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)

hinode, affie yusuf, plastic, melchior, isherwood, chop suey, cristi cons, maruntelu

tracks

Head High - Hex Factor
Gucci Mane & Young Thug - Stoner 2 Times
Marco Shuttle - Sing Like A Bird (Peter Van Hoesen Remix)
C.F.I. - Prosesor
Fat Trel featuring Whale - In My Bag
Future - Move That Dope

albums

Eyvind Kang - Alastor: The Book Of Angels vol.21
Ambarchi & O'Malley & Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos
Guerilla Toss - Gay Disco
Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish
Terrence Dixon - Badge Of Honor
Step Brothers - Lord Steppington
Haggai Cohen-Milo - Penguin
Head High - Megatrap

My favorite tracks of the year lean indie/ambient/electronic--here's a Spotify mix: http://t.co/Mm28dvzdik

On the indie/rock/songwriter side I've heard a lot of great tracks and good albums but none have hit me in a truly special way. My favorite albums of the year so far are much more on the ambient/instrumental side:

Rebekka Karijord: Music for Film and Theater
Fennesz: Becs
Koen Holtkamp: Motion
Porya Hatami: Shallow

This year has gotten off to a slow start for me, but it's heating up!

Recent albums in heavy rotation:

Da Mind of Traxman, Vol.2 - Traxman
Shaken-Up Versions - The Knife
Reality Testing - Lone
Once More 'Round The Sun - Mastodon

xelab, what's the eyvind kang like? i've only heard narrow garden and i adore it.

It is my fave Tzadik release this year and there have been some great ones. It is Kang's interpretations of tunes from Zorn's monumental Book Of Angels series and it is beautiful. If you liked The Narrow Garden no reason why you won't love this. Kang is such a great arranger he makes these fuckers sparkle, some really gorgeous stuff on here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4HfSRq3fw

kang also on my top 10 - gorgeous album

i will check this out post-haste in that case. Not familiar with that much of Zorn's stuff, so I hope that doesn't matter too much.

i don't think it matters. i've been curious for a while about the extent to which the book of angels releases come directly from zorn's compositions and to what extent the artists/composers on the albums can improvise/rewrite pieces. each of book of angels release tho is so different from one another that i don't think you need to have heard any others to appreciate this one (tho there are plenty of other amazing ones that are worth checking out). also iirc zorn is starting the 3rd volume in the series soon? 1. masada, 2. book of angels, 3. ?

I did a Jan-to-June playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/5Q2SKT0vYc7WMhTmHVicZn

Indiana – Solo Dancing
Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
Hercules & Love Affair – I Try To Talk To You (feat. John Grant)
Bright Light Bright Light and Elton John – I Wish We Were Leaving
Gorgon City – Ready For Your Love
Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
Ronika – 1000 Nights
Annie – Russian Kiss
The Hidden Cameras – Gay Goth Scene
Broken Bells – After the Disco
Planningtorock – Let's Talk About Gender Baby
Daniel Avery – Drone Logic
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
Tracey Thorn – How Wild the Wind Blows
The Gloaming – Song 44
Sam Lee – Phoenix Island
First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining
The War On Drugs – Red Eyes
The Rails – Bonnie Portmore
Gallery 47 – Some Things
Jesca Hoop – Murder Of Birds (Undressed)
Ryan Thomas – Worries and Troubles
The Common Linnets – Calm After The Storm
Brandy Clark – Stripes
Ashley Monroe – Weed Instead Of Roses
Joan As Police Woman – Holy City
St. Vincent – Digital Witness
Sleaford Mods – Under the Plastic and N.C.T.
Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey – Going Back Home
Bru - C – Air Max 1
Meridian Dan – German Whip
Ibibio Sound Machine – Let's Dance - Yak Inek Unek
Disclosure – F For You - ft. Mary J Blige
Mr. Probz – Waves - Robin Schulz Radio Edit
Duke Dumont – I Got U
Kiesza – Hideaway
MØ – Slow Love
Tensnake – Love Sublime
Clean Bandit – Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Conchita Wurst – Rise Like A Phoenix

for me this is sum catnip stretch of releases the last month or so:

ldr - ultraviolence
travis porter - music money magnums 2
the-dream - royalty prequel
king louie - tony

Thomas Ankersmit - Figueroa Terrace (Touch)

beautiful

copy pasting from the other thread:

Here's 10:

Dapayk & Padberg - Silent Fireworks Marek Hemmann Remix
http://www.youtube.com/v/t5_gcLArKJs&fs=1&hl=en

Robby Hunter Band - Corazon
http://www.youtube.com/v/c8sk2CTuKWU&fs=1&hl=en

20syl - Ongoing Thing Feat Oddisee
http://www.youtube.com/v/Xkm8mGlfm9w&fs=1&hl=en

Hot Chip vs. William Onyeabor - Atomic Bomb
http://www.youtube.com/v/59aXNmdUIPw&fs=1&hl=en

Marian Hill - One Time
http://www.youtube.com/v/DMP0tsTnFtk&fs=1&hl=en

Glass Animals - Gooey
http://www.youtube.com/v/IIA1XQnAv5s&fs=1&hl=en

Seinabo Sey -Hard Time
http://www.youtube.com/v/EgdOs5-3VWQ&fs=1&hl=en

ODESZA - Sun Models (feat. Madelyn Grant)
http://www.youtube.com/v/cnwiaErSuKc&fs=1&hl=en

Yumi Zouma - The Brae
http://www.youtube.com/v/CrTMCLxkONk&fs=1&hl=en

Until the Ribbon Breaks - Pressure
http://www.youtube.com/v/zgx6wVedzYM&fs=1&hl=en

The new Horsemeat Disco (vol. IV) compilation is excellent. Deep cut disco compilations are often pretty light on gems but this is 100% quality.

Doran -- I was bummed to see tQ didn't have a half-year list this year. I suppose that after a while it can feel like a joyless gimmick, but I remember a while back about how many great albums have already been released this year...? Feels like that was different than a lot of ppl's experiences, and I was wondering if there were a bunch of recommendations you had

*but I remember a while back you commenting about how many great album have already been released this year...?

Drugs A. Money - sorry captain, been a lot of stress behind the scenes at tQhq recently but we will be having a number of half year lists coming soon - starting on Monday with new albums.

Am way excited. Hope everything is going well for you guys!!

Drugs A. Money: The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2014

Sorry if this had been posted already but has anyone else seen this video currently being flogged to death on VH-1's AM video show?

http://youtu.be/oh2LWWORoiM

I am enjoying both song and video a lot.

