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Best Songs of 2014
Oneohtrix Point Never- Meet Your Creator
Gobby – Gnargoyle
Full of Hell & Merzbow – Gordian Knot
Carla Bozulich – One Hard Man
Nmesh – If I Tell You That I’m Happy
Taso – Drop That Thang
Spooky Black – Without U
Nicki Minaj – Yasss Bish
Herve & Zebra Katz – Tear The House Up
Jeremiah Jae – Good Times
QUAD – 2 Lbs of Sad
milo – ought implies can and i cannot
Kevin Gates – Movie
Sophie – Hard
Ariana Grande – Be My Baby
Pregnant – Courageous Act
Anne Guthrie – Branching Low and Spreading
Antwon f/ Lil Ugly Mane – Rain Song
B L A C K I E – Wings Blocking Out The Sun (clip)
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He Won’t Eat The Butt: Our 2014 Album of the Year Spectacular
Four boys enter, one album leaves. We all died in the recording of this podcast. These are the last awards that will ever. RIP the FOWRY game.
Also, you will need this picture later.
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Here’s the rest of the 2014 FOWRies
This semester ended up being WAY, WAY harder than I anticipated going in, so I haven’t had time to write blurbs. Here are the rest of the award winnners with personal picks noted. Podcast up Sunday 10AMPST, Mixtape up at 4PM. Continue reading
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Breakthrough of 2014
There was plenty to be surprised by last year. Last year seemed overflowing with weird genre-pushing art and new takes on still new sounds. There’s Nima and Giant Claw’s distorted vaporwave-esque takes. Gobby pushed in weird, weird directions while keeping it recognizable. Ratking emerged with a tremendous joy of lyricism and making rhymes especially. GOD took new trends in trap and drill and threaded through them with incredible theming and storytelling. Last, Gazelle Twin set off a body horror brainbomb in electronica. There’s plenty to choose from. Continue reading
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Best EP
Oh man, an award blurb! Crazy!
Best EP ended up being a field that seemed underpopulated until we finished adding things to it, and then it was suddenly all awesome. The widespread release of Viet Cong’s “Cassette” was an obvious addition, given our Calgary kink. Ben Khan emerged out of nowhere, all handsome and clever and dancey. Panda Bear released as good a warning for his new record as could be issued. What was really notable about Best EP this year is that a lot of the year’s most subversive rap came out through here: LE1F’s East Coast Rap and Dark House Fetishized Car Crash, the skeletons in Lil Ugly Mane’s closet, and the world domination of IloveMakonnen’s individualist spree. Continue reading
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Some Unfinished Business
I tend to totally ignore comments on this website since 99% of them are total spam, and because I’m the only guy with real admin access to the site that means the other guys don’t get to see this stuff and harass me about actually good comments. Well, we got an actually good comment. This person named D (as far as I know) left a huge reply to my last review of Danny Brown’s XXX, and to make up for sleeping on it so long, I’m going to post it in full here and personally respond.
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Fermixtape Over Whole Rest #15: Skoundtracking

Theme: Man if they’re going to make another Tony Hawk Pro Skater they can’t fuck up the soundtrack. Continue reading
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