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Your Top 10 Albums of 2014


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Mac DeMarco and especially Protomartyr have released fine albums in the last week. Probably not as good as their previous efforts but that would've been a tough ask,

Mac DeMarco sounds as if he really couldn't give a shit.

A bit like Ariel Pink.

Both of those guys' records do nothing for me.

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Cheers, lads. Should have it soon. Regarding Mac DeMarco, I'm really digging his new album. Can feel a lot of influences or similarities to Tame Impala, Deerhunter and Connan Mockasin in a few songs which help.

My top ten so far:

1. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

2. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever

3. Mr Oizo -Wrong Cops

4. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

5. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

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Mac DeMarco sounds as if he really couldn't give a shit.

A bit like Ariel Pink.

Both of those guys' records do nothing for me.

Have you tried Mac DeMarco's other stuff? He is generally laid back but is good. Very good.

Ariel Pink does nothing for me either.

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Gareth Emery- Drive is one of my top albums of 2014 so far. So many good songs on it. Soldier, Long way home, Dynamite and Lights & thunder are the stand outs.

Sounds decent.

I used to be heavily into Dance/Trance music until a couple of years back - since I stopped buying vinyl it's only really a passing interest now (still not really on-board with the whole digital/laptop djing thing).

Gareth Emery - Exposure form a couple of years ago was exceptional.

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Top 10 of 2014

1 Beck - Morning Phase

2 Temples - Sun Structures

3 Boy & Bear - Harlequin Dream

4 Real Estate - Atlas

5 The New Mendicants -Into The Lime

6 The Family Rain - Under the Volcano

7 We Are Scientists - TV en Francais

8 Metronomy - Love Letters

9 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

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Added Paolo Nutini's new album. Albums not yet in any particular order.

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Top 10 of 2014

1 Beck - Morning Phase

2 Temples - Sun Structures

3 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

4 The Family Rain - Under the Volcano

5 Real Estate - Atlas

6 Boy & Bear - Harlequin Dream

7 Metronomy - Love Letters

8 The New Mendicants -Into The Lime

9 We Are Scientists - TV en Francais

10 Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield

List updated and now in order of albums by favourite to least favourite.

Tokyo Police Club album added.

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Listening to Neil Young's new covers one, A Letter Home, which was recorded in a phone box and straight onto vinyl. It sounds like a Leadbelly record.

A couple of the tracks are pretty meh, but a couple of the songs move me to tears. At its best, an astonishing record.

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First discovered The Crookes through a previous incarnation of this thread. Just gave their new album Soapbox a listen - very much up to previous high standards.

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1. Lockah - Yahoo or the Highway

2. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever

3. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

4. The Horrors - Luminous

5. Todd Terje - It's Album Time!

6. Legowelt - Crystal Cult 2080

7. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

9. Mr Oizo - Wrong Cops

Lockah's unseated East India Youth as my favourite album of the year so far although that might be because I've only just discovered it. The Quietus in particular are still really pushing EIY's live show which is building up my anticipation at seeing him at Parklife in less than a month.

Unsure whether to include EPs in my top ten as they're not strictly albums but it's worth mentioning at least that I've really enjoyed Oizo and Boys Noize's collab Handbraekes and Numbers artist Deadboy's latest releases.

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Very much enjoying Love by Amen Dunes.

A classic American lo-fi sound, with nods to Pavement, Great Lake Swimmers (who might be Canadian) and, of course, the Brian Jonestown Massacre at their more harmonious. Just splendid....

... As too is the new one by Woods, an enjoyable mix of Americana and country.

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