- Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
- Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
- SLEIGH BELLS - REIGN OF TERROR
- Purity Ring - Shrines
- Swearin’ - Swearin’
- Future - Pluto
- Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
- The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
- Japandroids - Celebration Rock
- Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
- Ke$ha - Warrior
- Ab-Soul - Control System
- Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
- The Men - Open Your Heart
- Death Grips - The Money Store
- Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
- Heems - Wild Water Kingdom
- Municipal Waste – The Fatal Feast
- Gunplay - Bogota Rich: The Prequel
- Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
- El-P - Cancer For Cure
- Action Bronson/Party Supplies - Blue Chips
- Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
- Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall - Slaughterhouse/Twins
- Angel Haze - Reservation
- white lung - sorry
- Carly Rae Jepsen - Kiss
- Traxman - Da Mind of Traxman
- Le1f - Dark York
- Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
- TNGHT - TNGHT
- Chromatics - Kill For Love
- DJ Rashad - Teklife. 1 - Welcome To The CHI
- Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
- NICKI MINAJ - PINK FRIDAY
- Crystal Castles - (III)
- Jessie Ware - Devotion
- Ka - Grief Pedigree
- Cülo - My Life Sucks and I Could Care Less
- Aesop Rock - Skelethon
- E-40 - The Block Brochure Volumes 1,2,3
- Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
- Goat - World Music
- Mala in Cuba - Mala in Cuba
- Sean Price - Mic Tyson
- Major League - S/t
- Shady Blaze The Grind, Hustle, and Talent
- The Forgetters - s/t
- Wiccans - field 2
- Propagandhi- Failed States
Honourable mentions: Joyce Manor, Mike Will Made It, Clams Casino, Captain Murphy, Casket lottery, No Trigger, Pentimento, JEFF the Brotherhood, Royal Headache, Azealia Banks, Katie Got Bandz, I Call Fives, bat for lashes, Waka, Chinx drugs, Main Attractionz, Gucci Mane
rawkblog:
Does it make me a bad person that I love about a third of this list?
Of course it doesn’t. At least a third of the list is terrific. Can we please stop talking about music in terms of how it negatively affects our self-worth or self-image? Everybody?
I’m not going to ask again.
Haha, fair enough. I wasn’t serious about thinking less of myself. (It was kind of a weak attempt at an emo joke). I am finally getting over the idea of guilty pleasures and the like, and am trying to rid that attitude among my friends. It was more a way of expressing the sense of nostalgia that list gave me for music I no longer really listen to much, and I think gets a little flack critically.
I do wish we had spotify in canada so I could give the list a spin.
My favorite bunch of songs of the year:
(there are probably a lot of songs missing. I have a hard time remembering all the songs I like, but this is a pretty good list, I think. It is unordered, and I tried to keep from listing multiple tracks by the same artist, though some exceptions apply.
- A$AP Rocky - Purple Swag
- Action Bronson - Barry Horowitz
- Andy Stott - Dark Details
- Azealia Banks ft. Lazy Jay - 212
- Beyonce - Countdown
- Big Baby Ghandi - Other Jacket
- Bon Iver - Calgary
- Britney Spears - How I Roll
- Burial - Street Halo
- Charli XCX - Stay Away
- Das Racist - Michael Jackson
- Death Grips - Guillotine
- DJ Quik - Killer Dope
- EMA - California
- EMA - The Grey Ship
- Fat Trel - Respect the Tech
- Fucked Up - Queen Of Hearts
- Grimes - Vanessa
- Gunplay - Rollin
- Hail Mary Mallon - Grubsteak
- Ill Blu - Meltdown
- James Blake - Wilhelm’s Scream
- Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci
- Little Dragon - Ritual Union
- Meek Mill ft. Rick Ross - Ima Boss
- Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire - Huzzah (Remix)
- Nicki Minaj - Girls Fall Like Dominoes
- Reema Major - I’m The One
- Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend
- Destroyer - Chinatown
- Shabazz Palaces - swerve…
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
- Trouble - Bussin’
- Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
- Yelawolf ft. Trae tha Truth - Shit I Seen
- The Weeknd - Wicked Games
- Frank ocean - we all try
- Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D
- Killer Mike - Ready, Set, Go remix ft. TI and Big Boi
- Danny Brown - Detroit 187 ft Chip$
- The Mountain Goats - Damn These Vampires
- Jay-Z & Kanye West - Gotta Have It
- liturgy - High Gold
- John Maus - Copkiller
- Immortal Technique - Civil War ft Chuck D, Killer Mike, and Brother Ali
- French Montana - choppa choppa down
- Charles Bradley - The World (is Going Up In Flames)
- LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Subject to change as I am still catching up on some albums,
- xxx - danny brown
- No Time for Dreaming - Charles Bradley
- Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming - M83
- Aesthethica - Liturgy
- Return of 4Eva - Big K.R.I.T.
- Past Life Martyred Saints EMA
- Frank Ocean - Nostalgia/ultra
- Revenue Retrieving Overtime/Graveyard Shift - E-40
- Black Up - Shabazz Palaces
- All eternals on decl - The Mountain Goats
- Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- My <3 - Chrome Sparks
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver
- Pl3dge - Killer Mike
- Dr Lector - Action Bronson
- Colour Trip - Ringo Deathstar
- Electronic Dream - Araabmusik
- 936 - Peaking Lights
- Ex Military - Death Grips
- 808s & Dark Grapes II - Main Attractionz
- Hello Cruel World - Sole and the Skyrider Band
- Celestial Lineage - Wolves in the Throne Room
- alabama shakes EP - alabama shakes
- s/t - James Blake
This doesn’t seem to mirror how much rap I listened to this year, and I think I may adjust a few things to reflect that.
