Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

nice track!

Sex Swing are fucking amazing aren't they? We promoted a gig by them last night which I couldn't attend for personal reasons but apparently they were amazing. It may have been an ex-member of Dethscalator who hipped me to Slum Of Legs rather than one of Sex Swing… my memory is not what it once was and members of UK noise rock royalty all start blurring into one person (in my head he's 100ft tall, wearing a Killdozer T-shirt with pot burns in it and saying something amusing about cheese) in my head after a while. Anyway, I'm done hijacking the thread, apologies.

ILM Metal Poll results

102 The Cosmic Dead - Easterfaust 143 Points, 4 votes
tie
100 Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves 143 Points, 5 votes
100 Lantlos - Melting Sun 143 Points, 5 votes
99 Ulaan Markhor - Spiral Horns, Black Onions, et al 144 Points, 4 votes, One #1
98 Seven that Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO 146 Votes, 3 voters , One #1
97 Death Penalty - Death Penalty 146 Points, 5 votes
96 Ambergris - Ambergris 147 Points, 3 votes, One #1
95 Body Count - Manslaughter 147 Points,6 votes
94 Monarch - Sabbracadaver 148 Points, 6 votes
93 Truckfighters - Universe 152 Points, 5 votes, One #1
Tie
91 Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy 155 Points, 6 votes
91 Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII 155 Points, 6 votes

90 A Pregnant Light - My Game Doesn't Have A Name 156 Points, 4 votes, 1 #1
89 Conan - Blood Eagle 157 Points, 5 votes
88 Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite 157 Points, 6 votes
87 Wo Fat - The Conjuring 158 Points, 5 votes
86 Karma To Burn - Arch Stanton 160 Points, 4 votes
85 Monster Magnet - Milking the Stars: A Re-Imagining of Last Patrol 160 Points, 5 votes
84 At The Gates - At War With Reality 161 Points, 5 votes
83 Rigor Mortis - Slaves To The Grave 161 Points, 6 votes
82 Hands Of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo 162 Points, 5 votes

TIE
80 Saor - Aura 163 Points , 5 votes
80 The Great Old Ones - TEKELI-LI 163 Points, 5 votes
79 Bongripper - Miserable 163 Points, 6 votes
78 The Flight of Sleipnir - V. 168 Points, 4 votes
77 Skull Fist - Chasing the Dream 171 Points, 5 votes
76 Myrkur - Myrkur 173 Points, 6 votes
75 Opeth - Pale Communion 177 Points, 7 votes
74 Mournful Congregation - Concrescence Of The Sophia 186 Points, 6 votes
73 Petrychor - Makrokosmos 189 Points, 5 votes
72 Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 190 Points, 6 votes
71 Inter Arma - The Cavern 190 Points, 7 votes

70 Towers - II 193 Points, 7 votes
69 Comet Control - s/t 194 Points, 5 votes , One #1
Tie
67 AEvangelist - Writhes in the Murk 205 Points, 6 votes
67 Shooting Guns - Street Rock 205.0 6 votes
66 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls 209 Points, 8 votes
65 Wizard Rifle - Here In The Deadlights 210 Points, 6 votes
64 Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 214 Points, 7 votes
63 Nadja - Queller 223 Points, 6 votes, One #1
62 Atlas Moth - The Old Believer 234 Points, 8 votes
61 Kayo Dot - Coffins On Io 236 Points, 6 votes

60 The Wounded Kings - Consolamentum 251 Points, 7 votes
59 Stargazer - A Merging to the Boundless 255 Points, 7 votes
58 Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate 262 Points, 7 votes
57 Woods of Desolation - As the Stars 267 Points, 10 votes
56 Teitanblood - Death 270 Points, 9 votes
55 Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall 272 Points, 8 votes
54 Fen - Carrion Skies 274 Points, 8 votes
53 The Oath - The Oath 274 Points, 9 votes
52 Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi 282 Points, 9 votes
51 Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem 290 Points, 8 votes

