Segunda-feira 14 Jul 2014, 23h:48
Below are my nominees and other albums considered or being considered for my best of 2014. For past lists, check out my journal. Please post your recommendations below! To listen to the current nominees, click here.
Nominees:
FIrst Aid Kit - stay gold
ingrid michaelson - lights out
Johnnyswim - diamonds
the war on drugs - lost in the dream
Matrimony - montibello memories
sharon van etten - Are we there
sia - 1000 forms of fear
st. vincent - st. vincent
betty who - take me when you go
vance joy - dream your life away
kishi bashi - lighght
beck - morning phase
jenny lewis - the voyager
andrew bird - things are really great here, sort of...
lykke li - i will never learn
the new pornographers - brill bruisers
beyonce - beyonce
ryan adams - ryan adams
phox - phox
caribou - our love
Wye Oak - shriek
Demanding consideration:
damon albarn - everyday robots
tune-yards - nikki nack
margot & the nuclear so and so's - slingshot to heaven
pharrell williams - g i r l
phantogram - voices
isaiah rashad - cilvia demo
wussy - attica!
the men - tomorrow's hits
lydia loveless - somewhere else
kelis - food
the delines - colfax
trophy scars - holy vacants
kid cudi - kid cudi presents satellite flight: the journey to mother moon
how to dress well - "What is this heart?"
ray lamontagne - supernova
Tinariwen - emmaar
step brothers - lord steppington
marissa nadler - july
neneh cherry - blank project
julie byrne - rooms with walls and windows
wild beasts - present tense
protomartyr - under color of official right
fireworks - oh, common life
young fathers - dead
pup - pup
eleni mandell - let's fly a kite
mogwai - rave tapes
the antlers - familiars
young the giant - mind over matter
i am the avalanche - wolverines
angel olson - burn your fire for no witness
Conor oberst - upside down mountain
fear of men - loom
cloud nothings - here and nowhere else
spoon - They want my soul
schoolboy q - oxymoron
the black keys - turn blue
azealia banks - broke with expensive taste
east india youth - total strife forever
flying lotus - you're dead
robert plant = lullaby and the ceaseless roar
sam smith - in the lonely hour
pink floyd - the endless river
nicky minaj - the pinkprint
kate tempest = everybody down
george ezra - wanted on voyage
sea wolf - song spells no. 1: cedarsmoke
taylor swift - 1989
andy stott - faith in strangers
tops - picture you staring
you blew it! - keep doing what you're doing
lvl up - hoodwink'd
mitski - bury me at makeout creek
jessie ware - tough love
chumped - teenage retirement
yg - my krazy life
merchandise - after the end
alex g - dsu
the preatures - blue planet eyes
kool a.d. - word o.k.
modern baseball - you're gonna miss it all
sbtrkt - wonder where we land
MØ - no mythologies to follow
aphex twin - syro
together pangea - badillac
hiss golden messenger - lateness of dancers
weezer - everything will be alright in the end
Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
temples - sun structures
total control - typical system
dum dum girls - too true
robert ellis - the lights from the chemical plant
reigning sound - shattered
tweedy - sukierae
ages & ages - divisionary
sylvan esso - sylvan esso
martha - courting strong
tinashe - aquarius
interpol - elpintor
lenny kravitz - strut
prince - Art official age
the ghost of a saber tooth tiger - midnight sun
thom yorke - tomorrow's modern boxes
tom petty and the heartbreakers - hypnotic eye
leonard cohen - popular problems
foo fighters - sonic highway
charlie xcx - sucker
u2 - songs of innocence
Considered but not likely to contend:
drive-by truckers - english oceans
weatherbox - flies in all directions
damien rice - my favourite faded fantasy
magic! - don't kill the magic
parquet courts - sunbathing animal
strand of oaks - heal
owen pallet - in conflict
american authors - Oh, what a life
future islands - singles
real estate - atlas
mac demarco - salad days
common - nobody's smiling
trey songz - trigga
mike stud - closer
usher - looking for myself
Bruce Springsteen - high hopes
la roux - trouble in paradise
Roseanne Cash - the river & the thread
patten - estoile naiant
comeback kid - die knowing
todd terje - it's album time
sleeping at last - atlas: year one
white lung - deep fantasy
swans - to be kind
nux vomica - nux vomica
behemoth - the satanist
moodyman - moodyman
nicole atkins - slow phaser
thou - algiers
the hotelier - home, like noplace is there
Sun kil moon - benjii
slow club - complete surrender
saintseneca - dark arc
lana del ray - ultraviolence
rick ross - mastermind
sarah mclachlan - shine on
pallbearer - foundations of burden
ought - more than any other day
la dispute - rooms of the house
thou - heathen
sleaford mods - divide and exit
elbow - the take off and landing of everything
fka twigs - lp1
s. carey - range of light
james vincent mcmorrow - post tropical
jack white - lazaretto
hundred waters - the moon rang like a bell
parquet courts - content nausea
coldplay - ghost stories
ed sheeran - x
roadkill ghost choir - in tongues
a sunny day in glasgow - sea when absent
ema - the future's void
hurray for the riff raff - small town heroes
John Hiatt - terms of my surrender
the antlers - familiars
future - honest