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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-22 07:15:08
December 22 2014 06:59 GMT
#1
So. I ended up listening to 250+ albums and ~2.7k songs this year. What in the fuck. That actually breaks a record for me for most new music listened to in one year. I don't think the year was particularly great, but for some reason I listened to a lot of new stuff. Probably because TL stressed me out and I needed new music to motivate me, I dunno.

So, my top 100 favorite albums of the year. I'll probably change my mind about some of these.

  1. The Gloaming - "The Gloaming"


  2. The War on Drugs - "Lost in the Dream"


  3. Brontide - "Artery"


  4. Musk Ox - "Woodfall"


  5. Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - "Toumani & Sidiki"


  6. Tinariwen - "Emmaar"
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  7. Fear of Men - "Loom"
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  8. Kishi Bashi - "Lighght"
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  9. Luluc - "Passerby"
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  10. Francois and the Atlas Mountains - "Piano Ombre - Massimo Paladino"
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  11. Slow Magic - "How to Run Away"
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  12. Sleepmakeswaves - "Love of Cartography"
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  13. Wang Wen - "Eight Horses"
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  14. Sevendeaths - "Concrete Misery"
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  15. Remember Remember - "Forgetting the Present"
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  16. Grouper - "Ruins"
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  17. TOPS - "Picture You Staring"
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  18. 36 - "Dream Tempest"
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  19. Wye Oak - "Shriek"
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  20. Disemballerina - "Undertaker"
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  21. Spoon - "They Want My Soul"
  22. Future Island - "Singles"
  23. Hauschka - "Abandoned City"
  24. Hildur Gudnaddotir - "Saman"
  25. Yuki Murata - "Gift"
  26. Blackhoods - "Sunk"
  27. Gates - "Bloom and Breathe"
  28. Stardeath and White Dwarfs - "Wastoid"
  29. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Days of Abandon"
  30. Brooklyn Rider - "The Brooklyn Rider Almanac"
  31. Carl Hultgren - "Tomorrow"
  32. Stefan Wesolowski - "Liebstod"
  33. Lantlos - "Melting Sun"
  34. BADBADNOTGOOD - "III"
  35. Christopher Tignor - "Thunder Lay Down in the Heart"
  36. Temples - "Sun Structures"
  37. Chapelier Fou - "Deltas"
  38. Alexander Turnquist - "Alexander Turnquist"
  39. Animals as Leaders - "The Joy of Motion"
  40. Rumour Cubes - "Appearances of Collections"
  41. Tycho - "Awake"
  42. White Lung - "Deep Fantasy"
  43. Slow Club - "Complete Surrender"
  44. Pulse Emitter - "Equinox"
  45. Anathema - "Distant Satellites"
  46. Sharon Van Etten - "Are We There"
  47. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - "Atomos"
  48. Wander - "Mourning"
  49. Mimicking Birds - "Eons"
  50. Bruno Bavota - "The Secret of the Sea"
  51. Beware of Safety - "Lotusville"
  52. Pan & Me - "Ocean Noise"
  53. Tuomas Holopainen - "The Life and Times of Scrooge"
  54. Audrey Fall - "Mitau"
  55. Samaris - "Silkidangar"
  56. Gazpatcho - "Demon"
  57. Her Name is Calla - "Navigator"
  58. Ex Hex - "Rips"
  59. Ben Howard - "I Forget Where We Are"
  60. yMusic - "Balance Problems"
  61. Wild Beasts - "Present Tense"
  62. Equals - "Tracts"
  63. Fennesz - "Becs"
  64. Mono - "The Last Dawn / Rays of Darkness"
  65. French for Rabbits - "Spirits"
  66. Lee Field and the Expressions - "Emma Jean"
  67. Hotelier - "Home, Like Noplace There Is"
  68. Sleeping Bear - "Sleeping Bear"
  69. Swans - "To be Kind"
  70. Fatima Al Qadiri - "Asiatisch"
  71. Tony Molina - "Dissed and Dismissed"
  72. Antlers - "Familiars"
  73. Owen Pallett - "In Conflict"
  74. Show Me a Dinosaur - "Dust"
  75. Kemialliset Ystävät - "Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa"
  76. The Horrors - "Luminous"
  77. Weary Eyes - "WWGBBYW"
  78. She Keeps Bees - "Eight Houses"
  79. Esben and the With - "A New Nature"
  80. The Faint - "Doom Abuse"
  81. Solstafir - "Otta"
  82. Ceclia::eyes - "Disappearance"
  83. This Patch of Sky - "This Patch of Sky"
  84. Lawrence English - "Wilderness of Mirrors"
  85. Lydia Ainsworth - "Right From Real"
  86. Arc Iris - "Arc Iris"
  87. Moonlit Sailor - "We Come Frome Exploding Stars"
  88. Nothing - "Guilty of Everything"
  89. Saor - "Aura"
  90. Woven Hand - "Refractory Obdurate"
  91. Villagers of Ioannina City - "Riza"
  92. Emma Ruth Rundle - "Some Heavy Ocean"
  93. S. Carey - "Range of Light"
  94. Asgeir - "In the Silence"
  95. Strand of Oaks - "Heal"
  96. James Vincent McMorrow -" Post Tropical"
  97. Hundred Waters - "The Moon Rang Like a Bell"
  98. Sun Araw - "Belomancie"
  99. Phantogram - "Voices"
  100. Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal - "Songs of Time Lost"


Honorable mentions for albums I liked but don't know where to put:
  • Run the Jewels - "RTJ2"
  • Real Estate - "Atlas"
  • Leonard Cohen - "Popular Problems"
  • Andy Stott - "Faith in Strangers"
  • Maya Beiser - "Uncovered"
  • Aso Ai - "Lone"
  • The Men - "Tomorrow's Hits"


I might add more links to music if I feel like it. I guess if you're curious which of these you'd like, just ask!

