Top 10 (+5) songs of 2014
This is a song by a very nice Brazilian instrumental band and it is a very good taste of what their fabulous album “Rasura” (Sinewave). I've already seen the band live once and really hope I can see them again to feel these new songs.
Jenny Lewis – Head Underwater
“The Voyager” (Warner Bros) was a wonderful gift to our ears, full of sincere lyrics and melodies we don't want to stop jamming to. In Head Underwater, Jenny sings “I put my head underwater, baby/ I held my breath until it passed” and it is impossible to count on the fingers how many ways most of us feel this way.
St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse
St. Vincent released an excellent album in the beginning of the year and this is the best kind of music to party to and to have fun during shows (hopefully I'll do next year!). It is no coincidence that both, disc and song have appeared in numerous lists of best of the year. It would be a sin if it hadn't. So, thank you very much, Annie!
This twelfth place could have belonged to any of the previous songs, it is just the enthusiasm that Funny by Black Lips the reason to give them this step ahead. It is always a test of autocontrol when I'm listening to this song in public because I seriously want to scream “COME SUCK SOME MILK FROM MY TITTIES” and... yeah... I can't. Still love when songs have this effect on people, though.
Owen Pallett – I’m Not Afraid
Owen and his violin are like a one machine working in perfect harmony, having as a final product the honesty of his songs and all the feelings that they contain. In I’m Not Afraid, there's a part on not having children that is so comforting, still full of one king of sadness I can't escape from.
Tobias Jesso Jr – Just A Dream
This song is not an official release of the year, it is just a demo. But I simply couldn't ignore it. Tobias is just a guy like me and you and everyone else who have been through tons of bad things -- sometimes all at once. However, he had the sensibility of sitting at a piano to start composing and singing. Lucky us, he decided to share it with the world.
Honestly, we couldn't feel very confident about Interpol since their 2010 album and the departure of bassist Carlos Dengler. Four years passed and they released "El Pintor" (Matador) proving that they are very well, thank you. There is only one song I don't like very much in the album, and choosing one song was tough work, but here you have it, Anywhere wins.
Mr. White is a genius and we all know it, there are no news left to tell. The album's title track is just as fabulous as the whole thing, the entire experience: for the ears and for the eyes too (why not? the ultra LP is just brilliant). As days pass by only increases the certainty that I'd love to live in this man's brain.
What I love the most in this song from "Manipulator" (Drag City) is the fact that it's mostly guided by its instruments -- acutally that's the main strength of Ty Segall's work. There are amost no lyrics and so many climaxes that you're really dragged by it and is barely impossible to deviate your attention from what you're listening to.
The Growlers – Chinese Fountain
The band that gave us one of the greatests albums from last year couldn't do different this year. Again I picked a title track to the list because this describes so well nowadays immediatism “Everybody’s sick and tired of waiting/ Couldn’t get any harder to be patient”, also this part “The internet is bigger than Jesus and John Lennon/ And nobody wants to know where we’re headed”. Los Growlers are on point, in all possible meanings.
Death From Above 1979 – Virgins
"My ears are bleeding. Still not loud enough." I couldn't describe it better than this youtube comment (thanks, MrMcBobb). This works for the entire "The Physical World” (Last Gang), what a fab comeback to DFA. “Don't ever change/ Bad is good enough” is sung during the chorus and these lines echo inside an empty space of my brain day and night. “There's nothin' sacred to me/ I lost it in the back seat” and, well... DFA, come to Brazil.
Foward walk clicking fingers. Foward walk clicking fingers. Foward walk cliking fi... Yes, I'm narrating the music video to this song that is absolutely fantastic. Of course the song is equally good. And I'm pretty sure Peace will be hugely known one day, because they do deserve. That's my bet.
KO means knockout and that's not a coincidence. In her first try with a solo work, the majestic KO released the beautiful "Crush Songs" (Cult). The album is a gemstone and Body translates well the cuteness and the explosive power cointained in its essence.
Dum Dum Girls – Lost Boys And Girls Club
"Too True" (Sub Pop) was one of the first new things I listened to this year and it was immediate love. The album is like a radio station playing 80's songs late at night, exactly like the ones I'd listen to before sleep when I was I child. And the lyrics “There's no particular place we are going/ Still we are going” has been my motto now. I'm definitely in this club.
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz – Human Sadness
No other song could have the first place but Human Sadness from “Tyranny” (Cult), which is also my album of the year. When I first listened to this song I couldn't stop thinking "this man is crazy, these men are crazy, they are driving me crazy" and just couldn't stop repeating its 11 minutes either. In 1hr we can only listen to this song 5 times and we do not feel tired of it, there is no unnecessary parts in it. Probably, maybe, we need to be in the same (or at least similar) level of mental weirdness to these guys to like these songs this much. These are the most consistent information you'll find in this paragraph, if there are any.
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