Miscellaneous
-
Albums of the Year 2014
published: 8 /
12 /
2014
Our writers and photographers reflect upon their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of 2014
Article
CARL BOOKSTEIN
1. St. Vincent- St. Vincent
2. Lucinda Williams- Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
3. Jack White- Lazaretto
4. Beck- Morning Phase
5. Tweedy- Sukierae
6. David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights- End Times Undone
7. War On Drugs- Lost in the Dream
Favourite Live Gig:
Gary Clark Jr.: Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit, 7/9/2014
MALCOLM CARTER
(In no particular order)
1. Dodson and Fogg - In a Strange Slumber
2. Otis Gibbs - Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth
3. Elin Ruth - Here Comes the Storm
4. Simone Felice - Strangers
5. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
6. Groovy Uncle - Persuaded
7. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
8. Gypsy Fingers - Circus Life
9. Blues Pills - Blues Pills
10. Deacon Blue - A New House
ANDREW CARVER
(In no paricular order)
1. Zaum - Oracles
2. Zola Jesus - Taig
3. Zig Zags - Zig Zags
4. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused
5. Night Satan - Night Satan and the Loops of Doom
6. Ides of Gemini - Old World New Wave
7. Howlin Rain - Live Rain
8. High Spirits - You Are Here
9. Ex Hex - Rips
10. Anthroprophh - Outside The Circle
JOHN CLARKSON
1. Band of Holy Joy - Easy Listening
2. Delines- Colfax
3. Morton Valence - Left
4. Billy Idol - Kings and Queens of the Underground
5. V/A - There Must Be a Hole in Your Memory
6. Little Sparrow -Wishing Tree
7. Louise Rutkowski -Diary of a Lost Girl
8. Amber Herd -Our Only Eden
9. Stella Burns/Stella Burns Loves You
10. Claudia Brucken/Where Else
Favourite Live Gig:
Madam, Morton Valence and Rotifer, The Lexington, London, 31/5/2014
DANIEL CRESSEY
1. Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics
2. Buck 65 - Neverlove
3. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
4. Wytches - Annabel Dream Reader
5. Scott H. Biram - Nothin' But Blood
6. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
7. Gruff Rhys - American Interior
8. Slow Club - Complete Surrender
NICK DENT-ROBINSON
(In no particular order)
1. James Vincent McMorrow - Port Tropical
2. Lana del Rey - UItraviolence
3. Charlie Dore - Milk Roulette
4. Tim Edey - Sailing Over the Seventh String
5. Charlie Wood - New Souvenirs
6. Mo Evans - Spilled My Love
7. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
DIXIE ERNILL
Favourite Live Gig:
Brilliant Corners, Popfest, Madrid, 8/3/2014) and Ruby Lounge, Manchester, 5/7/2014
GILLIAN FISH
1. Slow Club - Complete Surrender
2. Sivu - Something On High
3. George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage
4. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animals
5. Merchandise - After the End
6. Temples - Sun Structures
7. Horrors - Luminous
8. Jamie T - Carry on the Grudge
9. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
10. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Favourite Live Gig:
Libertines, Alexandra Palace, London, 27/9/2014
DAVE GOODWIN
1. Future Islands - Singles
2. Die! Die! Die! - Swim
3. Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
4. Mama Kin - The Magician's Daughter
5. Churches - The Bones of What You Believe
6. Lois - The Polperro Horse Bus Company
7. Amber Herd - Our Only Eden
8. Uncle Frank - Smiles For Miles
9. Anna Calvi - One Breath
10. Polica - Shulamith
MARIE HAZELWOOD
1. Catfish and the Bottlemen - The Balcony
Favourite Live Gig:
Miles Kane, Olympia, Liverpool, 30/3/2014
BENJAMIN HOWARTH
1. Roddy Woomble Band – Live in the Inner Hebrides
2. John Howard – Hello My Name Is
3. Ezio – Adam and the Snake
4. Dodson and Fogg – In a Strange Slumber
5. Papernut Cambridge – There's No Underground
6. Kate Rusby – Ghosts
7. Robert Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant
8. Otis Gibbs – Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth
9. Anais Mitchell – xoa
10 Dodson and Fogg – After the Fall
Favourite Live Gig:
Idlewild (Acoustic), Old Market Theatre, Hove, 22/8/2014
ADRIAN HUGGINS
1. Conan - Blood Eagle
2. Swans - To Be Kind
3. Electric Wizard - Time to Die
4. Bongripper - Miserable
5. Eagulls - Eagulls
6. Aphex Twin - Syro
7. Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs - Psychopomp
8. Future Islands - Singles
9. Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
10. Night Flowes - EP
Favourite Live Gig:
65 Days of Static, The Foundry, Sheffield, 20/1/2014
ADRIAN JANES
(In no particular order)
1. Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt
2. Black Keys - Turn Blue
3. Engineers - Always Returning
4. Silo - Work
5. This Will Destroy You - Another Language
6. Nightingales - For F**k’s Sake
7. Cool Ghouls - A Swirling Fire Burning through the Rye
Favourite Live Gig:
Loop, Godflesh, Heaven, London, 4/6/2014
CHRIS JONES
1. Bracken - Exist Resist
2. Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts
3. Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3 & 4
4. Real Estate - Atlas
5. Memory Drawings - There is No Perfect Place
6. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
7. Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels
8. Shellac - Dude Incredible
9. Aphex Twin - Syro
10. Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
RICHARD LEWIS
1. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
3. Jack White - Lazaretto
4. Engineers- Always Returning
5. Cheatahs - Cheatahs
6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
7. Real Estate - Atlas
8. Vacant Lots - Departure
9. By the Sea - Endless Days Crystal Sky
10. Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
Favourite Live Gig:
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, 26/9/2014...27/9/2014
MARY O'MEARA
(In no particular order)
1. Johnny Marr - Playland
2. Manic Street Preachers -Futurology
3. Little Sparrow -Wishing Tree
4. Ben Howard - Forgot Where We Are
5. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
Favourite Live Gig:
Manic Street Preachers - Apollo, Manchester, 1/4/2014
JAMIE ROWLAND
(In no particular order)
1. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There?
2. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
3. Busdriver - Perfect Hair
4. Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy
5. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
6. St Vincent - St Vincent
7. of Arrowe Hill - A Conspiracy of Clocks
8. Aphex Twin - Syro
9. New Pornographers - Bill Bruisers
10. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
Favourite Live Gig:
Future Islands, Field Day, Victoria Park, London, 8/6/2014
MARK ROWLAND
1. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
2. Beck – Morning Phase
3. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
4. Caribou – Our Love
5. Aphex Twin – Syro
6. St Vincent – St Vincent
7. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
8. Future Islands – Singles
9. New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
10. Ty Segall – Manipulator
MAARTEN SCHIETHART
1. Fumaça Preta - Fumaça Preta
2. Kasai All Stars - Beware the Fetish
3. Ergo Phizmiz - The Peacock
4. Roll the Dice - Until Silence
5. Xylouris White - Goats
6. Lutine - White Flowers
7. Teho Teardo - Ballyturk
8. Half Man Half Biscuit - Urge For Offal
9. Black Bananas - Electric Brick Wall
10. The Use - What's The Use
DOMINIC SIMPSON
(In no particular order)
1. Grouper - Ruins
2. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atomos
3. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
4. War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
5. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
6. Aphex Twin - Syro
7. Swans - To Be Kind
8. Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting
MELANIE SMITH
1. Jack White – Lazaretto
2. Billy Idol – Kings and Queens of the Underground
3. Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger – Midnight Sun
4. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
5. Little Sparrow – Wishing Tree
6. Band of Holy Joy – Easy Listening
7. Struts – Everybody wants
8. Brody Dalle – Diploid Love
9. Pierces - Creation
10. Joan as Police Woman - The Classic
Favourite Live Gig:
Camille O’Sullivan, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 15/8/2014
ANTHONY STRUTT
1. Chrissie Hynde - Stockholm
2. Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business
3. Nick Drake - A Day Gone By
4. Temples - Sun Structures
5. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
6. R.E.M - Unplugged
7. Echo and the Bunnymen - Meteorites
8) Raveonettes - Pe'AHl.
9. Johnny Marr - Playland.
10. Gene - Remasters
Favourite Live Gig;
Slowdive, Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, London, 18/5/2014
LISA TOREM
1. Dave Davies - Rippin' It Up
2. Ian McLagan - United States
3. Monster Magnet- Milking the Stars: The Reimagining of Last Patrol
4. Ed Sheeran - x
5. Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out
6. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7. Afghan Whigs - Do To the Beast
8. Alfredo Rodriguez - The Invasion Parade
9. Passenger, Whiskers
10. Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear
Favourite Live Gig:
Ian McLagan, Fitzgerald's, Berwyn, 30/10/2014
PAUL WALLER
1. Conan - Blood Eagle
2. Pontiak - Innocece
3. Wolfmother - New Crown
4. Cosmic Thoughts - Cosmic Thoughts
5. HARK - Crystalline
6. Mastodon- Once More Round the Sun
7. Floor - Oblation
8. Body Hound - Rhombus Now
9. Hang the Bastard - Sex in the Seventh Circle
10. Mars Red Sky - Stranded in Arcadia
DENZIL WATSON
1. Philip Parfitt - I'm Not The Man I Used to Be
2. Everlasting Yeah - Anima Rising
3. Spear of Destiny - Thirty One
4. Luke Haines - New York in the '70s
5. Soft Hearted Scientists - The Slow Cyclone
6. Baxter Dury - It's a Pleasure
7. Pete Fij and Terry Bickers - Broken Heart Surgery
8. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
9. Eagulls - Eagulls
10. Sleaford mods - Divide and Exit
Favourite Live Gig:
Gogol Bordello, O2 Academy, Sheffield, 12/12/2014
Picture Gallery:-
