EOY 2014 The Quietus (UK)

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ONE: Gazelle Twin - Unflesh (Anti Ghost Moon Ray)
TWO: Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)
THREE: Swans - To Be Kind (Mute)
FOUR: East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (Stolen)
FIVE: The Bug - Angels & Devils (Big Dada)
SIX: Grumbling Fur - Preternaturals (TQPC)
SEVEN: Katie Gately - Pipes (Blue Tapes)
EIGHT: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Sony)
NINE: Perc - The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)
TEN: Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voice (SusannaSonata)
ELEVEN: FKA twigs - LP1 (Young Turks)
TWELVE: Zamilska - Untune (self-released)
THIRTEEN: Innercity Ensemble - Black/White (Instant Classic)
FOURTEEN: Cooly G - Wait ‘Til Night (Hyperdub)
FIFTEEN: Blacknecks - 006 (self-released)
SIXTEEN: English Heretic - The Underworld Service (self-released)
SEVENTEEN: Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Piñata (Madlib Invasion)
EIGHTEEN: OAKE - Auferstehung (Downwards)
NINETEEN: Grouper - Ruins (Kranky)
TWENTY: Kemper Norton - Loor (Front And Follow)
TWENTY ONE: Maurice Louca - Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Nawa)
TWENTY TWO: Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers (Modern Love)
TWENTY THREE: EEK ft. Islam Chipsy - Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute (Nashazphone)
TWENTY FOUR: Jane Weaver - Silver Globe (Bird)
TWENTY FIVE: Daniel Patrick Quinn - Acting The Rubber Pig (self-released)
TWENTY SIX: The Body - I Shall Die Here (RVNG Intl.)
TWENTY SEVEN: Chrononautz - Public Domain Fuckover Series #1-6 (self-released)
TWENTY EIGHT: Pharmakon - Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)
TWENTY NINE: Tweedy - Sukierae (dBpm Records)
THIRTY: Objekt - Flatland (PAN)
THIRTY ONE: Jar Moff - Financial Glam (PAN)
THIRTY TWO: Willie The Kid & Bronze Nazareth - The Living Daylights (Embassy)
THIRTY THREE: Lorenzo Senni - Superimpositions (Boomkat)
THIRTY FOUR: Electric Wizard - Time To Die (Spinefarm)
THIRTY FIVE: Klara Lewis - ETT (Editions Mego)
THIRTY SIX: Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19 (Workshop)
THIRTY SEVEN: Extreme Precautions - Precaution One (In Paradisum)
THIRTY EIGHT: Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
THIRTY NINE: Arabrot - I Modi (Fysisk Format)
FORTY: Einsturzende Neubauten - Lament (BMG)
FORTY ONE: The Inward Circles - Nimrod (self-released)
FORTY TWO: Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Piano Nights (Ipecac)
FORTY THREE: Future Islands - Singles (4AD)
FORTY FOUR: Consumer Electronics - Estuary English (Dirter)
FORTY FIVE: BONG - Stoner Rock (Ritual)
FORTY SIX: Nisennenmondai - N (BLAST First (petite))
FORTY SEVEN: Wild Beasts - Present Tense (Domino)
FORTY EIGHT: Olga Bell - Krai (One Little Indian)
FORTY NINE: Cut Hands - Festival Of The Dead (Blackest Ever Black)
FIFTY: Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts, Red Classroom (Bella Union)
FIFTY ONE: Actress - Ghettoville (Werkdiscs)
FIFTY TWO: YOB - Clearing The Path To Ascend (Neurot)
FIFTY THREE: Owen Pallett - In Conflict (Domino)
FIFTY FOUR: Puce Mary - Persona (Posh Isolation)
FIFTY FIVE: DonChristian - Renzo Piano (Camp & Street)
FIFTY SIX: Ibibio Sound Machine - Ibibio Sound Machine (Soundway)
FIFTY SEVEN: Lee Gamble - KOCH (PAN)
FIFTY EIGHT: Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm - The Death Of Rave (A Partial Flashback) (History Always Favours The Winners)
FIFTY NINE: Laibach - Spectre (Mute)
SIXTY: Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch And Go)
SIXTY ONE: Heterotic - Weird Drift (Planet Mu)
SIXTY TWO: Liars - Mess (Mute)
SIXTY THREE: Stein Urheim - Stein Urheim (Hubro)
SIXTY FOUR: Ekoplekz - Unfidelity (Planet Mu)
SIXTY FIVE: St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
SIXTY SIX: Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials (Southern Lord)
SIXTY SEVEN: Russell Haswell - 37 Minute Workout (DIAGONAL)
SIXTY EIGHT: Noura Mint Seymali - Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
SIXTY NINE: Stephen O'Malley, Oren Ambarchi & Randall Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos (Drag City)
SEVENTY: Apollo Brown - Blasphemy (Mello Music Group)
SEVENTY ONE: The Budos Band - Burnt Offering (Daptone)
SEVENTY TWO: Anat Ben David - MeleCh (self-released)
SEVENTY THREE: Yvette - Process (Godmode)
SEVENTY FOUR: milo - a toothpaste suburb (Hellfyre Club)
SEVENTY FIVE: Merkabah - Moloch (Instant Classic)
SEVENTY SIX: Wrangler - LA Spark (Memetune)
SEVENTY SEVEN: Ronika - Selectadisc (Record Shop)
SEVENTY EIGHT: Bing & Ruth - Tomorrow Was The Golden Age (Happy Talk)
SEVENTY NINE: Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect)
EIGHTY: DJ Q - Ineffable (Local Action)
EIGHTY ONE: The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do The Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
EIGHTY TWO: Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait (Def Jam Recordings)
EIGHTY THREE: Tinariwen - Emmar (ANTI-)
EIGHTY FOUR: The Juan Maclean - In A Dream (DFA)
EIGHTY FIVE: Aphex Twin - Syro (WARP)
EIGHTY SIX: Toumani & Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki Diabate (World Circuit)
EIGHTY SEVEN: Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies - Earth Air Spirit Fire Water (Van)
EIGHTY EIGHT: Behemoth - The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
EIGHTY NINE: Wrekmeister Harmonies - Then It Came Down (Thrill Jockey)
NINETY: Fumaca Preta - Fumaca Preta (Soundway)
NINETY ONE: Scott Miller, Lee Camfield & Merzbow - No Closure (Cold Spring)
NINETY TWO: Black Rain - Dark Pool (Blackest Ever Black)
NINETY THREE: Anthroprophh - Outside The Circle (Rocket)
NINETY FOUR: Adult Jazz - Gist Is (Spare Thought)
NINETY FIVE: Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)
NINETY SIX: Obake - Mutations (Rare Noise)
NINETY SEVEN: Clark - Clark (WARP)
NINETY EIGHT: Joseph Curwen - Shunned House (City)
NINETY NINE: Echoes Of Yul - Tether (Zoharum)
ONE HUNDRED: Good Throb - Fuck Off (self-released)

