Piero Merola Awards 2014

di Piero Merola il 24/12/2014@pieromerola

100 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

1. Perc, “The Power And The Glory”
2. Run The Jewels, “Run The Jewels 2”
3. Sun Kil Moon, “Benji”
4. Ariel Pink, “pom pom”
5. Swans, “To Be Kind”
6. Andy Stott, “Faith In Strangers”
7. FKA Twigs, “LP1”
8. Gazelle Twin, “Unflesh”
9. D’Angelo, “Black Messiah”
10. Flying Lotus, “You’re Dead”

11. Grouper, “Ruins”
12. Container, “Adhesive”
13. Aphex Twin, “Syro”
14. Objekt, “Flatland”
15. Todd Terje “It’s Album Time”
16. Real Estate, “Atlas”
17. Arca, “Xen”
18. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, “Pinata”
19. Dean Blunt, “Black Metal”
20. Vince Staples, “Hell Can Wait”
21. Timber Timbre, “Hot Dreams”
22. Mac DeMarco, “Salad Days”
23. Susanna/Jenny Hval, “Meshes Of Voice”
24. The War On Drugs, “Lost In The Dream”
25. The Bug “Angels & Devils”

26. Gesloten Cirkel, “Submit X”
27. Ben Frost, “Aurora”
28. Cult Of Youth, “Final Days”
29. Sharon Van Etten, “Are We There”
30. Shabazz Palaces, “Lese Majesty”
31. Spoon, “They Want My Soul”
32. St. Vincent, “St. Vincent”
33. Hundred Waters, “The Moon Rang Like A Bell”
34. Isaiah Rashad, “Cilvia Demo”
35. Alex G, “DSU”
36. Pharmakon, “Bestial Burden”
37. YG, “My Krazy Life”
38. Kassem Mosse, “Workshop 19”
39. Cloud Nothings, “Here And Nowhere Else”
40. Moodymann, “Moodymann”
41. Young Thug, Birdman & Rich Homie Quan, “Rich Gang: Tha Tour Part 1”
42. Woods Of Desolation, “As The Stars”
43. Actress, “Ghettoville”
44. How to Dress Well, “What Is This Heart?
45. Edward, “Into A Better Future”
46. SHXCXCHCXSH, “Linear S Decoded”
47. Open Mike Eagle, “Dark Comedy”
48. Iceage, “Plowing Into The Field Of Love”
49. Sunn O & Scott Walker, “Soused”
50. Caribou, “Our Love”

51. Azealia Banks, “Broke With Expensive Taste”
52. Lykke Li, “I Never Learn”
53. Young Thug & Bloody Jay, “Black Portland”
54. Goat, “Commune”
55. Schoolboy Q, “Oxymoron”
56. Mr Mitch, “Parallel Memories”
57. Joey Anderson, “After Forever”
58. Clark, “Clark”
59. DJ Quik, “The Midnight Life”
60. DJ Dodger Stadium, “Friend Of Mine”
61. Future, “Honest”
62. Fatima Al Qadiri, “Asiatisch”
63. Liars, “Mess”
64. Future Islands, “Singles”
65. White Lung, “Deep Fantasy”
66. Ought, “More Than Any Other Day”
67. The Antlers, “Familiars”
68. Ex Hex, “Rips”
69. Cymbals Eat Guitars, “Lose”
70. Tops, “Picture You Staring”
71. Strand Of Oaks, “Heal”
72. Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate
73. Jessie Ware, “Tough Love” Goat, “Commune”
74. Angel Olsen, “Burn Your Fire For No Witness”
75. Wye Oak, “Shriek”

76. Jungle, “Jungle”
77. Parquet Courts, “Sunbathing Animal”
78. Wild Beasts, “The Present Tense”
79. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Sea When Absent
80. Nux Vomica, “Nux Vomica”
81. Nils Frahm, “Spaces”
82. Perfect Pussy, “Say Yes To Love”
83. Marissa Nadler, “July”
84. Lydia Ainsworth, “Right from Real”
85. Owen Pallett, “In Conflict”
86. Pallbearer, “Foundations of Burden”
87. Quilt, “Held In Splendor”
88. Fucked Up, “Glass Boys”
89. Protomartyr, “Under Color of Official Right”
90. tUnE-yArDs, “Nikki Nack”
91. Tinashe, “Aquarius”
92. Steve Gunn, “Way Out Weather”
93. CLIPPING., “CLPPNG”
94. The Hotelier, “Home, Like No Place Is There”
95. Amen Dunes, “Love”
96. Neneh Cherry, “Blank Project”
97. EMA, “The Future’s Void”
98. Have A Nice Life, “The Unnatural World”
99. The Men, “Tomorrow’s Hits”
100. IloveMakonnen, “I Love Makonnen”

