You combed over CMJ’s picks for the best albums of 2014; you listened to the four-hours playlist of our favorite songs; you watched the most exciting and the most sublime videos of the year; you jammed to the remixes that made our office bounce for the past 12 months; and you saw the albums that topped the college and non-commercial radio charts.
Not fully sated yet? Us either. So we asked a swath of industry folks and musicians alike to tell us what they loved in 2014 and to give us the scoop on the albums we can expect to make the best of 2015 lists. We noticed a bit of a pattern: the college radio community is really into food (which we love), while the artist and industry community is focused on new music, touring and travel (all of which we love, too!).
Kevin Attics, Literature
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Future Punx – 999/Livin’ in a Movie
Expert Alterations – S/T cassette
Gold-Bears – Dalliance
Flowers – Do What You Want To, It’s What You Should Do
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Sea When Absent
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Eternal Summers just recorded a new record in Austin and I’m sure it’s gonna knock everyone out of the park.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Call my mom more often.
Angelo De Augustine
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
The Carnival Of Animals – Saint-Saëns
Getz/Gilberto – Antonio Carlos Jobim,Joao Gilberto, & Stan Getz
The White Album Unplugged – The Beatles
Debussy – Images #1&2, childrens corner
Django Reubhardt Vol.4 - Django Reinhardt
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
New Year’s resolution(s):
To try and live more in the moment, focusing on being grateful for
all I have.
Matt Baquet, Prom Body
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
In no particular order:
Owls – Two
FF – Lord
Lenguas Largas – Come On In
Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
White Wards – Cigarette Burns
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015
WEED – Running Back
Your New Year’s resolution
To shake the dew off the lilly pad.
Blind Shake
Five favorite albums of 2014:
East Link – S/T
Golden Pelicans – S/T 12″
Goat – Commune
Dream Salon – Soft Stab
Pampers – S/T
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Whatever Dwyer has cookin’ up.
New Years resolution:
Only use road rage in extreme circumstances, not just for entertainment!
Allison Bohl, Kind Cousin
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
Tomo Nakayama – Fog on the Lens
Lykke Li – I Never Learn
Hospitality – Trouble
Willow Smith – 3
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
I am excited to hear the new Givers record and Brass Bed record. Our band toured with Givers last month and got to hear the new material on the road. Hearing it live was super cool and can’t wait to hear it on record. Also, I got to hear some mixes of the new Brass Bed record and the album sounds awesome!
New Year’s resolution(s):
Do yoga daily and travel more often.
Wesley Bunch, Suburban Living
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
no order:
Ariel Pink – pom pom
Alvvays – Alvvays
Fear of Men – Loom
Craft Spells – Nausea
Michael Cera – True That
Dum Dum Girls – Too True
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Not sure what’s on the horizon from the masses, but really looking forward to stuff my friends are working on
New Year’s resolution(s):
Stop eating so much pizza
George Clanton, Mirror Kisses
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
5. Ariel Pink – pom pom
I’m not exactly the most well versed person on new music. In fact this list should be called “new music I listened to in 2014” instead of the BEST becuz I’m not qualified to make that call. I think album is partially a return to form, and partially a bunch of garbage. U can catch me drunkenly spouting off contradictory opinions on this album at your house party.
4. Mac Demarco – Salad Days
I really like Mac DeMarco’s music but I’m getting sick of seeing his silly antics it makes me feel like I’m buying into some adult version of One Direction. His face is in my news feed every day doing something gross. ayyy lmao
3. The Moles – Flashbacks and Dream Sequences
This is more of a retrospective compilation. The Moles are my favorite rock band. Every song is so authentic and catchy and sunglasses-level cool without feeling too pretentious.
2. 18 Carat Affair – Adventures in Schizophrenia
The latest release from my idol Denys Parker. It was the last album to be released on the vaporwave label Fortune 500 (rip).
