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This is a little late, but I found some really cool music through a similar thread last year and couldn't find a thread for this year.  Anyways here's mine (as of 7/1/14):

 

Full - Lengths

 

1. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

 

2. Banner Pilot - Souvenir

 

3. The Menzingers - Rented World

 

4. Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean 

 

5. Beck - Morning Phase

 

6. Masked Intruder - M.I.

 

7. The War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream

 

8 Tigers Jaw - Charmer

 

9. Manchester Orchestra - Cope

 

10. White Lung - Deep Fantasy

 

EP's

 

1. Diamond Youth - Shake

 

2. Donovan Wolfington - Scary Stories You Tell In The Dark

 

3. Annabel & Dowsing - Split

 

4. Prince - Prince

 

For More Descriptions & Links To Track/Album Streams:

Full - Lengths

 

EP's

 

 

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My Midway Point Top 15

 

1. Kishi Bashi - Lighght

 

2. Haley Bonar - Last War

 

3. Future Islands - Singles

 

4. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything

 

5. Peggy Sue - Choir Of Echoes

 

6. Lykke Li - I Never Learn

 

7. Manchester Orchestra - Cope

 

8. Withered Hands - New Gods

 

9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji

 

10. The Jezabels - The Brink

 

11. Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath

 

12. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else

 

13. I Was A King - Isle Of Yours

 

14. Thee Silver Mt. Zion... - Fuck Off Get Free...

 

15. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream 

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No particular order! 8/2/2014

1. Mac DeMarco -Salad Days (indie rock)
2. Craft Spells-Nausea (indie pop/rock)
3. White Fence-For the Recently Found Innocent (indie/garage)

4. You'll Never Get To Heaven-Adore (indie /dreampop)

5. Kikagaku Moyo-Children of the First (psychedelic)

6. New Electric Ride-Balloon Age (psychedelic pop)
7. Morgan Delt S/T (psychedelic pop)

8. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger-Midnight Sun (Psychedelic Pop)

9. Donovan Blanc S/T (psychpop indie folk)
10. Rush Midnight S/T (Indie/Electronic/Funk)

11. The War On Drugs-Lost In the Dream (rock/dream pop)

12. Eternal Summers-The Drop Beneath (dream pop/shoegaze)

13. Cruel Summer S/T EP (dream pop/shoegaze)

14. Real Estate-Atlas (indie/pop)

15. Thee Oh Sees-Drop (garage/psych)

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I have primarily listened to instrumental stuff this year so that is what dominates my list...

1: Cecilia Eyes - Disappearance

2: Nothing - Guilty of Everything

3: Waking Aida - Echelon

4: Watered - Some Are Born Into the Endless Night

5: Tides of Man - Young & Courageous

6: Audrey Fall - Mitau

7: Sleepmakeswaves - Love of Cartography

8: Terraformer - Creatures

9: Ghost House - Sorry About Everything

9: Wess Meets West - When the Structures Fail Us

That's all that cracks my list as of now.

Biggest disappointment of the year: Collapse Under the Empire - Sacrifice & Isolation

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01 Kishi Bashi - Lighght

02 Bane - Don't Wait Up

03 Somos - Temple Of Plenty

04 Tycho - Awake

05 The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
06 Möngöl Hörde - Möngöl Hörde
07 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
08 Inventions - Inventions
09 Marie Davidson - Perte d'Identité
10 Direct Effect - Sunburn

 

Other competitor I'm looking forward to:
Cayetana - Nervous Like Me
Helios - Yume
Maybeshewill - Fair Youth
Dikembe - Mediumship
Run, Forever - tba.

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1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (Still not sick of this album)

2. St Vincent 

3. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical 

4. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

5. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

6. Bad Suns - Language and Perspective

7. Real Friends - Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing (Might get hate for this -but I really enjoyed it)

8. Broods EP

9. Bleachers - Strange Desire

10. Sylvan Esso

 

Not in order- they are all great  

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Albums:

1.  Bane - Don't Wait Up

2.  Angel Du$t - A.D.

3.  Cold World - How the Gods Chill

4.  Expire - Pretty Low

5.  Backtrack - Lost in Life

6.  Fucked Up - Glass Boys

7.  Living Laser - Find a Way

8.  Comeback Kid - Die Knowing

9.  Praise - Lights Went Out

10.  Test of Time - By Design

 