BEST COVER ART
Andy Stott, “Faith In Strangers”

200 TRACKS | Spotify Playlist

A$AP Ferg – Shabba REMIX
Actress – Rap
Alex G – After Ur Gone
Alice Boman – Over
Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me
Andrew Ashong – Special
Andy Stott – Faith In Strangers
Angel Olsen – Lights Out
Aphex Twin – minipops 67 [120.2][source field mix]
araabMUZIK – Ghost Story
Arca – Thievery
Ariana Grande – Problem
Ariel Pink – Picture Me Gone
Ariel Pink – One Summer Night
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Little Fang
Azealia Banks – Ice Princess
Banks – Goddess
Baths – Ocean Death
Ben Frost – Nolan
Beverly – Honey Do
Beyoncé – ***Flawless
blue hawaii – Get Happier
Bobby Shmurda – Hot N*gga
The Bug – Fall
Caribou – Can’t Do Without You
Caribou – Our Love
Chet Faker – Gold
Chromeo – Jealous (I Ain’t With It)
Clark – Winter Linn
clipping – Body & Blood
Cloud Nothings – I’m Not Part Of Me
Container – Glaze
Cult of Youth – Empty Faction
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Jackson
D’Angelo – The Charade
D’Angelo – Sugah Daddy
Dean Blunt – 50 CENT
Diabolic – A.M.E.R.I.C.a. (Truth Part 3)
DJ Dodger Stadium – Love Songs
DJ Quik – Pet Semetary
DJ Rashad – We On 1
Doss – Softpretty
Drake – 0 To 100 / The Catch Up
Dreamtrak – Contemporary
Eagulls – Possessed
EMA – Satellites
Evian Christ – Waterfall
Ex Hex – Don’t Wanna Lose
Eyedress – When I’m Gone
Father – Look At Wrist
Father John Misty – Bored In The USA
Fatima Al Qadiri – Szechuan
FKA twigs – Two Weeks
FKA twigs – Video Girl
Floating Points – King Bromeliad
Floorplan – Never Grow Old – Re-Plant
Flying Lotus – Coronus, the Terminator
Flying Lotus – Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Freddie Gibbs – High (feat. Danny Brown)
Freddie Gibbs – Robes (feat. Domo Genesis, Earl Sweatshirt)
Future – Move That Dope
Future – Benz Friendz (Whatchutola)
Future Brown – Wanna Party Remix (feat. Tink and 3D Na’Tee)
Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
Gazelle Twin – Exorcise
Gesloten Cirkel – Yamagic
Goat – Talk to God
Grouper – Holding
Hannah Diamond – Every Night
Heterotic – Rain (feat. Vezelay)
Hookworms – Radio Tokyo
How To Dress Well – Words I Don’t Remember
Hundred Waters – Out Alee
I LOVE MAKONNEN – Tuesday (feat. Drake)
iceage – On My Fingers
Iggy Azalea – Fancy
Inga Copeland – advice to young girls
Isaiah Rashad – R.I.P. Kevin Miller
Jamie xx – All Under One Roof Raving
Jerome LOL – Fool
Jessie Ware – Kind Of…Sometimes…Maybe
Joey Anderson – It’s a Choice
Jungle – The Heat
Kassem Mosse – Untitled A2
Katie Gately – Pivot
Kendrick Lamar – i
Kero Kero Bonito – Sick Beat
Lana Del Rey – Brooklyn Baby
Lemonade – Stepping
Leon Vynehall – It’s Just (House of Dupree)
Liars – Mask Maker
Lil Wayne – Believe Me
Lone – 2 Is 8
Lydia Ainsworth – Hologram
Lykke Li – Gunshot
Mac Demarco – Passing Out Pieces
Mac Demarco – Chamber Of Reflection
Makthaverskan – Inside Of Me
Marissa Nadler – Was It A Dream
Mas Ysa – Shame
Me.Sh – Scythians
Mica Levi – Love
Michael Jackson – Love Never Felt so Good
Migos – Hit Em
Miss Modular – Reflector Pack (8 Bar)
Moderat – Bad Kingdom – DJ Koze Remix
Moodymann – Lyk U Use 2 (feat. Andres)
Movement – Like Lust
Mr Twin Sister – Blush
Mumdance – Take Time
Napolian – DARPA
Neneh Cherry – Everything
The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Objekt – Ratchet
OOIOO – Atatawa
Open Mike Eagle – Qualifiers
Ought – Habit
Owen Pallett – I Am Not Afraid
Panda Bear – Mr Noah
Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
Peaking Lights – Breakdown
Perc – Rotting Sound
Perc – Galloper
Perfect Pussy – Interference Fits
Perfume Genius – Queen
Pharmakon – Bestial Burden
Popcaan – Everything Nice
Populous – Vu (feat. Clap! Clap!)
Protomartyr – Scum, Rise!
Pure X – Heaven
Pusha T – Lunch Money
Quilt – Tie Up the Tides
Rae Sremmurd – No Flex Zone
Real Estate – Crime
Recondite – Caldera
Rich Gang – Lifestyle
Rick Ross – Sanctified
Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
Run The Jewels – Oh My Darling Don’t Cry
Run The Jewels – Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) [feat. Zack De La Rocha]
Run The Jewels – Love Again (Akinyele Back) [feat. Gangsta Boo]
Rustie – Attak (feat. Danny Brown)
Ryan Hemsworth – Surrounded – With Kotomi & Doss
Sales – Getting It On
Schoolboy Q – Break The Bank
Sd Laika – Meshes
Sevendeaths – All Night Graves
Shabazz Palaces – #CAKE
Shackleton – Freezing Opening Thawing
Shamir – On The Regular
Sharon Van Etten – Your Love is Killing Me
shlohmo – Shlohmo & Jeremih – No More
SHXCXCHCXSH – Drain This Lord
Sia – Chandelier
Skepta – That’s Not Me – All Star Remix
Sleater-Kinney – Bury Our Friends
The Soft Moon – Black
SOPHIE – Lemonade
Spoon – Do You
St. Vincent – Prince Johnny
St. Vincent – Digital Witness
Steve Gunn – Milly’s Garden
Strand of Oaks – JM
Sun Kil Moon – Carissa
Sun Kil Moon – Ben’s My Friend
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry in the Tradition of Passing)
Susanna – I Have Walked This Body
Swans – A Little God In My Hands
Swans – Oxygen
The Swiss – In the City
Sylvan Esso – Could I Be
SZA – Babylon (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Teddybears – Sunshine
Tei Shi – Bassically
Tinashe – Bet
Tinashe – 2 On
Tobias Jesso Jr. – Hollywood
toddterje – TODD TERJE – Delorean Dynamite (album version)
Tomas Barfod – Pulsing (feat. Nina K)
TOPS – Way to be Loved
Total Control – Flesh War
tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain
United Nations – Serious Business
Vic Mensa – Down On My Luck
Viet Cong – Continental Shelf
Vince Staples – Limos
The War On Drugs – Red Eyes
White Lung – Face Down
Wild Beasts – Wanderlust
Woods – Moving to the Left
Woods of Desolation – Like Falling Leaves
Wovenhand – Good Shepherd
YG – Left Right
Young Money – Lookin Ass
Young Thug – Stoner
Young Thug – Old English
Young Widows – Kerosene Girl
Youth Code – Consuming Guilt
Yumi Zouma – It Feels Good To Be Around You (feat. Air France)

