Vanuit het niks een nieuwe nummer één!

1. (--) José James - While You Were Sleeping
2. (1) The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. (2) Beck - Morning Phase
4. (3) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
5. (--) Ben Frost - A U R O R A
6. (4) Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
7. (8) Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
8. (--) The Antlers - Familiars
9. (6) Wild Beasts - Present Tense
10. (5) Michael Jackson - Xscape

01 Erik K Skodvin - Flame
02 Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon
03 Yagya - Sleepygirls
04 The Alvaret Ensemble - Skeylja
05 DeepChord - Lanterns
06 José James - While You Were Sleeping
07 Yagya / DeepChord - Will I Dream During the Process? (DeepChord Redesigns)
08 Otto A Totland - Pinô
09 Quantic - Magnetica
10 Bvdub - I'll Only Break Your Heart

01. (==) Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow (5*)
02. (==) Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (4,5*)
03. (==) Oscar and the Wolf - Entity (4,5*)
04. (==) Clean Pete - Al Zeg Ik het Zelf (4,5*)
05. (==) Amatorski - From Clay to Figures (4,5*)
06. (==) Lykke Li - I Never Learn (4*)
07. (==) Warpaint - Warpaint (4*)
08. (==) The Antlers - Familiars (4*)
09. (==) MØ - No Mythologies to Follow (4*)
10. (==) Fanfarlo - Let's Go Extinct (4*)

11. (==) Intergalactic Lovers - Little Heavy Burdens (4*)
12. (==) Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love (4*)
13. (==) The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (4*)
14. (==) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Days of Abandon (4*)
15. (==) Broken Twin - May (4*)
16. (==) Adna - Night (4*)
17. (==) Cœur de Pirate - Trauma : Chansons de la Série Télé (Saison No. 5) (4*)
18. (==) Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (4*)
19. (==) Sun Kil Moon - Benji (4*)
20. (==) Future Islands - Singles (4*)

EPs en singles niet meegenomen.

Top 10 update:

01. (1) Beck - Morning Phase
02. (--) The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
03. (--) IQ - The Road of Bones
04. (--) The Black Keys - Turn Blue
05. (--) John Fullbright - Songs
06. (2) Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
07. (3) Temples - Sun Structures
08. (--) Gazpacho - Demon
09. (4) Alcest - Shelter
10. (--) Triggerfinger - By Absence of the Sun

1. The Antlers - Familiars (5*)
2. Beck - Morning Phase (4,5*)
3. The Chain Gang of 1974 - Daydream Forever
4. The Gloaming - The Gloaming (4*)
5. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
6. Matthew and the Atlas - Other Rivers
7. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
8. The Doppelgangaz - Peace Kehd
9. The Common Linnets - The Common Linnets
10. Coldplay - Ghost Stories

1.(1) Gabby Young & Other Animals – One Foot in Front of the Other
2.(2) The Hidden Cameras – Age
3.(3) Alcest – Shelter
4.(4) The Common Linnets – The Common Linnets
5.(5) Blaudzun – Promises of No Man’s Land
6.(6) Gazpacho – Demon
7.(7) The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
8.(8) Lost in the Trees – Past Life
9.(9) Wild Beasts – Present Tense
10.(10)Douglas Dare – Whelm

11.(-) Mick Flannery – By the Rule
12.(11) Beck – Morning Phase
13.(12) Pixies – Indie Cindy
14.(13) Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines
15.(-) Kasabian – 48:13
16.(-) Marc Almond – The Dancing Marquis
17.(16) Echo and the Bunnymen - Meteorites
18.(17) William Fitzsimmons – Lions
19.(14) John Harle and Marc Almond – The Tyburn Tree
20.(15) Moss – We Both Know the Rest Is Noise

Another (half) year over ! En er ligt eindelijk sneeuw in the Blue Mountains !
X-mas time down under: Yulefest !

Tijd voor mijn eerste 14 van 14:

01. The Notwist - Close to the Glass - 24-02

02. Sun Kil Moon - Benji - 11-02
03. Swans - To Be Kind - 09-05

04. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream - 17-03
05. Owen Pallett - In Conflict - 27-05

06. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else - 26-03
07. St. Vincent - St. Vincent - 21-02
08. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots - 25-04
09. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack - 05-05
10. Metronomy - Love Letters - 07-03

11. Mogwai - Rave Tapes - 20-01
12. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness - 17-02
13. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig Out at Jagbags - 06-01
14. Wild Beasts - Present Tense - 24-02



Best aussie recording so far: Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Winter

1. Swans – To Be Kind
2. Alcest – Shelter
3. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
4. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
5. Gridlink – Longhena
6. Behemoth – The Satanist
7. Beck – Morning Phase
8. Wild Beasts – Present Tense
9. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
10. Young Fathers – DEAD
11. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
12. Together PANGEA – Badillac
13. S O H N – Tremors
14. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
15. Moss – We Both Know the Rest Is Noise

Mijn eerste poging. Nog niet echt in een bepaalde volgorde.

Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (2014)
Eric Church - The Outsiders (2014)
Triggerfinger - By Absence of the Sun (2014)
The Skull Defekts - Dances in Dreams of the Known Unknown (2014)
The Lawrence Arms - Metropole (2014)
Truckfighters - Universe (2014)
Mongol Horde - Mongol Horde (2014)
Sivert Høyem - Endless Love (2014)
Chuck Ragan - Till Midnight (2014)
OFF! - Wasted Years (2014)

En er komt nog wat moois aan.
The Gaslight Anthem
Rise Against
Raised Fist
New Model Army
Morrissey
Wallace Vanborn

Update:

1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Gridlink - Longhena
3. Alcest - Shelter
4. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
5. Morbus Chron - Sweven
6. Thou - Heathen
7. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
8. Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
9. Emptiness - Nothing but the Whole
10. Lantlôs - Melting Sun

1.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
2.Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
3.Morbus Chron - Sweven
4.Behemoth - The Satanist
5.Vallenfyre - Splinters
6.Alcest - Shelter
7.Cynic - Kindly Bent Free To Us
8.Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings
9.Autopsy - Tourniquets, Hacksaws & Graves
10.Neckbreak Nation - Stroke Of The Devil's Hour

Die Nerven
Hark
Killimanjaro
Bob Mould
Comeback Kid
Mongol Horde
Helms Alee
Mastodon
Big Ups
Triggerfinger
Swans
Chuck Ragan
Truckfighters
Bane
Greenleaf

Deze 15 staan vooralsnog bovenaan, maar met nog zoveel nieuwe aan te komen en nog zoveel te beluisteren kan het zo helemaal om.

Veel die ik nog niet gehoord heb, dus ik ga er eens naar zoeken

1.James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
2.Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3.Swans - To Be Kind
4.Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars
5.Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
6.The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
7.Future - Honest
8.Todd Terje - It's Album Time
9.St. Vincent - St. Vincent
10.Indian - From All Purity
11.Gridlink - Longhena
12.Warpaint - Warpaint
13.Actress - Ghettoville
14.Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
15.Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
16.Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
17.Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
18.Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I
19.Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
20.BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
21.Kid Cudi - Satellite Flight: The Return To The Moon
22.Thou - Heathen
23.The Notwist - Close To The Glass
24.Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
25.Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo

1. (--) Owls - Two
2. (2) Gruppo di Pawlowski - Neutral Village Massacre
3. (1) Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
4. (3) Liars - Mess
5. (4) Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
6. (--) White Suns - Totem
7. (--) White Lung - Deep Fantasy
8. (--) Clipping - CLPPNG
9. (5) Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
10. (--)Protomartyr - Under Color Of Official Right

Verhip, het is al Juli. We zijn halverwege ...

1. Ø - Konstellaatio
2. Delines - Colfax
3. Liars - Mess
4. Godflesh - Decline & Fall
5. Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
6. Laibach - Spectre
7. Actress - Ghettoville
8. Skrillex - Recess
9. Swans - To Be Kind
10. Tori Amos - Unrependant Geraldines

1. Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema
2. Together Pangea - Badillac
3. Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun
4. Greenleaf - Trails & Passes
5. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
6. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7. Truckfighters - Universe
8. Temples - Sun Structures
9. Eagulls - Eagulls
10. Body Count - Manslaughter

Toffe lijst, je nummer één maar eens checken.

Thnx! En die nr. 1..... duurde even voor het kwartje viel maar een gaaf album, vooral "Beaks of Benevola".

1. Anathema – Distant Satellites
2. The Common Linnets – The Common Linnets
3. The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
4. Kent – Tigerdrottningen
5. IQ – The Road of Bones
6. Archive – Axiom
7. Di-rect – Daydreams in a Blackout
8. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
9. Beck – Morning Phase
10. Tim Bowness – Abandoned Dancehall Dreams

De eerste (en tweede) vierenhalve ster zijn uitgedeeld!

1. (-) Eaux - Plastics 4,5*
2. (-) Anathema - Distant Satellites
3. (1) MØ - No Mythologies to Follow 4*
4. (2) Warpaint - Warpaint
5. (4) Intergalactic Lovers - Little Heavy Burdens
6. (3) Until the Ribbon Breaks - The Other Ones
7. (5) Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun
8. (6) Broods - Broods
9. (-) Be Forest - Earthbeat 3,5*
10. (7) Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

Verdwenen:
(8) Alcest - Shelter
(9) The Antlers - Familiars
(10) Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes

Update, toch maar eens een lijstje van tien albums maken, nieuwe nummer 1, goed (neder)hiphopjaar overigens:

1. (-) The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
2. (1) Atmosphere - Southsiders
3. (-) Freez & A.R.T. - Les Demoiselles
4. (-) Typhoon - Lobi da Basi
5. (2) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
6. (-) clipping. - CLPPNG
7. (-) Sadistik - Ultraviolet
8. (4) Rico & A.R.T - Irie
9. (-) Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
10. (3) Grieves - Winter & the Wolves

