Top Tracks 2014 Part VIII 39 - 30
39. Sun Kil Moon – Prayer
For Newtown (Benji)
What is Benji other than a man rambling about his life? It is the account of a songwriter taking the smallest fragments and occurrences of life and, as he himself puts it, finding poetry in them. Prayer For Newtown finds Kozelek addressing seemingly endless murder and reminding us to reflect in our daily doings about life lost in vain.
38. Logic – Gang Related (Under Pressure)
This year Logic had his shot at a debut effort and he put his all into it. Gang Related for its short length has him flowing impeccably and giving us a short story as vivid as a feature movie.
37. Woman´s Hour – In Stillness We Remain (Conversations)
Every song from Woman´s Hour could have made this position. But with In Stillness We Remain they show off such restraint and Fiona Burgess´ soft voice eases you like sedatives. This was the defining moment in this year’s dream pop.
36. How To Dress Well – Words I Don´t Remember (What Is This Heart?)
After developing on his style of r´n`b music, Tom Krell infused his writing with a more narrative quality. I guess Words I Don´t Remember functions well without the rest of the album, but put into sequence, it stands out as much as it fits the overall concept. Words I Don´t Remember resembles personal brokenness only achieved by exterior causes. It is the time you look at your own reflection and begin to unravel to the look in your own eyes.
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35. ceo – Mirage (Wonderland)
Pastel colored pop music. A fairytale that in all its joy doesn´t eschew a sense of illusion and darkness. Mirage is glistening piece with all the distant shouts and soundbites giving and emergent account of the wonderland ceo imagined.
34. Diane Cluck – Sara (Boneset)
Diance Cluck´s voice haunts me. Sara could qualify as an poetic eulogy, an elegy sung on the grave to obtain understanding of the matters of life and death through Cluck´s churning and sparse guitar chords.
33. Lykke Li – Silver Line (I Never Learn)
In I Never Learn Lykke Li cut herself loose from idiotic remixes and all together kept away from anything dance affiliated. This is the wishful and yearning side, less cheerful but with total conviction and great control over her howling voice.
32. La Dispute – The Child We Lost in 1963 (Rooms Of The House)
The art of building a story, giving insight to a small clipping of life is where La Dispute are unprecedented. The Child We Lost traces the questioning perception of a child in a family that had a stillborn. Jordan Dreyer lets you partake in the whole sentiment and codifies this with minute details. You become a ghostly visitor of the scene and he the narrator, forceful and sober to carry you through the experience.
31. Ratking – * (So It Goes)
This is the best opener to a record apart from my number one this year, and definitely the best debut intro. Every line just shouts "don´t fuck with Ratking" and Wiki and Hak in their own ways deliver their mission statement. Wiki´s sharp wording on the issue of acceptance concludes with rap music being "the raw, the god, the all" and Hak in his regga tone goes in a sense political and braggadocios without distinguishing meanings. A fine slap in your face.
30. Fatima Al Qadiri – Dragon Tatoo (Asiatisch)
For being understandable as a whole record build around irony and cliche, Fatima Al Qadiri´s Asiatisch has the ghostly sublime vibe Oneo brought with last year’s R Plus Seven. The cold beat, the orientalist notion and the altered vocal work stick to your ear and evoke a futuristic trash movie as much as a performance act at the MoMA.
What is Benji other than a man rambling about his life? It is the account of a songwriter taking the smallest fragments and occurrences of life and, as he himself puts it, finding poetry in them. Prayer For Newtown finds Kozelek addressing seemingly endless murder and reminding us to reflect in our daily doings about life lost in vain.
38. Logic – Gang Related (Under Pressure)
This year Logic had his shot at a debut effort and he put his all into it. Gang Related for its short length has him flowing impeccably and giving us a short story as vivid as a feature movie.
37. Woman´s Hour – In Stillness We Remain (Conversations)
Every song from Woman´s Hour could have made this position. But with In Stillness We Remain they show off such restraint and Fiona Burgess´ soft voice eases you like sedatives. This was the defining moment in this year’s dream pop.
36. How To Dress Well – Words I Don´t Remember (What Is This Heart?)
After developing on his style of r´n`b music, Tom Krell infused his writing with a more narrative quality. I guess Words I Don´t Remember functions well without the rest of the album, but put into sequence, it stands out as much as it fits the overall concept. Words I Don´t Remember resembles personal brokenness only achieved by exterior causes. It is the time you look at your own reflection and begin to unravel to the look in your own eyes.
How To Dress Well - Words I Don't Remember von domino
35. ceo – Mirage (Wonderland)
Pastel colored pop music. A fairytale that in all its joy doesn´t eschew a sense of illusion and darkness. Mirage is glistening piece with all the distant shouts and soundbites giving and emergent account of the wonderland ceo imagined.
34. Diane Cluck – Sara (Boneset)
Diance Cluck´s voice haunts me. Sara could qualify as an poetic eulogy, an elegy sung on the grave to obtain understanding of the matters of life and death through Cluck´s churning and sparse guitar chords.
33. Lykke Li – Silver Line (I Never Learn)
In I Never Learn Lykke Li cut herself loose from idiotic remixes and all together kept away from anything dance affiliated. This is the wishful and yearning side, less cheerful but with total conviction and great control over her howling voice.
32. La Dispute – The Child We Lost in 1963 (Rooms Of The House)
The art of building a story, giving insight to a small clipping of life is where La Dispute are unprecedented. The Child We Lost traces the questioning perception of a child in a family that had a stillborn. Jordan Dreyer lets you partake in the whole sentiment and codifies this with minute details. You become a ghostly visitor of the scene and he the narrator, forceful and sober to carry you through the experience.
31. Ratking – * (So It Goes)
This is the best opener to a record apart from my number one this year, and definitely the best debut intro. Every line just shouts "don´t fuck with Ratking" and Wiki and Hak in their own ways deliver their mission statement. Wiki´s sharp wording on the issue of acceptance concludes with rap music being "the raw, the god, the all" and Hak in his regga tone goes in a sense political and braggadocios without distinguishing meanings. A fine slap in your face.
30. Fatima Al Qadiri – Dragon Tatoo (Asiatisch)
For being understandable as a whole record build around irony and cliche, Fatima Al Qadiri´s Asiatisch has the ghostly sublime vibe Oneo brought with last year’s R Plus Seven. The cold beat, the orientalist notion and the altered vocal work stick to your ear and evoke a futuristic trash movie as much as a performance act at the MoMA.
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