Die besten Alben der Musikmagazine und Blogs 2014

das Sleaford Mods Album auf #12 schätze ich sehr – ansonsten hab ich natürlich mal wieder viel zu wenig neues gehört das Jahr, um mitreden zu können… @Slow Train, die beiden Listen, wo es auftaucht: Es heisst „Divide and Exit“

the quietus

ONE: Gazelle Twin – UNFLESH (Anti Ghost Moon Ray)

TWO: Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)

THREE: Swans – To Be Kind (Mute)

FOUR: East India Youth – TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER (Stolen)

FIVE: The Bug – Angels & Devils (Big Dada)

SIX: Grumbling Fur – Preternaturals (TQPC)

SEVEN: Katie Gately – Pipes (Blue Tapes)

EIGHT: Manic Street Preachers – Futurology (Sony)

NINE: Perc – The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)

TEN: Jenny Hval & Susanna – Meshes Of Voice (SusannaSonata)

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1. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
2. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
3. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
4. King Tuff – Black Moon Spell
5. Alvvays – Alvvays
6. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
7. Beck – Morning Phase
8. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
9. First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
10. Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

“Pop Matters“ – Highest Rated 2014:

1. Captain Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark: 1970-1972

2. Big K.R.I.T. – Cadillactica

3. Bob Dylan & The Band – The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete

4. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2

5. Taylor Swift – 1989

6. The Acacia Strain – Coma Witch

7. Allo Darlin‘ – We Come From The Same Place

8. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!

9. Field Report – Marigolden

10. Steph Cameron – Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady

11. Sondre Lerche – Please

12. Perfume Genius – Too Bright

13. Gazelle Twin – UNFLESH

14. Pere Ubu – Carnival of Souls

15. Shovels & Rope – Swimmin‘ Time

16. Todd Snider – Cheatham Street Warehouse

17. Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas – Secret Evil

18. Rowland S Howard – Pop Crimes

19. Judas Priest – Redeemer of Souls

20. Craig Leon – Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos/Visiting

gorilla vs. bear

01 SHABAZZ PALACES | Lese Majesty
02 GROUPER | Ruins
03 ARIEL PINK | Pom Pom
04 TOPS | Picture You Staring
05 BURIAL | Rival Dealer
06 DOSS | Doss
07 LEWIS | L’Amour / Romantic Times
08 FREDDIE GIBBS & MADLIB | Piñata
09 FEAR OF MEN | Loom
10 LANA DEL REY | Ultraviolence

Wie immer sehr eigen. Auf Platz 7 stehen gleich zwei Alben aus den 80ern und auf 5 eine EP vom letzten Jahr. Naja.

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1. Aphex Twin – Syro
2. Caribou – Our Love
3. Clap! Clap! – Tayi Bebba
4. Objekt – Flatland
5. Lone – Reality Testing
6. Slackk – Palm Tree Fire
7. Hieroglyphic Being – The Seer of Cosmic Visions
8. Dean Blunt – Black Metal
9. Fatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch
10. Arca – Xen

musicOMH’s Top 100 Albums of 2014:

1. St. Vincent – St. Vincent (Loma Vista/Caroline International)
2. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
3. Caribou – Our Love (City Slang)
4. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
5. FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)
6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)
7. Beck – Morning Phase (Virgin EMI)
8. Future Islands – Singles (4AD)
9. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
10. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile)
11. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time (Olsen)
12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos (Erased Tapes)
13. Strand Of Oaks – Heal (Dead Oceans)
14. Swans – To Be Kind (Mute)
15. La Roux – Trouble In Paradise (Polydor)
16. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Parlophone)
17. Nick Mulvey – First Mind (Fiction)
18. King Creosote – From Scotland, With Love (Domino)
19. Interpol – El Pintor (Soft Limit)
20. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)
21. Ben Frost – Aurora (Mute)
22. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Caroline International)
23. Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
24. Jack White – Lazaretto (XL)
25. Run The Jewels – RTJ2 (Mass Appeal)
26. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
27. Allo Darlin – We Come From The Same Place (Fortuna POP!)
28. Slow Club – Complete Surrender (Caroline International)
29. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rhythm (The Leaf Label)
30. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
31. The Juan Maclean – In A Dream (DFA)
32. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine/Virgin EMI)
33. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
34. The Antlers – Familiars (Transgressive)
35. TV On The Radio – Seeds (Harvest)
36. Kiasmos – Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)
37. Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)
38. Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge (Virgin EMI)
39. Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)
40. Kelis – Food (Ninja Tune)
41. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden (Profound Lore)
42. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
43. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Mute)
44. Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi)
45. Hookworms – The Hum (Weird World)
46. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love (Matador)
47. Aziza Brahim – Soutak (Glitterbeat)
48. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)
49. Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
50. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)
51. Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else (Wichita)
52. Luke Abbott – Wysing Forest (Border Community)
53. Alex G – DSU (Lucky Number)
54. Ballet School – The Dew Lasts An Hour (Bella Union)
55. Clark – Clark (Warp)
56. DELS – Petals Have Fallen (Big Dada)
57. Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Island)
58. Dan Weiss – Fourteen (Pi)
59. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)
60. Inventions – Inventions (Temporary Residence)
61. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Polydor)
62. Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)
63. The Hotelier – Home, Like No Place There Is (Tiny Engines)
64. Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi)
64. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)
65. Ex Hex – Rips (Merge)
66. Blue-Eyed Hawk – Under The Moon (Edition)
67. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté – Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)
68. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rising Like A Bell (OWSLA)
69. Sébastien Tellier – L’Aventura (Record Makers/Because)
70. Wye Oak – Shriek (City Slang)
71. Circle Of Sound – Anti Hero (Baitak)
72. Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)
73. Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath (Recital)
74. Little Big League – Tropical Jinx (Run For Cover)
75. Tinariwen – Emmaar (PIAS)
76. Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20)
77. Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics – Jaiyede Afro (Strut)
78. Honeyblood – Honeyblood (FatCat)
79. Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
80. Kele – Trick (Lilac)
81. Mark E – Product Of Industry (Spectral Sound)
82. Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)
83. Robert Plant – Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)
84. Hospitality – Trouble (Fire)
85. Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
86. Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
87. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Columbia)
88. Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo)
89. Bis – Data Panik Etcetera (Do Yourself In)
90. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager (Warner)
91. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
92. I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)
93. Woman’s Hour – Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
94. Young Fathers – Dead (Big Dada)
95. Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Bella Union)
96. Fucked Up – Glass Boys (Matador)
97. Owen Pallett – In Conflict (Domino)
98. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Azealia Banks/Prospect Park)
99. Matthew & The Atlas – Other Rivers (Communion)
100. East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (Stolen)