Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

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don't claim to know how the RT list is worked out but it's the aggregate of a relatively small no. of people right? so some big hitter or other getting short shrift isn't necc. that meaningful

proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link

what's noteworthy abt the Decibel doom list? semi-intrigued but no-one's uh leaked it online yet afaict

proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link

genuinely thought you were talking the Racoon Tanuki list and began to get excited

So beautiful cow (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link

glad to see Thou that high on the Decibel list!

alpine static, Monday, 17 November 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link

Sister Ray store list

1.Goat Commune

2.Mac DeMarco Salad Days

3.Soundcarriers Entropicalia

4.Moire Shelter

5.The War On Drugs Lost In A Dream

6.Caribou Our Love

7.Mogwai Rave Tapes

8.NehruvianDOOM S/T

9.Temples Sun Structures

10.Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata

11.Andy Stott Faith In Strangers

12.Paul White Shaker Notes

13. Mike Dehnert Lichtbedingt

14. Ratking So It Goes

15. East India Youth Total Strife Forever

16.Ital Endgame

17.Fatima Al Qadiri Asiatisch

18.Alvvays S/T

19.Cheatahs S/T

20.Dean Blunt Black Metal

(And their best sellers)

1. Jack White Lazaretto

2. War On Drugs Lost In The Dream

3. Beck Morning Phase

4. Aphex Twin Syro

5. Warpaint Warpaint

6. Temples Sun Structures

7. Mogwai Rave Tapes

8. Sun Kil Moon Benji

9. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey Going Back home

10. Wild Beasts Present Tense

11. Todd Terje Its Album Time

12. Swans To Be Kind

13. Black Keys Turn Blue

14. St Vincent St Vincent

15. Metronomy Love Letters

16. Horrors Luminous

17. Future Islands Singles

18. Mac De Marco Salad Days

19. Alt J This Is All Yours

20. First Aid Kit Stay Gold

Unsettled defender (ithappens), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link

Interesting that War on Drugs, Mac De Marco and Temples are the only albums where the staff overlap with their customers. It's not as if the customers are buying One Direction and Coldplay.

Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link

Wait, there's Mogwai too.

Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:17 (nine years ago) link

that soundcarriers album was very nice

nxd, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, love Entropicalia. Haven't seen much talk about it or the band. They Lways impress me.

afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link

Yeah there's some good underdiscussed stuff on that Sister Ray list - Soundcarriers, Paul White, the Mogwai album was surprisingly decent too iirc.

death in Skegness (seandalai), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link

from the rough trade list, id assume they dont stock anything that isnt indie rock, and if they do, they dont like them much. the sister ray list at least demonstrates that they do stock other genres, and that staff may actually even like those genes.

StillAdvance, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link

Rough Trade's stock is a lot broader than that list suggests.

Re-Make/Re-Model, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link

Here's a Spotify playlist of what's available from the Decibel list (missing are Woods of Desolation, Cult of Fire, Primordial, Teitanblood, Cretin and Midnight):

http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/6r9SerBKJpRR9XDbTKjmS6

glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link

and the entire Woods of Desolation record is streaming here:

http://www.stereogum.com/1626052/stream-woods-of-desolation-as-the-stars-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/album-stream/

top 3 metal release of 2014 for me

alpine static, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link

i didn't listen to a ton of metal this year, barely any in fact - wow this is so dope

give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link

i DID listen to the pallbearer record, tho, and that band does not really impress me much.

give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link

That Floor album was disappointing. No room for Crowbar or Nunslaughter. I see how it is, Decibel.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link

Oh, I thought the Floor record was tremendous, too. Also Triptykon, Godflesh and Solstafir, and I'm still pondering Beyond Creation.

glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link

Revolver Magazine:

01 – Slipknot – “.5: The Gray Chapter“
02 – At The Gates – “At War With Reality“
03 – Of Mice & Men – “Restoring Force“
04 – Linkin Park – “The Hunting Party“
05 – Motionless In White – “Reincarnate“
06 – Behemoth – “The Satanist“
07 – Mastodon – “Once More ‘Round The Sun“
08 – Judas Priest – “Redeemer Of Souls“
09 – Machine Head – “Bloodstone & Diamonds“
10 – Every Time I Die – “From Parts Unknown“
11 – Godflesh – “A World Lit Only By Fire“
12 – The Pretty Reckless – “Going To Hell“
13 – Killer Be Killed – “Killer Be Killed“
14 – ††† (Crosses) – “†††“
15 – Black Label Society – “Catacombs Of The Black Vatican“
16 – Black Veil Brides – “Black Veil Brides“
17 – Body Count – “Manslaughter“
18 – Suicide Silence – “You Can’t Stop Me“
19 – Godsmack – “1000hp“
20 – Triptykon – “Melana Chasmata“

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link

hahahaha wow look at that thing

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link

..............revolver knows that like, nu-metal died, right?

give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link

i listened to that linkin park record, it's pretty all right. guess i'll check out their metalcore picks

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link

At least Godflesh beat Godsmack.

Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link

i listened to the slipknot one, fwiw, it was alright just not my bag anymore. a fair chunk of those bands have legit never been good tho

give kawhi his damn eyedrops (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link

slipknot record is way too long and corey taylor's lyrics are way too intelligibly terrible. though iowa has the same problems and it totally rules

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link

I like a higher percentage of albums from the Revolver list (6/20) than the Decibel list (10/40).

Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link

"intelligibly terrible" is a great way to put it.

I'm a huge Deftones fan but that Crosses record was so boring, Team Sleep mk II

Simon H., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link

oh fuck, i just noticed the every time i die record is on the revolver list, that record kiiiicks

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link

i tried with that behemoth record, but it was just too theatrical/gothy i guess

j., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link

That's a good album. I feel like Bölzer are doing something in the same ballpark (brawny melodic ritualistic spiritualistic) and doing it fresher.

jmm, Thursday, 20 November 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link

Piccadilly Records
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=735

1 Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe
2 BE (Garth Be) - The Seven Movements
3 Horsebeach - Horsebeach
4 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
5 Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
6 Real Estate - Atlas
7 Hookworms - The Hum
8 Goat - Commune
9 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
10 Warpaint - Warpaint

john wahey (NickB), Friday, 21 November 2014 10:27 (nine years ago) link

Lots of things I like on the big Piccadilly list. Jane Weaver is a fun choice for #1, even if it's not one I'd go for myself.

death in Skegness (seandalai), Friday, 21 November 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link

That Piccadilly list is pretty interesting. Gulp's album is in the top 20 and Gruff Rhys's is nowhere to be seen (Gulp is SFA's bass player).

afriendlypioneer, Friday, 21 November 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link

Horsebeach - Horsebeach

I thought this would have been a much bigger record on ILX than it turned out to be.

boxedjoy, Saturday, 22 November 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link

i don't get the horsebeach album, i wanted to, a lot of people whose taste i like were into it, but it just sounds like generic jangle indie guitar pop stufff to me.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 22 November 2014 06:51 (nine years ago) link

Piccadilly always comes out with one of the more useful lists imo...

Neil Yup (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 22 November 2014 09:42 (nine years ago) link

Q magazine Top 50.

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Alt-J - This Is All Yours
3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. St Vincent - St Vincent
7. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
8. FKA twigs - LP1
9. Future Islands - Singles
10. Aphex Twin - Syro
11. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
12. Interpol - El Pintor
13. Sam Smith - The Loneliest Hour
14. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
15. The Horrors - Luminous
16. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
17. Mac De Marco - Salad Days
18. Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love
19. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
20. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
21. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
22. Caribou - Our Love
23. Jack White - Lazaretto
24. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
25. Ed Sheeran - X
26. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
27. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business
28. Kasabian - 48:13
29. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge
30. Gruff Rhys - American Interior
31. Mogwai - The Rave Tapes
32. The Bug - Angels & Devils
33. Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time
34. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
35. Real Estate - Atlas
36. Temples - Sun Structures
37. Baxter Dury - It's a Pleasure
38. Johnny Marr - Playland
39. Ty Segall - Manipulator
40. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals
41. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
42. Robert Plant - Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
43. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
44. U2 - Songs of Innocence
45. Warpaint - Warpaint
46. Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
47. Spoon - They Want My Soul
48. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
49. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
50. Jungle - Jungle

Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 24 November 2014 12:44 (nine years ago) link

lol @ the top 5

charlie h, Monday, 24 November 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link

jesus christ...

Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link

lol @ the top 50

lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link

haha

charlie h, Monday, 24 November 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link

Mojo:

1. Beck - Morning Phase
2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
3. Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit
4. Jack White - Lazaretto
5. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
7. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls And Windows
8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
9. FKA Twigs - LP1
10. The Bug - Angels & Devils
11. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
12. Caribou - Our Love
13. Ty Segall - Manipulator
14. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
15. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
16. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
17. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
18. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
19. Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
20. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
21. Aphex Twin - Syro
22. Future Islands - Singles
23. Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused
24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
25. Pharrell Williams - GIRL
26. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
27. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
28. Real Estate - Atlas
29. Kasai All Stars - Beware The Fetish
30. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
31. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business
32. Temples - Sun Structures
33. U2 - Songs Of Innocence
34. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
35. Nick Mulvey - First Mind
36. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
37. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - Cold World
38. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath
39. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
40. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
41. Lee Gamble - KOCH
42. Swans - To Be Kind
43. David Kilgour & The Heavy 8s - End Times Undone
44. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home
45. Neil Young - A Letter Home
46. J Mascis - Tied To A Star
47. Young Fathers - Dead
48. Pixies - Indie Cindy
49. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love
50. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat... The Spirit Of Satch

NB: 27 of the Mojo 50 are also in the Q 50.

mike t-diva, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link

in what world is the Mojo top 50 more interesting than the Q one? (not that there's much in it. must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2)

Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link

24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day

whoop whoop!

lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link

must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2

It isn't, but since when have Mojo and Q stood for 'guitar music' as opposed to 'music that your elderly conservative dad might like'?

emil.y, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link

i think half my own top 10, as it currently stands, is comprised of guitar music this year

lex pretend, Monday, 24 November 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link

xpost I know, I know. Just didn't want to miss an opportunity to dig my elbow into WoD. Still, cool to imagine Mojo readers getting into Lee Gamble. And Sleaford Mods at 3 is pretty surprising.

Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link

they had karen gwyer in their list last year - there's always one or two things you wouldn't necessarily expect

john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link

and 48 or 49 you totally would tbf

john wahey (NickB), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link

i think i'm gonna feel disconnected from a lot of critics polls this year. again.

Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 November 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link

and owen pallett could have been given a few bumps up.

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link

that poll was dumb - you got to vote for one album out of their top 50 (don't think twigs made their main list either)

Ottbot jr (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link

i cba voting in it this year

Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link

Pazz & Jop Top 50, with Consensus Watch placings in brackets.

1 (77=) D'Angelo, Black Messiah
2 (5) Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2
3 (3) The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream
4 (4) St. Vincent, St. Vincent
5 (1) FKA Twigs, Lp1
6 (40=) Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
7 (21=) Taylor Swift, 1989
8 (7) Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire for No Witness
9 (20) Spoon, They Want My Soul
10 (33=) Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues
11 (45=) Ex Hex, Rips
12 (77=) Miranda Lambert, Platinum
13 (8) Flying Lotus, You're Dead!
14 (33=) Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste
15 (11) Sharon Van Etten, Are We There
16 (15) Beck, Morning Phase
17 (6) Aphex Twin, Syro
18 (14) Sun Kil Moon, Benji
19 (10) Swans, To Be Kind
20 (33=) Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
21 (2) Caribou, Our Love
22 (18) Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence
23 (91=) New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers
24 (-) Wussy, Attica!
25 (33=) YG, My Krazy Life
26 (27=) Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
27 (27=) Ty Segall, Manipulator
28 (16) Perfume Genius, Too Bright
29 (73=) tUnE-yArDs, Nikki Nack
30 (12=) Future Islands, Singles
31 (77=) Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems
32 (9) Todd Terje, It's Album Time
33 (129=) Rosanne Cash, The River & the Thread
34 (154=) Charli XCX, Sucker
35 (12=) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata
36 (60=) Protomartyr, Under Color of Official Right
37 (30=) Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere Else
38 (222=) Lydia Loveless, Somewhere Else
39 (129=) TV on the Radio, Seeds
40 (19) Grouper, Ruins
41 (91=) EMA, The Future's Void
42 (23=) Real Estate, Atlas
43 (-) Bob Dylan, The Basement Tapes Complete: the Bootleg Series Vol. 11
44 (23=) Jack White, Lazaretto
45 (114=) Rich Gang, Tha Tour Part 1
46 (60=) Owen Pallett, In Conflict
47 (222=) Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint
48 (26) Alvvays, Alvvays
49 (100=) White Lung, Deep Fantasy
50 (21=) Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty

Biggest gainers in P&J: Wussy & Bob Dylan, which weren't placed in any other group polls.

Biggest losers in P&J:
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (17 in Consensus Watch, 54 in P&J)
Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (25 C, 77 P&J)
Wild Beasts - Present Tense (30= C, 131 P&J)
Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused (30= C, 58 P&J)

mike t-diva, Friday, 16 January 2015 12:11 (nine years ago) link

that run the jewels album is kind of dreadful, non?

this is just a saginaw (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link

No.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 January 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link

Rock-A-Rolla

1 Goat - Commune
2 Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
3 YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
4 Earth - Primitive And Deadly
5 Swans - To Be Kind
6 Old Man Gloom - The Ape Of God
7 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
8 Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun
9 Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament
10 Scott Walker + Sunn0))) - Soused
11 Tombs - Savage Gold
12 Electric Wizard - Time To Die
13 Melvins - Hold It In
14 Boris - Noise
15 Eyehategod - Eyehategod
16 Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
17 Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
18 Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burdon
19 Music Blues - Things Haven't Gone Well
20 The Austerity Program - Beyond Calculation
21 Solstafir - Otta
22 Tetema - Geocidal
23 Watter - This World
24 Serpentine Path - Emanations
25 Today Is The Day - Animal Mother
26 Knifeworld - The Unravelling
27 Mono - The Last Dawn/Rays Of Darkness
28 Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
29 Menace Ruine - Venus Armata
31 Obake - Mutations
32 Full Of Hell & Merzbow
33 Martyrdod - Elddop
34 Broughton's Rules - Anechoic Horizon
35 Trans Am - Volume X
36 Ought - More Than Any Other Day
37 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - IX
38 Okkultokrati - Night Jerks
39 Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels
40 Sunn0))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
41 Philm - Fire From The Evening Sun
42 Ides Of Gemini - Old World New Wave
43 Kayodot - Coffins On Io
44 Hark - Crystalline
45 Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall
46 Bohren & Dr Club Of Gore - Piano Nights
47 Floor - Oblation
48 Thomas Koner - Tiento De Las Nieves
49 Supersilent - 12
50 Origamibiro - Odham's Standard

Not bad, there's plenty of surprises. I only guessed 10 of the top 20, and 19 overall. I need to investigate Music Blues, Knifeworld and some others.

I think I can guess at most of what would be in Rock-A-Rolla's top 20: YOB, Godflesh, Swans, Earth, Goat, Secret Chiefs 3, Electric Wizard, Wovenhand, Shellac, Aphex Twin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Floor, Boris, Bong, Alcest, Baptists, Helms Alee, SBTRKT, Liars, Sunn0))) & Scott Walker.

Maybe top 50: Crippled Black Phoenix, Tombs, Lantlos, Thou, Sólstafir, Melvins, Mogwai, Cynic, Ides Of Gemini, Indian, Obake, Gridlink, Giant Squid, Black Moth, The Atlas Moth, Nadja, Midnight Masses, Eyehategod, Nothing, Pallbearer, Opeth, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Moab, John Garcia, Protomartyr, Gold Codes, Carla Bozulich, Have A Nice Life, Conan, Esben And The Witch, Horseback, Fucked Up, Woods Of Desolation, Comet Control, Motorpsycho, The Soft Pink Truth, Trans Am...
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, December 26, 2014 1:13 PM

Fastnbulbous, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link

It looks like another great issue BTW, and can be purchased digitally for just $4.99 - http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?catid=1037&category=Music&subcatid=230&subcategory=Rock&title=Rock-A-Rolla&titleid=768

Fastnbulbous, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link

Thank you! :D

A bunch of albums on there making my ballot, a couple of them v high up!

all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link

do we have a final version of the consensus watch?

Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Saturday, 17 January 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link

By a more convoluted methodology, here's the consensus ranking from acclaimedmusic.net

