We're just about halfway through the year, so it seems appropriate to start the midyear accolades. So, let's start off with my Top 5 Albums of 2014 so far.
1. Soulmate Stuff | Antarctigo Vespucci
It's hard not to love this album. It just sounds like a group of friends in a garage just shooting the s**t and jamming out together. That's most of the beauty of the album. It's so organic. There's no sense to it. Some songs sound like it fell off of a Springsteen album, but others sound like a classic Weezer song. Chris Farren (lead singer of Fake Problems) and Jeff Rosenstock (of the now defunct Bomb the Music Industry!) created a 7-song album that you can jam out to in the car or shower and appreciate for the sheer talent put into it. Check out our review here!
What about you? What are your favorite albums of the year so far?
Hey, I'm Karl, founder and film critic at Smash Cut. I started Smash Cut in 2014 to share my love of movies and give a perspective I haven't yet seen represented. I'm also an editor at The New York Times, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society.
So, what albums are your favorites of the year so far?
Though I haven’t gotten to listen to any on this list, I’d have to add in Snarky Puppy’s “We Like it Here” and Bill Laurence’s “Flint”