[Music] Album of the Year 2014

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hello friends

what a fantastic year for music! what records did you enjoy in 2014? here is my list:

LPs:
18+ - Trust
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
Actress - Ghettoville
Alcest - Shelter
Allah-Las - Worship the Sun
Alvvays - s/t
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island
Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Aphex Twin - Syro
Aquarian - s/t
Ariel Pink - pom pom
BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Beverly - Careers
Bitchin Bajas - Bitchin Bajas
Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall
Blackbird Blackbird - Tangerine Sky
Bleeding Rainbow - Interrupt
Bored Nothing - Some Songs
Busdriver - Perfect Hair
Caribou - Our Love
Clark - s/t
Clipping - CLPPNG
Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
Craft Spells - Nausea
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
Defrag - Drown
Donovan Wolfington - Scary Stories You Tell in the Dark
Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten
Ex Hex - Rips
FKA Twigs - LP1
Fear of Men - Loom
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits
Future Islands - Singles
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Grouper - Ruins
Haerts - s/t
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
The History of Apple Pie - Feel Something
Iceage - Plowing into the Field of Love
Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
Jaws - Be Slowly
Jungle - s/t
Kassa Overall & Kool A.D. - Coke Boys 5
Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
Kool A.D. - Word O.K.
La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn
Lakutis - Three Seashells
Lemonade - Minus Tide
Liars - Mess
Literature - Chorus
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Maria Minerva - Histrionic
Marissa Nadler - July
Merchandise - After the End
Milo - A Toothpaste Suburb
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
Ought - More Than Any Other Day
Painted Palms - Forever
Parkay Quarts - Content Nausea
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
QUARTERBACKS - QUARTERBOY
RATKING - So It Goes
Randomer - CCCP 10
The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
Real Estate - Atlas
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Rustie - Green Language
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
SD Laika - That’s Harakiri
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect
Slow Magic - How to Run Away
Sport - Bon Voyage
St. Vincent - s/t
Swans - To Be Kind
Tennis - Ritual in Repeat
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
Theo Parrish - American Intelligence
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
Tijuana Panthers - Wayne Interest
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
Tobacco - Ultima II Massage
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Total Control - Typical System
Trust - Joyland
Twin Peaks - Wild Onion
Ty Segall - Manipulator
WIFE - What's Between
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Warpaint - s/t
White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent
White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Young Magic - Breathing Statues
Yung Lean - Unknown Memory


EPs/Singles:
Baths - Ocean Death
CHVRCHES - Under the Tide
Cashmere Cat - Wedding Bells
Giraffage - No Reason
Girlpool - s/t
James Blake - 200 Press
Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving
Jamie xx - Girl / Sleep Sound
Joey Anderson - After Forever
Joey Anderson - Head Down Arms Buddha Position
Kitty - Frostbite
Kitty - Impatiens
Nothing & Whirr - Whirr / Nothing split
OG Maco - OG Maco EP
Tourist - Patterns
Tove Lo - Truth Serum
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait
Wildhoney - Seventeen Forever
Yung Gud - Beautiful, Wonderful

Link to AOTY 2013 thread

[Feali]

I'm not gonna list it alphabetically because I'm lazy but here we go

Albums:
Taylor Swift - 1989
Michael Jackson - Xscape
Ed Sheeran - X
Wovenwar - Wovenwar
Chromeo - White Women
Pvris - White Noise
Unearth - Watchers of Rule
Roger Cicero - Was immer auch kommt
Arch Enemy - War Eternal
The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
The Dead Rabbitts - Shapeshifter
Bury Tomorrow - Runes
coldrain - The Revelation
Of Mice & Men - Restoring Force
Die Fantastischen Vier - Rekord
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Ice Nine Kills - The Predator Becomes The Prey
Eluveitie - Origins
Chicago - Now (XXXVI)
Amaranthe - Massive Addictive
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
LIGHTS - Little Machines
Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out
The Amity Affliction - Let The Ocean Take Me
Take That - III
Linkin Park - The Hunting Party
Pharrell Williams - G I R L
The Unguided - Fragile Immortality
Darkest Hour - Darkest Hour
Affiance - Blackout
Black Veil Brides - Black Veil Brides
Steel Panther - All You Can Eat
Kyla La Grange - Cut Your Teeth
Flight Facilities - Down To Earth
Moose Blood - I'll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time
Ella Henderson - Chapter One
We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids
The Nearly Deads - Invisible Tonight
Emarosa - Versus

EPs:
ERRA - Moments of Clarity
Conditions - Missing Hours
Cadence Calling - Metamorphosis
Bleed From Within - Death Walk

Personal favorite album for me is a toss up between LIGHTS and Taylor Swift but I think LIGHTS takes it just because I didn't expect it to be this goood!

