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2014-001 KELLY CLARKSON - STRONGER (WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU) 2014-002 LIO - LE BANANA SPLIT 2014-003 VITALIC - TERMINATEUR BENELUX 2014-004 RILO KILEY - A BETTER SON/DAUGHTER 2014-005 RAC - LOVEFOOL (FEAT. LIZ ANJOS) 2014-006 RAC - TEAR YOU DOWN (FEAT. ALEX EBERT) 2014-007 R. KELLY - REAL TALK (LA VALSE D’KELLZ VERSION) 2014-008 DEADMAU5 - PROFESSIONAL GRIEFERS (FEAT. GERARD WAY) 2014-009 CONGOROCK - IVORY 2014-010 THE CHAINSMOKERS - #SELFIE 2014-011 ZEDD - CLARITY (FEAT. FOXES) (IOSYS UNO DENPA REMIX) 2014-012 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA VS. KNIFE PARTY - ANTIDOTE 2013-013 THE PRODIGY - PIRANHA 2014-014 TILT! - SYSTEM XTC 2014-015 NATALIA KILLS - BOYS DON’T CRY 2014-016 NATALIA KILLS - WONDERLAND

2014-017 NATALIA KILLS - KILL MY BOYFRIEND 2014-018 NINE INCH NAILS - ONLY 2014-019 REDALICE - EXCLUSIVE POLYRHYTHM 2014-020 MODESELEKTOR - I’M NOT INTO TWERK, I’M INTO KRAFTWERK 2014-021 CLARK - SUPERSCOPE 2014-022 LANDIS - HYPNOTICA 2014-023 WATERMÄT - BULLIT 2014-024 DOSS - THE WAY I FEEL 2014-025 LUKE VIBERT - SIX EIGHT 2014-026 LUKE VIBERT - CLIKILIK 2014-027 LANA DEL REY - ULTRAVIOLENCE 2014-028 MUSE - UNINTENDED 2014-029 MIKE OLDFIELD - NUCLEAR 2014-030 BOARDS OF CANADA - SEVEN FORTY SEVEN 2014-031 SKY FERREIRA - I CAN’T SAY NO TO MYSELF 2014-032 ARIANA GRANDE - PROBLEM (FEAT. IGGY AZALEA)

2014-033 ARIANA GRANDE - BREAK FREE (FEAT. ZEDD) 2014-034 THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - COME WITH ME (DAY FOR NIGHT VERSION) 2014-035 AZEALIA BANKS - HEAVY METAL AND REFLECTIVE 2014-036 GESAFFELSTEIN - AUFSTAND 2014-037 NOISIA AND PROLIX - ASTEROIDS 2014-038 JULIAN JORDAN - SLENDERMAN 2014-039 AZEALIA BANKS - NO PROBLEMS 2014-040 CLIPPING. - BODY AND BLOOD 2014-041 NICKI MINAJ - ANACONDA 2014-042 FATBOY SLIM - EVERYBODY LOVES A CARNIVAL 2014-043 MIRRORBALL INFERNO - HAVE A SEX, KANCHI (FEAT. TONYAHARDING) 2014-044 PET SHOP BOYS - LOVE ETC. (GUI BORATTO REMIX) 2014-045 DÚNÉ - HEIRESS OF VALENTINA (ALESSO EXCLUSIVE MIX) 2014-046 DEPECHE MODE - PERSONAL JESUS (BOYS NOIZE REWORK) 2014-047 KAISER CHIEFS - EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU LESS AND LESS 2014-048 ARIANA GRANDE & THE WEEKND - LOVE ME HARDER

2013-001 LANA DEL REY - NATIONAL ANTHEM (DEMO VERSION) 2013-002 ABBA - ANGELEYES 2013-003 MANDY MOORE - CANDY 2013-004 DOLDRUMS - EGYPT 2013-005 KNIFE PARTY - INTERNET FRIENDS 2013-006 THE GOOD NATURED - 5-HT 2013-007 ALIZÉE - À CAUSE DE L'AUTOMNE 2013-008 ELITE GYMNASTICS - WΛKΛ 2013-009 日本編集音楽協会 - メカゴジラ (crabMixx) 2013-010 FLEETWOOD MAC - THE LEDGE 2013-011 ANNIE - TUBE STOPS AND LONELY HEARTS 2013-012 ANNIE - I KNOW UR GIRLFRIEND HATES ME (FEEL THE MOOG REMIX) 2013-013 ICONA POP - I LOVE IT (FEAT. CHARLI XCX) 2013-014 THE VERONICAS - UNTOUCHED 2013-015 THE VERONICAS - HOOK ME UP 2013-016 MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - TEEN IDLE