 

EPs:

1.  Wisdom in Chains - We Never Sleep

2.  Diamond Youth - Shake

3.  Xibalba / Suburban Scum Split EP

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Fuck it, I'm going with this (will probably be different next week):

 

1. Chiodos - Devil

2. Die Antwoord - Donker Mag

3. Marmozets - Marmozets EP

4. Get Involved - Silk Cuts

5. Diamond Youth - Shake

6. Fireworks - Oh, Common Life

7. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me

8. Bayside - Cult

9. Beartooth - Disgusting

10. United Nations - The Next Four Years

 

2013 Record Found Late: American Pinup - Change Machine

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Tough calls on some of these, but I really love this idea for a thread!  It'll be interesting to look back at the end of the year and see what sticks, what doesn't, and what comes out between now and then that blows everything else out of the water.  I broke them up into 3 sections, all in alphabetical order, by artist.


Reigning Champions:

Bent Knee - Shiny Eyed Babies 
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Piano Nights 

Boris - Noise 
Cliff Martinez - The Knick (Official Series Soundtrack) 
The Contortionist - Language 
Delusions of Grandeur - Reclamation 
Fireworks - Oh, Common Life [+Oh, Common Life Sessions EP] 
Hotel Books - I'm Almost Happy Here, But I Never Feel At Home 
Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io 
LITE - Installation 
Pyrrhon - The Mother of Virtues 
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused
Seahaven - Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only 
Toby Driver w/ Timba Harris & Russell Greenberg - Ichneumonidae (OST) 
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack 
Voice Coils - In Sixths / Field and Border 
White Suns - Totem
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestite 


Worth Mentioning:

The Algorithm - Octopus4 
The Body w/ The Haxan Cloak - I Shall Die Here 
Botanist - VI: Flora
Brontide - Artery 
Chon - Woohoo! 
Earth - Primitive and Deadly 
Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass 
Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World 
Kishi Bashi - Lighght 
Neck Deep - Wishful Thinking
Noneuclid - Metatheosis 
Nothing - Guilty of Everything 
Owl - Into the Absolute 
Polyphia - Muse
The Room Colored Charlatan - Primitives (Instrumental)
SERDCE - Timelessness 
Shellac - Dude Incredible 
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials 


Upcoming: (Some of these likely won't be released until 2015)

​Battles - ???
Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita (Nov. 4th, 2014)
Mariachi el Bronx - III (Nov. 4th, 2014)
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God (Nov. 11th, 2014)
Oxbow - The Thin Black Duke
Pretend - ???
The Schoenberg Automaton - Apus 
Such Gold - ???
SUMAC - The Deal 
Tartar Lamb III - ???

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Good year so far. Here's what I've been into the most...

 

LPs

 

The Body / Thou - Released From Love (Vinyl Rites)

Gas Rag - Beats Off (Beach Impediment)

Gordon Ashworth - S.T.L.A. (Orindal)

Creepoid - s/t (No Idea)

Deche-Charge - Disgrace To The Corpse Of Seth (Bringer Of Gore)

White Wards - Cigarette Burns (Iron Lung)

Bane - Don't Wait Up (Equal Vision)

Failures - Decline And Fall (Youth Attack)

Thou – Heathen (Howling Mine)

Alex G – DSU (Orchid Tapes)

The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (Epitaph)

 

7"s

 

Sissy Spacek - all the 7"s they released this year

Sete Star Sept - all the split 7"s they released this year

Aspects Of War ‎– The Presence Of Death (Brain Solvent Propaganda)

Dissekerad - Attack (Phobia/Skrammel/D-Takt & Råpunk)

Big Eyes / Post Teens - Split (No Idea)

Sterilized - Zero Sum Game (Warthog Speak)

Infernöh / Nomad - Split (Brain Solvent Propaganda)

No Time - s/t (Six Feet Under)

Nudes - Stain (Iron Lung)

Stone Dagger - The Siege Of Jerusalem (Electric Assault)

 

Tapes/Demos

 

Tanner Garza - Regret (Heavy Psych)

Genocide Pact - Demo (Malokul)

Surplus Killing - Loss Of Face (Unseen Force)