50 Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind 297 Points, 9 votes
49 Goat - Commune 301 Points, 9 votes
48 Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith 311 Points, 9 votes
47 Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha 329 Points, 9 votes
46 Indian - From All Purity 329 Points, 10 votes
45 Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen 333 Points, 11 votes
44 The Body - I Shall Die Here 335 Points 10 votes
43 Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise 337 Points, 9 votes
42 Eyehategod - Eyehategod 339 Points, 11 votes
41 Horrendous - Ecdysis 349 Points, 9 votes

40 Boris - Noise 353 Points, 11 votes
39 Dawnbringer - Night of the Hammer 356 Points, 11 votes
38 Morbus Chron - Sweven 358 Points , 10 votes, One #1
37 Spectral Lore - III 360 Points, 12 votes, One #1
36 Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica 366 Points, 11 votes
35 Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World 373 Points, 11 votes
34 Gridlink - Longhena 376 Points, 10 votes , TWO #1s
33 Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels 378 Points, 15 votes
32 Thou - Heathen 392 Points, 12 votes
31 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God I 406 Points, 11 votes

30 Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God II 415 Points, 11 votes
29 Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds 422 Points, 11 votes
28 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata 432 Points, 12 votes
27 Floor - Oblation 434 Points, 14 votes
26 Swans - To Be Kind 441 Point, 13 votes
25 Today is the Day - Animal Mother 460 Points, 11 Votes, TWO #1s
24 Solstafir - Otta 465 Points, 14 votes
23 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep 489 Points, 13 votes
22 BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL 500 Points, 14 votes One #1
21 Behemoth - Jolly Christian Singalongsongs 537 Points, 18 votes

20 Blues Pills - Blues Pills 557 Points, 13 votes
19 Jute Gyte - Vast Chains 599 Points, 15votes , THREE #1s
18 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry 609 Points, 17 votes
17 Alcest - Shelter 612 Points, 18 votes, One #1
16 Botanist - Vi: Flora 619 Points, 18 votes, One #1
15 Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 621 Points, 17 votes, One #1
14 Panopticon - Roads to the North 654 Points, 18 votes , One #1
13 Slough Feg - Digital Resistance 662 Points, 19 votes, One #1
12 Bölzer - Soma EP 666 Points, 18 votes , One #1
11 Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun 680 Points, 19 votes, One #1

10 Jute Gyte - Ressentiment 697 Points, 18 votes
9 Earth - Primitive and Deadly 738 Points, 21 votes , ONE #1
8 Scott Walker & SunnO))) - Soused 799 Points, 21 votes, TWO #1s
7 Darkspace - Dark Space III I 813 Points, 22 votes , ONE #1
6 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire 876 Points, 23 votes, THREE #1s
5 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata 1078 Points, 27 votes FIVE #1's
4 Electric Wizard - Time to Die 1130 Points, 27 votes THREE #1's
3 Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere 1165 Points, 31 votes, Three #1s
2 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden 1233 Points, 33 votes, One #1

1 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend 1240 Points, 32 votes , THREE #1s

is it just me or does holly herndon's 'chorus' sound a lot like ellen allien's 'sehnsucht'?

have been dipping in and out of the metal pole all week, have enjoyed quite a bit of the new-to-me stuff: wovenhand, dead congragation, inter arma, great old ones, some other stuff i can't remember

Here's a Spotify playlist with what I could find from the Quietus songlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2LvhhDHrN93f8ZtCWFzzuX

Thanks, Glenn. The "Acclaimed Songs of 2014" playlist has now been updated:
http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/6gv4ng5XkJQQrTSkr7OzEH

The playlist includes all songs (on Spotify) that appear on lists by Rolling Stone, Spin, NME, Pitchfork, Paste, Wondering Sound, Drowned in Sound, Consequence of Sound, Pretty Much Amazing, Complex, Quietus, Time, Billboard, PopMatters, Slant, FACT, maybe one or two others I'm forgetting. (I'm not including any genre-specific lists or lists by individuals.)

