My Top 100 Albums Of 2014
Lots of great stuff out right now; I found enough good LPs this year to do a full top
100, so what the hell, he it goes. The order starts to really matter around 50, and
I've included one of my favourite lyrics for each of the top 25. Enjoy, or don't! |
100 | | Single Mothers Negative Qualities |
99 | | Aphex Twin Syro
yo this is that cat that Skrillex likes right? |
98 | | Antarctigo Vespucci Soulmate Stuff
If Laura Stevenson says it is her favourite album of the year, you can be pretty sure that I
will listen to it. |
97 | | Hey Rosetta! Second Sight
I'm falling out of love with this band but Seeds will always be one of my favourites |
96 | | Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Poor Phil... |
95 | | The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers
If Neko Case was more involved you all know I would have been really annoying about this
album. |
94 | | Nmesh Dream Sequins |
93 | | Manchester Orchestra Cope
Sometimes massive fucking disappointments are still pretty good. |
92 | | ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron |
91 | | Clark Clark
I wanted to like this so much more |
90 | | Vales Wilt And Rise
Cornish screamo group finally release an LP but it's a little underwhelming. |
89 | | YG My Krazy Life |
88 | | Arrange Their Bodies In A Fog
This guy is getting more and more cheesy with each release but I still like his style. This
is....pretty cheesy though. |
87 | | Opiuo Meraki
Every once in a while you just gotta get down to stuff like this, for your health. |
86 | | Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
genre: Devon Kuziw. Shamalyan twist: this guy if from Devon, England. |
85 | | Maybeshewill Fair Youth
My name is Adrian and I still like boring post-rock bands. |
84 | | Tensnake Glow
CATOLICO ft. KID KARDASHIAN and HALF NACHO |
83 | | Vancouver Sleep Clinic Winter
If you're gonna rip off Bon Iver, you better do it well. |
82 | | TV on the Radio Seeds
I thought this was gonna suck and I was really scared to listen to it, and then I finally did and
it's actually alright. Still, they used to be basically the best band going and now they are
....not. |
81 | | KETEV KETEV
If you kind of like house music and can't sleep and want to listen to a really creepy and
unsettling album at 4 AM then hey check this out. |
80 | | Caribou Our Love
Listen I like this band but people LIKE like this band and I'm like woah chill out put your dick
away. |
79 | | Warpaint Warpaint
kiiiiiind of a let down but still pretty solid |
78 | | Death From Above 1979 The Physical World
In hindsight: it sounds exactly like it was always going to. And that's a good thing. |
77 | | Hamilton Leithauser Black Hours
To ease the pain of The Walkmen breaking up |
76 | | Banks Goddess
Half of this is like top 10 half of it is kinda passable |
75 | | The Menzingers Rented World |
74 | | The Bug Angels and Devils
combo-breaker |
73 | | La Dispute Rooms Of The House
Yes I still like this band |
72 | | Andrew Jackson Jihad Christmas Island
offensive title |
71 | | Rochella Jordan 1021 |
70 | | Meatbodies Meatbodies
Released on Ty Segall's label if you're into that sorta thing |
69 | | Phaeleh Somnus
Spoiler: there's a lot of very calm ambient-ish music on this list |
68 | | Jenny Lewis The Voyager
just smoked a spliff and I almost put "Jenny Jewis"
I kind of wish I didn't catch it |
67 | | Fennesz Becs |
66 | | United Nations The Next Four Years
"See you man, enjoy Thursday." |
65 | | Hospitality Trouble |
64 | | Pianos Become The Teeth Keep You
Screamo minus screaming. It's good. |
63 | | The Antlers Familiars
This was disappointing in hindsight, but also it wasn't. Now THAT'S what I call a mindfreak. |
62 | | Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Lyrics + what this album helped teach me = 5/5
How the music sounds in my earholes = 3/5 |
61 | | Spoon They Want My Soul |
60 | | The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There
You either think this should be top 5 or nowhere near top 100. I don't know it's fun. |
59 | | ASC Truth Be Told
I thought this was gonna uhn tss uhn tss a lot more but oh well it's pretty nice. |
58 | | Perfect Pussy Say Yes To Love
Say Yes To The Dress |
57 | | Braid No Coast
I like this about the same as Frame and Canvas. I don't know if that opinion is allowed
though, in the real world. |
56 | | Le Butcherettes Cry Is For The Flies
Best live band with a pretty dope album. |
55 | | Wen Signals
m8 |
54 | | Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs
alternate title: Sam Feldman No Longer Eats Acid |
53 | | Kishi Bashi Lighght
I can't wait for this perpetual darkness to take a few months off. |
52 | | A Winged Victory for the Sullen Atomos |
51 | | D'Angelo Black Messiah |
50 | | Dean Blunt Black Metal |
49 | | Jim Head Zoetrope
Sometimes I accidentally listen to jazz and I go "woah this is dope" and starts me thinking
that I should listen to it non-accidentally more often. |
48 | | Real Estate Atlas
Fuck you, Mac DeMarco |
47 | | The Rural Alberta Advantage Mended With Gold |
46 | | The Flashbulb Nothing Is Real
His best album in a minute! |
45 | | Perfume Genius Too Bright
Damn this album is Too Good. (Nice.) |
44 | | Marketa Irglova Muna
If you like The Swell Season or that movie Once then hey you have good taste and probably
know about this already but this is a the solo project from the pianists/vocalist of that
band/movie. Her voice is majestic. This album is an homage to Iceland (she's Czech). Listen
to it. |
43 | | Isaiah Rashad Civilia Demo
I guess it's a demo so shouldn't technically count? I don't know, it's a bunch of songs that I
liked so hey here it is. |
42 | | White Lung Deep Fantasy |
41 | | East India Youth Total Strife Forever
I honestly dislike a substantial portion of this, but you have to absolutely commend the guy's
(guys' ?) eclecticism. I don't even know what to call this record but it's a very interesting
listen. |
40 | | Ice Age Plowing into the Field of Love
This band is growing on me a lot. I didn't listen to the last one more than once but this album
is pretty great. |
39 | | Radiator Hospital Torch Song |
38 | | Boris Noise
I think they played Vancouver and I straight up forgot about it. I am an awful perosn. |
37 | | Kassem Mosse Workshop 19
This guy releases a lot of stuff, but rarely a full album. Really nice deep house kinda vibes.
