best of 2014 :: Favorite Recordings
Oh shit, best of 2014 coverage. yay.
Yes, these are my favorite recordings of 2014. It was a good year, no? There were other records released this year, but this is the GT list. If you are not here, but you think you should be, don’t worry, I love you. And there’s is always next year, right? These are not presented in any order besides alphabetical by artist. They’re all great. Ok. Let’s go.
(click on the album titles for additional streaming/purchase options)
Listen.
Beyond Calculation by The Austerity Program
Listen: Song 30 (bandcamp)
DEBT by Baked
Listen: Wet Blanket (bandcamp)
Eighteen Hours of Static by Big Ups
Listen: Justice (bandcamp)
Interrupt by Bleeding Rainbow
Listen: Monochrome
blood sister by blood sister
Listen: 976-CREEP (bandcamp)
Clean Girls & Vulture Shit’s Expensive Tastes
Listen: Day of the Woman (bandcamp) by Clean Girls
Party Jail by Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
Listen: Laughing (bandcamp)
EXOCOMET by EXOCOMET
Listen: Forerunner (bandcamp)
Stay Home by Hank Wood & The Hammerheads
Listen: In Bookings (bandcamp)
High Desert by High Desert
Listen: Disappeared (soundcloud)
Dyatlov by Hive Bent
Listen: Liar (bandcamp)
Spare Room by Kindling
Listen: Eastern State (bandcamp)
Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts into Tears by Krill
Listen: Unbounded Nameless Future (bandcamp)
Mess by Liars
Listen: Pro Anti Anti (youtube)
Low Fat Getting High by Low Fat Getting High
Listen: Don’t Believe You Anymore (bandcamp)
Variable Impulse by Multicult
Listen: Othello (bandcamp)
i can’t stand my own face by nine of swords
Listen: watch (bandcamp)
We Are Nots by Nots
Listen: decadence (soundcloud)
Dark Comedy by Open Mike Eagle
Listen: Doug Stamper (Advice Raps) (feat. Hannibal Buress)
Sunbathing Animal by Parquet Courts
Listen: Vienna II (youtube)
Bodies and Control and Money and Power by Priests
Listen: Right Wing (bandcamp)
Under Color of Official Right by Protomartyr
Listen: Scum, Rise! (bandcamp)
So It Goes by RATKING
Listen: So It Goes (youtube)
Separate by Roomrunner
Listen: Slow (bandcamp)
Lese Majesty by Shabazz Palaces
Listen: Motion Sickness (youtube)
Rest Versus Rust by Spray Paint
Listen: Rest Versus Rust (bandcamp)
Swollen by Stickers
Listen: Sacajawea (bandcamp)
Awake by Tycho
Listen: L (soundcloud)
Vomitface by Vomitface
Listen: Bill Me Later (bandcamp)
The Joys of Employment by Vulture Shit
Listen: Church Van Contraband (bandcamp)
SO, what is missing? what shouldn’t be here? leave a damn comment (if you are into that sort of thing).
BONUS:
Song 30 (mp3) by The Austerity Program
Forerunner (mp3) by EXOCOMET
Eastern State (mp3) by Kindling
watch (mp3) by nine of swords
Doug Stamper (Advice Raps) (feat. Hannibal Buress) (mp3) by Open Mike Eagle
Scum, Rise! (mp3) by Protomartyr
Church Van Contraband (mp3) by Vulture Shit
