Start
68. Hyetal - Black Black Black
69. Wilco - Might
70. La Femme - Paris 2012
71. Brent Cash - I Wish I Were a Song
72. Spector - Never Fade Away
73. Dengue Fever - Cement SLeepers
74. Givers - Up Up Up
75. Outlines - Cannot Think
76. Joakim - Forever Young
77. Miossec - Chanson pour un homme couvert de femmes
78. Alex Winston - Choice Notes
79. Class Actress - Weekend
80. Jay-Jay Johansson - On the Other Side
81. Smith & Burrows - When the Thames Froze
82. Sayem - 436 Seconds of Happiness (feat. Le Prince Miiaou)
83. Holy Ghost! - Do It Again
84. Gruff Rhys - Honey All Over
85. Manceau - Whisper
86. Rome - Two Against One
87. The Antlers - French Exit
88. Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
89. Shabazz Palaces - Are You? Can You? Were You?
90. Rover - Aqualast
91. King Krule - The Noose of Jah City
92. Holy Other - With U
93. Camille - L'Etourderie
94. Stuck in the SOund - Bankruptcy
95. The Horrors - Still Life
96. The Narcoleptic Dancers - Life Goes On
97. Slow Club - Two Cousins
98. Dillon - You Are My Winter
99. Louise Attaque - Du Monde Tout Autour
100. Hollie Cook - That Very Night

Re: Les Inrocks EOY lists

Bonus : the reader's choices.

I highly recommend Iron by Woodkid. One of the greatest song of the year, for sure.

Vos albums
1. The English Riviera de Metronomy
2. Suck It and See d’Arctic Monkeys
3. Blood Pressure de The Kills
4. Go Tell Fire to the Mountain de WU LYF
5. Crack My Bones de The Shoes
6. E volo love de Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains
7. Happy Soup de Baxter Dury
8. In the Grace of Your Love de The Rapture
9. Let England Shake de PJ Harvey
10. Bon Iver de Bon Iver


Vos singles
1. Iron de Woodkid
2. The Look de Metronomy
3. Don’t Sit down Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair d’Arctic Monkeys
4. Video Games de Lana Del Rey
5. Midnight City de M83
6. Pumped up Kicks de Foster The People
7. Easy de Colours In The Street
8. Rearrange de Miles Kane
9. Future Starts Slow de The Kills
10. Heavy Pop de WU LYF