Rolling fave tracks + albums 2014

Bless us with your taste.

ALBUMS

Dum Dum Girls - Too True
Daye Jack - Hello World mixtape dl

TRACKS

St. Vincent - Digital Witness
ASTR - We Fall Down
Coco Solid - 2 Wise 2 Wed?
Lizzo - Paris
Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me
Menace Beach - Fortune Teller
Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth

<3 that Coco Solid track. Produced by the guy responsible for this mid-aughts Kiwi kitchen-sink cult classic. JF, did you hear her track w/Tim Paris from late last year, Rain?

(re: 2014 stuff, still catching up w/2013, but Nicki Minaj's "Boss Ass Bitch" remix ruled January)

Hadn't heard either of those, but they're both great. I mainly know her from Parallel Dance Ensemble.

Is that Minaj thing a straight up remake of the PTAF song? I haven't listened to it, but I noticed they get a "featured" credit.

Y!R!N! SHE WANNA FUCK MAMI A THUG

thta's all I have to say for now

these so far:

http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/79549701832/taking-stock-march-2014

Phew! I thought I might be the only person who hates G I R L.

haha no way i think most people in its thread weren't keen. it's a terrible album

and "happy" gets worse and worse every time i accidentally hear it

I haven't even been in the thread, because why. non-ilx friends seem to think it's of some worth.

Happy is terrible. I can't believe people like it. Advert music

Great list lex!

Albums

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Major Lazer - Apocalypse Soon
Dum Dum Girls - Too True

Tracks

Guru - Pooley
QQ - Mosquito Net
Moelogo - The Baddest
Duke Dumont - I Got U
Toni Braxton and Babyface - Hurt You
War On Drugs - Red Eyes
St. Vincent - Prince Johnny

Tracks

Bahamas – Caught Me Thinkin
Chet Faker – Talk Is Cheap
Clean Bandit – Rather Be feat. Jess Glynne - The Magician Remix
Coco Solid – 2 Wise 2 Wed
Duke Dumont – I Got U
Future – Move That Dope
Jerome LOL – Always (feat. Sara Z)
Karma Kid – Like I'm on Fire (Kartell Remix)
Kiesza – Hideaway
Marian Hill – One Time
Odesza – Sun Models (feat. Madelyn Grant)
Pharrell Williams – Gust Of Wind
Sam Smith – Money On My Mind
Vindata – All I Really Need
Work Drugs – The Good in Goodbye
Yumi Zouma – The Brae

I don't feel like I've heard a lot of new music this year. I could name you maybe only 3 or 5 key releases from 2014 that stick out in my mind, but it's nearly April already so what's going on? It usually starts hotting up from now one surely?

you're asking that just after multiple people have posted substantial lists?

It's not exactly the longest thread in ILM history. I can only see three lists in the whole thing. Could have sworn this thread was much longer by this time last year. Maybe not.

dont really do favs as every record is fav when its playing, but Hinode - State of Existance just arrived thru post, psyched because its so good

I could name you maybe only 3 or 5 key releases from 2014 that stick out in my mind, but it's nearly April already so what's going on?

good records came out but you never heard them because you looked in the wrong place?

It is an unusually short faves of the year thread for this time of year but I haven't been trying hard to hear new things so far this year, so I'm not going to jump to any conclusions about 2014 based on that.

I tried kicking off an Ibibio Sound Machine thread, but no one cared. I'd still recommend the album, tho.

ALBUM

Ibibio Sound Machine - s/t

Has ILM finally died?

http://youtu.be/7AJX4flkK_w

marc baron - hidden tapes (potlatch)

So far this year I've liked the Real Estate and Sun Kil Moon albums. I'll probably pick up the new Tune Yards this week - hoping that will make the short list.

Against Me! easily my fave album of the year thus far, though I really like the new ones from Emm Gryner and Toni Braxton/Babyface. A bunch more that sound promising one/two listens in that I need to spend more time with.

Tracks-wise, here's how my iTunes playlist of fave songs from the year looks right now:

Beyonce ft. Jay-Z – “Drunk in Love”
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – “Retreat!”
Bruce Springsteen – “Frankie Fell in Love”
Against Me! – “Transgender Dysphoria Blues”
Toni Braxton – “I Wish”
Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige – “F for You”
GRL – “Show Me What You Got”
Betty Who – “Heartbreak Dream”
Emm Gryner – “Excess Baggage”
Beatrice Eli – “Girls”
How to Dress Well – “Repeat Pleasure”
Sky Ferreira – “I Blame Myself”

Triptykon
Tune-Yards
Todd Terje
Lydia Loveless
Behemoth
Agalloch

Still plenty of catching up to do. I like what I've heard of the Neneh Cherry album.