Doran: I saw this. Awesome, & thanks!!!

xp "Habits" was one of my favourite songs of 2013. A remix that isn't quite as charming as the original has hit the top 10 in the UK and Australia this year, for reasons unknown to me.

Really into this s/t ep by Night Flowers: http://nightflowers.bandcamp.com/album/night-flowers-ep

Very 1989/90 type of 120 Minutes fodder, but doesn't miss the mark by even a millimeter.

20 albums I'm pretty happy with for the first half of 2014:
Bottin, <i>Punica Fides</i>
Brantley Gilbert, <i>Just As I Am</i>
Brian Culbertson, <i>Another Long Night Out</i>
The Bruno Republic, <i>Purple Mountains</i>
Cindy Bradley, <i>Bliss</i>
Girl Talk & Freeway, <i>Broken Ankles</i> EP
Hercules & Love Affair, <i>The Feast of the Broken Heart</i>
Lana del Rey, <i>Ultraviolence</i>
Lone, <i>Reality Testing</i>
Mary J. Blige, <i>Think Like A Man Too (Music from and Inspired by the Film)</i>
Me'shell Ndegeocello, <i>Comet, Come To Me</i>
Michael Jackson, <i>Xscape</i>
Miranda Lambert, <i>Platinum</i>
Pat Metheny Unity Group, <i>Kin<--></i>
Pharrell Williams, <i>GIRL</i>
The-Dream, <i>Royalty - The Prequel</I>
Todd Terje, <i>It's Album Time</i>
Toni Braxton & Babyface, <i>Love, Marriage & Divorce</i>
Various Artists, <i>Defected Presents Dimitri from Paris in the House of Disco</i>
Various Artists, <i>Red Hot + Bach</i>

2 albums from December '13 not included, but worthy:
<i>Beyonce</i>
R. Kelly, <i>Black Panties</I>

Well, that's annoying.

we're pseudo-BBCode around here rather than pseudo-HTML

Really feeling that new Dimitri From Paris mix, although the house disc is far better than the disco mix. What is the Bottin like? I loved "No Static" from a few years ago but everything I've heard since has been nowhere near as good.

Funny, I vastly prefer the disco mix - which, BTW, is great for working out, too.

Currently feeling:

Ibibio Sound System - s/t
Toyboy and Robin - Better Places EP
Torn Hawk - Through Force of Will
Caribou - Can't Do Without You
Fhloston Paradigm - The Phoenix
Quiltland - s/t
OOIOO - Gamel
Rabbitsss - Penguins
Sébastien Tellier - L'Aventura

More stuff in my 2014 tracks and albums lists, should ppl be scouting for talent.

fav track is gimme choco by babymetal
fav album is quartet/octet by taku sugimoto

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?

Spam off.

TOP 10 ALBUMS so far

Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum variegatum
Fennesz - Bécs
Glass Animals - ZABA
Jason Lescalleet - Much to My Demise
MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
Shabazz Places - Lese Majesty
TOPS - Picture You Staring
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

And a couple more which are EP's or which I'd rate below 3.5/5

Alt-J - This Is All Yours
Adanowsky - Ada
Marian Hill - Play EP
Natural Child - Dancin' with Wolves
Sylvan Esso - s/t
Work Drugs - Insurgents
Yumi Zouma - s/t EP
ZHU- the nightday

http://recordings.fataka.net/products/529458-a-field-perpetually-at-the-edge-of-disorder-john-edwards-mark-sanders-john-tilbury-fataka-9

holy fuck this is good. the soundcloud excerpt is not very representative of tilbury's liveliness throughout the recording.

kassem mosse on workshop

https://hardwax.com/39550/kassem-mosse/workshop-19/

Two Aussie takes on post-punk, one grown-up sounding and one bratty, completely taking over my listening lately.

Total Control - Typical System (the grown up one)
Ausmuteants - Amusements

One of them probably destined for favorite album of the year. 2nd one is much less stupid-sounding than reviews had led me to believe, kind of transcends its lyrics in a big way. I was looking for a thread but couldn't find one, but curious if there's a big Aussie scene that sounds like this, or if it's just random.

the Ausmuteants single "felix tried to kill himself" is excellent

curious if there's a big Aussie scene that sounds like this

yeah there kinda is

albums and one ep in alphabetical order

Alexander Turnquist - Flying Fantasy 
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness 
Blank Realm - Grassed Inn 
Future - Honest 
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19 
Lewis - L'Amour 
Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann - I 
Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot
Moodymann - S/t 
Morgan Delt - S/t
Ought - More Than Any Other Day 
Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing EP
Sun Araw - Belomancie 
Swans - To Be Kind 
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream 
Wireheads - Late Great Wireheads

Enjoyed Grassed Inn much more than I would have thought.

curious if there's a big Aussie scene that sounds like this

yeah there kinda is

Try HTRK and My Disco.

albums so far:

taking back sunday happiness is
swahili amovreux
joey anderson after forever
miranda lambert platinum
ronika selectadisc
driver friendly unimagined bridges
neneh cherry blank project
the hotelier home, like noplace is there
yg my krazy life
young marco biology
triptykon melana chasmata
against me! transgender dysphoria blues
especia gusto
owen pallett in conflict
meshell ndegeocello comet, come to me
popcaan where we come from
braid no coast

roundup, thus far:

thomas ankersmit - figueroa terrace
marc baron - hidden tapes
Laurence Crane: Chamber Works 1992 - 2009
edwards/sanders/tilbury: a field perpetually at the edge of disorder
Anne Guthrie: "Codiaeum variegatum"
KLAUS LANG: SAIS.
Plaid - reachy prints
VHS head - the persistence of vision

beck - morning phase
al-namrood - heen yadhar al ghasq
angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness
eyvind kang - the book of angels, vol. 21: alastor
mamman sani - taaritt
va - calypso: musical poetry in the caribbean 1955-69
va - beyond addis
va - haiti direct: big band, mini jazz & twoubadou sounds, 1960-78
modern baseball - you're gonna miss it all
first aid kit - stay gold
zion80 - the book of angels, vol. 22: adramelech
goat - commune
braid - no coast
lewis - l'amour
eluveitie - origins
fka twigs - lp1
michiru aoyama - warm season
somi - the lagos music salon
distorted harmony - chain reaction

Gridlink - Longhena
Carla Bozulich - Boy
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Behemoth - The Satanist
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
Gazpacho - Demon
Monarch - Sabbracadaver
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica

Surprised to see that Sharon van Etten hasn't been mentioned yet, deserves to be on here. Such a great new album.

roundup, thus far:

Laurence Crane: Chamber Works 1992 - 2009

KLAUS LANG: SAIS.

