Hello everyone, The Inland Empire Music Now blog is back and a staff list of best albums in 2014 is an easy way to begin. We’ll jump right into it.
1. Wussy: Attica! (Shake It)
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2. Spoon: They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
3. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
4. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
5. St. Vincent: St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
6. Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?)
7. Courtney Barnett: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Mom and Pop)
8. Sturgill Stimpson: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain)
9. Loudon Wainwright III: Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet) (429 Records)
10. Various Artists: Role: New Sounds of Brazil (Mais Um Discos)
Honorable mentions: Rosanne Cash: The River and the Thread (Blue Note); Lucinda Williams: Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20); Tune-Yards: Nikki Nack (4AD); Jack White: Lazaretto (Third Man); Caetano Veloso: Abracaco (Nonesuch).
1. Damien Rice: My Favourite Faded Fantasy (Vector Recordings) (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnzHOsiaJns)
2. St. Vincent: St. Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic)
3. RAC: Strangers (Cherrytree, Interscope)
4. Mr. Little Jeans: Pocketknife ((Sony Music, Australia)
5. Sylvan Esso: Sylvan Esso (Trekky/Partisan)
6. Frazey Ford: Indian Ocean (Nettwerk)
7. Benjamin Booker: Benjamin Booker (ATO Records, Rough Trade Records)
8. Zola Jesus: Tiaga (Mute)
9. Banks: Goddess (Harvest)
10. David Gray: Mutineers (Good Soldier Songs)
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1. Run the Jewels: “Run the Jewels 2” (Mass Appeal)
(Video and caution explicit language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuWQyfGa1yI
2. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
3. D’Angelo and the Vanguard: Black Messiah (RCA)
4. YG: My Krazy Life (Def Jam)
5. Flying Lotus: You’re Dead! (Warp)
6. St. Vincent: St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
7. Spoon: They Want My Soul (Loma Vista)
8. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: Piñata (Madlib Invazion)
9. Ex Hex: Rips (Merge)
10. Wussy: Attica! (Shake It)
Honorable mentions (and not in any kind of order): Damien Rice: My Favourite Faded Fantasy (Vector Recordings); Little Dragon: Nabuma Rubberband (Because Music); Big K.R.I.T.; Cadillactia (Def Jam); Caetano Veloso: Abracaco (Nonesuch); Mac DeMarco: Salad Days (Captured Tracks); Slipknot: .5: The Gray Chapter (Roadrunner)
Agree? Disagree? Let us know in the comments with your selections also.