Strangelove complied a list of her Most Anticipated Albums of 2014 and decided to share it with the world!
Below is a playlist featuring songs from every album listed. Enjoy:
Strangelove’s Anticipated Albums of 2014 from 91.1KLSU on 8tracks Radio.
Artist – Song / Album release date
1. James Vincent McMorrow – Red Dust / Post Tropical released: 14 January (singer/songwriter, folk)
2. Warpaint – Keep It Healthy / Warpaint released: 17 January (prog-pop, psych-rock)
3. Shlohmo/Jeremih – Bo Peep (Do U Right) / TBA release date: February 2014 (R&B)
4. Temples – Mesmerise / Sun Structures release date: 11 February (psych-rock)
5. Angel Olsen – Forgiven/Forgotten / Burn Your Fire For No Witness release date: 18 February (indie-rock)
6. Phantogram – Fall In Love / Voices release date: 18 February (electronic)
7. St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse / St. Vincent release date: 25 February (indie-pop)
8. SchoolBoy Q – Collard Greens ft. Kendrick Lamar / Oxymoron release date: 25 february (hip hop)
9. Real Estate – Talking Backwards / Atlas release date: 4 March (indie-rock, surf rock)
10. Metronomy – I’m Aquarius / Love Letters release date: 10 March (electropop)
11. The War On Drugs – Red Eyes / Lost In The Dream release date: 18 March (shoegaze, alt-rock)
12. MØ – Never Wanna Know / No Mythologies to Follow release date: 24 March (Pop)
13. Liars – Mess On A Mission / Mess release date: 25 March (electronic, dance-punk)
14. Mac DeMarco – Passng Out Pieces / Salad Days release date: 1 April (indie-rock, surf rock)
15. Cloud Nothings – I’m Not Part Of Me / Here and Nowhere Else release date: 1 April (indie-rock, noise rock)
16. Sam Smith – Nirvana / In the Lonely Hour release date: 26 May (pop)
17. FKA Twigs – Water Me / TBA release date: TBA 2014 (trip-hop, dream pop)
18. Solange – Cash In / TBA release date: TBA 2014 (R&B, neo soul)
- Song from Soul compilation Saint Heron
19. Grimes – Genisis / TBA release date: TBA 2014 [told fan September 9 via twitter] (electronic, dream pop, dark wave)
- Signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation agency, Grimes’s 2014 album will be more polished and professional than anything she’s done to date.
20. Joanna Newsom – Look and Despair (Live) / TBA release date: TBA 2014 (folk)
21. Frank Ocean – Golden Girl / TBA release date: TBA 2014 [“when the summer comes ‘round again” via Tumblr] (R&B)
- In a BBC interview, Frank said, “I’m like 10, 11 songs into this thing. It’s another cohesive thing bordering on a concept album again. At the end of Channel Orange, there’s ‘Golden Girl’ and it’s this beach scene. And I kind of wanted to extend that feel into the next record altogether.”
22. SBTRKT – IMO / TBA release date: TBA 2014 (electronic)
- “IMO” is new music while writing his second album.
(i)n (m)emory (o)f his brother Daniel.
23. Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument / TBA release date: TBA (folk)
- Recent activity in Fleet Foxes’ camp suggest new release in 2014. From their sophomore album Helplessness Blues, the jazzy breakdown mid “The Shrine / An Argument” suggests a departure from some of the more folksy sounds of the group – Consequence of Sound