xp: "Chorus" owes as much to Paul Lansky, whom Herndon has paid tribute to, as to Allien, really.

http://www.largeup.com/2014/12/16/toppa-top-10-the-ten-best-caribbean-albums-of-2014/
Hollie Cook, Popcaan and Chronixx are all legit top ten for the year period imo

TERRORIZER ALBUMS OF 2014

50. NACHTMYSTIUM ‘The World We Left Behind’ CENTURY MEDIA
49. At The Gates49. AT THE GATES ‘At War With Reality’ CENTURY MEDIA
48. DEATH PENALTY ‘Death Penalty’ RISE ABOVE
47. MARTYRDÖD ‘Elddop’ SOUTHERN LORD
46. ESBEN AND THE WITCH ‘A New Nature’ NOSTROMO
45. 11 PARANOIAS ‘Stealing Fire From Heaven’ RITUAL PRODUCTIONS
44. PRONG ‘Ruining Lives’ STEAMHAMMER/SPV
43. Lord Mantis43. LORD MANTIS ‘Death Mask’ PROFOUND LORE
42. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM ‘Celestite’ ARTEMISIA
41. DECAPITATED ‘Blood Mantra’ NUCLEAR BLAST

40. CONAN ‘Blood Eagle’ NAPALM
39. ACxDC ‘Antichrist Demoncore’ MELOTOVE
38. INSOMNIUM ‘Shadows Of A Dying Sun’ CENTURY MEDIA
37. OPETH ‘Pale Communion’ ROADRUNNER
36. MAYHEM ‘Esoteric Warfare’ SEASON OF MIST
35. MASTODON ‘Once More ‘Round The Sun’ WARNER
34. THE BODY ‘I Shall Die Here’ RVNG
33. TOMBS ‘Savage Gold’ RELAPSE
32. ORANGE GOBLIN ‘Back From The Abyss’ CANDLELIGHT
31. SCHAMMASCH ‘Contradiction’ PROSTHETIC

30. TRAP THEM ‘Blissfucker’ PROSTHETIC
29. TEITANBLOOD ‘Death’ NORMA EVANGELIUM DIABOLI
28. SUNN O))) & ULVER ‘Terrestrials’ SOUTHERN LORD
27. PYRRHON ‘The Mother Of Virtues’ RELAPSE
26. TODAY IS THE DAY ‘Animal Mother’ SOUTHERN LORD
25. EARTH ‘Primitive And Deadly’ SOUTHERN LORD
24. VALLENFYRE ‘Splinters’ CENTURY MEDIA
23. AUTOPSY ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves’ PEACEVILLE
22. BLUT AUS NORD ‘Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry’ DEBERMUR MORTI
21. WOVENHAND ‘Refractory Obdurate’ DEATHWISH

20. DEAD CONGREGATION ‘Promulgation Of The Fall’ MARTYRDOOM
19. PANOPTICON ‘Roads To The North’ BINDRUNE
18. THOU ‘Heathen’ GILEAD MEDIA
17. AGALLOCH ‘The Serpent And The Sphere’ PROFOUND LORE
16. SWALLOWED ‘Lunarterial’ DARK DESCENT
15. VOICES ‘London’ CANDLELIGHT
14. JUDAS PRIEST ‘Redeemer Of Souls’ EPIC
13. WINTERFYLLETH ‘The Divination Of Antiquity’ CANDLELIGHT
12. MORBUS CHRON ‘Sweven’ CENTURY MEDIA
11. MIDNIGHT ‘No Mercy For Mayhem’ HELLS HEADBANGERS

