Tag Archives: 2014

Marissa Nadler: July

On February 4, 2014, “Sacred Bones” label released “July”, the sixth Marissa Nadler studio album. It was recorded in 2013, at “Avast Studios” in Seattle, and was produced by Randall Dunn.

Personnel:

  • Marissa Nadler – vocals, guitar
  • Phil Wandscher – guitar
  • Jason Kardong – pedal steel guitar
  • Steve Moore – keyboards
  • Jonas Haskins – bass
  • Pat Schowe – drums
  • Eyvind Kang – strings, arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Marissa Nadler.

  1. Drive
  2. 1923
  3. Firecrackers
  4. We Are Coming Back
  5. Dead City Emily
  6. Was It a Dream
  7. I’ve Got Your Name
  8. Desire
  9. Anyone Else
  10. Holiday In
  11. Nothing in My Heart

Dream the Electric Sleep: Heretics

On January 31, 2014, Dream the Electric Sleep self-released “Heretics”, bands second album. It was recorded in 2013, and was produced by Matt Page, Chris Tackett and Joey Waters.

Personnel:

  • Matt Page – vocals, guitar, banjo, keyboards
  • Chris Tackett – bass
  • Joey waters – vocals, drums
  • Nathan Williams – French horn
  • Seth Meyers – cello
  • Jay Groves – engineer, mixing, mastering

Track listing:

  1. Heretics
  2. Elizabeth
  3. Utopic
  4. To Love Is To Leave
  5. The Name You Fear
  6. It Must Taste Good
  7. I Know What You Are
  8. Fist to Face
  9. Lost Our Faith
  10. How Long We Wait
  11. Ashes Fall

Matt Berry: Heard Noises

On January 24, 2025, “Acid Jazz” label released “Heard Noises”, the 13th Matt Berry album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Matt Berry.

Personnel:

  • Matt Berry – vocals, acoustic guitar, ARP synthesizer, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa organ, glockenspiel, Hammond B3, Mellotron, Minimoog, organ, Vox Continental, Wurlitzer piano, xylophone, Yamaha keyboards, engineer, mixing, cover art, paintings, photography
  • Craig Blundell – drums, percussion
  • Eric D. Johnson
  • Natasha Lyonne
  • Phil Scragg
  • Kitty Liv
  • Rosie McDermott
  • Mike Thorne – mastering
  • Jaffa – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Matt Berry.

  1. Why on Fire?
  2. Silver Rings
  3. Interlude
  4. Be Alarmed
  5. I Gotta Limit
  6. Wedding Photo Stranger
  7. Stay on the Ground
  8. I Entered as I Came
  9. There Are Monsters
  10. To Live for What Once Was
  11. Canada Dry
  12. The Snakes Will Slide
  13. Interlude 2
  14. Sky High

Beardfish: +4626 – Comfortzone

On January 12, 2015, “Inside Out Music” label released “+4626 – Comfortzone”, the eight Beardfish album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Rikard Sjöblom, David Zackrisson, Robert Hanse and Magnus Östgren.

Personnel:

  • Rikard Sjöblom – lead vocals, keyboards, arrangements
  • David Zackrisson – guitar, arrangements
  • Robert Hanse – bass, arrangements
  • Magnus Östgren – drums, arrangements
  • Jörg Peters – lacquer cut

Track listing:

All tracks by Rikard Sjoblom.

  1. The One Inside: Part 1 (Noise In The Background)
  2. Hold On
  3. Comfort Zone
  4. Can You See Me Now?
  5. King
  6. The One Inside: Part 2 (My Companion Through Life)
  7. Daughter / Whore
  8. If We Must Be Apart (A Love Story Continued)
  9. Ode To The Rock ‘N’ Roller
  10. The One Inside: Part 3 (Relief)
  11. The One Inside: Part 1 (Noise In The Background)
  12. Hold On
  13. Comfort Zone

David Sylvian: There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight

On November 24, 2014, “Samadhi Sound”, label released “There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight”, the eighth David Sylvian studio album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by David Sylvian. 

Personnel:

  • David Sylvian – piano, sampler, computer, electronics, laptop, engineer, art direction
  • Christian Fennesz – guitar, laptop
  • John Tilbury – piano
  • Franz Wright – spoken word
  • Alfred A. Knopf – recording arrangement
  • Tony Cousins – mastering
  • Chris Bigg – design
  • Nicholas Hughes – cover photography
  • David La Spina – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by David Sylvian, with prose poems from Kindertotenwald by Franz Wright.

  1. There’s a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight

Beach House: Thank Your Lucky Star

On October 16, 2015, “Sub Pop” label released “Thank Your Lucky Stars”, the sixth Beach House studio album. It was recorded November 2014 – January 2015, at “Studio in the Country” in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and was produced by Chris Coady, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand.

Personnel:

  • Alex Scally – keyboards, guitar, bass, arrangements, mixing
  • Victoria Legrand – keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, arrangements, mixing, photography, lettering
  • Graham Hill – live drums, percussion
  • Chris Bear – percussion
  • David Tolomei – engineer
  • Manuel Calderon – engineer, mixing
  • Heba Kadry – mastering
  • Jay Wesley – engineer assistant
  • Post Typography – design
  • Alexandra B. McLean – cover photography
  • Shane Wesley – “all around dude”

Track listing:

All lyrics by Victoria Legrand, all music by Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand.