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Songs
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Within that top 13


13. Meridian Dan feat. Big H & JME - 'German Whip'
(PMR Records)


12. Future Islands - 'Seasons (Waiting On You)', from Singles
(4AD)


11. Nicki Minaj - 'Lookin Ass', from Young Money: Rise Of An Empire
(Universal/Island)


10. FKA twigs - 'Two Weeks', from LP1
(Young Turks)


9. Paula Temple - 'Deathvox', from Deathvox EP
(R&S)


8. Powell - 'Club Music' (Ancient Methods Korpersaure91 remix), from Club Music Remixes EP
(Diagonal)


7. Karen Gwyer - 'Lay Claim To My Grub', from New Roof EP
(No Pain In Pop)


6. Furfriend - 'Endless September', from Endless September EP
(Perc Trax)


5. Katie Gately - 'Pivot', from split EP with Tlaotlon
(FatCat Records)


4. The Fat White Family - 'I Am Mark E Smith'
(Without Consent)


3. Richard Dawson - 'The Vile Stuff', from Nothing Important
(Weird World)


2. Blacknecks - 'To The Cosmos, Let's Go!', from 004 EP
(Blacknecks)


1. Holly Herndon - 'Chorus', from Chorus 12"
(RVNG Intl.)



...and the rest of our favourite tracks of the year, unranked but undimmed


First Track

Second Who Picked It


Ansome - 'Tin', from 'Tin/Cold Harbour' 12"
(South London Analogue Material)

