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Stars- No One is Lost

Mogwai- Rave Tapes

Coldplay- Ghost Stories 

TWDY- Another Language

 

Have yet to listen to all of it, but feel Jakob- Sines will be on there as well. And it came out at the end of last year, but I didn't start rocking it til this year and its been a massive favorite this year since I found out: Josh Berwanger- Strange Stains

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Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Code Orange Kids - I Am King
Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You
Mastadon - Once More 'Round The Sun
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Ryan Adams - S/T
Taylor Swift - 1989
Tops - Picture You Staring
Hostage Calm - Die On Stage (RIP)

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Here's my top 10 (in no particular order):

 

War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream

Atmosphere - Southsiders

Run The Jewels 2

Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Pinata

Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

Beck - Morning Phase

Sun Kill Moon - Benji

Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron

Flying Lotus - You're Dead

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

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Top 10

 

1) Hi Ho Silver, Away! - Chore
1) Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra - Well Soon
3) Hard Girls - A Thousand Surfaces
4) Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
5) Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
6) PUP - PUP
7) Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
8) The Menzingers - Rented World
9) Self Defense Family - Try Me
10) Cayetana - Nervous Like Me

 

Stuff I Liked But Haven't Spent Enough Time With:

'68 - In Humor and Sadness

Single Mothers - Negative Qualities

Rozwell Kid - Too Shabby

Smith Street Band - Throw Me In the River

Tiny Empires - Weird Headspace

Beach Slang - Both 7"s

Great Apes - Playland at the Beach

Bruce Lee Band - Everything Will Be Alright My Friend

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I do believe Vol 3: The Subliminal Versus is their best album.

Now, I may just be thinking this because that's the album that made me love them in my angst-filled teen years.

Also, I think it was the album where they actually won Grammys for "Before I Forget" I believe.

I never really listened to Iowa, but I loved s/t. That shit was great.

I'll never forget seeing the music video for "Duality" for the first time.

It was like I discovered the Matrix or something.

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Chiseled my list down to an official top 10. Tried to put them in order, it was a mighty challenge.

 

10) Porter Robinson - Worlds

9) The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western

8) Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence

7) CHON - Woohoo!

6) Brontide - Artery

5) Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors

4) This Will Destroy You - Another Language

3) Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

2) Bearcubbin - Girls With Fun Haircuts

1) Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean

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This was really, really hard to do this year.  Especially those top 4.  I sat here for like 10 minutes trying to decide what to do.

 

1.) Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

2.) The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There

3.) Prawn - Kingfisher

4.) Tigers Jaw - Charmer

5.) Secret Band - Secret Band

6.) Circa Survive - Descensus

7.) Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2

8.) Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
9.) Childish Gambino - STN MTN/KAUAI

10.) Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

 

 

Honorable mentions:

 

††† - †††
Dads - I'll Be The Tornado
Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All

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LP3 by Restorations was pretty much the only album I checked out this year that I loved (I barely listen to anything new). I also liked Rancid, Against Me!, Noi!se (The Scars We Hide), The Both, The Old Firm Casuals (This Means War), and The Interrupters. I need to listen to Tim Barry's Lost and Rootless and Cory Branan's The No-Hit Wonder a few more times before solidifying my opinion but I like those too. 

 

I'm definitely going to be sure to check out Hard Girls and Pup soon too. 

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I'm having a hard time narrowing down my top albums so here is what I've been enjoying this year in alphabetical order from my iphone.

 

 

Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - ST

Beware of Safety - Lotusville

Blue Neck - King Nine

Braid - No Coast

Catacombe - Quidam

Circa Survive - Descensus

Cloudkicker - Little Histories

Tycho - Awake

Copeland - Ixora

damascus - When Last We Met

Foxing - The Albatross

From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds

Gates - Bloom and Breathe

Glories - Put The Beast Out Of Mind

Have Mercy - A Place Of Our Own

The Hotelier - Home Like No Place Is There

I/O - Saudade

Jakob - Sines

Kerretta - Pirohia

La Dispute - Rooms Of The House

Lowercase Noises - This Is For Our Sins

Minot - Equal/Opposite

Mono - Rays Of Darkness/The Last Dawn (Double Album)

Moose Blood - I'll Keep You In Mind From Time To Time

...Of Sinking Ships - The Amaranthine Sea

Of Us Giants - Nova Scotia

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Prawn - Kingfisher

Pray For Sound - Dreamer

Somos - Temple Of Plenty

Special Explosion - The Art Of Mothering

Stepfriends - All We've Got

This Patch Of Sky - ST

This Will Destroy You - Another Language

Tides Of Man - Young And Courageous

Tigers Jaw - Charmer

Tiny Moving Parts - Pleasant Living

Watter - This World

Weatherbox - Flies In All Directions

Young The Giant - Mind Over Matter

 

I'm sure there are some others but 2014 has been a crazy year for music.

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Best album of 2014:

The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (I don't know why people didn't like this one, to me it's great)

 

Other records I really liked (can't rank them):

Number One Gun - This Is All We Know (much better than I ever expected)

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There (though I liked their debut better...)

Terrafraid - Despondent (beautiful, heartfelt)

Hazakim - Son Of Man

Anberlin - Lowborn

The Lawrence Arms - Metropole

The 101's - For The Years

Hey Mister! - Rocket Summer

Mercy Street - Let Me Live

Rust Belt Light - Religion & My Ex

Lagwagon - Hang

 

 

Best EPs/splits:

Dead Neck - Dead Neck

Venerea - Smash The Statues split (esp. the Venerea tracks)

 

Yes, I like me some fast melodic punk.

 

 

Biggest disappointment:

Lakes - Fire Ahead (for some reason, this album just never takes off the way The Agreement did... I was hoping it would be more like Eager Seas, which is Seth's best according to me)

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