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I'm not going to make you pick one, I know I can't.
My picks would be:
Gameface - Now Is What Matters Now. Pop punk originators return after nearly two decade, triumph ensues.
Todd Terje - It's album time. Bonkers, album title of the year.
That list could have been twice as long, it's been a good year.
Songs of the year
Prince - Pletzelbodylogic
Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
Lykke Li - No Rest For The Wicked
La Roux - Uptight Downtown
... and many many more.
What you got?
QOTSA Sitting by the Ocean.
Mention must go to the Stereophonics for Grafitti on a Train, apart from the first album the 'ophinics leave me cold so was quite surprised by this.
Yoda voice>"Too early this thread is"<Yoda voice ...and I still have two new albums to absorb.
Will get back to you in 3 weeks 🙂
Close to the Glass is a bit patchy but it's a new album by The Notwist so I'm happy for that. 🙂
Royal Blood
Sonic Highways by the Foo Fighters. Incredible album.
But I guess I'm completely wrong about that since they're far too mainstream / dad rock / popular for STW.
Royal Blood +1
And the winner in the Finnish Freaktronica category is.....
Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa by Kemialliset Ystavat
My most listened to albums of 2014
clipping. CLPPNG
The Acid - Liminal
I'll have to think about singles
Pfft! We all know that musically there's only one thing of significance happened [url= http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/22/s-club-7-finally-confirm-theyre-bringing-it-all-back-for-children-in-need-4916166/ ]this year[/url]
[i] there's only one thing of significance happened this year[/i]
Who's the one in the blue t-shirt??!
all about these guys
Yoda voice>"Too early this thread is"<Yoda voice
I sense a last second Xmas pressie buying panic 😉
Royal Blood came very close to getting in on my list, I know I'll get Sonic Highways for Xmas so haven't heard it yet but enjoyed all of the songs on the documentary series so far.
Congregation on Sonic Highways... A bloody great song. I think Royal Blood are supporting them on their UK tour next year so I suppose I'd better have a listen to them at some point.
enjoyed all of the songs on the documentary series so far
This is drifting slightly off topic but I have to say I have really enjoyed the Sonic Highways docs and have actively sought the middle set out on Iplayer. Yes, it does stray into being a teeny bit pretentious in places but, on the whole, God bless Dave Grohl for making it!
Alt-J. Both albums for me since I've only just cottoned on.
time to die - electric wizard.
behemoth - the satanist
aphex twin - syro.
cant decide to be honest.
new hookworms, new melvins, new jamie t
buck53 - was not expecting to see someone pick RTJ in this thread!
I was expecting the usual navel gazing, bearded indie guff that the Audi drivers like 🙂
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag
Also +1 on Royal Blood
Most listened would be;
The Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader
Saw their set at Leeds Festival, supremely mental! Hadn't heard of them before.Die Antwoord - Donker Mag
Pfft, that was last year grandad! 🙂Pigface - MemberQOTSA Sitting by the Ocean.
buck53 - was not expecting to see someone pick RTJ in this thread!I was expecting the usual navel gazing, bearded indie guff that the Audi drivers like
I blast it in my Fiat Panda, keep it OG. 😉
Did you spot this thread the other day?
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/hip-hop-you-dont-stop
Some good stuff in there.
chvck - Member
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag
Really? I've liked their previous stuff, but thought Donker Mag was crap!
I was massively underwhelmed by Syro.
Lamb's new album was pretty good, that's about the highlight of my year. Hopefully 2015 will be a better year musically.
Most played album for me this year has been Held in Splendor by Quilt.
Agree on some of the posts above, particularly Alt J, Royal Blood and The War on Drugs.
I love these threads, gives me loads more music to listen to.
Mine would be:
Caribou - Our Love - all songs except Second Chance which does my head in
Spoon - They Want My Soul - every song is really good....very accessible album
The Phantom Band - Strange Friend - takes a few listens but I found it really rewarding after a few initial WTF moments
Parquet Courts - Bodies - quirky and awesome
Shellac - Dude Incredible - for producing another album that makes me want to take a shower after listening to it
Fugazi - First demo - its only just out but I have been listening to it non-stop for the last week.....for me an insight into an amazing band
I am still listening to various hip-hop albums recommended to me by the kind residents of STW. So far my favourite released this year would be JJ Dooms remix album Bookhead.
+1 for The War on Drugs & Future Islands
The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams.