Picked by Sophie Coletta


Autonervous - 'Enfant Terrible' (M.W. Cut), from 'Rat Life 2' 12"
(Uncanny Valley)

Picked by Sophie Coletta


Black Bananas - 'Physical Emotions', from Electric Brick Wall
(Drag City)

Picked by Kevin Mccaighy


Black Bananas - 'Physical Emotions' (Liars remix)

Picked by Nick Hutchings


Black Josh feat. MC Jon - 'Student Parties', from #blahblahblackjosh LP
(Blah Records)

Picked by Ringo P Stacey


Bledig - 'A Bad Day For Lupus', from Bad Day For Lupus

Picked by Wyndham Wallace


Mary J. Blige - 'Pick Me Up', from The London Sessions
(Capitol Records)

Picked by Ryan Alexander Diduck


The Bozzini Quartet - 'The Indistinguishables', recorded live at Huddersfield Town Hall, November 25 2014

Picked by Luke Turner


Tim Bowness - 'Smiler At 50', from Abandoned Dancehall Dreams
(Inside Out Music)

Picked by Chris Roberts


Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures - 'Orange Juice'

Picked by Hazel Sheffield


Bronze Teeth - 'Albion Pressure', from 'A Waif's Rent' 12"
(Diagonal)

Picked by Joe Clay


Ane Brun - 'Hunting High & Low'

Picked by Wyndham Wallace


The Bug vs Earth - 'Boa', from 'Boa/Cold' 12" (Ninja Tune)

Picked by Tristan Bath


BullyBones - 'I Feel Sorry For You'

Picked by Ged Babey


Tim Burgess - 'Oh Men' (Carter Tutti remix), from Oh Man Remixes EP
(O Genesis)

Picked by Laurie Tuffrey


Call Super - 'Acephale II', from 'Depicta/Acephale II' 12"
(Houndstooth)

Picked by Rory Gibb


Camera - 'Salamantra', from Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia 12"
(Liverpool Psych Fest)

Picked by Julian Marszalek


Caribou - 'Can't Do Without You', from 'Can't Do Without You' 12"
(Jiaolong)

Picked by Hazel Sheffield


Carter Tutti - 'October Love Song' (remix), from Carter Tutti ‎Remix Chris & Cosey
(Conspiracy International)

Picked by Luke Turner


Cavern Of Anti-Matter - 'Cluster of Rainbow', from Total Availability And The Private Future 7"
(Peripheral Conserve)

Picked by Colm McAuliffe


Austin Ceasar - 'Slink', from There's A Crack In Everything
(Proibito)

Picked by Ed Gillett


The Charlatans - 'Talking In Tones'
(The Quietus Phonographic Corporation)

Picked by Lisa Jenkins


Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - 'Rather Be', from New Eyes
(Atlantic)

Picked by Charlie Frame


Cleaners From Venus - 'The Band Plays Delilah', from Return to Bohemia
(Bandcamp)

Picked by Aug Stone


Cut Hands - 'The Claw', from Festival Of The Dead
(Blackest Ever Black)

Picked by Harry Sword


Cyclobe - 'Son Of Sons Of Light', from The Visitors
(Phantomcode)

Picked by Russell Cuzner


Desperate Journalist - 'Control', from Desperate Journalist
(Fierce Panda)

Picked by John Doran


DJ Taye - 'Teklife Run It', from What You Think EP

Picked by Laura Snoad


East India Youth - 'HEAVEN, HOW LONG', from TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER
(Stolen Recordings)

Picked by Lisa Jenkins


East India Youth - 'HINTERLAND', from 'HINTERLAND' 12"
(Stolen Recordings)

Picked by Luke Turner


Electric Wizard - 'SadioWitch', from Time To Die
(Spinefarm Records/Witchfinder Records)



Faith No More - 'Motherfucker'
(Reclamation! Recordings/Ipecac Recordings)

Picked by Matt Evans


Richard Fearless - 'Higher Electronic States', from 'Higher Electronic States' 12"
(Drone)

Picked by Joe Clay


FKA twigs - 'Pendulum', from LP1
(Young Turks)

Picked by Karl Smith


Forteresse - 'Wendigo', from Forteresse/Chasse-Galerie/Monarque/Csejthe's split 7" Légendes
(Sepulchral Productions)

