Albums
of the year
2014
Last year my goal was to shorten the reviews in my annual top albums post, but I failed miserably. This year, however, time was more limited – in a good way luckily (maybe because I interviewed two of my favorite bands: Lush, and Slowdive!) – and I’ve finally reached my goal. That’s even with 20 albums reviewed, up four from last year. I think I’ll keep this introductory shorter as well. As you can see, to the left is a playlist of a song from each of the albums that I think represents what makes each album great. Oh, and it’s Spotify, so you may need to have an account or something, not entirely sure how that works. Figure it out, or check out the song titles to find them somewhere else. Lastly, note these are in no particular order. They’re all great in their own individual ways, and thus albums at the bottom are JUST as important as those at the top. Enjoy, and feel free to comment if you want – and thanks for reading! Or not.
14
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Mr DeMarco. He’s released other albums. I’ve never listened to them. I probably should. Especially considering I didn’t listen to them because his name – even though it’s real – I don’t know, it just irked me for a reason I don’t understand myself. But this is one I where I full on listened to because the critics told me too. Usually that doesn’t go so well. But it did here. I still don’t like his name, and the album title drives me mental, but wow is the music great. I’m sure “real” fans don’t like this much and say his earlier stuff is “so much better”, and fair enough. But I’m jumping in late to the game. It’s a great, elegant, catchy, stoner summertime beach album with a vibe so lazy but so beautiful, and warped, and demented, and just so gorgeously chill. He’s an eccentric weirdo it seems and wow is this some super rewarding music to listen to. Well done.