Panache’s Best of 2014 Year End Lists

Happy New Year from Panache! Our staff compiled our Best of 2014 Year End Lists and have shared those with you below. We’re excited for 2015 and all the great adventures to come!

Michelle Cable:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Mac DeMarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
Ty Segall, Manipulator (Drag City)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (Flightless/Castle Face/Heavenly)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Oddments (Flightless)
Ultimate Painting, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Reigning Sound, Shattered (Merge)
Happyness, Weird Little Birthday (Weird Smiling)
Amen Dunes, Love (Sacred Bones)
Tiny Ruins, Brightly Painted One (Bella Union/Flying Nun)
Juan Wauters, N.A.P. (Captured Tracks)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Ty Segall – Tall Man, Skinny Lady
Mac DeMarco – Let My Baby Stay
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Sleepwalker
Woods – Moving To The Left
Kevin Morby – Parade
Reigning Sound – Starting New
White Fence – Like That
Richard In Your Mind – Hammered
Tiny Ruins – Straw Gold
Mikal Cronin – Soul In Motion

Annie Southworth:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
The Blind Shake, Breakfast of Failures (Goner)
Yung, S/T
Total Control, Typical System (Iron Lung)
Perfect Pussy, Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)
Thee Oh Sees, Drop (Castle Face)
D’Angelo, Black Messiah (RCA)
Run The Jewels, Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
Swans, To Be Kind (Mute/Young God)
Chad Van Gaalen, Shrink Dust( (Sub Pop)

Meredith Fraser:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Total Control, Typical System (Iron Lung)
Ex-Cult, Midnight Passenger (Goner)
Quintron, Spellcaster II: Death In Space (Pizza Burglar)
Juan Wauters, N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
Black Bananas, Electric Brick Wall (Drag City)
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Stay Home (Toxic State)
Total Abuse, Looking for Love 7” (Deranged)
Protomartyr, Under Color Of Official Right (Sub Pop)
Music Blues, Things Haven’t Gone Well (Thrill Jockey)
Lumpy & The Dumpers, Gnats In The Pissa 7” (Total Punk)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Ex-Cult – Midnight Passenger
Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Do The Raid
Total Control – Expensive Dog
Black Bananas – Powder 8 Eeeeeeeeight
OBN III’s – No Time For The Blues (Live In San Francisco)
Wand – Fire On The Mountain (I-II-III)
Austmuteants – Boiling Point
Jaun Wauters – Lost In Soup
Merchandise – No You And Me
Lumpy & The Dumpers – Gnats In The Pissa

Sam Kogon:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Ultimate Painting, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Ariel Pink, Pom Pom (4AD)
Morgan Delt, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Beck, Morning Phase (Capitol)
Tonstartssbandht, Overseas (Arbutus)
Celestial Shore, Enter Ghost (Hometapes)
Ty Segall, Manipulator (Drag City)
Mac DeMarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
Each Other, Being Plastic (Lefse)
Mitski, Bury Me At Makeout Creek (DDW)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Glen Campbell – I’m Not Gonna Miss You
Ultimate Painting – Winter In Your Heart
David Bowie – Tis A Pity She Was A Whore
Paul McCartney – Early Days
Ariel Pink – Put Your Number In My Phone
Beck – Blackbird Chain
Celestial Shore – Creation Myth
Mac DeMarco – Passing Out Pieces
Porches – Leather
Shamir – On The Regular

Josh Iden:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Ty Segall, Manipulator (Drag City)
White Fence, For The Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
Richard In Your Mind, Ponderosa (Rice Is Nice)
Doug Tuttle, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
The Paperhead, Africa Avenue (Trouble In Mind)
Dusty Mush, S/T (Howlin’ Banana)
Volage, Heart Healing (Howlin’ Banana)
Sick Hyenas, S/T (Dumpster Tapes/Moody Monkey)
Germ House, Showing Symptoms (Trouble In Mind)
Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Ty Segall – The Singer
White Fence – Like That
Ultimate Painting – Ultimate Painting
Tweens – Don’t Wait Up
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Slow Jam 1
Wand – Flying Golem
Dusty Mush – Cowboy Express
Wax Witches – Ultra Outcast
The Mantles – Memory
Morgan Delt – Make My Grey Brain Green

Karen Alonzo:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Juan Wauters, N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
Ultimate Painting, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Ty Segall, Manipulator (Drag City)
Wand, Ganglion Reef (Drag City/God?)
Mac DeMarco, Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
White Fence, For The Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (Flightless/Castle Face/Heavenly)
Morgan Delt, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Ariel Pink, Pom Pom (4AD)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Ultimate Painting – Winter In Your Heart
Celestial Shore – Gloria
Kevin Morby – The Ballad Of Arlo Jones
Happyness – You Come To Kill Me?
EZTV – Trampoline
Ice Cream – Plastic
Jack Name – Pure Terror
Shintaro Sakamoto – Extremely Bad Man
Ex-Cult – Ties You Up
Speedy Ortiz – Shine Theory

Sarah Hopkins:
Top 10 LP’s of 2014 (Artist/Album/Label)
Ultimate Painting, S/T (Trouble In Mind)
Guy Blakeslee, Ophelia Slowly (Everloving)
Beck, Morning Phase (Capitol)
Wand, Ganglion Reef (Drag City)
Reigning Sound, Shattered (Merge)
Tonstartssbandht, Overseas (Arbutus)
Juan Wauters, N.A.P. North American Poetry (Captured Tracks)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, I’m In Your Mind Fuzz (Flightless/Castle Face/Heavenly)
Caribou, Our Love (City Slang)
Shabazz Palaces, Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)

Top 10 Songs of 2014 (Artist/Song)
Ty Segall – Tall Man, Skinny Lady
Perfume Genius – Queen
Mac DeMarco – Passing Out Pieces
SBTRKT – New Dorp, New York
Lykke Li – No Rest For The Wicked
FKA Twigs – Two Weeks
EZTV – Trampoline
Angel Olsen – Hi-Five
D’Angelo – Sugah Daddy
Ex Hex – Don’t Wanna Lose