Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

De Biasio album is good but it was 2013

oh shit, it is as well. thinking it might only have got a push in the anglophone world this year though, cos all the reviews I found were from april.

as i thought. take the example of Swans. In lots of lists but not in the top 25 in that above link

Those Swans poll placings in full: 3/3/4/4/5/8/11/12/13/13/14/18/22/31/36/42, plus two unranked lists.

Time Out New York: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/the-20-best-albums-of-2014

20. Alvvays - 'Alvvays'
19. Clark - 'Clark'
18. Nude Beach - '77'
17. Schoolboy Q - 'Oxymoron'
16. Mark McGuire - 'Along the Way'
15. Antemasque - 'Antemasque'
14. Sia - '1,000 Forms of Fear'
13. Future - 'Honest'
12. TV on the Radio - 'Seeds'
11. Mac DeMarco - 'Salad Days'
10. Spoon - 'They Want My Soul'
9. St. Vincent - 'St. Vincent'
8. FKA Twigs - 'LP1'
7. Run the Jewels - 'Run the Jewels 2'
6. Caribou - 'Our Love'
5. Cloud Nothings 'Here and Nowhere Else'
4. Future Islands - 'Singles'
3. Angel Olsen - 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness'
2. Beck - 'Morning Phase'
1. Todd Terje - 'It's Album Time'

weird looking fedora
--Evan
that's a top hat man

― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Sunday, December 7, 2014 2:00 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was the joke- in reference to "good sirs"

At what point am I allowed to go into excruciating detail about the many ways that the LDR album is steaming garbage and how everyone supporting it is wrong?

i'd like to hear that, to be honest.

just read some tweets last night making a case for it as one of the best albums of the year.

big ol box at the bottom of this window just waiting for your contributions xxp

You know what, I'll bet ILX user DJP doesn't know how this site works...

save it for when it places in the eoy poll, djp

Goddamn, this Sturgill Simpson album is great!
I love the end of the year when I get to bump into like five dozen utterly genius pieces of art I somehow missed and everyone at once says HEY ASSHOLE LISTEN TO THIS

Goddamn, this Sturgill Simpson album is great!
I love the end of the year when I get to bump into like five dozen utterly genius pieces of art I somehow missed and everyone at once says HEY ASSHOLE LISTEN TO THIS
--a stupid red mute juggalo (forksclovetofu)

exactly how I felt abt missing the sturgill record bc it sure is dope

DeRo's #6 is pretty great!

The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)
https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/album/poor-people-are-revolting

AV Club - 20 best albums
http://www.avclub.com/article/20-best-albums-2014-212282

1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
2. Run The Jewels - RTJ2
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
5. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
6. FKA Twigs - LP1
7. Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right
8. Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad!
10. Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
11. Strand Of Oaks - Heal
12. Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2
13. Spoon - They Want My Soul
14. Beck - Morning Phase
15. Taylor Swift - 1989
16. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
17. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
18. Swans - To Be Kind
19. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
20. Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers

yawn except for protomartyr which is probably the best record in that top ten

falling asleep just seeing the beck and spoon records next to each other

DO NOT SLEEP ON THE OUGHT ALBUM PEOPLE!

DO NOT SLEEP ON THE OUGHT ALBUM PEOPLE!
--dive inside water and you will know (dog latin)

what about sleeping as a result of their music bc that's more or less what happened when I tried it :/

it's the one you've all been waiting for...

Blues Rock Review - Top 20 Albums of 2014
http://bluesrockreview.com/2014/12/top-20-albums-of-2014.html

20. Count’s 77: Count’s 77
19. Paul Rodgers: The Royal Sessions
18. No Sinner: Boo Hoo Hoo
17. The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer: A Real Fine Mess
16. David Michael Miller: Poisons Sipped
15. Walter Trout: The Blues Came Callin’
14. Ty Curtis: Water Under The Bridge
13. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Goin’ Home
12. Matt Schofield: Far As I Can See
11. The Black Keys: Turn Blue
10. Joanne Shaw Taylor: The Dirty Truth
9. Danny Bryant: Temperature Rising
8. Rival Sons: Great Western Valkyrie
7. Virgil and the Accelerators: Army of Three
6. Philip Sayce: Influence
5. Thorbjørn Risager and the Black Tornado: Too Many Roads
4. Bernie Marsden: Shine
3. Devon Allman: Ragged & Dirty
2. Joe Bonamassa: Different Shades of Blue
1. Dan Patlansky: Dear Silence Thieves

what about sleeping as a result of their music bc that's more or less what happened when I tried it :/

― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, December 8, 2014 11:48 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aha!