Stuff I love

Warpaint – s/t
Real Estate – Atlas
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Sleaford Mods – Chubbed up: The Singles Collection

Stuff I liked and could do with a few more listens

Neneh Cherry – Blank Project
The War on Drugs – Lost in the dream
Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Jute Gyte – Vast Chains
Mac Demarco 2
Posse – Soft Opening
Ibibio Sound Machine
Shit Robot – We Got A Love
Todd Terje – Its Album Time
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit

i've been quite liking the new collection by forgotten proto-noisepunk band Jack Ruby.

Carsick Cars - 3 (Midnight Driver=standout track at the moment)

i've been quite liking the new collection by forgotten proto-noisepunk band Jack Ruby.

― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:19 PM

The first disc ("Hit") is a revelation. The second disc ("Run") is sorta Randy Cohen's Metal Machine Music (but i like it, too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkrBQIuETw

this google bus song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzgm8H7PcXM

aiai

I'm up to 10 albums heard now, so here's a list roughly in order of preference, tho' these are all good.

Mica Levi - Under The Skin OST
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Skye Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Interlude Music
tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
Tim Love Lee & Shawn Lee - KPM: New York Trouble / Electric Progression
Prins Thomas - III
The Emperor Machine - Like A Machine
Katy B - Little Red

Hey Mica! I shd check that out!

Phantogram's "Fall in Love" is the big one for me so far...

Either a weak year so far, or I'm getting old. Noteworthy in my world:

Warpaint - Warpaint
Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Darius - Romance EP
Phantogram - Voices
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Tycho - Awake
The Colourist - The Colourist
RAC - Strangers
HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club

Singles (not above):

Holly Herndon - "Chorus"
Indiana - "Solo Dancing"
Iamamiwhoami - "Fountain"
Ivan Dorn - "Dancing Penguin"
Gazelle Twin - "Belly of the Beast"
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - "In Love With Useless"
Kiesza - "Hideaway"
...and irritatingly, Clean Bandit - "Rather Be" & The Presets - "Goodbye Future"

I'm usually months behind on the tracks front (still catching up to 2013). High hopes for the forthcoming Roisin Murphy, GusGus, Gazelle Twin, Grimes, Hundred Waters, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, and Xeno & Oaklander.

Also forthcoming (and don't you fucking dare pull an AlunaGeorge on me), Kate Boy.

Halfway-ish summary of what I think is awesome in 2014:

10 ALBUMS

The Gloaming - The Gloaming
Various - Haiti Direct
Tycho - Awake
Planningtorock - All Love's Legal
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Hauschka - Abandoned City
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks
Fatima - Yellow Memories
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Walrus Ghost - Uplifting Themes for the Naysayer

10 TRACKS

A Silver Mount Zion - Birds Toss Precious Flowers
Juce - Call You Out
Javiera Mena - La Joya
MØ - Slow Love
Prins Thomas - Trans
Marissa Nadler - Was It A Dream
DrumTalk - Time
Sebastien Tellier - L'Adulte
Mamani Keita - Fanatan
Holly Herndon - Chorus

I'll probably remember a bunch of other things as soon as I post this.

Just went back to the Neneh Cherry with fresh ears last night. Even better than I'd remembered it being.

Likewise! Even the Robyn track, which I was cool on for the longest time, has grown on me!

definite aoty contender imo

it's failed to grab me quite as much as the Cherry Thing but I need to give it a closer listen really.

Things I really love from this year:
Most of these were growers. Either I didn't like them at first or wasn't sure what to make of them but repeated plays paid off.

