- 20syl – Motifs (On And On Music)
- Blonde Redhead – Barragán (Kobalt)
- Captain Planet – Esperanto Slang (Bastard Jazz)
- Herb Alpert – In The Mood (Shout! Factory)
- Ibibio Sound Machine – S/T (Soundway)
- Khun Narin – Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)
- Paul White – Shaker Notes (R&S)
- Tinariwen – Emmaar (Anit-)
- Tommy Guerrero – No Man’s Land (Too Good)
- v/a – Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes (Harvest)
- William Onyeabor – What?! (Luaka Bop)
Favorite Electronic, Dance and DJ Music in 2014 (In Alphabetical Order)
- Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)
- Bonobo – Flash Light EP (Ninja Tune)
- Booka Shade – Love Drug EP (Blaufield)
- Boundary – Still Life (Boundary)
- Caribou – Our Love (Merge)
- Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)
- Jack Beats – Beatbox EP (OWSLA)
- Machine Drum – Vapor City Archives (Ninja Tune)
- Nick Monaco – Mating Call (Soul Clap)
- Octo Octa – Between Two Selves (100% Silk)
- Plastikman – EX (Mute)
- Simian Mobile Disco – Whorl (Anit-)
- The Knife – Shaken-Up Versions (Mute)
- Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes (Self Released)
- Trentemøller – Lost Reworks (In My Room)
- v/a – SubSoul, Vol. 2: Deep House, Garage & Bass Music (SubSoul)
Best of Electricity
Albums
1. Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)
2. Caustic Window – Caustic Window LP (Rephlex)
3. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos (Kranky)
4. Octo Octa – Between Two Selves (100% Silk)
5. Fah – We Were Cool Ones (Occult Research) [released on 12/31/2014!]
6. Pye Corner Audio – Black Mill Tapes Volume 4:Dystopian Vectors (Further Records)
7. CN – Nu (WeMe)
8. Pye Corner Audio/Not Waving – Intercepts (Ecstatic)
9. Plaid – Reachy Prints (Warp)
Singles/EPs
1. EOD – Volume 3 (S/R)
2. Octo Octa – Cause I Love You (100% Silk)
3. Pye Corner Audio – The Black Mist EP (Front & Follow)
4. Retape – Signals On The Double (030303)
Lynn’s TOP PICKS OF 2014
ALBUMS 2014 – in alpha order
1. Accolade – Legends (S/R)
2. Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (DiCristina)
3. Melaena Cadiz – Deep Below Heaven (Wild Kindness)
4. Roseanne Cash – The River & The Thread (Blue Note)
5. Hollie Cook – Twice (Mr. Bongo)
6. Emma Donovan & The Putbadks – Dawn (HopeStreet)
7. Ghost Wolves, The – Man, Woman, Beast (Plowboy)
8. Goat – Commune (Sub Pop)
9. LoCura – Dale de Comer (S/R)
10. Luluc – Passerby (Sub Pop)
11. Meta Meta – Metal Metal (Mais Um Discos)
12. OOIOO – Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
13. Gemma Ray – Milk for Your Motors (Bronze Rat)
14. Via Tania & the Tomorrow Music Orchestra – S/T (Narooma)
15. Mia Doi Todd – Floresta (City Zen)
SONGS 2014 (not on my best albums) – in alpha order
1. Asteroids Galaxy Tour – “Navigator” – Bring Us Together (Hot Bus/Rough Trade)
2. Blonde Redhead – “Cat on a Tin Roof” – Barragan (Kobalt)
3. Blonde Redhead – “No More Honey” – Barragan (Kobalt)
4. Brothers & Sisters (The) – “All Along The Watchtower” – Dylan’s Gospel (Light In The Attic)
5. Dubmarine – “Beat In Control” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
6. Dubmarine – “Let’s Go” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
7. Dubmarine – “Pass It On” – Laser Sound Beam (Sugarrush)
8. Valery Gore – “Hummingbird In Reverse” – Idols in the Dark Heart (S/R)
9. Jessica Hernandez – “Over” – Secret Evil (Instant)
10. Lia Ices – “Creature” – Ices (Jagjaguwar)
11. Kimbra – “Goldmine” – The Golden Echo (Warner Bros.)
12. Lolawolf – “Take A Hint” – Calm Down (Innit)
13. Moniquea – “If I Let You Take My Heart” – Yes No Maybe (MoFunk)
14. Caroline Rose – “Shepherd” – I Will Not Be Afraid (Little Hi!)
15. Sorceress – “Te Kano” – Dose (Wonderwheel)
Best of 2014
- Leonard Cohen– Popular Problems (Columbia)
- St. Vincent– S/T (Loma Vista)
- Perfume Genius– Too Bright (Matador)
- Slow Club– Complete Surrender (Wichita)
- Alt-J– This is All Yours (Canvasback)
- First Aid Kit– Stay Gold (Columbia)
- Perera Elsewhere– Everlast (Friends of Friends)
- Marianne Faithfull– Give My Love to London (Easy Sound)
- Reuben and the Dark– Funeral Sky (Arts and Crafts)
- Chuck Ragan– Til Midnight (Side One Dummy)
Songs that entertained me quite well in 2014…in no particular order whatsoever!
