![]() I like a lot of Gambino's stuff, but this is a clear step forward.Ģ5. Good hook, relatively cringeless rapping (no jokey stuff). (Oakland by Lloyd)Ī very good R&B song that's even more interesting for the fact that there is no song "Oakland" by Lloyd. It's what kept me coming back to the relative cheesiness of It's Album Time until the album was able to sink its hooks into me.Ģ6. I don't think I willingly played it a single time. I had initially laoded it into my music library for when she was around. I find this song to be fairly bland, my wife can't get enough of it, though. Still, I liked it well enough before the radios started playing it 50 times a day. Wherein a perfectly functional song equating having sex with Katy Perry to selling your soul to the devil is ruined by Juicy J. Full of proper aggression and braggadocio.Ģ9. On is head and shoulders above anything else I heard this year. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream - "RedĮyes" is my favorite song from 2014, and the album that it got placed The while taking their sound in different directions.ġ. NotĮven the slightest wavering in the quality from song to song, but all Liked Spoon, but this might just be my favorite album by them now. This should sound like every other blah indie pop act offering, but it doesn't.Ģ. Real Estate - Atlas - I love the guitar tones on this album. Hazy and the moody, rather than a chipper-sounding CHVRCHES.Ĥ. Particularly like much on the rest of the album, which trends to the Of my favorite pop-ish songs of the year, even if it didn't sound Kye Kye - Fantasize - I didn't listen toĪnother album as much as this one this year. Melody in the chorus of "Tarifa" balance it out well. Uncomfortable to listen to, but things like that little descending There are times where things get honestly Sharon Van Etten - Are We There - She laysĮverything bare in this one. Alcest - Shelter - The first album of 2014 that stuck with me, and one I kept coming back to throughout the year.ħ. I still like it a whole lot, but I still think their first is better.Ĩ. ![]() ![]() Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 - I don't actually like it quite as much as the first. The band put the whole thing for a "pay what you want" on their Bandcamp page, so if that description interests you at all, you have noĩ. A sort of psych rock/dream pop/post-rock/spacey sort of hybrid. Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World - Loud rock songs to play in the car.įinland. I'm sure that as I look back on this year, this one willġ1. Swans - To Be Kind - I didn't spend enough The highs ("Spinners", "The Only Thing", "Oaks") buoy the lagging middleġ3. The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams - It'sĭefinitely another step down from earlier stuff, but I would say that Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again - This reminded me of a version of stuff that I liked back in the early 2000's, without the constant dourness.ġ4. It's fun to play in the car, even if it gets me sideways glances from Linds.ġ5. Danger - July 2013 - Short little EP of something called "Synthwave". "Defenestration Song" is my new favorite song of theirs.ġ7. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World - Pounding and unrelenting, as per usual from Have a Nice Life. On here, it's quirky and fun the whole way through.ġ9. "Delorean Dynamite" keptīringing me back to it, and while there's nothing else quite that good Its cheese was one of my favorites of the year. Time, I wasn't sure whether I even liked this album, much less whether Todd Terje - It's Album Time - For a long
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