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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2014)

Individual staff lists

Aideen's list

1. The Pack A.D. – Do Not Engage (Nettwerk)
2. Morrissey – World Peace Is None of Your Business (Harvest)
3. Warpaint – Warpaint (Rough Trade)
4. Jimi Goodwin – Odludek (Heavenly Recordings)
5. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Warner Bros.)
6. Alvvays – Alvvays (Transgressive)
7. The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt (Island)
8. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic)
9. Royal Blood – Royal Blood (Warner Bros.)
10. Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (Red Bull Records)
11. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal (Whats Your Rupture?)
12. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Last Gang / Warner Bros.)
13. Hozier – Hozier (Island)
14. Elbow – The Take Off and Landing of Everything (Fiction)
15. September Girls – Cursing the Sea (Fortuna POP!)
16. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
17. Jessie Ware – Tough Love (Island)
18. White Lung – Deep Fantasy (Domino)
19. A Lazarus Soul – Last of the Analogue Age (Intent To Supply)
20. The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie (Bella Union)

Andy's list

1. Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)
2. The Bilinda Butchers – Heaven (Independent)
3. La Dispute – Rooms Of The House (Better Living)
4. Mannequin Pussy – Gypsy Pervert (Tiny Engines)
5. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
6. S – Cool Choices (Hardly Art)
7. Weed Hounds – Weed Hounds (Katorga Works)
8. Perturbator – DANGEROUS DAYS (Independent)
9. Ricky Eat Acid – Three Love Songs (Orchid Tapes)
10. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)
11. Swans – To Be Kind (Young God)
12. Alex G – DSU (Orchid Tapes)
13. Pharmakon – Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)
14. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)
15. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (Columbia)
16. Electric Wizard – Time To Die (Spinefarm Records)
17. Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)
18. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Sea When Absent (Lefse Records)
19. Eyehategod – Eyehategod (Housecore)
20. Alexeï Kawolski – My DC Offset Fields (Kalmar A Label)
21. Sd Laika – THAT'S HARAKIRI (Tri Angle Records )
22. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)
23. Plastic Girl in Closet – Eye Cue Rew See (Only Feedback)
24. Nadja and Uochi Toki – Cystema Solari (Corpoc)
25. Boris – Noise (Sargent House)

Cheryl Prime's list

1. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
2. Schammasch – Contradiction (Prosthetic)
3. Behemoth – The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
4. Darkspace – Darkspace III I (Avantgarde Music)
5. Anathema – distant satellites (Kscope)
6. Rome – A Passage To Rhodesia (Trisol)
7. Alcest – Shelter (Prophecy Productions)
8. Panopticon – Roads to the North (Bindrune Records)
9. Triptykon – Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
10. Woods Of Desolation – As The Stars (Northern Silence)
11. Winterfylleth – The Divination of Antiquity (Candlelight Records)
12. Mysticum – Planet Satan (Peaceville Records)
13. Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti Productions)
14. Voices – London (Candlelight Records)
15. Sólstafir – Ótta (Season Of Mist)
16. Abigor – Leytmotif Luzifer (Avantgarde Music)
17. The Great Old Ones – Tekeli-Li (Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions)
18. Waldgeflüster – Meine Fesseln (Bindrune Recordings)
19. Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot Recordings)
20. Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere (Profound Lore)
21. Saor – Aura (Northern Silence)
22. Taake – Stridens hus (Dark Essence Records)
23. Planning For Burial – Desideratum (Flenser)
24. Botanist – VI: Flora (Flenser)
25. Ascension – The Dead of the World ( World Terror Committee)

Chris Brown's list

1. Eyehategod – Eyehategod (Housecore)
2. Earthless & Heavy Blanket – In a Dutch Haze (Outer Battery Records / Roadburn Records)
3. Indian – From All Purity (Relapse)
4. Dope Body – Lifer (Drag City)
5. Direct Effect – Sunburn (Tiny Engines)
6. The People's Temple – Musical Garden (Hozac Records)

Loren's list

1. Street Eaters – Blood::Muscles::Bones (Nervous Intent)
2. Coathangers – Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
3. The Lawrence Arms – Metropole (Epitaph)
4. Tweens – Tweens (French Kiss)
5. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
6. The Dwarves – Invented Rock & Roll (Recess)
7. The Tim Version – Ordinary Life (No Idea Records)
8. The Copyrights – Report (Red Scare)
9. Rational Anthem – Emotionally Unavailable (Bloated Kat)
10. The Blind Shake – Breakfast of Failures (Goner Records)
11. The Brokedowns – Life Is A Breeze (Red Scare Industries)
12. Ex Friends – Rules for Making Up Words (Paper + Plastick)
13. Needles//Pins – Shamebirds (Dirt Cult)
14. Steve Adamyk Band – Dial Tone (Dirtnap)
15. Neighborhood Brats – Recovery (Deranged)
16. Direct Effect – Sunburn (Tiny Engines)
17. The Smith Street Band – Throw Me In the River (SideOneDummy)
18. The Murder City Devils – The White Ghost Has Blood on Its Hands Again (Murder City Devils)
19. Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike) – Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
20. Atmosphere – Southsiders (Rhymesayers)
21. Tiny Empires – Weird Headspace (Independent)
22. Onward Etc. – Sonder On (DC-Jam Records)
23. Off! – Wasted Years (Vice)
24. Astpai – Burden Calls (Jump Start)
25. Banner Pilot – Souvenir (Fat Wreck Chords)

