2013年 Dec 30日 Monday, 8:33
I. End of year lists
II. Albums (by month)
III. Albums I didn't get to
IV. EPs, splits & singles
V. EPs, splits & singles I didn't get to
VI. Report cards
if you've been reading along, thank you. happy new year
I. End of year lists
TOP 20 ALBUMS OF 2014!
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
3. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
4. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
5. FKA twigs - LP1
6. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
7. Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
8. Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
9. Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You
10. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
11. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
12. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
13. Caribou - Our Love
14. Greys - If Anything
15. Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
16. United Nations - The Next Four Years
17. Beck - Morning Phase
18. Five Star Hotel - Nazca Lines
19. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
20. Carla Bozulich - Boy
Honourable Mentions
Iceage - Plowing into the Field of Love
Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
Aphex Twin - Syro
Indian - From All Purity
EPs, Splits & Singles
1. Pusha T - Lunch Money
2. QT - Hey QT
3. Container - Adhesive
4. Thom Yorke - Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry
5. Jacques Greene - Phantom Vibrate
Honourable Mentions
Sophie - Lemonade / Hard
Baths - Ocean Death
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II. Albums (by month)
these worked out pretty well last year so let's do this again. fuck a review
10 - Personal GOAT
9(.5) - Excellent
8(.5) - Great
7(.5) - Good
6(.5) - Decent
5(.5) - Mediocre
4(.5) - Subpar
3(.5) - Bad
2(.5) - Terrible
1(.5) - Dogshit
0(.5) - Offensive on a Personal Level
January
Five Star Hotel - Nazca Lines 8/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World 7/10
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing 7/10
A Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything 6.5/10
Young Fathers - Dead 6/10
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags 5/10
Mogwai - Rave Tapes 5/10
Actress - Ghettoville 4.5/10
Self Defense Family - Try Me 4/10
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February
St. Vincent - St. Vincent 8.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Beck - Morning Phase 8/10
Indian - From All Purity 7.5/10
Sun Kil Moon - Benji 7.5/10
Cities Aviv - Come to Life 7/10
Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom 7/10
James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical 6.5/10
Amputated - Dissect, Molest, Ingest 6/10
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues 5/10
Broken Bells - After the Disco 3.5/10
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March
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron 8/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns 7.5/10
Comeback Kid - Die Knowing 7/10
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness 7/10
Real Estate - Atlas 6.5/10
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation 6/10
Rick Ross - Mastermind 5/10
Cripple Bastards - Nero in Metastasi 5/10
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April
Swans - To Be Kind 9.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There 9/10
La Dispute - Rooms of the House 7/10
White Suns - Totem 6.5/10
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House 6/10
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love 5.5/10
Pixies - Indie Cindy 5/10
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata 5/10
Psalm Zero - The Drain 4/10
Pharrell Williams - G I R L 2.5/10
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May
Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static 8/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Tobacco - Ultima II Massage 7.5/10
Ought - More Than Any Other Day 7/10
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days 7/10
Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion 7/10
The Body - I Shall Die Here 6.5/10
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else 6/10
Horseback - Piedmont Apocrypha 6/10
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots 5/10
Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel 3/10
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June
Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon 8/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Greys - If Anything 8/10
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown 8/10
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island 7.5/10
Trap Them - Blissfucker 7/10
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream 6.5/10
Ben Frost - A U R O R A 6.5/10
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal 6/10
Lone - Reality Testing 5.5/10
Illum Sphere - Ghosts of Then and Now 5/10
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July
United Nations - The Next Four Years 8/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Carla Bozulich - Boy 8/10
IDYLLS - Prayer for Terrene 7.5/10
Antemasque - Antemasque 7.5/10
Strand of Oaks - HEAL 7/10
Ratking - So It Goes 7/10
Infinity Frequencies - Computer Decay 6.5/10
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August
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty 8.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
'68 - In Humor and Sadness 7/10
Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe 7/10
How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?" 6/10
Infinity Frequencies - Computer Afterlife 4/10
Ab-Soul - These Days 4/10
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September
FKA twigs - LP1 8.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Aphex Twin - Syro 7.5/10
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes 7.5/10
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right 7/10
White Lung - Deep Fantasy 7/10
The Bug - Angels & Devils 6.5/10
Code Orange - I Am King 6.5/10
Machine Girl - WLFGRL 6/10
Rustie - Green Language 5.5/10
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent 5.5/10
Willis Earl Beal - Experiments in Time 3/10