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, August 11, 2014 7:56 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

convinced that these two are minor classics. esp laurence crane. did you check out the taku sugimoto record? it's my fav of the year so far, you'd def like it judging by your list

nice, haven't given it a proper listen yet.. wasn't too moved by Live in Saritote (kamura/sugimoto) from last year, and my appetite for these beuger/frey-like, sort of tenuously played sound worlds is not so strong. though the recordings are very nice, with a lot of room sound.

the edwards/sanders/tibury disk on fataka really shook things up for me.

the first piece (quartet) is gorgeous, on that new sugimoto.

This was released 2013 but it seems like it got an official single remix release this year so I'm counting it:

Tove Lo - Habits (Hippie Sabotage remix)

Not a fan of the original but the remix is amazing.

I'm too lazy to write them all down but here's my favorite songs 2014 playlist on Spotify. It's around 50 songs at the moment if anyone is interested.

http://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/7KMO1OxFfqbHD17ssHvExq

spotify:user:moteldemoka:playlist:7KMO1OxFfqbHD17ssHvExq

Jason Lescalleet - Much to My Demise

What's this like, Moka? I've delved into Graham Lambkin's back catalogue but I don't know much about Lescaleet

if you told me i'd like a Rick Ross album better than a Future album this year I'd be wtf but unfortunately that was what happened

even though Ross still ain't shit as a rapper

What's this like, Moka? I've delved into Graham Lambkin's back catalogue but I don't know much about Lescaleet

― 3kDk (dog latin)

If you enjoyed the Lambkin/Lescaleet release you know what to expect. It's only three tracks long, the first song is a deconstructed, melancholic piano ballad (so, similar to Stars of the Lid or the Breadwinner collaboration with Lambkin), the second one is a drone/tape piece and the last one is between drone and noise music.

If you never heard him before I'd recommend starting with The Pilgrim instead of this one, but this one is definitely one of the top 5 albums I've heard of him for me.

will check. 'photographs' was my second fave album of last year.

Mentioning this because it's so out of left field. Turning into one of my favorite albums of the year. Anyway...

Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter (soundtrack) - Ivar Pall Jonsson

This has been discussed in the afrobeats thread, but it deserves a mention here. Possibly my song of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHBe1BA-Nk

Don't have much to add here at the moment (everyone has heard of Twigs and my year is fairly backloaded with forthcoming releases).

But I do think Novos Mistérios, by Italian percussion duo Ninos du Brasil deserves a bigger audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO5BOLIV2S4

Great recommendation Sanpaku! I'm listening to it now and it sounds amazing.

The suggested artists on Spotify is confusing though:

Connan Mockasin, Fuck Buttons, Broadcast, Actress

I'd say it's more in line with Shackleton, Africa Hi-tech, Tokimonsta or A tribe called Red.

the whole album, especially that track and the final (title) track, is terrific

whoa this is good stuff!

yeah, that sounds good! another italian thing i'm kind of enjoying atm is the clap! clap! album 'tayi bebba' which is basically samples of various african recordings over footwork beats. might sound like a clunky concept but it's pretty engaging music. there's definitely the whole issue of cultural appropriation to be wrestled with though

10 random albums that could all do with more love:

Vessel - Punish, Honey
Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes of Voice
Esben & the Witch - A New Nature
Suicideyear - Remembrance
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Leon Vynehall - Music For The Uninvited
HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
OOIOO - Gamel
Ital - Endgame

thanks, haven't heard many of these. I like the OOIOO album - intend to spend a bit more time with it though as I'm not always in the mood.

get on that vessel album imo, it's kind of this year's answer to last year's james holden album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RhJY9ZeYqw

*whisper it* wasn't mad on the holden album but i'll give it a go.

So far:

Meshell Ndegeocello - Comet Come to Me
Seven that Spells - Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: IO
David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights - End Times Undone
Khun Narin Electric Phin Band - s/t
Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall
Sungod - Vision Space

I need to hear the HTRK. i liked their last one.

Never listened to HTRK before this album. I bought it off a whim and have listened to it a few times nothing really caught my attention. Guess I'm still waiting for it to sink in.

(in no order)
Julius Steinhoff ‎– Flocking Behaviour
The Bug - Angels and Devils
Grouper - Ruins
Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
EyeHateGod - Eyehategod
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
Aphex Twin - Syro

One of my friends turned me on to Broncho last year, but the new album Just Enough Hip To Be Woman came out two weeks ago and it's so goddamn good. Indie rock and me rarely see eye to eye anymore, but I'm definitely feelin' what this band is doing.

^^^ I second that, their album is excellent.

Still making my way through Nude Beach's 77 but there are some clear standouts already - sounds like an excellent companion to some of the more sprawling recent Sloan albums.

http://pitchfork.com/advance/571-ii/

Objekt - Flatland
dEUS - Selected Songs 1994-2014

Khun Narin - Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band
Hildur Gudnadottir - Saman
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
Jennifer Castle - Pink City
Stanislav Tolkachev - Right Angle
Columns - Please Explode
Yuka - Episodes Of Yesterday
Call Super - Suzi Ecto
Earth - Primitive And Deadly
Bitchin Bajas - S/T
The Lowest Form - Negative Ecstasy
Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - Tikkun

That Jennifer Castle album Pink City is a masterpiece btw.

great list xelab. at least the stuff i already know from it - i'll have to check out the rest

Have you heard the Jennifer Castle one yet? I feel sorry for anyone who hasn't, seriously it is a masterpiece.

i'm listening to it right now. very in my wheelhouse - it's fantastic.

String arrangements by an esteemed Ilx poster as well!

that khun narin is the jam for sure

> Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - Tikkun

Sheesh, I've been trying to keep up with Oren Ambarchi and it looks like he's been releasing something new every month.

Two usual suspects:

Matthew Shipp - I've Been to Many Places
Maria Rita - Coração a Batucar

I decided to start pulling together cover art for albums I've been into for any extended period of time this year, and went ahead and included the Röyksopp and Javiera Mena because I'm pretty sure they'll be in heavy rotation once they arrive (and also because I needed two more for the grid).

http://i.imgur.com/phjzClj.jpg

Row 1:
Archipelago - Archipelago Matters
Betty Who - Take Me When You Go
Broncho - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman
Dum Dum Girls - Too True
FKA twigs - LP1
Gulp - Season Sun

Row 2:
Halasan Bazar & Tara King th. - 8
Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Make My Head Sing
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Le Prince Miiaou - Where Is the Queen?