1. [PHYSICS] – Not Even Real
Technically a December 2013 release who cares? Turn a blind eye for two weeks and its 2014 and it was my favorite thing this year. Another one from the dead Fortune 500 label. This short album is so overlooked I don’t even understand its so fukin tight. Best song: “All the Time”
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Supposedly The Moles are coming out with a new album in 2015, after something like a 20 year hiatus. I hear a couple of shoegaze bands are getting back together to record as well. I totally back that.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Learn how to dress cool and try to work less and have more fun in New York because it is not as easy as I thought it would be. damn
Kayla Cohen, Itasca
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors)
Merchandise – After the End (4AD)
PC Worship – Social Rust (Northern Spy)
Mike Rep and Friends – Darby Creek Drifter (540 Records)
Joan Shelley – Electric Ursa (No Quarter)
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Ryley Walker – new LP
Your New Year’s resolution:
Leave room, and do more.
Garrett Crosby, Holly Waxwing/Noumenal Loom
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Giant Claw ~ “DARK WEB,” Jerry Paper ~ “Chameleon World,” Juan Waters ~ “North American Poetry,” Kero Kero Bonito ~ “Intro Bonito” and Kane West ~ “Western Beats”
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The upcoming albums from Holly Herndon, Co La, QT and Bonglestar.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Begin learning 3D modeling software, send a demo submission to PC Music and see a painted bunting.
Elias Elgersma, Yuko Yuko
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Dean Blunt – Black Metal
2. Young Thug – Street is Watching (The Mix-Tape)
3. Koopsta Knicca – Da Devil’s Playground (Reissue)
4. RayFuego & GRGY – Bummy Boys
5. Ariel Pink – Pom Pom
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
I’m really looking forward that Kanye record he was supposed to release this year but never did. That was really disappointing about this year. I’m also siked about this Dutch artist called Floris Bates. He makes the best filthy pop songs of whole Europe and I hope he drops a next full-length in 2K15. But mostly I wanna release the upcoming Yuko Yuko x FRANKRIJK EP;)
New Year’s resolution(s):
Within the first week I really want to pay my ever growing bill at our local bar ‘De Lantaarn’. That’s wise for my financial situation. I also want to find a nice, sweet and pretty girlfriend to go to Italy with in the vacation.
Dan Falvey, Fear Of Men
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Dean Blunt – Black Metal
Grouper – Ruins
Iceage – Ploughing into the Field of Love
Perfume Genius – Too Bright
FKA Twigs – LP1
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The new Kanye West.
New Year’s resolution(s):
We’re in writing mode for our next album at the moment and will be spending most of the new year working on it on Mike’s farm, so we’ll only really be thinking of that. Our resolution is to work hard and make an incredible record.
Max Gregor, Lemuria
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Ryan Adams by Ryan Adams
A Thousand Surfaces by Hard Girls
PUP by PUP
KLUDGE by PUJOL
Never Hungover Again by Joyce Manor
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The new Tenement record coming out on Don Giovanni
New Year’s resolution(s):
Do less, appreciate more
Happyness
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Carnival of Souls – Pere Ubu
End Times Undone – David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights
Benji – Sun Kil Moon
More Than Any Other Day – Ought
Alpha Mike Foxtrot – Wilco
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015
Songs Of Experience – U2
Your New Year’s resolution
Wear more diverse aftershaves.
Jonny Holupchinski, The Velveteens
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Los Cripis – Long Play
Ne-hi – s/t
Waveless – s/t
Teenage Moods – Rosebuds
Twerps – Underlay
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Excited for No Doubt’s new album!
New Year’s resolution(s):
aaand this year’s resolution is—Romance
Honduras
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right
Mac Demarco – Salad Days
Travis Scott – Days Before Rodeo
Parquet Courts – Content Nausea
Ought – More Than Any Other Day
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
I’m looking forward to our friends Dances record, and Viet Cong.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Time is a flat circle.
Eli Kazan, Gotobeds
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Obnox – Louder Space (12XU Records)
Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right (Hardly Art Records)
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Wig Out At Jag-Bags (Matador Records)
The Young – Chrome Cactus (Matador Records)
Total Control – Typical System (Iron Lung Records)
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Belle & Sebastians – Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance lp
Mint Mile – lp
New Year’s resolution(s):
Choogle, I was born to.
