Album of the Year Nominations - 2014

List your choices, if this was posted before, then my apologies- the 2013 list stayed up forever so...

I'll start, candidates for AOY IMO:

Aphex Twin - SYRO

NMESH - Dream Sequins

Ital - Endgame

Lee Gamble - KOCH

Beatwife - Cornbrail Acid 2

Pyramids of Space

Future Sound of London - Environment 5

Actress - Ghettoville
Plaid - Reachy Prints

...'tsall I can think of at the moment

lol actress - absolutely not.

more like:

VHS Head - Persistence of Vision

Venetian Snares - My Love Is A Bulldozer

Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence

*reminisces on the year

Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19

Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata

Lone - Reality Testing

Todd Terje - Its Album Time

Aphex Twin - Syro

Kamikazes - Kleiner Vogel

Flying Lotus - You're Dead

Aphex Twin - Syro

Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Pinata

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo

FKA Twigs - LP1

Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe

Cormega - Mega Philosophy

Venetian Snares - My love is a bulldozer
Ekoplekz - infidelity
Ital - end game
Seaes - II and II-b
Swans - To be Kind
Ekoplekz - four track mind
Leyland Kirby - we drink to forget the coming storm
Clark - Clark
Andy Stott- Faith in Strangers
Pig & Dan - Destination Unknown
Objekt - Flatland
John Digweed, Nick Muir and John Twelve Hawks - The Traveller

Ags Connolly - How About Now

Aphex Twin - Syro

Planet mu 1-2-3 podium finish so far this year. Big ups the mu.

  On 10/5/2014 at 8:03 AM, Captain James Mission said:

Kamikazes - Kleiner Vogel

Flying Lotus - You're Dead

Aphex Twin - Syro

Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Pinata

Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo

FKA Twigs - LP1

Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe

Cormega - Mega Philosophy

This is a very good list.

  On 10/5/2014 at 8:03 AM, Captain James Mission said:

Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe

I forgot about this album. Its one I wanted to love, as I like Tendai's production sensibilities. But it never really kept me coming back past a first listen. Maybe I should give it another go.

That reminds me to add to my list:

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

  On 10/5/2014 at 10:03 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

 

  On 10/5/2014 at 8:03 AM, Captain James Mission said:

Chimurenga Renaissance - riZe vadZimu riZe

I forgot about this album. Its one I wanted to love, as I like Tendai's production sensibilities. But it never really kept me coming back past a first listen. Maybe I should give it another go.

 

That reminds me to add to my list:

Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty

 

 

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Haha, the opposite of what you said... never could wrap my head around lese majesty. maybe I should give it a few more listens...

untold - black light spiral

flying lotus - you"re dead

aphex twin - syro

venetian snares - my love is a bulldozer

clipping -clppng

ben frost - aurora

Another candidate is Bibio - The Green EP

That's not even an album you muppet.

Syro

Aleksi Perälä - Colundi Sequence Level 1/6 / Mental Union 4

CN - Nu

Trackermatte - Planar Mists

Borealis - Kallionyma

The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia

To be released albums that may be stellar if they're on par with their respective teaser tracks :

Objekt - Flatland

Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow was the golden age

Clark - Clark

  On 10/5/2014 at 11:55 AM, MadameChaos said:

That's not even an album you muppet.

Oh sorry, someone mentioned OPN - Commissions so I figured EPs were also considered. As for albums, I would go with:

Aphex Twin - Syro

Plaid - Reachy Prints

The Gasman - House

Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes

Will have to listen to the new Caribou album, and of course waiting for Clark next month.

Aphex Twin - Syro

Kangding Ray - Solens Arc

Clark - Clark

Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers

Grouper - Ruins

36 - Dream Tempest

And uh... uuuh... that's it.

Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber - Politiken der Frequenz

There was a mid-2014 thread about this, but it could use an update :)

This year has so far been the best year in music for me in terms of releases but also gigs, never saw so many and such different gigs (classical gigs, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Biosphere, Luke Vibert, Sun-Ra, Pentagram, Earth, Chelsea Wolfe, Ceephax, a lot of black and doom metal, Legowelt, William Burnett, Jungle By Night, house/disco parties with Theo Parrish and Sadar Bahar, Sunn O))), Swans, Michael Gira solo, and lots more at festivals, all in less than a year. Besides that I have never bought so much (older) records in one year plus I discovered really great music.

But not to get off-topic, the list of stellar releases so far:

CN - NU
Luke Vibert - Ridmik
Moodymann - Moodymann
Aleksi Perala - The Colundi Sequence
Aphex Twin - Syro
Caustic Window - Caustic Window LP
Legowelt - Crystal Cult 2080

Black Narcissus - Varla
The Gasman - House
Flying Lotus - You're Dead

Plaid - Reachy Prints

Earth - Primitive and Deadly
Piiptsjilling - Moarntiids
Swans - To Be Kind
Radio-Logg - Sports / Tools
Slumbr - Hibernate
Awanto 3 - Opel Mantra

Patronen - A / B
Mike Dred - Techno Satellites

Honorable mentions to:

Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X
Beatwife - Cornbrail Acid 2
Retape - Signals

Squarepusher - Music For Robots
Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials

Cygnus - Tesseracter

Probably forgetting a couple releases, and then there's a whole list of EP's I still have to think of.

  On 10/5/2014 at 4:23 PM, Herr Jan said:

There was a mid-2014 thread about this, but it could use an update :)

yeah. was gon make a big ass list like previous years but there were really too few posts to make something interesting out of it.

Lone - Reality Testing
Plaid - Reachy Prints
Aphex Twin - Syro
VHS Head - Persistence of Vision
Milieu - Butcher Block Andromeda (Compilation)
18 Carat Affair - Adventures in Schizophrenia

AOTY = VHS Head - Persistence of Vision

Runner ups

Aphex Twin - Syro

Ben Frost - A U R O R A

Caustic Window - CAT023

Disappointments

Lone - Reality Testing

Rustie - Green Language

Still hopeful for Clark's self titled

TOBACCO: Ultima II Massage

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks: Enter the Slasher House

FKA Twigs: LP 1

The Notwist: Close to the Glass
Cibo Matto: Hotel Valentine

Madlib: Piñata Beats

Aphex Twin: Syro

Aphex Twin - Syro

Ben Frost - AURORA

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights

Dalhous - Will To Be Well

Earth - Primitive & Deadly

Electric Wizard - Time To Die

Flying Lotus - You're Dead

Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm - The Death of Rave

Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels

Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden

Patten - Estoile Naiant

Plaid - Reachy Prints

Swans - To Be Kind

Teebs - Estara

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

WIFE - What's Between

VHS Head - Persistence of Vision

New releases from Clark, Andy Stott and Loscil will probably make this list as well

oh!

also would like 2 add

Gesloten Cirkel - Submit X

Grouper - Ruins

Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers

Ninos du Brasil - Novos Misterios

Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath

Actress - Ghettoville

Secret Boyfriend - This is Always Where You've Lived

  On 7/21/2014 at 5:27 PM, doublename said:

 

  On 6/26/2014 at 12:12 AM, doublename said:

Ekoplekz - Unfidelity

Behemoth - The Satanist

Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels

SD Laika - That's Harakiri

untold - Black Light Spiral

Ben Frost - Aurora

Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise

Perc - The Power & The Glory

Lucy - Churches Schools & Guns

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Also:

 

Liars - Mess

Heterotic - Weird Drift

Plaid - Reachy Prints

 

Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation

WIFE - What's Between

SYRO

Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch