Best Music of 2014
Saucer.cc selections, sorted by artist name
Albums
Archie Bronson Outfit / Wild Crush (Domino Recording Co. Ltd, 19 May 2014)
20140519
Ariel Pink / Pom Pom (4AD, 17 November 2014)
20141117
Nicolas Bernier / Frequencies A/Fragments (Line, 24 February 2014)
20140224
A mostly overcast morning on Ganymede as a distant sun fails to move the mercury, skyships drift by, and robotic miners do their doings.
Mykki Blanco / Gay Dog Food (Uno NYC, 28 October 2014)
20141028
Bohren & Der Club of Gore / Piano Nights (PIAS, 24 January 2014)
20140124
Enormous, glacial, black light landscapes in this hour-long follow-up to 2008’s Delores. Echoes of Popol Vuh.
Children Coup d’État / Fear of Liberty (Hosoi KoBo MJ, 20 June 2014)
20140620
D/P/I / 08.DD.15 (Leaving Records, 10 February 2014)
20140210
Unrelenting, soft explosion of convulsive start-stops, thrillingly musical over its manic 32 minutes. Solo project of Alex Gray (in Sun Araw, Deep Magic, DJ Purple Image, Heat Wave, and Dreamcolour).
Excepter / Familiar (Blast First Petite, 14 October 2014)
20141014
Li Xi / Meet Me Somewhere (Sundowning, 15 October 2014)
20141015
Debut mini-album by this San Francisco four-piece who reference the psychedelic soundscapes of Broadcast while bringing some compelling songwriting to the table.
Magic Eye / Babylon (Not Not Fun, 4 February 2014)
20140204
Trip-hop ballads and ethereal choirs played through thick neon fog in a phosphorescent glass world… and it comes out of the oven as a sort of lo-fi postmodern shoegaze.
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks / Wig Out At Jagbags (Matador, 7 January 2014)
20140107
Moon Duo / Live In Ravenna (Label, release_data)
20140204
Parquet Courts / Content Nausea (What’s Your Rupture?, 28 November 2014)
20141128
TCF (Lars Holdus) / 415C47197F78E811FEEB7862288306EC4137FD4EC3DED8B (Liberation Technologies, 17 November 2014)
20141117
EPs and Singles
Boothroyd / Idle Hours (Tri Angle Records, 30 September 2014)
20140930
Demdike Stare / Testpressing#005 12" (Modern Love)
Demdike Stare / Testpressing#006 12" (Modern Love)
Electronic • UK (England)
Marreck / Mechanism (Label, release_data)
20140204
Neils Children / Serial Music #1 (Label, release_data)
20140204
Plangent Sound / Oh… (Label, release_data)
20140204
Various Artists and Retrospective Compilations
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Originally published early January 2015. I’ll keep adding outstanding music from 2014 to this list as I find it.
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