Wednesday, November 4, 2015

My Favorite Albums of 2014


1.       Ty Segall – Manipulator
2.       St. Vincent – St. Vincent
3.       D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
4.       Parquet Courts --  Sunbathing Animal
5.       TV on the Radio – Seeds
6.       Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7.       Bass Drum of Death – Rip this
8.       Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
9.       Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea
10.   The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
11. Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit
12.   Meatbodies – Meatbodies
13.   Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt
14.   Protomartyr – Under of Color of Official Right
15.   Sturgill Simpson --  Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
16.   Blank Realm – Grassed Inn

Honorable Mention (in no particular order):
Dean Wareham – Dean Wareham
Sweet Apple – The Golden Age of Glitter
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
J Mascis – Tied to a Star
Passenger Peru – Passenger Peru
Iceage – Plowing into the Field of Love
White Fence – For the Recently Found Innocent
Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
Drive-by Truckers – English Oceans
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused
Reigning Sound -- Shattered
Billy Joe Shaver – Long in the Tooth
Guided by Voices – Cool Planet
King Tuff – Black Moon Spell
Robert Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant
The Bad Plus – Inevitable Western
Lucinda Williams – Down Where the Sprit Meets the Bone
Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Thee Oh Sees -- Drop
Hookworms -- The Hum
Black Lips – Underneath the Rainbow
J Masics – Tied to a Star
Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin
Ex Hex -- Rips
Kelly Willis & Keith Robison – Our Year
Lydia Loveless -- Somewhere Else
Tony Molina -- Dissed and Dismissed

Shellac – Dude Incredible