Reverb presents the albums best albums of 2014 that you probably missed, featuring Blake Mills, Todd Terje, Magic Fades and more.
As the internet keeps rolling on, the pool of bedroom producers, garage rockers and cafe singer-songwriters available for a listen opens wider and wider. Make no mistake, it’s made for petabytes of dross. Once in a few hundred hours though, you hit on something great, a hard to pronounce group from an unfamiliar corner of the musical world that you swear it makes all those clicks worth it.
We’ve collected our 10 favorite such albums of 2014. The genres are scattered from minimalist house to vintage country, but each has that ear-perking “something” meriting encouragement, if only just a year-end blog post. Here’s to them:
10. Delta Spirit, “Into The Wide”
plunge headlong into the emotional arena rock they teased on their self-titled album. As tacky as that may sound, the album is their most organic outing since the band’s debut, almost counter-intuitive to the idea of arena rock. Swelling anthems are a dime a dozen here, and almost all are worthy of doing 100 mph, top-down on Route 1 (esp. “From Now On”). There are other styles unheard elsewhere in the band’s catalogue, like the earthen ballad that the album takes its name (which may or may not tease Tenacious D’s “Wonderboy”). If you’ve never heard the band before, start with this and work your way back. Then see them live as soon as possible.
No. 9 of the best albums of 2014 that you missed >>
