2014½
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With the first half of the year over, what are your favourites so far?
Top 5
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Antlers - Familiars
War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
>>48063119
Sun Kil Moon, White Lung, How to Dress Well, Todd Terje, Viet Kong, Angel Olsen, EMA, War on Drugs, Owen Pallett.
As you can see by how generic that list is, i need more 2014 recommendations. Preferably some hiphop/rnb/pop cause it's been a weak year for those so far.
Expecting: Ariana Grande, Kendrick Lamar, Merchandise, D'angelo(?),
>>48063119
>weak year for hip hop
tpp kek m8
>>48063119
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I
Xiu Xiu - Unclouded Sky
Swans - To Be Kind
>>48063119
Top 10
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Liars - Mess
4. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
5. Freddy Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata
6. Owen Pallett - In Conflict
7. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
8. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House
9. Ought - More Than Another Day
10. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Honorable Mention to Total Control - Typical System which is in my 11 spot right now
>>48063724
wait, has Viet Cong's debut dropped yet? did i miss something
>>48063119
I was just about to start a thread like this
>>48063932
me too
of those not mentioned yet:
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom
>>48063932
>>48063952
Yeah, me too, fucking crazy
these
>>48063932
Here's mine. Honorable mention goes to Phantogram's Voices.
>>48064220
good choices...i didnt like oxymoron that much though, but Present Tense (and Typical System) are the two most underrated albums this year so far
1. ??? & Peter Brötzmann - Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself
2. Swans - To Be Kind
3. Innercity Ensemble - II
4. Ben Frost - A U R O R A
5. Mondkopf - Hades
total control
yup
1.Badbadnotgood-BBNG2
2.Andrew Jackson Jihad-Christmas Island
3.Death Grips-NOTM
4.Schoolboy Q-Oxymoron
5,Mac Miller-Faces
Favourites so far, in no order:
Liars- Mess
Swans- To Be Kind
Clipping- CLPPNG
Sun Kil Moon- Benji
Caustic Window- LP
War on Drugs- Lost in the Dream
Golden Retriever- Seer
St Vincent-S/T
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks- Enter the Slasher House
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib- Pinata
Agalloch- The Serpent and the Sphere
Cheetahs- S/t
Cymbals - The Age of Fracture
Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
Total Control - Typical System
>>48064695
Thanks, I didn't care much for Typical System, but it's certainly not a bad album by any means. Also, my perception of Total Control might have been dampened because I had to review it for a website and I usually listen to an album a lot in a short time span before reviewing.
>>48063119
Looking forward to new Amplifier and Pineapple Thief
>>48064978
>tfw a thread dies when you post in it
http://hengebeat.bandcamp.com/
>>48063119
Coming through y'all
>>48063773
It is and you know it. Plenty of solid albums, but there was literally nothing that stood out thus far.
>>48067182
biggest standouts have been Pinata or CLPPNG
cilvia was also excellent
>>48067263
I thought Pinata was solid, but nothing to write home about. CLPPNG was disappointing. Half the songs were great, the other half were trash IMO. Cilvia was decent for debut standards.
>>48067182
that new bozulich album was super disappointing.
was a real bummer. that concrete misery album is goat, tho. so good.
Fushitsusha & Peter Brotzmann - Nothing Changes etc.
Made to Break - Cherchez la Femme
Roscoe Mitchell - Conversations I & II
Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love - Lightning Over Water
Gato Libre - DuDu
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts
I always need more cute cat/pop music.
overall pretty crap year. at least compared to GOAT 2012 it is.
>>48067182
shout out for the Protomartyr appreciation. it's a good album.
>>48067362
yeah i liked CLPPNG but it could have been so much better if they cut a few tracks...like Tonight, that songs just straight up bad. the beats are cool and Diggs has great flow though
Causalities of Cool
Noise
DIStopping
i'm really digging this album right now. haven't seen it discussed on /mu/ so i guess most think it's nothing special. it's probably not but it's still solid
>>48068313
Like ur taste overall.
Did you like this?
http://biscuitmouth.bandcamp.com/album/doing-it-right-and-doing-it-well
>mclusky style sound if they were just a two piece
>>48068427
fuck.
>>48068452
hit the nail on the head...nothing special but a solid 7. itll make some top 50 lists i bet
>>48068435
it's in my backlog. im going to get to it eventually (hopefully, i kinda just randomly choose my next album out of a horrifically long backlog list) i will listen next if u vouch for it, tho.
x
Sisyphus - S/t
clipping - CLPPING
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Kool A.D. - Word OK
Cities Aviv - Come to Life
Young Fathers - Dead
Sage Francis - Copper Gone
Riff Raff - Neon Icon
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Antwon - Heavy Hearted in Doldrums
>>48068488
Well. I was happily surprised by it
Contrabox - Bear Town
Athletics - Who You Are Is Not Enough
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Swans - To Be Kind
St Vincent-S/T
Honorable Mention: My Friend Is - ATX
In no specific order.