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October
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden 8.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 8/10
Flying Lotus - You're Dead! 8/10
Iceage - Plowing into the Field of Love 8/10
Todd Terje - It's Album Time 6.5/10
Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels 6/10
Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell 6/10
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November
Ariel Pink - pom pom 8.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Pianos Become the Teeth - Keep You 8/10
Mykki Blanco - Gay Dog Food 7/10
BADBADNOTGOOD - III 6.5/10
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land 5/10
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December
Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers 7.5/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
Finch - Back to Oblivion 5.5/10
Perfume Genius - Too Bright 5.5/10
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III. Albums I didn't get to
Death Grips - The Powers That B
Old Man Gloom - The Ape of God
Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
Perc - The Power and the Glory
Telecult Powers - Black Meditations
Unholy Two - Talk About Hardcore
Watery Love - Decorative Feeding
Dorval & Devereaux - Dorval & Devereaux
Amps for Christ - Canyons Cars and Crows
Gang Wizard - Important Picnic
Aaron Dilloway - Medicine Stunts
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
This Will Destroy You - Another Language
At the Gates - At War with Reality
Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
Seahaven - Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only
Hard Girls - A Thousand Surfaces
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
Ringworm - Hammer of the Witch
Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed
...Of Sinking Ships - The Amaranthine Sea
Rosanne Cash - The River & the Thread
Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs
Sick Thoughts - Terminal Teen Age
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes, Volumes 3 and 4
Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit
Guided by Voices - Cool Planet
Azealia Banks - Broke with Expensive Taste
Gobby - Wakng Thrst for Seeping Banhee
Morrissey - World Peace Is None of Your Business
Today Is the Day - TBA
Wormrot - TBA
Torche - TBA
Grimes - TBA
Titus Andronicus - TBA
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IV. EPs, splits & singles
Pusha T - Lunch Money 9/10
Thom Yorke - Youwouldn'tlikemewhenI'mangry 8/10
Jacques Greene - Phantom Vibrate 8/10
Sophie - Lemonade / Hard 7.5/10
Baths - Ocean Death 7.5/10
Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I 7/10
Hannah Diamond - Every Night 7/10
David Bowie - Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) / 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore 7/10
Machinedrum - Fenris District 6.5/10
Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun 6/10
Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo 5/10
Viper Venom - Destroyah 3/10
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V. EPs, splits & singles I didn't get to
Miguel - nwa.hollywooddreams.coffee
Saint Pepsi - Fiona Coyne / Fall Harder
Ought - Once More With Feeling...
Mykki Blanco - Spring/Summer 2014
The Weaks - The World Is a Terrible Place and I Hate Myself and Want to Die
Boysetsfire / Funeral for a Friend - Split
Armand Hammer - Furtive Movements
Squarepusher x Z-Machines - Music for Robots
A Silver Mt. Zion - Hang on to Each Other
Fucked Up - Year of the Dragon
Willis Earl Beal - A Place That Doesn't Exist
VI. Report cards
AUTUMN EQUINOX EDITION (September 23)
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
3. FKA twigs - LP1
4. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5. Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
6. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
7. United Nations - The Next Four Years
8. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
9. Greys - If Anything
10. Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
11. Beck - Morning Phase
12. Five Star Hotel - Nazca Lines
13. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
14. Carla Bozulich - Boy
15. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
16. Aphex Twin - Syro
17. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage
18. Indian - From All Purity
19. IDYLLS - Prayer for Terrene
20. Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns
SUMMER SOLSTICE EDITION (June 21)
1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Death Grips - Niggas on the Moon
5. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
6. Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
7. Beck - Morning Phase
8. Five Star Hotel - Nazca Lines
9. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
10. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
11. Tobacco - Ultima II Massage
12. Indian - From All Purity
13. Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns
14. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
15. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
16. Comeback Kid - Die Knowing
17. Cities Aviv - Come to Life
18. La Dispute - Rooms of the House
19. Trap Them - Blissfucker
20. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
SPRING EQUINOX EDITION (March 20)
1. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
2. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Five Star Hotel - Nazca Lines
4. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
5. Indian - From All Purity
6. Lucy - Churches Schools and Guns
7. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
8. Cities Aviv - Come to Life
9. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
10. clipping. - CLPPNG
11. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
12. Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom
13. You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing
14. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
15. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
16. Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
17. Amputated - Dissect, Molest, Ingest
18. Young Fathers - Dead
19. Warpaint - Warpaint
20. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags