I listened to a staggering amount of music this year, and was again pleasantly reminded that so much truly \u00a0amazing stuff continues to be made\u2014or was already made and I got to experience it again or, in several cases, for the first time. It’s genuinely inspiring. That said, what’s with these knuckleheads waxing thoughtful about Taylor Swift? Taste is taste, I get that, but they can get bent.<\/p>\n
At any rate, the list that follows is in no particular order and consists of LPs, singles, and reissues that hit me in some way in 2014 and that I imagine might continue to do so down the road. The truly amazing part is, I’m probably forgetting stuff.<\/p>\n
Singles<\/strong> Reissues<\/strong> I listened to a staggering amount of music this year, and was again pleasantly reminded that so much truly \u00a0amazing stuff continues to be made\u2014or was already made and I got to experience it again or, in several cases, for the first time. It’s genuinely inspiring. That said, what’s with these knuckleheads waxing thoughtful about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-of-the-year"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAlbums
\n<\/strong>Nots, We Are Nots<\/i> (Goner)
\nReigning Sound, Shattered<\/i> (Merge)
\nGreg Ashley, \u00a0Another Generation of Slaves<\/i> (Trouble in Mind)
\nSweet Apple, The Golden Age of Glitter<\/i> (Tee Pee)
\nRun the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2<\/i> (Mass Appeal)
\nThe Above, Waterbury Street<\/i> (Teen Sound)
\nGino and the Goons, Shake It!<\/i> (Slovenly)
\nBudos Band, Burnt Offerings<\/i> (Daptone)
\nGolden Pelicans, Golden Pelicans<\/i> (Total Punk)
\nWatery Love, Decorative Feeding<\/i> (In the Red)
\nGotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting<\/i> (12XU)
\nBlind Shake, Breakfast of Failures<\/i> (Goner)
\nJohn Wesley Coleman III, The Love That You Own<\/i> (Burger)
\nApache Dropout, Heavy Window<\/i> (Magnetic South)
\nHarry Dean Stanton, Partly Fiction<\/i> (Omnivore)
\nEnergy Gown, Evening Molasses<\/i> (Alona’s Dream)
\nDegreaser, Rougher Squalor<\/i> (Ever\/Never)<\/p>\n
\nFa Bonx, \u201c49 Sticks\u201d (What’s Your Rupture?)
\nMartin Savage Gang, From Martin Savage Gang in Memphis<\/i> EP (Blahll!)
\nSick Thoughts, Hate You So<\/i> EP \u00a0(Zaxxon)
\nRoach Clip, Calmer in This Town<\/i> EP (Quemada)
\nQuitty and the Don’ts, \u201cRunning Out of Time\u201d (Hidden Volume)
\nBarreracudas, Promises, Promises<\/i> EP (Oops Baby)
\nDark Blue, \u201cJust Another Night With the Boys\u201d (Jade Tree)
\nNots, \u201cFix\u201d (Goner)
\nMichael Flower and Neil Campbell, Wharf Cat<\/i> EP (Golden Lab)
\nLiquid Diamonds, \u201cAw Maw\u201d (HoZac Archival)
\nCurtis Seals and Christian D’Orbit, split 7-inch (Windian)<\/p>\n
\nThe Flesh Eaters, A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die<\/i> (Superior Viaduct)
\nNgozzi Family, Day of Judgment<\/i> (Now Again)
\nJack Ruby, Hit and Run<\/i> (Saint Cecilia Knows)
\nSid Selvidge, The Cold of the Morning<\/i> (Omnivore)
\nBent Wind, Sussex<\/i> (Ugly Pop)
\nModey Lemon, House On the Hill<\/i> (Mind Cure)
\nReal Numbers, What Was and What Is<\/i> (Last laugh)
\nSlant 6, Soda Pop * Rip Off<\/i> (Dischord)
\nOwen Maercks, Teenage Sex Therapist<\/i> (Feeding Tube)
\nThe Staple Singers, Swing Low<\/i> (Mississippi)
\nBrothers and Sisters, Dylan’s Gospel<\/i> (LITA)
\nAnnette Peacock, I Belong to a World That’s Destroying Itself<\/i> (Ironic)
\nDead Moon, Unknown Passage<\/i> (M’Lady)
\nX, X-Spurts<\/i> and X-Aspirations<\/i> (Ugly Pop)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"