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Strand of Oaks - Heal
3. Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5. Circulatory System - Mosaics Within Mosaics
6. Mimicking Birds - Eons
7. Liars - Mess
8. Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
9. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
10. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
11. BBNG - III
12. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
13. Ben Frost - A U R O R A
14. Future Islands - Singles
15. Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Pretty much everything in my top 7 is interchangeable depending on the day and my mood. I'm pretty happy with 2014 so far but there are still a bunch of releases I'm looking forward to.
This is easy 9, 5/10
Very great compositions and textures.
>>48068834
Genre?
>>48068889
Post-rock/drone
In no particular order (also have quite a few I still haven't listened to yet but I do intend to):
Swans - To Be Kind
Future Islands - Singles
Michael Christmas - Is This Art?
Lone - Reality Testing
Alvvays - Alvvays
Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
La Dspute - Rooms of the House
Thievery Corporation - Saudade
Warpaint - Warpaint
>>48063635
I like your taste
>>48064829
BBNG2 Came out in 2012.
>>48069146
he / she has pretty typical taste anon
Mo - No Mythologies to Follow
Glass Animals - ZABA
1. mayhem - esoteric warfare
2. king buzzo - this machine kills artists
3. holy moses - redefined mayhem
4. lana del rey - ultraviolence
5. dead congregation - promulgation
6. savage messiah - fateful dark
7. godflesh - decline and fall
8. john zorn - psychomagia
9. she sir - go guitars
10. eyehategod - s/t
>>48069740
How's that Zorn album? I didn't care for the one I heard from last year, but I don't like him on piano
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/jonta/best_of_2014/
>>48069772
75% surf 25% prog/fusion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FascvLgAMVo
I believe this is the first new release of his I've ever got. mostly I'd just been into naked city and painkiller many years afterward.
not in any order
T-Minus Grand Gesture - Brave Bird
Closure in Moscow - Pink Lemonade
>>48069878
u liked familiars?
I have not listened to nearly the amount of music I wanted to, so I'll just do a top 5:
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. BADBADNOTGOOD - III
4. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
5. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
>>48069878
>the Familiars and Dead covers next to each other
:o
>>48069170
he probably meant III
Top 5 releases in no order:
Golden Retriever - Seer
Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
Jorge Valez - Territories
>>48069996
>top 5
>only 4 albums
*tips fedora*
these are my faves so far
I think my overall fave was either ETSH or Alvvays
>>48069899
even though some of the songs sucked, the ones I liked made up for it
Sun Araw- Belomancie
Brian Blade- Landmarks
Swans- To Be Kind
Guardian Alien- Spiritual Emergency
Fennesz- Becs
The Body- I Shall Die Here
Top 4 in no order:
Timber timbre - Hot dreams
Mac demarco - salad days
Swans - To be kind
Freddie gibbs and madlib -pinata
>>48070014
ops
OP here.
1. Sun Kil Moon "Benji"
2. Angel Olsen "Burn Your Fire For No Witness"
3. Ought "More Than Any Other Day"
4. Caustic Window "Caustic Window"
5. Oneohtrix Point Never "Commissions I"
6. Speedy Ortiz "Real Hair"
7. Jamie XX "Girl / Sleep Sound"
8. Ramona Lisa "Arcadia"
9. Trust "Joyland"
HM: RiFF RAFF "NEON iCON".
>>48069878
sunbathing animal was not that good...Light Up Gold was so much better
More than Any Other Day (AOTY material
Lost in the Dream
Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Singles
The Unnatural World
To Be Kind
Pinata
Fuck Off Get Free
>>48063119
Mac Demarco- Salad Days
Frankie Cosmos- Zentropy
Bear Hands- Distractor
>>48069923
BBNG's album is also in my top 5.
1. Benji
2. NOTM
3. More Than Any Other Day
4. Pinata
5. DSU
6. Present Tense
7. Dead
8. Mess
9. To Be Kind
10. Becs
>>48068313
>Julie Byrne
Mah nigga.
10. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
9. Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy
8. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
7. Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
6. Orcas - Yearling
5. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. Carla Bozulich - Boy
2. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows
1. Swans - To Be Kind
This is fucking god-tier
Plus:
>Salad Days
>Fuck Off Get Free
Hauschka - Abandoned City
Opitope - Physis
Andreas Dorau - Aus der Bibliothèque
Aki Takase La Planète - Flying Soul
Fennesz - Bécs
no order:
Swans - To Be Kind
BBNG - III
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
pretty generic, but good shit
>>48069923
>5. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
nigga u 4 real?
>>48071290
>posts BC album pic
>Doesn't post the obvious AOTY
1. Longhena / Gridlink
2. To Be Kind / Swans
3. Pinata / Freddie Gibbs
4. Here and Nowhere Else / Cloud Nothings
5. Serpent and the sphere / Agalloch
>>48071739
okay foliage we get it
>>48071739
Foilage? More like FAILage
>>48071599
>Because I'm Worth It
>Online Architecture
>Miseri Lares
pretty nice releases
what would you recommend from your chart?
also check out Brannten Schnüre - Aprilnacht
>>48071739
we're sick of your shit manuel
HELLO
>>48067867
>Gato Libre - DuDu
Anyone here have a link for this ?
