Below
are my 75 favorite albums of 2014 followed by my 10 favorite reissues
/ archival etc. Both lists are in some semblance of order with 1
being the best. They were made completely from memory, so if I forgot
something it obviously didn't make enough of an impression on me to
make the top 75. Also I decided to start off with my favorite song(s)
of the year. Both are from the same artist and one is from a 2 song EP
and the other was a digital single. Since they are not on my album
lists and they are extremely good (and relevant to today) I decided to include
them. And now, the lists.
My
favorite song(s) of the year:
Holly
Herndon – Chorus and Home
My
75 favorite albums of 2014:
- Jenny Hval & Susanna – Meshes of Voice
- Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
- FKA Twigs – LP1
- Grouper – Ruins
- Vicky Chow – Tristan Perich: Surface Image
- Klara Lewis – Ett
- Inga Copeland – Because I'm Worth It
- Carla Bozulich – Boy
- Fatima Al Qadiri – Asiatisch
- Cœur de Pirate – Trauma
- OOIOO – Gamel
- Christian Fennesz – Bécs
- Ben Frost – A U R O R A
- Ian William Craig – A Turn of Breath
- Weyes Blood – The Innocents
- The Bug – Angels & Devils
- Dean Blunt – Black Metal
- Nels Cline Singers – Macroscope
- Zeitkratzer - Metal Machine Music: First Full Instrumental Version
- Nurse with Wound – Contrary Motion
- Zola Jesus – Taiga
- Marissa Nadler – July
- Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love to London
- Daniel Lanois – Flesh and Machine
- St. Vincent – S/T
- Maxwell August Croy & Sean McCann – I
- Cibo Matto – Hotel Valentine
- Giant Claw – Dark Web
- Ginger Baker – Why?
- Neneh Cherry – Blank Project
- Michael Pisaro – Continuum Unbound
- Pye Corner Audio – Black Mill Tapes, Volumes 3 & 4
- Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke - Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully Away Is It a Lack of Contentment That Stirs Affection for Those Things Said to Be as of Yet Unseen
- Bill Frisell – Guitar in the Space Age!
- Aidan Baker – Triptychs: Variations on a Melody
- Aphex Twin – Syro
- Tiger Village – V
- Negra Branca – N B
- Beck – Morning Phase
- Spoon – They Want My Soul
- Ken Vandermark – Nine Ways to Read a Bridge
- Peter Buck – I Am Back to Blow Your Mind Once Again
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
- EMA – The Future's Void
- Les Cousins Dangereux – CDX
- Thievery Corporation – Saudade
- je suis le petit chevalier – Canada Summer Tape
- Ninos du Brasil – Novos Mystérios
- Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
- M. Geddes Gengras – Ishi
- The Roots - …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
- Nima – See Feel Reel
- Noveller & thisquietarmy – Reveries
- Cha Cha Guitri – French Synthwave St. Etienne 1981
- Supersilent – 12
- Steve Reich – Radio Rewrite
- Lumen Drones – S/T
- Burial Hex – The Hierophant
- Stephen Vitiello & Steve Roden – The Spaces Contained in Each
- TCF – 415C47197F78E811FEEB7862288306EC4137FD4EC3DED8B
- Vladislav Delay – Visa
- Lykke Li - I Never Learn
- Mono – Rays of Darkness
- Mono – The Last Dawn
- Felicita – Frenemies EP
- Wadada Leo Smith – The Great Lakes Suite
- Carolina Eyck & Christopher Tarnow - Improvisations For Theremin & Piano
- Kevin Drumm – Trouble
- Ólöf Arnalds– Palme
- Lætitia Sadier – Something Shines
- James Hoff – Blaster
- She & Him - Classics
- Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
- Neil Young – Storytone
- Sia Furler – 1000 Forms of Fear
My
10 favorite archival / reissues etc. of 2014:
- The Beatles – Mono AAA vinyl
- Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden / Paul Motian - Hamburg '72
- Henry Mancini – Fear
- Mari Kodama – Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas
- The Velvet Underground - S/T deluxe edition
- Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
- Craig Leon - Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1: Nommos / Visiting
- Captain Beefheart – Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972
- CSNY - 1974
- Maria Callas – Pure