Row 3:
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Nottee - Side By Side

Row 4:
Pretties for You - We Have Our Reasons
Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
Sacco - Sacco
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Tensnake - Glow
Thea & The Wild - Strangers and Lovers

Row 5:
The Jezabels - The Brink
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream
The Proper Ornaments - Wooden Head
Tinashe - Aquarius
Tomas Barfod - Love Me
Woman's Hour - Conversations

some nice selections there

Pretties for You - We Have Our Reasons

this album deserves attention

women's hour is v good too

thanks for this grid Johnny Fever, I am going to listen to the albums I am not familiar with based on my fondness for the albums I am actually familiar with and your good work in the Shambhala of Not Indie Not Pop.

FYI that Nottee album is produced by Henning Furst of The Tough Alliance.

I've been waiting for a Nottee full length for forever, and it does not disappoint.

That's a great set JF and very aligned with my own this year! There's at least 10 of those albums in my own list. Will share it later on the year.

This is actually a 2013 release!

Le Prince Miiaou - Where Is the Queen?

Everything I've found online about it says it came out in January of '14.

Yes, you're right. My bad, spotify and itunes have it as 2013 but the official release was 27 Jan 2014

Add Blue Planet Eyes by The Preatures to my list. What a damn good record.

Can't find that Jennifer Castle album on Spotify or Rhapsody. "Pink City" the song sounds great.

yeah the preatures' album doesn't quite hit the high watermark of something like days are gone but it gets close

I was just ambushed by this song in a Chipotle. Although the album is 2013 the song seems to have been "singled" or w/e in 2014:

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

Ohh wow that Jennifer Castle album is great.

She played this song at my best friend's wedding at I cried and cried. She rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3UnrNONKmE&t=2m27s

(song starts at 2:27)

Anyone else knocked out by 'No Deal' by Melanie De Biasio? Surprised no mention yet on ILM. If you like any of the following, do seek it out.
- Spririt Of Eden or Mark Hollis (not as in exact soundalikes but as in, if you put it on after one of these, you wouldn't be dramatically altering the mood)
- albums that sound good on your bourgeois stereo and make you want to turn the lights down and listen all the way through
- minimalist arrangements and running time (33mins long)
- "Belgium's own Billie Holiday", one review said

never heard of it but sounds pretty great. will seek out a copy to play on my bourgeious stereo

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Well, that test halfway worked.
DVA - Nipomo, FKA twigs - LP1, Gazelle Twin - Unflesh, Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell, Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes of Voice, Lamb - Backspace Unwind, Juçara Marçal - Encarnado
MØ - No Mythologies to Follow, Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister

Missing: Ninos du Brasil - Novos Mistérios, Ronika - Selectadisc, Scuba Death - Nitrogen Narcosis

Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot

this is bonkers!! i love it

the matthew shipp album is gorgeous

Love Meridian Brothers, but Desesperanza from 2012 has much more immediate charms.

in no particular order:

Lewis – L’amour
Aphex Twin - Syro
Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
Mac Demarco – Salad Days
Warpaint – s/t
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
Sun Kil Moon – Benji
Real Estate – Atlas
The War on Drugs – Lost in the dream
Owen Pallett – In Conflict
Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (This might be a 2013 release though)
Broncho – Just Enough Hip To Be Woman
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights – End Times Undone
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo
Ibibio Sound System – s/t
Ariel Pink – Pom Pom

Taylor swift - 1989
Miranda lambert - platinum
Toni braxton & babyface - love, marriage & divorce
Excepter - familiar
Torn hawk - through the force of will
Davinche / katie pearl - 2002 record
Kehlani - cloud 19
Dj q - ineffable
Gerard way - hesitant alien
Lee ann womack - the way i'm livin'
Yg - my krazy life
Willie nelson - band of brothers
Mariah carey - me i am mariah...the elusive chanteuse
Dolly parton - blue smoke

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

hey this is real real nice

what else is nice and recent(ly heard):

Cooly G - Wait 'Til Night
Death Blues - Ensemble
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Javier Bergia - Eclipse
Le Révélateur - Extreme Events
Jeff Zeigler and Mary Lattimore - Slant of Light
St. Lenox - Ten Songs About Memory and Hope
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Ricardo Donoso - A Song For Echo
Caribou - Our Love
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
Paul White - Shaker Notes
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman - Laghdú
Tape - Casino
The Juan Maclean - In A Dream
Peaking Lights - Cosmic Logic
Populous - Night Safari
Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism
Panda Bear - Mr Noah
Heliocentrics and Melvin van Peebles - The Last Transmission

top 10 2014 records (as of this date):

angel olsen: burn your fire for no witness
junglepussy: satisfaction guaranteed
owen pallett: in conflict
perfume genius: too bright
alvvays: alvvays
grouper: ruins
taylor swift: 1989
hercules & love affair: the feast of the broken heart
mr twin sister: mr twin sister
tinashe: aquarius

Loving the Torn Hawk. Thanks to seandalai for giving me the head's up in the time travel thread

Had no idea there was a new Tape album! Sweet deal.

instantly in love with the Desperate Journalist album. didn't really occur to me at first but now they really remind me of the Parachute Men, except with a morrissey-obsessed singer

Mirah - Changing Light
Roykopp & Robin - Do It Again
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Moodymann - Moodymann
Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once
Planningtorock - All Love's Legal
Javiera Mena - Otra Era
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Rhythm
Air - Music For Museum
Sebastien Tellier - L'Aventura
Ex Hex - Rips
Chicks On Speed - Artstravaganza

Also dig most of the Linda Perhacs and Cibo Matto albums.

xxxp yeh that Torn Hawk record is one of my years most played albums, superb

Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once

I had already completely forgotten this came out. Listening to it now, I think forgetting it must have been a conscious decision.