- Amen Dunes – “Sixteen” – Love (Sacred Bones)
- Bang Data – “Volar” – Mucho Poco (Rockolito)
- Karol Conka – “Boa Noite” – Batuk Freak (Mr. Bongo)
- The Rifffs – “Start the Revolution” – Start the Revolution (S/R)
- Dirtwire – “Bed Spring” – S/T (Beats Antique)
- Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – “Chaimra” – Libation (Cumbancha)
- Bossacucanova – “Balança (Não Pode Parar)”, Adam Popowitz Mix – Six Degrees of Brazil Volume 2 (Six Degrees)
- Metá Metá – “Orunmila” – MetaL MetaL (Mais Um Discos)
- Bear Lincoln – “Sasquatch” – Bare Lincoln (S/R)
- Alex Carlin Band – “Are You Better Than My Girlfriend?” – Are You Better Than My Girlfriend? (S/R)
- Koo Koo Kanga Roo – “Fanny Pack” – Whoopty Whoop (Fun Fun/Asian Man)
- The Thrashers – “I Won the Dance Contest” – Sounds All Around: Live Sessions from CJSW 90.9 (CJSW)
- Skimmed – “The Stripper” – Summer Lovers (S/R)
- 11th Street Kids – “My Bed Don’t Fit You” – single (Target)
- Spider Heart – “Love and War” – Dirt (S/R)
- Coma Serfs – “Under the Tongue” – PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop Now)
- The Phenomenauts – “Broken Robot Jerk” – Escape From Velocity (Silver Sprocket)
- The Gregors – “When I Say” – Gregors Can’t Be Choosers (S/R)
- The Fur Coats – “Desperate” – PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop Now)
- DakhaBrakha – “Karpatskyi Rep” – Light (Duduk)
- Toco – “Rainha” – Memoria (Schema)
- Arto Lindsay – “Simply Are” – The Encyclopedia of Arto (Northern Spy)
- M+A – “When” – single (Monotreme)
- Sisyphus – “Lion’s Share” – Asthmatic Kitty Spring 2014 Sampler (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Asteroids Galaxy Tour – “Navigator” – Bring Us Together (Hot Bus)
- Craft Spells – “Nausea” – Nausea (Captured Tracks)
- Ava Luna – “Crown” – Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl)
- Astronauts, Etc. – “Odessa” – Non*Market Comp 1 (Non*Market)
- Sit Kitty Sit – “O Fortune” – Everlasting Fire (S/R)
- Allysen Callery – “In Your Hollow” – Mumblin’ Sue (75 Or Less)
- Moot Davis – “Food Stamps” – Goin’ In Hot (Crow Town)
- Trivalve – “Big Blue” – The Leona Sessions (S/R)
- Mystic Braves – “Born Without a Heart” – Desert Island (S/R)
- Orquesta Pacifico Tropical – “Rio Frio” – PDX Pop Now! 2014 (PDX Pop Now)
- The Souljazz Orchestra – “One Life To Live” – Inner Fire (Strut)
- Alika – “Jengibre” – Mi Palabra Mi Alma (S/R)
- Nickel Creek – “Hayloft” – A Dotted Line (Nonesuch)
- Sibille Attar – “Alcoholics” – Sleepy Head (S/R)
All-around Best Releases – 2014
- Sit Kitty Sit – Everlasting Fire (S/R)
- The Gregors – Gregors Can’t Be Choosers (S/R)
- Bang Data – Mucho Poco (Rockolito)
- Toco – Memoria (Schema)
- Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Bring Us Together (Hot Bus)
- Los Nuggetz: Volume Uno (Rockbeat)
7 Awesome Albums of 2014
- Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Warner Brothers)
- E GONE – All The Suns Of The Earth (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
- Carl Hultgren – Tomorrow (Blue Flea)
- OOIOO – Gamel (Thrill Jockey)
- Gruff Rhys – American Interior (Turnstile)
- Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)
- Neil Young – A Letter Home (Reprise)
7 Amazing Acts of 2014
- Neutral Milk Hotel – Fox Theater, April 9-11
- New Bums – KALX performance studio, April 13
- The Everymen – Eli’s Mile High Club, June 26
- KISS & Def Leppard – Concord Pavilion, July 2
- Burger Boogaloo – Mosswood Park, July 5-6
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang Featuring Dawn McCarthy – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, October 5
- Gruff Rhys – The Chapel, November 11
7 Additional Adorations of 2014
- Curtis Harding – Keep On Shining test pressing 7” (Burger)
- Hawkwind – The Flicknife Years box (Cherry Red)
- Tony Molina – Dissed and Dismissed vinyl issue (Slumberland)
- The Movements – Like Elephants 1 & 2 US release (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
- Gruff Rhys performing acoustic and chatting with me in the KALX studio – November 18
- Permanent Makeup temporary tattoo
- “Revenge of the Mekons” documentary (Music Box Films) – February 28