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Saturday, January 3, 2015

The Best of 2014 - LPs



Time for the best LPs of 2014!  Top 20 countdown towards the latter part of the show.  Enjoy!

listings are as follows: band name - song name "album name" 
s/t stands for "self-titled"

12:00pm
kishi bashi - the ballad of mr. steak "lighght"
habibi - i got the moves "s/t"
carsick cars - everybody comes to the city now, everybody wants to be free but don't know how "3"

temples - shelter song "sun structures"
the new pornographers - brill bruisers "brill bruisers"
the proper ornaments - gone "wooden head"
12:20pm
korallreven - death is not for us "Second Comin'"
eternal summers - gouge "the drop beneath"
the new mendicants - cruel annette "into the lime"
papercuts - life among the savages "life among the savages"
the raveonettes - sisters "Pe'ahi"
flowers - hide and seek "Do What You Want To, It's What You Should Do"
12:40pm
tennis - timothy "Ritual In Repeat"
dum dum girls - too good to be true "Too True"
blondfire - where the kids are "young heart"
wild balbina - stay alive "Sisters Before Misters "
blackbird blackbird - love unlimited "tangerine sky"
avi buffalo - so what "at best cuckold"
1:00pm
allo darlin' - bright eyes "We Come From the Same Place"
hearsays - when i'm wrong "in our time"
real estate - talking backwards "atlas"
secret colours - quite like you "positive distractions"
army navy - the mistakes "the wilderness inside"
generationals - black lemon "alix"
1:20pm
zebras - try "siesta"
silva - maré "ocean view"
the hobbes fanclub – stay gold "up at lagrange"
sunny intervals - counting the days back to you "step into spring"
The Luxembourg Signal – distant drive "s/t"
1:40pm
The Smittens – Love Record Breaker "Love Record Breaker"
Literature – the English soft hearts "Chorus"
Simian Ghost – cut-off point "the Veil"
Top 20 LPs of 2014:
20. Yelle - florence en italie "Complètement fou"
19. Pale Lights – boy of your dreams "Before There Were Pictures"
18. Tacocat - stereogram "NVM"
2:00pm
17. Tape Waves - I can tell "Let You Go"
16. The Hi-Life Companion - meet me at the pier "our years in the wilderness"
15. Space Daze - line up on the solstice "Follow My Light Back Home"
14. Homecomings – i want you back "somehow, somewhere"
13. Watoo Watoo - le soir "Une Si Longue Attente"
12. Alvvays - next of kin "S/T"
2:20pm
11. The Pirouettes - oublie moi "L'Importance Des Autres"
10. Soft Science – blue "Detour"
9. King of Prussia - actuary "Zonian Girls… And the Echoes That Surround Us All"
8. Bilinda butchers - heaven holds a place "Heaven"
7. The Primitives – dandelion seed "Spin-O-Rama"
6. Juvenile juvenile – just like you do "our great escape"
2:40pm
5. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – masokissed "Days of Abandon"
4. The fin. – the end of the island "days with uncertainty"
3. The Yearning - dreamboat "Dreamboats & Lemonade"
2. Tv girl – birds don't sing "French Exit"
1. Alpaca Sports – just like Johnny Marr "Sealed With A Kiss"
Alpaca Sports – she'll come back for Indian summer (Band À Part remix) "Bellas Mixtape"
3:00pm bonus tracks
ryoko moriyama - ame agari no samba "Nippon girls: japanese pop, beat & bossa nova"
bmx bandits - my girl midge
the school - when i fall in love
the rentals - 1000 seasons

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