Here it is, my 2014 in music...
This wasn't the most exciting year for new music for me, but regardless, these albums are well worth a mention:
Ought's first album "More Than Any Other Day" - looking forward to more from these guys
The new disco album from The Juan Maclean, "In a Dream", which is their most accessible yet
Scotland's The Phantom Band won me over with their third album "Strange Friend"
Hospitality's "Trouble" kept me listening throughout the year
...and The Knife's final album, "Shaken-Up Versions" is an energetic revisiting of their career in a collection of re-recordings inspired by their last tour
But this year I got more out of older albums that I discovered for the first time in 2014....
Like the first album from These New Puritans, "Beat Pyramid," which is exactly the kind of music I like
This year I finally embraced Soulwax's "Nite Versions" - why did I wait so long..?
Teenage Filmstars recorded "Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness" completely in reverse, and it's great:
And the prize find of the year must be Mica Levi's group, Micachu - their first album "Never" was love at first listen... (not so sure about their videos though)
I was also late to the party with Bongwater's first album, "Double Bummer", which is in equal parts brilliant and dumb; The Books' extraordinary album "The Way Out" is an implausible audio collage of self-help tapes; and the bizarre Fred Lane album "From The One That Cut You" which appears to be some kind of big-band jazz operetta about a low-rent Bobby Darin character who is slowly losing his mind. The album includes song titles like "Danger Is My Beer" and "I TalkTo My Haircut", so what's not to love?
Honorable mention goes to Michael Fassbender et al for the soundtrack to the movie "Frank"
Assuming that list didn't put you off entirely, there's lots of other great stuff old and new on the top 100 list for 2014.
#/Track/Artist/Plays
1/Nothing/Micachu/35
2/Space Race/Shit Robot/34
100/My Machines/Battles/13
That's it! Reset for 2015!
This wasn't the most exciting year for new music for me, but regardless, these albums are well worth a mention:
Ought's first album "More Than Any Other Day" - looking forward to more from these guys
The new disco album from The Juan Maclean, "In a Dream", which is their most accessible yet
Scotland's The Phantom Band won me over with their third album "Strange Friend"
Hospitality's "Trouble" kept me listening throughout the year
...and The Knife's final album, "Shaken-Up Versions" is an energetic revisiting of their career in a collection of re-recordings inspired by their last tour
But this year I got more out of older albums that I discovered for the first time in 2014....
Like the first album from These New Puritans, "Beat Pyramid," which is exactly the kind of music I like
This year I finally embraced Soulwax's "Nite Versions" - why did I wait so long..?
Teenage Filmstars recorded "Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness" completely in reverse, and it's great:
And the prize find of the year must be Mica Levi's group, Micachu - their first album "Never" was love at first listen... (not so sure about their videos though)
I was also late to the party with Bongwater's first album, "Double Bummer", which is in equal parts brilliant and dumb; The Books' extraordinary album "The Way Out" is an implausible audio collage of self-help tapes; and the bizarre Fred Lane album "From The One That Cut You" which appears to be some kind of big-band jazz operetta about a low-rent Bobby Darin character who is slowly losing his mind. The album includes song titles like "Danger Is My Beer" and "I TalkTo My Haircut", so what's not to love?
Honorable mention goes to Michael Fassbender et al for the soundtrack to the movie "Frank"
Assuming that list didn't put you off entirely, there's lots of other great stuff old and new on the top 100 list for 2014.
#/Track/Artist/Plays
1/Nothing/Micachu/35
2/Space Race/Shit Robot/34
100/My Machines/Battles/13
That's it! Reset for 2015!
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