The Staff List: NBHAP’s Favourite Albums and Tracks 2014

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of the year again. It is time to look back on the music year 2014 and it’s finest moments. To give you the best possible overview this year NOTHING BUT HOPE AND PASSION decided to have everyone’s opinion when it comes to the always tough question: ‘What have been the best albums and songs of the year?’ If you want our answers, find them below. All the lovely people who make this magazine possible by working hard throughout the year shared their favourite records and most loved tunes. From popular favourites to obscure gems – it’s all in here for you to witness. Enjoy it.

Henrik Boerger

ALBUMS

01. THE ANTLERS – Familiars
02. AMEN DUNES – Love
03. BARBARISMS – Barbarisms
04. SPOON – They Want My Soul
05. C’MON TIGRE – C’mon Tigre
06. DAMON ALBARN – Everyday Robots
07. ADRIAN CROWLEY – Some Blue Morning
08. TY SEGALL – Manipulator
09. RUN THE JEWELS – Run The Jewels 2
10. THE MEN – Tomorrow’s Hits

01. AMEN DUNES – I Know Myself
02. C’MON TIGRE – December
03. THE ANTLERS – Parade
04. BARBARISMS – Katherine Anne Porter
05. SPOON – They Want My Soul
06. ADRIAN CROWLEY – Golden Palominos
07. CLOUD NOTHINGS – Psychic Trauma
08. RUN THE JEWELS – Blockbuster Part 1
09. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Red Eyes
10. THE MEN – Another Night

Friederike Bloch

ALBUMS

01. BEN HOWARD – I Forget Where We Were
02. ANGUS AND JULIA STONE – Angus & Julia Stone
03. ELBOW – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
04. GEORGE EZRA – Wanted On Voyage
05. EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN – Lament
06. WARPAINT – Warpaint
07. HUNDREDS – Aftermath
08. BANKS – Goddess
09. FINK – Hard Believer
10. COLD SPECKS – Neuroplasticity

01. BEN HOWARD – Small Things
02. FINK – Looking Too Closely
03. EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN – Der 1. Weltkrieg (Percussion Version)
04. BEN HOWARD – Time Is Dancing
05. COUNTING CROWS – Palisades Park
06. THURSTON MOORE – Speak To The Wild
07. AURORA AKSNES – Awakening
08. BANKS – Beggin for Thread
09. BROKEN BELLS – Perfect World
10. GEORGE EZRA – Did You Hear The Rain?

Agatha Cantrill

ALBUMS

01. THE 2 BEARS – The Night Is Young
02. TV ON THE RADIO – Seeds
03. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Lost In The Dream
04. BEN FROST – A U R O R A
05. FUTURE ISLANDS – Singles
06. MOGWAI – Rave Tapes
07. WARPAINT – Warpaint
08. MØ – No Mythologies To Follow
09. SPOON – They Want My Soul
10. ANGEL OLSEN – Burn Your Fire For No Witness

01. The 2 BEARS – Get Out
02. AZEALIA BANKS – 212
03. SIA – Chandelier
04. WILD BEASTS – Mecca
05. ST. VINCENT – Birth In Reverse
06. KLANGKARUSSELL – Sonnentanz
07. SUPERFOOD – Right On Satellite
08. ELBOW – Fly Boy Blue/ Lunette
09. GALA DROP – Let It Go
10. SHAMIR – On The Regular

Naomi Clair

ALBUMS

01. APHEX TWIN – Syro
02. IAMAMIWHOAMI – Blue
03. FLYING LOTUS – You’re Dead
04. EAST INDIA YOUTH – Total Strife Forever
05. NENEH CHERRY – Blank Project
06. FATIMA AL QADIRI – Asiatisch
07. ACTRESS – Ghettoville
08. KINDNESS – Otherness
09. GROUPER – Ruins
10. TYCHO – Awake

01. BURIAL – Lambeth
02. CARIBOU – Our Love
03. KINDNESS – This Is Not About Us
04. SINKANE – How We Be
05. INTERPOL – All The Rage Back Home
06. MODESELEKTOR – I’m Not Into Twerk, I’m Into KrafTwerk
07. CHROMEO ft. TORO Y MOI – Come Alive
08. ALVVAYS – Archie, Marry Me
09. MAC DEMARCO – Salad Days
10. TAYLOR SWIFT – Blank Space

Norman Fleischer

ALBUMS

01. I LOVE YOU BUT I’VE CHOSEN DARKNESS – Dust
02. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Lost In The Dream
03. FUTURE ISLANDS – Singles
04. DAMON ALBARN – Everyday Robots
05. INTERPOL – El Pintor
06. ELBOW – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
07. SIN COS TAN – Blown Away
08. HUNDREDS – Aftermath
09. COLDPLAY – Ghost Stories
10. ELECTRIC YOUTH – Innerworld

