20. World´s End Girlfriend – Whims of A Spring Day「春日狂想」feat. BOOL ( Voices Of Days Past ) Poemcore is the name of the genre BOOL is trying to establish. I can´t say for sure what it is that distinguishes Poemcore for other spoken word enterprises, but if I had to pick, I´d say it must be the deep weaving of sound to create a texture beyond the words. On the tracks Whims of A Spring Day the words and sounds are heartbreakingly beautiful. World´s End Girlfriend contributes a quite conservative instrumental, keeping the electronic glitches on a low and letting the piano and strings take the lead. BOOL`s poem touches on keeping on living after a loved one has died. First, stating that there is no other way than killing oneself, he transgresses into the notion of having the urge to serve after this tragedy has befallen you. Feeling the springday, its little details and having a chance encounter with a random aquataince, BOOL resorts into telling that the way to go on must ...
20. Allan Kingdom – Fables ft. Chronixx ( Northern Lights ) This is Kingdom at his most introspective, while at the same time not compromising on the melodic and catchy quality of his songs. The atmospheric and almost ambient keys and altered vocals are contrasted with a menacing bass line and snappy snares for the full effect of delivering the same broken aggression the lyrics convey. I´m not a huge fan of religion and we see Kingdom recounting the smoke and mirrors of his own experience with Christian belief. Chronixx complements this with his reggae-infused deliverance, calling out the intrusion of Christianity and in right manner swearing allegiance to Selassie and the Rastafari movement. The fitting aural experience for realization and the overcoming of submission stressed by the stunning visuals. 19. Case/Lang/Veirs – Delirium ( Case/Lang/Veirs ) This collaboration by three artists I never listened to yielded great songs from top to bottom. “Delirium” is a dynamic...
50. Helena Hauff – Funeral Morality ( Discreet Desires ) This tune, while alluding to something dark wave and goth sounding, has a very playful vibe hidden at its industrial core. It´s something you might expect from the clocktower levels in a Castlevania game turned into a dancefloor track. The keys jingle between mechanical noise and spring with energy, never turning into something dark or morbid as the title might suggest. Dive in to one the best forward thinking dance tracks this year. 49. Christine & The Queens – Jonathan feat. Perfume Genius ( Christine & The Queens ) You want heartbreak? Get into Perfume Genius! You want to double the feeling? Listen to this collaboration with Christine & The Queen. I missed the French release of her great Chaleur Humaine and in retrospect it would have made the list of 2014 without question. There is a strange tenderness and power in both singers vocals performance. The song revolves around unre...
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