Top 10 of 2014

[dreamdead]

So we're almost to the halfway point of the year. What's impressed you so far...?

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Ghost Bath - Funeral
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
5. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
6. Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
7. Swans - To be Kind
8. Tengger Calvary - Ancient Call
9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
10. Musk Ox - Woodfall


HM: Perturbator - Dangerous Days; Warpaint- Warpaint; Wye Oak - Shriek; Woods of Desolation - As the Stars; Boris - Noise;

[ledfloyd]

I'm behind on a lot of stuff, but any list I made would be topped by St. Vincent and The War on Drugs. Glenn Kotche's Adventureland would probably find a place somewhere as well.

[Acapelli]

i really love sharon van etten's album

[EyesWideOpen]

No order yet but my ten favorites so far:

Betty Who - Slow Dancing EP
Chrome Sparks - Goddess
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
Phantogram - Voices
Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
Skrillex - Recess
Son Lux - Alternate Worlds
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Tycho - Awake

[ledfloyd]

This is starting to come together for me, I at least have a really solid top five:

1. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
2. The Swans - To Be Kind
3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
4. The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
5. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. FKA Twigs - LP1
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. Death Grips - Niggas On the Moon
4. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
5. How to Dress Well - What Is This Heart?
6. Marissa Nadler - July
7. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
8. Frankie Cosmos - Zentropy
9. Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
10. Real Estate/Shabazz Palaces/Spoon

Anticipating:
Aphex Twin
Flying Lotus
Grouper
Rustie
D'Angelo?

[dreamdead]

Final List:

1. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
4. Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like a Bell
5. Ghost Bath - Funeral
6. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7. Swans - To be Kind
8. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
9. Restorations - LP3
10. Grouper - Ruins

RtJ's album has amazing production, but almost all of El-P's rapping is sophomoric in a way that reduces my ability to unreservedly embrace it. "Close Your Eyes" and "Early" are good, but everything above is the kind of thing that I could listen to at any time...