Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

The Quietus Mixes, Reissues, Compilations & Soundtracks Of The Year

ONE: Coil / NIN - Recoiled (Cold Spring)
TWO: Cyclobe - The Visitors (Phantomcode)
THREE: Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons/Black Holes In The Sand/Offerings (WARP)
FOUR: British Murder Boys - Box Set (Downwards)
FIVE: Annette Peacock - I Belong To A World That’s Destroying Itself (Ironic)
SIX: Perc & Truss - Live at Soenda (Soenda Festival Soundcloud)
SEVEN: Mdou Moctar - Anar (Sahel Sounds)
EIGHT: Mica Levi - Under The Skin (Milan Records)
NINE: Z AKA Bernard Szajner – Visions of Dune (InFiné)
TEN: CTI - Carter Tutti Remix Chris & Cosey (Conspiracy International)
ELEVEN: K. Leimer – A Period of Review (Original Recordings: 1975 – 1983) (RVNG Intl)
TWELVE: The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere box set (Rooster)
THIRTEEN: Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras - Catholic (Dark Entries)
FOURTEEN: Karl Meier - Live at Aphotic Segment Detroit 8/2014 (KarlPMeier Mixcloud)
FIFTEEN: Joe Delia - Ms.45 (Death Waltz)
SIXTEEN: Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible 20 (Sony)
SEVENTEEN: Omar Khorshid - Live In Australia 1981 (Sublime Frequencies)
EIGHTEEN: Wilco - Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rarities 1994-2014 (Nonesuch)
NINETEEN: Sandra Electronics - Sessions (Minimal Wave)
TWENTY: Nana Love - Disco Documentary: Full Of Funk (Nestor)
TWENTY ONE: Sun Ra And His Arkestra - In The Orbit Of Ra (Strut Records)
TWENTY TWO: Swans - Filth (Mute)
TWENTY THREE: Harry Smith - The Anthology Of American Folk Music (Mississippi)
TWENTY FOUR: Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. 2 DISmagazine Soundcloud)
TWENTY FIVE: Pan Sonic - Oksastus (Kvitnu)
TWENTY SIX: Elijah & Skilliam - Fabriclive 75 (Fabric Worldwide)
TWENTY SEVEN: Ennio Morricone - Lizard In A Woman’s Skin (Death Waltz)
TWENTY EIGHT: Various artists - Slowly Exploding: 10 Years Of Perc Trax 2004-2014 (Perc Trax)
TWENTY NINE: Savages & Bo Ningen - Words To The Blind (Stolen)
THIRTY: Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub)THIRTY ONE: Surgeon - (Ambient Set) At Freerotation 2014 (Dynamic Tension Soundcloud)
THIRTY TWO: Francis Bebey - Psychedelic Sanza 1982 - 1984 (Born Bad)
THIRTY THREE: Hell - Trilogy (Pesanta Urfolk)
THIRTY FOUR: Mumdance - Dummy Mix 205 Mahraganat Mixtape (Dummy)
THIRTY FIVE: Fourth World Music Vol. 1: Possible Musics (All Saints)
THIRTY SIX: Various Artists - Suburban Base Records: The History of Hardcore, Jungle, Drum & Bass: 1991-1997 (New State)
THIRTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds 1960-1978 (Strut)
THIRTY EIGHT: These New Puritans - E-X-P-A-N-D-E-D Live at the Barbican (Vinyl Factory)
THIRTY NINE: Wild Beasts - FACT mix 427 (FACT)
FORTY: Imaginary Forces - June 2014 Mix (Entr'acte Mixes)
FORTY ONE: Alexander Tucker - Alexander Tucker (Thrill Jockey)
FORTY TWO: Various artists - Keysound Recordings Presents... Certified Connections (Keysound Recordings)
FORTY THREE: Various Artists - Horse Meat Disco 4 (Strut)
FORTY FOUR: Koen Holtkamp - Motion: Connected Works (Thrill Jockey)
FORTY FIVE: COUM Transmissions & John Lacey - Music For Stocking Top Swing and Staircase (Other Ideas)
FORTY SIX: Mogwai - Come On Die Young (Chemikal Underground)
FORTY SEVEN: Death - Spiritual Healing (Relapse)
FORTY EIGHT: Objekt - Live At Freerotation (Objekt Soundcloud)
FORTY NINE: The The - Soul Mining Box Set (Sony)
FIFTY: Circle - Hollywood (Ektro)
FIFTY ONE: Sleater-Kinney – Start Together Box Set (Sub Pop)
