December 22nd, 2014 12:07am
FLUXBLOG 2014 SURVEY
A lot of the reason I make these survey mixes is to prove to myself and others that there’s no such thing as a “bad year” for music. This seems very necessary in 2014, a year in which music culture felt scattered or uninspired, and there were few – if any – major zeitgeist-defining albums. I’ve found a lot of other publications’ efforts to recap the year to be rather dismal, and they just seem to perpetuate the feeling that this was an “off” year. But that’s not true, and it’s never true. I feel confident that this survey is a strong argument that plenty of excellent music came out this year. It’s not a matter of the music not being good, it’s about how much harder it is to form consensus about anything these days.
DOWNLOAD DISC 1
The New Pornographers “Dancehall Domine” / Taylor Swift “Blank Space” / A.G. Cook featuring Hannah Diamond “Keri Baby” / GFOTY “Don’t Wanna/Let’s Do It” / Skrillex “Stranger” / TV on the Radio “Careful You” / White Hinterland “Sickle No Sword” / D’angelo and the Vanguard “The Charade” / J. Cole “Apparently” / Spoon “Inside Out” / Lana Del Rey “Shades of Cool” / Ty Segall “The Singer” / The Oh Sees “Encrypted Bounce” / One Direction “Steal My Girl” / Ximena Sariñana “Sin Ti No Puede Estar Tan Mal” / MNEK “Every Little Word” / Tink featuring Jeremih “Don’t Tell Nobody” / Pearls Negras “Pensando em Voce” / 2NE1 “멘붕 MTBD (CL Solo)”
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Kate Tempest “Marshall Law” / The Roots “Understand” / Run the Jewels featuring Gangsta Boo “Love Again (Akinyele Back)” / Against Me! “Unconditional Love” / Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks “Shibboleth” / Dum Dum Girls “Too True To Be Good” / Frankie Cosmos “Art School” / A Sunny Day In Glasgow “Crushin’” / Eno & Hyde “Time To Waste It” / Sinkane “Omdurman” / Clipping “Work Work” / SBTRKT featuring Ezra Koenig “New Dorp, New York” / Freddie Gibbs & MadLib “Shame” / Jeezy featuring Jay Z “Seen It All” / FKA Twigs “Two Weeks” / Aphex Twin “Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)” / Liars “Mess On A Mission” / Owen Pallett “The Riverbed” / Mica Levi “Lipstick to Void”
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Panda Bear “Mr. Noah” / Redinho “Playing with Fire” / Kimbra “Madhouse” / Sophie “Lemonade” / Tune-Yards “Find A New Way” / Deerhoof “Paradise Girls” / 18+ “Crow” / Young Money featuring Tyga, Nicki Minaj, and Lil Wayne “Senile” / Beyoncé “7/11” / St. Vincent “Digital Witness” / Speedy Ortiz “Everything’s Bigger” / Pixies “Greens and Blues” / Foo Fighters “The Feast and the Famine” / The Vaselines “Inky Lies” / Sam Smith “Money On My Mind” / Usher “Good Kisser” / Michael Jackson “Love Never Felt So Good” / Bernhoft “One Way Track” / Tricky featuring Francesca Belmonte “I Had A Dream” / Damon Albarn “Lonely Press Play” / Flying Lotus featuring Kendrick Lamar “Never Catch Me” / Museum of Love “And All the Winners (Fuck You, Buddy)”
DOWNLOAD DISC 4
Real Estate “Had to Hear” / Sloan “Cleopatra” / Ex Hex “How You Got That Girl” / The Voluntary Butler Scheme “Brain Freeze” / Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks “Strange Colores” / Caribou “Silver” / Mr. Twin Sister “Blush” / Ghostface Killah “Love Don’t Live Here No More” / Hyuna “Red” / QT “Hey QT” / Kero Kero Bonito “Sick Beat” / Becky G “Shower” / Rae Sremmurd “No Flex Zone” / ILoveMakonnen featuring Drake “Tuesday” / Future featuring Andre 3000 “Benz Friendz” / KOA “All of My Love” / DJ Snake and Lil Jon “Turn Down for What” / Girl Talk & Freeway featuring Waka Flocka Flame “Tolerated” / Schoolboy Q featuring Jay Rock “Los Awesome” / Tinashe “Aquarius”
DOWNLOAD DISC 5