2013-017 RACHEL STEVENS - I SAID NEVER AGAIN (BUT HERE WE ARE) 2013-018 BLUR - DAISY BELL (A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO) 2013-019 CHERYL COLE - PROMISE THIS 2013-020 NEW ORDER - BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE (RICHARD X REMIX) 2013-021 NEW ORDER - JETSTREAM (ARTHUR BAKER REMIX) 2013-022 KNIFE PARTY - INTERNET FRIENDS VIP 2013-023 GIRLS ALOUD - FLING 2013-024 AZAELEA BANKS - 212 (FEAT. LAZY JAY) 2013-025 MUSE - CAN'T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU 2013-026 BACCARA - YES SIR, I CAN BOOGIE 2013-027 S CLUB 7 - REACH 2013-028 DEMI LOVATO - HEART ATTACK 2013-029 MUSE - UNNATURAL SELECTION 2013-030 TOMMY HEAVENLY6 - PAPERMOON 2013-031 MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS - OH NO! 2013-032 NINE INCH NAILS - THE PERFECT DRUG

2013-033 SELENA GOMEZ - FORGET FOREVER 2013-034 NINE INCH NAILS - CAME BACK HAUNTED 2013-035 NINE INCH NAILS - SIN 2013-036 NINE INCH NAILS - ONLY (RICHARD X REMIX) 2013-037 NOISIA - MACHINE GUN 2013-038 LENA - BLISS BLISS 2013-039 ANNIE - INVISIBLE 2013-040 NINE INCH NAILS - WISH [BROKEN] 2013-041 KELE - TENDERONI 2013-042 NOISIA AND PHACE - IMPERIAL 2013-043 NINE INCH NAILS - MEMORABILIA 2013-044 REDALICE - COME COME POWER 2013-045 M.I.A. - U.R.A.Q.T. 2013-046 CHARLI XCX - YOU (HA HA HA) 2013-047 SKY FERREIRA - LOST IN MY BEDROOM 2013-048 M.I.A. - Y.A.L.A.

2012-001 LONE - COBRA 2012-002 BERTOIA - MONOTONE 2012-003 GRIMES - GENESIS 2012-004 GRIMES - CRYSTAL BALL 2012-005 GRIMES - OBLIVION 2012-006 2NE1 - 내가 제일 잘 나가 2012-007 HYUNA - BUBBLE POP! 2012-008 GIRLS’ GENERATION - THE BOYS 2012-009 ももいろクローバーZ - 猛烈宇宙交響曲・第七楽章「無限の愛」 2012-010 CAPSULE - STRIKER 2012-011 きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - PONPONPON 2012-012 CAPSULE - TAPPING BEATS 2012-013 NEW ORDER - 5 8 6 [PEEL SESSION] 2012-014 PORTISHEAD - STRANGERS [ROSELAND NYC] 2012-015 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - TERRIBLE ANGELS 2012-016 KORALLREVEN - SA SA SAMOA (ELITE GYMNASTICS REMIX)

2012-017 ELITE GYMNASTICS - (I ALWAYS CRY AT) REGENERATIONS 2012-018 ELITE GYMNASTICS - SLIME CROWN 2012-019 BURIAL - LONER 2012-020 BURIAL + FOUR TET - NOVA 2012-021 DANIEL ROSSEN - SILENT SONG 2012-022 ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - GENETIC ENGINEERING 2012-023 BRITNEY SPEARS - DO SOMETHIN' 2012-024 SQUAREPUSHER - DARK STEERING 2012-025 SQUAREPUSHER - A REAL WOMAN 2012-026 f(x) - CHOCOLATE LOVE (ELECTRONIC POP VER.) 2012-027 f(x) - HOT SUMMER 2012-028 PREFUSE 73 - THE CLASS OF 73 BELLS (FEAT. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS) 2012-029 THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS - TOM TOM 2012-030 CLARK - RAINBOW VOODOO 2012-031 SQUAREPUSHER - WELCOME TO EUROPE 2012-032 LFO - BUTTERSLUT

2012-033 ELEFTHERIA ELEFTHERIOU - APHRODESIAC 2012-034 MATTHEW DEAR - CRIMEWAVES 2012-035 A PINK - HUSH 2012-036 SHINEE - SHERLOCK 2012-037 T-ARA – 너 때문에 미쳐 2012-038 ABBA - AS GOOD AS NEW 2012-039 ELITE GYMNASTICS - LITTLE THINGS 2012-040 RACHEL STEVENS - SOME GIRLS 2012-041 f(x) - ELECTRIC SHOCK 2012-042 LANA DEL REY - NATIONAL ANTHEM 2012-043 TNGHT - EASY EASY 2012-044 SUGABABES - PUSH THE BUTTON 2012-045 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - COME ON EILEEN 2012-046 BLUR - THE UNIVERSAL 2012-047 BLUR - PARKLIFE 2012-048 BLUR - COFFEE & TV

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few - very few, I would imagine - who are impressed by it, but only rarely would anyone like it. Who in the world could possibly have warm feelings, or something like them, for a person who doesn't compromise, who instead, whenever a problem crops up, locks himself away alone in a closet? But is it ever possible for a professional writer to be liked by people? I have no idea. Maybe somewhere in the world it is. It's hard to generalize. For me, at least, I've written novels over many years, I just can't picture someone liking me on a personal level. Being disliked by someone, hated and despised, somehow seems more natural. Not that I'm relieved when that happens. Even I'm not happy when someone dislikes me.

