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I am a bit all over the place with this list and I still need to listen to quite a few albums I have been sleeping on, but here is my tentative list:

 

1) ††† - ††† 
2) The Boston Strangler - Fire
3) The United Nations - The Next Four Years
4) Exit Verse - Exit Verse
5) Ringworm - Hammer of The Witch 
6) TV On the Radio - Seeds
7) Bane - Don't Wait Up
8) Murder City Devils - The White Ghost Has Blood on Its Hands Again
9) Shellac - Dude Incredible
10) Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin
 
Honorable Mentions:
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
The Creeps - Eulogies
The Lawrence Arms - Metropole
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Ryan Adams - S/T
Lagwagon - Hang
Mad Caddies - Dirty Rice
Mogwai - Rave Tapes 
Mongol Horde - Mongol Horde
Pixies - Indy Cindy
Klaxons - Love Frequency
Yelle - Completement fou 
Lily Allen - Sheezus 
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That Ringworm album rips. Once I can actually decide on my list they will be on it for sure. I haven't seen any Boston Strangler, Exit Verse (Geoff Farina of Karate) or The Van Pelt which comes as a surprise.

 

Thanks for pointing out that Exit Verse release, this totally passed me by. Ordered it immediately.

 

Here is my list (just alphabetically):

 

Cayetana - Nervous Like Me

Empire! Empire! - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten

Haley Bonar - Last War

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There

Kittyhawk - Hello Again

Human Hands - s/t

Perfect Future - Manifesto

Prawn - Kingfisher

Restorations - LP3

Somos - Temple Of Plenty

 

Needless to say that I have about 10-15 records from 2014 laying around that I have not gotten the time to really check out yet, so this list definitely is not set in stone.

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Top albums of 2014:

1. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream

2. Kishi Bashi - Lighght

3. Bleachers - Strange Desire

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

5. Circa Survive - Descensus

6. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Sling Shot to Heaven

7. Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End

8. Copeland - Ixora

9. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Andrew McMahon in the WIlderness

10. White Arrows - In Bardo

Honorable mentions to TV On The Radio - Seeds and Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence, which deserve a spot in the top ten but I couldn't find one. 

 

Best EPs of the year:

Ryn Weaver - Promises EP

Joywave - How Do You Feel?

 

Best live show I went to this year:

Grouplove

 

Best stand-up comedy of the year:

1. Nick Vatterott - For Amusement Only

2. Chelsea Peretti - One of the Greats

3. Mark Normand - Still Got It

4. Bill Burr - I'm Sorry You Feel That Way

5. Jim Gaffigan - Obsessed

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In no particular order

 

Bongripper - Miserable
Slow Season - Mountains
Blood Farmers - Headless Eyes
Electric Wizard - Time To Die

Wo Fat - The Conjuring
Earth - Primitive & Deadly
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Check 'Em Before You Wreck 'Em
Conan - Blood Eagle
Indian - From All Purity

 

 

Honorable mentions as they aren't full albums;

Weedeater - Hot Doughnuts Now
Sleep - The Clarity

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Dunno why, but I went through this thread to see which albums came up the most so far.

Full excel doc here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PdAr5NmjMp6OZKFn37O2vrOZthpxNaCDt6bhCp8JPy0/edit?usp=sharing

 

Top 20 so far:

Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island 8

Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You 8

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There 8

Tigers Jaw - Charmer 8

Gates - Bloom & Breathe 9

Weatherbox - Flies in all Directions  9

Mogwai - Rave Tapes 10

Prawn - Kingfisher 10

Against Me- Transgender Dysphoria Blues 11

Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else 11

Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown 11

Mac DeMarco -Salad Days 11

This Will Destroy You - Another Language 11

Menzingers - Rented World 12

Sun Kil Moon - Benji 12

La Dispute - Rooms Of The House 13

United Nations - The Next Four Years 13

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again 16

Nothing - Guilty Of Everything 19

Hotelier - Home Like No Place Is There 25

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And that's a wrap.

