2014 was a great year for music with lots of wonderful releases all year long. I thought it was an especially good year for women artists and for neo-psychedelic garage rock. I've made quite a few end of the year mixes highlighting my favorite music and several in my categories of Ladies Night mixes and Orgone Bliss mixes which focuses on psychedelic, krautrock, shoegaze and garage rock. Lots of great freak folk this year too. Here are 60 albums that I had on heavy rotation throughout the year.
Here is a collection of mixes using songs from the albums on this list.
- Songs 2014 Vol. 1 - Night Tripper (Orgone Bliss) - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 2 - Teenage Wasteland - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 3 - Down On The Bottom - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 4 - Waking Light - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 5 - Always Going - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 6 - Kaleidoscoped (Orgone Bliss) - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 7 - How Am I Supposed To Let Go - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 8 - Where Has My Easy Gone - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 9 - I Never Wear White (Ladies Night) - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 10 - Night Vision (Ladies Night) - List
- Songs 2014 Vol. 11 - Murmurs (Ladies Night) - List
The list of albums...
- Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- The War On Drugs - Lost In A Dream
- Beck - Morning Phase
- Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
- Ray LaMontagne - Supernova
- Lost On The River - The New Basement Tapes
- Alt-J - This Is All Yours
- Hozier - Hozier
- Spoon - They Want My Soul
- Trigger Hippy - Trigger Hippy
- Jolie Holland - Wine Dark Sea
- Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
- Elephant Stone - Three Poisons
- Temples - Sun Structures
- Alvvays - Alvvays
- Smoke Fairies - Smoke Faires
- Woods - With Light and With Love
- Damien Jurado - Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
- Amen Dunes - Love
- Hiss Golden Messengers - Lateness Of Dancers
- Reigning Sound - Shattered
- Allah-Las - Worship The Sun
- Weyes Blood - The Outside Room
- Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
- Wussy - Attica
- Empty Hearts - The Empty Hearts
- Tweedy - Sukierae
- J Mascis - Tied To A Star
- Interpol - El Pintor
- St. Vincent - St. Vincent
- Caribou - Our Love
- The Black Keys - Turn Blue
- Hollis Brown - Gets Loaded
- Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
- Quilt - Held In Splendor
- Marissa Nadler - July
- Dum Dum Girls - Too True
- Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
- Lykke Li - I Never Learn
- Winterpills - Echolalia
- Future Islands - Singles
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want
- First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
- Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
- Jack White - Lazerotto
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation
- Sloan - Commonwealth
- Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
- Wye Oak - Shriek
- Real Estate - Atlas
- You+Me - Rose Ave.
- Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
- Broken Bells - After The Disco
- Mary Gauthier - Trouble and Love
- Foxygen - And The Star Power
- Sun Kil Moon - Benji
- Afghan Whigs - Do To The Beast
- Strand of Oaks - Heal
- The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
- Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
OK, I couldn't stop at 60 so here are more albums I played a lot this year.
More good neo-psychedelic, shoegaze, garage rock, etc.:
- Sleepy Sun - Maui Tears
- The Ghost Of A Sabre Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun
- The Shivas - You Know What To Do
- Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror
- Magic Castles - Sky Sounds
- Joy - Under The Spell Of Joy
- Holy Wave - Relax
- Goat - Commune
- The Fresh & Onlys - House of Spirits
- The Vaselines - V For Vaselines
- Van der Vous - La Fuga
- The Dark Horses - Hail Lucid State
- Doug Tuttle - Doug Tuttle
- Vaniish - Memory Work
- The Vickers - Ghosts
- The Orgone Box - Centaur
- The Young Sinclairs - This Is The Young Sinclairs
Some more old friends:
- Bruce Springsteen - High Hopes
- Dave & Phil Alvin - Common Ground
- Dr. John - Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch
- Roseanne Cash - The River & The Thread
- Lydia Lunch - A Fistful of Desert Blues
- Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Uptairs
- David Crosby - Croz
- Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
- Jackson Brown - Standing In The Breach
- Marianne Faithful - Give My Love To London
- Ani DiFranco - Allergic To Water
- Neil Young - Storytone
- U2 - Songs of Innocense
- Yusuf - Tell 'Em I'm Gone
- Neil Young - A Letter Home
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
- Rodney Crowell - Tarpaper Sky
- John Hiatt - Terms Of My Surrender
- Eliza Gilkyson - The Nocturne Diaries
- Eric Clapton & Friends - The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale
- Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
- Chuck Prophet - Night Surfer
And let's not forget...
- Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
- Nicole Atkins - Slow Phaser
- Peggy Sue - Choir of Echoes
- Black Prairie - Fortune
- Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy
- James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
- Zola Jesus - Taiga
- Passenger - Whispers
- The Lions - This Generation in Dub
- Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
- Parker Milsap - Parker Milsap
- Miranda Lambert - Platinum
- Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
- Chad Vangaalen - Shrink Dust
- Water Liars - Water Liars
- Stars - No One Is Lost
- The Autumn Defense - Fifth
- We Are Catchers - We Are Catchers
- Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
- Dawn Golden - Still Life
- Stars - No One Is Lost
- The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
- The Swans - To Be Kind
- Coldplay - Ghost Stories
- The Soft Hills - Departure
- Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
- 2:54 - The Other I
- Spain - Sargent Place
- Angus & Julia Stone - Angus & Julia Stone
- Timbre Timbre - Hot Dreams
- Peaking Lights - Cosmic Logic
- Shakey Graves - And The War Came
- Minnie Driver - Ask Me To Dance
- Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
- Aphex Twin - Syro
- The Both - The Both
- Wake Owl - The Private World of Paradise
- Shakey Knees - 7 Years
- The Black Swans - Don't Blame The Stars
- Hundred Waters - The Moon Rang Like A Bell
- Iamamiwhoiam - Blue
- AgesandAges - Diversionary
- Orenda Fink - Blue Dream
- Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
- Stone Jack Jones - Ancestor
- Jessie Ware - Tough Love
- Simone Felice - Strangers
- Allo Darlin - We Come From The Same Place
- School of Language - Old Fears
- Ought - More Than Any Other Day
- Joseph Arthur - Lou
- Nick Waterhouse - Holly
- TV On The Radio - Seeds
- Johnnyswim - Diamonds
- Lack of Afro - Music For Adverts
- Jeremy Jay - Ab
- Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out
- Hurray For The Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes
- Carla Bozulich - Boy
- Ava Luna - Electric Balloon
- David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed: The Best of David Bowie
- Wilco - What's Your 20: Essential Tracks 1994-2014
- Sly Stone - It's Just Like You Say:Sly Stone's Flower 1969-1970
- Michael Bloomfield - From His Head To His Heart To His Hands
- Various Artists - Farewell Transmissions: The Music of Jason Molina
- Songs Ohia - Journey On: The Collected Singles
- Big Star - Live In Memphis
- TV Eyes - TV Eyes
- Scruffy The Cat - Time Never Forgets:The Anthology 1986-88
- Various Artists - Beck Song Reader
- LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye
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