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ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD-CHRISTMAS ISLAND

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Some of the Albums that I just can't get enough of for 2014, and in no particular order.

 

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There

La Dispute - Rooms of the House

Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone

Of Us Giants - Nova Scotia

Mike Main & The Branches - Calm Down, Everything Is Fine

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Brigades - Crocodile Tears

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Some of the Albums that I just can't get enough of for 2014, and in no particular order.

 

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There

La Dispute - Rooms of the House

Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone

Of Us Giants - Nova Scotia

Mike Main & The Branches - Calm Down, Everything Is Fine

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Brigades - Crocodile Tears

can't believe I forgot Of Us Giants

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Top 10 Albums of 2014

 

1. Real Estate - Atlas

2. Ariel Pink - pom pom

3. Suburban Campers - Somerspace Canopy

4. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

5. Lace Curtains - A Signed Piece of Paper

6. Alex G - DSU

7. Natural Child - Dancin' With Wolves

8. Poncho Records - Poncho Records Compilation Vol. 1

9. Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy

10. HOMESHAKE - In the Shower

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Had some free time so I made a list but had some trouble, I feel like most of these numbers are arbitrary but heres the albums I loved this year!

 

1.Hank Wood and The Hammerheads- Stay Home
2.The Flex- Wild Stabs in the Dark
3.Stoic Violence- Chained
4.Iceage- Plowing through the Fields of Love
5.White Wards- Cigarette Burns
6.Lust for Youth- International
7.The Lowest Form-Negative Ecstasy
8.Raspberry Bulbs- Privacy
9.Perspex Flex- S/T
10.Ivy- S/T
11.Grouper- Ruins
12.Ukiah Drag- In the Reaper's Quarters
13.Shaved Women- Just Death
14.Merchandise - After The End
15.Bongripper- Miserable
16.Failures- Decline and Fall
17.Dark Blue- Pure Reality
18.Demonbrother- Beyond The Veil
19.Thou/The Body- Released From Love
20.Leather-Easy

 

Demos/Ep

1.Anxiety hammer- demo
2.Wartog - Prison
3.Blotter- Under Armour 77
4.Goosebumps- Scared to See a Doctor
5.S.h.i.t.- Feeding Time/Generation S.h.i.t/Collective Unconciousness
6.Glue- S/t
7.Institue- Salt/Giddy boys
8.Civilized- Dust and Blood
9.Uniform- S/T
10.Iron Lung- Savagery

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Managed to whittle down a top 10:

 

Sun Kil Moon- Benji

Wovenhand- Refractory Obdurate

Seven Impale- City Of The Sun

Solstafir- Otta

Cynic- Kindly Bent To Free Us

Yob- Clearing The Path To Ascend

Pixies- Indie Cindy

St. Vincent- S/T

Death From Above 1979- The Physical World

Spidergawd- S/T

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Was a pretty solid year for albums for me, really hard to make a top 10....

 

Future Islands - Singles

St Vincent - St VIncent

Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

Run The Jewels - RTJ2

FKA Twigs - LP1

HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club

Mac Demarco - Salad Days

Caribou - Our Love

Warpaint - Warpaint

Ariel Pink - Pom Pom 

 

Honorable Mentions 

 

Todd Terje, Flight Facilities, Little Dragon, Kimbra, Flying Lotus, Real Estate, Chet Faker, Foxes In Fiction

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My favorites of the year...

 

12"/LP

 

Hank Wood And The Hammerheads - Stay Home!

Tercer Mundo - Ser Nosotros Mismos

Gas Chamber - Hemorrhaging Light 

Sun Kil Moon - Benji

Creepoid - s/t

Total Control - Typical System

The Lawrence Arms - Metropole

Cold World - How The Gods Chill

Thou / The Body - Released From Love

Bane - Don't Wait Up

 

7" 

 

Sissy Spacek - Window Hammer

Aspects Of War - The Presence Of Death 

Iron Lung - Savagery 

Sissy Spacek - Incomprehensible Dehumanization

Dissekerad - Attack

Sedem Minut Strachu / Sete Star Sept - Split

Nudes - Stain

Condominium - Thug

Sissy Spacek - Lead Their Exit

 

cassette

 

Poet Named Revolver - Meets Gruesome

øjeRum - There Is A Flaw In My Iris

No Time - Demo

Tanner Garza - Regret

Charles Barabe - Dates & Confessions

Ajax - Bleach For Breakfast

Social Junk - Give Up

Nahu / Sete Star Sept - Split

Surplus Killing - Loss Of Face

German Army - Tassili Plateau

 

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My 2014 favs off the top of my head/in no particular order:

 

Brontide - Artery

Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean

Bearcubbin - Girls With Fun Haircuts

This Will Destroy You - Another Language

Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors

Porter Robinson - Worlds

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

Set and Setting - A Vivid Memory

Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence

Shellac - Dude Incredible

Catacombe - Quidam

The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western

CHON - Woohoo!