9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad!

otm

lol

/9. Flying Lotus - Your Dad! /

otm
--r|t|c

lulz. I'm sure others have said this before & certainly with greater eloquence but it is stunning how unabashedly that album is stoner-dad jazz, like it's aiming for on the corner but ends up hitting mid period weather report

Drowned In Sound: best debut albums:
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148543-discover--the-20-best-debut-albums-of-2014

1) ††† - Crosses
2) Eagulls - Eagulls
3) Alvvays - Alvvays
4) FKA twigs - LP1
5) East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
6) Ought - More Than Any Other Day
7) Kiasmos - Kiasmos
8) Inventions - Inventions
9) Young Fathers - DEAD
10) Annie Eve - Sunday ‘91
11) Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
12) Broken Twin - May
13) Woman’s Hour - Conversations
14) Thumpers - Galore
15) Douglas Dare - Whelm
16) Sisyphus - Sisyphus
17) Ex Hex - Rips
18) Fear of Men - Loom
19) Martha - Courting Strong
20) Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso

That would be funny if there were a kernal of truth to it, but nope, you're just wrong on both ends. There's a lot going on with Flying Lotus, but not much of On The Corner or Weather Report.

That would be funny if there were a kernal of truth to it, but nope, you're just wrong on both ends. There's a lot going on with Flying Lotus, but not much of On The Corner or Weather Report.
--Fastnbulbous

in general or on that album? bc for previous albums i wouldn't say that but you're dead is pretttaayyyy jazz-fusion indebted, and I really don't think I'm the only person to say so. if those specific examples aren't proper in yr book, that's fine, I suppose.

DeRo and his binaries:

On album number three, 28-year-old Lykke Li Zachrisson straddles a fascinating line between chart-topping pop diva and soul-baring underground

17. The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer: A Real Fine Mess

i'm intrigued, i'll admit it

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2014
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/08/368731400/npr-musics-50-favorite-albums-of-2014

Spin Magazine: The 101 Best Songs of 2014
http://www.spin.com/articles/101-best-songs-2014/

^ keeps crashing my browser so i couldn't tell you what was in it. kozelek's face is in the main graphic though - did spin really go there?

no sign of the rock-a-rolla list yet

91. Toni Braxton & Babyface, "The D Word"

glad this made the SPIN list

Exclaim!'s Best of 2014: Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums
http://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_one
http://exclaim.ca/News/exclaims_best_of_2014-top_20_pop_rock_albums_part_two

1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
3. Owen Pallett - In Conflict
4. Alvvays - Alvvays
5. Swans - To Be Kind
6. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
7. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
9. Future Islands - Singles
10. Tanya Tagaq - Animism

11. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
13. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
14. How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"
15. Beck - Morning Phase
16. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
17. Real Estate - Atlas
18. Spoon - They Want My Soul
19. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
20. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love

That's the most boring list yet, hands down. 11-20 is just so drab.

nice to see that against me! album pop up in a few of these

Nice to see Popcaan (dancehall), Jorge Drexler (Uruguayan pop-singer-songwriter), and Noura Mint Seymali Mauritanian Afro-psychedelic-desert) in that NPR list

in general or on that album? bc for previous albums i wouldn't say that but you're dead is pretttaayyyy jazz-fusion indebted, and I really don't think I'm the only person to say so. if those specific examples aren't proper in yr book, that's fine, I suppose.

You're not the only person who's only reference points to jazz fusion are On The Corner and Weather Report. Reducing the album to aiming at OTC and ending up in bland Weather Report territory is just wrong. What I'm hearing is that as someone who's just not into jazz fusion and has no clue as to what FlyLo is referencing, it all kind of blends into a gray stonery wash for you. That's valid enough I guess.

I'll let Ellison speak for himself:

I don't want to make a record that Miles Davis could make, though; I wanted to make something that only I could make. I really want to go as far into my own ideas as possible. There's all these people out there trying to sound the same, trying to sound like the other guy, so I wanted to do the most “me” thing that I can do right now.

Thundercat and I listened to a lot of metal in the beginning of making this album, believe it or not, just trying to approach things from a different space. I listened to a lot of Soft Machine, but I also listened to fucking Slayer. I got really into Brendon Small's stuff, and he got me into Mastodon and Gojira. That shit was tight.

