Current Music (Changed from Music of 2014)

Not been too much into music this year.

As it's December, anyone have a top 10 list of their favourite albums?

Only thing I've really listened to is:


The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream (2014) (Full Album)
The War on Drugs.

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
John Butler Trio - Flesh and Blood
Wolfmother - New Crown
Manchester Orchestra - Hope
Damien Albarn - Everyday Robots
Slash ft Myles Kennedy - World on Fire
Alt-J - This is all yours
TV on the Radio - Seeds
The Coronas - The Long Way

OH!

And obviously the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix 1 is top of that list of must listen to this year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUEVrjSxS4

This has to be the worst year of music in history. Top 100 charts are pure piss.

Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were

It wasn't a great year in terms of music.
For both international and Italian music I listened mainly music releases of the singers or groups that are part of my favorites.
The only album I really appreciated is "Museica" of Caparezza, an Italian rapper (very strange and particular, but absolutely brilliant).
Rightly, you don't know who he is 

The only album I really appreciated is "Museica" of Caparezza, an Italian rapper (very strange and particular, but absolutely brilliant).
Rightly, you don't know who he is 

We do now:

Caparezza - Museica (Full album, 2014)

First track was fu**ed up but beyond that it's not bad, would probably be much better if I could understand it! Clearly influenced by earlier Slim Shady stuff even if he doesn't admit it himself (instead citing Frank Zappa!)
Tracks like Mica Van Gogh incorporate a rap-metal cross-over in a stytle similar to Ice-T (Bodycount).

Caparezza Museica Mica van Gogh

Can't help thinking he's tried to cover too many styles in one, sprawling album and it would have been better condensed into 10 solid tracks (it has 19).

Can't help thinking he's tried to cover too many styles in one, sprawling album and it would have been better condensed into 10 solid tracks (it has 19).

He's not a real rapper, but it's difficult to categorize him in only one genre.
It's a concept album about art. In all these songs he speaks about art and artists. Almost every song is associated with a painting. Mica Van Gogh is a parallelism between the madness of the Flemish painter and the emptiness of many children of today.
The lyrics are his greatest strength IMHO, often irreverent and effective, but never dull.
Museica is not his best album: unlike previous works some songs are a bit weak compared to his standard.

Funny to me how he pronounces Van Gogh, but I guess most can't properly pronounce it.

On the topic of this thread, I haven't heard alot of music I liked this year. I quite liked The War on Drugs album too racer, the song Red Eyes was one of my favourite tunes of the year. Aphex Twins' new album Syro is pretty good. Run the Jewels 2 is a pretty good hiphop album. But one of my favourite albums of the year has been Protomartyr's Under Colour of Official Right. It's a bit gloomy, but I like it.

Protomartyr - Under Colour of Official Right full album

Another one I'm really enjoying isn't technically new music, as it's a remastered  compilation album. Sun Ra & His Arkestra - In The Orbit Of Ra. Great jazz from about 1950-1970.

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Plutonian Nights (Original Tape Master)

So obvious I almost forgot to mention them.



Royal Blood.
Royal Blood - Figure It Out [Official Video]



Late entry for single of the year?
Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars

Editors - Sugar

I'm probably one of the only people who wanted to hear
what this would sound like.
Editors vs Björk - Army of Sugar (b***ard Batucada Caldo de cana Mashup)

Never heard that Editors song before racer, but Army of Me was definitely the first thing on my mind too when that song starts!

Something I also really enjoyed this year musically was Bink Beats' Beats Unraveled series. He's a Dutch musician, who's basically a one man band, and covers songs live with the use of looping. Very talented guy.

Beats Unraveled #2 by BINKBEATS: Getting There by Flying Lotus

Beats Unraveled #11 by BINKBEATS: Default by Atoms for Peace

He's a freaking genius!

So obvious I almost forgot to mention them.



Royal Blood.
Royal Blood - Figure It Out [Official Video]



Late entry for single of the year?
Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars

Forgot about Royal Blood as well.