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herMan
Profile Joined November 2010
Japan2055 Posts
December 22 2014 07:58 GMT
#2
That's pretty impressive. My sin is to just stick with a certain playlist and not explore new music. Then one day I just wake up and find out a couple of new songs. Repeat.

I noticed you have some Finnish stuff there as well like Tuomas Holopainen and Kemialliset Ystävät. I'd guess that you listen to some metal and have explored the more known artists/bands already?
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
December 22 2014 08:10 GMT
#3
I used to be a big metal head maybe.. 12 years ago, but not recently. I lost my appreciation for death and black metal vocals some time ago, which explains why albums by Behemoth, Sunn O))) & Ulver, Hoth, Agalloch, Junius, IQ, Merkabah, IQ, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Yob, Pallbearer, etc didn't make the cut.
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Karis Vas Ryaar
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States4396 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-22 08:40:46
December 22 2014 08:20 GMT
#4
How the heck do you have time to listen to 100 different albums?

On December 22 2014 17:10 lichter wrote:
I used to be a big metal head maybe.. 12 years ago, but not recently. I lost my appreciation for death and black metal vocals some time ago, which explains why albums by Behemoth, Sunn O))) & Ulver, Hoth, Agalloch, Junius, IQ, Merkabah, IQ, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Yob, Pallbearer, etc didn't make the cut.



The ulver sunn0 split has black metal vocals? I listened to it brefly/skimmed it and didn't catch any black metal vocals. also check out widek. really cool instrumental rock band. not sure if it's anything you're interested in but I like em



personally my two favorite albums of the year are probably Falconer's Black moon rising and Magnum's escape from the shadow garden. I also realized I didn't know like 95 percent of the albums on this list lol. cool that you put this together though
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munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
December 22 2014 08:55 GMT
#5
Well this is going to take a while to get through. Lovely to see Complete Surrender on there,been playing non stop for me
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REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1904 Posts
December 22 2014 10:19 GMT
#6
Wow out of your top 100 I only know 2 artists :D

On my list Tycho's Awake would be higher, although it is not as great as Dive. Still the best artist to listen to when stoned imo
Solstafir...I used to really like them...then I saw them live...worst live band ever T_T I still listen to the occasional track but....UGHHH
aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
December 22 2014 11:08 GMT
#7
Nice to see Animals as Leaders and Samaris make the cut ;D I would probably have LUN by Destiny Potato, Little Histories by Cloudkicker, and Pulse by Sithu Aye.... oh and probably Clear by Periphery, While (1 is less than 2) by Deadmau5. I know I've probably listened to hundreds of new songs this year... but I can't off the top recall what they all are so I'll just leave it at those albums for me
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Chexx
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)11232 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-22 12:27:55
December 22 2014 12:27 GMT
#8
how can you remember it all too? And also this

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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
December 22 2014 13:08 GMT
#9
I made a draft list over the whole year while listening to everything at least 5 times, then I re-listened to everything over the past 2 months.
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Glowsphere
Profile Blog Joined November 2014
United States170 Posts
December 22 2014 18:05 GMT
#10
Thanks for this... all I do is listen to stuff I already like, so this is a good opportunity to expand my horizons.
Skynx
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Turkey7150 Posts
December 22 2014 20:54 GMT
#11
:O where is all the electronic music?
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
December 23 2014 00:00 GMT
#12
Huh, I thought I kind of knew music, but I've can't say I've even heard of 20 of those band. I feel like such a pleb
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
December 23 2014 01:35 GMT
#13
On December 23 2014 05:54 Skynx wrote:
:O where is all the electronic music?


Well there's Slow Magic at least. I'm not super into EDM/IDM/D&B/etc like Lenzman's "Looking at the Stars". I'm more into the ambient side of eletronic music. That's why I named the blog favorite albums instead of best.
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dravernor
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
Netherlands6191 Posts
December 23 2014 06:23 GMT
#14
I think I might propose to you.
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Emerson_H
Profile Joined March 2014
United States460 Posts
December 23 2014 11:13 GMT
#15
great stuff m8

I applaud your dedication
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
December 23 2014 12:07 GMT
#16
On December 22 2014 17:10 lichter wrote:
I used to be a big metal head maybe.. 12 years ago, but not recently. I lost my appreciation for death and black metal vocals some time ago, which explains why albums by Behemoth, Sunn O))) & Ulver, Hoth, Agalloch, Junius, IQ, Merkabah, IQ, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Yob, Pallbearer, etc didn't make the cut.

Try some Heaven Shall Burn.
jakethesnake
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada4948 Posts
December 23 2014 15:23 GMT
#17
Wow, fantastic list. I've got some listening to do and some exploring to do over Christmas. Thanks!

And I can't recommend The War on Drugs - "Lost in the Dream" highly enough. That album is so amazing from start to finish.
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MoonfireSpam
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1153 Posts
December 23 2014 15:34 GMT
#18
Some awesome music in here. Where do you discover this stuff?
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
December 23 2014 17:43 GMT
#19
0/5, no lichter shoutout
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
December 23 2014 18:17 GMT
#20
On December 24 2014 02:43 DarkLordOlli wrote:
0/5, no lichter shoutout


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