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My 50 favorite albums of 2014

was just feeling a little stale on my pandora. thanks for townie with hooking my spotify for a while.
 
With the typical caveat that a year from now there will definitely be an album not on the below list that I will regret wasn't listed, here are my favorites of 2014 in roughly this order:

- St. Vincent - St. Vincent
- War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
- Wye Oak - Shriek
- Kevin Drew - Darlings
- New Pornographers - Bill Bruisers
- Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
- Real Estate - Atlas
- Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
- Tennis - Ritual in Repeat
- Spoon - They Want My Soul
- Future Islands - Singles
- Jenny Lewis - Voyager
- Lykke Li - I Never Learn
- Generationals - Alix
- Tune-yards - nikki nack
 
It'd almost 5 am local, and my insomnia is winning. So I've been jamming out.

Bleachers deserve some love. It's a great album and they were my surprise of ACL.
 
El Chupacabra said:
Biff, did you end up getting to the School of Language album? I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who likes the Field Music guys and their offshoots, but I love them so hard.
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I'm digging some Field Music. They kinda remind me of more rocking version of Townie's bois Rice Cultivation Society.
 
Who do you guys see as the main "influences" for each track of Lost In The Dream?
(If you close your eyes, who do you think is singing?)

Under The Pressure - Tom Petty
Red Eyes - Bruce Springsteen
Suffering - John Lennon
An Ocean In Between The Waves - Fleetwood Mac
Disappearing - Tears for Fears / Miami Vice theme song
Eyes To The Wind - Bob Dylan
The Haunting Idle - Spaceman 3
Burning - Rod Stewart/Bruce Springsteen
Lost In The Dream - Neil Young
In Reverse - Bob Dylan
 
1. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
2. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE
4. Real Estate - Atlas
5. Braid - No Coast
6. Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All
7. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
8. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
9. Naomi Punk - Television Man
10. Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
11. Ex Hex - Rips
12. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
13. Dads - I'll Be the Tornado
14. Late Bloomer - Things Change
15. The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place is There
16. Wye Oak - Shriek
17. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (I'm finally warming up to this one)
18. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
19. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
20. Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (just...because).

ETA: an even 20
 
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freakadeac said:
Who do you guys see as the main "influences" for each track of Lost In The Dream?
(If you close your eyes, who do you think is singing?)

Under The Pressure - Tom Petty
Red Eyes - Bruce Springsteen
Suffering - John Lennon
An Ocean In Between The Waves - Fleetwood Mac
Disappearing - Tears for Fears / Miami Vice theme song
Eyes To The Wind - Bob Dylan
The Haunting Idle - Spaceman 3
Burning - Rod Stewart/Bruce Springsteen
Lost In The Dream - Neil Young
In Reverse - Bob Dylan
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pretty solid, I always thought suffering sounded straight out of exile on main st, and get a dire straits vibe from an ocean in between the waves.
 
Yeah, if you do that you need Dire Straits and Don Henley in there. I think at one point I heard a little Jackson Browne, but I haven't listened in a couple of months.
 
freakadeac said:
Any songs I need to check out other than Psychic Trauma and I'm Not Part Of Me?

I need to give this album another chance
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It was definitely a grower for me (AND HOW!)

Those are the two best songs, probably, but the record is only 8 tracks long so you should just let it spin through a few times. Put it on in the car and turn it up. The drums are just spectacular and loud as hell. The hooks are not as catchy upon first listen as they were in Attack on Memory, but (for me) they kept me coming back for more anyway. I think the opening riff of Now Hear In is just a perfect way to open the album, and it never slows down or relents...and the closer is just phenomenal. It's also good to put on during a 30-40 minute run, if you're into that sort of thing.
 
Was kind of behind on 2014 music so I spent the last few weeks playing catchup. Here's what I got as my top 15:

1. Aphex Twin - Syro
2. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
3. Maceo Plex - Conjure One EP and Conjure Two EP
4. FKA twigs - LP1
5. Robyn & Royksopp - Do It Again EP
6. Ben Frost - A U R O R A
7. Ab Soul - These Days…
8. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
9. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
10. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
11. SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
12. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
13. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
14. Mogwai - Rave Tapes
15. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
 
My 50 favorite albums of 2014 (in approximate order + subject to error)