Was it me or was this not a great year for music? A few of my favourite artists did some full LP drops but none of them were the strongest in their respective discographies -- Clark's a great example, despite a few great tracks (Winter Linn, daaayumn) his self-titled album goes on just too long, and my favorite song he put out this year is actually from a two-song EP/split single from earlier in the year, Superscope.

So I only have a few favorite albums from the year, in no particular order;

APHEX TWIN - SYRO Once Aphex Twin announced he was releasing an album this year, it was virtually a given this would rocket up to one of my favorite albums. While there is no single standout track, but after a what, 14 year hiatus(?), each track is a solid addition to his catalog that manages to match the quality of his earlier catalog and still update his sound to sound new, while also somehow managing to ignore the popular EDM/IDM sounds that have developed ever since Drukqs. minipops is a fantastic example. Syro's probably the most accessible album he'll ever make.

ARIANA GRANDE - MY EVERYTHING I like pop music because I like hot girls that make music. Studies have been proven people do taste the "price" of expensive wine and we all know we do judge books by their covers, so if I'm biased towards middlish bangers because there's a qt 3.14 behind it, I make no apologies. Thank god My Everything is actually good, because after Honeymoon Avenue I had completely lowered my expectations. There's a couple FUCKAWFUL tracks (pls remove big sean and Childish Gambino? seriously??? go back to your awful nbc sitcoms, mate), but Break Free is the banger of the year, Problem is stupid fun as far as what you're gonna hear on FM pop radio, and Love Me Harder is actually a really good song, like whoa.

RÖYKSOPP - THE INEVITABLE END Röyksopp has tended to do poorly in critical reviews, I have no idea why. Maybe Pitchfork has a sense their Lost In Translation sensibilities are being pandered to and everyone else follows suit in panning them, but I don't get it. This is planned as their last album because I guess they're bored of the traditional format of releasing multiple tracks at once, and also after reading some interviews I guess they're a bit sad so the lyrics to a lot of the tracks are coming from a pretty moody/aloof place emotionally.

There's basically two ways the tracks lean, with Skulls an example of a dark, twisted take on their earlier music with a freaky video to boot, and I Had This Thing a beautiful progression of the way they've come to develop their music while handling that delicate balance adding lyrics to electronic music without ending up about as embarrassing to listen to as any given Cascada single.

T-ARA - GOSSIP GIRLS I gotta rep K-Pop, but it didn't do too well this year. This is actually a Japanese language repackage of a couple of my favorite Kpop band's tracks and a few originals, and I'm really just dropping it here because the idea of crossing T-ARA with a tribute to some absurd show that had really hot girls on it -- Leighton Meester, will you marry me? -- scores points on its own. And it already came out last year, or I would've been able to rank NUMBER NINE as one of my favorite tracks of 2014 (it's one of my favorite tracks of 2013 and I think it's one of the best songs the Great K-Pop Wave of 2011-2014? had put forth)

DISAPPOINTMENTS: AZEALIA BANKS - BROKE WITH EXPENSIVE TASTE I knew better than to expect another 212, but I did expect more No Problems. Nothing really comes close, though Heavy Metal and Reflective is worth a listen. CLARK - CLARK Clark is a great artist who has managed to develop his own sound and can stand next to his Warp labelmates Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada and so on and basically have as much weight at the table as they do, but this album's unfocused and just not the best thing he's ever put out, which is an opinion that puts me at odds with a lot of reviews coming out for this album, but I stand by it. I really want to rank it at the top this year, but that's only by default. Had this been released last year (2013 was a stronger year for me) I wouldn't have given it a second listen. KNIFE PARTY - ABANDON SHIP Knife Party has developed this reputation outside its oblivious fandom of basically mocking its own IDM festival fans waiting for the dubstep drop with increasingly caustic music, and Abandon Ship finally cranks it to 11 and switches genres right when the drop's expected, has absurd song titles and samples (seriously, try to imagine raving to that one), and drops all the hard bass aggression for more tempered music, but it's also a boring listen. I appreciate this album a lot for existing, but it's time to kill the project and go back to putting out Pendulum releases.

TAYLOR SWIFT - 1989 It's not a bad album, and has a few good moments (Welcome to New York does OMD better than OMD themselves have lately), but I let myself get too hyped up for what's basically a rough transition album from her ditching country entirely (goodbye...), and I can already tell her next album's probably just going to grate on me. And fuck her for taking her music off Spotify. HONORABLE MENTIONS: GOT A GIRL - I LOVE YOU BUT I MUST DRIVE OFF THIS CLIFF NOW Mary Elizabeth Winstead (and some guy? who cares, MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD) put out an album! And it panders to my love of 1960s French ye-ye! It's a nice concept album of sorts, and something like Da Da Da where she sings idiotic lyrics over an obnoxious beat and then just gets irate about it is worth.