1. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume Three (4,5)
2. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron (4,5)
3. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (4,5)
4. Young Money: Rise of an Empire (4,0)
5. Vince Staples - Shyne Coldchain II (4,0)
6. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (4,0)
7. Young Fathers - DEAD (4,0)
8. Kid Cudi - Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon (4,0)
9. Pharrell - G I R L (3,5)
10. YG - My Krazy Life (3,5)

Foutje!

1. (-) Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
2 .(-) Gruppo di Pawlowski - Neutral Village Massacre
3. (-) Liars - Mess
4. (-) Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love
5. (1) Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
6. (2) Koen Holtkamp - Motion: Connected Works
7. (3) Kangding Ray - Solens Arc
8. (4) St. Vincent - St. Vincent
9. (-) Hallo Venray - Show
10. (-) The Men - Tomorrow's Hits

Eerste 10 albums van 2014 beluisterd, de top10:

1. Temples - Sun Structures 4*
2. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
3. Dum Dum Girls - Too True
4. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
5. Cheatahs - Cheatahs
6. The New Mendicants - Into the Lime
7. Tensnake - Glow 3,5*
8. Eagulls - Eagulls
9. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream 3*
10. Drowners - Drowners

Een maandje verder en alweer flink wat wijzigingen:

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. Edanticonf - The Boundary of Nowhere Land
4. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
5. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
6. Visonia et Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen
7. Alcest - Shelter
8. Yagya / DeepChord - Will I Dream During the Process? (DeepChord Redesigns)
9. Bvdub - I'll Only Break Your Heart
10. Vermont - Vermont

Eindelijk voldoende geluisterd voor een eerste top 10:

1. Young Fathers - Dead 4,5*
2. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow 4*
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Moodymann - Moodymann
5. Zara McFarlane - If You Knew Her
6. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
7. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
8. ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron 3,5*
9. Tensnake - Glow
10. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project

01 Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon
02 The Alvaret Ensemble - Skeylja
03 Yagya / DeepChord - Will I Dream During the Process? (DeepChord Redesigns)
04 Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volume 4
05 Otto A Totland - Pinô
06 Deadbeat and Paul St. Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions
07 Moodymann - Moodymann
08 Bvdub - I'll Only Break Your Heart
09 Ben Frost - A U R O R A
10 Mike Dehnert - Lichtbedingt

Reguliere studio albums
1. Sven Hammond Soul - The Usual Suspects 4.5*
2. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
3. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything 4*
4. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
5. Moodymann - Moodymann
6. Blaudzun - Promises of No Mans Land

Heruitgaves / Verzamel albums
1. Div - The Complete Fame Singles Volume 1 1964-67 4.5*
2. Div- Kent's Cellar of Soul Vulome 3
3. Div - Hall of Fame Volume3
4. Div - One in a Million (The Songs of Sam Dees) 4*

Het stelt nog niet veel voor na ruim 3 maanden, maar er staat hier nog het een en ander in bestelling en er zit gelukkig de komende maanden behoorlijk wat interesante releases aan te komen van o.a.
Ray Lamontagne
Jose James
Coldplay
Lee Fields
Wovenhand
Triggerfinger
Damon Albarn
Atmosphere
The Black Keys
en op het Kent / Ace label staan nog redelijk wat Soul en Funk verzamelaars in de planning.

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (4,5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
4. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
5. Ron Keel - Metal Cowboy (3,5)
6. Supercharger - Broken Hearts and Fallaparts (3,5)
7. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (3,5)
8. Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings (3,5)

Nog niet echt veel, maar ik verwacht nog platen van: Saga, Uriah Heep, Pendragon, IQ en Ian Anderson.