Good call.

Liked the new Coldplay album and the new U2 isn't bad, but overall I just end up going back to Pearl Jam. Hard to improve on perfection.

Liked the new Coldplay album and the new U2 isn't bad, but overall I just end up going back to Pearl Jam. Hard to improve on perfection.

Lightning Bolt was 2013.
Great album though.

If you just mean back to PJ in general then yes, I agree.

Lightning Bolt was 2013.
Great album though.

If you just mean back to PJ in general then yes, I agree.

Yes in general, although I did have to check to see when Lightning Bolt was released. You are right though...there's not been much in 2014 although admittedly I don't check out a lot of new stuff anymore.

Didn't Soundgarden release an album this year?

Yes in general, although I did have to check to see when Lightning Bolt was released. You are right though...there's not been much in 2014 although admittedly I don't check out a lot of new stuff anymore.

Didn't Soundgarden release an album this year?

They have, but I haven't bought anything this year.

They have, but I haven't bought anything this year.

I think the only music I've bought this year from iTunes is Roxette and Megan Trainor....cause you know I listen to my heart and I'm all about that bass

I think the only music I've bought this year from iTunes is Roxette and Megan Trainor....cause you know I listen to my heart and I'm all about that bass

Oh god.
I've been moving backwards this year.
More Queen, Genesis, and Huey Lewis and The News.

Oh god.
I've been moving backwards this year.
More Queen, Genesis, and Huey Lewis and The News.

I've been trying to figure out a few Boston tunes on guitar. Love that band, outstanding vocals and great guitarwork. Better than Rush IMO.

Didn't Soundgarden release an album this year?

King Animal was 2012. I know, time flies! They've just had a new release last month but it was a rarities collection, not a proper album release.

Fu Manchu release Gigantoid in 2014. That's not bad but nowhere near their best.

James Bay - Hold Back The River

There is only two ways going on heroin.. You either die or become a genius. Probably the best LP of 2014, after 15 years wait, D´Angelo, the king of soul/rnb/funk whatever, is back. Enjoy the moment

D’Angelo’s long-awaited Black Messiah is devastatingly great

What’s remarkable about Black Messiah, other than the fact that it actually exists, is how fresh D’Angelo sounds when slotted next to modern R&B artists. It’s the same trick The Roots pull off with every new album—sounding inherently classic yet completely of the present. There’s a thematic and sonic awareness to Black Messiah—credited to D’Angelo And The Vanguard—that makes it so much more than a long-delayed comeback album from an artist widely declared a genius some 15 years ago. It’s somehow the past, present, and future all in one.

The album most obviously akin to Black Messiah on a musical level is Sly And The Family Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On; both are narcotic, weary, funky, and seductive. But there are also shades of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On and Sign O’ The Times-era Prince, not to mention a heavy dose of Funkadelic and Stevie Wonder. The plethora of influences, instruments, and effects are revelatory; every arrangement feels like a living, breathing organism that can mutate and grow. On the politically charged “1000 Deaths,” it comes in the form of a shift from a blend of chunky, atmospheric riffs to a full-on, Eddie Hazel-inspired guitar freakout. It’s also present on “Sugah Daddy,” where a looping piano line and off-kilter handclaps occasionally recede into the background, making way for D’Angelo’s layered harmonies and panning studio effects.

For a record that obviously took a long time to produce, Black Messiah is surprisingly loose. Classical guitars weave around a wandering bass on the ballad “Really Love,” the inclusion of horns and strings never making the song feel crowded. The beauty of this record is in the balance: between the political and the personal, certainly, but also between tightly constructed harmonies and melodies, and the more free-flowing sense of rhythm. For instance, “The Charade” features one of the more ethereal arrangements on the record, with D’Angelo’s voice tweaked and layered to a surprising degree. It’s confounding, but then the lyrics poke through and suddenly there’s an urgency to the track, something to anchor it: “All we wanted was a chance to talk / ’stead we only got outlined in chalk / Feet have bled a million miles we’ve walked / Revealing at the end of the day, the charade.” Then there’s “Back To The Future (Part I),” a slinky funk jam that finds D’Angelo longing for the way things were. The singer is obtuse though, never really identifying what he wishes hadn’t changed. Himself? R&B? A romantic relationship? Black Messiah benefits from being so cryptic, managing to sound poignant, relaxed, and seductive at the same time.

