MCCh 2014 (06) April 15

[Otisredding]

The best albums of 2014 (update April 15)

The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating and the number of reviews (out of 32 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.

The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Jenesaispop; Laut; LesInrocks; Mondosonoro; Music-story; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Playgroundmag; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music.
UK: DIY; Drowned In Sound; The Guardian; Music OMH; NME; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny; The 405.
USA + Canada: Allmusic; AV Club; Consequence Of Sound; Exclaim!; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Spin; Tinymixtapes

New Entry or Re Entry

Out: None

35 - Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains: Piano Ombre - 75,6 (13)
Highlights: La vérité - Bois - La fille aux cheveux de soie
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34 - Perfect Pussy: Say Yes To Love – 75,7 (18)
Highlights: Interference Fits - Driver - Work
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33 - Temples: Sun Structures – 75,9 (26)
Highlights: Shelter Song - Mesmerise - Keep In The Dark
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32 - Polar Bear: In Each And Every One – 76,0 (7)
Highlights: Be Free - Sometimes - Two Storms
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31 - Sohn: Tremors - 76,3 (19)
Highlights: The Wheel - Tremors – Artifice
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30 - Liars: Mess – 76,9 (23)
Highlights: Mask Maker - Mess On A Mission - I’m No Gold
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29 - Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Wig Out at Jagbags – 77,0 (30)
Highlights: Lariat - Planetary Motion - J Smoov
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28 - The Notwist: Close To The Glass – 77,0 (28)
Highlights: Kong - 7-Hour-Drive – Casino
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27 - Tinariwen: Emmaar – 77,1 (19)
Highlights: Imdiwanin Ahi Tifhamam - Toumast Tincha - Imidiwan Ahi Sigdim
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26 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Piñata – 77,1 (15)
Highlights: Deeper - Thuggin' – Shitsville
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25 - Warpaint: Warpaint – 77,2 (30)
Highlights: Love Is To Die – Hi - Keep It Healthy
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24 - Marissa Nadler: July – 77,4 (21)
Highlights: Dead City Emily - 1923 - Drive
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23 - Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings: Give the People What They Want – 77,8 (26)
Highlights: Retreat! - Making Up And Breaking Up (And Making Up And Breaking Up Over Again) - Stranger To My Happiness
[imgsize 220x220]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 683988.jpg[/imgsize]

22 - Todd Terje: It's Album Time - 77,8 (21)
Highlights: Inspector Norse - Delorean Dynamite - Strandbar
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21 - Against Me!: Transgender Dysphoria Blues – 77,9 (20)
Highlights: Transgender Dysphoria Blues - True Trans Soul Rebel - Two Coffins
[imgsize 220x220]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 680949.jpg[/imgsize]

20 - Timber Timbre: Hot Dreams - 78,1 (18)
Highlights: Hot Dreams - Beat the Drum Slowly - Bring Me Simple Men
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19 - Young Fathers: Dead – 78,4 (16)
Highlights: War - Get Up - No Way
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18 - Carla Bozulich: Boy – 78,5 (10)
Highlights: Lazy Crossbones - Deeper Than The Well - One Hard Man
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17 - Actress: Ghettoville – 79,2 (23)
Highlights: Gaze - Rap - Corner
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16 - Mogwai: Rave Tapes – 79,5 (31)
Highlights: Remurdered - The Lord Is Out Of Control - Hexon Bogon
[imgsize 240x240]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 680346.jpg[/imgsize]

15 - Damien Jurado: Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son – 79,6 (23)
Highlights: Silver Katherine - Metallic Cloud - Silver Timothy
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14 - Future Islands: Singles – 80,0 (27)
Highlights: Seasons (Waiting On You) - A Dream of You & Me - Light House
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13 - Cloud Nothings: Here And Nowhere Else – 80,0 (25)
Highlights: I'm Not Part Of Me - Psychic Trauma - Now Hear In
[imgsize 260x260]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 701948.jpg[/imgsize]

12 - EMA: The Future's Void – 80,4 (23)
Highlights: So Blonde - Solace - 3Jane
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11 - East India Youth: Total Strife Forever – 80,4 (19)
Highlights: Hinterland - Heaven, How Long - Dripping Down
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10 - Mac DeMarco: Salad Days – 80,5 (21)
Highlights: Passing Out Pieces - Let Her Go - Treat Her Better
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09 - Beck: Morning Phase – 80,7 (31)
Highlights: Blue Moon - Morning - Turn Away
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08 - Behemoth: The Satanist – 81,2 (12)
Highlights: Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel - O Father O Satan O Sun! - Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer
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07 - Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness – 82,6 (27)
Highlights: White Fire - Forgiven/Forgotten – Windows
[imgsize 280x280]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 677187.jpg[/imgsize]