10. ELECTRIC WIZARD ‘Time To Die’ SPINEFARM
9. PALLBEARER ‘Foundations Of Burden’ PROFOUND LORE
8. SÓLSTAFIR ‘Otta’ SEASON OF MIST
7. PRIMORDIAL ‘Where Greater Men Have Fallen’ METAL BLADE
6. EYEHATEGOD ‘Eyehategod’ HOUSECORE/CENTURY MEDIA
5. TRIPTYKON ‘Melana Chasmata’ CENTURY MEDIA
4. YOB ‘Clearing The Path To Ascend’ NEUROT
3. BEHEMOTH ‘The Satanist’ NUCLEAR BLAST
2. SWANS ‘To Be Kind’ YOUNG GOD/MUTE

1. GODFLESH ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’ AVALANCHE

https://twitter.com/IdeologicOrgan/status/545907089412210688

^ I want to see the rest of the Daily Mirror's list now

State’s Albums of 2014
http://state.ie/features/states-albums-of-2014

50. Mogwai – Rave Tapes
49. Hookworms – The Hum
48. Clark – Clark
47. Banks – Goddess
46. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste
45. iamamiwhoami – Blue
44. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
43. THE GOASTT – Midnight Sun
42. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
41. Royksopp – The Inevitable End
40. Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband
39. Caribou – Our Love
38. Delorentos – Night Becomes Light
37. The Minutes – Live Well, Change Often
36. Lykke Li – I Never Learn
35. Wye Oak – Shriek
34. Lucius – Wildewoman
33. The Hot Sprockets – Brother Nature
32. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
31. Catfish & The Bottlemen – The Balcony
30. Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
29. Kormac – Doorsteps
28. Warpaint – Warpaint
27. Taylor Swift – 1969
26. Malibu Shark Attack! – Malibu Shark Attack!
25. Mø – No Mythologies to Follow
24. Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
23. The Gloaming – The Gloaming
22. Wonder Villains – Rocky
21. God Knows & mynameisjOhn – Rusango/Family
20. Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
19. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
18. Adebisi Shank – This Is The Third Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
17. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
16. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
15. Run The Jewels – RTJ2
14. We Cut Corners – Think Nothing
13. James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical
12. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
11. FKA Twigs – LP1
10. Wild Beasts – Present Tense
9. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
8. Aphex Twin - Syro
7. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
6. Alt-J - This Is All Yours
5. Future Islands - Singles
4. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
2. Hozier - Hozier
1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

THE GOASTT
The Hot Sprockets
Catfish & The Bottlemen
Malibu Shark Attack!
God Knows & mynameisjOhn

i know i'm going to sound like my dad here but are there really no more good band names left in the barrel?

Catfish & the Bottlemen not only have a terrible name and play terrible music, but are also some of the most vile misogynists to plague shitrock for some time.

now i have misogynist in a bottle stuck in my head

I hope that no one gets my
I hope that no one gets my
I hope that no one gets my

Boomkat - Albums
http://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-100-favourite-albums-2014-chart

Boomkat - Singles
http://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-100-favourite-singles-2014-chart

Always worth looking at the musicians' lists they have there too

album list is one to warm imago's little heart btw

Dow posted this one on the jazz thread:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/12/19/371282561/the-2014-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll

That's a poll of 140 folks who write about jazz. It used to be in the Village Voice but now NPR sponsors it

You'll find a list of the entire Top 50 in the voting for Jazz Album of the Year, with the top finishers in Latin Jazz, Vocal, Debut and Reissue/Historical categories as well.

Latin Jazz list from NPR sponsored jazz critics poll

1. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma) 19

2. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music) 16

3. Yosvany Terry, New Throned King (5Passion) 11

4. Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue) 8

5. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM) 6

6. Alfredo Rodriguez, The Invasion Parade (Mack Avenue) 5

Resident Advisor - Top 50 tracks
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2333

] 39. Lnrdcroy Sunrise Market (Extended Version)

only record ive heard on any of these lists so far! (though i bookmarked the shiniche atobe to listened to later).