Kid Congo, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Minimum Rock N Roll by Chain and The Gang
2. The Hum by Hookworms
3. Pampers by Pampers
4. Rips by Ex Hex
5. To Be Kind by Swans
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds new LP which is yet unnamed. What did you think?
Your New Year’s resolution:
To avoid eating Pheasant for the 56th year in a row.
Nicholas Krgovich
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Alice Coltrane – Divine Songs
Tujiko Noriko – My Ghost Comes Back
Dean Blunt – Black Metal
Eddie Marcon – 木陰のひわ
Gigi Masin – Talk to the Sea
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to my friend’s records that haven’t come out yet. Angel Deradoorian’s new one, Mount Eerie’s Sauna, the new Nite Jewel and Bouquet’s In A Dream. They’re all great.
Your New Year’s resolution
Keep moving down the brutal list I made earlier this year.
Lindsay Leven, Gulp
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Metronomy – Love Letters
Ibibio Sound Machine – Ibibio Sound Machine
Various – Native North America: Aboriginal Folk, Rock and Country 1966 – 1985 Volume One
Cate Le Bon – Mug Museum
Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
We’re really looking forward to Django Django’s new album in 2016.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Our new years resolutions are to drink more whiskey, hang out with more cats, dance more.
Lydia Loveless
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
Phantogram – Voices
Tove Lo – Queen Of The Clouds
Chrissie Hynde – Stockholm
The Girls – Let’s Not Be Friends
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
St. Lenox – Ten Songs About Memory And Hope
John Moreland – TBA
Your New Year’s resolution:
Not sure, other than the usual—be less of an asshole. And I just got put on a dairy and grain-free diet by my doctor that I can hopefully stick with.
MiWi La Lupa
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Meshell Ndgeocello – comet come to me
2. Spoon – they want my soul
3. Conor Oberst – Upside down mountain
4. Nate Wood – another time
5. Thieving Irons – Aurora
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Honestly, I’m looking forward to hearing a new MiWi record in 2015. And the Desaparcidos new joint.
New Year’s resolution(s):
More gym time in 2015. Less alcohol.
Joan LeMay, Riot Act Media
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
My actual five favorite albums are all client albums, and I can’t rank them. So, in no particular order:
1. Sondre Lerche – Please (Mona Records)
2. Jesse Marchant – S/T (No Other)
3. Split Single – Fragmented World (Inside/Outside Records)
4. Doug Gillard – Parade On (Nine Mile Records)
5. David Vandervelde – Shadow Sides (Park the Van/Secretly Canadian/Burger)
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Excepting the albums I’m working, I am SO excited for Torres’ new LP to come out next year. She is brilliant, and this one is an absolutely gutting stunner. I am also very, very excited for Shamir’s debut LP on XL. That kid is going to be huge.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Dear Jah, do I ever need to start exercising regularly. It’s Earth’s most trite New Year’s resolution, but it’s real talk.
Roy McDonald, Muffs
Your five favorite albums of 2014
…other than our own
Bob Dylan – The Basement Tapes Complete
New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Real Estate – Atlas
Spoon – They Want My Soul
Sleater Kinney – Start Together 1994-2006
What album you’re most looking forward to in 2015
Kinks box set!
Your New Year’s resolution
New Muffs album!
Kevin Morby
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
5) Hurray For the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes
4) Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy
3) Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
2) Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather
1) Amen Dunes – Love
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Jessica Pratt – On Your Own Love Again
Ryley Walker – Primrose Green
Your New Year’s resolution(s):
To run faster and jump higher.
Phil Morris, P. Morris
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
(in no particular order)
Gabriel Garzon-Montano – Alma del Huila
Trey Songz – Trigga
Young Fathers – Dead
Prince – Art Official Age
Pharrell – G I R L
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint
New Year’s resolution(s):
Embrace change and reject the haters
Emma-Lee Moss, Emmy The Great
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Metronomy – Love Letters, Iggy Azalea – The New Classic, Wild Beasts – Present Tense, Ramona Lisa – Arcadia, Childish Gambino - STN MTN/ Kauai
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Frank Ocean
New Year’s resolution(s):
Learn Mandarin (same as 2013, urg)
Modern Vices
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
…And Star Power – Foxygen
Manipulator - Ty Segall
Salad Days – Mac Demarco
Wild Onion – Twin Peaks
To Be Kind – Swans
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The new Tame Impala record (tba).
