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Going all in on Phoebe this year. Album of the year and best song as 'I Know the End'. Too much good stuff this year that I maybe should have voted for just to throw the names out there, but I had to go with my heart.
Super late to this party once again but for all its worth here are my top 10 1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher - worked well on all levels for me 2. SAULT - Untitled (Black Is) 3. Porridge Radio - Every Bad 4. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters 5. Drab City - Good Songs For Bad People 6. Adrianne Lenker - Songs/Instrumentals - technically 2 albums but... 7. Sorry -925 - felt like I had already heard a large chunk of this album via their EP and single releases, but they added plenty of new material that was solid 8. Warnings - I Break Horses - as a big fan of her debut album, big fan of this one 9. Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans 10. What We Drew - Yaeji Biggest Disappointments: 1. Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension - just didn't do it for me. 2. Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open - erased most of this album from my mind. Hollywood is probably one of the worst songs I have ever heard. 3. Caribou - Suddenly - didn't hate it and actually had a few tracks I really enjoyed, but it was always going to be hard to follow up Our Love Biggest Surprises (new discoveries) 1. Drab City - formerly known as oOoOO which I had no idea until much later 2. Ratboys - all around fun album 3. SAULT - had no idea about them prior to this year when they dropped Black Is right in the middle of this Summer's protests. Favorite music memory this year: Driving across Colorado in the mountains east of Gunnison listening to Moodymann
That Bravery song has so many memories from my heyday in High School and this version fucking knocked it out of the park.
Mac DeMarco came through
lol I'd forgotten about Daughtry. Went to a St. Vincent show once in Indianapolis that was playing in the downstairs of this venue where Daughtry was to play at the same time at the main stage upstairs. The main entrance for both shows was the same though and I did not know that Daughtry was playing upstairs. Scared the hell out of me as soon as I got in line and looked around thinking I had gone to the wrong venue.
Super ready for my shirt!!!!! Stooges version was #1 for me
In no particular order I Need You - Octo Octa Dylan Thomas - Better Oblivion Community Center Downhill Lullaby - Sky Ferreira Wild Time - Weyes Blood Light Years - The National This Life - Vampire Weekend UFOF - Big Thief The Barrel - Aldous Harding Room Temperature - Faye Webster Jenni - Big Thief Morning Comes - SASAMI Chlorine - Penelope Isles All Mirrors - Angel Olsen Not - Big Thief Took a Long Time - Carla Dal Forno The Mother Road - Chelsea Wolfe Lucy - Soccer Mommy Split - Chastity Belt Found Me - Men I Trust
But.. but... 2014 JUST started! I hate this year already
Love the variety of genres thrown in there and there is some stuff i haven't heard that I'll need to definitely check out before I finish my own list. That being said, I am sad Boards of Canada, Mazzy Star, and No Joy are not on that list which were some of my favourite albums this year
For me, it's between Savages and Disclosure
It's got Portishead so that's pretty good
Best Picture: Argo Best Director: Steven Spielberg Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Waltz Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway Best Original Screenplay: Django Unchained Best Adapted Screenplay: Silver Linings Playbook Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie Best Foreign Film: Amour Best Documentary Feature: 5 Broken Cameras Best Production Design: Les Miserables Best Cinematography: Skyfall Best Costume Design: Les Miserables Best Film Editing: Argo Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Les Miserables Best Score: Life of Pi Best Song: “Skyfall” from Skyfall Best Sound Editing: Zero Dark Thirty Best Sound Mixing: Les Miserables Best Visual Effects: Life of Pi Best Animated Short: Adam and Dog Best Documentary Short: Inocente Best Live Action Short: Buzkashi Boys
Wow I really had to think hard on this, too much stuff this year that was excellent, but I chose Chairlift - Something
Oh why why why did I change the video quality to HD?!?! I can clearly see the bullshit coming out of his mouth! ahhhh!!
Ah so good, very pleased with the avoidance of the infamous sophomore slump
My harmonica version will blow all out of the water. So let's mix my harmonica version with the kazoo, xylophones and theremin versions and get Pitchfork's best album of the year (yes I'm ambitious)
Those EDMrs my biggest complaint of the weekend. A few friends had the unfortunate task of heading to Perry's (EDM stage) for Little Dragon and apparently all the crowd did during the set, was stand around in circles talking to each other and texting their friends (guess not enough drops). Also lots of pick-pocketing going on in there. But these reviews were amazing to read coming back from the festival. Caught the essence of the festival pretty well
They call it a place of "love and peace" but it's followed by a dude just shooting down a couple of zombies who represent the "mainstream masses". That's just rude juggalos