Top Ten Of '14

I'm a big fan of rating things, or just judging things in general.  So of course I'm gonna make a top ten list of my fave releases of 2014, right?  Below is my list with the inclusion of my favorite track from each album.  Now it's your turn to judge my list.  Ain't skeered.

#10: Tacocat - NVM (Hardly Art)

#9: Nux Vomica - s/t (Relapse)

#8: Perfect Pussy - Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)

#7: The Budos Band - Burnt Offering (Daptone)

#6: Lecherous Gaze - Zeta Feticuli Blues (Tee Pee)





#5: Survival Knife - Loose Power (Glacial Pace)

#4: Black Rainbow - s/t (Starcleaner)





#3: Electric Wizard - Time To Die (Spinefarm)

#2: PyPy - Pagan Day (Slovenly/Black Gladiator)

#1: Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power (Don Giovanni/Sister Polygon)

Honorable Mention/Best Live Album: Screaming Females - Live At the Hideout (Don Giovanni)

Priests

You guys, I think I found a new band to obsess over...

At the last day of the fest held by Don Giovanni Records in Brooklyn, I gleefully got my face blown off by the second band: a newly-signed act out of DC called Priests.  Seriously, I don't know if I've ever seen that much ferocity from a vocalist without any crowd interaction as I saw out of Katie Alice Greer on that stage.  The music is disturbingly quirky which greatly adds to the feeling of intensity and unease.  I bought their tape (Tape Two) which is also great but doesn't make the hairs on my neck stand up like they did live on Saturday.

Do everything you can to see them live as we await their first proper release.  Until then, enjoy the fact that Pitchfork is already hip to them: