With it being December, everyone’s starting to list their favorite albums of the year. We’re no different, which is why we’ve turned to some of the people making that music. In this installment, Travis Ryan of Cattle Decapitation, Mike Hill of Tombs Johnny Hawkins of Nothing More and Jenks Miller of Horseback, Mount Moriah and Rose Cross NC share what they liked more than anything else in 2014, Stay tuned throughout the week as we continue to bring you more artists’ picks for the year, followed by ours.
Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation)
1) Bethlehem, Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
2) Beck, Morning Phase
3) Swans, To Be Kind
4) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
5) Cynic, Kindly Bent to Free Us
6) Die Antwoord, Donker Mag
7) Interpol, El Pintor
8) Aphex Twin, Syro
9) Thurston Moore, The Best Day
10) John Frusciante, Enclosure
Mike Hill (Tombs)
1) Atriarch, An Unending Pathway
2) Black Anvil, Hail Death
3) Triptykon, Melana Chasmata
4) Impetuous Ritual, Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence
5) Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta III: Satyrbauab Poetry
6) Godflesh, A World Lit Only by Fire
7) YOB, Clearing the Path to Ascend
8) Behemoth, The Satanist
9) Swans, To Be Kind
10) Inter Arma, The Cavern
Jonny Hawkins (Nothing More)
1) Crosses, Telepathy
2) Kid Cudi, Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon
3) Of Mice and Men, Restoring Force
4) Cold Play, Ghost Stories
5) Animals as Leaders, The Joy of Motion
6) Band of Skulls, Himalayan
7) Bear’s Den, Islands
8) Imogen Heap, Sparks
9) Sevendust, Time Travelers and Bonfires
10) Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways
Jenks Miller (Horseback, Mount Morian, Rose Cross NC)
Favorite 2014 Reissues (listed alphabetically)
Absu, Origin War and Magic
John Coltrane, Offering
Death, Leprosy
Grateful Dead & John Oswald, Greyfolded
Fela Kuti, discography
Num Skull, Ritually Abused
Order from Chaos, Frozen in Steel
Rippikoulu, Musta Seremonia
Rudimentary Peni, Death Church