Picked by Mat Colegate


Fufanu - 'Circus Life'

Picked by Zoë Howe


Gallon Drunk - 'The Speed of Fear' (Live in Honfleur)

Picked by Julian Marszalek


Gantz feat. El Mahdy Jr. - 'Rising', from 'Spry Sinister' 12"
(Deep Medi Musik)


Gazelle Twin - 'Anti Body', from Unflesh
(Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records)

Picked by John Doran


The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger - 'Too Deep', from Midnight Sun
(Chimera Music)

Picked by Ryan Alexander Diduck


Grouper - Lighthouse', from Ruins
(Kranky)

Picked by Peter Bebergal


Grumbling Fur - 'All The Rays', from Preternaturals
(tQPC)

Picked by John Doran


Grumbling Fur - 'Lowlands In Astral Furmentation'

Picked by Luke Turner


Gwenno - 'Patriarcheth', from Y Dydd Olaf
(Peski)

Picked by Aug Stone


Helena Hauff - 'Spirals Of Smoke Drifting From Soot Stained Chimneys', from Return To Disorder EP

Picked by Sophie Coletta


Helm - 'The Hollow Organ', from 'The Hollow Organ' 12"
(PAN)

Picked by Daniel Barrow


Jon Hopkins - 'Open Eye Signal (Asleep Version)', from Asleep Versions EP
(Domino)

Picked by Kiran Acharya


Howlround - 'Torridon Gate', from Night/Dawn/Day/Dusk Edition CD-R
(A Year In The Country)

Picked by Colm McAuliffe


Huoratron - 'The Pioneers Of Nothing', from Acid Reign EP
(Last Gang Records)

Picked by Jeremy Allen


Kira Isabella - 'Quarterback', from Caffeine & Big Dreams
(Sony Music Canada)

Picked by Alex Macpherson


The Juan Maclean - 'Get Down (With My Love)', from 'Get Down (With My Love)' 12" (DFA)

Picked by Jack Pudwell


Kassem Mosse - 'Untitled A2', from Workshop 19
(Workshop)

Picked by Laurie Tuffrey


Kelis - 'Rumble', from Food
(Ninja Tune)

Picked by Amy Pettifer


Kiesza - 'Hideaway', from Sound Of A Woman
(Lokal Legend/Island Records/4th & Broadway)

Picked by Ian Wade


Killing Sound - 'Six Harmonies', from 'Killing Sound' 12"
(Blackest Ever Black)

Picked by Sophie Coletta


Kendrick Lamar - 'i'
(Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)

Picked by Paul Smith


Tory Lanez - 'Henny In Hand', from Lost Cause mixtape

Picked by Laura Snoad


Cate Le Bon - 'I Can't Help You', single taken from Mug Museum
(Turnstile)


Jenny Lewis - 'Just One Of The Guys', from The Voyager LP
(Warner Bros. Records)

Picked by Amy Pettifer


Rob Mazurek and Black Cube SP - 'Return The Tides', from Return The Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost
(Cuneiform Records)

Picked by Paul Tucker


Metro Boomin feat. Future & Young Thug - 'Chanel Vintage'
(Propane Media/We Global)

Picked by Gary Suarez


Mila J - 'Smoke, Drink, Break Up', from M.I.L.A. EP
(Motown Records)

Picked by Alex Macpherson


Hudson Mohawke - 'Chimes', from Chimes EP
(Warp Records)

Picked by Ian Crichton


Mumdance feat. Novelist - 'Take Time', from 'Take Time' 12"
(Rinse)

Picked by Rory Gibb


Nao feat. A.K. Paul - 'So Good', from So Good EP
(Little Tokyo Recordings)

Picked by Tom Hughes


Nightingales - 'Dumb And Drummer', from For Fuck's Sake
(self-released)

Picked by Ged Babey


Nurse With Wound - 'Perfectly Unmingled And Misplaced', from Bar Maldoror reissue
(United Jnana)

Picked by Russell Cuzner


O.T. Genasis - 'CoCo'
(Atlantic/The Conglomerate Entertainment)

Picked by Gary Suarez


Tara Jane O'Neil - 'This Morning Glory', from Where Shine New Lights
(Kranky)