01. TIGER LOU – Homecoming #2
02. FUTURE ISLANDS – Seasons (Waiting On You)
03. HUNDREDS – Ten Headed Beast
04. SIN COS TAN – Columbia
05. HOW TO DRESS WELL – 2 Years On (Shame Dream)
06. RÖYKSOPP – Sordid Affair
07. ALVVAYS – Archie, Marry Me
08. JON HOPKINS – Immunity (Asleep Version)
09. BIG DEAL – Sakura
10. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Disappearing

Henning Grabow

ALBUMS

01. THEE SILVER MT ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything
02. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Lost In The Dream
03. SUN KIL MOON – Benji
04. ANGEL OLSEN – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
05. THE ANTLERS – Familiars
06. FUTURE ISLANDS – Singles
07. BEN HOWARD – I Forget Where We Were
08. PROTOMARTYR – Under Color Of Official Right
09. SLEAFORD MORDS – Divide And Exit
10. DOUGLAS DARE – Whelm

01. SLEAFORD MORDS – Tied Up In Nottz
02. DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 – Trainwreck 1979
03. THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – Vad Hände Med Dem?
04. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Red Eyes
05. SUN KIL MOON – Ben’s My Friend
06. ANGEL OLSEN – White Fire
07. FUTURE ISLANDS – Seasons (Waiting On You)
08. THE ANTLERS – Palace
09. SHARON VAN ETTEN – Your Love Is Killing Me
10. THEE SILVER MT ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA – What We Loved Was Not Enough

Robert Helbig

ALBUMS

01. BLUENECK – King Nine
02. THOMAS AZIER – Hylas
03. SUN GLITTERS – Scattered Into Light
04. JUNIUS – Days Of The Fallen Sun
05. THE TWILIGHT SAD – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
06. THIS WILL DESTROY YOU – Another Language
07. DALE COOPER QUARTET & THE DICTAPHONES – Parole de Navarre
08. SIN COS TAN – Blown Away
09. BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE – Cornerstone EP
10. MASTODON – Once More ‘Round The Sun

01. JUNIUS – Forgiving The Cleansing Meteor
02. BLUENECK – Sirens
03. TEN WALLS – Walking With Elephants
04. SUN GLITTERS – Fading Days
05. SARAH P – I Misbehave
06. BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE – Edmonton
07. NAOMI PILGRIM – Rainmakers
08. CUKI ft. BOMBEE – Barefoot Walk
09. THOMAS AZIER – Ghostcity
10. DALE COOPER QUARTET & THE DICTAPHONES – Aucun Cave

Kai Hermann

ALBUMS

01. LANA DEL REY – Ultraviolence
02. SIA – 1000 Forms Of Fear
03. LUCA VASTA – Alba
04. MARGARET – Add The Blonde
05. SAM SMITH – In The Lonely Hour
06. LA ROUX – Trouble In Paradise
07. THE VERONICAS – The Veronicas
08. THE PRETTY RECKLESS – Going To Hell
09. KELIS – Food
10. LEIGHTON MEESTER – Heartstrings

01. SIA – Chandelier
02. LANA DEL REY – Money Power Glory
03. OH LAND – Head Up High
04. BANKS – Brain
05. THE VERONICAS – Line Of Fire
06. LUCA VASTA – #Imperial (I Don’t Wanna Dance)
07. TTHE TING TINGS – Only Love
08. RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN – Do It Again
09. LYKKE LI – Gunshot
10. CHET FAKER – To Me

Chloe Mayne

ALBUMS

01. TY SEGALL – Manipulator
02. ARIEL PINK – pom pom
03. ALLAH-LAS – Worship The Sun
04. FOXYGEN – … And Star Power
05. TOTAL CONTROL – Typical System
06. THE MURLOCS – Loopholes
07. THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE – Revelation
08. AMEN DUNES – Love
09. WHITE FENCE – For The Recently Found Innocent
10. GOAT – Commune

01. ARIEL PINK – Black Ballerina
02. AMEN DUNES – Splits Are Parted
03. PANDA BEAR – Mr. Noah
04. LOW LIFE – Dogging
05. TY SEGALL – Feel
06. ALLAH-LAS – No Werewolf
07. TOTAL CONTROL – Expensive Dog
08. GIRL BAND – Lawman
09. NUN – Uri Geller
10. THE BABE RAINBOW – 1964

Emily Schennach

ALBUMS

01. TRIGGERFINGER – By Absence of the Sun
02. PAULO NUTINI- Caustic Love
03. SLASH feat. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS – World on Fire
04. NEIL FINN- Dizzy Heights
05. COLDPLAY – Ghost Stories
06. THE BLACK KEYS – Turn Blue
07. RUSSIAN RED – Agent Cooper
08. STEVIE NICKS – 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
09. MORRISSEY – World Peace is none of your Business
10. JUDAS PRIEST – Redeemer of Souls

01. GREGORY PORTER- The ‘in’ Crowd
02. TRIGGERFINGER – By Absence of the Sun
03. THE BLACK KEYS – Fever
04. SLASH – World on Fire
05. PAOLO NUTINI – One Day
06. NOVASTAR – Closer to you
07. STEEL PANTHER – Gloryhole
08. COLDPLAY – Magic
09. ELLA HENDERSON – Ghost
10. TAYLOR SWIFT – Shake it Off

Sam Slater

ALBUMS

01. FKA TWIGS – LP1
02. CLARK – Clark
03. HOZIER – Hozier
04. THOM YORKE – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
05. OONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – R Plus 7
06. ADULT JAZZ – Gist Is
07. JULIA REIDY – Spaces Between
08. RICKY EAT ACID – Three Love Songs
09. PERFUME GENIUS – Too Bright
10. DEATH GRIPS – Government Plates

01. HOZIER – From Eden
02. CLARK – Banjo
03. SUN KIL MOON – Clarrissa
04. WILD BEASTS – Daughters
05. FKA TWIGS – Numbers
06. ADULT JAZZ – Idiot Mantra
07. ONEOTHRIX POINT NEVER – He She
08. SISYPHUS – Rhythm Of Devotion
09. BEN FROST – Diphenyl Oxalate
10. THEE SILVER MT ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA – Fuck Off Get Free (For the Island of Montreal)

Anne Tetzner

ALBUMS

01. METRONOMY – Love Letters
02. SYLVAN ESSO – Sylvan Esso
03. CHET FAKER – Built on Glass
04. MAC DEMARCO – Salad Days
05. FUTURE ISLANDS – Singles
06. POMPEII – Loom
07. CLOUD NOTHINGS – Here and Nowhere Else
08. FLYING LOTUS – You’re Dead
09. NICK MULVEY – First Mind
10. REAL ESTATE – Atlas

01. SYLVAN ESSO – Dress
02. YUNG LEAN – Yoshi City
03. METRONOMY – The Most Immaculate Haircut
04. CLOUD NOTHINGS – I’m Not Part of Me
05. CHET FAKER – 1998
06. VON SPAR – Streetlife
07. AURORA – Under Stars
08. MAC DEMARCO – Salad Days
09. NICK MULVEY – Fever to the Form
10. COURTNEY BARNETT – Avant Gardener

Josefine Vorwerk

ALBUMS

01. DARK WAVES – Dark Waves
02. MAD CADDIES – Dirty Rice
03. BANE – Don’t Wait Up
04. THE SOFT HILLS – Departure
05. LAGWAGON – Hang
06. BEATSTEAKS – Beatsteaks
07. TV ON THE RADIO – Seeds
08. FOO FIGHTERS – Sonic Highways
09. PERFUME GENIUS – Too Bright
10. BRODY DALLE – Diploid Love

01. DARK WAVES – I Don’t Wanna Be In Love
02. MAD CADDIES – Shoot Out The Lights
03. ROYAL BLOOD – Figure It Out
04. I HEART SHARKS – To Be Young
05. THE BELLE BRIGADE – Metropolis
06. SHARON VAN ETTEN – Your Love Is Killing Me
07. ALVVAYS – Archie, Marry Me
08. CHVRCHES – Get Away
09. AGAINST ME! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
10. THE WAR ON DRUGS – Suffering

Miriam Wallbaum

ALBUMS

01.THE ACID – Liminal
02. CHET FAKER – Built On Glass
03. ALT-J – This Is All Yours
04. LANA DEL REY – Ultraviolence
05. KIASMOS – Kiasmos
06. SOHN – Tremors
07. CARIBOu – Our Love
08. FKA TWIGS – LP 1
09. HUNDREDS- Aftermath
10. THE/DAS – Freezer

01. THE ACID – Basic Instinct
02. WARPAINT – Love Is To Die
03. BANKS – Brain
04. CARIBOU – Can’t Do Without You
05. ALT-J- Bloodflood pt II
06. CHET FAKER – 1998
07. MØ – Waste Of Time
08. LANA DEL REY – Shades Of Cool
09. FKA TWIGS – Two Weeks
10. THE/DAS – My Made Up Spook

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