Kenickie
Bluelight Crew
Alright BLers throw 'em up throw 'em up. Believe me when I say I struggled mightily to come up with an even 10. I couldn't figure anything out after 9 and just picked one out of the remaining three albums from 2014 in my iTunes library. Maybe y'all will have better luck.
1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2.
Hands down the best album of the year for me. It came along at such a weird, frightening political time in this country, and this goofy, furious, sexy, vicious album was the best thing that came my way this year. full album. fav tracks: early, love again, close your eyes and count to fuck.
2. Future Islands - Singles
Weirdest album of the year. His voice is somewhere between Morrissey and death metal growls. I know people who hate this album or love it. It's a non stop winner as far as I'm concerned. full album. fav tracks: seasons, doves, a dream of you and me.
3. Azaelia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
We don't call it seapunk anymore. witch gaze? rap craft? whatever it's called this album grew on me like a tumor. Initially thought it was terribly boring and too foreign, I am way more into the subtlety and bizarreness of it now, and that I can divorce it from NYC a little bit. full album. fav tracks: heavy metal and reflective, bbd, idle delilah, yung rupunzel
4. Wye Oak - Shriek
Eerie, uncomfortable and just generally gave me bad feelings in the terror/thriller sort of way. Something bad happened on that album. I love her smooth rolling voice and admire that it's just a duo. I've never heard an album of theirs before this one, and most people tell me that this sounds nothing like their old work. Fine by me, I love it. full album. fav tracks: shriek, glory, the tower.
5. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Finally. Good old fashioned doom metal straight out of the south. Furious I missed them, the slow fuzzy bass and the clean operatic vocals. It's been ages since I heard any clean old fashioned doom like this. They even played my favorite venue here god dammit. full album. fav tracks: worlds apart, the ghost i used to be.
6. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
A gay album that's really gay in the best/worst way. None of this lady gaga born this way shit, but the other kind. cracked, peeling, riddled with disease. The stuff that bad parents tell their kids when their kids come out. Some of it is absolutely traumatic - the feeling of being trapped in a totally alien body, the anxiety of self discovery, but some of it is just killer. no family is safe, when i sashay. in fucking deed.
queen - official video (directed by ssion) fav tracks: queen, my body, i decline, fool
7. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Damn girl why didn't you get a band earlier? Her arrangements are better, and she sounds so much richer with some drums behind her. She obviously thinks Lorde is her biggest competition (which I don't get?) but the songs are way more grown up here. I can't explain it any other way but this gif set.
full album. fav tracks: west coast, sad girl, fucked my way up to the top
8. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl Soundtrack
They messed up with TGWTDT soundtrack, it was overly expansive and too cold without enough of lisbeth's insanity to make it feel alive. Gone Girl soundtrack is way better, but still not as awesome as The Social Network soundtrack, which remains to this day one of my most played albums. Gone Girl is way more...atmospheric and still than TGWTDT or The Social Network, and with the same level of warmth (lack of warmth?) that made TGWTDT feel so god damn barren.
full album. fav tracks: what have we done to each other?, technically missing, consummation
9. True Detective - OST by T.Bone Burnett.
I know. Not a real album. Sorry, it's going to count. That forty or so songs has been playing non stop, non stop since the series ended. It's absolutely phenomenal, and one of the best soundtracks of all time. if you didn't watch this show then i don't know what to tell you. full album. fav tracks: The McIntosh County Singers - Sign of the Judgement, Handsome Family - Far From Any Road (True Detective Theme), Sleep - Holy Mountain, Melvins - A History of Bad Men, Townes Van Zandt - Lungs
10. ??????? I guess Mac De Marco - Salad Days.
For that once in a 6 month time period when I get stoned and want to skateboard with my roommates and eat cheddar goldfish. full album. fav tracks: salad days, brother, let my baby stay
so....let's see your list bluelight.
1. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2.
Hands down the best album of the year for me. It came along at such a weird, frightening political time in this country, and this goofy, furious, sexy, vicious album was the best thing that came my way this year. full album. fav tracks: early, love again, close your eyes and count to fuck.
2. Future Islands - Singles
Weirdest album of the year. His voice is somewhere between Morrissey and death metal growls. I know people who hate this album or love it. It's a non stop winner as far as I'm concerned. full album. fav tracks: seasons, doves, a dream of you and me.
3. Azaelia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
We don't call it seapunk anymore. witch gaze? rap craft? whatever it's called this album grew on me like a tumor. Initially thought it was terribly boring and too foreign, I am way more into the subtlety and bizarreness of it now, and that I can divorce it from NYC a little bit. full album. fav tracks: heavy metal and reflective, bbd, idle delilah, yung rupunzel
4. Wye Oak - Shriek
Eerie, uncomfortable and just generally gave me bad feelings in the terror/thriller sort of way. Something bad happened on that album. I love her smooth rolling voice and admire that it's just a duo. I've never heard an album of theirs before this one, and most people tell me that this sounds nothing like their old work. Fine by me, I love it. full album. fav tracks: shriek, glory, the tower.
5. Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Finally. Good old fashioned doom metal straight out of the south. Furious I missed them, the slow fuzzy bass and the clean operatic vocals. It's been ages since I heard any clean old fashioned doom like this. They even played my favorite venue here god dammit. full album. fav tracks: worlds apart, the ghost i used to be.
6. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
A gay album that's really gay in the best/worst way. None of this lady gaga born this way shit, but the other kind. cracked, peeling, riddled with disease. The stuff that bad parents tell their kids when their kids come out. Some of it is absolutely traumatic - the feeling of being trapped in a totally alien body, the anxiety of self discovery, but some of it is just killer. no family is safe, when i sashay. in fucking deed.
queen - official video (directed by ssion) fav tracks: queen, my body, i decline, fool
7. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Damn girl why didn't you get a band earlier? Her arrangements are better, and she sounds so much richer with some drums behind her. She obviously thinks Lorde is her biggest competition (which I don't get?) but the songs are way more grown up here. I can't explain it any other way but this gif set.
full album. fav tracks: west coast, sad girl, fucked my way up to the top
8. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Gone Girl Soundtrack
They messed up with TGWTDT soundtrack, it was overly expansive and too cold without enough of lisbeth's insanity to make it feel alive. Gone Girl soundtrack is way better, but still not as awesome as The Social Network soundtrack, which remains to this day one of my most played albums. Gone Girl is way more...atmospheric and still than TGWTDT or The Social Network, and with the same level of warmth (lack of warmth?) that made TGWTDT feel so god damn barren.
full album. fav tracks: what have we done to each other?, technically missing, consummation
9. True Detective - OST by T.Bone Burnett.
I know. Not a real album. Sorry, it's going to count. That forty or so songs has been playing non stop, non stop since the series ended. It's absolutely phenomenal, and one of the best soundtracks of all time. if you didn't watch this show then i don't know what to tell you. full album. fav tracks: The McIntosh County Singers - Sign of the Judgement, Handsome Family - Far From Any Road (True Detective Theme), Sleep - Holy Mountain, Melvins - A History of Bad Men, Townes Van Zandt - Lungs
10. ??????? I guess Mac De Marco - Salad Days.
For that once in a 6 month time period when I get stoned and want to skateboard with my roommates and eat cheddar goldfish. full album. fav tracks: salad days, brother, let my baby stay
so....let's see your list bluelight.
