Top 20 Of 2014 (So Far...)

The year is halfway over. Six months of work, sleep and trying to get better at everything. Luckily all of that is accompanied by this. I tried to reflect on the year but, off top, I can't remember anything besides what would either sound like bragging or whining. There are the normalcies but nobody wants to read about those. So here are my twenty most listened to albums released in 2014. The only caveat worth mentioning is that I have listened to a lot of Total Control's Typical System but that hasn't been released yet so I won't count it. A big thank you to all twenty of these records for making the unbearable bearable. Instead of making you read about the albums you can just click and listen.

Ajax - Bleach For Breakfast (Self-Released)
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon (Heartworm)
Container - Adhesive (Liberation Technologies)
Creative Adult - Psychic Mess (Run For Cover)
Dead Congregation - Promulgation Of The Fall (Profound Lore/Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
The Down House - Low 7" (Broke Hatre)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invazion)
Have A Nice Life - Unnatural World (The Flenser/Enemies List Home Recordings)
High-Functioning Flesh - A Unity of Miseries - A Misery of Unities (DKA)
HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club (Ghostly)
Impetuous Ritual - Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence (Profound Lore)
Indian - From All Purity (Relapse)
Liars - Mess (Mute)
Lust For Youth - International (Sacred Bones)
Nothing - Guilty Of Everything (Relapse)
S.H.I.T. - Generation Shit 7" / Collective Unconsciousness 7" (Lengua Armada/Iron Lung)
Sun Kil Moon - Benji (Caldo Verde)
Tony Molina - Dissed & Dismissed (Slumberland)
Warthog - Prison 7" (Iron Lung)



-Z