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Top Picks of 2014

Posted on January 9, 2015

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)

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