1. (1) Warpaint – Warpaint
2. (2) Young Fathers - DEAD
3. (3) Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
4. ( -) Have a Nice Life- The unnatural World
5. (4) Sun Kil Moon – Benji
6. ( - ) RATKING – So it Goes
7. ( - ) SOHN - Tremors
8. (5) Step Brothers - Lord Steppington
9. (6) Marijuana Deathsquads - Oh My Sexy Lord
10. (7) Lo-Fang - Blue Film

Beste wat er al is uitgekomen is wel deze EP

Until The Ribbon Breaks – The Other Ones

Een voorlopige 'poging'

1. Temples - Sun Structures
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Blaudzun - Promises of No Man's Land
4. Warpaint - Warpaint
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
7. Chet Faker - Built on Glass
8. Bells of Youth - BOY
9. Moss - We Both Know the Rest is Noise
10. Lost in the Trees - Past Life

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (4,5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
4. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4)
5. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
6. Ron Keel - Metal Cowboy (3,5)
7. Supercharger - Broken Hearts and Fallaparts (3,5)
8. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (3,5)
9. Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings (3,5)

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
4. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4)
5. Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks (4)
6. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
7. Ron Keel - Metal Cowboy (3,5)
8. Supercharger - Broken Hearts and Fallaparts (3,5)
9. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (3,5)
10. Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings (3,5)

Dat is sowieso al een top-10. Nu maar aanzien, welke eruit gaan en welke erin.

Negen 4,0*'en, genoeg voor een voorlopige balans:

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
2. Vermont - Vermont
3. Tinariwen - Emmaar
4. Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon
5. Young Fathers - DEAD
6. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
7. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
8. CYNE - All My Angles Are Right
9. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume Three
10. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project

Wel een lekker gevarieerd rijtje op zich. 2014 gaat al prima, als je 't mij vraagt.

Lijst was aan een update toe:

1. Thou - Heathen
2. Slomatics - Estron
3. Conan - Blood Eagle
4. Com Truise - Wave 1
5. Backtrack - Lost In Life
6. Sunn O))) - LA Reh 2012
7. Earth Crisis - Salvation of Innocents
8. The Body - I Shall Die Here
9. Comeback Kid - Die Knowing
10. Throwdown - Intolerance

1. (==) Gabby Young & Other Animals – One Foot in Front of the Other
2. (01) The Hidden Cameras – Age
3. (02) Alcest – Shelter
4. (03) Blaudzun – Promises of No Man’s Land
5. (05) Gazpacho – Demon
6. (04) The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
7. (06) Lost in the Trees – Past Life
8. (07) Wild Beasts – Present Tense
9. (==) Douglas Dare - Whelm
10. (08) Beck – Morning Phase

11. (09) John Harle and Marc Almond – The Tyburn Tree
12. (==) Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
13. (18) Moss – We Both Know the Rest Is Noise
14. (10) William Fitzsimmons – Lions
15. (11) The Jezabels – The Brink
16. (12) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Give the People What They Want
17. (13) Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything
18. (14) Joan As Police Woman – The Classic
19. (15) Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
20. (==) Pixies – Indie Cindy

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
4. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
5. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
6. Matthew and the Atlas - Other Rivers
7. Thomas Azier - Hylas
8. Temples - Sun Structures
9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
10. Lost in the Trees - Past Life

Damon Albarn en The Antlers liggen nog te wachten op een eerste luisterbeurt, ik ben benieuwd..

Tussenstand: april

1. Gridlink - Longhena
2. Alcest - Shelter
3. Nothing - Guilty of Everything
4. Morbus Chron - Sweven
5. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
6. Thou - Heathen
7. Behemoth - The Satanist
8. Murmur - Murmur
9. Hark - Crystalline
10. Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion

Na 4 maand deze tussenstand:

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
3. The Antlers - Familiars
4. Sivert Hoyem - Endless Love
5. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
6. Light Heat - Light Heat
7. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
8. Woods - With Light & With Love
9. School is Cool - Nature Fear
10. Hallo Venray - Show

Eerst:

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
4. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4)
5. Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks (4)
6. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
7. Ron Keel - Metal Cowboy (3,5)
8. Supercharger - Broken Hearts and Fallaparts (3,5)
9. Neneh Cherry - Blank Project (3,5)
10. Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings (3,5)

Nu:

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
4. Alien - Eternity (4,5)
5. IQ - The Road of Bones (4,5)
6. Ben Granfelt Band - Handmade (4,5)
7. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4)
8. Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks (4)
9. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
10. H.E.A.T - Tearing Down the Walls (4)
11. Quantum Fantay - Terragaia (4)

Neneh Cherry (3,5), Ron Keel (3,5), Supercharger (3,5) en Vandenberg's Moonkings (3,5) eruit.

