Tyler Damon ::: Favorite releases of 2014

Favorite releases of 2014

Here are my favorite releases from 2014 presented without much commentary…if you know where I can get tangible copies of the Coneheads tapes, hit me up! – T

FULL-LENGTH/LPs:

1) JASON LESCALLEET – “Much To My Demise” (Kye)
2) PARQUET COURTS – “Sunbathing Animal” (What’s Your Rupture?)

APACHE DROPOUT – “Heavy Window” (Magnetic South)
AI ASO – “Lone” (Ideologic Organ)
AUSMUTEANTS – “Order Of Operation” (Goner)
BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE – “Piano Nights” (PAIS/Ipecac)
D’ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD – “Black Messiah” (RCA)
NICK HENNIES – “Work” (Quakebasket)
DAVID KILGOUR AND THE HEAVY EIGHTS – “End Times Undone” (Merge)
MILLIE & ANDREA – “Drop The Vowels” (Modern Love)
TOTAL CONTROL – “Typical System” (Iron Lung)

CASSETTE / CDr only:

THE COKE DARES – “Shock Rock & Small Talk” (self-released)
THE CONEHEADS – “Canadian Cone” & “Demo 2014” (self-released)
COPPICE – “Ex” (self-released) & “Vinculum (Coincidence)” (Agxivatein)
CHRIS CORSANO & BILL ORCUTT – “Live At Various” (Palilalia)
AARON DILLOWAY – “Medicine Stunts” (Lal Lal Lal / Hanson)
DOBERMAN – “Doberman” (Castle Bravo)
TASHI DORJI – “V” (Marmara)
FLOWER-CORSANO DUO – “Syracuse Live – 10.29.09: The Red House” (self-released)
WILL GUTHRIE – “Stepped Stoned” (Astral Spirits)
ICEPICK – “Hexane” (Astral Spirits)
THEE OPEN SEX / MAGICIAN JOHNSON – split (Magnetic South)
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE – “SchlingenCassettenBlängen” (Close/Far)
ARTHUR RUSSELL – “Tower Of Meaning” (Keep Tapes Alive)
SITAR OUTREACH MINISTRY – “Revolution In Dimension 5” (Magnetic South)
WILLIAM TYLER – “Blue Ash Montgomery” (Lightning)

SINGLES / EPs

BODY/HEAD – “The Show Is Over” (Matador)
DEMDIKE STARE – “Testpressing #005” & “Testpressing #006” (Modern Love)
DOBERMAN – “Doberman” (American Tapes)
YO GOTTI – “Errrbody” (Epic)
LIFE STINKS – “Portraits” (Total Punk)
TV MIKE & THE SCARECROWES – “Out At Sea” (Royal Oakie)

ARCHIVAL / REISSUE

1) JOHN COLTRANE – “Offering: Live At Temple University” (Impulse!)

ALIEN CITY – “Cathode Rays On Overload” (A-1)
CAN – LP reissues (Spoon / Mute)
CHRIS & COSEY – “Songs Of Love & Lust” (Conspiracy International)
DEMDIKE STARE – ‘Tryptych’ LP reissues
DELIA DERBYSHIRE & BARRY BERMANGE – “The Dreams” (Psychic Sounds)
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO – “Arispejal Astisaró+” (Geometrik)
SIMON FINN – “Pass The Distance” (Little Big Chief)
NEIL HAMBURGER – “Great Phone Calls” (Ipecac)
STEFAN JAWORZYN – “Drained Of Connotation” (Blackest Ever Black)
DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE – “Hunger” (Castle Face)
ONE OF YOU – “One Of You” (Mississippi / Little Axe)
SCHARPLING & WURSTER – “Rock, Rot & Rule” (Flannelgraph)
MICHAEL YONKERS – “Michael Lee Yonkers” (Galactic Zoo Disk / Drag City)
V/A – “Gipsy Rhumba: The Original Rhythm Of Gipsy Rhumba In Spain 1965-74” (Soul Jazz)
V/A – “Modern Mayan: The Indian Music Of Chiapas, Mexico” (Moi J’Connais/Mississippi)
V/A – “Studio One Dancehall” (Soul Jazz)

P.S. – Peter Brötzmann & Jason Adasiewicz‘s – “Mollie’s In The Mood” (BRÖ) and Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet‘s “The Abyss” (Erstwhile) were quite good as well…I just didn’t get much of a chance to spend enough time with each of them yet.