Moon Poll 2014 Is On

[Magic Mountain]

Good year, not great. A lot of very good releases, but not too many relative to other years that have the potential to be great. The following is my top 10 (2014 studio releases only):

1 240 - My Brother the Wind - Once There Was a Time When Time and Space Were One
2 287 - Bjørn Riis - Lullabies in a Car Crash
3 142 - Jeff Green Project - Elder Creek
4 236 - Moraine - Groundswell
5 358 - Umphrey's McGee - Similar Skin
6 268 - Pinkroom - Unloved Toy
7 173 - Karfagen - Magician's Theater
8 250 - Opeth - Pale Communion
9 169 - IQ - The Road of Bones
10 190 - Lazuli - Tant que l'herbe est grasse

Here are some others that made the first cut but not the final 10:

Gong - I See You
Kaukasus - I
Pineapple Thief - Magnolia
Djam Karet - Regenerator 3017
Mostly Autumn - Dressed in Voices
Steve Unruh - Music From Air
Three Seasons - Grow
Kenso - Uchi Naru Koe Ni Kaikiseyo
Trioscapes - Digital Dream Sequence
Camera - Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide
Cheeto's Magazine - Boiling Fowls
Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals
Cosmograf - Capacitor
Synaesthesia - Synaesthesia
Crippled Black Phoenix - White Light Generator
Swans - To Be Kind
Monomyth - Further
3rd Ear Experience - Incredible Good Fortune
Poil - Brossaklitt
Sonar - Static Motion
Anton Roolaart - The Plight of Lady Oona
Lee Abraham - Distant Days
Happy Family - Minimal Gods
Cellar & Point - Ambit