And, as April Wine put it, I Like To Rock, so yeah, you're going to see a lot of straight ahead Rock. But I like Alt-Country/No Depression/Americana (whatever it's called these days) and I like good Power Pop and fierce Punk so this list is all over the place.
Why albums? Because I'm a child of the '70s and the album is my natural unit of musical measure. Besides, if you focus on singles, you get Werewolves of London and miss Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.
I clocked at least the first track of A LOT of albums but may have missed some. (Tip: If it's a hip-hop album that starts with a pseudo-classical track called "Intro", it's going to be crap. Another Tip: I could have cut out all the words between 'album' and 'it's' in the previous sentence and still been accurate). Also, most of these were on Spotify; I'm not going to go out and buy the new Taylor Swift on a flyer for the sake of completeness. Finally, 2014 is a lie. If you are fool enough to release something in the last two weeks of the year, tough. (Except for you Parliament. You've earned a post-cutoff look.)
No Greatest Hits, no 'remasters'. Two albums on the top ten skirted these rules closely, one a 'tribute' album.
Without further ado . . .
10. Lateness of Dancers - Hiss Golden Messenger
A North Carolina duet, Hiss Golden Messenger's fifth studio album is nothing fancy, just very listenable songcraft hearkening back to days when songs were meant to be listened to, not choreographed over.
Produced by the same man as our #1 album of the year (hint, hint), Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, this album drips psychedelica. This cut sounds like Ray had been hanging out at Justin Hayward's house all summer listening to Arnold Layne on the 45.
Another throwback to trippy 60s British psychedelic pop. What can I say? This is one of two GBV releases this year. The other, Motivational Jumpsuit, - not so much.
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