New Year’s resolution(s):
To stop sucking ass out there.
Naomi Punk
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Inga Copeland “Because I’m Worth It”
PC Worship “Social Rust”
Total Control “Typical System”
Transfix “S/T”
FKA Twigs “LP1″
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Hopefully new Gun Outfit
New Year’s resolution(s):
World Peace
Ish Nazmi, Little Racer
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
- Eagulls – Eagulls
- Temples – Sun Structures
- Troy Ave – BSB Vol 4 (do mixtapes count?)
- Future Islands – Singles
- Spoon – They Want My Soul
Album you’re looking forward to in 2015:
- Joey Bada$$ puts out his debut in January!
- I hear Frank Ocean might have something out finally?
- Blink 182 have announced a release. I’ll be at the mall.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Start writing my Novella, finish writing my Novella.
Nots
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Golden Pelicans – S/T (Total Punk)
Giorgio Murder – Primitive World 7″ (Goner)
Glueams – Strassen/SS 7″ reissue (Bachelor Records)
Anxious Color Complication (Mississippi)
Low Life – Dogging (Aarght)
Album you most looking forward to 2015:
Plastix – Ich Bin Modern LP (Danger Records)
New Years Resolution:
To never make resolutions.
Jeffrey Novak, Cheap Time
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Peter Hammill and Gary Lucas – Otherworld
Faust – j US t
Paperhead – Africa Avenue
Led Zeppelin – III Deluxe Edition
Sly Stone – I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969-70
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
All I’m looking forward to in 2015 is anything new by John Cale.
New Year’s resolution(s):
My resolution for next year is to own more Mothers Of Invention records.
Nox Boys
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Wild Onion – Twin Peaks
Disgraceland – The Orwells
Big Weather – 1,2,3
Underneath The Rainbow – Black Lips
Manipulator – Ty Segall
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Our friends Chase The Monkey are working on their first LP. All of us are pretty psyched for that!
New Year’s resolution(s):
To start working on our second LP.
Cameron Potter, Little Spoon
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. TOPS – Picture You Staring
2. FKA Twigs – LP1
3. felicita. – frenemies
4. Mr Twin Sister – Mr Twin Sister
5. Persona La Ave – Relation / Temptation
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
the album i am most looking forward to in 2015 is one that might not happen, but i really hope Hannah Diamond puts out a proper full length. i know it might be counter to PC music’s style to do a proper LP but i just love her choice of sounds and her encompassing lyricism. it seems very basic and plastic on the surface but grows more sincere and complex as you listen to the songs hundreds and hundreds of times in a row. i think with a full body of work she could show really successfully what people see in her and kind of bridge the gap between DIY and pop star. i feel a lot of people are trying to bridge that gap but i do not think many people will be as successful at it as Hannah.
New Year’s resolution(s):
my new year’s resolution is to use the internet more. i kind of disappeared from the internet // social media world for the majority of 2014, and now that i’m easing my way back in to using it, i am again realizing the beautiful aspects of it. at the beginning of the year i felt really stifled and overwhelmed at the same time by internet culture, and i do recommend to anyone taking a break for a while and reflecting on basic human characteristics and the absurdity of the seriousness of the internet music community. that being said, i do think that with a critical eye, media literacy and personal filtration methods that the internet can be a very inspiring and wonderful place to discover, connect and learn. also i just generally miss watching videos of cats.
Roz Raskin, Roz & The Rice Cakes
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Gymshorts: no backsies
Death vessel: island intervals
Ravi shavi: independent
We roll like madmen: hermetic volume 1
Megafauna: maximalist
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Littlefoot: night of the living dreams
New Year’s resolution(s):
To rock more than last year.
Peter Sagar, Homeshake
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Chameleon World – Jerry Paper
You’re Dead – Flying Lotus
Silk Rhodes – Silk Rhodes
Mr Noah EP – Panda Bear
Piñata – Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Mild High Club – Extremely good stuff, can’t wait.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Be better at whatever.