[Gallahadd]

I don't really have a list... But for me the top album was Lindsey Stirling - Shatter Me. I pretty much listened to the whole thing on loop from the moment I got it. Then I saw her live in December SO amazing.

[Anakso]

I just made an AOTY list for another thread but here it is here.

Me? - HA:TFELT
Red Light - f(x)
Pink Blossom - Apink
25 - Song Jieun
A Talk - Hyuna
2 Face - Gilme
Pink Luv - Apink
Mr. Mr. - Girls' Generation
Like a cat - AoA
Hot Baby - Bestie

[Stormcall]

I didn't get more than 25ish albums, but I was really happy with most of them. My number 1 album is Sabaton-Heroes, but all of these pleased me as well:

Overkill-White Devil Armory
Exodus-Blood In Blood Out
Accept-Blind Rage
Nightwish-Showtime Storytime
Persuader-The Fiction Maze
Falconer-Black Moon Rising
Grand Magus-Triumph and Power
Sanctuary-The Year the Sun Died
Machine Head-Bloodstone and Diamond
The Birthday Massacre-Superstition
Iced Earth-Plagues of Babylon
Soreption-Engineering the Void
Exmortus-Slave to the Sword
Savage Messiah-Fateful Dark
Scar Symmetry-The Singularity Phase 1:Neohumanity
Grave Digger-Return of the Reaper
Voyager-V
Marty Stuart-Saturday Night/Sunday Morning

I enjoyed what I've heard from these but haven't bought them yet so I haven't given them a full listen:
Triosphere-Heart of the Matter
Unearth-Watchers of Rule
Ronny Munroe-Electric Wake
Tom Petty-Hypnotic Eye
Allegaeon-Elements of the Infinite
October 31-Bury the Hatchet
Evergrey-Hymns for the Broken

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Taylor Swift - 1989

I can't even come up with one album that comes close.

[shamantime]

Haven't really ever downloaded an artists whole album, maybe 7/10 songs. My favorite song right now has to be Karmin- Sugar. It is definitely something that I haven't heard in Pop. Also, their other song Karmin- Yesterday has an amazing bass-line and feels very Ska influenced.

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Warpaint - Warpaint
Aphex Twin - Syro
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
Freddie Gibbs/Madlib - Pinata
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Swans - To be kind
Run the Jewels 2
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
Caribou - Our Love
Sticky Fingers - Land of Pleasure
Milo - A Toothpaste Suburb
Literature - Chorus
Rustie - Green Language

[hellhamster]

Core is death/black/doom metal, with a hipsterlol rock, ambient and drone flavor, as well as some left hooks like D'Angelo, Aphex Twin and Timber Timbre etc.

1. Robert Rich - Perpetual. A Somnium Continuum (ambient)
2. Swans - To Be Kind (experimental rock)
3. Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall (death metal)
4. Morbus Chron - Sweven (death metal)
5. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel (progressive metal)
6. Kairon; IRSE! - Ujubasajuba (shoegaze)
7. Death Blues - Ensemble (experimental)
8. StarGazer - A Merging to the Boundless (technical death metal)
9. Mare Cognitum - Phobos Monolith (atmospheric black metal)
10. Darkspace - Dark Space III I (atmospheric black metal)
11. Panopticon - Roads to the North (atmospheric black metal)
12. Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io (progressive/psychedelic rock)
13. Spectral Lore - III (atmospheric black metal)
14. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos (ambient/orchestral)
15. D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah (R&B)
16. Thou - Heathen (doom/sludge metal)
17. Beyond Creation - Earthborn Revolution (technical death metal)
18. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (doom/stoner metal)
19. Peter Christopherson - Time Machines II (drone)
20. Furia - Nocel (black metal)
21. Saor - Aura (atmospheric black metal)
22. Smallman - Envision (alternative metal/rock)
23. Emptiness - Nothing but the Whole (death/black/industrial metal)
24. Lunatic Soul - Walking on a Flashlight Beam (progressive/art rock)
25. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World (shoegaze/post-punk)
26. Kauan - Muistumia (doom metal/dark folk)
27. Teitanblood - Death (death/black metal)
28. BADBADNOTGOOD - III (jazz-fusion)
29. Natural Snow Buidlings - The Night Country (drone/folk)
30. Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era (melodic death metal)
31. Zom - Flesh Assimilation (death/black metal)
32. Midnight - No Mercy for Mayhem (heavy/speed metal)
33. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (doom metal)
34. The Great Old Ones - Tekeli-li (atmospheric black metal)
35. Aphex Twin - Syro (IDM)
36. Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer (black metal)
37. Schammasch - Contradiction (black metal)
38. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams (folk/americana)
39. Unisonic - Light of Dawn (power/heavy metal)
40. Rigor Mortis - Slaves to the Grave (thrash metal)
41. Jakob - Sines (post-rock)
42. Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus (black metal)
43. Reek - Necrogenesis (thrash metal)
44. Kriegsmaschine - Enemy of Man (black metal)
45. Nasheim - Solems Vemod (atmospheric black metal)
46. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen (folk/pagan metal)
47. Horrendous - Ecdysis (death metal)
48. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (post-rock)
49. Slugdge - Gastronomicon (death/progressive metal)
50. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (black metal)
51. Revocation - Deathless (thrash metal)