Total Freedom - "10,000 Screaming Faggots" & Rinse FM Podcast -- this year he's become my favourite American musician, ah, ever
Untold - "Echo In The Valley" -- freed from beats! I hope he sticks with this amazing new direction
Alessandro Cortini - "Sonno" -- have you heard this? it is a 303 + delay pedal and is recorded entirely in hotel rooms and it actually sounds exactly like the feeling of being on tour
Shabazz Palaces - "Lese Majesty" -- and their clothes and photo shoots have been the best there is actually nothing bad to say about these guys
Run The Jewels - "2" -- usually only listen to alpha-male hip-hop to grab tracks for mixes for when friends are over and want to listen to normal party music but this record melted my heart
Xiu Xiu - "Red Guts: Angel Classroom" -- ummm this is actually the best latter-day Xiu Xiu record and one of the best engineered/mixed records I've ever heard and made me a #1 fan of John Congleton
Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"
Fatima - "Yellow Memories"
Mika Levi - "Under The Skin OST"
Hank - "Showers Of Happiness"
Pharmakon - "Bestial Burden"

Also been listening a lot to Bing And Ruth "Tomorrow Was The Golden Age", Hauschka "Abandoned Cities", Drumm/Lescalleet "The Abyss", and A Winged Victory For The Sullen "Atomos" but that's more of me trying to better understand the Erased Tapes aesthetic & missing Stars Of The Lid.

Bing And Ruth "Tomorrow Was The Golden Age"

This is really good.

Alsarah & the Nubatones - Silt

http://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/silt

Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki
Naomi Punk - Television Man

taylor swift 1984 (even with all its flaws)
taking back sunday happiness is (emo institution make an album about being awful husbands/dads and it's the best album of their career? idk)
against me! transgender dysphoria blues
mr twin sister mr twin sister (queer, balearic, sade, indie, pop)
leon vynehall music for the uninvited (gorgeous, generous, diffuse house)
swahili amovreaux (these dudes are my friends but if you have any love for the juan maclean album you should also listen to this https://soundcloud.com/swahilinoise/vestal)
neneh cherry blank project (unbelievable rhythmic accomplishment imo)
gerard way hesitant alien (album is deceptively slight, after a few listens the songs expanded considerably, it is also maybe the one of four records on this list that engages with queerness and mental illness)
javiera mena otra era (i listened to this while walking at night in the very very cold and it made me feel like the world was unpeeling into vhs-quality warmth and sunlight ymmv)
dj quik the midnight life
moodymann moodymann
rich gang tha tour, part 1 (feel like my enjoyment of this year's moodymann and rich gang records is related)
flaming tusk inquisitor (feels like a copout that my favorite metal album of the year so far was made by a bunch of my bros but here we are http://music.flamingtusk.com/album/inquisitor)
lee ann womack the way i'm livin' (probably the best narrative album of 2014, whole thing deepens incredibly as you listen to it)
driver friendly unimagined bridges (austin emo band that released my favorite album of 2012, this one is almost as good, gleaming guitar tones as therapy)
the hotelier home like noplace is there (everyone thinks this is the emo album of the year and they're not wrong)
yg my krazy life
owen pallett in conflict
horrendous ecdysis (very very very creative death metal record that seems deceptively old school at first)
the juan maclean in a dream
vader tibi et igni (this album is such a fucking party)
young marco biology
especia gusto (see javiera mena blurb)
joyce manor never hungover again (most listened to album of 2014, all 19 minutes of it)

(feel like my enjoyment of this year's moodymann and rich gang records is related)

ha this is an excellent thought

BRONCHO - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman (picked this up after reading about it on a Johnny Fever thread - catchy, Cars-influenced, indie rock)
DJ Quik - The Midnight Life (thematically seems a little less edgy than Book of David - more laidback - Quik is brilliant as ever)
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (initially felt a bit monochromatic to me, but it's been growing on me, an interesting evolution from their previous album)
Real Estate - Atlas (just solid songwriting and a lovely, meticulous recording - I'm a sucker for this sort of mopey, pretty, guitar crap)
Sun Kil Moon - Benji (hella uneven, but some striking highlights)
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (a huge slab of dark abrasive sludgey riffs- love it)
TUNE-YARDS - Nikki Nack (I prefer this to whokill - an embarrassment of hooks)
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (ah, the '80s - reminds me of my youth - the solos are often the best parts)
Witch Mountain - Mobile of Angels (solid '70s throwback stoner-doom band with a captivating singer)

Forgot to mention:
Khun Narin Electric Phin Band - s/t (another one I discovered on this very thread - hard to describe - traditional Southeast Asian music meets drone rock or something)

Drumm/Lescalleet "The Abyss" (track), great dynamic range. Played the one track endlessly. Can't seem to latch onto the rest, though there are rad parts littered throughout the general morass.

this year sucked for albums

the eternal hunt for jamz also feels like its had a rough signal-noise ratio

taylor swift 1984 (even with all its flaws)

it was a bright cold day in april and the clocks were striking taylorswift13

this year sucked for albums

fuck, man. this year killed it

Syro doesn't wear thin, and the Plaid album is just OK.
we got the Laurence Crane double album, which is excellent.
John Tilbury's magic touch all over the place (Fataka disk, Quixotism, David Sylvian collage, et al)
the ariel pink album is just insane. too early to tell
a Michael Pisaro 3-cd box set, not really 'jamz' tho
i haven't heard 85% of the albums listed in this thread.

my fav albums:

FKA Twigs LP 1
Taylor Swift 1989
Javiera Mena Otra Era
St. Vincent St. Vincent
Tinashe Aquarius
Fatima Yellow Memories
Toni Braxton & Babyface Love, Marriage & Divorce
Cher Lloyd Sorry I'm Late
Todd Terje It's Album Time
Jessie Ware Tough Love
Cooly G Wait 'Til Night
Caribou Our Love
YG My Krazy Life
Perfume Genius Too Bright
The Juan Maclean In A Dream
Tiny Ruins Brightly Painted One
Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste
Slow Club Complete Surrender
Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds
Kyla La Grange Cut Your Teeth

looking forward to k. michelle, charli xcx, and pink print. Still have to hear DJ Quik

Kyla La Grange Cut Your Teeth

I really really really wanted this to be as good as I'd hoped it would be, but I only ever find myself going back to two tracks (the title track and Get It).

in no order; albums

• childbirth -- it's a girl!
• fake blood -- nothing ep
• stone jack jones -- ancestor
• the bug -- angels & devils
• neneh cherry -- blank project
• st. vincent -- st. vincent
• war on drugs -- lost in the dream
• sunny day in glasgow -- sea when absent
• actress -- ghettoville
• tinariwen -- emmaar

• girlpool -- jane
• childbirth -- how do girls even do it?
• andy stott -- violence
• tune yards -- water fountain (live)
• stone jack jones -- joy
• beverly -- honey do
• st. vincent -- prince johnny
• earth -- from the zodiacal light
• liars -- mess on a mission
• todd terje -- johnny and mary
• mc bin laden -- passinho do farao
• katy b -- 5am
• katy b -- cryin for no reason
• my brother, my sister -- inside you
• fake blood -- 1
• spoon -- outlier
• mikewillmakonnen (think this is right?) -- wishin' you well

Expanded grid out to 100 (included eps)

http://i.imgur.com/RDlBWlx.jpg

how did you make that grid?

