Album of the Year Nominations - 2014

  On 10/31/2014 at 3:29 AM, dr lopez said:

wait are you saying it's bad or its good.

 

also yeah patten's album was really quite nice, it's like if tomorrow's harvest was good and on acid or something i dunno i dont take intelligence drugs

  On 10/22/2014 at 1:59 PM, LUDD said:

aphex - syro

cn - nu

aleksi perala - colundi

trackermatte - dark door

caustic window

also: trackermatte - wasteland boutique

Just so everyone remembers how this works, the voting ballot is a list of 50 or less of the most nominated albums. I'll be going through and counting everything, tallying up the nominations for each. They will only be tallied from this thread so if you nominated in the mid-year thread you should transfer that over to this one, unless the album started to suck and you changed your mind. Multiple nomination of an album by the same person will not be counted.

I'll put up the Singles/EPs Nominations thread around the beginning of December. Nominations will go thru Dec 31st for both threads, but its always better to nominate sooner rather than later. It may remind others to support that release. Voting will start and go through the first week of 2015, then we'll have our winners. Good luck to all against Syro, LOL!

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Number of nominations counts for how likely something is to get into the voting ballot, so GET EM IN, GET EM IN!

During voting you vote for as many as you want. If there's no clear winner, then there can be a runoff vote where y'all get to vote for only one. That's it. Cheers.

VHS Head - Persistence of Vision

The standout of the year to me.

Adding to my list:

Aleksi Perala - Conundi Sequence

moderators should let us edit old posts or i will post at least 3 more times

Really happy to see all the Reachy Prints votes in here, it's just a spectacular album!

I think it's time I finally check out the Untold joint...

I know its not technically an album but this.

https://soundcloud.com/richrud-d-jomes

Not enough votes for Venetian Snares IMO. Quality album - really well produced / mastered, plenty of variety, a few trademark comedy moments and a new dimension to his sound with the added vocals. Plus the bonus CDr things were a neat idea too once we figured out what the hell they were.

not so bad year finally.

heres my list:

Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers

Aphex - Syro

Caustic Window -Caustic Window LP

Objekt - Flatland

Deru - 1979

BIG KRIT- cadillactica

J mascis- Tied to a star

BVDUB- History of distance

Grouper- Ruins

jon hopkins- asleep versions

Christopher Willits- Opening NOBODY MENTIONED THIS GEM?????????????

Fis- iterations

Arve henriksen- the nature of connections

Logic- Under pressure

  On 10/16/2014 at 7:09 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 10/5/2014 at 6:34 AM, dr lopez said:

 

 

Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence

besides Syro, colundi sequence. Sote's new one and the continuing Dalglish blast, a lot of other stuff this year hyped up in the usual 'underground electronic' marketing cycle just seems not that forward thinking to me. Doesn't mean its bad music, but its not that good either

 

can anybody recommend truly bizarre/weird stuff along similar lines? or just electronic music done as skillfully as syro

 

Not exactly along similar lines, but check out Dave Phillips - Homo Animalis. I seem to recall you were a fan of all things Schimpfluch.

Obviously these nominations cover a very broad spectrum of genres:

Could I possibly ask what would be considered 2014 recommendations similar to Tim Hecker, Daniel Lopitan, Autechre, Haxan Cloak Stuff?

Apologies if this a little bit off piste

Cheers!

Steve

Venetian Snares- My Love Is a Bulldozer

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks- Wig Out at Jagbags

Ekoplekz- Unfidelity

Artificial Brain- Labyrinth Constellation

Aleksi Perala - Colundi Sequence

Aphex Twin - Syro

Beatwife - Cornbrail Acid 2

CN - Nu

Heidi Lord - English Electric

Leyland Kirby - We Drink To Forget the Coming Storm

Plaid - Reachy Prints

Trackermatte - Dark Door

Trackermatte - Wasteland Boutique

Millie & Andrea - Drop The Vowels

Not sure anyone's nominated it yet, so I will:

Clark - Clark

  On 11/18/2014 at 10:56 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Not sure anyone's nominated it yet, so I will:

 

Clark - Clark

Syro and the Colundi Sequence and the rest of it can fuck off.

Flying Lotus "You're Dead"
Dillon "The Unknown"
St Vincent - self titled
FKA Twigs "LP1"

Andy Stott "Faith in strangers"
Scott Walker + Sun O))) "Soused"
Swans "To be kind"
Caribou "Our Love"
Azealia Banks "Broke with expensive taste"
Clark "self titled"

About the only album I can think of left that could make the list is The Advisory Circle one, released in a couple of weeks

I have difficulty to understand syro not making everyone list.

I need to add 2014 output of trackermatte.

Syro is not on my list because it is not one of my favourite albums of 2014.

I nominate fellow Bitraete-

in no particular order:

dan cohen - pit creep

the stetts - kirelian

ava nortis - void doubt

dkls - dkls.1

andrei dolbojobov - on the moon of tomorrow

kin - dissection

bren davok - bren davok

sami skorpklonen - emistra ni rado juha

  On 11/25/2014 at 1:38 PM, eugene said:

in no particular order:

 

dan cohen - pit creep

the stetts - kirelian

ava nortis - void doubt

dkls - dkls.1

andrei dolbojobov - on the moon of tomorrow

kin - dissection

bren davok - bren davok

sami skorpklonen - emistra ni rado juha

Plaid - Reachy Prints

Hakobune - Seamless and Here