My favorite albums this year are mostly predictable, but nestled in there among my safe bets of the 2010’s (tUnE-yArDs, First Aid Kit, alt-j, etc) and long-term commitments to 1990’s heroes (Weezer, Beck, J Mascis) are a handful of really fun new discoveries from 2014.
Wild Things and Yeah Yeah Yeahs
This is me apologizing in advance for the randomness of all this Wild Things related stuff… I’ve been a fan of Spike Jonze since the first time I saw the video for “Undone” 15 years ago. It just got better too, as he went on to create some of my favorite music videos (like “Sabotage”, “Buddy Holly” and a bunch …