FIFTY TWO: William Onyeabor - Volume 2 box set (Luka Bop)
FIFTY THREE: Robert Hood – M Print: 20 Years Of M Plant Music (M Plant)
FIFTY FOUR: Mastodon - Call Of The Mastodon (Relapse)
FIFTY FIVE: Various Artists - Cambiare (Opal Tapes)
FIFTY SIX: Cairo Liberation Front - The Church Of The CLF (CLF Soundcloud)
FIFTY SEVEN: Cardiacs - Sing To God (Alphabet Business Concern)
FIFTY EIGHT: Cabaret Voltaire - #7885 (Electropunk To Technopop 1978-1985) (Mute)
FIFTY NINE: Bruno Nicolai - All The Colours Of The Dark (Finders Keepers)
SIXTY: GNOD - The Somnambulist’s Tale (Aguirre)
SIXTY ONE: V/A - Minor Characters Project (tqpc)
SIXTY TWO: Karen Gwyer - St. John’s Sessions x Boiler Room Live Set (Boiler Room)
SIXTY THREE: Koudede - Guitars From Agadez Vol. 7 (Sublime Frequencies)
SIXTY FOUR: Various artists - UP#22 This Dream Gave Me A Diagonal (Diagonal Records)
SIXTY FIVE: Various Artists - The World Is Yours (Bandcamp)
SIXTY SIX: Powell - Boiler Room London DJ Set (Boiler Room)
SIXTY SEVEN: Various Artists - Disco: A Fine Selection Of Independent Disco, Modern Soul And Boogie 1978 - 82 (Soul Jazz)
SIXTY EIGHT: Various Artists - A NoCorner Collection: From The Reels (NoCorner)
SIXTY NINE: Hailu Mergia And The Walias - Tche Belew (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
SEVENTY: Cosmin TRG - Mix 136 (Secret Thirteen)
SEVENTY ONE: Oneman, Kode9, Ikonika, Addison Groove - A Tribute to DJ Rashad (Boiler Room)
SEVENTY TWO: PYE Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes 3 & 4 (Type)
SEVENTY THREE: Evian Christ - RA.404 Evian Christ (Resident Advisor)
SEVENTY FOUR: Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP (Rephlex)
SEVENTY FIVE: Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting (RVNGIntl.)
SEVENTY SIX: Various Artists - Gipsy Rhumba (Soul Jazz)
SEVENTY SEVEN: Sunroof! - Rock Action (Nashazphone)
SEVENTY EIGHT: Kahn, Neek, Hi5 Ghost and Boofy - The Lab (Mixmag)
SEVENTY NINE: Lunice - RA.432 Lunice (Resident Advisor)
EIGHTY: Helena Hauff & Daniele Cosmo - Lux Rec at Dampfzentrale (Lux Rec Soundcloud)
EIGHTY ONE: AnD - RA.389 AnD (Resident Advisor)
EIGHTY TWO: Clouds - Up North (ATTTKLFCO) (Bloc)
EIGHTY THREE: Various Artists - The Sound Of Siam 2 (Sound Way)
EIGHTY FOUR: William Basinski - Melancholia (Temporary Residence)
EIGHTY FIVE: Suede - Dog Man Star box set (Demon)
EIGHTY SIX: Various Artists - Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik: German Home Recording Tape Music Of The 1980s (Finders Keepers)
EIGHTY SEVEN: Ingram Marshall - Fog Tropes/Gradual Requiem (Arc Light Editions)
EIGHTY EIGHT: Robert Wyatt - Different Every Time (Domino)
EIGHTY NINE: Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea (Music From Memory)
NINETY: Chistie Azumah & The Uppers International - Din Ya Sugri (Voodoo Funk)
NINETY ONE: The Residents - Santa Dog (Superior Viaduct)
NINETY TWO: Baader Meinhoff - Baader Meinhoff (Cherry Red)
NINETY THREE: Ariel Kalma – An Evolutionary Music (Original Recordings 1972-1979) (RVNG INTL.)
NINETY FOUR: Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Spirits Up Above: The Anthology (Rhino)
NINETY FIVE: Grace Jones - Nightclubbing (Island)
NINETY SIX: Various Artists - Folk Music Of The Sahel: Niger (Sublime Frequencies)
NINETY SEVEN: Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl (ANTI-)
NINETY EIGHT: Ralph Jones - The Slumber Party Massacre OST (Death Waltz)
NINETY NINE: Mark Lanegan – Has God Seen My Shadow? Anthology (Light in the Attic)
ONE HUNDRED: Various Artists – Oriental-Trap Mix (Norient)