[quote=DezB ]chvck - Member
Die Antwoord - Donker Mag
Really? I've liked their previous stuff, but thought Donker Mag was crap!
To be fair there are a couple of really crap tracks on it but I like most of them. It's also one of the only new albums I've listened to this year so my pool of choice is shallow 😛
Syro starts well but after track four takes a nose dive.
OOBE - Digitalisea
Teebs - Estara
Bear in Heaven - Time Is Over One Day Old
Forgot about Lone - Reality Testing, not his best album but still up there and one of my favourite artists.
Another +1 on Royal Blood
Albums (not in any order)
Toujours - Sabina
Are We There - Sharon Van Etten
Morning Phase - Beck
Songs of the year:
Sailors daughter - Sabina
Every Time the Sun Comes Up - Sharon Van Etten
Say Goodbye - Beck
Love is to Die - Warpaint
My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit
However songs (re)discovered this year have been:
Farewell Sorrow - Alasdair Roberts
The Truth - Handsome Boy Modelling School
I Break Horses - Smog (or is that (smog)?)
Declare Independence - Bjork
Fonky First - Cutee B
Magic Chords - Sharon van Etten .
All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door, thrashed this whole album to death
Royal Blood is good.
Alt J is epic.
Lorde (that was thi s year wasnt it?)
I really liked Hideaway by Kiesza. You have to watch the "payday atm" clip on utube though.
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
All good suggestions - Spotify has just well and truly earned my money. I really liked the Neil Cowley Trio's "Touch & Flee"
Sixtoes Album - The Morning After
Hmmm. At the moment it's between the following:
- Solstafir - Otta
- Behemoth - The Satanist
- Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
- Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
I am veering towards the Solstafir at the moment:
Yeah, agree on the Thom Yorke album, its a beauty. Came along pretty recently, so,haven't listen as much as my other 4.
Same goes for the Hookworms one.
And Goat - Commune
Jungle - Jungle is a gorgeous dance album!
Bet I'll think of more, I think it was a great year.
No-one gone for the NME's choice? St.Vincent? Doesn't do it for me, if I'm doing [i]songs[/i] they need to be good songs and hers just aren't.
Album, Royal Blood.
Song, Jack White:
Another fan of Royal Blood, although their album sounds more like a collection of songs rather than an 'album'
Worth checking out Breton - War Room Stories
Earth, Mark Lanegan Band and War on Drugs for guitarry stuff.
Machinedrum for beepy stuff and the shear fact it made me very happy even when sitting in a traffic jam. Bass, good bass.
[i]Worth checking out Breton - War Room Stories[/i]
Yes! good one. not as good as the first album, but great songs, Would love to see them live.
While I consider contenders for my favourite albums, I'll throw this one in to the ring as arguably my favourite song of the year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=it8bSb-THFI
Run The Jewels 2 is the standout for me. Lie Cheat Steal being my personal favourite.
I'd throw a mention in for Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's Pinata, and RATKING's So It Goes.
Another +1 for Alt -J
An album of outstandingly incredible ear worms ...
Must mention The Amazing Snakeheads...
Live... tiny venue.. singer headbutting a lad for talking while they were playing. Singing this at the lad's girldfriend who was stood next to me... "Is it too much fer ya blondie?!" Totally intense. Loved it.
No-one gone for the NME's choice? St.Vincent? Doesn't do it for me, if I'm doing songs they need to be good songs and hers just aren't.
I was quite disappointed with her album. I bought it on the back of hearing digital witness and prince Johnny, but they are the stand out tracks.
I bought Stay Gold by First Aid Kit in October which seems to be the most played when I'm in the car at the moment.
I like the new Alt J album, but not as much as the first. Lykke Li's No Rest for the Wicked is good and Rave Tapes by Mogwai is excellent too.
Argh, there's lots above that I [i]really[/i] should have listened to by now.
Here are my favourites, several swayed from like to love by seeing the bands live.
Aphex Twin - Syro
I'm on the 'love it' side of the divided opinions. Sounds incredibly fresh to my ears.
Amazing Snakeheads - Amphetamine Ballads
Good album, great songs... but live? Oh my. Even standing at the back of the venue by the bar this band drip malevolence and swagger in equal measure. Superb.
Honeyblood - Honeyblood
Saw these guys support Sleigh Bells a couple of years ago and was quite taken with their catchy tunes and lo-fi stylings. The album has a little more pop polish than their demo versions, but I've grown to like the refined sound.
