| 2014 |
| TV on the Radio Seeds | 3.0 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard I'm In Your Mind Fuzz | 4.5 |
| The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Fwends | 2.0 |
| The Antlers Familiars | 5.0 |
This calls for strategic listening. At three in the afternoon this album will be a rousing
disappointment. At three in the morning, it will be the musical accomplishment of the year.
|
| Coldplay Ghost Stories | 3.0 |
| Trophy Scars Holy Vacants | 4.5 |
Someday, when I die, St. Peter is going to ask what band best embodies rock n' roll in the
history of Earth, and I'm going to be the only fucker to say Trophy Scars, and my man Pete
is going to be all impressed. |
| Sonata Arctica Pariah's Child | 3.0 |
| Mac DeMarco Salad Days | 3.0 |
| Chevelle La Gárgola | 3.0 |
| Manchester Orchestra Cope | 3.0 |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship | 3.0 |
| Pure X Angel | 3.5 |
| Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else | 4.5 |
| Sargeist Feeding the Crawling Shadows | 2.0 |
| Grieves Winter & The Wolves | 2.5 |
| Tokyo Police Club Forcefield | 3.0 |
| Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha | 3.0 |
| The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams | 3.0 |
| Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion | 3.5 |
| Thou Heathen | 4.0 |
| Owls Two | 4.0 |
| Tony Molina Dissed and Dismissed | 4.5 |
| Skrillex Recess | 2.0 |
| The Pretty Reckless Going to Hell | 2.5 |
| Kevin Gates By Any Means | 3.0 |
| Taking Back Sunday Happiness Is | 3.0 |
| Tycho Awake | 3.0 |
| Ringworm Hammer of the Witch | 3.0 |
| Nocando Jimmy The Burnout | 3.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 3.5 |
| Twilight III: Beneath Trident's Tomb | 3.5 |
| Kevin Drew Darlings | 3.5 |
| Black Lips Underneath The Rainbow | 4.0 |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata | 4.0 |
| YG My Krazy Life | 4.0 |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream | 4.5 |
| Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love | 4.5 |
| Shit Robot We Got a Love | 3.5 |
| Nervosa Victim of Yourself | 2.5 |
| Metronomy Love Letters | 3.0 |
| Le1f Hey | 3.5 |
| Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together | 2.0 |
| Savage Messiah The Fateful Dark | 2.5 |
| The Correspondents Puppet Loosely Strung | 3.0 |
| MO No Mythologies to Follow | 3.5 |
| Withered Hand New Gods | 4.5 |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Oddments | 3.0 |
| Motorpsycho Behind the Sun | 3.5 |
| Colour and Codeine If I Die Tomorrow | 2.5 |
| Posse Soft Opening | 3.0 |
| Rick Ross Mastermind | 2.5 |
| Tensnake Glow | 2.5 |
| Hagana One Year | 2.5 |
| CHON Woohoo! | 3.0 |
| Psalm Zero The Drain | 3.0 |
| Ava Luna Electric Balloon | 3.0 |
| The Men Tomorrow's Hits | 3.5 |
| Drive-By Truckers English Oceans | 3.5 |
| Real Estate Atlas | 3.5 |
| Comeback Kid Die Knowing | 3.5 |
| Eternal Summers The Drop Beneath | 3.5 |
| Wolves Like Us Black Soul Choir | 3.5 |
| TR/ST Joyland | 3.5 |
| Eagulls Eagulls | 3.5 |
| Linda Perhacs The Soul of All Natural Things | 3.5 |
| Frankie Cosmos Zentropy | 4.0 |
| Creepoid Creepoid | 4.0 |
| Nothing Guilty of Everything | 4.5 |
| John Mark McMillan Borderland | 4.5 |
| NickBee Empty Your Mind | 2.0 |
| Pharrell Williams G I R L | 2.5 |
| The Unsemble Unsemble | 2.5 |
| Conan Blood Eagle | 3.0 |
| Laibach Spectre | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français | 3.0 |
| Delroy Edwards Teenage Tapes | 3.5 |
| A/T/O/S A/T/O/S | 4.0 |
| Morbus Chron Sweven | 4.5 |
| Carla Bozulich Boy | 4.5 |
| Dutch E Germ IN.RAK.DUST | 3.0 |
| SpaceGhostPurrp B.M.W. 2: Intoxxxicated | 2.0 |
| Kuolemanlaakso Tulijoutsen | 3.5 |
| 2NE1 Crush | 3.0 |
| Beth Israel Dental Denial | 2.5 |
| Kid Cudi Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon | 2.0 |
| Tacocat NVM | 2.0 |
| ScHoolboy Q Oxymoron | 2.5 |
| Saint Pepsi Gin City | 3.0 |
