Aphex at #1 in the Wire list is a joke, surely?
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
It's the year of the joke #1s.
― jmm, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
I'll say!
2014 seems to go down in history with either War on Drugs or Aphex at #1? I don't care about War on Drugs. I do care about Aphex, but c'mon, the retro trip of the long lost son as a number one album of 2014? By "progressive magazine" Wire? What year is this? 1994? Gtfo.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:11 (nine years ago) link
Heartening to see Shyne Coldchain 2 popping up all over
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
Wire list is much lazier than usual, weird. Though I remember reading about their polling process a few years ago - they don't have ranked ballots, so the winning album is simply the one that appears on the most ballots. Easy to see how boring consensus/canon picks can rise to the top that way.
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Wire lists have been bad/boring for years and years. Remember when you'd pick up a December issue and you'd be like WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE RECORDS then you'd hunt and find them and they'd mess you up?
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
batshit craziness from the Tabs Out list:
http://bromptreb.bandcamp.com/album/abuse-abandon-abort
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
damn: http://sprtthrn.bandcamp.com/album/nothingness
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
I'm kind of enjoying how little my list will have in common with any of these.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
Anybody listen to the new Obituary album at the bottom of the Wire's avant rock list?
― aenaon genesis aevangelist (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link
Aphex Twin is on a lot of lists, but I can't see it beating out War on Drugs. Ecscpecially when FKA Twigs and St. Vincent both seem to be doing quite well on a lot of lists.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
Re: Apex Twin, it is kind of a perfect fit for The Wire, though....it's iconic, it got a very enthusiastic full page review by them, and it probable is in the wheelhouse of the things many of their different writers cover. That, with the non-weighted ballots suggests an easy #! place. Plus it's a fantastic album! It's as good a #1 as I've seen on any list.
I'm surprised that some of the electronic albums I would have thought would place weren't on the list, like Perc's The Power and the Glory, Untold's Black Light Spirals, Ben Frost's A U R O R A, Inga Copeland's Because I'm Worth It, Vessel's Punish, Honey, Mr Mitch's Parallel Memories, Andy Stott's Faith in Strangers, Joey Anderson's After Forever. They were all fantastic albums and received good reviews in the magazine iirc.
was happy to see Fatima al Qadiri's Asiatisch (a great, very underrated album imo), the Pharmakon album, the Shackleton EP, Michael Pisaro's 3 disc set, Oren Ambarchi, Call Super, Cooly G, Carla Bozulich, and Dean Blunt. Looking forward to hearing Steve Gunn's two entries, Annea Lockwood, AMM, Eliane Radigue, The Drumm/Lescalleet erstwhile disc, and some of the other avant classical pieces, as well as all of the other artists I've never even heard of.
Overall, with the exception of the top spot, I think it's an adventurous list and a good one, at least judging by all the others we've looked at
And I could probably say the same about the FACT list
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
PopMatters albums, 50-1:50. Ex Hex - Rips49. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent48. Sondre Lerche - Please47. SOHN - Tremors46. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else45. Prince - Art Official Age44. Mike Farris - Shine for All the People43. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else42. Liars - Mess41. Somi - The Lagos Music Salon40. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son39. Shovels and Rope - Swimmin’ Time38. Battle Trance - Palace of Wind37. Lykke Li - I Never Learn36. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers35. Allo Darlin’ - We Come From the Same Place34. Todd Terje - It’s Album Time33. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast32. Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line31. Beck - Morning Phase30. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold29. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems28. Banks - Goddess27. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers26. