Yearend 2014: Best of The Best Pt. 4

The lists keep coming! Turns out 2014 is proving more fruitful in terms of Halifax Collect yearend lists than 2013. That's for damn sure. Bu this point you should be seeing requiring nominations popping up from batch one through four.

Another year ends. A lake-worth of albums have been released. We may have listened to 0.000348% of them but in the grand scope of things, that's a massive heap of releases we put our ears to! Halifax Collect's contributors and friends have started submitting their lists. Here's the fourth batch 1st., 2nd., and 3rd.).

Please submit your list in the comment section or start a conversation regarding our picks. What ought to be on there? What did we miss out on? Is one or more of our picks horrid and inconsequential? 

Júlíana plays bass for the band Börn (link). If you've been paying close attention, you'll know that Börn's s/t release has been showing up on a lot of our yearend list. We suggest you go listen to them NOW.

1. White Lung - Deep Fantasy
Future Islands - Singles
Prins Póló - Sorrí
Punch - They Don't Have To Believe
Kælan Mikla - Glimmer og aska
Pink Street Boys - Trash From The Boys (article)
Þórir Georg - Ræfill
Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint
FKA Twigs - LP1
Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love









Guðný, the promotor, the PR person, the photographer, the mover, the shaker, the ex-Eistnaflug dynamo, the Halifax Collect contributor. What hasn't she done? She can't be stopped. Here most recent endeavour includes Hlemmur PR/records (link / twitter). Get on it for Iceland-centric news, plugs and discoveries that have anything to do with this island's scene. Follow here on twitter.

1. Run the Jewles - Run the Jewles 2
2. King Dude - Fear
3. Iceage - Plowing into the Field of Love
4. Sólstafir - Ótta (review)
5. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
6. Conan - Blood Eagle (review)
7. Börn - s/t (review)
8. Swans - To Be Kind
9. Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors
10. Wovenhand - Refractory Obdurate

Honorable mentions:
Pink Street Boys
Pallbearer
Kindness
YG
Schoolboy Q
Sinmara (review)

Sigurður Harðarson, aka Siggi Pönk, is a regular contributor for Halifax Collect and the blog's book club president. Known for his musical output in Gjöll (noise/ambient/poetry), Dys (metallic punk) and Forgarður Helvítis (blackened grind metal), the man is also a professional nurse of the highest order, currently helping people in Brighton, UK.

1. Full of Hell & Merzbow
This lists unhealthiest album. Which is a positive thing because I like to go back and disappear into it after work when I've tired of working with ill people.
Godflesh - A World Lit Only by Fire
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Plebeian Grandstand - Lowgazers
Börn - s/t (review)
Svartidauði - Flesh Cathedral
IRM - Closure
Thou - Heretic
Today is The Day - Animal Mother (review)
Swans - To Be Kind





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