Is Prince Johnny the agreed nominated cut for EOY tracks from the St Vincent album? Just curious as my favourite song has changed a lot over the year and finally settled on Huey Newton, but it used to be Prince Johnny.

here's my top ten so far.

angel olsen - burn your fire for no witness
azealia banks - broke with expensive taste
botanist - vi: flora
fka twigs - lp1
future islands - singles
neneh cherry - blank project
owen pallett - in conflict
st vincent - st vincent
taylor swift - 1989
vashti bunyan - heartleap

xps http://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php

I did 3 10x3 mosaics and 1 1x10 and then pieced them together in photoshop.

thx

BRONCHO - Just Enough Hip to Be Woman (picked this up after reading about it on a Johnny Fever thread - catchy, Cars-influenced, indie rock)

man i want to love this but the gratuitous reverb on the vocals is distracting

The vocals sounded a bit affected to me at first, but once the songs started to sink in, it didn't bother me any more.

Is Prince Johnny the agreed nominated cut for EOY tracks from the St Vincent album? Just curious as my favourite song has changed a lot over the year and finally settled on Huey Newton, but it used to be Prince Johnny.

― joni mitchell jarre (dog latin)

My favourite has always been I Prefer Your Love but Prince Johnny would be close behind.

Prince Johnny and Digital Witness are the ones I'd consider voting for in a poll if we had some kind of year-end poll on ILM.

yeah, if only

TBF, there are very few bad moments on that record.

Polling it:
St Vincent 2014 - You're kind but you're not care-POLL

Johnny Fever I am really keen on your choices that I recognise, do you have a key to the grid so I can identify and investigate the ones I don't?

It's not final, so I didn't bother typing out all 100. I may do it later though.

JF, somewhat surprised you weren't keen on Hundred Waters. Nicole Miglis is the closest thing to Liz Fraser since, well, Liz or Sonya Waters back in the 90s.

I haven't listened to it before, but I just pulled it up on Spotify.

Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro

steve gunn - way out weather
chris forsyth and the solar motel band - intensity ghost
mark barrott - sketches from an island
nenad markovic - kayto
leon vynehall - music for the uninvited
kylie minogue - kiss me once
juan maclean - in a dream
miranda lambert - platinum
young marco - biology
lee ann womack - the way i'm livin'
jessie ware - tough love
leonard cohen - popular problems
yagya - sleepygirls
marissa nadler - july
grouper - ruins
alvvays - alvvays
fear of men - loom
literature - chorus
aphex twin - syro
gazelle twin - unflesh

JF :

heard the temples vs beyond the wizards sleeve album yet ?

i hadn't heard the source album until i got the deluxe today.
as per usual with these albums when indie bands get in a dance orientated crew to redo a whole album, i always end up preferring the remixed version : auteurs vs mu-siq, chapterhouse vs global comms, kora vs cabaret voltaire, tivoli vs cabaret voltaire etc.

that said, the original album does sounds like something that could become a playlister.

Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro

absolutely. love this album.
i fact i have listened to this more than the new heliocentrics album with melvin van peebles.

It's a lot of fun. I especially like the final track.

The Martin Carr album is suitably nice. Not a million miles off the Boo Radleys and sometimes I find his preference for self-referential lyrics a bit hokey but it's decent music.

JF :

heard the temples vs beyond the wizards sleeve album yet ?

I haven't! I'll hunt it down when I get home.

gazelle twin - unflesh

^ fantastic record, should be way more mentions of it itt. like having a subdermal implant of a live ferret

JF, somewhat surprised you weren't keen on Hundred Waters. Nicole Miglis is the closest thing to Liz Fraser since, well, Liz or Sonya Waters back in the 90s.

― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:33 AM

I haven't listened to it before, but I just pulled it up on Spotify.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:38 AM

So this really didn't push any buttons for me. Something about the production choices I think. I think Of Empress is my favorite (sometimes) Liz Fraser disciple, so I really wish she'd get a full LP together soon.

*Empress Of

gazelle twin album is great... some parallels with the Pharmakon record I was digging earlier this week.

Some tracks:

Dasha Charusha - 16
VIA Gra - U Menya Poyavilsya Drugoi
Fatima Erkenova - On Ne Tantsuyet, A On Porkhaet
Tove Styrke - Borderline
Mr Little Jeans - Good Mistake
Ivan Dorn - Tanets Pingvina
Serebro - Ya Tebya Ne Otdam
Kleerup - Let Me In
Kira Isabella - Quarterback
Kiesza - Hideaway
Swet Shop Boys - Benny Lava

Some albums:

Yelle - Completement Fou
Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence
Owen Pallett- In Conflict
Taylor Swift - 1989
Nyusha - Obedinenie
Riff Raff - Neon Icon
Ex Hex - Rips
Indila - Mini World

I have a terrible memory though.

Tracks:

Shamir 'On The Regular'
Giant Claw 'Dark Web 003'
Richard Dawson 'The Vile Stuff' this track off the new album is *incredible*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVlNt6DAxY

Yes, that Richard Dawson track is extraordinary - it's really got under my skin.

wow, yeah, that's great.
kind of a Sun City Girls vibe at times, but very much his own thing.....

what's a staffie cross?

Staffordshire Bull Terrier Cross (so not a purebreed). A "dangerous dog" - known for viciously attacking people, and being owned by the types who would raise their dogs to purposefully viciously attack people.

I can probably translate anything else for confused non-Brits if needs be.

Giant Claw 'Dark Web 003'

this is great! I forget how my bandmate came across it ... but yeah.

also

childbirth -- how do girls even do it?

everytime this gets played on the radio I totally forget who the band is and that it is awesome and fun

this gets played on the radio? can't imagine it (given subject matter, and lack of any hype for the album). i love most of the album, basically.

