Best of 2014

The 31 best songs I came across in 2014...(special mention to Cate Le Bon with 2 songs - the artist of the year!)

Waiting Alice Boman Baba Yaga Amen Dunes Lights Out Angel Olsen Archive From 1959 The Buff Medways Freeze the Atlantic Cable He's Leaving Cate Le Bon Are You With Me Now? Cate Le Bon Lila Chad VanGaalen Possessed Eagulls Holding Grouper She Makes Me Wear A Saddle Irma Vep Back, Baby Jessica Pratt In the Green Wild Julia Holter Prism Song Julie Byrne Undone King Of The Mountains Gone Tomorrow Lambchop Gold Teeth Little Wings Chamber Of Reflection Mac DeMarco The Weather Song Ought Queen  Perfume Genius Body Betrays Itself Pharmakon Moth Lover PLANK Nothing Important Richard Dawson Hold But Let Go Six Organs of Admittance Oxygen Swans Every Picture I Paint Teenage Fanclub Speak to the Wild Thurston Moore Dreamer Tiny Vipers Today Is a Bright New Day Tom Brosseau Head Roll Port-Aine Traams  Kiran Leonard

Top 10 records to come out in 2014

My top 10 records of 2014 (Records that were released this year)

1. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
Yes they sound like Talking Heads but this album reminds me so much more of the first two Mission Of Burma albums. Arty post punk at its best is as good as it gets. Love the synth/guitar interplay and there's some fantastic bass lines too. Album of the year. Their EP is also great.
2. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
Thanks to Kiran Leonard for pushing this my way. This would have been number one had it have come out earlier in the year. One man giving it his all. Life affirming lyrics.The title track is one of, if not the greatest song ever made.
3. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
I liked her first effort but this is something else. John Congleton's production makes this record, every song has it's own unique feel and yet the whole thing holds together beautifully.
4. Swans - To Be Kind
Call me nuts but I think I actually prefer this record to The Seer. When I first heard Oxygen it nearly gave me a panic attack. Also maybe the best live act I saw this year.
5.Thurston Moore - The Best Day
My hero, pushing sixty and still putting out some of his best stuff to date.
6. Ty Segall - Manipulator
Thanks to Johnny Winbolt-Lewis for the heads up on this. Not a life changer but a really solid record, great production and some killer guitar solos.
7.Chad VangGaalen - Shrink Dust
Not the best CV album but it contains some of the best songs he's ever written like Lila and Weighted Sin. Really regret telling him I hated his Steinberger guitar at End Of The Road, he seemed genuinely offended.
8.Julie Byrne - Rooms With Walls and Windows
Beautiful psych folk dreamy record and she's such a lovely woman.
9.Eagulls - Eagulls
This record blew me away on first few listens, doesn't hit me the same now but its still deserves a place in my top 10. Love the PiL esque production.
10.King Of The Mountains - King Of The Mountains
Phil Kay you are a genius. Enough said.

Nov 2014

Nov 2014...

Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)	Aphex Twin
Make 1, 2	Arthur Russell
Get Off the Bar	Autokat
All I Wanna Do	The Beach Boys
The Present	Bedhead
Amo Bishop Roden	Boards Of Canada
He's Leaving	Cate Le Bon
No Name #3	Elliott Smith
Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping	Grouper
Argent	Jane Weaver
Back, Baby	Jessica Pratt
Ambition (Never Understand B-Side)	The Jesus And Mary Chain
In the Same Room	Julia Holter
Police And Thieves	Junior Murvin
Individuation	Khyam Allami
Chamber Of Reflection	Mac DeMarco
Leeward	Pram
Facades	Philip Glass
Moth Lover	PLANK
Teaching You The Fear	Really Red
Nothing Important	Richard Dawson
Way, No Way	SEX HANDS
She's Got Spies	Super Furry Animals
The Seer Returns	Swans
Every Picture I Paint	Teenage Fanclub
Grace Lake	Thurston Moore
Ultimate Painting	Ultimate Painting