post yr meaningless 'best of 2014' lists
 

I detest lists. having said that, look at my list.

TOP 10

1. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully Away Is It a Lack of Contentment that Stirs Affection for Those Things Said to Be As of Yet Unseen
2. Actress - Ghettoville
3. HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
4. Eastlink - Mullum Mullum
5. Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss
6. Fushitsusha & Peter Brotzmann - Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything, I Am Ever-Changing Only You Can Change Yourself
7. copeland. - Because I'm Worth It
8. D/P/I - MN.ROY
9. Blank Realm - Grassed Inn
10. Joseph Hammer - Roadless Travel

OTHER
Moiré - Shelter
Charlemagne Palestine & Rhys Chatham - Youuu + Mee = Weee
Sun Araw - Belomancie
Hecker - Articulação
Phork - High End
Lee Gamble - Koch
Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares
James Ferraro - Suki Girlz
Sd Laika - That's Harakiri
Kane West - Western Beats
Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch
Total Control - Typical System
Aphex Twin - Syro
Russell Haswell - 37 Minute Workout
Duppy Gun Productions - Multiply
Haikai no Ku - Ultra High Dimensionality
Rat Columns - Leaf
Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels
Vladislav Delay - Visa
M.O.B. - LP
Jim O'Rourke & John Duncan - Yeah
Giant Claw - Dark Web
Ø - Konstellaatio
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
Dark Matter - Dark Matter
Sonny Sharrock & Peter Brotzmann - Whatthefuckdoyouwant
Ariel Pink - Pom Pom
Earth -Primitive and Deadly
Jason Lescalleet - Much To My Demise
Mats Gustafsson & Lasse Marhaug - Oslo Tapes
Lily - Modern Malaise
Thug Entrancer - Death After Life
Lorenzo Senni - Superimpositions
The Bug - Angels & Devils
Ekoplekz - Unfidelity
Low Life - Dogging
Objekt - Flatland
Oren Ambarchi / Stephen O'Malley / Randall Dunn - Shade Themes from Kairos
Thought Broadcast - Votive Zero
Nazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once It Has Arrived
Rogelio Sosa - Daturas
Kevin Drumm - Trouble
Matthew Hopkins - Nocturnes
Jar Moff - Financial Glam
Sculpture - Membrane Pop
Untold - Black Light Spiral
Oren Ambarchi & Eli Kezsler - Alps
Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes of Voice
Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber - Politiken Der Frequenz


it was very rainy today.

D'Angelo - Black Messiah
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Azealia Banks - Broke with Expensive Taste
Future - Honest / Monster
Rich Gang - Tha Tour, Pt. 1
FKA twigs - LP1
Tinashe - Aquarius

Still thinking my shit through. But I don't really believe in top 10 lists. I bought so many albums this year that I had to tighten my belt on non-essentials like food and bills. For me it's go big or go home, and a top 50 is usually necessary. A top 25 will do on slower years (years during which I have a more interesting social life).

But I can offer up a rough draft of my top 10 albums, as long as everyone understands that, as inconsequential as it may be, this is NOT official.

Electronic, Ambient/Synth Noise, Dubstep/Footwork-type Stuff:
1. Aphex Twin - SYRO
2. Fennesz - Bécs
3. Ben Frost - A U R O R A
4. KidKanevil - My Little Ghost
5. Vladislav Delay - Visa
6. patten - ESTOILE NAIANT
7. Plaid - Reachy Prints
8. Rustie - Green Language
9. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
10. Untold - “Black Light Spiral”
Maybe pile: Clark, Objekt, FKA Twigs, Ekoplekz, Mouse on Mars, Mincemeat Or Tenspeed, The Bug

Rock/Punk/Indie-type Stuff:
1. Dub Thompson- 9 Songs
2. Thee Oh Sees - Drop
3. SWANS - To Be Kind
4. Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love
5. Thurston Moore - The Best Day
6. A Silver Mount Zion / Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off! Get Free! We Pour Light on Everything
7. Shellac - Dude Incredible
8. Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love
9. The Body - I Shall Die Here
10. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
*Maybe pile: Blonde Redhead- Barragán, Caribou - Our Love, Spoon - They Want My Soul, Morgan Delt - S/t, Pharmakon - Bestial Burden, Purling Hiss - Weirdon, Survival Knife - Loose Power, Deerhoof - La Isla Bonita

Hip-Hop/Rap:
1. Underachievers - “Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium”
2. Ghostface Killah - “36 Seasons”
3. Shabazz Palaces - “Lese Majesty”
4. Run The Jewels - “Run The Jewels 2”
5. Black Milk - “If There's A Hell Below”
6. The Roots - “...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin”
7. SpaceGhostPurrp - “IntoXXXicated”
8. Wu-Tang Clan - “A Better Tomorrow”
9. Open Mike Eagle - “Dark Comedy”
10. J. Cole - “2014 Forest Hill Drive”
(Maybe Pile:Freddie & Madlib - Piñata
*J. Cole surprisingly bumped this one out of the top 10, at least for now.
HS87 - We The Plug
KOOL A.D. - WORD O.K.
Diamond D - Diam Piece
Big KRIT - Cadillactica
Rick Ro$$ - Hood Billionaire
Young Thug - Brick Squad
Future - Honest
KIT - Lownt God Theory
Blah blah blah


Yeah, I'm pretty fucking neurotic.
All lists subject to change. A “General” or Non-Genre Specific top 10 will sit atop the top 50. I'll probably post it a few times. You've been warned.

I know I forgot some, but these are the ones I got this year, mostly from 2014, that I dig the most.

Bardo Pond – “Rigalo” LP (threelobed)
Bardo Pond – “without a doubt b/w Heaven II” 7” (drawing room)
Bern Nix Quartet – “Negative Capability” CD (56 Kitchen)
Body/Head – “Coming Apart” CD (Matador)
Bryan Ferry – “Avonmore” CD (BMG)
Jefferson Airplane – live Family Dog June 13, 1969 CD (Keyhole)
mv/ee - “Alpha Lyrae“ CDr/LP (Child of Microtones)
mv/ee – live set of 8 CDrs
mv-ee/woods split 7” “Green is the Colour” (Great Pop Supplement)
Steve Gunn – “Way Out Weather” CD (POB)
Steven Gunn/Mike Cooper LP (Secretly Canadian)
Vapour Theories/Loren Conners split 12” for RSD (Carbon Recs)
Wooden Wand and World War IV lp (threelobed)

I've had a blast on this board, since I am trying to not post on the internothing in 2015. I'm expecting that you won't hear from me, so all the best to you cats! jhildreth at threelobed dot com to reach me fiends

Brainwashed usually ends up with a pretty ripping good list, but from a purely aesthetic perspective, I don't think I've ever seen a more poorly organized list in my entire goddamn life, except of course for BW's previous "lists."

Structure, flow, order and cohesion are what make a list a list. This site pisses me off with their "List as quotation mark and boldface-peppered essay.

Still, they're the first I've seen to give Ben Frost his proper due. A U R O R A was without question one of the year's definitive sonic statements. I think it landed in the '80s on pitchfork, and I'm not even sure I've seen it anywhere else. So cheers for that, even if the damn site needs a graphic designer like I need a klonipin.