St Vincent - St Vincent
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
The Horrors - Luminous
Arabrot - Arabrot
Future Islands - Singles

Things I like but am kind of waiting for the right moment to sink in:
Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
SD Laika - That's Harakiri
Swans - To Be Kind

Stuff that I'm also listening to but need to hear more of:
100s - Ivry
Plaid - Reachy Prints
tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
Various - Punk 45: Sick On You! One Way Spit!: After the Love & Before the Revolution Vol:3 Proto-Punk 1969-77
Jack Ruby - Hit & Run
Tryptikon - Melana Chasmata
Real Estate - Real Estate
Future - Honest
Wen - Signals
DJ Rashad - We On 1 EP

I've only listened to In Conflict once so far, I'm sure it will be up there for me once I take the time to get into it. Other albums I like but didn't make the list: Todd Terje, Kemialliset Ystävät, SFV Acid, Fennesz, Habibi, Valentin Stip, Ex-Easter Island Head, Magic Eye, Mogwai, Maria Minerva.

top 10 favourite songs (in no order)

vic mensa - down on my luck
kiesza - hideaway
juce - call you out
m.o. - for a minute
future - i be u
tiny ruins - she'll be coming round
chromeo - lost on the way home (ft. solange)
jennifer lopez - i luh ya papi (ft. french montana)
todd terje - delorean dynamite
rita ora - i will never let you down

top 10 favourite albums (in no order)

st vincent - s/t
kyla la grange - cut your teeth
yg - my krazy life
cher lloyd - sorry i'm late
todd terje - it's album time
jesse boykins iii - love apparatus
katy b - little red
future - honest
dj q - ineffable
fatima - yellow melodies

Attn Mordy

thx

My running list:

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2014/193910

http://www.world-edition.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/024lng.jpg

Albums
In Conflict - Owen Pallett
Yellow Memories - Fatima
Platinum - Miranda Lambert
FOOD - Kelis
Comet, Come To Me - Meshell Ndegeocello
Warpaint - Warpaint
My Krazy Life - YG
Life On The Back 9 - Terrence Parker
Ineffeble - DJ Q
Crystal Cult 2080 - Legowelt

Songs
Rather Be - Clean Bandit
Floyd - Kelis
2 On - Tinashe
Do It Again - Royksopp & Robyn
German Whip - Meridain Dan
Future - Honest
That's Not Me - Skepta
Left, Right - YG
Forget My Name - Meshell Ndegeocello
Los Awesome - Schoolboy Q
(I could go on & on)

Tracks (no order):
Clean Bandit - Rather Be
Swans - A Little God In My Hands
Caustic Window - Squidge In THe Fridge
Real Estate - Talking Backwards
Plaid - Hawkmoth
DJ Q - Trust Again
Sun Kil Moon - Micheline
Todd Terje - Svensk Sas
Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
Owen Pallett - The Riverbed
Gorgon City ft. Laura Welsh - Here For You
The Horrors - Jealous Sun
YG - I Just Wanna Party
Ibibio Sound Machine - Let's Dance
Nenad Markovic - Weather Vibes
St Vincent - Prince Johnny
Parquet Courts - Dear Ramona
SD Laika - Great God Pan
The Soft Pink Truth - Black Metal (written by Venom, feat. Bryan Edward Collins)

Lol I remember when I thought u were Kid Congo

Taylor Swift - 1989 
Ricardo Rocha - Resplandecente 
Miranda Lambert - Platinum 
Toni Braxton + Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce 
Excepter - Familiar 
DaVinche / Katie Pearl - 2002 Record
Torn Hawk - Through the Force of Will
One Direction - Four
Kehlani - Cloud 19
DJ Q - Ineffable
Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien
Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class
Beatrice Dillon - Blues Dances
Filipe Felizardo - Sede e Morte 
Rich Gang - Tha Tour Part 1
YG - My Krazy Life
Mariah Carey - Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse
Trey Songz - Trigga 
Tia Maria Produções - Tá Tipo Já Não Vamos Morrer
Rodrigo Amado Wire Quartet - Wire Quartet
Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Peter Evans - The Freedom Principle
Willie Nelson - Band of Brothers
Lee Ann Womack - The Way I'm Livin'
Ondness - Death Weekend / Rituals 
Chase Smith - Falling Out 
Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke
B Fachada - B Fachada 
Sei Miguel - Salvation Mode
Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas 
Pessoas Que Eu Conheço - Uma carta de amor para a SEGA
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer
Javiera Mena - Otra Era

