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.
4
Childhood
Lacuna
They’re back! Again! Even I will admit as big of doubtful on first or second listen, but something keeps pulling me back and slowly but surely it turns near irresistible to listen to and you can’t believe you didn’t hear it from the very start. The debut album from the UK’s Childhood is a perfect example. First singles I heard I guess a year ago were excellent and I had this hunch a debut from them would be really special. On first listened I didn’t hear it, but here it is now, in my tops of the year. And it’s so good I don’t know how to describe it. Things come to mind, as there’s a bit of psych-rock here. There’s some shoegaze elements. There’s definitely a influence from Ariel Pink going on. Not that he’s all that original in sound, but I mean regarding the vocals. Anyway – very catchy tunes bathed in summertime reverb and just full of hooks, it’s a really lovely record and you should really give it the chance it deserves – damn it all!