06 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything - 84,0 (22)
Highlights: What We Loved Was Not Enough - Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal) - Take Away These Early Grave Blues
[imgsize 280x280]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 683514.jpg[/imgsize]

05 - Neneh Cherry: Blank Project – 84,3 (29)
Highlights: Out Of The Black - Blank Project – Naked
[imgsize 300x300]http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_50 ... 680233.jpg[/imgsize]

04 - Wild Beasts: Present Tense – 84,7 (27)
Highlights: Wanderlust - A Simple Beautiful Truth – Mecca
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03 - Sun Kil Moon: Benji – 85,2 (24)
Highlights: Carissa - Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes - Micheline
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02 - St Vincent: St Vincent – 86,4 (31)
Highlights: Digital Witness - Prince Johnny - Severed Crossed Fingers
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01 - The War On Drugs: Lost In The Dream – 87,0 (30)
Highlights: Red Eyes - Under The Pressure - Eyes To The Wind
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[Setherex]

Glad to see EMA and Todd Terje placing high on the list! Two albums I've definitely grown quite fond of recently ^_^

Was also wondering if that Honorable Mentions list was now a discontinued idea... sorry if I'm being picky. I really enjoyed seeing the sneak into a few more albums too! Either way, appreciate all the effort and the amazing lists, Otis. Thanks again!!!

[Mattceinicram]

I'm pleasantly surprised to see Timber Timbre on this list! It just doesn't seem like it has been getting much attention anywhere.

[Jac]

Thank you so much!

[Otisredding]

would it be too much effort to list the albums up to the 70,0 score

36 - Afghan Whigs: Do the Beast - 75,4 (23)
37 - MØ: No Mythologies to Follow - 74,9 (20)
38 - The Men: Tomorrow's Hits - 74,8 (22)
39 - Eagulls: Eagulls - 74,8 (21)
40 - Lydia Loveless: Somewhere Else - 74,7 (10)
41 - Ratking: So It Goes - 74,6 (11)
42 - La Dispute: Rooms of the House - 74,6 (7)
43 - Rosanne Cash: The River & The Thread - 74,5 (11)
44 - Ásgeir: In the Silence - 74,4 (14)
45 - HTRK: Psychic 9-5 Club - 74 (9)
46 - Schoolboy Q: Oxymoron - 73,8 (22)
47 - Real Estate: Atlas - 73,8 (28)
48 - Speedy Ortiz: Real Hair - 73,3 (7)
49 - Elbow: The Take Off And Landing Of Everything - 73 (23)
50 - Bombay Bicycle Club: So Long, See You Tomorrow - 73 (21)
51 - Cheatahs: Cheatahs - 73 (19)
52 - Micah P Hinson: Micah P Hinson and The Nothing - 72,9 (10)
53 - I Break Horses: Chiaroscuro - 72,5 (22)
54 - Arc Iris: Arc Iris - 72,4 (7)
55 - PUP: PUP - 72,4 (7)
56 - School of Language: Old Fears - 72,3 (9)
57 - Robert Ellis: The Lights from the Chemical Plant - 72,3 (9)
58 - Broken Bells: After the Disco - 72,2 (30)
59 - Death Vessel: Island Intervals - 72,2 (12)
59 - Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit - 72,2 (12)
61 - Thug Entrancer: Death After Life - 72 (7)
62 - Owls: Two - 72 (12)
63 - James Vincent McMorrow: Post Tropical - 72 (24)
64 - Trust: Joyland - 71,6 (15)
65 - Tara Jane O'Neil: Where Shine New Lights - 71,6 (9)
66 - Illum Sphere: Ghosts of Then and Now - 71,5 (13)
67 - Katy B: Liitle Red - 71,5 (25)
68 - Hurray For The Riff Raff: Small Town Heroes - 71,5 (9)
69 - ceo: Wonderland - 71,4 (19)
70 - Cymbals: The Age of Fracture - 71,3 (12)
71 - Nick Waterhouse: Holly - 71,2 (8)
72 - Big Ups: Eighteen Hours of Static - 71,2 (8)
73 - Dean Wareham: Dean Wareham - 71,2 (16)
74 - Hauschka: Abandoned City - 71,1 (14)
75 - Withered Hand: New Gods - 70,7 (12)
76 - Gem Club: In Roses - 70,6 (9)
77 - Alcest: Shelter - 70,4 (12)
78 - Crosses: Crosses - 70,3 (12)
79 - Chet Faker: Built On Glass - 70,2 (9)

[Setherex]

You might be my favorite person ever, Otis.

[jimmyj]

Playlist of Top Ten Albums

Plus a few more thrown in for good measure

[Otisredding]

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[Otisredding]

MCCh 2014 (07) April 30

Six new albums

Next: May 15, 2014