  1. Majorette
  2. She’s So Lovely
  3. All Your Yeahs
  4. One thing
  5. Common Girls
  6. The Traveler
  7. Elegy to the Void
  8. Rough Song
  9. Somewhere Tonight

Lana Del Rey: Honeymoon

On September 18, 2015, “Interscope” and “Polydor” labels released “Honeymoon”, the fourth Lana Del Rey studio album. It was recorded 2014 – 2015, at “The Green Building” in Santa Monica, California, “Electric Lady” in New York City, and was produced by Lana Del Rey, Rick Nowels and Kieron Menzies.

Personnel:

  • Lana Del Rey – vocals, mellotron
  • Rick Nowels – acoustic and electric guitar, bass, synthesizers mellotron, piano, organ, chamberlin, electric piano, keyboards, percussion, celesta 
  • Rusty Anderson  – electric guitar, guitar effects
  • Kieron Menzies – synthesizers, drum programming, synth bass, percussion, sampler, effects, loops, engineer
  • Patrick Warren  – strings, winds, keyboards, programming
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr. – bass, Omnichord
  • Curt Bisquera  – live drums
  • Brian Griffin – drums
  • Derek “DJA” Allen – percussion
  • Leon Michels – winds, keyboards, saxophone
  • David Levita – strings
  • Nicolas Essig – recording
  • Chris Garcia – engineer
  • Trevor Yasuda – additional programming, engineer
  • Phil Joly – engineer assistant
  • Iris Sofia – engineer assistant
  • Emerson Day Rhodes – engineer assistant
  • Josh Tyrrell – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels, except where noted.

  1. Honeymoon
  2. Music to Watch Boys To
  3. Terrence Loves You
  4. God Knows I Tried
  5. High by the Beach – Lana Del Rey, Rick Nowels, Kieron Menzies
  6. Freak
  7. Art Deco
  8. Burnt Norton (Interlude) – T. S. Eliot
  9. Religion
  10. Salvatore
  11. The Blackest Day
  12. 24
  13. Swan Song
  14. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood – Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell

Iron Maiden: The Book Of Souls

On September 4, 2015, “Parlaphone” label released “The Book of Souls”, the sixteenth Iron Maiden studio album. It was recorded September – December 2014, at “Guillaume Tell” in Paris, and was produced by Kevin Shirley.

Personnel:

  • Bruce Dickinson – vocals, piano
  • Dave Murray – guitars
  • Janick Gers – guitars
  • Adrian Smith – guitars
  • Steve Harris – bass, keyboards
  • Nicko McBrain – drums, percussion
  • Michael Kenney – keyboards
  • Jeff Bova – orchestration
  • Kevin Shirley – mixing
  • Steve Harris – co-production
  • Denis Caribaux – engineer
  • Ade Emsley – mastering
  • Chris Bellman – additional vinyl mastering
  • Stuart Crouch – art direction, design
  • Mark Wilkinson – cover illustration
  • Anthony Dry – disc illustrations
  • Julie Wilkinson – Maya codex drawings
  • Simon Martin – Maya hieroglyphs
  • Jorge Letona – Maya font design
  • John McMurtrie – photography

Track listing:

  1. If Eternity Should Fail – Bruce Dickinson
  2. Speed of Light – Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson
  3. The Great Unknown – Adrian Smith, Steve Harris
  4. The Red and the Black – Steve Harris
  5. When the River Runs Deep – Adrian Smith, Steve Harris
  6. The Book of Souls – Janick Gers, Steve Harris
  7. Death of Glory – Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson
  8. Shadows of the Valley – Janick Gers, Steve Harris
  9. Tears of a Clown – Adrian Smith, Steve Harris
  10. The Man of Sorrows – Dave Murray, Steve Harris
  11. Empire of the Clouds – Bruce Dickinson

The Antlers: Familiars

On June 17, 2014, “ANTI” and “Transgressive” labels released “Familiars”, the fifth Antlers (The) studio album. It was recorded 2013 – 2014, at “Antlercorp Studios” in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced by Peter Silberman, Darby Cicci and Michael Lerner.

Personnel:

  • Peter Silberman – vocals, guitar
  • Darby Cicci – vocals, trumpet, upright and electric bass, piano, Rhodes, synths, organ
  • Michael Lerner – drums, percussion
  • Timmy Mislock – guitar
  • Jon Natchez – tenor and baritone saxophone, trombone, euphonium, tuba
  • Andrew Dunn – trombone
  • Brent Arnold – cello

Track listing:

All tracks by Peter Silberman.

  1. Palace
  2. Doppelgänger
  3. Hotel
  4. Intruders
  5. Director
  6. Revisited
  7. Parade
  8. Surrender
  9. Refuge

John Mayall: A Special Life

On May 30, 2014, “Forty Below” label released “A Special Life”, the 33rd John Mayall album. It was recorded in November 2013, and was produced by John Mayall and Eric Corne.

Personnel:

  • John Mayall – vocals, guitars, harmonica, organ, piano
  • Rocky Athas – guitars
  • C. J. Chenier – vocals, accordion
  • Greg Rzab – bass guitar, percussions
  • Jay Davenport – drums

Track listing:

  1. Why Did You Go Last Night – Clifton Chenier
  2. Speak of the Devil – Sonny Landreth
  3. That’s All Right – James Lane
  4. World Gone Crazy – John Mayall
  5. Floodin’ in California – Albert King
  6. Big Town Playboy – Eddie Taylor
  7. A Special Life – John Mayall
  8. I Just Got to Know – Jimmy McCracklin
  9. Heartache – John Mayall
  10. Like a Fool – Greg Rzab, Rocky Athas
  11. Just a Memory – John Mayall