20 LIVE

1 Neutral Milk Hotel, Beaches Brew 2014, Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna

2 Outkast, Way Out West 2014, Goteborg

3 Kendrick Lamar, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona

4 Janelle Monàe, Way Out West 2014, Goteborg
5 Darkside, Way Out West 2014, Goteborg
6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona
7 Swans, Estragon, Bologna
8 Mark Kozelek, Bronson, Ravenna
9 Vatican Shadow, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona
10 Timber Timbre, Bronson, Ravenna
11 WovenHand, Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna
12 Arcade Fire, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona
13 Joey Badass, Way Out West, Goteborg
14 Nine Inch Nails, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona
15 Spoon, Primavera Sound 2014, Barcelona
16 Royksopp & Robin, Way Out West 2014, Goteborg
17 Deafheaven, Primavera Sound, Barcelona
18 Bardo Pond, Freak Out, Bologna
19 Jon Hopkins, roBot Festival, Bologna
20 Mos Def, Way Out West 2014, Goteborg

10 VIDEOS

1 FKA Twigs, “Two Weeks”

2 Ariel Pink, “Picture Me Gone”

3 Kendrick Lamar, “i”

4 Beyoncé, “7/11”
5 Arca, ”Thievery”
6 Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Never Catch Me”
7 Mac DeMarco, “Passing Out Pieces”
8 Shamir, “On The Regular”
9 Iceage, “The Lord’s Favorite”
10 Perfume Genius, “Queen”