Jared Samuel, Invisible Familiars
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Cibo Matto : Hotel Valentine
(granted i’m biased cuz i got to play some bass n stuff on this, but…) i was a fan of theirs since before i ever had the joy of workin with em, and the thrill i got upon first hearing Stereotype A as a younger record store clerk is only magnified every time i listen to this record. they keep getting better and it makes me psyched about the passing of time.
Jolie Holland : Wine Dark Sea
this record has already gotten favorable comparisons for its abilities to travel to all the places that music has been, from the underground on up to the farthest heavens, but comparisons inevitably evoke (invoke?) the past, and it doesnt seem- despite amazing abilities of remembrance- that Jolie has any need for nostalgia. this record is fucking timeless. i love her.
Country Funk II : (various artists, Light in the Attic records)
while technically not “new Music” it hits me just as hard and feels super fresh and relevant, despite some of these recordings being 40 years or older. favs on this one are Kenny Rogers’ low speed stoney car chase “Tulsa Turnaround” and Bob Darin’s “Me & Mr. Hohner” shows that not only have i been sleeping on how soulful that dude was, but also that he had a hilariously on-point distaste for authority. Willis Alan Ramsey has basically all of Leon Russell’s band with him and that’s never a bad idea for the early 70s. LITA records are always finding the best stuff and then sharing it with the world in really deluxe packages. solid.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra : II
already a fan of the first album. the second one blooms more with each repeated listen. got to catch em live on same bill at the End of the Road Festival (also best-of year) and they fucking blew my mind a bit.
i’m at least 2-3 decades too young to’ve been around to catch any of the “great rock power trios” but UMO live made me feel some of the words i’ve heard used to describe Groundhogs in their prime or the Soft Machine or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. incredible improvisatory skills, great attention to songcraft, sounding full despite lack of prerecorded backing tracks… what then was standard and now constitutes “bold choices”. haha. but they knocked my socks clean off.
- Too many honorables to mention, but Nicole Atkins’ Slow Phaser, Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Deerhoof, Buffalo Daughter, tUnE-yArDs, Leonard Cohen, Run the Jewels, welcome back Sharon Jones!
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Whatever albums are born into a nation where the police and our elected officials are held accountable for their actions in all of the same ways as are the people whom they purport to serve. But barring that, I’ll bet that the new Nels Cline/Julian Lage recordings are gonna be amazing. and i’ll probably buy at least 2 copies of the new Robert Wyatt release (always one extra of his, to turn on a friend). I’ll purchase it even if it’s merely a “career overview.” cuz sweet merciful mother: what a career.
New Year’s resolution(s):
don’t believe in em, but i’d love it if i kept getting better at most things, so that may or may not involve giving up smoking.
Chris Shaw, Ex-Cult
Five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Total Control- Typical System
2. Low Life- Dogging
3. Merchandise / Destruction Unit / Milk Music- split LP
4. Tie: Ty Segall – Manipulator / OBN III’s – Live in San Francisco LP
5. Cheena- demo cassette
Album Most looking forward to in 2015:
The possibility Cheena makes an LP.
New Years resolution:
Figure out how to get to Europe.
Sonny Smith, Sonny & The Sunsets
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Family Dog – Park Bench 7″
Natural Child – Dancin with Wolves
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
The War on Drugs – Lost In A Dream
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
zero time – the nothings
New Year’s resolution(s)
Quit stuff
Sunbeam Sound Machine
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Grouper – Ruins
2. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard – I’m In Your Mind Fuzz
3. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
4. Chips Calipso – I Walked Outside And Felt The Sun
5. Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Panda Bear
New Year’s resolution(s):
Go swimming more and stay more up to date with new music.