Fav tracks

One direction - fireproof
Taylor swift - style
Nicole scherzinger - your love
Chase smith - vaporub
Miranda lambert - bathroom sink
Torn hawk - blindsided
Toni braxton - i wish
B fachada - dá mais música à bófia
Excepter - palace to palace
Nick jonas - jealous
5 seconds of summer- don't stop
Ondness - vem deles
Trey songz - y.a.s.
Mariah carey - make it Look good
Tinashe - 2 on
Shift k3y - touch
Route 94 - my love
Kehlani - deserves better
T.i. Feat. Young thug - about the money
Justin bieber ft. Migos - looking for you
Teedra Moses - all i ever wanted
Angaleena presley - pain pills
Ciara - anytime
Dolly parton - banks of the ohio
Kevin gate - can't make this up
Future - blood, sweat and tears
Dj q - be mine
YG - bicken back being cool
Chief keef - no
The-dream - wedding bells
Shanell - stay down
Jessie ware - kind of...sometimes...maybe
Kira isabella - the quarterback
Rich gang - flava
Ariana grande - be my baby
Rochelle Jordan - lowkey
Javiera mena - la joya
King - mister chameleon
G.r.l. - show me what you got
Willie nelson - the wall
2ne1 - come back home
M.o - dance on my own
Wiley - on a level
Cher lloyd - sweet despair
Melissa steel - kisses for breakfast
Hannah wants & chris lorenzo - girls
Becky g - shower
Fifth harmony - bo$$
Tamar braxton - let me know
Lord of the isles - 301c symphony
Schoolboy q - prescription/oxymoron
Annie - russian kiss
Redlight - 36
J capri - reverse it
QQ - mosquito net
Vybz kartel - mamacita
Lyrica anderson - unfuck you
Usher - good kisser
Meek mill - off the corner
Jazmine sullivan - dumb
Dj rashad - do it again
Mila j - smoke, drink. Break-up
Rae sremmurd - no flex zone
Yummy bingham - cuffin
Kridinhux - eu e tu
2nyo - roll with me
Teyana taylor - maybe
Yemi alade - johnny
Nicki minaj - lookin ass
Danity kane - lemonade
Trae tha truth tf young thug - try me
Skepta ft JME - that's not me
Kalenna - murder

Xxpost No haha. I'm not El Kid :)

Anyone else knocked out by 'No Deal' by Melanie De Biasio?

late to this, but this is absolutely gorgeous

Forgot about Redlight - 36. This is sort of a superior version of PC Music, right?

Or maybe PC Music is like a downgraded version, maybe that would be more accurate.

super thanks to xelab for the jennifer castle recc - it's so good i can't stop listening to it

gigi masin - talk to the sea

This is really good.

Ikebe Shakedown - Stone by Stone

works in a zone similar to the Orlando Julius album

Klara Lewis - Ett

That Orlando Julius album is totally rad. I think the Heliocentrics are becoming one of my favorite bands.

I made a Spotify mix of my favorite tracks of the year.

The mix is a little over two hours; I tried to make a cohesive mix to be listened to from beginning to end, rather than ranked. It seems unfair to try to rank something like the New Pornographers’ ebullient hooks against, say, Porya Hatami’s serene ambient.

1. Steve Moore: Logotone (actually from late 2013)
2. Spoon: Rent I Pay
3. The New Pornographers: War on the East Coast
4. Temples: Shelter Song
5. Ryan Teague: Remote Outliers
6. White Rainbow: Killswitch
7. Actress: Rule
8. Angel Olsen: Unfucktheworld
9. The New Mendicants: Sarasota
10. The War on Drugs: Red Eye
11. Hospitality: Last Words
12. Marissa Nadler: Firecrakers
13. Rebekka Karijord: Madrigal
14. A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Atomos VII
15. Sharon Van Etten: Your Love is Killing Me
16. Porya Hatami: After the Rain
17. Majical Cloudz: Your Eyes
18. Future Islands: Seasons (Waiting on You)
19. Wye Oak: Before
20. Fennesz: Bécs
21. Koen Holtkamp: Between Visible Things
22. Beck: Waking Light
23. Woods: Moving to the Left
24. The Growlers: Big Toe
25. Hamilton Leithauser: I Retired
26. Karen Gwyer: You Big
27. Hundred Waters: Murmurs
28. Orcas: Sela

nice holtkamp and gwyer picks :)

Lydia Ainsworth - Right From Real

have been really enjoying this record today. like a cross between austra and owen pallett in a kate bush kind of way

Yeah, it's good. First heard "Malachite" when it was posted on some thread or another (shambala?), that's still the track that stands out for me.