Reissues Chart Here

Any good EP-only lists out there?

2014′s Best Albums: Idolator Editors Pick Their Favorite 10
http://www.idolator.com/7573548/2014-10-best-albums-idolator

10. Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds
9. Vance Joy, Dream Your Life Away
8. Kiesza, Sound Of A Woman
7. Mariah Carey, Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse
6. Mary J. Blige, The London Sessions
5. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence
4. Tinashe, Aquarius
3. Leighton Meester, Heartstrings
2. Jessie Ware, Tough Love
1. BANKS, Goddess

really enjoying this list
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/wavelog/2014/12/100-essential-canadian-songs-2014
featuring a couple personal favs of the year of mine (odonis odonis & pypy (i guess i must really love repetitive band names this year))

Have we ever had a thread on what I think of as 'hangover acclaim'; ie. an artist's next record getting [possibly over / undue] praise in reviews and lists that seems like a hangover from the slow-burn success of their previous record?

There are loads!

pretty much every bloody arcade fire record ever after the first one fits that description

it's fairly common, yeah. i'd say the aphex has an element of this.

if anyone wants to know what i liked this year, both old and new, it's on this playlist

http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/0ah1waMa42AwR8t1sfI9wq

This Ian William Craig album, Turn of Breath, is really something. Spotted on the Textura and Norman Records lists.

Yeah I've been listening to that too. It's bloody excellent! He's an opera singer or something, I understand?

Been enjoying that one as well.

that Carla Bozulich record is as great as I had hoped, very cool

Last Rites Top 25:
http://lastrit.es/articles/892/last-rites-top-25-of-2014

25. Ambush - Firestorm
24. Midnight - No Mercy For Mayhem
23. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny Of Will
22. Martyrdöd - Elddop
21. Sanctuary - The Year The Sun Died
20. Death Penalty - Death Penalty
19. Nasheim - Solens Vemod
18. Gridlink - Longhenna
17. Incantation - Dirges Of Elysium
16. Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
15. Exodus - Blood In Blood Out
14. Dawnbringer - Night Of The Hammer
13. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
12. Saor - Aura
11. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
10. Pyrrhon - The Mother Of Virtues
9. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
8. Dead Congregation- Promulgation Of The Fall
7. Morbus Chron - Sweven
6. Overkill - White Devil Armory
5. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Saturnian Poetry
4. Giant Squid - Minoans
3. YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend
2. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
1. Horrendous - Ecdysis

Bless these niche lists, if only to keep me from accepting the too numerous assertions that The War On Drugs is as good as it got in 2014.

