The Best of 2014
I know it's well into 2015, but I forgot to send this out there. Enjoy, if it's your thing!
This is the first year I didn't burn any physical CDs, so I've arranged them into four categories but haven't ordered them beyond that.
OUTSIDE
- Deep Blue, Arcade Fire
- Agape, Bear's Den
- At Home, Crystal Fighters
- Keep Your Head Up, Cults
- Bohemian Like You, The Dandy Warhols
- We Used to Be Friends, The Dandy Warhols
- Cool Kids, Echosmith
- The Take Off and Landing of Everything, Elbow
- Hero, Family of the Year
- Emmylou, First Aid Kit
- Closed Hand, Full of Friends, Foy Vance
- Hemiplegia, HAERTS
- Operator (That's Not the Way It Is), Jim Croce
- I Smile, Kirk Franklin
- West Coast, Lana Del Ray
- Circles, Mammals
- I Spy, Mikhael Paskalev
- Say You'll Be There, MO
- King of Diamonds, Motopony
- Right Time, Nikki Lane
- Green, Green Rocky Road, Oscar Isaac
- Fall in Love, Phantogram
- Brand New, Pharrell with Justin Timberlake
- Song for Zula, Phosphorescent
- Talking Backwards, Real Estate
- Beach, San Cisco
- Chaghaybou, Tinariwen
- Cler Achel, Tinariwen
- Riptide, Vance Joy
- Red Eyes, The War on Drugs
- The Ceiling, The Wild Feathers
INSIDE
- Today I Sing the Blues, Aretha Franklin
- New York, The Boxer Rebellion
- Magic, Coldplay
- Girl Like You, David Gray
- Union, Deptford Goth
- Tracking Aeroplanes, The Echelon Effect
- I See Fire, Ed Sheeran
- While You Were Sleeping, Elvis Perkins
- Ash Wednesday, Elvis Perkins
- Thinkin Bout You, Frank Ocean
- Braid, Gem Club
- Second Chances, Gregory Alan Isakov
- Repeat Pleasure, How to Dress Well
- Like Real People Do, Hozier
- Gold, Interference
- Say You Love Me, Jessie Ware
- Then Came the Morning, he Lone Bellow
- Gunshot, Lykke Li
- Fare Thee Well, Oscar Isaac and Marcus Mumford
- Iron Sky, Paolo Nutini
- I'm Not the Only One, Sam Smith
- Build Me Up From Bones, Sarah Jarosz
- Polaroids, Shawn Colvin
- Coffee, Sylvan Esso
- Nothing Arrived, Villagers
- You and Me, You+Me
UPSTAIRS
- Le soleil est près de moi, Air
- Tessellate, Alt-J
- Last Summer, David Gray
- The Truth, Handsome Boy Modeling School with Roisin and J-Live
- Take Me to Church, Hozier
- No Rest for the Wicked, Lykke Li
- Pull Me Down, Mikky Ekko
- It Must Be Done, Pete Townshend with Nathan Barr
- Bill Murray, Phantogram
- Smug, POLICA
- Lay Down int he Tall Grass, Timber Timbre
- Prosthetic Love, Typhoon
DOWNSTAIRS
- Fitzpleasure, Alt-J
- Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High, Arctic Monkeys
- If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out, Cat Stevens
- Boom Clap, Charli XCX
- Over Your Shoulder, Chromeo
- Play the Fool, Chromeo
- If You Didn't See Me (Then You Weren't On the Dancefloor), Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jr.
- Love is All I Got, Feed Me with Crystal Fighters
- Come Up Man, G. Love and Special Sauce
- At the River, Groove Armada
- Are You Listening, Kopecky Family Band
- Paris, Little Dragon
- Gunshot, Lykke Li
- White Lies, Max Frost
- Love Never Felt So Good, Michael Jackson
- Never Wanna Know, MO
- Waste of Time, MO
- Hurricane, MS MR
- La La La, Naughty Boy with Sam Smith
- Who Needs You, he Orwells
- High, Peking Duk with Nicole Millar
- Lessons, SOHN
- I'm a Man, The Spencer Davis Group
- Shake It Off, Taylor Swift
- So Good at Being in Trouble, Unknown Mortal Orchestra