Giggity. |
36 | | Woods With Light And With Love |
35 | | Thou Heathen
Hey sometimes I listen to metal and sometimes it is good. |
34 | | First Aid Kit Stay Gold
alternate title: Ponyboy |
33 | | Taylor Swift 1989
you saw this coming |
32 | | Arcade Fire Her
I wasn't going to include this at first for obvious reasons, but it came out in 2014, it's a full
length album of original material, and it's sooooo good. I listened to this for days straight
during reading/writing binges. This piece of music definitely deserves to be mentioned in a
conversation about great 2014 albums. |
31 | | Grouper Ruins |
30 | | Wild Beasts Present Tense |
29 | | Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE |
28 | | Jessie Ware Tough Love |
27 | | Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
26 | | Snowday As We Travel
A great little local project (BC) that sounds a lot like Bonobo. |
25 | | Alvvays Alvvays
Fighting through the fog
I can't believe it rained all summer long |
24 | | The Pack A.D. Do Not Engage
Why would I live life
Worried, worried all the time?
It shouldn't be a surprise
It's easy to be terrified
Oh believe me, I've tried everything
I'm still sittin on needles and pins
Every breath I take is a second that I cannot replace
And when I feel like this I wish, I wish I could shut it off |
23 | | FKA Twigs LP1
Higher than a motherfucker, dreaming of you as my lover
Flying like a steamer thinking of new ways to do each other |
22 | | Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again
You always fell in love the way you're supposed to
At the Target inside of the mall
Fear of what you weren't exposed to |
21 | | Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
I am an old tree
Gonna talk my jaw free
Someone come and get me
Another night beside myself would finish me
Give us G & T and sympathy |
20 | | Liars Mess
Cast out culture
Compound impatience
Without regard
Trash the book the films are based on
Facts are fact and fiction's fiction |
19 | | Teebs E S T A R A
Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebs |
18 | | tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack
You can't hold tight to what you have
Cause there is nothing there to grab
Now a life is a shadow of the thought
You never did have what you thought you got |
17 | | Ought More Than Any Other Day
And today more than any other day
I am prepared to make the decision between two percent and whole milk |
16 | | RATKING So It Goes
Six million trains to ride, choose one
Six million stories to tell, whose one? |
15 | | Clipping CLPPNG
Everybody think they're hard until their face hit ground
Everybody makes a choice, it is not profound
Either get money or die
Get faded or die
Get that stainless or die
Get your hands in the sky or get it between the eyes |
14 | | Andy Stott Faith In Strangers
[Violence] |
13 | | Loscil Sea Island
[Sea Island murders] |
12 | | The War On Drugs Lost In The Dream
Lost in the dream, or just the silence of a moment |
11 | | Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness
I walk back in the night alone
Got caught up in my song
Forgot where I was sleeping
None of the lights were on |
10 | | BADBADNOTGOOD III
[feel the night] |
9 | | Sharon Van Etten Are We There
I washed your dishes
But I shit in your bathroom |
8 | | St. Vin St. Vincent
Digital witnesses
What's the point of even sleeping?
If I can't show it, if you can't see me
What's the point of doing anything? |
7 | | Flying Lotus You're Dead!
I can see the darkness in my and it's quite amazing
Life and death is no mystery and I wanna taste it |
6 | | Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2
Got hope for the living, got prayers for the dead
In the sky, got whisky and rye for the voices in my head |
5 | | Saintseneca Darc Arc
So down that trumpet resonating with your sigh
Often spoke of but seldom realized |
4 | | Phantogram Voices
They're eating all my shotgun smiles |
3 | | Mitski Bury Me At Makeout Creek
But I've been anywhere and that's not what I want
I wanna be still with you |
2 | | Trophy Scars Holy Vacants
You're not alone, you're just lonely sometimes |
1 | | Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
God we've tried, how much we've tried
Drunk and high we've seen the sun rise
Many sleepless night we've seen
The sun collapsed on everything
It's only love that's worth to sing
These bells are broke but they still ring
Love and love's the only thing
Shut up awhile, the birds are singing |
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