AdHoc best albums:

Actress: Ghettoville
Andy Stott: Faith in Strangers
Arca: Xen
Ben Frost: A U R O R A
Bitchin Bajas: Bitchin Bajas
The Body & Thou: Released from Love
Container: Adhesive
copeland: Because I'm Worth It
Dean Blunt: BLACK METAL
EEK: Live at the Cairo High Cinema Institute
Fennesz: Becs
FKA Twigs: LP1
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: Piñata
Giant Claw: DARK WEB
Good Willsmith: The Honeymoon Workbook
Grouper: Ruins
Horse Lords: Hidden Cities
Jerry Paper: Big Pop for Chameleon World
Kassem Mosse: Workshop 19
L.O.T.I.O.N.: Second Audio Document 2014
M. Geddes Gengrass: Collected Works vol. 2: New Process Music
M. Sage: A Singular Continent
Moodyman: Moodyman
Pharmakon: Bestial Burden
Pure X: Angel
Ricky Eat Acid: Three Love Songs
Seth Graham: Goop
Steve Gunn: Way Out Weather
Taso: TekLife til tha Next Life Vol. 1
Telecult Powers: Black Meditations
Tonstartssbandht: Overseas
Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman 2

is that the first Fennesz mention? that album sounded like such a retread to me.

I really liked Becs! I suppose it's not a revelation for Fennesz fans but I still listened to it a ton this year. It's in my personal list of favorites from the year.

a closer listen top 10 singles.

1. Christina Vantzou: "Going Backwards to Recover What Was Left Behind"
2. Tess Said So: "The Snap Beans Aren't Salty"
3. Lullatone: "All the Optimism of Early January"
4. Tides of Man: "Mountain House"
5. Sleepmakeswaves: "Something Like Avalanches"
6. Maybeshewill: "Fair Youth"
7. 36: "Hyperbox"
8. Koloto: "Fox Tales"
9. Mariano Rodriguez: "Praise the Road"
10. (exitpost): "Sweet Fade"

^^all instrumental stuff, ambient/post rock. I like the more ambient stuff. All the post-rock stuff feels super dated (Tides of Man, Sleepmakeswaves, etc.)

That Christina Vantzou album from this year was very good.

Ohh there was a Lullatone album this year? Missed that!

Rolling Stone Top 40 Country Albums list

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/40-best-country-albums-of-2014-20141210

=]:D

Yeah, I like the Fennesz a lot too. It probably doesn't really break new ground for Fennesz but I'm not sure War on Drugs is breaking new ground for the world either.

lord no, and Becs will probably squeak into my personal top 20 once I re-listen

Big Fennesz fan but Becs really did nothing for me. Very first album of his that gave me no reaction whatsoever.

good list whiney - did u do an avant/noise whatever you called it list this year?

Have we ever had a thread on what I think of as 'hangover acclaim'; ie. an artist's next record getting [possibly over / undue] praise in reviews and lists that seems like a hangover from the slow-burn success of their previous record?

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:25 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline

I guess that's more about sales than critical acclaim

i think that's different. this is more like an unknown artist releases a breakthrough album, but maybe not everyone hears it that year, but they make sure to get onboard for the next album and suddenly it's on a bunch of different lists, even though it's not as good.

Yeah totally

I feel like things move so fast these days that it's more common for followups to get panned or ignored but that's pure uninformed b.s. on my part, surely

good list whiney - did u do an avant/noise whatever you called it list this year?

― Mordy, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:06 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's coming

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/10/369652480/npr-musics-favorite-songs-of-2014

I still don't think Tim McGraw knows what a sundown town is, or else he (hopefully) wouldn't have named his album after one.

fader tracks list is prob my favorite so far despite including basically every ilovemakonnen song possible

I still don't think Tim McGraw knows what a sundown town is, or else he (hopefully) wouldn't have named his album after one.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:00 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woah i was not aware of this but yikes

already found a handful of engaging-sounding records from whiney's country list, thanks

The Rosanne Cash one is pleasant enough but not as impressive as I hoped it would be. Plus I see the RS contributors like the Eric Church album more than most folks here (although Some Dude likes it some)

Afropop Worldwide radio program/website List http://www.afropop.org/wp/21641/stocking-stuffers-complete-list/

Need help tracking down the music heard on this week’s “Stocking Stuffers 2014!” program? Well, we got you. What follows is a complete list of the tracks, ordered by their appearance in the program.