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams25. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused24. Future Islands - Singles23. Ty Segall - Manipulator22. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There21. Brian Eno and Karl Hyde - High Life20. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata19. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music18. Caribou - Our Love17. Ben Frost - A U R O R A16. Parker Millsap - Parker Millsap15. Taylor Swift - 198914. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager13. Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy12. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness11. Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste10. Spoon - They Want My Soul9. Aphex Twin - Syro8. FKA Twigs - LP17. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream6. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues5. Swans - To Be Kind4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent3. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
Digital Spy:30. One Direction: FOUR29. Foxes: Glorious28. Caribou: Our Love27. Tensnake: Glow26. Katy B: Little Red25. Iggy Azalea: The New Classic24. FKA twigs: LP123. Jessie Ware: Tough Love22. Jamie T: Carry on the Grudge21. Jack White: Lazaretto20. Ella Henderson: Chapter One19. Calvin Harris: Motion18. The Horrors: Luminous17. St. Vincent: St. Vincent16. alt-J: This Is All Yours15. Ben Howard: I Forget Where We Were14. Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence13. Sia: 1000 Forms of Fear12. Todd Terje: It's Album Time11. Ariana Grande: My Everything10. Sky Ferreira: Night Time, My Time9. Jungle: Jungle8. Bombay Bicycle Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow7. George Ezra: Wanted on Voyage6. Paolo Nutini: Caustic Love5. Ed Sheeran: x4. La Roux: Trouble In Paradise3. Royal Blood: Royal Blood2. Taylor Swift: 19891. Sam Smith: In the Lonely Hour
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
Exclaim!http://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_two1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent3. Owen Pallett - In Conflict4. Alvvays - Alvvays5. Swans - To Be Kind6. White Lung - Deep Fantasy7. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream9. Future Islands - Singles10. Tanya Tagaq - Animism11. Ought - More Than Any Other Day12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji13. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else14. How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"15. Beck - Morning Phase16. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness17. Real Estate - Atlas18. Spoon - They Want My Soul19. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues20. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
(oh shit, exclaim already done)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Ultimate Classic Rock - Best Albms of 2014http://ultimateclassicrock.com/best-rock-albums-2014/
10 Stevie Nicks '24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault'9 Slash 'World On Fire'8 Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes'7 Pink Floyd 'The Endless River'6 Ace Frehley 'Space Invader'5 Judas Priest 'Redeemer of Souls'4 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey 'Going Back Home'3 Robert Plant 'Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar'2 Tom Petty 'Hypnotic Eye'1 AC/DC 'Rock or Bust'
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
they know their audience
― VOTE in metal poll. Voting ends Friday 12th December (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
Juno Plus - Top 50 Singleshttp://www.junodownload.com/plus/2014/12/10/best-of-2014-top-50-singles/
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:09 (nine years ago) link
Have we ever had a thread on what I think of as 'hangover acclaim'; ie. an artist's next record getting [possibly over / undue] praise in reviews and lists that seems like a hangover from the slow-burn success of their previous record?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
The Obituary album is very good, but other death metal veterans put out better ones this year (Cannibal Corpse, and especially Incantation).
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
lol Ultimate Classic Rock list is pretty dignified all things considered, they even put Springsteen pretty low on the list and left off U2 entirely
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
also c'mon, where else are you gonna get blurbs like this:
With a whopping 77 minutes worth of new music, it's more like iPod on fire.