 

 

1.) Have A Nice Life - The Unnatural World (http://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/the-unnatural-world)

 

2.) ††† (Crosses) - ††† (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92dXztDGYdM)

 

3.) Beck - Morning Phase (https://play.spotify.com/album/2Qx7dgA5VjX8JDQaXVxzHu)

 

4.) Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3jWYjyPvC4)

 

5.) FKA twigs - LP1 (https://play.spotify.com/album/5VqGGKeWpIBRFh4M4XmqDK)

 

6.) Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (https://play.spotify.com/album/2lPYlP4eumsjz6LBG8GCbG)

 

7.) Mamaleek - He Never Spoke A Mumblin' Word (http://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/he-never-spoke-a-mumblin-word)

 

8.) The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFelXRjwoKA)

 

9.) Planning For Burial - Desideratum (http://theflenser.bandcamp.com/album/desideratum)

 

10.) Aphex Twin - Syro (https://play.spotify.com/album/6oRuinkJdTge4hpTuClEF8)

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My favorites of the year in no particular order, copy and pasted from facebook.  I made a spotify playlist of my favorite songs from the below albums, which you can listen to here.

 

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Brother Cephus - Wounded Hearts Collections 1 & 2
This Will Destroy You Official - Another Language
Gem Club - In Roses
Grouper - Ruins
Noah Gundersen - Ledges
Mono (Japan) - The Last Dawn / Rays of Darkness
Whirr - Sway
Copeland - Ixora
The Collection - Ars Moriendi
lovechild - In Heaven Everything Is Fine / Migraine Music
Barlow - Four Castles

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Okay, fixed up my list. Pretty content with this.

My top three are the ones that I absolutely loved.

13: 'Ultraviolence' - Lana Del Rey

12: 'Little Histories' - Cloudkicker

11: 'Zella Day' - Zella Day

10: 'Pleasant Living' - Tiny Moving Parts

9: 'Bloom & Breathe' - Gates

8: 'You Will Eventually Be Forgotten' - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

7: 'Kingfisher' - Prawn

6: 'Rooms of the House' - La Dispute

5: '†††' - †††

4: 'Absent Sounds' - From Indian Lakes

3: 'Home, Like NoPlace Is There' - The Hotelier

2: 'Relief' - My Iron Lung

1: 'Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only' - Seahaven

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The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place is There

Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss it All

Tiny Moving Parts - Pleasant Living

Hostage Calm - Die on Stage

Somos - Temple of Plenty

You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing

Sorority Noise - Forgettable

Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

Prawn - Kingfisher

EPs

Donovan Wolfington - Scary Stories...

Little Big League/Ovlov split

Basement - Further Sky

Somos/Sorority Noise split

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Here is my list (just alphabetically):

 

Cayetana - Nervous Like Me

Empire! Empire! - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten

Haley Bonar - Last War

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There

Kittyhawk - Hello Again

Human Hands - s/t

Perfect Future - Manifesto

Prawn - Kingfisher

Restorations - LP3

Somos - Temple Of Plenty

Somehow I'm not surprised that we have almost a handful of albums in common.

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Punknews best of 2014:

 

http://www.punknews.org/review/13102/best-of-2014-punknewsorgs-picks

 

If you're into this kind of music, probably the best list you can find given that it is a summary of what the community as a whole thought. Pulled a lot of great albums from the top of these lists over the years that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten into.

 

How the fuck did I miss a World Inferno Album this year? Getting on that for sure.

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I've been making a habit of trying to check out most people's top couple albums. Found I really liked that Of Us Giants album, then almost immediately found out they had already broken up. Hate when that happens.

 

Awesome dude! I think a lot of people on here would really enjoy them but they aren't known at all. Nova Scotia was really really good. I have a few copies on vinyl that I would sell for cheap if you were interested.

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  1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
  2. Morrissey - World Peace Is None of Your Business
  3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
  4. Goat - Commune
  5. D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
  6. Jamie Cullum - Interlude
  7. Temples - Sun Structures
  8. Azealia Banks - Broke with Expensive Taste
  9. Ed Sheeran - X
  10. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
  11. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
  12. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
  13. Swans - To Be Kind
  14. tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
  15. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

I actually made a Top 50 before the year was over, so if you're interested check it out. Lazaretto was the only 2014 record I got on vinyl (so far), just because it is a must-have.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Off the top of my head

Dads - I'll be The Tornado

EE(IWALE) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten

Sorority Noise - Forgettable

Flying Lotus - You're Dead

BadBadNotGood - III

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Nothing - Guilty of Everything

This Will Destroy You - Another Language

Tiny Moving Parts - Pleasant Living

Stuff I caught late or from other people's lists.

Mumblr - Full of Snakes

Tycho - Awake

Botanist - IV: Flora

Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser

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