Pretty disappointed overall in comparison to last year. So much more I enjoyed
>>48063119
1.Sun Kil moon-Benji
2.Mac Demarco-Salad Days
3.War on Drugs-Lost in the Dream
4.tUnE-yArDs-nikki Nack
5.Strand of Oaks-Heal
holy shit all the Benji ITT
Been a great year so far, looking forward to what the second half has to offer
1. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags
2. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
3. St. Vincent - s/t
4. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animals
5. Death Grips - NotM
6. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
7. YG - My Krazy Life
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
9. Pixies - Indie Cindy
10. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
2. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
3. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
4. Total Control - Typical System
5. Actress - Ghettoville
>>48076893
whats moonrune one lower left corner
>>48076916
Hedoromeruhen's second album
http://hedorodata.bandcamp.com/album/hedoromeruhen-2
Fantastic stuff, get on that shit
![collage[1].php.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X5KLuPT.jpg "collage[1].php.jpg")
>only 3 albums from this year
it's been pretty stale for me, but I guess Welcome To Fazoland is my favorite so far.
>>48076929
>http://hedorodata.bandcamp.com/album/hedoromeruhen-2
u got a dl link?
?8/10 Albums
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
The Body - I Shall Die Here
MadGibbs - Pinata
Odraza - Esperalem tkane
Sevendeaths - Concrete Misery
Sun Worship - Elder Giants
Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off...
Young and in the Way - When Life Comes to Death
USA out of Vietnam - Crashing Diseases and Incurable Airplanes
?8/10 EPs/Mixtapes/etc.
Baths - Ocean Death
Evian Christ - Waterfall
Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I
Thou and The Body - Released From Love
Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2
>>48076942
Not at the moment, I'll upload it
It might take a while though
>>48076893
Fucking weeaboo
>>48076956
ok ill be here
>>48076961
Not sure if it uploaded correctly, but here
Hedoromeruhen 2
https://mega.co.nz/#!zAklQZCY!NLtc2NoY6ZfV-v7qj5GQNGqR1pmdkaLC-X5--bHQtS8
Am I the only one who really liked this?
>>48077221
>Not sure if it uploaded correctly, but here
what do you mean
>>48077470
I think I might have closed out the window before the upload finished, looks like it's fine though
>>48077500
ok thanks
>>48071739
No one listen to this viral marketing piece of shit
>>48063119
I've been having fun with About Tess' and Vampillia's new releases recently.
Oh, and Hiromi Trio Project.
No real order, just the albums that come to my mind first:
1. St. Vincent - s/t
2. Swans - To Be Kind
3. BadBadNotGood - III
4. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
5. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
6. clipping. CLPPNG
7. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
8. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
9. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
10. Young and in The Way - When Life Comes to Death
11. Liars - Mess
12. Ratking - So it Goes
13. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
>ctrl+F
>type "htrk"
>0 results
Seriously, no one?
>>48063119
Shabazz Palaces, Fennec, Cities Aviv, Kim Myhr
First time I post my list
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/chimewallace/albums_2014__from_good_to_bad/
pls don't be too harsh.
>>48080231
shit taste all around
Does Benji have the most mentions in this thread? Am I correct in assuming that /mu/'s consesnsus would be that it's the best album of the year?
>>48081674
no, mu is not one person
if you were to take everything with most mentions in this thread you would end up with some sort of pitchfork list rearranged because a majority of people here still cant think for themselves
>>48080231
Fag fuck you
>>48071599
>new florian hecker
damn didn't even know about it imma have to check that out
>>48068398
MAJO LP >>>>>> DIStopping
>>48081768
>MAJO LP
is this one majo lp
i dont know moon runes
>>48081809
nah that's Aye-Aye / Eye-Eye / I-I / Ai-Ai [delete as appropriate] Syndrome
MAJO LP is the MC's solo album from this year
>>48081875
u got a link to that?
>>48064139
Could you name the albums? I can make out a few that I've listened to, but most have tiny fonts.
>>48081875
tfw cant find anything about this
>>48078981
"mirror mirror (bombs BiS)" is too good
Stuff that's stuck with me, no order
Torn hawk-through force of will
Antwon- heavy hearted in doldrums
Death grips-NOTM
Amen dunes- love
Sd laika- that's harakiri
Ricky eat acid- 3 love songs
>>48063724
Piñata-Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
Best hip-hop album of the year easily
>>48063119
when the fuck will jamie release a full length
that single was gold
>>48071744
good shit
>>48082724
He's working on it, he just released another track "All Under One Roof Raving." My best guess for a release date would be Q4 2014 or Q1 2015.
