Year End List

2014 was awesome for music. But every year is awesome. If you think music was bad one year, you didn't look hard enough. It's also stupid to think that some music is "better" than others - how can anything art-oriented be objectively "better" than something else? It's all subjective and most of it is just timing anyway. Here are some things that I enjoyed this year. I'm not including locals here but I'll write in some great ones later.

Favorite albums of 2014 I heard in 2014

1. Total Control - Typical System
2. Ty Segall - Manipulator
3. Sir Deja Doog - Love Coffin
4. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
5. Amen Dunes - Love
6. Tanner Garza - Regret
7. Blood and Sun - White Storms Fall
8. Institute - Demo/Giddy Boys 7"/Salt EP (it's my blog so I can do what I want and I'm considering these three recordings an LP)
9. Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting
10. Body of Light - Limits of Reason CS
11. Grouper - Ruins
12. Raspberry Bulbs - Privacy
13. Glow God - House of Distractions
14. Wand - Ganglion Reef
15. Martial Canterel - Gyors, Lassu
16. Camera - Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide
17. Marissa Nadler - July
18. Thee Oh Sees - Drop
19. Goat - Commune
20. Transfix - Transfix

Favorite Live Shows of 2014

1. The Haxan Cloak @ The Church on York (5.15.14)
2. Ty Segall @ The Echo & Thalia Hall (8.28-31.14 & 9.23.14) I saw Ty 4 nights in a row in L.A. and it was so great that I saw him again in Chicago.
3. Circuit Des Yeux @ Experimental Sound Studio (8.16.14)
4. Thou & The Body Collab Set @ The Empty Bottle (7.17.14) They did an awesome cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Terrible Lie" that blew my mind.
5. Ryley Walker Band @ Bohemian National Cemetery (12.6.14)
6. Pedestrian Deposit @ Club Rectum (5.2.14)
7. Neutral Milk Hotel @ The Riviera (2.6.14 & 2.7.14) Went twice
7. Scout Pare-Phillips @ Club Rectum (8.2.14)
8. Broken Prayer @ Not Normal Showcase (6.7.14)
9. Institute @ Void House/The Township (5.27.14 & 5.28.14)
10. Destruction Unit @ Void House/The Township (5.27.14 & 5.28.14)
11. Rectal Hygienics @ Club Rectum (10.24.14)
12. Sargeist @ Beat Kitchen (7.6.14)
13. Blood & Sun @ Club Rectum (8.2.14)
14. Koufar @ Club Rectum (10.24.14)
15. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard @ The Subterranean (10.18.14)
16. Michael Chapman @ Permanent Records (9.18.14)
17. Limp Wrist @ Fed Up Fest (7.26.14)
18. RedRedRed @ the Empty Bottle (7.25.14)
19. Void Meditation Cult @ Cathedral of the Black Goat (7.12.14)
20. Nazoranai @ The Empty Bottle (5.20.14)
21. Sexdrome @ 13 Torches for a Burn (5.17.14)
22. White Hills @ Schubas (5.6.14)
23. Deterge @ Township (3.2.14)

Probably missing some stuff, but what the hell. They're just lists and absolutely just for fun.