Balani Show Super Hits: Electronic Street Parties from Mali : “Bala” DJ Balani – “Furu Djougou,” Kaba Blon – Sahel Sounds.

Kasai Allstars, Beware The Fetish: “The Chief’s Enthronement / Oyaye” – “He Who Makes Bush Fires For Others” - Crammed Disc

Ricardo Lemvo and Makina Loca, La Rumba SoYo : “Rumba SoYo” - Cumbancha

Aurelio Martinez, Lándini: “Nando” / “Milaguru” - Real World

Caetano Veloso, Abraçaço: “Um Abraçaço” - Nonesuch

Moreno Veloso, Coisa Boa: “Um Passo a Frente” - Luaka Bop

Brazil!: The Birth of Bossa Nova: “Outra vez,” Elizete Cardoso - Soul Jazz Records

Dona Onete, Feitiço Cabloco: “Moreno Morenado” - Mais Um Discos

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, Libation: “Maria” / “Rich But Poor” - Cumbancha

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, A Long Way to the Beginning: “African Airways” - Knitting Factory Records

The Fela! Band, Finding Fela : Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack: “Zombie” - Knitting Factory Records

Fela Kuti, Music of Many Colours, Box Set #3–Curated by Brian Eno: “Upside Down,” - Knitting Factory Records

William Onyeabor, Anything You Sow: “This Kind of World” - Luaka Bop

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, The Skeletal Essences of Afro-Funk 1969-1980: “Houzou Houzou Wa” - Analog Africa

Angélique Kidjo, Eve: “Orisha” - 429 Records

Noura Mint Seymali, Tzenni: “El Madi” - Glitterhouse Records

Busy Signal: “Well Prepared” - Web Only Release

Popcaan, Where We Come From: “Everything Nice ” - Mixpak Records

Chronixx, Dread and Terrible: “Here Comes Trouble” - Chronixx Records

Ibibio Sound Machine, Ibibio Sound Machine: “Let’s Dance” - Soundway

Hassan Hakmoun, Unity: “Zidokan (Just Go)” - Healing Records

Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, Danger Zone: “Chikonzero”

Chigamba, Yangu Ndega: “Gandanga / Tinovatenda”- Available on CD Baby

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Always With Us: “Mamizolo” - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Records

Mamani Keita, Kanou: “Djalal Kibali” - World Village

Tinariwen, Emmaar: “Chaghaybou,” - ANTI Records

Imarhan Timbuktu, Akal Warled: “Aïcha Talamomt/Aïcha/Aïcha” - Clermont Music

Anansy Cissé, Mali Overdrive: “Sekou Amadou” - Riverboat Records

Oumar Konate, Addoh: “Henibombey (A Swindle Is No Good)” - Clermont Records

The Touré-Raichel Collective, The Paris Session: “Dèni Dèni” - Cumbancha

Habib Koité and Bamada, Soô: “Bolo Mala” - Contre Jour

Toumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté, Toumani & Sidiki: “Hamadoun Toure” - Nonesuch

