Best Albums of 2014

[HybridxReality]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, damn it

All right, I'll take it off my list...

[BeardlessYouth]

Here's the stuff I liked the most this year:

 

Hard Girls- A Thousand Surfaces

clipping.- CLPPNG

Andrew Jackson Jihad- Christmas Island

Frankie Cosmos- Zentropy

Alex G- DSU

Posture & The Grizzly- Busch Hymns

Madlib & Freddie Gibbs- Pinata

Code Orange- I Am King

FKA Twigs- LP1

Dikembe- Mediumship

Mac Demarco- Salad Days

Joyce Manor- Never Hungover Again

Run The Jewels- RTJ2

Flying Lotus- You're Dead!

Braid- No Coast

Crying- Get Olde/Second Wind

Yoni Wolf- Old Dope

Sorority Noise- Forgettable

[deletedunknown]

Loose Ranked Top 20:

Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witnesses
Swans - To Be Kind
Thou - Heathen
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
Bongripper - Miserable
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Eyehategod
Creepoid
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Haley Bonar - Last War
Electric Wizard - Time to Die
Give - I Am Live
Mogwai - Rave Tape
Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy

Old Man Gloom - Ape of Gods
Ides of Gemini - Old World/New Wave
Iron Reagan - Tyranny of Will
Pallbearer - Foundation of Burden
Young Widows - Easy Pain

 

Awesome 7"s:

Cretins

Post Teens/Big Eyes

Post Teens/Rose Cross

 

And a bunch of other good stuff

[gmoney]

I'm doing a countdown of my top albums on my instagram like every year - http://www.instagram.com/gkersey- mostly cause a lot of my friends and myself miss stuff and this is a way to catch some things we missed.

 

It's super bland and predicatable, but that's ok. #shamelessplug

[+hecollec+or]

All I know is that if you were a fan before Vol 3, you don't like Vol 3.

 

I respectfully disagree. Been a fan from S/T on, & Vol. 3 is my favorite album of theirs, S/T a close 2nd. More complex & varied than the 1st 2.

[suchashorttime]

[HybridxReality]

I respectfully disagree. Been a fan from S/T on, & Vol. 3 is my favorite album of theirs, S/T a close 2nd. More complex & varied than the 1st 2.

I mean, I guess my view on that was a little skewed, but I said it mainly because I've met a lot of Slipknot fans and that was usually the case with a lot of them.

Glad it's not so unappreciated! Vol 3 is one of my all-time favorite albums.

[̮ ɤ ̮]

I mean, I guess my view on that was a little skewed, but I said it mainly because I've met a lot of Slipknot fans and that was usually the case with a lot of them.

Glad it's not so unappreciated! Vol 3 is one of my all-time favorite albums.

I couldn't rank any of their first 3 albums (not counting M.F.K.R.). I love the mixture of quiet and loud songs on Vol. 3, but also the absolute craziness of S/T and Iowa. Everything after these is shit though.

[travis]

1. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

2. Lagwagon - Hang

3. La Dispute - Rooms of the House

4. Sorority Noise - Forgettable

5. Moose Blood - I'll Keep You In Mind From Time to Time

6. Nothing - Guilty of Everything

7. Banner Pilot - Souvenir

8. Backtrack - Lost In Life

9. Whirr - Sway

10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence

[funtitled]

top 5

1.cloud nothings-here and nowhere else

2.lagwagon-hang

3.the hotelier-home like noplace there is

4.weezer-ewbaite

5.dikembe-mediumship 

 

other ones i enjoyed (no order)

-dads-i'll be the tornado (really regret all the shit talking i did to this band, because at the time i had only listened to byta, which was a poor choice for a n00b. anyways american radass and this are really growing on me)

-dfa1979-the physical world (not as good as the other album though)

-joyce manor-never hungover again

-mad caddies-brand new scar

-prawn-kingfisher (didn't like it as much as some people but i still thought it was pretty good)

-ajj-christmas island

-menzingers-rented world

 

the new agaisnt me really didn't do much for me (same with everything after reinventing axel rose

[omik11303]

Kind of in order, but bound to fluctuate.

1. Disembarked - Nothing's Wrong Here

2. Echoes - The Pursuit

3. Deadpoets. - Paper Crane

4. Let it Happen - Cause + Effect

5. Young Mountain - We're Drowning in Slowmotion

6. Fall of Messiah - How to See Beyond Fields

7. From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds

8. Forever Came Calling - What Matters Most...

9. Shirokuma - Sun Won't Set

10. Jakob - Sines

11. Wolves and Machines - Since Before Our Time

12. The Tidal Sleep - Vorstellungskraft

13. Frameworks - Loom

14. A Winged Victory For the Sullen - Atomos

15. Forever Losing Sleep - I Lost Myself Again

16. Transit - Joyride

17. This Will Destroy You - Another Language

18. Gates - Bloom and Breathe

19. Silent Planet - The Night God Slept

20. This Patch of Sky - S/T

[jtcohenour]

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

 

Solid picks

[zacharyritz]

Can't figure out which album to put at that #15 spot..

