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. 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)

Nu:

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Midnight Romeo - Le Luxe (4,5)
4. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
5. Alien - Eternity (4,5)
6. IQ - The Road of Bones (4,5)
7. Ben Granfelt Band - Handmade (4,5)
8. Winger - Better Days Comin' (4,5)
9. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4,5)
10. Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks (4)
11. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
12. H.E.A.T - Tearing Down the Walls (4)
13. Quantum Fantay - Terragaia (4)
14. Harvey Mason - Chamelion (4)

3,5* :
Incognito - Amplified Soul
John Wesley - Disconnect
Kings & Dreams - Kings & Dreams
Kodiak Jack - Alhambra
Mighty Oaks - Howl
Morten Harket - Brother
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Ron Keel - Metal Cowboy
Sébastien Tellier - L’Aventura
SunStrike - Rock Your World
Supercharger - Broken Hearts and Fallaparts
Three Lions - Three Lions
Vandenberg's Moonkings - Vandenberg's Moonkings

Ik doe het maar even zo, er zijn zoveel 5*, 4,5* en 4* platen dit jaar, dat ik de 3,5* maar negeer.
Nieuwkomer: Kamchatka - The Search Goes On.

1. Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon (5)
2. Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals Part One: Netherworld (4,5)
3. Midnight Romeo - Le Luxe (4,5)
4. Magnum - Escape from the Shadow Garden (4,5)
5. Alien - Eternity (4,5)
6. IQ - The Road of Bones (4,5)
7. Ben Granfelt Band - Handmade (4,5)
8. Winger - Better Days Comin' (4,5)
9. Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus (4,5)
10. Kamchatka - The Search Goes On (4,5)
11. Mike Oldfield - Man on the Rocks (4)
12. Berggren Kerslake Band - The Sun Has Gone Hazy (4)
13. H.E.A.T - Tearing Down the Walls (4)
14. Quantum Fantay - Terragaia (4)
15. Harvey Mason - Chamelion (4)

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

11. (10) Beck – Morning Phase
12. (20) Pixies – Indie Cindy
13. (-) Tori Amos – Unrepentant Geraldines
14. (11) John Harle and Marc Almond – The Tyburn Tree
15. (13) Moss – We Both Know the Rest Is Noise
16. (-) Echo and the Bunnymen - Meteorites
17. (14) William Fitzsimmons – Lions
18. (15) The Jezabels – The Brink
19. (16) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Give the People What They Want
20. (17) Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything

1. (1) The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. (2) Beck - Morning Phase
3. (--) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4. (4) Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
5. (--) Michael Jackson - Xscape
6. (3) Wild Beasts - Present Tense
7. (--) Atmosphere - Southsiders
8. (5) Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
9. (6) Matthew and the Atlas - Other Rivers
10 (7). Thomas Azier - Hylas

1. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow 4*
2. Warpaint - Warpaint
3. Until the Ribbon Breaks - The Other Ones
4. Intergalactic Lovers - Little Heavy Burdens
5. Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun
6. Broods - Broods
7. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else 3,5*
8. Alcest - Shelter
9. The Antlers - Familiars
10. Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes

Ik heb al veel aardige albums gehoord, maar nog geen enkele topper. Ach, 2014 is nog jong.

1. Gazpacho - Demon
2. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Elbow - The Take of...
4. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
5. Noah Gundersen - Ledges
6. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
7. Tryptikon - Melana Chasmata
8. IQ - The Road of Bones
9. Beck - Morning Phase
10. Alcest - Shelter

Ik kom nog niet verder als een top 5....

1. Beck - Morning Phase 4,5*
The Black Keys - Turn Blue 4,5*
3. The War on Drugs - Lost in The Dream 4*
4. Blaudzun - Promises of No Man's Land 3,5*
5. Alcest - Shelter 3*

Het eerste voorlopige lijstje van het jaar. The Antlers gaat ongetwijfeld hoog eindigen in de eindlijst, wat een album is dat zeg.

1. The Antlers - Familiars (4.5*)
2. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (4*)
3. Beck - Morning Phase
4. Lost In The Trees - Past Life
5. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
6. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams (3.5*)
7. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
8. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
9. Damien Jurado - Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
10. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
11. Moss - We Both Know The Rest Is Noise
12. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
13. Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes (3*)
14. Warpaint - Warpaint
15. Real Estate - Atlas

Vind het jaar vooralsnog niet heel fantastisch. De nieuwe van The Roots moet nog even bezinken, maar hier alvast een top 5. Southsiders is wel echt een parel en staat op 4,5*. De rest staat op 4*.