Matt's list

1. The Lawrence Arms – Metropole (Epitaph)
2. Antemasque – Antemasque (Nadie)
3. La Roux – Trouble in Paradise (Polydor)
4. Vashti Bunyan – Heartleap (Fat Cat Records)
5. John Frusciante – Enclosure (Record Collection)
6. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Give the People What They Want (Daptone)

Nathan G. O'Brien's list

1. Watery Love – Decorative Feeding (In The Red)
2. Run The Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike) – Run The Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
3. The Murder City Devils – The White Ghost Has Blood on Its Hands Again (Murder City Devils)
4. Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron (Top Dawg Ent. / Interscope)
5. Padkarosda – Szabadulásom M?vészete (Wake Up And Live)
6. Apollo Brown & Rass Kass – Blasphemy (Mello Music Group)
7. Dark Blue – Pure Reality (Jade Tree)
8. Dilated Peoples – Directors of Photography (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
9. White Lung – Deep Fantasy (Domino)
10. Has-Lo & Castle – Live Like You're Dead (Mello Music Group)
11. Ex-Cult – Midnight Passenger (Goner)
12. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata (Madlib Invazion)
13. Lumpy & The Dumpers – Collection (Space Ritual)
14. Ratking – So It Goes (HXC / XL)
15. Boston Strangler – Fire (Boston Strangler)
16. Meyhem Lauren & Buckwild – Silk Pyramids (Thrice Great LLC)
17. The Estranged – Self Titled LP (Sabotage)
18. Iron Hand – Injected Fear (Safety Meeting)
19. Eastlink – Self Titled (In The Red)
20. Creative Adult – Psychic Mess (Run For Cover)
21. Nots – We Are Nots (Goner)
22. Brain F≠ – Empty Set (Grave Mistake / Sorry State)
23. Teledrome – Self Titled (FDH / P.Trash)
24. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – I'm Your Mind Fuzz (Heavenly / Castle Face / Flightless)
25. Merchandise / Destruction Unit / Milk Music – USA '13 (540 Records)

Scott Wilkinson's list

1. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Give the People What They Want (Daptone)
2. The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams (Washington Square)
3. The Curtis Mayflower – Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack (Independent)
4. Drivin' N Cryin' – Songs For The Turntable (New!)
5. Pixies – Indie Cindy (Pixies Music)
6. Mad The Martian – Blast Off (MtM Records)
7. FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)
8. Black Lips – Kids Like You & Me (Universal)
9. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble)
10. Chuck Ragan – Till Midnight (Side One Dummy)
11. Noises We Make When No One Is Around – the black box contained nothing but our deaths (Independent)
12. Beck – Morning Phase (Capitol)
13. Keith Emerson and Greg Lake – Live at Manticore Hall (Manticore Records)
14. The Trouble With Templeton – Rookie (Bella Union)
15. Green Day – Demolicious (Reprise)
16. John Frusciante – Enclosure (Record Collection)
17. Andrew Jackson Jihad – Christmas Island (Side One Dummy)
18. Neighborhood Brats – Recovery (Deranged)
19. The Dwarves – Invented Rock & Roll (Recess)
20. The Sands – Hotel & Casino (Houseplant)
21. The Meatmen – Savage Sagas (Self-Destructo)
22. Bane – Don't Wait Up (Equal Vision)
23. Replica – Beast (Prank)
24. Anatomy Of Habit – Ciphers + Axioms (Relapse)
25. Lumpy & The Dumpers – Collection (Space Ritual)

Spyros Stasis's list

1. Swans – To Be Kind (Young God)
2. Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God (Profound Lore)
3. Lord Mantis – Death Mask (Profound Lore)
4. Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti Productions)
5. Pharmakon – Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)
6. Menace Ruine – Venus Armata (Profound Lore)
7. Coffinworm – IV.I.VIII (Profound Lore)
8. Sunn O))) and Scott Walker – Soused (4AD)
9. Burial Hex – The Hierophant (Handmade Birds)
10. Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot Recordings)
11. Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
12. The Atlas Moth – The Old Believer (Profound Lore)
13. Indian – From All Purity (Relapse)
14. Wolvhammer – Clawing Into Black Sun (Profound Lore)
15. Drowned – Idola Specus (Sepulchral Voice)
16. Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche Recordings)
17. Gridlink – Longhena (Selfmadegod Records)
18. Panopticon – Roads to the North (Bindrune Records)
19. Botanist – VI: Flora (Flenser)
20. Anatomy Of Habit – Ciphers + Axioms (Relapse)
21. Mamiffer – Statu Nascendi (Sige)
22. Baptists – Bloodmines (Southern Lord)
23. Barren Harvest – Subtle Cruelties (Handmade Birds)
24. Full of Hell & Merzbow – Full of Hell & Merzbow (Profound Lore)
25. Ambarchi, O'Malley, Dunn – Shade Themes From Kairos (Drag City)