Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

Piccadilly Records
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=735

1 Jane Weaver - The Silver Globe
2 BE (Garth Be) - The Seven Movements
3 Horsebeach - Horsebeach
4 The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
5 Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine
6 Real Estate - Atlas
7 Hookworms - The Hum
8 Goat - Commune
9 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
10 Warpaint - Warpaint

Lots of things I like on the big Piccadilly list. Jane Weaver is a fun choice for #1, even if it's not one I'd go for myself.

That Piccadilly list is pretty interesting. Gulp's album is in the top 20 and Gruff Rhys's is nowhere to be seen (Gulp is SFA's bass player).

Horsebeach - Horsebeach

I thought this would have been a much bigger record on ILX than it turned out to be.

i don't get the horsebeach album, i wanted to, a lot of people whose taste i like were into it, but it just sounds like generic jangle indie guitar pop stufff to me.

Piccadilly always comes out with one of the more useful lists imo...

Q magazine Top 50.

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Alt-J - This Is All Yours
3. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. St Vincent - St Vincent
7. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
8. FKA twigs - LP1
9. Future Islands - Singles
10. Aphex Twin - Syro
11. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
12. Interpol - El Pintor
13. Sam Smith - The Loneliest Hour
14. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
15. The Horrors - Luminous
16. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
17. Mac De Marco - Salad Days
18. Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love
19. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
20. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
21. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
22. Caribou - Our Love
23. Jack White - Lazaretto
24. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
25. Ed Sheeran - X
26. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
27. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business
28. Kasabian - 48:13
29. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge
30. Gruff Rhys - American Interior
31. Mogwai - The Rave Tapes
32. The Bug - Angels & Devils
33. Sky Ferreira Night Time, My Time
34. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
35. Real Estate - Atlas
36. Temples - Sun Structures
37. Baxter Dury - It's a Pleasure
38. Johnny Marr - Playland
39. Ty Segall - Manipulator
40. Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals
41. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
42. Robert Plant - Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
43. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
44. U2 - Songs of Innocence
45. Warpaint - Warpaint
46. Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
47. Spoon - They Want My Soul
48. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
49. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
50. Jungle - Jungle

lol @ the top 5

jesus christ...

lol @ the top 50

haha

Mojo:

1. Beck - Morning Phase
2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
3. Sleaford Mods - Divide And Exit
4. Jack White - Lazaretto
5. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
7. Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls And Windows
8. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
9. FKA Twigs - LP1
10. The Bug - Angels & Devils
11. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
12. Caribou - Our Love
13. Ty Segall - Manipulator
14. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
15. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
16. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
17. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
18. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
19. Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar
20. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
21. Aphex Twin - Syro
22. Future Islands - Singles
23. Scott Walker & Sun O))) - Soused
24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
25. Pharrell Williams - GIRL
26. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
27. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
28. Real Estate - Atlas
29. Kasai All Stars - Beware The Fetish
30. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
31. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business
32. Temples - Sun Structures
33. U2 - Songs Of Innocence
34. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
35. Nick Mulvey - First Mind
36. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
37. Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - Cold World
38. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath
39. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
40. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
41. Lee Gamble - KOCH
42. Swans - To Be Kind
43. David Kilgour & The Heavy 8s - End Times Undone
44. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home
45. Neil Young - A Letter Home
46. J Mascis - Tied To A Star
47. Young Fathers - Dead
48. Pixies - Indie Cindy
49. King Creosote - From Scotland With Love
50. Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat... The Spirit Of Satch

NB: 27 of the Mojo 50 are also in the Q 50.

in what world is the Mojo top 50 more interesting than the Q one? (not that there's much in it. must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2)

24. Mirel Wagner - When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day

whoop whoop!

must be an extremely lousy year for guitar music if War on Drugs are top 2

It isn't, but since when have Mojo and Q stood for 'guitar music' as opposed to 'music that your elderly conservative dad might like'?

i think half my own top 10, as it currently stands, is comprised of guitar music this year

xpost I know, I know. Just didn't want to miss an opportunity to dig my elbow into WoD. Still, cool to imagine Mojo readers getting into Lee Gamble. And Sleaford Mods at 3 is pretty surprising.

they had karen gwyer in their list last year - there's always one or two things you wouldn't necessarily expect

and 48 or 49 you totally would tbf

i think i'm gonna feel disconnected from a lot of critics polls this year. again.

"Disconnected" is a few steps better than what musicians call this time of year ("Suicidal Ideation Month")

Seems a lot of people really love that snoozy Beck album

i think the height of hilarity is that mojo managed to squeeze the dogshit pixies album on there - not that one expects anything from them other than "real" guitar music with "integrity," but, that record was actively bad. smacks of desperation.

War on Drugs will win P&J, won't they?

good lord

so... many... dudes

so... many... dudes

― maura, Monday, November 24, 2014 9:58 AM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It'll be interesting to see how much love, say, Ex Hex gets on these lists.

could it win the ilx poll though? xp

hell. no.

:(

War on Drugs? I'll leave ilx if that happens.

that'd eclipse kaputt

already pretty sure what the top 3 will be for ILM but i'm never right, so i'm probably wrong.

not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.

However, I do hope that War on Drugs makes the top 77 and Sun Kil Moon does not, because fuck Mark Kozelek.

this is going to be a year where I'm disconnected from all critics' lists but only because I don't exactly have albums to substitute

part of me hopes War on Drugs tops Pazz & Jop albums and "War on Drugs: Suck my Cock" tops the singles.

lol

Right now this year seems reminscent of 2011 in that there isn't really a strong a consensus pick for AOTY, and that year Tune-Yards managed to win Pazz & Jop. War on Drugs seems like the closest thing to one, with St. Vincent maybe being a runner up.

Meanwhile on ILX, I'm half expecting Taylor Swift to win the year end poll.

not even comparable with kaputt, which may have been indie but was also total ilx catnip.

― Tim F, Monday, November 24, 2014 4:13 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I meant in terms of divisiveness. I wasn't taken with it at first but I've definitely warmed to it over time.

FKA twigs seemed like a sure-fire favorite a few months ago, but its profile has diminished a lot in just a short time based on polls I've seen so far (though the polls I've seen so far are more rock-oriented/specialized).

FKA Twigs, St Vincent and OP are ILM locks for sure.

not sure what the consensus is with TSwift. I'm not a follower, but I liked 'Shake It Off' quite a bit and I'm surprised ILM fans weren't so keen on it.

we've got other T-Swift singles to think about.

War on Drugs will win P&J, won't they?

― Frederik B, Monday, November 24, 2014 10:47 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

St. Vincent, albums
Taylor, singles

book it.

The thing I can imagine War on Drugs doing the best in is Readers Polls.

st vincent seems about as consensus an album as there's been

taylor, surely not? so many critics hate that single

Yeah I think Whiney's right. War on Drugs and FKA twigs for the Top 5.

I don't much like Shake It Off but there hasn't been a Get Lucky/Call Me Maybe this year so I don't know what else would be #1.

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