KALX - uc berkeley college station -- has a pretty good reach

So bummed none of you aren't mentioning Sharon van Etten. Man what an album.

xxxp: so some kind of pit bull... thanks emil....

really dig the lyrics on that, they kind of veer wildly from these hyper-specific experiences to banal details to poetic wordplay to just taking the piss, 'til the intense shit starts to sound mundane and the mundane shit starts to sound poetic, kind of unsettling and keeps you off balance....

Still totally (well, partly) in flux, but I had some time to kill tonight. Updated the 100. This time with names!

http://i.imgur.com/Khjj0zj.jpg

ROW 1: Occupanther, Azealia Banks, Love Inks, SZA, Montgomery, Ryan Adams, The Jezabels, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Lydia Loveless, Dum Dum Girls

ROW 2: Broncho, The New Pornographers, Isaiah Rashad, Anderson .Paak, Todd Terje, Thea & The Wild, The Raveonettes, Flying Lotus, Rodney Crowell, Moko

ROW 3: Sohn, The Juan Maclean, Fatima, Mr. Twin Sister, Daniel Lanois, Ibibio Sound Machine, Perfume Genius, Taylor Swift, Sturgill Simpson, Meshell Nedegeocello

ROW 4: Morgan Delt, White Lung, FKA twigs, Le Prince Miiaou, Twin Peaks, Tycho, St. Vincent, The Hidden Cameras, The Preatures, Grandmilly

ROW 5: DJ Quik, Ronika, Woman's Hour, Perfect Pussy, Halasan Bazar & Tara King th., Two Wings, Tinashe, Run the Jewels, The Soundcarriers, Ninsun Poli

ROW 6: Billie Black, First Aid Kit, Madi Diaz, Oscar Key Sung, Liars, Röyksopp, Temples, Giana Factory, Airling, Jungle

ROW 7: Lowell, Tomas Barfod, Tokimonsta, Warm Soda, Betty Who, Javiera Mena, Museum of Love, Neneh Cherry, Sinkane, Niia

ROW 8: Baro, Kitten, Gulp, MØ, Lia Ices, Warpaint, Lera Lynn, Torn Hawk, 6th Borough Project, Owen Pallett

ROW 9: Tensnake, Nottee, Mirel Wagner, Cumbres Carrascosa, Caribou, Frida Sundemo, Night Flowers, Jessie Ware, Iamamiwhoami, Róisín Murphy

ROW 10: ALVVAYS, Jesse Boykins III, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Amir Obè, The Coathangers, Literature, Oh Land, JAWS, Edward, Lykke Li

These are the ones I'll be rooting for. Those unmentioned so far this thread in bold.

Lydia Ainsworth - Right From Real (arty dream pop)
Aphex Twin - Syro (IDM)
The Bad Plus - The Rite of Spring (Stravinsky jazz trio)
Bill Callahan - Have Fun With God (dub-country)
Call Super - Suzi Ecto (IDM)
Peter Christopherson - Time Machines II (Coildrone)
Clap! Clap! - Tayi Bebba (fictional afrobeats)
DVA - Nipomo (freak folktronica)
Esben and the Witch - A New Nature (indiegoth)
FKA twigs - LP1 (avant R&B)
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (body horrortronica)
Grenier & Archie Pelago - Grenier Meets Archie Pelago (nu Jazz tronica)
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell (Frazier-y ambient pop)
iamamiwhoami - Blue (post-Knife electropop)
Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes of Voice (vocal experimental)
The Juan Maclean - In a Dream (nu-disco)
Juçara Marçal - Encarnado (skronky Brazilian avant-folk)
Kye Kye - Fantasize (dreampop)
Lamb - Backspace Unwind (electropop)
Amy LaVere - Runaway's Diary (alt-country)
MØ - No Mythologies to Follow (scando-R&B)
Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister (balearic Sade)
Ninos du Brasil - Novos Mistérios (batucada techno)
Phantogram - Voices (indietronica)
Ronika - Selectadisc (Madonna revival)
Samaris - Silkidrangar (Icelandic clarinetronica)
St. Vincent - St. Vincent (angular guitar pop)

Awesome thread. Keep 'em comin'!

yeah, lotsa good stuff....
also, thanks Sanpaku for the little genre tags/descriptions, makes a long list way more checkoutable.....

listening to the title-track of Richard Dawson's 'Nothing Important' right now on Spotify and it's.......fucking ridiculous, amazing music

oh my fucking god

The music is amazeballs but i just cannot get past his voice, which I do not care for. Wish I did though :-/

the vile stuff is a 16-minute song with better half man half biscuit lyrics than the new half man half biscuit album, i can't even deal with this

ben wheatley/amy jump collaboration in 3...2...1...

seeing richard dawson sing live at supernormal was incredible, his voice was coming from a very deep place. was really wrenching the music from somewhere beyond the pit of his stomach, dragging the words up by his vocal cords thru bile, blood and bubbling shit until they were left hanging new and naked in the air, blinking in the daylight. maybe if you saw him AB, you might understand?

something always turns up at this time to completely reconfigure my attitude to the year in music

did you ever listen to gazelle twin y/n?

uh oh uh um maaaybe

I personally don't find the /mu/ grids helpful.

gazelle twin is incredible. 'The Entire City' from a couple years back is great but 'Unflesh' is really something else, like cronenbergian.

^^^ totally

videos are nice and creepy too

what...is happening

atm writing some truly messed up fantastical body-horror for my novel; this works almost too well

Shiina Ringo's Hi Izuru Tokoro (English title: Sunny) is a B or B-.

Has some great cuts on it, especially the handful of jazzy songs with very bright horn sections, all in the first half of the album, that I think are new for this release. Still, the total album doesn't work well as an album, which isn't surprising considering it collects various singles, a bunch of them commissioned theme music of one sort or another. (Sanmon Gossip was better at this, though I think this new one is better taken on a song by song basis.)

Not on Spotify and not on youtube (as far as I've been able to determine), but it's around.

I keep coming back, again and again, to the Stein Urheim (s/t) album. Quietus review: http://thequietus.com/articles/14688-stein-urheim-review

http://glisteningexamples.bandcamp.com/track/autumn-leaves-october-2014

one of the more affecting Lescalleet tracks i've ever heard.. keep returning to it.

Xp

That stein Urheim album is ace as is the latest Chris Forsyth one mentioned upthread.

