It looks like another great issue BTW, and can be purchased digitally for just $4.99 - http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?catid=1037&category=Music&subcatid=230&subcategory=Rock&title=Rock-A-Rolla&titleid=768
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
Thank you! :D
A bunch of albums on there making my ballot, a couple of them v high up!
― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:08 (nine years ago) link
do we have a final version of the consensus watch?
― Vote in the ILM EOY Poll! (seandalai), Saturday, 17 January 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
By a more convoluted methodology, here's the consensus ranking from acclaimedmusic.net
1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream2 FKA twigs - LP13 St. Vincent - St. Vincent4 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 25 Sun Kil Moon - Benji6 Caribou - Our Love7 Swans - To Be Kind8 Aphex Twin - Syro9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!10 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There11 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots12 Future Islands - Singles13 Beck - Morning Phase14 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness15 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days16 Spoon - They Want My Soul17 Perfume Genius - Too Bright18 Todd Terje - It's Album Time19 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence20 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata21 Wild Beasts - Present Tense22 Taylor Swift - 198923 alt-J - This is All Yours24 Ty Segall - Manipulator25 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else26 Real Estate - Atlas27 Ariel Pink - pom pom28 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused29 Grouper - Ruins30 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty31 Lykke Li - I Never Learn32 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit33 Jack White - Lazaretto34 Metronomy - Love Letters35 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal36 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers37 The Bug - Angels & Devils38 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues39 Jenny Lewis - The Voyager40 Owen Pallett - In Conflict41 Temples - Sun Structures42 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music43 Arca - Xen44 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever45 Warpaint - Warpaint46 Ought - More Than Any Other Day47 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold48 Ben Frost - A U R O R A49 Alvvays - Alvvays50 tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack51 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project52 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise53 YG - My Krazy Life54 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste55 The Black Keys - Turn Blue56 Interpol - El Pintor57 Royal Blood - Royal Blood58 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams59 Jungle - Jungle60 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down61 Jessie Ware - Tough Love62 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems63 Robert Plant - lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar64 How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"65 Young Fathers - Dead66 Mogwai - The Rave Tapes67 Actress - Ghettoville68 Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun69 Liars - Mess70 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land71 Banks - Goddess72 Dean Blunt - Black Metal73 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend74 EMA - The Future's Void75 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology76 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden77 Chet Faker - Built on Glass78 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers79 Strand of Oaks - Heal80 Goat - Commune81 Ex Hex - Rips82 Behemoth - The Satanist83 Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold84 Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right85 Kindness - Otherness86 Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business87 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything88 The Antlers - Familiars89 Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast90 Kelis - Food91 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso92 Clark - Clark93 S O H N - Tremors94 TV on the Radio - Seeds95 Merchandise - After the End96 White Lung - Deep Fantasy97 Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams98 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah99 Shellac - Dude Incredible100 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
― dancing cortical homunculus (Sanpaku), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
god help me, i added that singles playlist to my listening collection.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
A couple more:
http://thefirenote.com/2014/12/18/the-blazing-top-50-albums-of-2014-2/http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/uncut-editors-diary/the-154-best-albums-of-2014-a-very-personal-list
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 3 February 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
Not critics but what.cd's users poll:
1 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 22 - Aphex Twin - Syro3 - Swans - To Be Kind4 - St. Vincent - St. Vincent5 - Flying Lotus - You're Dead!6 - D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah7 - The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream8 - FKA Twigs - LP19 - Spoon - They Want My Soul10 - Caribou - Our Love11 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata12 - Todd Terje - It's Album Time13 - Sun Kil Moon - Benji14 - Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness15 - Future Islands - Singles16 - Grouper - Ruins17 - Mac DeMarco - Salad Days18 - Beck - Morning Phase19 - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers20 - Real Estate - Atlas21 - Jack White - Lazaretto22 - alt-J (∆) - This Is All Yours23 - Sharon Van Etten - Are We There24 - Ben Frost - A U R O R A25 - Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else26 - tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack27 - Taylor Swift - 198928 - BADBADNOTGOOD - III29 - Ty Segall - Manipulator30 - Ariel Pink - pom pom31 - The Antlers - Familiars32 - Perfume Genius - Too Bright33 - Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love34 - Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence35 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything36 - Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams37 - Warpaint - Warpaint38 - Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots39 - Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused40 - Clark - Clark41 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - ATOMOS42 - Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World43 - Death Grips - niggas on the moon44 - Kiasmos - Kiasmos45 - Wild Beasts - Present Tense46 - Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes47 - White Lung - Deep Fantasy49 - Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty50 - The Black Keys - Turn Blue51 - Clipping - CLPPNG52 - Ought - More Than Any Other Day53 - Behemoth - The Satanist54 - ODESZA - In Return55 - The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There56 - Alvvays - Alvvays57 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent58 - Jungle - Jungle59 - Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun60 - Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End61 - Ex Hex - Rips62 - Tycho - Awake63 - Wye Oak - Shriek64 - Arca - Xen65 - Röyksopp - The Inevitable End66 - TV on the Radio - Seeds67 - Goat - Commune68 - Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World69 - Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal70 - The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers71 - Trust - Joyland72 - Phantogram - Voices73 - Owen Pallett - In Conflict74 - Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy75 - Fire! Orchestra - Enter76 - Nothing - Guilty of Everything77 - Liars - Mess78 - La Dispute - Rooms of the House79 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE80 - Pink Floyd - The Endless River81 - First Aid Kit - Stay Gold82 - Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited83 - RATKING - So It Goes84 - ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron85 - HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club86 - How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"87 - Sohn - Tremors88 - Alex G - DSU89 - Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams90 - Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso91 - Slow Magic - How to Run Away92 - The Body - I Shall Die Here93 - Glass Animals - Zaba94 - Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues95 - iamamiwhoami - Blue96 - Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels97 - Objekt - Flatland98 - Christian Löffler - Young Alaska99 - Thou - Heathen100 - Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
― Dinsdale, Friday, 6 February 2015 07:33 (nine years ago) link
that should read 'users poll', not sure what happened