Music of 2014

[Mass_nerder]

Crusades released a LP in Nov of 2013, which is pretty close to being a 2014 release, but the album deserves attention because:
a) Crusades are a really excellent punk band.
b) They're Canadian, from Ottawa. It's not very often Canadian "alt" bands get much exposure, but Maximum Rock'n'Roll and Razorcake have both been pumping their tires.
c) Dave William's (the singer) last band didn't get the exposure it should have (The Sedatives).

Perhaps You Deliver this Judgment with Greater Fear than I Receive It by Crusades
http://crusades666.bandcamp.com/albu...n-i-receive-it
I would really love to see them play Sled Island



(and a link to the Sedatives incase anyone is so inclined: http://sedatives.bandcamp.com/album/sedatives-lp)

[troutman]

Aaron Freeman (a.k.a. Gene Ween) Unveils Pop Adorned 'Freeman' LP

Aaron Freeman's full length due on July 22 via Partisan Records


http://www.spin.com/articles/aaron-f...ecords-stream/

[troutman]

[troutman]

Weird Al's 'Mandatory Fun' is a funny sort of masterpiece

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...715-story.html

[The Yen Man]

Best line in the video: Weird Al has a huge dic...tionary.

[Chill Cosby]

"‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’, his 10th studio album, feels like he has everything to prove. And it doesn’t fall short."

http://www.nme.com/reviews/morrissey/15436

The new Morrissey is pretty great. It won't make you change your mind if Morrissey isn't your thing, but if Morrissey or The Smiths are or have ever been your thing, check it out.

[worth]

So I've been in Asia the past four months and therefore have had a somewhat limited exposure to western music. However, on TV i saw this gem.



I love the song, the beat is right out of the 90's, I love the clothes, love the dance moves and love the girl.

So of course I Wikipedia her and lo and behold, she's from Calgary.

There's a pretty great MacLeans article on her:

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/so-long-bros/

[macker]

Bands I have enjoyed in 2014 :

-Public Service Broadcasting
-KINS
-Haerts
-London Grammar
-Mammut
-The War on Drugs
-James Vincent McMorrow
-Young Fathers
-How To Dress Well
-Death Vessel
-Marijuana Deathsquads
-Wild Beasts
-Cold Play
-Merewif
-Waters
-Sharon Van Etten
-Owen Pallet
-St.Vincent
-The Antlers
-Hozier
-James Blake
-Future Islands
-David Albarn
-Agnes Obell
-Royal Teeth

[DownInFlames]

The new Weezer single doesn't suck.



Edit: I was wrong. It sucks.

[macker]

Catchiest song of 2014 ? :
Broncho : Class Historian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFo-Fp2eJWQ

[Magnum PEI]

[troutman]

SURPRISE! Our new album PE'AHI is available now, right now! For information & how to order go to www.theraveonettes.com. Pitchfork are also premiering the lyric video for 'Endless Sleeper' taken from the record: http://smarturl.it/pitchfork-ES. Share & Rave On X

http://www.qthemusic.com/3831/guest-...w-album-peahi/

Following my father’s sudden death on Christmas Eve 2013, I set out to create a very different Raveonettes album. I wanted to immerse myself in the surf history of Southern California, where both Sharin and I reside, and incorporate various elements from this specific culture into each song both lyrically and musically. This album is a huge leap forward both sonically and musically for us. We incorporated new ideas into each song such as choirs, harps, digital bit crushing, rhythmic changes, unconventional song structures, different ways of singing, staccato, machine gun guitar picking, a somewhat schizophrenic universe.

[DownInFlames]

These guys are pretty good. Remind me of Pavement.

[troutman]

TV On the Radio Announce New Album, Seeds

Watch a trailer


http://pitchfork.com/news/56074-tv-o...w-album-seeds/

[GreenLantern]

Fences has a new album coming out. I have mixed feelings about this artist, he is talented but at times I have seen him post a lot of immature spoiled brat hipsterish type comments on FB that make me damn near not want to support him.

But on top of all that he has ties to two groups that I highly respect, Tegan and Sara and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, that seem to be rubbing off on him in the new single featuring Macklemore himself:

[nik-]

a teaser for an album is some pretty pretentious ####.

[GreenLantern]

Is this to off topic for this thread? I wasn't sure where to put it.

GQ released their top 21 albums of the 21st century.

For those who don't want to click:

1. Kanye West - MBDTF
2. The Strokes - Is This It
3. Outkast - Stankonia
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6. D'Angelo - Voodoo
7. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
8. The White Stripes - Elephant
9. JT - Future Sex/Love Sounds
10. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
11. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
12. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
13. Beck - Sea Change
14. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
15. Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - We're New Here
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
17. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
18. Beyonce - Beyonce
19. J. Dilla - Donuts
20. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
21. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/musi...e-21st-century

[nik-]

hmm. Well Discover is incredible, and Supreme Clientele is a pretty damn good too.

[East Coast Flame]

Pretty solid list, although it's missing Arcade Fire. I think they nailed the top 5.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Any list without Songs for the Deaf is completely invalid; likewise leaving out the best rap album of the new millenium (Madvillain) is a rather egrigious oversight. They also choose to include OutKast's 4th best album as the 3rd best album in the last 14 years, and apparently metal doesn't exist. Marginally better than a Rolling Stone list I guess.