Year-End 2014: Top 25 Albums // Top 15 EPs // Top 10 Music Videos // Top 10 Album Covers
Top 100 Songs of 2014: 25-50
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Top 25 // Honourable Mention A-J // Honourable Mention K-Z
50. Chevalier Avant Garde – Pine
This song is playing in the weirdest club in the world; the kind of place where everybody stops talking when you enter the room.
49. Sur Une Plage – Marathon
The piano chords at the beginning prepare you for the epic journey you’re about to go on, but it’s not until the huge throbbing bass arpeggiator comes in that you really understand what they’re are up to.
48. TOPS – Outside
The synthpop ballad we’ve always needed from the Montreal soft-pop lovelies.
47. Marie Davidson – Perte D’Identité
“Perte D’Identité” is ominous beyond ominous, a slow, chugging beast of drones and strange synth noises.
46. Moon Maker – Off The Moon
The shimmering, vocoded “Off the Moon” is a wondrous and nostalgic single that deserved to be played and played again on your next lunar mission.
45. Para Palabras – Lonely
A deft take on modern electronic dance that reconciles sleek digital production with raw, organic timbres, and mechanistic precision with deep emotional resonance.
44. Vesuvio Solo – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The breezy, fun track is just what we needed as we stayed desperately nostalgic for the last few days of summer.
43. MORI – You Look So Calm When You Come
A perfect pop morsel to be savoured for as long as possible during its brief runtime.
42. Jamaican Queens – Bored and Lazy
A wonderfully slithering bit of robo-funk featuring vocoded lead vocals.
41. Caribou – Can’t Do Without You
It builds, and builds and builds and when it finally gets there…oh my goodness!
40. Mekele – Ānanda
With its widescreen sound design and ornate arrangement, “Ānanda” showcases Mekele’s remarkable musicality, imagination, and technical skill.
39. Boyhood – Makeup
Boyhood continues their upward trajectory into electro weirdness with this pulsating hypnotic song.
38. Jay Holy – Buried Alive
One of the best codas in recent memory, with an instrumental dance breakdown that we could have had go on for another five minutes.
37. Ramzi – Zomb By
One of the best tracks from Ramzi’s stunning discography, “Zomb By” is weird glitchy electro at its finest.
36. YlangYlang – Tiny Balconies
It’s amazing that someone as prolific as YlangYlang can put out tracks like this with such consistency.
35. Bizzarh – Pangaea
Sounds like a slowed-down acid trip in the best way.
34. Johnny Couteau – Dance The Waba
Iggy Pop goes goth electro in the standout single from the concept record The Infamous Mind of a Psychoactive Runner.
33. Men I Trust – A Cycle
As slow and funky as arpeggiated electronic music can be.
32. Ken Park – You Think About it Too Much
The most earwormy refrain of any this year; we cannot tell you how many times we’ve got this in our head.
31. Ancient Babes – Occult Commando
A new dreamy downtempo track that illustrates the astounding stylistic breadth of this project.
30. Scattered Clouds – People Walk
If all the characters in the Black Lodge of Twin Peaks formed a band, it would sound like Scattered Clouds.
29. Nyssa – All Us Boys
Something about her raspy blues voice over huge dark electronic beats (courtesy of producer Dave Psutka aka Egyptrixx) works so wonderfully.
28. Vierance – Athens Cries
Featuring huge arpeggiators and haunting vocals, it’s somehow both danceable and ambient at the same time.
27. New Zebra Kid – Romantic Illusions
This song absolutely delivers on all the promise we’ve heard in the pop maestro over the past few years.
26. New Hands – Swimming
New Hands have been refining and paring down their sound, leaving Spence Newell’s hypnotizing tenor front and centre, which we of approve immensely.
Top 100 Songs of 2014:
Top 25 // Honourable Mention A-J // Honourable Mention K-Z
Year-End 2014: Top 25 Albums // Top 15 EPs // Top 10 Music Videos // Top 10 Album Covers
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