01. (01) Gabby Young & Other Animals – One Foot in Front of the Other
02. (==) Kishi Bashi – Lighght
03. (02) The Hidden Cameras – Age
04. (03) Alcest – Shelter
05. (==) GusGus – Mexico
06. (05) Blaudzun – Promises of No Man’s Land
07. (06) Gazpacho – Demon
08. (==) Morrissey – World Peace Is None of Your Business
09. (04) The Common Linnets – The Common Linnets
10. (==) The Goast of a Sabertooth Tiger – Midnight Sun

11. (07) The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
12. (08) Lost in the Trees – Past Life
13. (09) Wild Beasts – Present Tense
14. (10) Douglas Dare – Whelm
15. (12) Beck – Morning Phase
16. (13) Pixies – Indie Cindy
17. (14) Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines
18. (15) Kasabian – 48:13
19. (16) Marc Almond – The Dancing Marquis
20. (17) Echo and the Bunnymen – Meteorites

2014 kwam voorzichtig op gang, zeker na de prachtige releases in het laatste kwartaal van 2013. De afgelopen tijd zijn er echter bizar goede albums uitgebracht. Ze domineren dan ook mijn top tien.

1. White Fence - For The Recently Found Innocent
2. Octopus Syng - Reverbating Garden no. 7
3. Quilt - Held In Splendor
4. Wildest Dreams - Wildest Dreams
5. Temples - Sun Structures
6. Gum - Delorean Highway
7. Dean Wareham - Dean Wareham
8. Dereck Higgins - Flyover
9. Doug Tuttle - Doug Tuttle
10. Morgan Delt - Morgan Delt

Ik kijk erg uit naar de nieuwe Pond en Allah- Las Die komen vast straks in de top 10 te staan...

1. (--) Future Islands - Singles
2. (--) Truckfighters - Universe
3. (--) Wild Beasts - Present Tense
4. (--) Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Winter
5. (1) Valentin Stip - Sigh
6. (5) Alcest - Shelter
7. (--) Mogwai - Rave Tapes
8. (--) WIFE - What's Between
9. (4) Todd Terje - It's Album Time
10. (3) Habib Koité - Soô

Tussenstand: 58 nieuwe platen geluisterd (EP's en liveplaten niet meegerekend)

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Sonic Station - Next Stop (5)
3. Saga - Sagacity (4,5)
4. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
5. Midnight Romeo - Le Luxe (4,5)
6. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
7. Alien - Eternity (4,5)
8. Ben Granfelt Band - Handmade (4,5)
9. Winger - Better Days Comin' (4,5)
10. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4,5)
11. Kamchatka - The Search Goes On (4,5)
12. 21 Octayne - Into the Open (4,5)
13. Dynazty - Renatus (4,5)
14. 7 - Seven (4,5)

Liveplaten:
Eloy - Reincarnation on Stage (4,5)
Foreigner - An Acoustic Evening With (3,5)

EP's:
Tove Lo - Truth Serum (4,0)
H.E.A.T - A Shot at Redemption (3,5)

In de luister: Chicago, Dust Bolt, Space Eater, Robert Reed
Nog te verschijnen: Pendragon, Work of Art, Threshold

Tegenvallers:
Bright Light Bright Light - Life Is Easy (2,5)
Four Barrel - Dirty Swamp Music (2,5)
Gold Zebra - Gold Zebra (2,5)
Hard Riot - The Blackenend Heart (2,5)
Machinista - Xenoglossy (2,5)
The Radio Sun - Wrong Things Right (2,5)
Asia featuring John Payne - Recollections (2,0)


Mooiste nummers van 2014:
1. Sonic Station - Last Goodbye
2. Winger - Ever Wonder
3. 21 Octayne - Dear Friend
4. Wishbone Ash - Way Down South
5. Vanden Plas - Vision 10n * Inside *
6. Mø - Waste of Time
7. Tove Lo - Not on Drugs

1.James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
2.Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3.Swans - To Be Kind
4.Woods Of Desolation - As The Stars
5.Future - Honest
6.Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
7.The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
8.Gridlink - Longhena
9.Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
10.Indian - From All Purity

01. BEN FROST - A U R O R A
02. THE ANTLERS - FAMILIARS
03. FEDERICO ALBANESE - THE HOUSEBOAT AND THE MOON
04. SUN KIL MOON - BENJI
05. FENNESZ - BECS
06. THE WAR ON DRUGS - LOST IN A DREAM
07. MOODYMANN - MOODYMANN
08. AMEN DUNES - LOVE
09. WARPAINT - WARPAINT
10. EAUX - PLASTICS

Eervolle vermelding: THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA - FUCK OFF GET FREE WE POUR LIGHT ON EVERYTHING

1. (1) Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
2. (-) Fink - Hard Believer
3. (2) Lost In The Trees - Past Life
4. (-) Archive - Axiom
5. (-) DeWolff - Grand Southern Electric
6. (3) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
7. (4) The Black Keys - Turn Blue
8. (5) Temples - Sun Structures
9. (6) The Antlers - Familiars
10. (8) Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears

11. (-) Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
12. (-) Anathema - Distant Satellites
13. (9) The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
14. (-) Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
15. (10) Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
16. (11) Gazpacho - Demon
17. (-) Navarone - Vim And Vigor
18. (7) Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
19. (12) The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
20. (-) Strand Of Oakes - HEAL