Top Ten Albums 2014
FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2014
Okay so the whole of the Music Department couldn't decide on one collective top ten so we're doing individual top tens! It was hard. Deciding was hard.
Ari Abrams, Music Director, Strange [Soft & Hard]
1. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
The Canadians have delivered my favorite album of the year. Sonic and cinematic and sexy. The video for "Beat the Drum Slowly"
Will Burroughs, Asst. Music Director, Loud Rock Director
1. Todd Terje - It’s Album Time
Impossible not to get off on this album. So much going on. So much dance.
2. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
I probably listened to this album the most of any all year. It is quick hard and pungent.
3. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
Body music that burrows into your mind and assaults your senses.
3. Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - Stay Home!!
New York punk boys. This album gets it.
4. Run the Jewels - RTJ 2
Obviously, obviously. Keep it ratchet so sweet.
4. Caribou - Our Love
I can’t say it. Its in the tracks.
5. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead
Also up there in my top ten live shows of 2014.
5. Lee Fields & the Expressions - Emma Jean
This album understands how we work. I’ll break down and cry to some Lee but I’ll also scream these lyrics till you probably don’t wanna be my friend anymore.
6. Circulatory System - Mosaics Within Mosaics
"There Is No Time But Now" to listen to this album.
6. Mac Demarco - Salad Days
Because its Mac and you can listen to this while taking a boat ride with your parents.
7. Clap! Clap! - Tayi Bebba
Bass roller + afro-influence! "Kuj yato"
7. The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
This album is so easy to get lost in like the title alludes to. Beautiful sound.
8. BADBADNOTGOOD - III
Three young jazz kids from Canada who connected over their shared love of hip-hop. This album is rilllll good.
8. Chromeo - White Women
So much groove. I feel the sex oozing through me.
9. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine
Two Japanese ladies who moved to NYC in the 90's and started making trip-hop. One of them plays the sax.
9. Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
Club Bangers, Bedroom Bangers, Fuck BOI stoner tracks, has it all.
10. Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust
Deranged, abrasive, raw skuzz-rock!
Caribou - Our Love
Aphex Twin - Syro
D’Angelo - Black Messiah
Moodymann - Moodymann
Pyramid Vritra - Indra
Henry Begler, Electronica Director, New LA, Treasure Town Sound System
The Bug - Angels & Devils
Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
Call Super - Suzi Ecto
Swans - To Be Kind
Vessel - Punish, Honey
Moodymann - Moodymann
Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions
Aphex Twin - Syro
Teklife - Next Life
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Ian Later aka Wigwam AKA Quiet girl in the corner, World Director, E.O.N
Buscabulla - Buscabulla EP
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Future Islands - Singles
TOPS - Picture You Staring
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas - Secret Evil
Mac Demarco - Salad Days
Caetano Veloso - Abracacao
Courtney Barnett -Sea of Split Peas
Les Sins - Michael
Lana Del Ray - Ultraviolence
10. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
For when you need to kick back with an L.
Carrie Sun, Electronica Director, Sound Odyssey 2001
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
The Bug - Angels and Devils
Moodymann - Moodymann
Copeland - Because I'm Worth It
Rich Gang - Tha Tour Pt 1
FKA Twigs - LP1
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
8. Dean Blunt - Black Metal
Yameneko - Pixel Wave Embrace
Theo Parrish - American Intelligence
Sam Hill aka DJ Reb, Asst. Music Director, Punk Director, DixieLand
Parquet Courts - Content Nausea
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
TOPS - Picture You Staring
Circulatory System - Mosaics Within Mosaics
Muuy Biien - D.Y.I
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Run the Jewels - RTJ2
Les Sins - Michael
Future Islands - Singles
Flying Lotus - You’re Dead!
From Your DJs
DJ Roomba, Family Band Solution
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
Aphex Twin - Syro
Beck - Morning Phase
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
Run the Jewels - RTJ2
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
FKA Twigs - LP1
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
The Bear, The Bear's Den
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
Cruel Hand - The Negatives
The Dead Milkmen - Pretty Music For Pretty People
King Tuff - Black Moon Spell
Mogwai - Rave Tapes
OFF! - Wasted Years
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Rancid - Honor is All We Know
Solids - Blame Confusion
Hank Wood and the Hammerheads - Stay Home!!
Gypsy Wolfe, The Late Night Sessions
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
A Better Tomorrow - It's Diamond Dave
Misun - Superstitions
Badbadnotgood - III
Hiatus Kaiyote - By Fire EP
Dirty Art Club - Hexes
Useless Eaters - Bleeding Moon
Souls of Mischief - There is Only Now
tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nak
Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark - Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark