So, it’s that time of year again, yeah, it’s favourite albums of the year time. Loads of great music this year, some old faces and plenty of new ones too but for those of you who care, here are my 25 albums of 2014. Enjoy!
25. Second Storey – ‘Double Divide’
24. Beach Day – ‘Native Echoes’
23. Globelamp – ‘Star Dust’
22. Sex Hands – ‘Pleh’
21. The #1s – ‘The #1s’
20. Attaque – ‘ON LY YOU’
19. Shit Robot – ‘We Got Love’
18. Mowbird – ‘Islander’
17. Oh Boland/Me & My Dog – ‘Delphi’
16. Jamie T – ‘Carry on the Grudge’
15. Pharoahe Monch – ‘PTSD’
Following on from his 2011’s W.A.R, comes fourth solo LP, PTSD (aka Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), a loose-concept album which sees Pharoahe Monch speaking as a weary independent warrior against the industry machine and dealing with the struggle of the black male experience in America. It’s dense, raw and sometimes painfully raw, as he relives harrowing memories of his struggle with addiction, depression and suicidal thoughts. It’s all draped with his familiar top-notch storytelling, cavernous vocabulary, thought-provoking rhymes, precise delivery and thought-provoking metaphors, placing him right up top of the current hip-hop pile.