Ulwhednar - 1520
Population One - Theater Of a Confused Mind
Gangsta Boo & Beatking - Underground Cassette Tape Music
2562 - The New Today
Tashi Wada - Duets
Aquarian - Aquarian EP
Edward - Into A Better Future

Edward - Into A Better Future

This is outside of my usual wheelhouse, but what a good record.

it is very nice, it pushes a lot of niiice buttons - Future Days era Can, Deep House, twinkly ambient shit!

lee gamble - koch
head high - megatrap
efdemin - decay
tobias. - a series of shocks
awanto 3 - opel mantra
mike dehnert - lichtbedingt
jorge velez - territories
terrence parker - life on the back 9
actress - ghettoville
vatican shadow - death is unity with god

excited to hear that edward album.

and the population one.

Nothing has bettered the Terrence Parker alb yet!

Skating Beats is a monstrous track though, my no.1 of the year.

just albums for now:

nenad markovic - kayto
mark e - product of industry
gigi masin - talk to the sea
young marco - biology
andras fox - overworld
leon vynehall - music for the uninvited
yg - my krazy life
prins thomas - prins thomas iii
kevin gates - by any means
paqua - akaliko
yagya - sleepygirls
roman flugel - happiness is happening
the juan maclean - in a dream
massimiliano pagliara - with one another
rich gang - tha tour part 1
cloudface - untitled
lnrdcroy - much less normal
mr twin sister - mr twin sister
road hog - d.w.b.
javiera mena - otra era
jonny nash - snaker 004
andras & oscar - cafe romantica

i liked the edward album well enough, i'll have to listen to it more to really decide if it's more than pretty good, though

snaker 004 is 2013 y/n?

young marco - biology
mark barrott - sketches from an island
morgan buckley - shout out to all the weirdos in rathmines
nenad markovic - kayto ep
maricopa - pastel love part ii
suzanne kraft - missum
gigi masin - talk to the sea
rotla - laguna EP
almunia - xeni EP
horsebeach - alone together
javier mena - otra era
torn hawk - through force of will
dan svizney - plays the hits
guerilla toss - gay disco
cicciolina holocaust - mohim
weirdo/begeirdo - so i'm dude in this equation
alex dimou - sweet berries EP
prostitutes - petit cochon
mark rogers + mary byrne - i line my days along with your weight

oh shoot, you're right, i didn't hear it til this year. i think that nenad markovic record is considered an LP, not that it matters, i just noticed b/c i was refraining from starting to list a million EPs.

i'm gonna go out on a limb here and call mark e's album "underrated" b/c i didn't notice anyone talking about it despite mark e being a pretty big deal. it took a while to sink in, but aside from 'being hiding' which breaks the spell, i think it's pretty excellent.

also i forgot that suzanne kraft album and the torn hawk, love thsoe. gonna check out the stuff i don't recognize on your list lamp b/c i dig most of it.

from a different thread:

I've been keeping a shortlist of my fave singles that needs cleaning up, but what's in there now:
20syl / Oddisee - Ongoing Thing
Alpoko Don / Scarface - Set the Record Straight
Aphex - minipops 67
Basement Jaxx- Mermaid of Salinas
Big Von / Keak the Sneak / Jacka - Windows
Chronixx - Here Comes Trouble
Clean Bandit / Jess Glynne - Rather Be (The Magician Remix)
Danity Kane - Lemonade
DJ Quik - Bacon's Groove
DJ Quik - Fuck All Night
DJ Rashad - Somethin' Bout the Things You Do
Dolly Parton - Don't Think Twice
E-40 - Choices
FKA Twigs - Pendulum
IamSu - Hipster Girls
Jazmine Sullivan - Dumb
Jazmine Sullivan - Forever Don't Last
Justin Bieber - All That Matters
MO / K Koke - For a Minute
Mary J - Whole Damn Year
Michael J - Xscape
Nenad Markovic - Weather Vibes
Owen Pallett - Song for Five and Six
Popcaan - Everything Nice
Prince - U Know
PSY / Snoop - Hangover
Royksopp / Robynn - Do It Again
Royksopp / Robynn - Monument
Run the Jewels - Close Your Eyes and Count to Fuck
Run the Jewels - Crown
Schoolboy / Kendrick - Collard Greens
Sevyn Streeter (album version, solo) - nEXT
Snootie Wild - Made Me
T-Pain / BOB - Up Down
Tinashe and Blood Orange - Bet
Tove Lo - My Gun
Trey and Biebs - Foreign Remix
tune yards - Water Fountain
Yemi Marie - Love Bop
YG / Kendrick - Really Be Smokin n' Drinkin
Young Thug - Stoner

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I heard Estelle's "Make Her Say (Beat It Up)" when it came out last spring, but in the last few days I've been playing it a whole lot and it's turned into one of my favorite tracks of the year. It's crazy how much song is packed into 2:38 but I don't think I'd want it to be any longer than it is. Completely perfect.

syro

xxp had a lot of time this year for that nenad markovic record

yeah the nenad thing is kinda what i was hoping for from the todd terje album

this is the first year I've really made an effort to keep up with new albums for the year end poll and christ, how do you guys pare it down to 25??

you choose your favourites i guess? I feel as though I'm going to have trouble picking 10 albums I really really like this year to be honest.

i have three standouts and a bunch of pretty goods

here are some albums I've really liked (missing noise & rap & metal releases because I haven't delved into those much yet)

Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki
Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics - Jaiyede Afro
Matthew Shipp - I’ve Been To Many Places
Aphex Twin - SYRO
Alsarah & the Nubatones - Silt
Meridian Brothers - Salvadora Robot
Kaveri Special - Kaveri Special
Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
Blackflower - Abyssinia Afterlife
Naomi Punk - Television Man
Gazelle Twin - Unflesh
Pulse Emitter - Equinox
Broncho - Just Hip Enough To Be A Woman
Ronika - Selectadisc
Weyes Blood - The Innocents
Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish
Khun Narin - Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Mark Barrott - Sketches from an Island
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
Cave - Threace
Verma - Sunrunner
Fennesz - Bécs
Niños Du Brasil - Novos Mistérios
Porya Hatami - The Garden
Daniel Bachman - Orange Co. Serenade
Nenad Marcovc - Kayto
Circle - Leviatan
Goat - Commune
The Heliocentrics with Melvin Van Peebles - The Last Transmission
Marsen Jules - Beautyfear
Julianna Barwick - Rosabi EP
Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning
Ex Hex - Rips
Future Sound of London - Environment Five
White Lung - Deep Fantasy

Cave album is last year ao that shd help a little w the paring down

whoops!

thx for rating me mattresslessness! blushing.

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.