...i do like some jazz fusion, although mostly just the miles records that are sometimes categorized under that umbrella and some mahavishnu orchestra stuff, admittedly i have never done deep dives into chick corea's back catalog or attempted to have the definitive understanding of what the pat matheny group was really trying to convey through the use of synth. i don't even DISlike the bloody new flylo album, despite liking cosmogramma and until the quiet comes a bit more.

but ok, i bow down in everlasting reverence to yr supreme knowledge, i have been fully dunked on & I wish you peace and happiness.

*waits on response that more or less equates to LOL U STILL DON'T GET IT DUMMY*

At what point am I allowed to go into excruciating detail about the many ways that the LDR album is steaming garbage and how everyone supporting it is wrong?

Swear to god, my first reaction was, "Los Del Rio has a new album?"

http://www.incendiarymag.com/annualreview/theex/incendiary_2014_round

Incendiary top 20 LPs

1. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Sony BMG)
2. Gut und Irmler – 500m (Monika)
3. Anjou – Anjou (Kranky)
4. Klara Lewis – Ett (Editions Mego)
5. Andrea Belfi - Natura Morta (Morr Music)
6. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)
7. Keel Her – Keel Her (Critical Heights)
8. DNMF – DNMF (Moving Furniture)
9. Ought – More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
10. Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (Fat Cat)
11. King Champion Sounds – Songs For The Golden Hour (Louder Than War)
12. Space Siren – If You Scream Like That Your Monkey Won’t Come (Subroutine)
13. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound)
14. Lia Ices – Ices
15. Hauschka – Abandoned City (City Slang)
16. David Thomas Broughton and Juice - Sliding the Same Way (Song By Toad)
17. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) – Scott O))) (4AD)
18. Islaja – Suu (Monika)
19. Naïve Set –Reclining Nude (Subroutine)
20. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)

11 Hon. Mentions

1. Dean Blunt - Black Metal (Rough Trade)
2. Christina Vantzou – No 2 (Kranky)
3. Loscil – Sea Island (Kranky)
4. Hallo Venray – Show (Excelsior)
5. Beginners – September Sunburn (Excelsior)
6. Chasing Rainbows – Make Love Caravan (Excelsior)
7. Nouveau Vélo – Nouveau Vélo (Subroutine)
8. Jozef van Wissem – It Is Time For You To Return (Crammed Discs)
9. Madensuyu – Stabat Mater (Suyu Makinese)
10. Tycho – Awake (Ghostly International)
11. The Homesick – TwstYr Wrsts (Subroutine)
12. Shivers - Shivers (Miasmah)

Best Reissues /Comps

1. All those bloody Hyperdub 10 Compilations – Patchy but incredible, the amount of things they do
2. Koen Holtcamp – Motion – Selected Works (Thrill Jockey)
3. Local Customs - Cavern Sound (Numero Group)
4. Ariel Kalma - An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG)
5. Hailu Mergia and the Walias – Tche Belew (Analog Africa)
6. Johnny Sedes – Mamá Calunga (Fonseca)
7. Killed By Deathrock (Sacred Bones)
8. André de Saint-Obin - Sound On Sound (Korm Plastics)
9. Mick Ness – The Joy of Pop (Out of Print Records)
10. Aby Ngana Diop - Thiossanou Ngewel (Analog Africa)

Nice to see the Koen Holtcamp at #2.

^ keeps crashing my browser so i couldn't tell you what was in it. kozelek's face is in the main graphic though - did spin really go there?

― sosmix klopp (NickB), Monday, December 8, 2014 8:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...they did. WODSMC got #43.

Islaja, nice - haven't warmed to that record as much as the earlier ones, it is very different, but I like it

I only know half that list, looking forward to investigation

Yeah, same sentiments here, esp with the comps where I've only *heard of* Holtcamp and Hailu

7. Killed By Deathrock (Sacred Bones)

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

this album is so fucking great, like every single minute of it is glorious

Sorry to insult yr knowledge Slothro, I just thought your original comment about Flying Lotus was a bit too dismissive and veering toward dickish. Not interested in pushing yr buttons.

How about Brownout's latin jazz approach to Sabbath? NPR list reminded me of that, it's pretty fun, no deep knowledge needed.

no worries, i can get carried away w/ zings or crankiness too easily on here *fistbump*

never heard of brownout but the NPR blurb does seem intriguing, will investigate