Andere 3,5*:
Kings & Dreams - Kings & Dreams
Mighty Oaks - Howl
Morten Harket - Brother
SunStrike - Rock Your World

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

En de flopkes:

1.The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Days Of Abandon
2.The Antlers - Familiars
3.Rick Ross - Mastermind
4.Real Estate - Atlas
5.Katy B - Little Red

Mijn eerste top 10 van 2014. Echte uitschieters zijn er nog niet geweest, geen enkel album scoort boven de 4*.

1. Valentin Stip - Sigh
2. Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
3. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
4. Habib Koité - Soô
5. Alcest - Shelter
6. Illum Sphere - Ghosts of Then and Now
7. Young Fathers - DEAD
8. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
9. Thomas Azier - Hylas
10. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams

1. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
2. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
3. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
4. Warpaint - Warpaint
5. Band of Skulls - Himalayan
6. Motorpsycho - Behind the Sun
7. Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes
8.traumahelikopter - I Don't Understand Them at All
9. Joan as Policewoman - The Classic
10. We Are Scientists - TV en Francais

1. (-) La Dispute - Rooms of the House
2. (1) Woods of Desolation - As the Stars
3. (2) Nothing - Guilty of Everything
4. (3) Alcest - Shelter
5. (-) Morning Glory - War Psalms
6. (-) Behemoth - The Satanist
7. (4) Kampfar - Djevelmakt
8. (-) Lantlôs - Melting Sun
9. (5) Alaskan - Despair, Erosion, Loss
10. (-) Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child

Tijd voor een eerste lijstje hier:

1. The Hidden Cameras - Age
2. Future Islands - Singles
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
5. Intergalactic Lovers - Little Heavy Burdens
6. Alcest - Shelter
7. Meg Myers - Make a Shadow
8. Amatorski - From Clay to Figures
9. Warpaint - Warpaint
10. SOHN - Tremors

Update:

1. (1) Wild Beasts - Present Tense
2. (6) St. Vincent - St. Vincent
3. (7) Real Estate - Atlas
4. (2) Beck - Morning Phase
5. (-) The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
6. (-) Temples – Sun Structures
7. (-) Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
8. (4) Sun Kil Moon - Benji
9. (3) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want
10. (8) Broken Bells - After The Disco

1. (1) Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
2. (2) Lost In The Trees - Past Life
3. (3) Temples - Sun Structures
4. (4) Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
5. (5) Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
6. (-) The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
7. (-) Gazpacho - Demon
8. (6) The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
9. (-) Manchester Orchestra - Cope
10. (-) Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams

11. (7) Sun Kil Moon - Benji
12. (8) Reptile Youth - Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone
13. (9) Sivert Høyem - Endless Love
14. (10) Barzin - To Live Alone In That Long Summer
15. (11) The Hidden Cameras - Age
16. (12) Spain - Sargent Place
17. (13) Blaudzun - Promises Of No Man's Land
18. (14) Moss - We Both Know The Rest Is Noise
19. (15) Dotan - 7 Layers
20. (16) Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow

1. Alcest - Shelter
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Gridlink - Longhena
4. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. La Dispute - Rooms of the House
7. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
8. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
10. Indian - From All Purity

Update, want alweer helemaal anders.

1. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (-)
2. Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon (4)
3. Atmosphere - Southsiders (-)
4. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (1)
5. Vermont - Vermont (2)
6. Moodymann - Moodymann (-)
7. Tinariwen - Emmaar (3)
8. Young Fathers - DEAD (5)
9. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want (7)
10. CYNE - All My Angles Are Right (8)

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Top 7 nummers:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Meet your creator
Doss - The Way I Feel
Slava - Position
Music For Your Plants -– Play
YEN TECH –- T.R.O.U.B.L.E
Holly Herndon – -Chorus
sZa –- Childs Play (Feat. Chance The Rapper)

1. Animals as Leaders - The Joy of Motion
2. Gazpacho - Demon
3. Alcest - Shelter
4. Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
5. Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
6. IQ - Road of Bones
7. Colin Edwin/Lorenzo Feliciati - Twinscapes
8. Glass Hammer - Ode to Echo
9. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
10. Mogwai - Rave Tapes