 

Top Albums of 2014:
1. Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo
2. You Blew It! – Keep Doing What You’re Doing
3. The Hotelier – Home, Like No Place is There
4. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
5. Logic – Under Pressure
6. Tunji Ige – The Love Project
7. Mac Demarco – Salad Days
8. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
9. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
10. The Front Bottoms – Rose EP
11. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
12. Vince Staples – Hell Can Wait
13. Death Grips – Niggas on the Moon
14. Sorority Noise - Forgettable
15. ---

Honorable Mentions:
2 Chainz – Freebase EP
A$AP Ferg – Ferg Forever
Bas – Last Winter
Childish Gambino – STN MTN/Kauai
Cities Aviv – Come to Life
Cloud Nothings – Here & Nowhere Else
Foster the People – Supermodel
Grammer – Awesome Knifes
Mellowhype – INSA
Osoosooso – Osoosooso
Ratking – So It Goes
Real Estate – Atlas
Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron
Somos – Temple of Plenty
Spoon – They Want My Soul
The Underachievers – Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium

[donlombardo]

A few mentions of Metropole - no love or News From Yalta?

[ptothedo]

1. Interpol - El Pintor

2. Future Islands - Singles

Liars - Mess

Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World

Swans - To Be Kind

RTJ2

Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animals

Strand of Oaks - HEAL

The Twilight Sad - nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave

’68 - In Humor and Sadness

[cwhitmuzik]

Did a list I feel comfortable with:

 

1. The Hotelier – Home, Like NoPlace Is There
2. Copeland - Ixora
3. Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
4. Weatherbox – Flies In All Directions
5. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
6. Prawn – Kingfisher 
7. Wye Oak - Shriek
8. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
9. Antarctigo Vespucci – Soulmate Stuff/I’m So Tethered
10. Stepfriends – All We’ve Got
11. Mitski – Bury Me At Makeout Creek
12. Damien Rice – My Favorite Faded Fantasy
13. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose
14. The Antlers - Familiars
15. The Smith Street Band – Throw Me In The River
16. St Vincent – St. Vincent
17. Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
18. Braid – No Coast
19. Kishi Bashi - Lighght
20. I Can Make A Mess – Growing In
21. YG – My Krazy Life
22. Arrange – Their Bodies In A Fog 
23. Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy 
24. Big Ups – Eighteen Hours of Static
25. Pianos Become The Teeth – Keep You

[Bladew1ll1s1sdead]

Did a list I feel comfortable with:

1. The Hotelier – Home, Like NoPlace Is There

2. Copeland - Ixora

3. Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else

4. Weatherbox – Flies In All Directions

5. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again

6. Prawn – Kingfisher

7. Wye Oak - Shriek

8. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow

9. Antarctigo Vespucci – Soulmate Stuff/I’m So Tethered

10. Stepfriends – All We’ve Got

11. Mitski – Bury Me At Makeout Creek

12. Damien Rice – My Favorite Faded Fantasy

13. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose

14. The Antlers - Familiars

15. The Smith Street Band – Throw Me In The River

16. St Vincent – St. Vincent

17. Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers

18. Braid – No Coast

19. Kishi Bashi - Lighght

20. I Can Make A Mess – Growing In

21. YG – My Krazy Life

22. Arrange – Their Bodies In A Fog

23. Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy

24. Big Ups – Eighteen Hours of Static

25. Pianos Become The Teeth – Keep You

25 albums and not even a single one I liked a tiny bit.

[HybridxReality]

That new The Hotelier album didn't do much for me, but I know a bunch of people LOVE that album.

[omik11303]

That new The Hotelier album didn't do much for me, but I know a bunch of people LOVE that album.

The last three songs and the opener are fantastic but the middle five are near cringe-worthy imo.

[zacharyritz]

That new The Hotelier album didn't do much for me, but I know a bunch of people LOVE that album.

the first time I heard the first track (An Introduction to the Album) I was absolutely blown away. the opener and closer are both 10/10 and everything in between is FANTASTIC. really great album that took me by surprise.

[museummouth]

Hotelier is so overrated. It's decent but that's it.

[HybridxReality]

I can agree with the opening track, because that shit is just so good, but after that, nothing stuck out to me.

I'll give it another listen.

Also, I heard CHON on Audiotree and they're freaking fantastic. They released an EP this year, yeah? Need to check that out.

[Bladewillisisdead]

I'm not in love with that Hotelier album. It's good, but not great. Life in Drag fucking RULES though.

The best piece of music released this year was Self Defense Family - Indoor Wind Chimes b/w Cottaging. I know that's not an album but its number one on my list.

The rest of my Top 10 in no particular order:

TWIABP - Between Bodies

My Fictions - Stranger Songs

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

Self Defense Family - Try Me

Prawn - Kingfisher

Death of Lovers - Buried Under a World of Roses

Self Defense Family - Duets

Only Lovers Left Alive OST

United Nations - The Next Four Years

[donlombardo]

I really think that some people here would like this album:

 

Terrafraid - Despondent

http://terrafraid.bandcamp.com/

 

It came out this year. The Punknews review (which gave it 4,5 out of 5 - http://www.punknews.org/review/12547/terrafraid-despondent)says: "Musically the influences are certainly '80s dream pop, '90s indie/emo and definitely some technical punk aspects in a lot of the drumming". Try Self Indulgent Spotlight.

 

Let me know what you think.

[Royce]

Here it goes!

 

1. Copeland - Ixora

2. Manchester Orchestra - Hope (If they had just released one album, perfectly mixing Cope and Hope into one, i think it would have been my AOTY)

3. Circa Survive - Descensus 

4. Prawn - Kingfisher 

5. From Indian Lakes - Absent Sounds

6. Sisyphus - Sisyphus

7. Weatherbox - Flies In All Directions

8. La Dispute - Rooms of the House

9. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again

10. S. Carey - Range of Light 

 

Honorable Mentions:

Tigers Jaw - Charmer

Pianos Become The Teeth - Keep You

Madlib and Freddie Gibbs - Pinata 

 

Disappointments: 

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

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