Matt Taylor, Tennis System
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Be Forest – Earth Beat
Creepoid – Wet
Nothing – Guilty of Everything
Mind/Glow – Demo
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Drake – Views From the 6
New Year’s resolution(s):
TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR
The Teen Age
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Twin Peaks – Wild Onion
Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else
Together Pangea – Badillac
Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Sultan Bathery – Sultan Bathery
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Honduras – full length album
Deerhunter – new album
John Reis and The Blind Shake – modern surf classics
New Year’s resolution(s):
Release a lot of new music
Andrew Todryk, MJ MJ Records/Vacation Dad
I’m gonna leave out releases that I’ve put out on MJ MJ cause like, most of my top 5′s came out on my label. Please note that all of these records came out on really really awesome small labels that deserve your patronage GO BUY THEIR STUFF IT’S THE BEST. Also most of these bands are from Minneapolis, an often overlooked city stop ignoring us cause we’re not New York or LA. Also I’m cheating and putting in seven ’cause music is awesome.
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
555 – Nine Gates
Leisure Birds – Tetrahedron
Ben Varian – Real Domestic Scene
FWY! – Any Exit
The Pen Test – Interstate
Dee Dee Mayo – Sweat’s It Out!
Teenage Moods – Rosebud
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
I’m putting out a couple really incredible tapes next year. American Cream (who made one of the most brilliant and criminally overlooked psychedelic albums of 2013) Grapefruit and Discoverer, to name a few. Also I’ll probably end up finishing my own album as Vacation Dad at some point in 2015. Pretty jazzed about all of that. I honestly don’t really pay attention to music news outside of my own reality so I’m pretty clueless as to what big bands are putting out what in 2015.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Finish my album.
Sunless 97
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
NguzuNguzu – perfect lullaby 2
Future – Honest
I love Makonnen EP
Felicita- Frenemies
Blaze Kidd – Exclusivo
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Palmistry
New Year’s resolution(s):
Not feeling them…don’t be resolute.
Duncan Wallis, Dutch Uncles
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
2. Sabina – Toujours
3. Young British Artists – Change By Any Other Name
4. Wild Beasts – Present Tense
5. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pika Pika Fantajin
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Public Service Broadcasting – The Race For Space
New Year’s resolution(s):
To be more effective and articulate when swearing.
Juan Wauters
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
My debut, N.A.P. North American Poetry, and Salad Days – Mac DeMarco
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
My new album!
New Year’s resolution(s):
We all do better.
Brad Weber, Caribou/Pick A Piper
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
1. Chancha Via Circuito – Amansara
2. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
3. LLLL – Paradice
4. Sinkane – Mean Love
5. Fka Twigs – Lp1
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
Joker
The Pop Group
Vessels
Dr Dre (yah right!)
New Year’s resolution(s):
find better dance music in Toronto
Kathyrn Wilson, publicity, Drag City
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Watery Love- Decorative Feeding
FKA Twigs- LP1
Elisa Ambrogio- The Immoralist
Jon McCallum- Surf Nazis Must Die (Original 1987 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Hive Bent- Dyatvov
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
John Carpenter – Lost Themes; Six Organs of Admittance – Hexadic; that new Sleater-Kinney record.
New Year’s resolution(s):
To save up enough money for a private jet so I never have to experience flying Spirit Airlines during a holiday weekend ever again.
Derek Wise, Secret Attraction
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Beverly – Careers
Mr Twin Sister – Mr Twin Sister
Craft Spells – Nausea
Tennis – Ritual in Repeat
L31f – Hey EP
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
An album I’m looking forward to hearing would be Jai Paul’s debut. that or Moses Sumney haha but i’ll go with Jai Paul for now.
New Year’s resolution(s):
Put out more Secret Attraction music. Visit New York
Sean Wood, the Spits
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Bob Seger
Black Lips
King Khan and the shrines
Violent Apathy
Off!
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The Spits
New Year’s resolution(s):
To put out the best Spits record yet and pay off our warrants and fix the top end on my Chevy!
John Zobele, Business Casual/chris†††
Your five favorite albums of 2014:
Vaervaf – Clonerib
Careless Messenger Recordings – Suddenly Mega
VHS Head – Persistence Of Vision
Matt Karmil – ——
Mr. Oizo – The Church
Album you’re most looking forward to in 2015:
The new The Field album, he makes one every 2 years or so.
New Year’s resolution(s):
To get my new project “Video Club,” off the ground.
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