1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2 FKA twigs - LP1
3 St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
5 Sun Kil Moon - Benji
6 Caribou - Our Love
7 Swans - To Be Kind
8 Aphex Twin - Syro
9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
10 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
11 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
12 Future Islands - Singles
13 Beck - Morning Phase
14 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
15 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
16 Spoon - They Want My Soul
17 Perfume Genius - Too Bright
18 Todd Terje - It's Album Time
19 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
20 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
21 Wild Beasts - Present Tense
22 Taylor Swift - 1989
23 alt-J - This is All Yours
24 Ty Segall - Manipulator
25 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
26 Real Estate - Atlas
27 Ariel Pink - pom pom
28 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
29 Grouper - Ruins
30 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
31 Lykke Li - I Never Learn
32 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
33 Jack White - Lazaretto
34 Metronomy - Love Letters
35 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
36 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
37 The Bug - Angels & Devils
38 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
39 Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
40 Owen Pallett - In Conflict
41 Temples - Sun Structures
42 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
43 Arca - Xen
44 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
45 Warpaint - Warpaint
46 Ought - More Than Any Other Day
47 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
48 Ben Frost - A U R O R A
49 Alvvays - Alvvays
50 tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
51 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
52 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
53 YG - My Krazy Life
54 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
55 The Black Keys - Turn Blue
56 Interpol - El Pintor
57 Royal Blood - Royal Blood
58 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
59 Jungle - Jungle
60 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
61 Jessie Ware - Tough Love
62 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
63 Robert Plant - lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
64 How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"
65 Young Fathers - Dead
66 Mogwai - The Rave Tapes
67 Actress - Ghettoville
68 Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
69 Liars - Mess
70 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
71 Banks - Goddess
72 Dean Blunt - Black Metal
73 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
74 EMA - The Future's Void
75 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
76 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
77 Chet Faker - Built on Glass
78 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
79 Strand of Oaks - Heal
80 Goat - Commune
81 Ex Hex - Rips
82 Behemoth - The Satanist
83 Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
84 Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
85 Kindness - Otherness
86 Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business
87 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
88 The Antlers - Familiars
89 Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
90 Kelis - Food
91 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
92 Clark - Clark
93 S O H N - Tremors
94 TV on the Radio - Seeds
95 Merchandise - After the End
96 White Lung - Deep Fantasy
97 Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
98 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah
99 Shellac - Dude Incredible
100 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye

dancing cortical homunculus (Sanpaku), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

god help me, i added that singles playlist to my listening collection.

shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Not critics but what.cd's users poll:

1 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
2 - Aphex Twin - Syro
3 - Swans - To Be Kind
4 - St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5 - Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
6 - D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
7 - The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
8 - FKA Twigs - LP1
9 - Spoon - They Want My Soul
10 - Caribou - Our Love
11 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
12 - Todd Terje - It's Album Time
13 - Sun Kil Moon - Benji
14 - Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
15 - Future Islands - Singles
16 - Grouper - Ruins
17 - Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
18 - Beck - Morning Phase
19 - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
20 - Real Estate - Atlas
21 - Jack White - Lazaretto
22 - alt-J (∆) - This Is All Yours
23 - Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
24 - Ben Frost - A U R O R A
25 - Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
26 - tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
27 - Taylor Swift - 1989
28 - BADBADNOTGOOD - III
29 - Ty Segall - Manipulator
30 - Ariel Pink - pom pom
31 - The Antlers - Familiars
32 - Perfume Genius - Too Bright
33 - Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love
34 - Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
35 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
36 - Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
37 - Warpaint - Warpaint
38 - Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
39 - Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
40 - Clark - Clark
41 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - ATOMOS
42 - Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
43 - Death Grips - niggas on the moon
44 - Kiasmos - Kiasmos
45 - Wild Beasts - Present Tense
46 - Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
47 - White Lung - Deep Fantasy
49 - Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
50 - The Black Keys - Turn Blue
51 - Clipping - CLPPNG
52 - Ought - More Than Any Other Day
53 - Behemoth - The Satanist
54 - ODESZA - In Return
55 - The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
56 - Alvvays - Alvvays
57 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
58 - Jungle - Jungle
59 - Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
60 - Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
61 - Ex Hex - Rips
62 - Tycho - Awake
63 - Wye Oak - Shriek
64 - Arca - Xen
65 - Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
66 - TV on the Radio - Seeds
67 - Goat - Commune
68 - Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
69 - Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
70 - The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
71 - Trust - Joyland
72 - Phantogram - Voices
73 - Owen Pallett - In Conflict
74 - Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
75 - Fire! Orchestra - Enter
76 - Nothing - Guilty of Everything
77 - Liars - Mess
78 - La Dispute - Rooms of the House
79 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE
80 - Pink Floyd - The Endless River
81 - First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
82 - Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
83 - RATKING - So It Goes
84 - ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
85 - HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
86 - How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"
87 - Sohn - Tremors
88 - Alex G - DSU
89 - Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
90 - Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
91 - Slow Magic - How to Run Away
92 - The Body - I Shall Die Here
93 - Glass Animals - Zaba
94 - Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
95 - iamamiwhoami - Blue
96 - Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels
97 - Objekt - Flatland
98 - Christian Löffler - Young Alaska
99 - Thou - Heathen
100 - Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love

Dinsdale, Friday, 6 February 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link

that should read 'users poll', not sure what happened

Dinsdale, Friday, 6 February 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link


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