Kama Rupa - I Don't Want To Know (Ascetic House)

Ajax - Bleach For Breakfast (self-released)

Poet Named Revolver - Meets Gruesome (No Kings)

Freak Vibe - Cuss Gang (self-released)

Rayos X - Ansiedad (Silenzio Statico)

Column Of Heaven - Precipice (Survivalist)

Crazy Spirit - 2014 Demo (self-released)

Lee Noble - Forming (Bathetic)

Turnstile - Live @ TIH Fest 8-10-2013 (Moshers Delight)

World War 4 - 7 Song Demo (self-released)

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The only three albums from this year that I've been really listening to a lot so far are:

 

Bohren & der Club of Gore - Piano Nights

Sunn 0))) / Ulver - Terrestrials 

Bongripper - Miserable

 

I still haven't listened to the new Tim Hecker, EveryTimeIDie, Godflesh, Trap Them, Agalloch, Nadja, Swans, Boris, and I'm forgetting some others that I still want to check out... And I'm looking forward to the upcoming Pallbearer, Yob, Electric Wizard, Jakob, and probably some more that I'm forgetting. I'm slacking. 

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Top 5-

1.The Flex- Wild Stabs in the Dark

2.Stoic Violence- Chained

3.The Lowest Form-Negative Ecstasy

4.Lust for Youth- International

5.Perspex Flex- S/T

The rest In no order:

Thou/The Body- Released From Love
Thou-Heathen
The Body/Haxan Cloak- I Shall Die Here
Demonbrother- Beyond The Veil
Leather-Easy
Hexis-Abalam
Criminal Code- No Device
Father Murphy- Pain is on our Side Now
Planning For Burial- Desideratum
Wreck and Reference- Want
Total Control-Typical System
Merchandise/Milk Music/Destruction Unit- USA 2013

White Wards- Cigarette Burns 

Bongripper- Miserable

Low Life- Dogging

Hank Wood and the Hammerheads- Stay Home

Gas Chamber- Hemorrhaging Light

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1.  Twin Forks - Twin Forks

2.  Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - We Don't Have Each Other

3.  Real Friends - Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing

4.  Taking Back Sunday - Happiness Is

5.  Dikembe - Mediumship

6.  The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There

7.  Candy Hearts - All The Ways You Let Me Down

8.  Bayside - Cult

9.  Fireworks - Oh, Common Life

10.  Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown

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In no order, I guess this is my top ten so far:

Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain

Sukekiyo - IMMORTALIS

Ricky eat acid - Three Love Songs

Beth Israel - dental denial

Mogwai - rave tapes

Parquet courts - sunbathing animal

Alex g - DSU

La dispute - rooms of the house

Dandelion hands - bleak week

Wreck and reference - want

Those are my top ten LPs so far. The following are my top five singles/demos/eps.

Dir en grey - SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH

pile - special snowflakes

Krill - Steve hears. Pile in malden and bursts into tears

Miserable - Halloween Dream

Pope/nouns/rachel - best buds

Check them all out if there's any you dont recognize. All great shit.

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In no particular order and probably forgetting something.

 

Full lengths

 

The Menzingers - Rented World

Angel Du$t - A.D.

The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place is There

Fucked Up - Glass Boys

Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss it All

Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown

Somos - Temple of Plenty

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

Sorority Noise - Forgettable

 

EP's

Four Year Strong - Go Down In History

'68 - Midnight

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1. The Hotelier - Home Like No Place Is There

 

2. Somos - Temple Of Plenty

 

3. Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All

 

4. Basement - Further Sky

 

5. Sorority Noise - Forgettable

 

6. You Blew It! - You Blue It (I mean its Weezer covers so duh)

 

7. Angel Dust - A.D

 

8. Tigers Jaw - Charmer

 

9. Wild Ones - Keep It Safe

 

10. Special Explosion - The Art Of Mothering

 

In no specific order just my top 10 releases so far

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No order


 


Sun Kil Moon - Benji


Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown


Nothing - Guilty of Everything


Inventions - Inventions


Cult Leader - Nothing for Us Here


Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean


United Nations - Next Four Years


Watter - This World


Owls - Two


Young and In The Way - When Life Comes To Death


Tombs - Savage Gold


Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate


Bry Webb - Free Will


The Roots - And Then You Shot You Cousin


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