Djessou Mory Kante, River Strings–Maninka Guitar: “Coucou” - Sterns Africa

Cumbia All Stars, Tigres En Fuga: “Lobos al Escape” - World Village

Zongo Junction, No Discount: “Tunnel Bar” - Electric Cowbell

Somi, The Lagos Music Salon: “Love Juju #1” - Okeh

Wondering Sound
http://www.wonderingsound.com/list/best-metal-albums-2014/

25. Sun Worship, Elder Giants
24. Alraune, The Process of Self-Immolation
23. Mastodon, Once More ‘Round the Sun
22. Mutilation Rites, Harbinger
21. Panopticon, Roads to the North
20. Inter Arma, The Cavern
19. Bastard Sapling, Instinct Is Forever
18. Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire
17. At the Gates, At War With Reality
16. Witch Mountain, Mobile of Angels
15. Woods of Desolation, As the Stars
14. Eyehategod, Eyehategod
13. Dead Congregation, Promulgation of the Fall
12. The Body, I Shall Die Here
11. Winterfylleth, The Divination of Antiquity
10. Diocletian, Gesundrian
9. YOB, Clearing the Path to Ascend
8. Thou, Heathen
7. Coffinworm, IV.I.VIII
6. Earth, Primitive & Deadly
5. Electric Wizard, Time to Die
4. Nux Vomica, Nux Vomica
3. Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry
2. Triptykon, Melana Chasmata
1. Pallbearer, Foundations of Burden

they did a best country albums list as well

Gorilla vs. Bear Songs:

100 NAPOLIAN – DARPA
99 INGA COPELAND – Smitten
98 JEROME LOL – Fool (feat. Angelina Lucero)
97 ALINA BARAZ x GALIMATIAS – Fantasy
96 BULLY – Brainfreeze
95 TOMAS BARFOD – Pulsing (feat. Nina K)
94 MARISSA NADLER – Drive
93 AMASON – Duvan
92 TALLESEN – Strike Silver, Love Green
91 DE LA SOUL – Dilla Plugged In

90 MERELY – Forever
89 LNRDCROY – I Met You on BC Ferries
88 LYDIA AINSWORTH – Hologram
87 JESSIE WARE – Keep on Lying
86 THE WAR ON DRUGS – Under the Pressure
85 SIA – Chandelier
84 LXURY – Never Love
83 ALICE BOMAN – Over
82 BANKS – Goddess (Jerome LOL edit)
81 PURE X – Starlight

80 SAMI SUOVA – Go
79 DRAKE – 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
78 LIL B – Fuck KD
77 PRINCE INNOCENCE – I Don’t Care
76 GFOTY – Bobby
75 KATIE RUSH – Dangerous Luv
74 FKA TWIGS – Pendulum
73 YOU’LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN – Caught in Time, So Far Away
72 PARIS SUIT YOURSELF – Won’t K (SOPHIE remix)
71 TOKIMONSTA – Steal My Attention

70 VIET CONG – Continental Shelf
69 ARAABMUZIK – Ghost Story
68 WET – Don’t Wanna Be Your Girl (PURPLE remix)
67 NMESH – Dream Sequins®

66 DEERS – Castigadas en el Granero
65 ELLIE HERRING – Gem Landing
64 FEAR OF MEN – Alta/Waterfall
63 SZA – Warm Winds (feat. Isaiah Rashad)
62 DJ SPINN x TASO x JESSY LANZA – Unreleased
61 A. G. Cook – Had 1

60 DJ RASHAD x DJ SPINN x TASO – Luchini VIP
59 MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER – Shirim
58 YOUNG EJECTA – Your Planet
57 DOSS – The Way I Feel (Recycle Culture’s Slow Emotion Reel)
56 BLUE HAWAII – Get Happy / Get Happier
55 VESUVIO SOLO – Avion
54 EYEDRESS – When I’m Gone (feat. GEoRGiA)
53 CFCF – Hiders/We Belong Together
52 RYAN HEMSWORTH – Surrounded (with Kotomi & Doss)
51 SHARON VAN ETTEN – Our Love

50 DD ELLE – Tell Me
49 RECYCLE CULTURE – Back to the World
48 CHROMATICS – Shadow (8 track version)
47 RICKY EAT ACID – Pull
46 ALLIE X – Catch
45 A. G. COOK – Beautiful
44 HANNAH DIAMOND – Pink & Blue
43 DJ DODGER STADIUM – Love Songs
42 YUMI ZOUMA – Alena
41 TRUST – Capitol