Don’t mistake relaxed for complacent, though. Black Messiah doesn’t sound like anything else this year, or maybe even the last decade. It’s an album that pays homage to the history of black music, from blues, funk, and soul through to hip-hop and modern R&B while remaining in touch with current socio-economic and political struggles. Maybe that’s because those modern struggles aren’t so different from the ones in the past. Black Messiah confirms that music holds the power to challenge and comfort, to take us someplace spiritual, political, and existential. It’s beautifully, devastatingly human.

http://www.avclub.com/review/dangelo-long-awaited-black-messiah-devastatingly-g-213052

I really liked The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream. Some really wonderful, 80s influenced pop there. Brother bought Lykke Li's album a few weeks back which I listened to recently and that was excellent. Loved U2's new album Songs of Innocence as well (of which Lykke Li featured as well). Think the last three songs on that album are stunning and amongst the best work they've done in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91lw-hfafdw

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDondcmvKE8

Not sure how I missed this song earlier this year but it instantly got stuck in my head.

Hero - Family of the Year

Not sure how I missed this song earlier this year but it instantly got stuck in my head.

Hero - Family of the Year

British India - Wrong Direction Not my favourite song from them, but this is their best 2014 release.

DMAs - Delete

DMAs - So We Know

The former is their biggest song I believe, but the latter is the one that got me onto these guys, I think they're a really promising indie rock style band.

Kingswood - I can feel that you don't love me

Kingswood - Microwars

Kingswood - Sucker Punch

Saw these guys live recently and they're pretty awesome. Sucker Punch has some kick to it.

Ball Park Music - She Only Loves Me When I'm There

This is just a super catchy song.

So yeh this is the best of what I feel Australia had to offer for 2014.

Just edited the title to keep the thread current.

Was never a huge Beck fan but I absolutely love his latest album Morning Phase.

Proper artist glad he won the Grammy for best album.

Kingswood - Sucker Punch

This is brilliant.

It's Queens of the Foo's Garden

Might not be everyones cup of tea but the duel albums of Cope and Hope by Manchester Orchestra is a piece of musical genius in my eyes.

One album, "Cope", is a "unrelenting and unapologetically heavy 38 minutes of rock." the other takes the same tracks and the other "Hope" is a stripped down acoustic version which is done beautifully. Both albums are on Youtube I would recommend them both very very highly.

Below is the song "Trees" from both albums and will give you a flavour of the reworking the band are able to do so effortlessly. They are completely different albums and at the same time the same. I can't get enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wIpAg88jmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMtn8ja-M0Q

 

Hope everyone can get by and not be tooooooooo distraught with this shocking news


https://twitter.com/originalfm/status/890934474707533825

Hope everyone can get by and not be tooooooooo distraught with this shocking news


https://twitter.com/originalfm/status/890934474707533825

Bowie, Prince...now this??

New song by The Beat on steve lamacq!sounds ok on first listen better than The Specials new song currently going round....what year is this!

Anyone hear The Mysterines on 6music now,Wirral band some vocals from this girl!

Dermot Kennedy:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KNNVgR6LBIABRIomyCwKJ?si=EMtuFAMcQHmVB2Q6HKWJIA

Hour of The Specials live from The 100 Club,https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00028jb.Went there a few times back in the day.

Just heard the band Courting on 6 music,not to bad a song on first hearing,from Liverpool anyone?

Anybody got anything new,might be worth a listen to with so much time on our ears,no dance sh*t!