(2nd track on this 12" is really good)

so, i'm really curious, saer: what styles of music, generally, do you listen to? for someone to have heard one record on all these lists is stunning to me. i get that there's a whole big wide world of music out there, interested to hear what your corner of it is.

no black messiah in any of these sorry lists lol

yeah, npr's latin jazz team really dropped the ball on that one, huh?

i know ppl hate on war on drugs, but the beck album appearing so often and so highly is way weirder to me....like WoD does have a unique sound/feel, or at least a brand of retro that hasn't been done often..but many i'm not a beck hater and how can you see this current one as anything but a way weaker sequel to "sea change" w/o any memorable tunes?

so, i'm really curious, saer: what styles of music, generally, do you listen to? for someone to have heard one record on all these lists is stunning to me. i get that there's a whole big wide world of music out there, interested to hear what your corner of it is.

― alpine static, Friday, December 19, 2014 5:43 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good question!, well i guess this is what ive posted about

http://ilxor.com/ILX/FullTextSearchControllerServlet?terms=saer&offset=20&searchtype=id&startdate=&enddate=&artefact=messages&idtype=displayname&sortorder=Relevance&boardid=41

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2014.php
With zip file collections

monorail music 2014

1 Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Rock Action)
2 Aphex Twin - Syro (Warp)
3 Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
4 Vaselines - V for Vaselines (Rosary Music)
5 Dean Blunt - Black Metal (Rough Trade)
6 Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts (Fortuna Pop!)
7 King Creosote - From Scotland With Love (Domino)
8 Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
9 Withered Hand - New Gods (Fortuna Pop)
10 Tape - Casino (Hapna)
11 Pixies - Indie Cindy (Pias)
12 Real Estate - Atlas (Domino)
13 The New Mendicants - Into the Lime (XPT)
14 Happy Meals - Apéro (Night School)
15 Thurston Moore - The Best Day (Matador)
16 Thee Silver Mt Zion - Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
17 Remember Remember - Forgetting the Present (Rock Action)
18 Swans - To Be Kind (Young God)
19 Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
20 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
21 David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - End Times Undone (Merge)
22 Mica Levi - Under The Skin ost (Warners)
23 Cold Beat - Over Me (Crime on the Moon)
24 Soundcarriers - Entropicalia (Ghost Box)
25 Phantom Band - Strange Friend (Chemikal Underground)
26 Teleman - Breakfast (Moshi Moshi)
27 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
28 Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3 and 4 (Type)
29 Inga Copeland - Because I'm Worth It (Self Released)
30 Jon Brooks - 52 (Clay Pipe)
31 Actress - Ghettoville (Ninja Tune)
32 Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)
33 J Mascis - Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
34 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)
35 Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants To Be Here & Nobody Wants To Leave (Fat Cat)
36 Tara Jane O'Neil - Where Shine New Lights (Kranky)
37 Trash Kit - Confidence (Upset the Rhythm)
38 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)
39 Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)
40 Plaid - Reachy Prints (Warp)
41 Swallowed - Lunarterial (Me Saco Un Ojo)
42 National Bedtime - Jobs For Beasts (Shadazz)
43 The Notwist - The Messier Objects (Alien Transistor)
44 Sound of Yell - Brocken Spectre (Chemikal Underground)
45 Richard Youngs - Red Alphabet in the Snow (Preserved Sounds)
46 Edwyn Collins - The Possibilities are Endless (AED)
47 Vic Godard & Subway Sect - 1979 Now (AED)
48 The Bluebells - Exile On Twee Street (Cherry Red / Vinyl 180)
49 Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat / Rough Trade)
50 Fugazi - First Demo (Dischord)

Compiled from sales and customer and staff lists.