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1. Pompeii - Loom
2. Gates - Bloom & Breathe
3. Oso Oso - Osoosooso
4. Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - We Don't Have Each Other
5. The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There
6. Posture & The Grizzly - Busch Hymns | Christians and Freemasons Will Kill Me
7. Free Throw - Those Days Are Gone
8. From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds
9. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Slingshot To Heaven | Tell Me More About Evil
10. Manchester Orchestra - Cope | Hope
11. The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die - Between Bodies
12. This Will Destroy You - Another Language
13. Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
14. Dads - I'll Be The Tornado
15. Mono - The Last Dawn | Rays of Darkness
16. To Destroy A City - Sunless
17. Hurry - Everything / Nothing
18. Vasudeva - Life In Cycles
19. Inventions - Inventions
20. Of Sinking Ships - The Amaranthine Sea
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Top EPs:
Brave Bird - T-Minus Grand Gesture
Four Year Strong - Go Down In History
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Still Waiting For The Following To Be Released:
The Cinema - Talking In Your Sleep
Angels and Airwaves - Dream Walker
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Biggest Letdown Of The Year: The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt

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There's been bunch of solid albums for me but nothing stands out in particular:

 

The Lawrence Arms - Metropole

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

Beck - Morning Phase

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Eyehategod - Eyehategod

 

But the 2 releases in particular that stood out for me are 7"s, the 2 EPs from Beach Slang. Great stuff there.

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Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors

Grouper - Ruins

Ty Segall - Manipulator

Earth - Primitive and Deadly

Nothing - Guilty of Everything

Mono - The Last Dawn/Rays of Darkness

Shellac - Dude Incredible

The War on Drugs - Lost In the Dream

Circle (ex-Falcon) - Leviaton

Swans - To Be Kind

Boris - Noise

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Off the top of my head:

 

Bar none, the best release this year by a mile:

 

Hard Girls - A Thousand Surfaces

 

Three Man Cannon - Pretty Many People

Restorations - LP3

Trampled By Turtles - Wild Animals

Gateway District - Partial Traces (ep)

Muscle & Bone - Peace And Light

Kite Party - Come On Wandering

Sundials - Kick (ep)

Little Big League - Tropical Jinx

Christian Fitness - I Am Scared Of Everything That Isn't Me

RVIVR - Bicker & Breathe (ep)

Tiny Empires - Weird Headspace

Hurry - Everything/Nothing

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to be honest, there's not a ton of proper full lengths that did much for me this year. granted, we had a baby and i had 2 inner-ear surgeries so i didn't have a whole lot of time/ability to search out new tunes, but i'm usually fighting over a top 20 and this year i can barely fill out 10 (so i guess i wont). i haven't spent enough time with a few of these, but here:

LP's
1. Young and In The Way - When Life Comes To Death
2. Generation of Vipers - Coffin Wisdom
3. The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-Li
4. Old Man Gloom - Ape of God I
5. Protestant - In Thy Name
6. Old Man Gloom - Ape of God II
7. Daggers - It's Not Jazz, It's Blues
8. Hierophant - Peste

EP's are where it's at:
1. Rosetta - Flies to Flame
2. Gatecreeper - s/t
3. Hollow Tongue - Time/Death
4. Funeral Chic - s/t
5. Of Feather And Bone - Adorned in Decay
6. Catholic Girls - Distant
7. Of Feather And Bone / Reproacher split
8. Black Mask - Lost Below

Other shit that was good:
Torch Runner - Endless Nothing
The Mire - Glass Cathedrals
Host - Death Will Claim These Tired Bones
Cold Blue Mountain - Old Blood
Skinfather - None Will Mourn
American Heritage - Prolapse

Good but disappointing:
Mantar - Death By Burning (bummed that a "great" 2-song EP turned into just a "good" 10-song LP)
Trainwreck - Old Departures, New Beginnings (this record just should have but better)

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the first three are my top three for sure, but everything after that is in no particular order.

this will destroy you - another language

empire! empire! (i was a lonely estate) - you will eventually be forgotten

two knights - shut up

whirr - sway

nothing - guilty of everything

free throw - those days are gone

mac demarco - salad days

planning for burial - desideratum

wreck and reference - want

wolves in the throne room - celestite

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