Rolling fave tracks + albums 2014

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

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.