― some dude, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
there's definitely a turn to the mystical going on in the world of ultimate classic rock with some of those album titles
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
going back home to the endless river lullaby and the ceaseless roar
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
The Quietus Mixes, Reissues, Compilations & Soundtracks Of The Year
ONE: Coil / NIN - Recoiled (Cold Spring)TWO: Cyclobe - The Visitors (Phantomcode)THREE: Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons/Black Holes In The Sand/Offerings (WARP)FOUR: British Murder Boys - Box Set (Downwards)FIVE: Annette Peacock - I Belong To A World That’s Destroying Itself (Ironic)SIX: Perc & Truss - Live at Soenda (Soenda Festival Soundcloud)SEVEN: Mdou Moctar - Anar (Sahel Sounds)EIGHT: Mica Levi - Under The Skin (Milan Records)NINE: Z AKA Bernard Szajner – Visions of Dune (InFiné)TEN: CTI - Carter Tutti Remix Chris & Cosey (Conspiracy International)ELEVEN: K. Leimer – A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 – 1983) (RVNG Intl)TWELVE: The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere box set (Rooster)THIRTEEN: Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras - Catholic (Dark Entries)FOURTEEN: Karl Meier - Live at Aphotic Segment Detroit 8/2014 (KarlPMeier Mixcloud)FIFTEEN: Joe Delia - Ms.45 (Death Waltz)SIXTEEN: Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible 20 (Sony)SEVENTEEN: Omar Khorshid - Live In Australia 1981 (Sublime Frequencies)EIGHTEEN: Wilco - Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rarities 1994-2014 (Nonesuch)NINETEEN: Sandra Electronics - Sessions (Minimal Wave)TWENTY: Nana Love - Disco Documentary: Full Of Funk (Nestor)TWENTY ONE: Sun Ra And His Arkestra - In The Orbit Of Ra (Strut Records)TWENTY TWO: Swans - Filth (Mute)TWENTY THREE: Harry Smith - The Anthology Of American Folk Music (Mississippi)TWENTY FOUR: Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. 2 DISmagazine Soundcloud)TWENTY FIVE: Pan Sonic - Oksastus (Kvitnu)TWENTY SIX: Elijah & Skilliam - Fabriclive 75 (Fabric Worldwide)TWENTY SEVEN: Ennio Morricone - Lizard In A Woman’s Skin (Death Waltz)TWENTY EIGHT: Various artists - Slowly Exploding: 10 Years Of Perc Trax 2004-2014 (Perc Trax)TWENTY NINE: Savages & Bo Ningen - Words To The Blind (Stolen)THIRTY: Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)THIRTY ONE: Surgeon - (Ambient Set) At Freerotation 2014 (Dynamic Tension Soundcloud)THIRTY TWO: Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 (Born Bad)THIRTY THREE: Hell - Trilogy (Pesanta Urfolk)THIRTY FOUR: Mumdance - Dummy Mix 205 Mahraganat Mixtape (Dummy)THIRTY FIVE: Fourth World Music Vol. 1: Possible Musics (All Saints)THIRTY SIX: Various Artists - Suburban Base Records: The History of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-1997 (New State)THIRTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Strut)THIRTY EIGHT: These New Puritans - E-X-P-A-N-D-E-D Live at the Barbican (Vinyl Factory)THIRTY NINE: Wild Beasts - FACT mix 427 (FACT)FORTY: Imaginary Forces - June 2014 Mix (Entr'acte Mixes)FORTY ONE: Alexander Tucker - Alexander Tucker (Thrill Jockey)FORTY TWO: Various artists - Keysound Recordings Presents... Certified Connections (Keysound Recordings)FORTY THREE: Various Artists - Horse Meat Disco 4 (Strut)FORTY FOUR: Koen Holtkamp - Motion: Connected Works (Thrill Jockey)FORTY FIVE: COUM Transmissions & John Lacey - Music For Stocking Top Swing and Staircase (Other Ideas)FORTY SIX: Mogwai - Come On Die Young (Chemikal Underground)FORTY SEVEN: Death - Spiritual Healing (Relapse)FORTY EIGHT: Objekt - Live At Freerotation (Objekt Soundcloud)FORTY NINE: The The - Soul Mining Box Set (Sony)FIFTY: Circle - Hollywood (Ektro)FIFTY ONE: Sleater-Kinney – Start Together Box Set (Sub Pop)FIFTY TWO: William Onyeabor - Volume 2 box set (Luka Bop)FIFTY THREE: Robert Hood – M Print: 20 Years Of M Plant Music (M Plant)FIFTY FOUR: Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon (Relapse)FIFTY FIVE: Various Artists - Cambiare (Opal Tapes)FIFTY SIX: Cairo Liberation Front - The Church Of The CLF (CLF Soundcloud)FIFTY SEVEN: Cardiacs - Sing To God (Alphabet Business Concern)FIFTY EIGHT: Cabaret Voltaire - #7885 (Electropunk To Technopop 1978-1985) (Mute)FIFTY NINE: Bruno Nicolai - All The Colours Of The Dark (Finders Keepers)SIXTY: GNOD - The Somnambulist’s Tale (Aguirre)SIXTY ONE: V/A - Minor Characters Project (tqpc)SIXTY TWO: Karen Gwyer - St. John’s Sessions x Boiler Room Live Set (Boiler Room)SIXTY THREE: Koudede - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 