2014 - Favorite Albums (so far)

[jimsflyingv]

Finally listened to this Benjamin Booker album... the hype is real.

Found out about him yesterday - really like the album.A very good discovery at the end of the year :-)

[MikeR1390]

Drive By Truckers - English Oceans
Wax Fang - The Astronaut
Temples - Sun Structures
Broken Bells - After The Disco
Beck - Morning Phase
Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
Warpaint
Pontiak
Doug Paisley
Doug Tuttle
Morgan Delt
Quilt
The Districts - EP
Blank Realm
Morgan Delt - S/T
Kalle Mattson- Someday, the Moon Will Be Gold
Tides of Man- Young and Courageous
Dag Savage- E&J
G. Dot & Born- Confidence Presents G. Dot & Born Featuring Edo G.
Gardens & Villa- Dunes
Railroad Earth- Last Of The Outlaws
Tinariwen- Emmaar
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- Wig Out at Jagbags
Phantogram- Voices
St Vincent- St Vincent
Quilt- Held in Splendor
Drowners - S/T
Band of Horses - Acoustic at the Ryman
Real Estate - Atlas
War On Drugs - Lost in a Dream
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
McLovins - Beautiful Lights
Angel Olson - Burn Your Fire
The Men - Tomorrow Hits
Hospitality  - Trouble
New Madrid
Kalle Mattson
Sam Roberts Band
Dean Wareham - S/T
Hurray For the Riff Raff
Woods - With Light and With Love
Ryley Walker - All Kinds of You
Horse Thief - Fear in Bliss
Eels -
The Horrors - Luminous
OFF! - Wasted Years
The Whigs - Modern Creation
Band of Skulls - Himalayan
Future Islands
The Afghan Whigs - Do To the Beast
Wye Oak
Cloud Nothings
Strand of Oaks
Ought
Ryan Adams
Spoon
Jack White - Lazaretto
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Ty Segall
Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
J Mascis
Chad VanGaalen
Neil Young - A Letter Home
Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Phosphorescent Harvest
Sharon Van Etten
Spanish Gold
First Aid Kit
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Pink Mountaintops
Rival Sons
The Antlers - The Familiars
Bob Mould - Beauty and Ruin
Fucked Up - Glass Boys
Thou - Heathen
Swans - To Be Kind
The Felice Brothers - Favorite Waitress
Simone Felice - Strangers
Freddie gibbs and madlib-pinata
Bobby Bare Jr - Undefeated
Nothing - Guilty of Everything
Courtney Barnett-Double Ep
Mastodon-Once More Round The Sun
Natural Child-Dances with wolves
Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
The Asteroid #4 - The Asteroid #4
Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
Colourmusic - May You Marry Rich
I Break Horses - Chairoscuro
Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies
Craft Spells- Nausua
Parquet Courts- Sunbathing Animal
Phish- Fuego
Landlady- Upright Behavior
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Hypnotic Eye
The New Pornographers - Bill Bruisers
The Delines - Colfax
Goat - Communes
Merchandise - After The End
Barr Brothers- Sleeping Operator
Steve Gunn- Way Out Weather
Joel Jerome- Psychedelic Thriftstore Folk
Handsome Jack- Do What Comes Naturally
John Wesley Coleman- The Love That You Own
Fou- Boy
Sikane - Mean Love
Lucero - Live from Atlanta
Greensky Bluegrass - If Sorrows Swim
Tweedy -  Sukierae
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
Christopher Denny - If The Roses Don't Kill Us
Pharoahe Monch - P.T.S.D.
Floating Action - Body Questions
Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness Of Dancers
Kevin Morby - Still Life
Water Liars - S/T
TVOTR - Seeds

Surprised this one wasn't mentioned at all.

[Angelo]

Ghostface's 36 Seasons is definitely worthy of this list.

[Murph]

Ghostface's 36 Seasons is definitely worthy of this list.

I liked it so much more than the new Wu Tang album

[Angelo]

I haven't listened to the new Wu yet. I don't have high expectations. The more I listen to the new Ghost to more I am loving it. The entire thing is a story similar to The Roots' undun but Ghost is a better storyteller than Black Thought, plus this story is about how he turns into a superhero to clean up the streets of Staten Island. It's amazing. I love that AZ and G Rap are reoccurring characters.

Murph, have you listened to P.T.S.D. yet? That's the only other hip hop album I bought this year. Both are top-notch.

[Come Closer]

Ghost has become a better storyteller with his last couple of albums, but I'm still taking Black Thought over him. It's a damn shame he hasn't put out a solo album. My favorite hip hop albums of the year besides GFK are CunninLynguists, Cormega, Royce and Premier(PRhyme), Fel Sweetenberg, Smoovth & Giallo Point, String Theory, ChillxWill, Rozewood. Lots of great hip hop EPs came out this year as well.

[Murph]

I haven't listened to the new Wu yet. I don't have high expectations. The more I listen to the new Ghost to more I am loving it. The entire thing is a story similar to The Roots' undun but Ghost is a better storyteller than Black Thought, plus this story is about how he turns into a superhero to clean up the streets of Staten Island. It's amazing. I love that AZ and G Rap are reoccurring characters.

Murph, have you listened to P.T.S.D. yet? That's the only other hip hop album I bought this year. Both are top-notch.

Can't lie, not even sure I know what PTSD is haha. Only other rap albums I've listen to this year were Run The Jewels and this Freddie Gibbs and Madlib album. Both were highly listenable, which is about a good a compliment I can give a hip hop album these days .

[MMPJ6306]

D'ANGELO

[e_wind]

D'ANGELO

thank you of reminding me. listening now.

[Northern Neighbour]

Fiddle, Ob1jacobe, another of our contributors, and I put together are 50 favourite albums of 2014, which you can find below. The list is in alphabetical order:

http://therevue.ca/2014/12/26/26-favourite50albums2014-inrevue/

[he.who.forgets]

I have not heard near as much new music this year as I would have liked but a few of my favorites are:
Strand of Oaks
Shovels & Rope
Lydia Loveless
New Basement Tapes
The Districts
Hozier (I'm astounded that very few if any have mentioned this one...really strong album front to back, regardless of how played to death the Take me to Church song may be)
Ryan Adams
The Felice Brothers
And I'll put myself out there and say that I think the War on Drugs album is grossly overrated.  To each his own, but I just can't understand the hype.