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Tom 'Left' Brumpton - Vocals Tom 'TK' Clarke - Guitars Jake 'D'artagnan' Bennett - Bass Adam 'Tweak' Jones - Drums and Backing Vocals make up Akarusa Yami and here is their Top Ten 2014
1. Skindred - Kill The Power
2. Crosses - Crosses
3. Elbow - The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
4. Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum
5. U2 - Songs Of Innocence
6. Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
7. Lily Allen - Sheezus
8. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
9. Linkin Park - The Hunting Party
10. Whitechapel - Our Endless War
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It has been a busy but very sucessful year for EofE and 2015 certainly seems one that will be even bigger for this Midland's band.
EofE Top Ten
1. Lower than Atlantis - self titled
2. Royal Blood - Self titled
3. BearTooth - Disgusting
4. Slash - World on Fire
5. Slipknot - The Gray Chapter
6. You Me at Six - Cavalier Youth
7. Twin Atlantic - The Great Divide
8. Mallory Knox - Asymmetry
9. California Breed - self titled
10. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
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1. Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
2. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
3. Feed The Rhino - The Sorrow And The Sound
4. Marmozets - The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets
5. Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter
6. Hearts Under Fire - Outlines
7. Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
8. Rise Against - The Black Market
9. Lower Than Atlantis - Lower Than Atlantis
10. Ed Sheeran - X
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1 Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
2. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
3. Gregory Alan Isakov - The Weatherman
4. Royal Blood - Royal Blood
5. The Black Keys - Turn Blue
6. Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were
7. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
8. Marc Halls - Born Into Light EP
9. Dave Mcpherson - Journal of a Journey Buoy
10. James Bay - Hold Back The River EP
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1) Jehené Aiko - Souled Out
2) Curren$y - The Drive In Theatre
3) Nebu Kiniza - Hypnosis
4) Rick Ross - Hood Billionaire
5) Mac Miller - Faces
6) Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood
7) Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
8) Volumes - No Sleep
9) Monuments - The Amanuensis
10) Ghetts - Momentum 2
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1. Berri Txarrak - Denbora Da Poligrafo Bakarra
2. You Me At Six - Cavalier Youth
3. Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
4. Charlie Simpson - Long Road Home
5. PVRIS - White Noise
6. Marmozets - The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
7. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
8. Angels & Airwaves - The Dream Walker
9. Mallory Knox - Assymetry
10. Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence
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Here’s our first all-Star Top Ten for 2014 from Lucky Strikes man, Matt Boulter.
It’s been a busy year for Matt playing with Blue Rose Code and Simone Felice as well as doing the Lucky Strikes and solo shows. Matt has also recorded a lot of sessions with other artists that will be coming out next year.
2015 is also going to be busy because the Strikes have recorded a new album and Matt is close to completing a new solo album so lots of gigging in support of these records to come
Here’s Matt’s top Ten 2014:
1. Quilt – Quilt
2. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
3. Bonnie Prince Billy – Singer’s Grave a Sea of Tongues
4. Rosalie Deighton – Burning Boat
5. Blue Rose Code – The Ballads of Peckham Rye
6. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather
7. Various Artists - Elizabethan Sessions
8. Sharon Van Etton - Are we There
9. Danny and the Champions of the World - Stay True
10. Simone Felice - Strangers
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1. Us amongst the Rest - Follow the Truth
2. Joe Bonamassa - Different shades of Blue
3. Enter the Lexicon - Enter the Lexicon
4. Road to Horizon - Faultlines
5. Foo Fighters - Sonic highways
6. Black Stone Cherry - Magic mountain
7. These Reigning Days - Opera of Love
8. The Fuse - Black Lion
9. Blackberry Smoke - The Whippoorwill
10. Kill it Kid - You owe nothing
Gigs
Asking Alexandria - The Roundhouse
The Fuse – Borderline
Enter the Lexicon – Surya
EofE – Borderline
Man like Me - Village Green Festival, Southend-on-Sea
Road to Horizon - Surya
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1. The War in Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2, East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
3. Beck - Morning Phase
4. Jamie T. -Carry on the Grudge
5. Perfume Genius - Too Bright
I bought the usual 50+ CDs this year. Like most of them, but they don't really hit the mark as top ten. So I have a top 5
Kevin B.
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Well it's that time of year again.
If you would like your Top Ten added for 2014 just drop us a mail with your selections for any of the categories below to:
Thank you.
Top Ten Albums (UK release in 2014)
Top Ten Gigs
Top Ten Festival performances
Best Song (One only)
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Thank you to all who cast their votes this year.. 100 albums received individual nods of approval and our combined Top Ten Albums of 2013 looks like this:
1 The National Trouble Will Find Me
2 Laura Marling Once I was an Eagle
3 John Grant Pale Green Ghosts
4 Parquet Courts Light up Gold
5 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away
6 Arcade Fire Reflektor
7 Arctic Monkeys AM
8 Foals Holy Fire
9 Phosphorescent Muchacho
10 These New Puritans Field of Reeds
Other albums receiving votes;
David Bowie |
The Next Day |
Israel Nash Gripka |
Israel Nash's Rain Plans |
Jason Isbell |
Southeastern |
The Leisure Society |
Alone Aboard The Ark |
Caitlin Rose |
The stand-in |
Jagwar Ma |
Howlin' |
Vampire Weekend |
Modern Vampires of the City |
Local Natives |
Hummingbird |
Kurt Vile |
Wakin on a Pretty Daze |
Daft Punk |
Random Access Memories |
I Am Kloot |
Let It All In |
Steve Mason |
Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time |
Frightened rabbit |
Pedestrian verse |
Kanye West |
Yeezus |
Savages |
Silence Yourself |
Sigur Ros |
Kveikur |
Apparat |
Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) |
British Sea Power |
Machineries of Joy |
Lisa Knapp |
Hidden Seam |
Low |
The Invisible Way |
Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle |
Perils from the Sea |
Toy |
Join The Dots |
Daniel Avery |
Drone Logic |
Dutch Uncles |
Out Of Touch In The Wild |
East of Eden |
Contagion |
Eluvium |
Nightmare Ending |
Haim |
Days are Gone |
Johnny Marr |
The Messenger |
Lorde |
Pure Heroine |
Manic Street Preachers |
Rewind The Film |
Midlake |
Antiphon |
Milo Greene |
Milo Greene |
Turin Breaks |
We Were Here |
Biffy Clyro |
Opposites |
Houndmouth |
From the Hills Above the City |
Mogwai |
Les Revenants |
Neko Case. |
The Worse Things Get |
Stone Sour |
House of Gold & Bones pt2 |
Stornoway |
Tales From Terra Firma |
The Kissaway Trail |
Breach |
Fallen Trees |
No Country for Poor People |
Jagwar ma - Dub |
The Time and Space Machine Dub Sessions |
Jonathan Wilson |
Fanfare |
Public Service Broadcasting |
Inform, Educate, Entertain |
The Civil Wars |
The Civil Wars |
Wampire |
Curiosity |
Camera Obscura |
Desire Lines |
Fallout Boy |
Save Rock & Roll |
Keaton Henson |
Birthdays |
Pet Shop Boys |
Electric |
Tracer |
El Pistolero |
Deap Valley |
Sistrionix |
Filthy Boy |
Smile That Wont Go Down |
Peace |
In Love |
Shinedown |
The Warner Sound live |
Tift Merritt |
Travelling Companion |
Ulrich Schnauss |
A Long Way to Fall |
Waxahatchee |
Cerulean Salt |
White Denim |
Corsicana Lemonade |
Boards of Canada |
Tomorrows Harvest |
Drenge |
Drenge |
Heidi Talbot |
Angels Without Wings |
Laura Veirs |
Warp & Weft |
Money |
The Shadow Of Heaven |
Paul McCartney |
New |
Pearl Jam |
Lightning Bolt |
The Men |
New Moon |
Bella Hardy |
Battleplan |
Bring me the Horizon |
Sempiternal |
oldheart Assembly |
Long Distance Sound Effects |
Jake Bugg |
Shangri La |
Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams |
Lonesome Dreams |
Mark Kozelek & Desertshore |
MK & D |
Primal Scream |
More Light |
San Fermin |
San Fermin |
Suede |
Bloodsports |
Bon Jovi |
What About Now |
Cloud |
Comfort Songs |
Connan Mockassin |
Caramel |
Ed Harcourt |
Back Into The Woods |
Everything Everything |
Arc |
Fuzzy Lights |
Rule of Twelfths |
Heirlooms of August |
Down At The 5-Star |
London Grammar |
If You Wait |
Night Beds |
Country Sleep |
Phoenix – Bankrupt! |
Bankrupt! |
The Besnard Lakes |
Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
II |
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Top Albums
1. Jagwar Ma Howlin
2. Johnny Marr The Messenger
3. Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse
4. Local Natives Hummingbird
5. Camera Obscura Desire Lines
6. Haim Days are Gone
7. White Denim Corsicana Lemonade
8. Neko Case The Worse Things...
9. Night Beds Country Sleep
10. San Fermin San Fermin