7 (Sublime Frequencies)SIXTY FOUR: Various artists - UP#22 This Dream Gave Me A Diagonal (Diagonal Records)SIXTY FIVE: Various Artists - The World Is Yours (Bandcamp)SIXTY SIX: Powell - Boiler Room London DJ Set (Boiler Room)SIXTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Disco: A Fine Selection Of Independent Disco, Modern Soul And Boogie 1978 - 82 (Soul Jazz)SIXTY EIGHT: Various Artists - A NoCorner Collection: From The Reels (NoCorner)SIXTY NINE: Hailu Mergia And The Walias - Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes From Africa)SEVENTY: Cosmin TRG - Mix 136 (Secret Thirteen)SEVENTY ONE: Oneman, Kode9, Ikonika, Addison Groove - A Tribute to DJ Rashad (Boiler Room)SEVENTY TWO: PYE Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes 3 & 4 (Type)SEVENTY THREE: Evian Christ - RA.404 Evian Christ (Resident Advisor)SEVENTY FOUR: Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP (Rephlex)SEVENTY FIVE: Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting (RVNGIntl.)SEVENTY SIX: Various Artists - Gipsy Rhumba (Soul Jazz)SEVENTY SEVEN: Sunroof! - Rock Action (Nashazphone)SEVENTY EIGHT: Kahn, Neek, Hi5 Ghost and Boofy - The Lab (Mixmag)SEVENTY NINE: Lunice - RA.432 Lunice (Resident Advisor)EIGHTY: Helena Hauff & Daniele Cosmo - Lux Rec at Dampfzentrale (Lux Rec Soundcloud)EIGHTY ONE: AnD - RA.389 AnD (Resident Advisor)EIGHTY TWO: Clouds - Up North (ATTTKLFCO) (Bloc)EIGHTY THREE: Various Artists - The Sound Of Siam 2 (Sound Way)EIGHTY FOUR: William Basinski - Melancholia (Temporary Residence)EIGHTY FIVE: Suede - Dog Man Star box set (Demon)EIGHTY SIX: Various Artists - Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s (Finders Keepers)EIGHTY SEVEN: Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes/Gradual Requiem (Arc Light Editions)EIGHTY EIGHT: Robert Wyatt - Different Every Time (Domino)EIGHTY NINE: Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea (Music From Memory)NINETY: Chistie Azumah & The Uppers International - Din Ya Sugri (Voodoo Funk)NINETY ONE: The Residents - Santa Dog (Superior Viaduct)NINETY TWO: Baader Meinhoff - Baader Meinhoff (Cherry Red)NINETY THREE: Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG INTL.)NINETY FOUR: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Spirits Up Above: The Anthology (Rhino)NINETY FIVE: Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Island)NINETY SIX: Various Artists - Folk Music Of The Sahel: Niger (Sublime Frequencies)NINETY SEVEN: Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl (ANTI-) NINETY EIGHT: Ralph Jones - The Slumber Party Massacre OST (Death Waltz)NINETY NINE: Mark Lanegan – Has God Seen My Shadow? Anthology (Light in the Attic)ONE HUNDRED: Various Artists – Oriental-Trap Mix (Norient)
Reissues Chart Here
― Doran, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Any good EP-only lists out there?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
2014′s Best Albums: Idolator Editors Pick Their Favorite 10http://www.idolator.com/7573548/2014-10-best-albums-idolator
10. Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds9. Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away8. Kiesza, Sound Of A Woman7. Mariah Carey, Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse6. Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions5. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence4. Tinashe, Aquarius3. Leighton Meester, Heartstrings2. Jessie Ware, Tough Love1. BANKS, Goddess
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
really enjoying this listhttp://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/wavelog/2014/12/100-essential-canadian-songs-2014featuring a couple personal favs of the year of mine (odonis odonis & pypy (i guess i must really love repetitive band names this year))
― nxd, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
There are loads!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
pretty much every bloody arcade fire record ever after the first one fits that description
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
it's fairly common, yeah. i'd say the aphex has an element of this.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
if anyone wants to know what i liked this year, both old and new, it's on this playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/0ah1waMa42AwR8t1sfI9wq
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
This Ian William Craig album, Turn of Breath, is really something. Spotted on the Textura and Norman Records lists.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I've been listening to that too. It's bloody excellent! He's an opera singer or something, I understand?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Been enjoying that one as well.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
