Favorite Films of 2014

Boyhood

 

Under the Skin

 

The Grand Budapest Hotel

 

 

Whiplash

 

Nightcrawler

 

Inherent Vice

 

Selma

 

American Sniper

 

 

Only Lovers Left Alive

 

Gone Girl

 

20,000 Days on Earth

 

Birdman

 

The Immigrant

 

The Rover

 

Enemy

 

Snowpiercer

 

Cold in July

 

Calvary

 

Locke

 

Wild

 

 

Blue Ruin

 

Guardians of the Galaxy

 

Interstellar

 

The Imitation Game

 

Foxcatcher

 

 

The Skeleton Twins

 

The Theory of Everything

 

The One I Love

 

A Most Wanted Man

 

Begin Again

 

 Joe

 

Ida

 

 

 

*Anticipated contenders I have yet to see:

 

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

A Most Violent Year

Life Itself

Starred Up

Jodorowsky's Dune

Rosewater

The Babadook

Two Days, One Night

 

 

 

 

Favorite Albums of 2014

1. TV on the Radio - Seeds

2. Strand of Oaks - HEAL

 

3. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There

 

4. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

5. Spoon - They Want My Soul

 

6. Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

 

7. Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else

 

8. Kevin Drew - Darlings

 

9. Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams

 

10. St. Vincent - St. Vincent

 

11. Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness

 

12. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal

 

13. Vogue Dots - Toska/Mauka

 

14. Real Estate - Atlas

 

15. Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers

 

16. Marissa Nadler - July

 

17. Beck - Morning Phase

 

18. Jon Autry - beautifully broken

 

19. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Sling Shot to Heaven

 

 

20. Cory Branan - The No-Hit Wonder

 

21. Jenny Lewis - The Voyager

 

22. Old 97's - Most Messed Up

 

23. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Mended with Gold

 

24. John Fullbright - Songs

 

25. Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours

 

26. Robert Ellis - The Lights from the Chemical Plant

 

27. Damien Jurado -Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son

 

28. Maggie Bjorklund - Shaken

 

29. Robert Francis - Heaven

 

30. Lily & Madeleine - Fumes

31. Tweedy - Sukierae

 

32. Ex Hex - Rips

 

33. Mac DeMarco - Salad Days

 

34. The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers

 

 

35. The Antlers - Familiars

 

36. Lykke Li - I Never Learn

37. Bahamas - Bahamas Is Afie

 

38. Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy

39. Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers

40. Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes

 

41. Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans

 

42. Centro-matic - Take Pride in Your Long Odds

 

43. Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain

 

44. Simone Felice - Strangers

 

45. Delta Spirit - Into the Wide

 

46. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold

 

 

47. Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Best of Boiler Room Classics

 

48. Hozier - Hozier

 

49. Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else

 

50. Veseria - Voyager

 

 

Honorable Mentions

 

Caribou - Our Love

Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

 

We Are Hex - Bleach Brigade

 

Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World

 

Scanlines - Scanlines

Jack White - Lazaretto

 

Interpol - El Pintor

Bonesetters - Figure It Out

The Men - Tomorrow's Hits

 

Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso

 

 

EMA - The Future's Void