1. Atmosphere - Southsiders (2014)
2. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (2014)
3. Grieves - Winter & the Wolves (2014)
4. Rico & A.R.T - Irie (2014)
5. Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything (2014)

(Maar er komt nog een nieuwe van Sage Francis! En een nieuwe Sadistik! En naar het schijnt werk van Kendrick Lamar en Frank Ocean! Het komt dit jaar nog wel goed!)

Tussenstand: mei

1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Gridlink - Longhena
3. Alcest - Shelter
4. Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
5. Morbus Chron - Sweven
6. Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
7. Thou - Heathen
8. Lantlôs - Melting Sun
9. Behemoth - The Satanist
10. Hark - Crystalline

Eerste poging:

1. Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom
2. Liars - Mess
3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
4. White Suns - Totem
5. Warpaint - Warpaint
6. The Cosmic Dead - EasterFaust
7. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
8. Amen Dunes - Love
9. The Notwist - Close to the Glass
10. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything

1. Atmosphere - Southsiders
2. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume Three
3. The Hidden Cameras - Age
4. Lost in the Trees - Past Life
5. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
6. Michael Jackson - Xscape
7. Otto A Totland - Pinô
8. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
9. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
10. Rina Mushonga - The Wild, The Wilderness

1. (1) Nothing - Guilty Of Everything
2. (2) Lost In The Trees - Past Life
3. (-) Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
4. (-) The Black Keys - Turn Blue
5. (3) Temples - Sun Structures
6. (-) The Antlers - Familiars
7. (4) Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
8. (5) Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
9. (-) The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
10. (-) Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant

11. (-) Gazpacho - Demon
12. (8) The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
13. (-) Hallo Venray - Show
14. (-) Manchester Orchestra - Cope
15. (-) Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
16. (11) Sun Kil Moon - Benji
17. (-) Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
18. (12) Reptile Youth - Rivers That Run For A Sea That Is Gone
19. (13) Sivert Høyem - Endless Love
20. (14) Barzin - To Live Alone In That Long Summer

begint een aardig jaar te worden

01 The War On Drugs
02 Temples
03 Damon Albarn
04 Quilt
05 Damien Jurado
06 Morgan Delt
07 Mac Demarco
08 Ought
09 Parquet Courts
10 Swans

1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2 Blaudzun - Promises of No Man's Land
3 Triggerfinger - By Absence of the Sun
4 Coldplay - Ghost Stories
5 Alcest - Shelter
6 Eagulls - Eagulls
7 Dum Dum Girls - Too True
8 Pink Mountaintops - Get Back
9 Nothing - Guilty of Everything
10 The Florist - Dark Entries
11 Mode Moderne - Occult Delight
12 Kid Canaveral - Now That You Are a Dancer
13 Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
14 Coves - Soft Friday
15 Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate

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.Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials
15.Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
16.Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
17.Kid Cudi - Satellite Flight: The Return To The Moon
18.Oneohtrix Point Never - Commissions I
19.BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
20.Thou - Heathen
21.The Notwist - Close To The Glass
22.Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
23.bvdub - I'll Only Break Your Heart
24.Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
25.Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

Update:

1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. Bane - Don't Wait Up
3. Thou - Heathen
4. Slomatics - Estron
5. Eyehategod - Eyehategod
6. Conan - Blood Eagle
7. Com Truise - Wave 1
8. More Than Life - What's Left of Me
9. Hell & Mizmor split
10. Thou & The Body - Released From Love

Ohja, daar staan ook nog een aantal platen in die ik niet moet vergeten

Zeker die nieuwe Bane. Wat een plaat!

1. Anathema - Distant Satellites 4*
2. Embrace - Embrace 3,5*
3. Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun 3,5*
4. Katatonia - Kocytean 3,5*
5. Nothing - Guilty of Everyting 3,5

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

IQ eruit want die is toch minder gebleken dan gedacht.
Nieuwe platen in de luister: Uriah Heep en binnenkort Saga en Pendragon.