| Beck Morning Phase | 3.5 |
| Moonlit Sailor We Come from Exploding Stars | 3.5 |
| D. Charles Speer and the Helix Doubled Exposure | 3.5 |
| St. Vincent St. Vincent | 4.0 |
| The Notwist Close to the Glass | 4.0 |
| Death Vessel Island Intervals | 4.0 |
| Nicholas Szczepanik Not Knowing | 4.0 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 4.5 |
| Acheron Kult des Hasses | 3.0 |
| Christina Vantzou No. 2 | 3.5 |
| Shattered Hope Waters Of Lethe | 3.5 |
| The Wounded Kings Consolamentum | 4.0 |
| Wild Beasts Present Tense | 4.0 |
| Patten ESTOILE NAIANT | 4.0 |
| Untold Black Light Spiral | 4.0 |
| Neneh Cherry Blank Project | 4.5 |
| Kassem Mosse Workshop 19 | 4.5 |
| Symptom Caverns Of Katabasis | 4.5 |
| TMCT Snow Beach Vol. 01 | 3.5 |
| Arms of Tripoli Dream In Tongues | 3.5 |
| Move D Fabric 74 | 3.5 |
| Lakutis 3 Seashells | 3.0 |
| 18 Carat Affair Adventures in Schizophrenia | 4.0 |
| Pan Sonic Oksastus | 4.5 |
| Kamchatka The Search Goes On | 3.0 |
| GridLink Longhena | 3.5 |
| Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness | 3.0 |
| William Fitzsimmons Lions | 3.0 |
| Com Truise Wave 1 | 3.0 |
| Sun Araw Belomancie | 3.0 |
| Slough Feg Digital Resistance | 3.5 |
| Guided by Voices Motivational Jumpsuit | 3.5 |
| Lost In The Trees Past Life | 3.5 |
| Phantogram Voices | 3.5 |
| Dawn Landes Bluebird | 4.0 |
| New Bums Voices In A Rented Room | 2.0 |
| The Jezabels The Brink | 2.5 |
| Valentin Stip Sigh | 3.0 |
| Leyland Kirby Breaks My Heart Each Time | 3.0 |
| Lucy Churches Schools and Guns | 3.0 |
| Currensy The Drive In Theatre | 2.5 |
| A Slow Descent On Ganymede | 3.0 |
| Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us | 3.5 |
| Woods of Desolation As the Stars | 4.0 |
| Yautja Songs of Descent | 2.5 |
| We Roll Like Madmen The Kids Must Die | 2.5 |
| Thug Entrancer Death After Life | 3.0 |
| Crosses Crosses | 3.5 |
| Sun Kil Moon Benji | 3.5 |
| Cheatahs Cheatahs | 4.0 |
| Noah Gundersen Ledges | 4.0 |
| Kalle Mattson Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold | 4.0 |
| Temples Sun Structures | 2.5 |
| Illum Sphere Ghosts of Then and Now | 3.5 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 2.5 |
| Current 93 I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell | 3.0 |
| Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials | 2.0 |
| Broken Bells After The Disco | 2.5 |
| Mark McGuire Along the Way | 3.0 |
| Tides of Man Young and Courageous | 3.0 |
| Behemoth The Satanist | 3.5 |
| Snowbird Moon | 3.5 |
| ceo Wonderland | 4.0 |
| Broods Broods | 4.0 |
| Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom | 4.5 |
| Marissa Nadler July | 4.5 |
| Vindensang Alpha | 4.5 |
| Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow | 4.5 |
| Gimu Countryside Summer Nightmares | 3.0 |
| Jon Porras Light Divide | 3.0 |
| Have a Nice Life The Unnatural World | 4.5 |
| Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo | 3.5 |
| Jess Williamson Native State | 3.5 |
| Hospitality Trouble | 4.0 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 3.5 |
| Kampfar Djevelmakt | 3.5 |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Piano Nights | 3.5 |
| Major Parkinson Twilight Cinema | 4.0 |
| Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything | 4.5 |
| Young the Giant Mind Over Matter | 2.0 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 3.5 |
| Ricky Eat Acid Three Love Songs | 3.5 |
| Alcest Shelter | 4.5 |
| Mogwai Rave Tapes | 2.0 |
| Ethereal Riffian Aeonian | 3.5 |
| Innsmouth Consumed By Elder Sign | 3.0 |
| Lethe (NO) When Dreams Become Nightmares | 4.0 |
| No Reason is the best track of 2014. An album of hits and misses, but when it hits, holy shit, it hits. |
| Warpaint Warpaint | 4.0 |
| Canterbury Dark Days | 3.0 |
| Self Defense Family Try Me | 3.5 |
| Moodymann Moodymann | 3.0 |
| Mouse on Mars Spezmodia | 3.0 |
| Evian Christ Waterfall | 3.0 |
| Mika Vainio Konstellaatio | 4.0 |