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Slint - Spiderland

I'm pretty sure that one isn't from 2014

Anyway, I'm not in the mood to put down my entire list, but I'll list ten:

1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji (folk)
2. Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath (ambient/choral)
3. Swans - To Be Kind (noise rock/post-rock)
4. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy (singer/songwriter)
5. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours Of Static (post-hardcore)
6. Iceage - Plowing Into The Field Of Love (post-punk)
7. White Suns - Totem (noise)
8. Dean Blunt - Black Metal (folk/avant-garde)
9. Tenebrae - Russian Treasures (classical/choral)
10. Terrors - Ensorcell Qori (folk)

@Hellhamster, I'm surprised Robert Rich is your no. 1. Although I've been following him for quite a while, I didn't know he released a record this year. Thanks, I put those 8 hours into my writing playlist!

[eschatological]

The best album of all years is still Pink Floyd from 1973-1979 (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall).

Even their early experimental stuff (Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, Ummagumma) and their post Waters stuff (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the Division Bell) are much better than anything released in 2014. Hell, if you want something released in 2014, Pink Floyd even released something this year, The Endless River. Only one of the songs (out of 18) has words, and it's still better than anything else out there.

[Deleted]

I'm pretty sure that one isn't from 2014

OOPS. Sorry, I made the post right before I woke up. I think I was scrolling through my playlist and saw it.
but yeah I love Spiderland

[Stormcall]

The best album of all years is still Pink Floyd from 1973-1979 (Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall).

I like Floyd, but I wouldn't even rank them as as the best album of 1973(I'll take The Who's Quadrophenia or Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery over anything Floyd has done, and those were '73 and '75). As for their 2014 release being better than everything else, well...all I can say is lol.

[Hraklea]

I'd go with Issues self-titled album. Not a great year in music, in my opinion.

[Orby]

I'd go with Issues self-titled album. Not a great year in music, in my opinion.

Have to agree, looking at how mnay albums I got this year, looks very few. Haven't brought so few albums since 2001

There were some good albums this year though. I only brought/downloaded 20 this year.

My top 5 this year are

Royal Blood - Royal Blood
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
Carry on the Grudge - Jamie T
Rise Against - The Black Market
Meg Myers - Make a Shadow EP

[Wildtree]

Geesh...... there needs to be some craftsmanship in these charts..... Let's change that.

here's my top 10

1. Robert Plant - Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar
2. Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls
3. AC / DC - Rock or Bust
4. Stevie Nicks - 24 Karat: Songs From the Vault
5. Pink Floyd - Endless River
6. Johnson/Daltrey - Going Back Home
7. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
8. Slash - World on Fire
9. Tom Petty - Hypnotic Eye
10. Beck - Morning Phase

[JP1o]

Carry on the Grudge - Jamie T

Haven't heard a Jamie T track in a long time.

2007-2009 were fun times, transistion from secondary school to college. Some of the gigs were decent aswell, Foals, Horrors and JT, amongst other bands aswell.

[Badpaladin]

why the hell are people posting about albums not in 2014 when this thread is about albums in 2014

anyways, I pretty much just listened to Swans so To Be Kind is my AOTY

[Deleted]

J Cole - 2014 FHD and RTJ2

[Deletedaccount1]

Swans is probably AOTY