BEST ALBUMS OF 2014 (TOP 10)

I know it looks easy to make a best of album list but believe me it's not very easy. The problem is the albums I forgot. By the time I thought I sorted my favorite top 10 album, I realized I have 15 albums. Well, that's a problem. That's a first world problem that I have to deal with...

10 - Flying Lotus - You're Dead

10- St. Vincent - St. Vincent

 9-  Thurston  Moore - Best Days (tie)
       Sun Kill Moon- Benji (tie)

8 - Actress - Ghettoville

Ghettoville is electronic musician Darren Cunningham aka Actress's fourth album. This is definitely not a dance album,almost 70 minutes, there are only two songs that may make you wanna dance.Ghettoville has the darkness of ghettos,it's a cold album. You can feel the unfinished rain,it's like walking hours in the cold rain with wet clothes...It also reminds me the industrial music pioneers Einsturzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle. This album is a very good start for dark electronic music...

7- Neneh Cherry - Blank Project

A big beautiful surprise of the year came from Neneh Cherry. This is her first solo album after 18 years. Her last album was made in 1996 and called Man and it had a big called Woman... This album has very personal lyrics, and a very eclectic sound produced by electronic musician Four Tet...Watch the one of the best song's video from this album...Out of Black featuring Robyn...

6-  War On Drugs - Lost in Dreams

Third album by War on Drugs, Lost in Dreams brought them big success...It's the perfect American Rock music if there was such a thing...

5- Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers (tie)
    Swans - To be Kind (tie)

Andy Stott is to me one of the most important,exciting electronic musician of the last 5 years and Swans is for sure one of the best live act of the last 10 years... Two very strong albums in totally different sounds...

Andy Stott - Violence

Swans - A Little God In My Hands

4 - Dean Blunt - Black Metal

Dean Blunt is a weird musician and it looks like he is done with his band Hype Williams...His music is hard to describe.These are the perfect "unfinished psychedelic pop songs" if you only know what I mean...
Here one of my favorite video of the last year...

3- Aphex Twin - Syro

It's hard to write something about Richard James (aka Aphex Twin). His first album after 13 years(2001 Drukqs)... Just buy or download it.

2- Chet Faker - Built on Glass

An amazing debut from Australian musician Nicolas James Murphy (aka Chet Faker)... Fans of trip-hop, electronica did enjoy this album last year very well. If you haven't heard him, watch this live performance below...



1- Christian Löffler -Young Alaska(tie)   
    Panda Bear - Mr Noah (tie)

I have listened this two albums so many times since they've been released. In my opinion Christian Loffler's second album Young Alaska will be one of my favorite album for all times. It's a beautiful ambient album with almost unbelievable acoustic&earthy sound... And the wonderful thing about him, this is his only second album...

Even though it's just an EP, I had to choose Animal Collective's Panda Bear's(Noah Lennox) Mr. Noah the best release/album of the year. Only bad thing about Mr. Noah is, it has only 4 songs and only 17 short minutes...Modern rock music starts here...