Best Music So Far This Year

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We’re almost three months into the new year…so what have folks been listening to from 2014?
 
Just heard this; Tinariwen,drony groove from Mali
 

 
I wrote about Akkord on Splice Today; electronica for sun death.
 

 
Also really like Be Forest; Italian fey folk.
 

 
And the Domains; Spanish death metal the way death metal should be.
 

 
Hubba Bubba, where the Thee Oh Sees’ frontman does slowed-down cough-syrup doped electropop:
 

 
Katy B, empty-headed shallow British dance pop.
 

 
Here’s left field-R&B performer Kelela. I wasn’t that into her album from last year, but this track is pretty great.
 

 
There’s this EP by Zikomo which is really nice zoned-out trippy fractured easy-listening hip hop.
 

 
Free download available here
 
Marissa Nadler, folksy shoegaze in a Mazzy Star meets Civil Wars vein.
 

 
And finally Don Williams new album; just started listening to it but it’s pretty great. He’s definitely an artist who makes more sense the older he gets.
 

So what about you all? What should I be listening to from 2014?

12 thoughts on “Best Music So Far This Year”

  2. I really like the new David Crosby album. I’m a huge fan of The Byrds and of CSN, and, like a lot of people, I also love his first solo album, but this is the first new music I’ve heard from him in a long time that I enjoy as much of his classic music. And how can you go wrong with that cover photograph?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bak7wuJEQr8

    And in the last couple of weeks I’ve really been enjoying the Polish stoner band Weedpecker. They have a great rhythm section and I love the guitar sounds. This is one of my favorites from the album:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vPHe5mSCOY

    You can hear the whole album on their Bandcamp page and order it directly from them.

    And I think this actually came out last year, but I like the new Swervedriver song “Deep Wound,” and I think their new album comes out this year:

    http://www.swervedriver.com/

  4. The first three songs on their album are great. They remind me a little of Saint Vitus but with more proggy, psychedelic song structures. I like the acoustic touches on the album’s third track, too.

  11. Lydia Loveless’s new album has all the slightly punky country goodness of Indestructible Machine—an album that was a contender for the best of 2011. And how are you not dancing to Ibibio Sound Machine?

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