2014 Year-End Accolades

 

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Weyes Blood’s single “Hang On” from her critically acclaimed album The Innocents  made The FADER’s Best Tracks of 2014.

 

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The Vinyl Factory ranked Linda Perhacs’ psych-folk opus Parallelograms fourth in their Top 30 Vinyl Reissues of 2014.

 

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Pitchfork chose Rob Carmichael / SEEN Studio‘s artwork for Peter Matthew Bauer’s album Liberation! for their list of Best Album Covers of 2014.

 

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Quilt’s album Held In Splendor was one of Bob Boilen’s (of NPR All Songs ConsideredBest Albums of 2014.

 

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Ebru Yildiz‘s photograph of Connan Mockasin at FYF Fest was featured in Pitchfork’s Year in Photos.

 

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Inverted Audio ranked Tallesen‘s “Strike Silver, Love Green“#3 in their Top Tracks of November.

 

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DARPA” by Napolian and “Strike Silver, Love Green” by Tallesen came in at #100 and #92, respectively, in Gorilla Vs Bear’s Top Songs of 2014.

 

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Aquarium Drunkard named Quilt’s Held In Splendor, Robert Lester Folsom’s Music And Dreams and Ode To A Rainy Day, Viet Cong’s “Cassette”, and Ashrae Fax’s Never Really Been Into It to their 2014 Year In Review.

 

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Impose names Software Recording Co. one of the best labels of 2014.

 

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The L Magazine dubs Viet Cong’s “Cassette” as one of the 20 best albums of 2014.

 

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Loud and Quiet highlights Suicideyear’s Remembrance at #8, Quilt’s Held In Splendor at #18, and Weyes Blood’s The Innocents at #27 on their albums of the year list.

 

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GABI‘s “Koo Koo” cracks Pitchfork’s Contributors’ Top 10s via Philip Sherburne.

 

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La Hell Gang’s album Thru Me Again ranks #42 of Resident’s Records of the Year and #85 of Picadilly’s Records of the Year.

 

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Napolian’s debut album Incursio comes in at #50 in Norman Records’ Top 50 of 2014.

 

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Both Peter Matthew Bauer’s Liberation!  and Thug Entrancer’s Death After Life album covers were included in Redefine’s Album Covers of the Year round-up.
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Grouper includes a sneak preview of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s 2015 album, A Year With 13 Moons, in her Boomkat chart for 2014.
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Thug Entrancer’s Milton-Melvin-Croissant III-directed video for “Death After Life I” is Live Eye TV’s #1 Music Video of 2014.
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The 405 anoints Thug Entrancer’s Death After Life #16 of The 30 Best Albums of 2014.
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Weyes Blood and Napolian feature in Impose Magazine’s Year in Pop: 2014.
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FACT names Suicideyear’s mix as one of their 15 Best FACT Mixes of 2014.
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Amoeba names Linda Perhacs’ Parallelograms one of the 20 Great Vinyl Reissues from 2014.
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The Hot Selection on NTS Radio names Tallesen’s Stills Lit Through one of their ’20 from ’14 – 20 music-related things that defined the year.
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Connan Mockasin‘s Boiler Room: In Stereo performance at Gary’s Electric / Mexican Summer HQ makes Boiler Room’s 2014: A Retrospective.