Best ALBUMS 2014 – in alpha order
- Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra – Pulsion (Ubiquity)
- Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)
- Aries Project – English Ghosts(Invisible Hands)
- Atash – Everything Is Music (S/R)
- Battlehooch – Hot Lungs(Chuur)
- Cornelius Boots – Mountain Hermit’s Secret Wisdom (Zeroth Law)
- Botanist – VI: Flora (The Flenser)
- Brownout – Brown Sabbath (Ubiquity)
- Budos Band (The) – Burnt Offering (Daptone)
- Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (DiCristina)
- Roseanne Cash – The River & The Thread (Blue Note)
- Chicago Jazz Philharmonic – Sketches Of Spain: Revisited (3Sixteen)
- Hollie Cook – Twice (Mr. Bongo)
- Daydream Machine – Twin Idols (Picture In My Ear)
- Toumani & Sidiki Diabate – Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)
- Kyle Bobby Dunn – Kyle Bobby Dunn & the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay)
- Dogon Lights (The) – S/T (S/R)
- Emma Donovan & The Putbadks – Dawn (HopeStreet)
- Dr. John – Ske-Dat-De-Dat… The Spirit of Satch (Proper)
- EGONE – All The Suns of The Earth (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
- Elephant Stone – The Three Poisons (Hidden Pony)
- Lawrence English & Stephen Vitiello – Fable (Dragon’s Eye)
- Ghost Wolves (The) – Man, Woman, Beast (Plowboy)
- Goat – Commune (Sub Pop)
- Tommy Guerrero – No Mans Land (Too Good)
- Inutili – Music to Watch the Clouds On a Sunny Day (Aagoo)
- Krautrock Classics – Krautrock Classics (Dublab)
- La Sucursal de la Cumbia – Cumbia a Domicilio (Intolerancia)
- Les Big Byrd – They Worshipped Cats (A Recordings)
- Lewis & Clarke – Triumvirate (La Societe Expéditionnaire)
- LoCura – Dale de Comer (S/R)
- Los Straightjackets – Deke Dickerson Sings the Great Instrumental Hits (Yep Rock)
- Luminescence – Luminescence (Navona)
- Moon Hooch – This is Cave Music (Hornblow Recordings)
- Nawa – Ancient Sufi Invocations and Forgotten Songs from Aleppo (Lost Origin Sound Series)
- Bill Nelson – After The Satellite Sings (Esoteric)
- OOIOO – Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
- Arun Ramamurthy Trio – Jazz Carnatica (S/R)
- Gemma Ray – Milk for Your Motors (Bronze Rat)
- Ritual Howls – Turkish Leather (Felte)
- Tinariwen – Emmaar (Anti-)
- Via Tania & the Tomorrow Music Orchestra – S/T (Narooma)
- Mia Doi Todd – Floresta (City Zen)
- Tuatara – Underworld (Sunyata)
- Viento Callejero – S/T (S/R)
- Scott Walker + Sun O))) – Soused(S/R)
- Way Jose – Stay In The Light (S/R)
- White Hills – Glitter Glamour Atrocity (Thrill Jockey)
- Wildest Dreams – S/T (Smalltown Supersound)
- Girma Yifrashewa – Love & Peace (Unseen Worlds)
Best SONGS 2014 (not on my best albums) – in alpha order
- Accolade – “Hymn to the Moon Goddess” – Legends (S/R)
- Accolade – “Journey” – Legends (S/R)
- Accolade – “Lady of Shalott” – Legends (S/R)
- Alpine Decline – “Mid-Level Functionary in a Criminal Syndicate” – Go Big Shadow City (Genjing)
- And you Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – “Lost in the Grand Scheme” – IX (Superball)
- And you Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – “Sound of the Silk” – IX (Superball)
- Greg Ashley – “Medication #7” – Another Generation of Slaves (Trouble In Mind)
- Asteroids Galaxy Tour – “Navigator” – Bring Us Together (Hot Bus/Rough Trade)
- Band of Skulls – “Heaven’s Key” – Himalayan (Electric Blue )
- Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash – “Poor Man’s Son” – New Old Story (Rndm)
- Bobby “Blue” Bland – “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Take Me To The River: Soundtrack (Stax)
- Blonde Redhead – “Cat on a Tin Roof” – Barragan (Kobalt)
- Blonde Redhead – “No More Honey” – Barragan (Kobalt)
- Benjamin Booker – “Kids Never Growing Older” – S/T (Ato)
- Brothers & Sisters (The) – “All Along The Watchtower” – Dylan’s Gospel (Light In The Attic)
- Jackson Browne – “Which Side?” – Standing In The Breach (Inside Recordings)
- Melaena Cadiz – “Needles River” – Deep Below Heaven (Wild Kindness)
- Deadmau5 – “Monday” – While (1<2) (Astralwerks)
- Deadmau5 – “Phantoms Can’t Hang” – While (1<2) (Astralwerks)
- Dirt Wire – “Bed Spring” – S/T (S/R)
- Dream Police – “Hypnotized” – Hypnotized (Sacred Bones)
- Dream Police – “Iris” – Hypnotized (Sacred Bones)
- Drums (The) – “Bell Laboratories” – Encyclopedia (Minor)
- Dubmarine – “Beat In Control” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
- Dubmarine – “Let’s Go” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
- Dubmarine – “Pass It On” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
- Ensemble Mik Nawooj – “First Song” – S/T (S/R)
- Ensemble Mik Nawooj – “Hope Springs Eternal” – S/T (S/R)
- Erasure – Sacred” – The Violet Flame (Mute)
- Fred Frith & John Butcher – “Colour of an Eye Half Seen” – The Natural Order (Northern Spy)
- Ben Frost – “Sola Fide” – Aurora (Mute)
- Valery Gore – “Hummingbird In Reverse” – Idols in the Dark Heart (S/R)
- Jessica Hernandez – “Over” – Secret Evil (Instant)
- Lia Ices – “Creature” – Ices (Jagjaguwar)
- Kimbra – “Goldmine” – The Golden Echo (Warner Bros.)
- King Tuff – “Black Moon Spell” – Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop)
- King Tuff – “Rainbow’s Run” – Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop)
- King Tuff – “Staircase of Diamonds” – Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop)
- Late Road Lunatics – “Lunatic Dub” – Like A Dog In The Playground (S/R)
- Lolawolf – “Take A Hint” – Calm Down (Innit)
- Luluc – “Star” – Passerby (Sub Pop)
- Luluc – “Tangled Heart” – Passerby (Sub Pop)
- Luxembourg Signal – “First Light” – S/T (Shelflife)
- Meta Meta – “Man Feriman” – Metal Metal (Mais Um Discos)
- Moniquea – “If I Let You Take My Heart” – Yes No Maybe (MoFunk)
- PC Worship – “Odd” – Social Rust (Northern Sky)
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Shadow People” – Hypnotic Eye (Reprise)
- Caroline Rose – “Shepherd” – I Will Not Be Afraid (Little Hi!)
- Micah Blue Smaldone – “Heavy Bottle” – The Ring Of The Rise (Immune)
- Sorceress – “Te Kano” – Dose (Wonderwheel)
- Useless Eaters – “Bleeding Moon” – Bleeding Moon (Castle Face)
- Wampire – “Wizard Staff” – Bazaar (Polyvinyl)
- Wand – “Fire On The Mountain I-II-III” – Ganglion Reef (God?)
- Watermelon Sugar – “UFO” – S/T (Swoon)
- Wytches (The) – “Wide At Midnight” – The Annabel Dream Reader (Partisan)
- Zammuto – “Sinker” – Anchor (Temporary Residence)
