1. Screen Shot - Swans
2. Blues Hour - Mogwai
3. Austerity Blues - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
4. Secant - Ben Frost
5. Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture - Swans
6. What We Loved Was Not Enough - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Track List / Printable Mix & Year End Summary / Spotify /
McQ's Best Albums Of 2014
2. Blues Hour - Mogwai
3. Austerity Blues - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
4. Secant - Ben Frost
5. Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture - Swans
6. What We Loved Was Not Enough - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Track List / Printable Mix & Year End Summary / Spotify /
McQ's Best Albums Of 2014
About The Albums/Songs On This Mix:
Swans’ To Be Kind (Spotify / Amazon
/ iTunes) is easily
2014’s best album from a pure composition/production standpoin . Picking up right where the band’s 2012 masterpiece The Seer
left off, To Be Kind is another
two-hour plus orchestral post-rock battering ram, a little more rock and a little less folk this time out, but basically the same dark, punishing, bat-shit crazy
stuff. For those like me with a taste for music completely outside the norm, there
was no more exciting album in 2014. The way the band peppers their colossal, repetitive
builds with all manner of deranged flourishes is just extraordinary.
/ iTunes) is easily
2014’s best album from a pure composition/production standpoin . Picking up right where the band’s 2012 masterpiece The Seer
left off, To Be Kind is another
two-hour plus orchestral post-rock battering ram, a little more rock and a little less folk this time out, but basically the same dark, punishing, bat-shit crazy
stuff. For those like me with a taste for music completely outside the norm, there
was no more exciting album in 2014. The way the band peppers their colossal, repetitive
builds with all manner of deranged flourishes is just extraordinary.
Thee Silver Mount
Zion Orchestra’s Fuck Off Get Free, We
Pour Light On Everything (Spotify / Amazon
/ iTunes)would be the post-rock album of the year if not
for Swans’ To Be Kind. Here, the
Godspeed You! Black Emperor side project adds odd punkish vocals to Godspeed’s
orchestral, anarchist rage, and the results are killer.
/ iTunes)would be the post-rock album of the year if not
for Swans’ To Be Kind. Here, the
Godspeed You! Black Emperor side project adds odd punkish vocals to Godspeed’s
orchestral, anarchist rage, and the results are killer.
Mogwai’s Rave Tapes (Spotify / Amazon
/ iTunes) finds the Scottish Post-Rock vets applying more
electronic elements to their typical moody, slightly metalish sound. Producer Ben Frost’s crushing Aurora (Spotify / Amazon
/ iTunes), as much an ambient record from
hell in a Tim Hecker vein as it is post-rock, contains some of the year’s
most savage percussive passages. Trippy stuff.
/ iTunes) finds the Scottish Post-Rock vets applying more
electronic elements to their typical moody, slightly metalish sound. Producer Ben Frost’s crushing Aurora (Spotify / Amazon
/ iTunes), as much an ambient record from
hell in a Tim Hecker vein as it is post-rock, contains some of the year’s
most savage percussive passages. Trippy stuff.
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