40 GROUPER – Clearing
39 JESSICA PRATT – Back, Baby
38 JAMIE XX – Sleep Sound
37 BEVERLY – Honey Do
36 CHARLI XCX – Boom Clap
35 SAINT PEPSI – Baby
34 DANNY L HARLE – Aquarius (Luna remix)
33 MSSINGNO – Brandy flip
32 ALLIE X – Bitch
31 FUTURE – Benz Friendz (feat. Andre 3000)

30 TAYLOR SWIFT – Wildest Dreams (Recycle Culture Hyper Bubble Pop remix)
29 ANGEL OLSEN – White Fire
28 BECKY G – Shower
27 TEI SHI – Bassically
26 ARIANA GRANDE – Break Free
25 KERO KERO BONITO – Sick Beat
24 TOPS – Outside
23 LEON VYNEHALL – It’s Just (House of Dupree)
22 SOPHIE – Lemonade
21 MICA LEVI – Love

20 LANA DEL REY – Brooklyn Baby
19 DANNY L HARLE – In My Dreams
18 SALES – Getting It On
17 FUTURE – Move That Dope (feat. Pusha T, Pharrell & Casino)
16 QT – Hey QT
15 FKA TWIGS – Two Weeks
14 DEERS – Bamboo
13 ARIEL PINK – Not Enough Violence
12 TINASHE – 2 On
11 ILOVEMAKONNEN – Club Goin Up on a Tuesday

10 YUMI ZOUMA | The Brae
09 DREAMTRAK | Odyssey, Pt. 2 (A. G. Cook remix)
08 PANDA BEAR | Mr Noah
07 KATIE GATELY | Pivot
06 DOSS | The Way I Feel
05 ALVVAYS | Archie, Marry Me
04 LEON BRIDGES | Coming Home
03 ARIEL PINK | Dayzed Inn Daydream
02 SHABAZZ PALACES | Forerunner Foray
01 A. G. COOK | Keri Baby (feat. Hannah Diamond)

I'm looking forward to the ILX EOY poll this year to hear what you've all been listening to... I haven't been as on the ball with new releases this year in comparison to 2013, so it'll be interesting for me to catch up.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/2014-best-jazz-reissues?int-cid=mod-latest

best jazz reissues

xp cool to see (for the first time on this thread i think) deers, nmesh, saint pepsi & trust on that list

Slant Magazine - The 25 Best Singles of 2014
http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-singles-of-2014

25 Spoon - Inside Out
24 London Grammar - Hey Now
23 Beyonce - ***Flawless
22 Mac DeMarco - Passing Out Pieces
21 Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me
20 Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument
19 Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires - The Company Man
18 Caribou - Can't Do Without You
17 Jack White - Lazaretto
16 Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige - F For You
15 alt-J - Left Hand Free
14 Sia - Chandelier
13 Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
12 Perfume Genius - Queen
11 Indiana - Solo Dancing
10 St. Vincent - Digital Witness
9 Jenny Lewis - Just One of the Guys
8 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You)
7 Sam Smith - Stay With Me
6 FKA twigs - Two Weeks
5 Hozier - Take Me to Church
4 Vic Mensa - Down on My Luck
3 Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me
2 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
1 Jessie Ware - Tough Love

Guardian top 10 albums:

10. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead
8. Beck - Morning Phase
7. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
6. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
5. Caribou - Our Love
4. Aphex Twin - Syro
3. FKA Twigs - LP1
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
1. ??. ??????? - ??. ???????

Has to be St Vincent.

Sorry, Mike, it's Catfish and the Bottlemen.

no its Lost in the Dream again. they love it so much it gets the top 2 spots.

Oh cool two Ware placements in top five

Two Ware Nos. Here