- Deafheaven: Sunbather
- Swans: The Seer
- Jesu: Ascension
- The Men: Open Your Heart
- Locrian: Return to Annihilation
- White Lung: Deep Fantasy
- Pallbearer: Sorrow and Extinction
- Iceage: New Brigade
- My Bloody Valentine: mbv
- Fucked Up: David Comes to Life
- Cult of Youth: Love Will Prevail
- Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestial Lineage
- PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
- Circle Takes the Square: Decompositions: Volume Number One
- Sunn O))) / Ulver: Terrestrials
- Prurient: Bermuda Drain
- Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
- Liturgy: Aesthethica
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- Chelsea Wolfe: Pain Is Beauty
- Ty Segall: Sleeper
- Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
- Mamiffer: Mare Decendrii
- Waxahatchee: Cerulean Salt
- Metz: Metz
- SubRosa: More Constant Than the Gods
- Protomartyr: Under Color of Official Right
- Bill Callahan: Dream River
- Deafheaven: Roads to Judah
- Speedy Ortiz: Major Arcana
- Merchandise: Children of Desire
- Loma Prieta: I.V.
- David Bowie: The Next Day
- Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
- Agalloch: Marrow of the Spirit
- Marissa Nadler: July
- Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
- Code Orange Kids: Love is Love/Return to Dust
- No Age: Everything in Between
- Destruction Unit: Deep Trip
- Ceremony: Rohnert Park
- Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
- Inter Arma: Sky Burial
- Pianos Become the Teeth: The Lack Long After
- Perfect Pussy: Say Yes to Love
- YOB: Atma
- Lower: Seek Warmer Climes
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
- Self Defense Family: Try Me
- Lycus: Tempest
- Japandroids: Celebration Rock
- Trap Them: Darker Handcraft
- Kinit Her: The Poet & the Blue Flower
- Cult Ritual: LP1
- Screaming Females: Ugly
- The Haxan Cloak: Excavation
- Tombs: Path of Totality
- Cold Cave: Cherish the Light Years
- Krallice: Diotima
- Priests: Bodies and Control and Money and Power
- The Body: I Shall Die Here
- P.S. Eliot: Sadie
- Thursday: No Devolucion
- Swans: To Be Kind
- Tigers Jaw: Charmer
- Arctic Flowers: Reveries
- Year of the Goat: Angels’ Necropolis
- York Factory Complaint: Lost in the Spectacle
- Savages: Silence Yourself
- Horseback: Half Blood
- White Suns: Totem
- Total Abuse: Mutt
- Cloud Rat: Moksha
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong
- Emma Ruth Rundle: Some Heavy Ocean
- High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriis
- Have a Nice Life: The Unnatural World
- Amebix: Sonic Mass
- Wild Flag: Wild Flag
- Barn Owl: Ancestral Star
- Touche Amore: Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
- Neil Young / Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill
- Fear of Men: Loom
- Windhand: Soma
- The Saddest Landscape: You Will Not Survive
- Barren Harvest: Subtle Cruelties
- Pissed Jeans: Honeys
- La Dispute: Rooms of the House
- Taurus: No/Thing
- The Soft Moon: The Soft Moon
- Pig Destroyer: Book Burner
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks
- Rush: Clockwork Angels
- Baroness: Yellow & Green
- Bob Mould: Silver Age
- Oranssi Pazuzu: Velonielu
- Planning For Burial: Desideratum
- Blood and Sun: White Storms Fall
- Russian Circles: Empros
- Ex Hex: Rips
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Best albums: 2010-2014
Over at Pitchfork today, our list of the top 100 albums of the first half of the decade, 2010-2014, has been posted. I got to write the entries for #60 (PJ Harvey's Let England Shake), #50 (Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Allelujah! Don't Bend Ascend!), and #28 (My Bloody Valentine's mbv). Along with the rest of Pitchfork's contributors, I submitted a ballot of my own personal top 100 albums from 2010-2014 before the master list was made. In the interest of transparency, discourse, and why-the-fuck-not, here's my ballot:
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