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 *

Meer volgt.

1. Beck - Morning Phase
2. Warpaint - Warpaint
3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
4. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
5. James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
6. The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream
7. Atmosphere - Southsiders
8. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
9. Damien Jurado - Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son
10. Wild Beasts - Present Tense

1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Donato Dozzy - Terzo Giorno
3. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
4. Edanticonf - The Boundary of Nowhere Land
5. MØ - No Mythologies to Follow
6. Thomas Azier – Hylas
7. Visonia et Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen
8. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
9. Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas III
10. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

Noujah, dan komt de nieuwe Yagya er volgende maand wel in
(om nog maar te zwijgen van de nieuwe Deepchord)

1. (1) Warpaint – Warpaint
2. ( -) The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin
3. ( -) Atmosphere - Southsiders
4. (2) Young Fathers - DEAD
5. (3) Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
6. (4) Have a Nice Life- The unnatural World
7. (5) Sun Kil Moon – Benji
8. (6) RATKING – So it Goes
9. (7) SOHN - Tremors
10. (8) Step Brothers - Lord Steppington

Net tot het besef gekomen dat ik altijd nog maar 15 albums beluisterd heb van dit jaar. Waarvan 6 keer 4,5 sterren en 4 keer 4 sterren, dus ik kies ze wel redelijk goed uit.

Maandje verder, updatetje extra:

1. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots ( 1 / - )
2. Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon ( 2 / 4 )
3. José James - While You Were Sleeping ( - / - )
4. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata ( 4 / 1 )
5. The Roots - ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin ( - / - )
6. Moodymann - Moodymann ( 6 / - )
7. Vermont - Vermont ( 5 / 2 )
8. Atmosphere - Southsiders ( 3 / - )
9. Tinariwen - Emmaar ( 7 / 3 )
10. Young Fathers - DEAD ( 8 / 5 )

Met twee 4,5*'en en dertien 4,0*'en is 2014 nu al een prima jaar.

1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
2. The Flashbulb - Nothing Is Real
3. Swans - To Be Kind
4. Ben Frost - Aurora
5. House of Cosy Cushions - Spell

6. Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom
7. Hands - The Soul Is Quick
8. The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There
9. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
10. Ø - Konstellaatio
11. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
12. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
13. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume Three
14. Sun Kill Moon - Benji
15. Federico Albanese -The Houseboat and the Moon
16. Liars - Mess
17. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
18. Her Name is Calla - Navigator
19. Hauscka - Abandoned City
20. Thomas Azier - Gylas

Het jaar van Donato Dozzy.

1. Voices From the Lake - Velo di Maya
2. Tinariwen - Emmaar
3. Donato Dozzy - Terzo Giorno
4. Yagya - Sleepygirls
5. Indian - From All Purity

Na 3 maanden nog eens tijd voor een update:

(--) 1. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else 4,5*
(--) 2. School is Cool - Nature Fear
(--) 3. Playlounge - Pilot
(--) 4. Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
(1) 5. Skaters - Manhattan
(2) 6. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
(--) 7. Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
(--) 8. Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House 4,0*
(--) 9. Sun Kil Moon - Benji
(--) 10. The Men - Tomorrow's Hits

(--) 11. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
(3) 12. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
(--) 13. The Horrors - Luminous
(--) 14. Ought - More Than Any Other Day
(--) 15. Eagulls - Eagulls
(4) 16. I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro
(5) 17. Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
(6) 18. Alcest - Shelter
(--) 19. Amatorski - From Clay to Figures
(--) 20. Wild Beasts - Present Tense

Someday World (Brian Eno en Karl Hyde) vliegt erin, jawel jawel.

1. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
2. The Flashbulb - Nothing Is Real
3. Swans - To Be Kind
4. Ben Frost - Aurora
5. House of Cosy Cushions - Spell

6. Eno • Hyde - Someday World
7. Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom
8. Hands - The Soul Is Quick
9. The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There
10. Francis Harris - Minutes of Sleep
11. Ø - Konstellaatio
12. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
13. Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
14. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume Three
15. Sun Kill Moon - Benji
16. Federico Albanese -The Houseboat and the Moon
17. Liars - Mess
18. Todd Terje - It's Album Time
19. Her Name is Calla - Navigator
20. Thomas Azier - Gylas