Consensus Watch Update (ranked by number of polls, places below 50 disregarded, personal polls disregarded):

60 FKA Twigs - LP1
49 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
48 St Vincent - St Vincent
46 Caribou - Our Love
43 Aphex Twin - Syro
39 Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
38 Swans - To Be Kind
38 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
35 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
34 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
33 Future Islands - Singles
33 Sun Kil Moon - Benji
33 Beck - Morning Phase
31 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
31 Perfume Genius - Too Bright
31 Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
31 Todd Terje - It's Album Time
28 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
27 Spoon - They Want My Soul
24 Grouper: Ruins
23 Taylor Swift - 1989
23 Jack White - Lazaretto
22 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
21 Real Estate - Atlas
20 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
19 Alvvays - Alvvays
19 Jenny Lewis - Voyager
19 Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused
19 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
18 Jessie Ware - Tough Love
The Bug - Angels & Devils
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
17 Ty Segall - Manipulator
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
16 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste
15 Goat - Commune
Tinashe - Aquarius
Ought - More Than Any Other Day
Alt-J - This Is All Yours
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
YG - My Krazy Life
Dean Blunt – Black Metal
14 Hookworms - The Hum
Temples - Sun Structures
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Lykke Li, I Never Learn
Mastodon: Once More Round The Sun
Arca – Xen
13 Ex Hex - Rips
Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
12 Young Fathers - Dead
Jungle - Jungle
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
Behemoth, The Satanist

49 Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (Tugboat / Rough Trade)

not that I disagree but reissues on a 2014 list?

the last three on that list are all reissues or comps of old stuff so maybe they reserve the tail end of the poll for that purpose or something? idk

I just want to post this description, if the NPR classical album of the year (which is also in my top five)

John Luther Adams - Become Ocean
This is the piece of classical music of 2014 that has crossed over to a mainstream audience, and rightly so. Put it on speakers and people will stop what they're doing to say, "What is this? I love it!" Written as a meditation on rising — and ultimately all-consuming — tides, Adams has created a work that is both an orchestral showpiece (written, actually, for three juxtaposed mini-orchestras) and a completely haunting inner journey. The Seattle Symphony should be hugely proud of having commissioned Become Ocean and their stellar performance under conductor Ludovic Morlot. — Anastasia Tsioulcas

I like the unranked Aquarium Drunkard list:
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/12/15/aquarium-drunkard-2014-year-in-review/#more-42763

yes, that is really really beautiful xp

volcanic tongue best of 2014 (in no particular order)