I've probably posted this at least once upthread, but here are my tracks and albums Spotify playlists.

Oh, and I hadn't noticed there was a new Koen Holtkamp album, thanks for the pointer pwgp!

Etienne Jaumet's La Viste just found me last night, and it's massive and beautiful.

The Koen Holtkamp album is very good! Came out in the late spring I think, plus a bonus disc of previously vinyl-only stuff.

And re Karen Gwyer - she did two EPs this year, both better than her album from last year.

Anyone who likes the ambient stuff in my list, do check Porya Hatami. He made three albums this year, all good.

seandalai: there was a ltd vinyl only koen holtkamp album (motion) that came out this year, but also a comp (motion: connected works) that included both that and also just about all his other solo stuff as well, with the exclusion of the first album (field rituals)

ha xp

the jo johnson album would make a good fit with the holtkamp and gwyer if you haven't heard that yet pgwp.

will check the hatami, that's a new name for me

Thanks xps - I love Field Rituals (and all the Mountains stuff) but kind of lost track of him for a while.

Not familiar with Jo Johnson - will keep an eye out.

sherburne's pitchfork review: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19733-jo-johnson-weaving/

good grief seandalai, your tracks playlist gets off to a booming start :)

:)

order is chronological fwiw

seandalai i'm stealing a bunch of your albums for my own 2014 playlist

ok just make sure you give them back

Did you post a list as well as a link, for those of us who don't spotify?

Just posted something on 2014 - Favorite Unheralded Album(s)

Sweet, thanks.

My favorite albums of the year:

10) Tara Jane O'Neil: Where Shine New Lights
9) Spoon: They Want My Soul
8) Loscil: Sea Island
7) Koen Holtkamp: Motion
6) Porya Hatami: Shallow
5) Fennesz: Becs
4) Hildur Gudnadottir: Saman
3) Karen Gwyer: New Roof EP / Kiki the Wormhole EP
2) A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Atomos
1) Rebekka Karijord: Music for Film and Theater

good list! have never heard of karijord though - who's she?

I came across her via a column in Drowned in Sound, and I've basically never seen any other reference to her anywhere. The album is on Spotify.

She is from Finland (or was it Norway?). I might be mistaken but I believe her earlier material is more songwriter-oriented. This album is all piano, strings, voice. It can seem very "small" and fragmented on first listen but also there is some mystery to it. I kept coming back to it all year because I felt like I hadn't fully unlocked everything. It became more and more compelling as I listened to it. I'm hesitant to draw comparisons but, very broadly speaking, if you are a fan of Julia Holter or Juliana Barwick, you'll probably find something to enjoy in this album. She doesn't exactly sound like those artists but she is similarly abstract.

1. Total Freedom - "10,000 Screaming Faggots" & Rinse FM Podcast
2. Mika Levi - "Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill"
3. Xiu Xiu - "Red Guts: Angel Classroom"
4. Shabazz Palaces - "Lese Majesty"
5. Untold - "Echo In The Valley"
6. Hank - "Showers Of Happiness"
7. Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"
8. Alessandro Cortini - "Sonno"
9. Pharmakon - "Bestial Burden"
10. Run The Jewels - "2"

Jonas Reinhardt - Ganymede

^^I spent a little time with that Jonas Reinhardt - it was good. I ought to dig it back out.

Oh, and I hadn't noticed there was a new Koen Holtkamp album, thanks for the pointer pwgp!

same here!

Here's my list thing.

Nice list. Thanks for bringing Broncho to my attention - surprised that one hasn't shown up on more year-end lists.

My list thing here.

Viva Broncho!

Forgot to nominate this (which came out in November on Warp) for the EOY polls but highly recommend it anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlFe8yfYSHw&feature=youtu.be

tbh i expected way more from her after so many years, but still nice to have some new material

Not sure if there's a 2015 thread. Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBJVgIVPcs

Playing hard creepy Lolita and racial elements there, but she appears to know exactly what she's after.

Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2015

better late than never: i did a lil writeup. http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/109106029177/music-in-2014

Ben Wyatt mic drop at the end is a smashing choice.

wow, "baby love" is amazing! hell of a lot better than the "backpack" track featured on the page sanpaku linked to. tanks, panda.