Saint Pepsi “Fiona Coyne (Remix)” / Shamir “On the Regular” / Charli XCX “Breaking Up” / Merchandise “Enemy” / Electric Six “Alone with Your Body” / Camper Van Beethoven “Grasshopper” / Angel Olsen “Hi-Five” / Love Inks “Shoot 100 Panes of Glass” / Wu-Tang Clan “Ruckus in B Minor” / Vince Staples featuring James Fauntleroy “Nate” / Big K.R.I.T. “Mt. Olympus” / Big Sean featuring E40 “I Don’t Fuck with You” / Guided by Voices “Littlest League Possible” / Trash No Star “How Are You” / Perfect Pussy “Big Stars” / Babymetal “Gimme Chocolate!!” / Nick Jonas “Jealous” / Basement Jaxx “What’s the News?” / Hervé and Zebra Katz “Tear the House Up” / G-Dragon X TAEYANG “Good Boy” / Drake “0 to 100/The Catch Up” / Kool A.D. featuring Talib Kweli and Boots Riley “Hickory”
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TEEN “Rose 4 U” / Swick & Lewis featuring Tkay Maidza “Wishes” / Nicki Minaj “Anaconda” / Prince “This Could Be Us” / James Blake “200 Press” / Jessie Ware “Tough Love” / Todd Terje featuring Bryan Ferry “Johnny and Mary” / Nicholas Krgovich “The Backlot” / Kendrick Lamar “I” / Common “Speak My Piece” / Shabazz Palaces “They Come In Gold” / Chet Faker “Gold” / How to Dress Well “See You Fall” / Andy Stott “Faith In Strangers” / Slow Club “Suffering You, Suffering Me” / Gerard Way “Brother” / Cymbals Eat Guitars “Laramie”
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Julian Casablancas + The Voidz “Take Me In Your Army” / Interpol “Everything Is Wrong” / Perfume Genius “Queen” / Adult Jazz “Am Gone” / Leon Bridges “Coming Home” / Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk” / The Both “The Inevitable Shove” / Phish “The Line” / Mac DeMarco “Passing Out Pieces” / Deers “Trippy Gum” / Girlpool “American Beauty” / Lil B “No Black Person Is Ugly” / Ryn Weaver “OctaHate” / EMA “So Blonde” / Bleachers “You’re Still A Mystery” / Bart Davenport “Dust in the Circuits” / Wild Beasts “A Simple Beautiful Truth” / Ty Dolla $ign featuring Casey Veggies, Twista, and Nate Howard “Work” / DeJ Loaf “Me U & Hennessy” / Nautic “Show”
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Beck “Wave” / U2 featuring Lykke Li “The Troubles” / Sharon Van Etten “Your Love Is Killing Me” / Young Fathers “Low” / Arca “Thievery” / Azealia Banks “Ice Princess” / Pusha T “Lunch Money” / Lil Wayne “D’Usse” / Snakehips featuring Sinead Harnett “Days with You” / Jenny Lewis “She’s Not Me” / Lydia Loveless “Hurts So Bad” / Mary J. Blige “Therapy” / Meghan Trainor “Dear Future Husband” / Weezer “Back to the Shack” / Veruca Salt “It’s Holy” / Strand of Oaks “Goshen ’97” / Alvvays “Adult Diversion” / Weekend Secret “Tendrils and Vines” / Jack White “Just One Drink” / Eric Church “Like A Wrecking Ball” / The War On Drugs “An Ocean In Between the Waves”
DOWNLOAD DISC 9
Slim Twig “Heavy Splendour” / Thom Yorke “Guess Again!” / Grimes “Go” / Kiesza “Hideaway” / Vic Mensa “Down On My Luck” / Federal Reserve, Cam’ron & A-Trak featuring Juelz Santana “Dipshits” / Katie Rush featuring Samantha Urbani “Dangerous Luv” / Dreamtrak “Odyssey, Pt. 2 (A.G. Cook Remix)” / Parquet Courts “Bodies” / Tacocat “Crimson Wave” / Ariel Pink “Sexual Athletics” / Hospitality “I Miss Your Bones” / Future Islands “Seasons (Waiting On You)” / Sales “Getting It On” / Jessica Pratt “Back, Baby” / Foxygen “How Can You Really” / Yumi Zouma “The Brae” / AJ Davila “Es Verano Ya” / Sunny Day Real Estate “Lipton Witch” / Laetitia Sadier “Quantum Soup”
DOWNLOAD DISC 10
Swans “Screen Shot” / The Smashing Pumpkins “Tiberius” / Broods “Pretty Thing” / ExGF “Idle Hands” / Röyksopp & Robyn “Do It Again” / Yacht “Plastic Soul” / Tove Lo “Like Em Young” / Ariana Grande featuring The Weeknd “Love Me Harder” / Coldplay “A Sky Full of Stars” / Lorde “Yellow Flicker Beat” / Danity Kane “Lemonade” / Miley Cyrus featuring E-40, Juicy J, and Ty Dolla $ign “Fun” / Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini “GDFR” / YG featuring Drake “Who Do You Love?” / Afterhours “Sixty-Forty” / Thurston Moore “Forevermore” / Grouper “Clearing” / Sun Kil Moon “I Love My Dad”