The Spies - The Battle Of Bosworth Terrace LP Siltbreeze
Peter Brotzmann/Jason Adasiewicz - Mollie’s In The Mood LP Bro Records
Village Of Spaces – Welcome In LP Turned Word Records
Big Blood - Unlikely Mothers 2xLP Blackest Rainbow
Mad Nanna – In Glasgow (Live At Volcanic Tongue) LP Golden Lab Records
Tralala Blip - Aussie Dream LP Disembraining
Fourth World Magazine Vol. 2 - Pinhead In Fantasia LP + Magazine Pacific City Sound Visions
HR Giger's Studiolo 2xCass Pacific City Sound Visions
Mark Alexander McIntyre – Grapes LP One Kind Favor
Roy Montgomery - 324 E. 13th Street #7 2xLP Yellow Electric
Samara Lubelski – String Cycle LP Ultra Eczema
Fushitsusha - Nothing Changes/No One Can Change Anything/I Am Ever-Changing/Only You Can Change Yourself 3xCD Utech
Alien City - Cathode Rays Are On OVERLOAD LP
Les Rallizes Denudes - Electric Pure Land 2xLP
MV & EE - Alpha Lyrae LP Child Of Microtones
Eye – Winterwork LP Nyali Recordings
Drowning Is Easy/Sarah Richards/The Chance/Ritchie Venus - The Christchurch Quartet LP + 12” + 10” + 7” + bonus 7” Unwucht
Richard Youngs - Red Alphabet In The Snow LP Preserved Sound
The Dead C - The Twelfth Spectacle 4xLP Grapefruit
Nazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once It Has Arrived Already...? Ideologic Organ
Sanity Muffin cassettes – we loved them all!
Arnold Dreyblatt – Choice LP Choose Records
The Terminals - Singles And Sundries LP Ba Da Bing Records
English Heretic - The Underworld Service CD + Book
Hiiragi Fukuda - My Turntable Is Sloow LP Selection Records
Sadahiro Yamada - OK To Exist Doing Nothing LP Selection Records
Toilet Roll Dolls - Live At Real Bad CD-R Breakdance The Dawn
Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/Stalker
Jojo Hiroshige/Tamio Shiraishi - Enka Mood Collection 10”
75 Dollar Bill - Olives In The Ears cassette
Spacemen 3 - Live At The New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland, 18/5/89 LP Mental Groove Records
Nord - NG Tapes LP PCP Records
Bill Orcutt private press cassettes
Cyclobe - Sulphur-Tarot-Garden LP/CD Phantomcode
Angus MacLise - New York Electronic 1965 LP Sub Rosa
The Pheromoans - Hearts Of Gold LP Upset The Rhythm
Simon Finn - Pass The Distance LP Little Big Chief Records
Charcoal Owls - Tin Roof LP Night School
Matthew Shaw – Lamorna CD Apollolaan Recordings
Jack Kerouac - The Northport Tapes Cassette Counter Culture Chronicles
Timothy Leary - The Radicalization Of Timothy Leary Cassette Counter Culture Chronicles
Sacred Product - s/t LP Heinous Anus Records
Various Artists (The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, Verlaines) - Dunedin Double 2xLP Flying Nun
The Flexibles - Cities Of The Narrow Universe 7” Nyali Recordings
La Morte Young - s/t LP Up Against The Wall Motherfucker!
Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale 2xLP Aguirre Records
Matthew 'Doc' Dunn - All Is LP Cosmic Range
Stone Angel - s/t LP Acme
Small Cruel Party - Unroof The House Of The Fishes LP Harbinger Sound
Kitchen Cynics private press CD-Rs
Handful Of Dust - Topology Of A Phantom City Cassette Ba Da Bing Records
Mary Millington - Come Play With Me & other tales 10” 10,000 Productions
Heitkotter - Black Orckid 2xLP Now Again Records

I have heard 0 of those - anyone see somthing they recommend?

Haha the only one I know is the Simon Finn, which is old right?

i've heard the angus maclise, nazoranai, and fushitsusha -- all recommended if you like that sort of thing.

Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/Stalker

that peter jefferies album is a fantastic NZ underground classic with with a strong eno and cale vibe. this song is all-time imo, and you might know this one from the cat power cover version

at least 60% of these are reissues btw afaict

pretty rich of them to be listing bootlegs that they were essentially the only vendor for

i've heard + liked Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale

the Fourth World Magazine Vol 2 - Pinhead in Fantasia is Spencer Clark under his Monopoly Child Star Searchers moniker, from (his label?) Pacific City Sound Visions

There is so much music in the world :)

Textura Top 40
http://www.textura.org/reviews/2104top10s.htm

01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)
02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)
03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)
04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)
05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)
06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)
07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)
08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)
09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)
10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)
11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)
12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)
13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)
14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)
15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)
16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)
17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)
18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)
19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)
20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)
21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)
22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )
23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)
24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)
25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)
26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)
27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)
28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)
29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)
30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)
31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)
32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)
33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)
34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)
35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)
36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)
37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)
38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)
39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)
40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)

― millmeister, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:07 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can someone give me their favorite album from this list for me to check out that isn't Hammock or Grouper (both favorites)?

My fave on that list is the girma yifrashewa

I went through the entire Textura list (or as much of it was on Spotify). My favorites, roughly in order:

Ian William Craig: A Turn of Breath
Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich, Surface Image
Death Blues: Ensemble
36: Dream Tempest
Marvin Ayers: Ultradian Rhythms

That said, my tastes run more toward ambient/electronic. There are a lot of modern composers on here who had some good stuff--pieces I'd like to see in a theater setting but not anything I'd listen to on my home stereo.

pfunkboy recommended that ian william craig thing to me