Amber Friesen

I don't have a formal top-10 list for
the year but will give a shout-out to my favourites:

- London Grammar (If You Wait)
- First Aid Kit (Stay Gold)
- The New Pornographers (Brill Bruisers)
- Angus and Julia Stone (Angus and Julia Stone)
- The War on Drugs (Lost in the Dream)

P. Michael, Esquire.

This is my best guess as to which albums I enjoyed the most in 2014.  

Sturgill Simpson -- Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

Tweedy -- Sukierae 

Sharon Van Etten -- Are We There 

Run the Jewels -- Run the Jewels 2

New Pornographers -- Brill Bruisers 

Spoon - They Want My Soul

Angel Olsen -- Burn Your Fire For No Witness

First Aid Kit -- Stay Gold 

War on Drugs -- Lost in the Dream 

Strand of Oaks -- Heal

M. Wiens' 2014 List

1. Run The Jewels

2. War On Drugs

3. Mac DeMarco

4. Twin Peaks

5. Wye Oak

6. Tweedy

7. Sharon Van Etten

8. Blood Orange

9. Sturgill Simpson

10. Saintseneca 

Lucas' 2014 Year End

Albums:

1. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Beck - Morning Phase
3. Caribou - Our Love
4. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
5. New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
6. FKA Twigs - LP1
7. Sohn - Tremors
8. Spoon - They Want My Soul
9. Aphex Twin - Syro
10. Saintseneca - Dark Arc
Honorable Mention: Wild Beasts - Present Tense

Songs:

Go - Grimes
Chet Faker - Gold
Silver Timothy - Damien Jurado
Comfortable - The Knocks
Heart is a Drum - Beck
Wanderlust - Wild Beasts
Call Me - St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Johnny and Mary - Todd Terje
Regret - St. Vincent
Partition - Beyonce
From Nowhere - Dan Croll
Fancy - Iggy Azalea
Lost You - Zedds Dead (feat. Twin Shadow)
Do It Again - Robyn & Royksopp
Goshen '97 - Strand of Oaks
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Girls Chase Boys - Ingrid Michaelson
Backstairs - New Pornographers
Supernova - Ray Lamontagne
Lazaretto - Jack White
Summer Noon - Tweedy
Break Free - Ariana Grande
Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) - Run the Jewels
Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
Sunshine - Flight Facilities
Tough Love - Jessie Ware
Jealous (I Ain't With It) - Chromeo
Our Love - Caribou
Let Her Go - Mac DeMarco
In Love with Useless - A Sunny Day In Glasgow


Year - End List in Spotify - (Excluding Taylor Swift)

Dr. Kini's 2014 Year End List

ALBUMS:

cloud nothings - here and nowhere else

caribou - our love

isaiah rashad - cilvia demo

run the jewels - rtj2

rich gang - the tour pt 1

pallbearer - foundations of burden

real estate - atlas

hundred waters - the moon rang like a bell

ought - more than any other day

the war on drugs - lost in the dream

SONGS:

run the jewels - close your eyes (and count to fuck)

flying lotus ft. kendrick lamar - never catch me

vince staples - hands up

rich gang - givenchy

FKA twigs - two weeks

bobby shmurda - hot n*gga

future brown - wanna party remix

shamir - on the regular

aphex twin - minipops 67 [120.2]

ASAP ferg, freddie gibbs, young thug - old english

ilovemakonnen - club goin up on a tuesday

shabazz palaces - forerunner foray

the antlers - hotel

YG ft. drake - who do you love

andy stott - violence

clark - winter linn

vince staples - hands up

white lung - face down

future - move that dope

leon vynehall - it’s just (house of dupree)

todd terje - delorean dynamite

cloud nothings - i’m not part of me

the war on drugs - red eyes

real estate - crime

jerome lol - true

isaiah rashad - ronnie drake

vic mensa - down on my luck

azealia banks - ice princess

future islands - seasons (waiting on you)

lil b - no black person is ugly

kendrick lamar - i

Amber Friesen's 2013 Year End List

My top songs of 2013, usually sung as loudly as possible, by me:

1. Lally, my little lolly-pop, my little chicken-pop, I really love you Lally…
2. Horsey horsey don’t you stop…
3. One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive…
4. I got me a cat & the cat pleased me, fed my cat under yonder tree, cat went fiddle-i-fee…
5. Zoom zoom zoom, we’re going to the moon…

I haven’t had much time to explore new music this year. I loved The National album, and the new stuff from The Naked & The Famous, Mum, CVRCHES, Arcade Fire & Vampire Weekend. 

Thank you for all of your lists - I’m using them to build my soundtrack for 2014 as we speak.

Vinay Kini's 2013 Year End List

ALBUMS:

Disclosure – Settle

Drake – Nothing Was the Same

Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories

Danny Brown – Old

Kurt Vile – Wakin on a Pretty Daze

Youth Lagoon – Wondrous Bughouse

Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels

Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus

Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe

SONGS:

Burial – truant

A$AP Rocky – goldie

Pissed Jeans – romanticize me

Autre Ne Veut – play by play

DJ Koze feat. Apparat – nices wolkchen

Kurt Vile – wakin on a pretty day

Big K.R.I.T. – multi til the sun die

Daft Punk – instant crush

Classixx – a stranger love

A$AP Ferg – Shabba

Jon Hopkins – open eye signal

Kanye West feat. Chief Keef – hold my liquor

Sky Ferreira – nobody asked me (if I was okay)

Savages – she will

Run the Jewels – DDFH

Disclosure feat. Aluna George – white noise

Fuck Buttons – brainfreeze

The National – demons

Chance the Rapper – everybody’s something

Forest Swords – irby tremor

Earl Sweatshirt feat. Frank Ocean – sunday

Chvrches – recover

Parquet Courts – donuts only

Drake – worst behavior

Drake – hold on, we’re going home

The Field – they won’t see me

Danny Brown feat. Purity Ring – 25 bucks

DARKSIDE – heart

DJ Rashad – feelin

Pusha T – sweet serenade

Blood Orange – you’re not good enough

Migos - versace    

D. Lucas Landis' Best of 2013

Albums:
1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
3. Kanye West - Yeezus
4. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
5. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
6. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
7. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
8. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
9. Volcano Choir - Repave
10. Mumford & Sons - Babel

Honorable Mentions:
Phosphorescent - Muchacho
Savages - Silence Yourself


Songs of the Year (in no particular order) :
"Closer" - Tegan and Sara
"I'll Be Around" - Yo La Tengo
"Rough Sleeper" - Burial
"Ceilings" - Local Natives
"Waking Dream" - Bleeding Rainbow
"Ingenue" - Atoms for Peace
"In the City" - Caveman
"Diane Young" - Vampire Weekend
"Doin' Right" - Daft Punk (feat. Panda Bear)
"Blood On The Leaves" - Kanye West
"Oblivion" - M83 (feat. Susanne Sundor)
"Maze Fancier" - Floating Coffin
"Falling" - Haim
"Copy of A" - Nine Inch Nails
"Roar" - Katy Perry
"The Mother We Share" - Chvrches
"Locked Out of Heaven" - Bruno Mars
"Picasso Baby" - Jay-Z
"Royals" - Lorde
"24 Hours" - Sky Ferreira
"Side A (Old)" - Danny Brown
"The Air Between" - John Lemke
"It All Feels Right" - Washed Out
"Sentients" - Fuck Buttons
"Graceless" - The National
"Peace of Mind" - Mikal Cronin
"Life Round Here" - James Blake
"Mirrors" - Justin Timberlake
"Wakin on A Pretty Day" - Kurt Vile
"Hopeless Wanderer" - Mumford and Sons