Album of the Year 2014 - The Bear and Badger

cockbeard

Righto guys and girls, just built a very long list, and made it a collaborative one. Hopefully this link should open Spotify and if there are any glaring omissions feel free to add them. Anything that you think shouldn't be there talk about it in here. We can hopefully whittle this to a top ten or twenty

http://open.spotify.com/user/cockbeard/playlist/0eE3XeOFx9kiPLL05N2Tqj

Brooks

It's Pom Pom.

cockbeard

Hahaha, I'll add that in again, it slipped out of my thinking in truth

Tempy

Fuck sake I just did a massive list and the forum ate it...

cockbeard

So just add to the playlist, easy

Bloody frustrating though, that's whyvi always drop big posts onto the clipboard just in case, forum is a touch unreliable like that

Edit: Hahaha, was wondering why the hell the Manics were in my ears. How is that Spoon album? People said good things but it slipped by me

Tempy

I added a bunch of stuff instead, in no order, of varying quality.

g.man

This isn't a lot of use if you don't have spotify.

Tempy

I'll copy 'em all out too, don't worry grandad.

Spotify also fucks with the dates, which is frustrating for early year albums that absolutely came out in 2014.

Tempy

Anyway maybe cocko wants to stick this in the OP -

Pacer - Mechanical
JAWS - Be Slowly
Pulled Apart By Horses - Blood
Martha - Courting Strong
Austeros - Lessons Learnt EP
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright
The Excerts - There is Only You
The Lawrence Arms - Metropole
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
The Menzingers - Rented World
Tim Barry - Lost & Rootless
Cory Branan - The No-Hit Wonder
Metronomy - Love Letters
Caribou - Our Love
Real Friends - Maybe This Place Is The Same and We're Just Changing
The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Chromeo - White Women
Braid - No Coast
Sorority Noise - Forgettable
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Days of Abandon
Hostage Calm - Die On Stage
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
Gnarwolves - Gnarwolves
Restorations - LP3
T.I. - Paperwork
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Angaleena Presley - American Middle Class
The Smith Street Band - Throw Me in the River
alt-J - This Is All Yours
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
PUP - PUP
Manchester Orchestra - Cope
Modern Baseball - You're Gonna Miss It All
Spraynyard - The Mark Tom and Patrick Show
Mouse Blood - I'll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time
Tigers Jaw - Charmer
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
- that's all cocko's stuff, I'll come back to do mine

Aphex Twin - Syro
Swans - To Be Kind
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags
Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
The Antlers - Familiars
Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita
Hail Mary Mallon - Bestiary
Grumbling Fur - Peternaturals
Kelis - Food
Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Spoon - They Want My Soul
Wild Beasts - Present Tense
tUnE-yArDs - nikki nack
Pharmakon - Bestial Burden
Beck - Morning Phase
Mica Levi - Under the Skin OST
Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair EP
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
Simian Mobile Disco - Whorl
Liars - MESS
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
East India Youth - TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER
Shellac - Dude Incredible
...And You Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - IX
Goat - Commune
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
Clark - Clark
Thurston Moore - The Best Day
Grouper - Ruins
Hookworms - The Hum
Sun Structures - Temples

74 in total

g.man

Nice one 2bob.

krs

Shellac - Dude Incredible

Tempy

Is already there Kim

Checking other sources, even at 70+ albums there list is pretty remiss. So many bases it isn't covering. I have literally just slapped everything I've listened to more than 3 or 4 times on there. I could refine it, but that'd take effort.

@Cocko - new Spoon album is good. Patchy as ever, I don't think I've ever truly loved an album, but they always have enough good songs to make me want to listen again, this one has The Rent That I Pay, Do You, and New York Kiss.

JonB

Never heard of any of 'em.

[Deleted User]

I can't participate as no Spotify access here...

But some of you might like the new TV on the Radio album, Seeds. It's not the best thing they've ever done (Return to Cookie Mountain holds that honour) but even "pretty good" TVotR is a step above most others.

I might already be on there - had 2 looks but possible I overlooked it.

Tempy

Good shout. I've not stuck it on because I've not listened to it. It's one I keep meaning to get around to, along with a huge stack of others.

Yet here I am listening to that Holy Bible reissue cos I'm buzzing off seeing them play it last night. Barrowlands is a great venue indeed.

Kow

I've only heard of one artist off that list (aphex twin).

Kow

And I only bought one album this year (Laibach - Spectre), so that's my album of the year.

Brooks

Welcome to 2014, yup.

Brooks

I am now two full years behind on my LP catchup schedule and it's wretched.

darkglobe

Well the Ought album, More Than Any Other Day, is obviously the best album of the year.

Pretty much the only one I'm still listening to anyway.

Brooks

It's just so easy to give no shits about music now. It's not like it's culturally vital at all.

Tempy

I've stuck a song from each album I mentioned on here, as a taster.

No quality control, but fuck it, you've all got eyes and fingers.

Can't get a playlist to embed, ah well.

GurtTractor

Heard bits of that Grouper album, really nice. Reminded me to add that to my Xmas list so ta.

Webbins

Bought a few 2014 releases, top three don't seem to be in the list.

La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
Foxes - Glorious
James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
alt-J - This Is Yours
Metronomy - Love Letters

Couldn't pick a favourite, I like a bunch of songs from each with not one album elevating itself above another.

Olimite

Hardly listened to anything this year. How times have changed.

mk64

I don't think I know any of those songs in the first couple of postys.. wtf?

Spock

Thread closed, bitchez!

Ali

Can't get Spotify to work but I vote for these two....

EvilRedEye

Ugh, we're gonna have to start some whittling soon.

I haven't heard the Mogwai one but Rave Tapes is one letter away from Rape Tapes, so it has to go.

tin_robot

I'd agree with a fair few on the list already, and would add:

Sun Kil Moon - Benji Not exactly a party album. Songs about the small details of life and death, and why they matter after all.
Papernut Cambridge - There's No Underground: Collaborative Psych-pop album, originally released on 3 7inches and thus each song is pleasingly short and to the point.
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Give the People What They Want: Old school soul record- most of the coverage seems to have focussed on Jones's cancer, but it's a fine record in its own right.
The Ministry of Wolves - Music from Republik Der Wolfe: The music for the stage show of Anne Sexton's poems of Grimm's Tales. Features Mick Harvey, Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Probably not for everybody...
Liz Green - Haul Away! Not as good as her last album even, but it got played a lot in my household, so it makes the list!

Spock

But...I won. Meatbodies, have you not ears? *Harrumph*

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