  1. More Than Any Other Day – Ought
  2. Lost in the Dream – The War on Drugs
  3. Run the Jewels 2 – Run the Jewels
  4. Singles – Future Islands
  5. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  6. Are We There – Sharon Van Etten
  7. Atlas – Real Estate
  8. Nabuma Rubberband – Little Dragon
  9. Lose – Cymbals Eat Guitars
  10. Atomos – A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  11. Seeds – TV on the Radio
  12. La Isla Bonita – Deerhoof
  13. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
  14. IVRY [mixtape] – 100s
  15. Wig Out at Jagbags – Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
  16. Paris is Burning – Chancellor Warhol
  17. The Best Day – Thurston Moore
  18. Confidence – Trash Kit
  19. At Best Cuckold – Avi Buffalo
  20. They Want My Soul – Spoon
  21. You’re Dead! – Flying Lotus
  22. Held in Splendor – Quilt
  23. The Water – Mick Jenkins
    [*]Tolerance – Incan Abraham
    [*]Syro – Aphex Twin
    [*]Music for the Uninvited – Leon Vynehall
    [*]In Conflict – Owen Pallett
    [*]Home, Like Noplace Is There – The Hotelier
    [*]Hour of the Dawn – La Sera
    [*]The Orlando Sentinel – Emperor X
    [*]Lateness of Dancers – Hiss Golden Messenger
    [*]Salad Days – Mac DeMarco
    [*]Trick – Kele
    [*]Awake – Tycho
    [*]Burn Your Fire for No Witness – Angel Olsen
    [*]Morning Phase – Beck
    [*]You’re Gonna Miss it All – Modern Baseball
    [*]Divisionary – Ages and Ages
    [*]The Physical World – Death From Above 1979
    [*]March on Washington – Diamond District
    [*]Under Color of Official Right – Protomartyr
    [*]Back on the Controls – Lee “Scratch” Perry
    [*]Minutes of Sleep – Francis Harris
    [*] …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin – The Roots
    [*]Here and Nowhere Else – Cloud Nothings
    [*]Familiars – The Antlers
    [*]EONS – Mimicking Birds
    [*]Total Strife Forever – East India Youth
    [*]The Other Side – Ilhan Ersahin’s Wonderland
    [*]Museum of Love – Museum of Love
 
TenaciousKory said:
My 50 favorite albums of 2014 (in approximate order + subject to error)

  1. More Than Any Other Day – Ought
  2. Lost in the Dream – The War on Drugs
  3. Run the Jewels 2 – Run the Jewels
  4. Singles – Future Islands
  5. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  6. Are We There – Sharon Van Etten
  7. Atlas – Real Estate
  8. Nabuma Rubberband – Little Dragon
  9. Lose – Cymbals Eat Guitars
  10. Atomos – A Winged Victory for the Sullen
  11. Seeds – TV on the Radio
  12. La Isla Bonita – Deerhoof
  13. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
  14. IVRY [mixtape] – 100s
  15. Wig Out at Jagbags – Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
  16. Paris is Burning – Chancellor Warhol
  17. The Best Day – Thurston Moore
  18. Confidence – Trash Kit
  19. At Best Cuckold – Avi Buffalo
  20. They Want My Soul – Spoon
  21. You’re Dead! – Flying Lotus
  22. Held in Splendor – Quilt
  23. The Water – Mick Jenkins
    [*]Tolerance – Incan Abraham
    [*]Syro – Aphex Twin
    [*]Music for the Uninvited – Leon Vynehall
    [*]In Conflict – Owen Pallett
    [*]Home, Like Noplace Is There – The Hotelier
    [*]Hour of the Dawn – La Sera
    [*]The Orlando Sentinel – Emperor X
    [*]Lateness of Dancers – Hiss Golden Messenger
    [*]Salad Days – Mac DeMarco
    [*]Trick – Kele
    [*]Awake – Tycho
    [*]Burn Your Fire for No Witness – Angel Olsen
    [*]Morning Phase – Beck
    [*]You’re Gonna Miss it All – Modern Baseball
    [*]Divisionary – Ages and Ages
    [*]The Physical World – Death From Above 1979
    [*]March on Washington – Diamond District
    [*]Under Color of Official Right – Protomartyr
    [*]Back on the Controls – Lee “Scratch” Perry
    [*]Minutes of Sleep – Francis Harris
    [*] …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin – The Roots
    [*]Here and Nowhere Else – Cloud Nothings
    [*]Familiars – The Antlers
    [*]EONS – Mimicking Birds
    [*]Total Strife Forever – East India Youth
    [*]The Other Side – Ilhan Ersahin’s Wonderland
    [*]Museum of Love – Museum of Love
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No Lana????
 
TenaciousKory said:
I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU.
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LISTEN, BRO. I LIKE VOICES. GOTTA HAVE VOICES. THE CLOSEST I GET TO NO VOICES IS WHEN AN INSTRUMENTAL TRACK COMES UP ON MY NEW BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE ALBUM. AND THOSE TRACKS FUCKIN ROCK, BUT THEYRE BASICALLY SATISFYING ENOUGH THAT I DONT REALLY CARE TO HEAR OTHER ONES

ANYWAY, I HOPE THAT THIS POST HAS ALLOWED US TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER A LITTLE BETTER
 
La Sera and Mimicking Birds are two I just completely forgot about. I talked up La Sera all year too!
 
listened to the men for the first time this weekend, they are monte. thanks townie
 
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