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2014 Favs

One more year, the list of my 30 favorite albums. I left out a few that could be part of this selection, but that I started to listen to them only recently (TV on the Radio, Actress, Felice Brothers, …) And of course, there are more that I’m still missing. However, here are my recommendations. The order is just a guide, not definitive.

 

1. The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream

2. Lykke Li I Never Learn

3. Swans To Be Kind

4. Aphex Twin Syro

5. Todd Terje It’s Album Time

6. Beck Morning Phase

7. Caribou Our Love

8. Real Estate Atlas

9. Grouper Ruins

10. Sharon Van Etten Are We There

11. Damon Albarn Everyday Robots

12. Rustie Green Language

13. Clark Clark

14. Run the Jewels Run The Jewels 2

15. Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness

16. Flying Lotus You’re Dead

17. Metronomy Love Letters

18. Shellac Dude Incredible

19. Electric Youth Innerworld

20. Los Punsetes LPIV

21. Arca Xen

22. Jessie Ware Tough Love

23. Andy Stott Faith In Strangers

24. Ariel Pink Pom Pom

25. Ex Hex Rips

26. Strand of Oaks HEAL

27. Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell

28. Broncho Just Enough Hip To Be Woman

29. Elbow The Take Off And Landing of Everything

30. Schoolboy Q Oxymoron

 

Waiting for 2015…

 

 

 

New release: Kuddelmuddel

 

KUDDELMUDDELInfluences… Lykke Li, CHVRCHES, Crystal Castles, Electric Youth, Zola Jesus, Hundred Waters, Jessie Ware, Chairlift, The Chromatics, Metronomy… A little bit of Dum Dum Girls, Todd Terje, Liars, Wild Nothing, Beach House or Daft Punk’s “Discovery”. It may contain traces of OMD, New Order and Grauzone.

I cannot add much in this description that can not be seen from influences.

Ethereal pads working as sound bed, motives and melodies on synth, reverb guitars, drum machines that seem suspended in time, arpeggiated basses, side chaining to highlight the bass drum… Soft rhythms, but not much. Dance Music, but without excess.

 

Free download (FMA)

Free download and commercial licenses (Jamendo)

betterwithmusic’s warehouse

There are work orders that turn out fine and there are those that don’t. The latter, compositions fallen behind, are the ones populating betterwithmusic’s warehouse. A few end up published in the library, others are delivered in some portfolio. But the majority are kept safe, waiting for a second chance or a new suit.

One example is this “Something Epic”, once tailored for an online action game. It is also the last job I did with my “old” Nuendo.