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
This one is my album of the year, until I catch up with all the ones I should have listened to and change my mind again.
oh, the Burning Hell too.
First track from what is hands down the best album of 2014
Lykke Li's is awesumz too.
And any of the Neil Young ones.
Couple more songs. Bit moody.
This one effects a lot more than my ears...
Ooo, liking the Amazing Snakeheads, will def seek out more of their stuff.
This thread and a newly plugged in chromecast/add the add to queue thing are improving my day greatly. Youtube links should be compulsory in all music threads.
First time I've heard FKA Twigs outside of a Flying Lotus tune, took me a minute to tune into the lyrics 😀
Royal Blood for me as well
Not had the chance to listen to an entire album yet but the song that hooked me the most was The Driver from Bastille...
Love the sentiment.
...singer headbutting a lad for talking while they were playing. Singing this at the lad's girldfriend who was stood next to me... "Is it too much fer ya blondie?!"
None of that sounds as if he's a particularly nice chap. A bit of a cad, infact...
Mean & scary. Like what rock stars should be.
Am really liking The Amazing Snakeheads and The Acid.....good recommendations as first time I have checked out either of them.
My favourite Young Fathers track is this off their last album:
...although War is a cracking track.
Don't really get FKA Twig....just sounds to me like bad R&B over one of Rustie's off cuts. But I am not a huge fan of R&B so that probably explains why I am missing out.
I forgot Mogwai released that this year, it definitely should have been on my list.
When I first heard this I thought [i]whoever plays guitar on this must be the biggest Neil Young fanboi to sound like that[/i].
Oh. Sweet!
Still waiting for my TV On The Radio album, Seeds, to show up.
Things I remember musically from this year in no particular order -
Plus looking forward to going through the various music on here I've not heard/been meaning to listen to. I should like Mastadon but I've never managed to get into them for some reason...
St. Vincent - St. Vincent. Took a while to get into, she's amazing.
Debaser, The Phantom Band are playing in Aberdeen again next week, can't wait 🙂
Honeyblood-Honeyblood
Mogwai-Rave Tapes
Bishop Nehru x MF Doom-Nehruviamdoom
Gonna have to stick another hand up for The War On Drugs, under the pressure and eyes to the wind being the standout tracks for me. So much stuff over the last couple of pages that I'm going to try and get my head into!
[i]Still waiting for my TV On The Radio album, Seeds, to show up.[/i]
Return to form. Some great songs 🙂
White Poppy - White Poppy
Jane Weaver - Silver Globe
Royal Blood is pretty good. So are:
Machine Head - Bloodstones and Diamonds (much better than that turkey of an album Locust).
Architects - Lost Together, Lost Forever
Rival Sons - Great a Western Valkyrie
It's made me realise that I've not bought much music this year.
On a different note, Slipknot the Gray Chapter gets my vote for dud of the year.
[i] pretty good[/i]
this is your criteria for album of the year?? 😉
Completely forgot about HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club, probably my favourite release of the year.
For me it was the long-awaited 'The Unravelling' from Knifeworld. Pop/prog/psych/folk spectacular. Especially loving the snaking mariner's lament that is obviously a living tribute to stablemate/Cardiac's Tim Smith - 'Send Him Seaworthy'. Puts a lump in the throat and is IMO fittingly brilliant and cleverly all over the shop at once. Spooktacular break and riffage at 4 min 40 secs makes me smile inside just like Zappa's 'Willie The Pimp' always does 🙂
Hookworms 'The Hum' is my album of then year. Love it.
This being one of my favs from the album.
Some great stuff on these replies, will keep me happily insomniac via late nite Scotch and Tubeathons 🙂
and
Todd Terje and Caribou. Both +1. The former in particular... bonkers is quite an apt description of it.
The album of my year was The Temperance Movement's debut album. It was actually released in 2013 but I didn't discover them til early this year and have since seen them live 3 times. 😀
World peace is none of your business.
morrisey.
Just bought the Swans album, passed me by when it was released (bein an [i]old [/i]band an that), appears top of a few lists, so took a punt and its a BEAST.
As it is now the end of the year and without wanting to sound like a broken record, the album of the year for me was Bastille's latest offering with Remains being my favourite tune. Love Rag n Bone Man's deep vocals alongside Skunk Anansie's velvet-coated gravel of a voice...
I promise to make an effort to listen to more artists next year!