Picked by Mat Colegate


Conor Oberst - 'Common Knowledge', from Upside Down Mountain
(Nonesuch)

Picked by James Skinner


Objekt - 'Ganzfeld', from 'Hypnagogia' 12"
(Leisure System)

Picked by Sophie Coletta


Okmalumkoolkat - 'Allblackblackkat', from Holy Oxygen I EP
(Affine Records)

Picked by Laurie Tuffrey


Pianos Become The Teeth - 'Lesions', from Keep You
(Epitaph)

Picked by Karl Smith


Popcaan - 'System', from Where We Come From
(Mixpak Records)

Picked by Charlie Frame


Powell - 'So We Went Electric', from Club Music EP
(Diagonal)

Picked by Rory Gibb


Powell feat. Russell Haswell - 'Maniac', from Club Music EP
(Diagonal)

Picked by David McKenna


Prostitutes - 'Late To Take It Light', from Nouveauree EP
(Night School)

Picked by Sophie Coletta


QT - 'Hey QT'
(XL Recordings)

Picked by Emily Bick


The Radio Dept. - 'Death to Fascism'
(Labrador Records)

Picked by Ian Crichton


Real Lies - 'Dab Housing', from 'North Circular/Dab Housing' 12"
(Marathon Artists)

Picked by Tom Hughes


Lana Del Rey - 'Shades Of Cool', from Ultraviolence
(Polydor/Interscope Records)

Picked by Chris Roberts


Rich Gang feat. Yung Thugga & Rich Homie Quan - 'Lifestyle'
(Cash Money Records)

Picked by Kyle Ellison


Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - 'Uptown Funk'
(Sony Music Entertainment UK )

Picked by Jack Pudwell


Sandman & Riverside feat. Jeremy Ellis - 'Into Your Story (Kai Alce Distinctive Vocal Mix)', from 'Into Your Story (Kai Alce DISTINCTIVE Remix)' 12"
(Fast Forward)

Picked by Paul Smith


Noura Mint Seymali - 'Tzenni', from Tzenni
(Glitterbeat)

Picked by Stewart Smith


Shabazz Palaces - '#Cake', from Lese Majesty
(Sub Pop)

Picked by Peter Bebergal


Skepta & JME - 'That's Not Me'
(Boy Better Know)

Picked by Ringo P Stacey


Slum Of Legs - 'Begin To Dissolve'
(Tuff Enuff)

Picked by John Doran


Smoke Fairies - 'Eclipse Them All', from Smoke Fairies
(Full Time Hobby)

Picked by Joe Banks


St Vincent - 'Digital Witness', from St Vincent
(Loma Vista/Caroline International Ltd.)

Picked by Jeremy Allen


Andy Stott - 'Science And Industry', from Faith In Strangers
(Modern Love)

Picked by Rich Hughes


Swans - 'A Little God In My Hands', from To Be Kind
(Mute/Young God Records)

Picked by Chad Parkhill


Swans - 'Oxygen', from To Be Kind
(Mute/Young God Records)


Picked by Paul Tucker

Taman Shud - 'The Ziggurat, A Mirage', from The Fat White Family split 10"
(Trashmouth Records)

Picked by Joe Banks


Thalia Zedek Band - 'Fell So Hard', from Six EP
(Thrill Jockey)

Picked by Nick Hutchings


Tirzah - 'Style', from No Romance EP
(Greco-Roman)

Picked by David McKenna


tUnE-yArDs - 'Water Fountain', from Nikki Nack
(4AD)

Picked by Chad Parkhill


Tweedy - 'Love Like A Wire' (Live at WFUV)

Picked by Laurie Tuffrey


Tweedy - 'Please Don't Let Me Be So Understood', from Sukierae
(dBpm Records/Anti-)

Picked by Rich Hughes


Vessel - 'Red Sex', from Punish, Honey
(Tri Angle)

Picked by Luke Turner


Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - 'Brando', from Soused
(4AD)

Picked by Harry Sword


Jane Weaver - 'Don’t Take My Soul', from The Silver Globe
(Finders Keepers Records/Bird Records)

Picked by John Doran


Zammuto - 'IO', from Anchor
(Temporary Residence Limited)

Picked by Nick Reed