that Carla Bozulich record is as great as I had hoped, very cool
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Last Rites Top 25:http://lastrit.es/articles/892/last-rites-top-25-of-2014
25. Ambush - Firestorm 24. Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem23. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny Of Will22. Martyrdöd - Elddop 21. Sanctuary - The Year The Sun Died20. Death Penalty - Death Penalty19. Nasheim - Solens Vemod18. Gridlink - Longhenna17. Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium16. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere15. Exodus - Blood In Blood Out 14. Dawnbringer - Night Of The Hammer13. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 12. Saor - Aura11. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 10. Pyrrhon - The Mother Of Virtues9. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral 8. Dead Congregation- Promulgation Of The Fall7. Morbus Chron - Sweven 6. Overkill - White Devil Armory5. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Saturnian Poetry4. Giant Squid - Minoans3. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend2. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1. Horrendous - Ecdysis
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Bless these niche lists, if only to keep me from accepting the too numerous assertions that The War On Drugs is as good as it got in 2014.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
AdHoc best albums:
Actress: GhettovilleAndy Stott: Faith in StrangersArca: XenBen Frost: A U R O R ABitchin Bajas: Bitchin BajasThe Body & Thou: Released from LoveContainer: Adhesivecopeland: Because I'm Worth ItDean Blunt: BLACK METALEEK: Live at the Cairo High Cinema InstituteFennesz: BecsFKA Twigs: LP1Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: PiñataGiant Claw: DARK WEBGood Willsmith: The Honeymoon WorkbookGrouper: RuinsHorse Lords: Hidden CitiesJerry Paper: Big Pop for Chameleon WorldKassem Mosse: Workshop 19L.O.T.I.O.N.: Second Audio Document 2014M. Geddes Gengrass: Collected Works vol. 2: New Process MusicM. Sage: A Singular ContinentMoodyman: MoodymanPharmakon: Bestial BurdenPure X: AngelRicky Eat Acid: Three Love SongsSeth Graham: GoopSteve Gunn: Way Out WeatherTaso: TekLife til tha Next Life Vol. 1Telecult Powers: Black MeditationsTonstartssbandht: OverseasTraxman: Da Mind of Traxman 2
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
is that the first Fennesz mention? that album sounded like such a retread to me.
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Becs! I suppose it's not a revelation for Fennesz fans but I still listened to it a ton this year. It's in my personal list of favorites from the year.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
a closer listen top 10 singles.
1. Christina Vantzou: "Going Backwards to Recover What Was Left Behind"2. Tess Said So: "The Snap Beans Aren't Salty"3. Lullatone: "All the Optimism of Early January"4. Tides of Man: "Mountain House"5. Sleepmakeswaves: "Something Like Avalanches"6. Maybeshewill: "Fair Youth"7. 36: "Hyperbox"8. Koloto: "Fox Tales"9. Mariano Rodriguez: "Praise the Road"10. (exitpost): "Sweet Fade"
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
^^all instrumental stuff, ambient/post rock. I like the more ambient stuff. All the post-rock stuff feels super dated (Tides of Man, Sleepmakeswaves, etc.)
That Christina Vantzou album from this year was very good.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Ohh there was a Lullatone album this year? Missed that!
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Rolling Stone Top 40 Country Albums list
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-best-country-albums-of-2014-20141210
=]:D
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I like the Fennesz a lot too. It probably doesn't really break new ground for Fennesz but I'm not sure War on Drugs is breaking new ground for the world either.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
lord no, and Becs will probably squeak into my personal top 20 once I re-listen
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Big Fennesz fan but Becs really did nothing for me. Very first album of his that gave me no reaction whatsoever.
― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
good list whiney - did u do an avant/noise whatever you called it list this year?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link