Happy New Year!!!

No new music today, but a brief note to wish everyone a happy and beautiful new year!  It's been an amazing year for me at Ooberus Oblivious and I am so thankful to everyone who's been listening, reading, and sharing all the music I love.  I'm looking very forward to what 2015 has in store for us all!!  

Love and happiness, 

Ryan

Best of 2014 - Albums

My Album of the Year should come as no surprise to anyone who frequents this blog.  I've listened to less new music this year than probably any year since 2005!  So depressing but I think I've still compiled a pretty nice list to share with everyone.  After about the Top 15, the list is very loosely ordered.  They all are equally great to me.
I present, the Ooberus Oblivious Albums of the Year 2014...

1. iamamiwhoami - BLUE

2. Owen Pallett - In Conflict

3. Woman's Hour - Conversations

4. James - La petite mort

5. Ronika - Selectadisc

6. Perfume Genius - Too Bright

7. Chinawoman - Let's Part in Style

8. Asha Ali - Loud and Out of Place

 9. Elysian Fields - For House Cats and Sea Fans

10. Elephant - Skyswimming

11. I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro

12.  Sleep Thieves - You Want the Night 

13. Erasure - The Violet Flame

14. Ice Cream Cathedral - Sudden Anatomy

 15. GusGus - Mexico

and the rest...

16. Mr Twin Sister - Mr Twin Sister
17. Queen of Hearts - Cocoon
18. Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
19. Moto Boy - Keep Your Darkness Secret
20. The Hidden Cameras - Age
21. Geoffrey O'Connor - Fan Fiction
22. Jessie Ware - Tough Love
23. Allo Darlin' - We Come From the Same Place
24. Giana Factory - Lemon Moon
25. TR/ST - Joyland
26. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
27. SPC ECO - The Art of Pop
28. Cosines - Oscillations
29. Kye Kye - Fantasize
30. Fear of Men - Loom
31. The Bilinda Butchers - Heaven
32. The Luxembourg Signal - The Luxembourg Signal
33. Stars in Coma - The Confessional Sun
34. Kid Moxie - 1888
35. The Dø - Shake Shook Shaken
36. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
37. Erlend Øye - Legao
38. Nina Persson - Animal Heart
39. Slow Club - Complete Surrender
40. Temples - Sun Structures
41. TV Girl - French Exit
42. Iisa - Iisa
43. Douglas Dare - Whelm
44. The Lovers Key - Here Today Gone Tomorrow
45. Weeping Willows - The Time Has Come
46. Making Marks - A Thousand Half-Truths
47. Dum Dum Girls - Too True
48. Wild Beasts - Present Tense
49. Craft Spells - Nausea
50. Name the Pet - Future / Now
51. Eno • Hyde - Someday World
52. Ramona Lisa - Arcadia
53. Cocoanut Groove - How to Build a Maze
54. Snowbird - Moon
55. Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine
56. Faded Paper Figures - Relics
57. Gold Zebra - Gold Zebra
58. Sébastien Schuller - Heatwave
59. The Yearning - Dreamboats & Lemonade
60. The Smittens - Love Record Breaker
61. Music Go Music - Impressions
62. La Roux - Trouble in Paradise

Best of 2014 - Songs

These playlists have been slowly building throughout the entire year.  I've added, I've subtracted, and I've mixed to give the best listening experience I can manage.  Hopefully you have Spotify so you can listen!!
As far as my "Song of the Year" goes, I couldn't decide on just one, so I made up a few categories to award a few stand-out mega-hits that were always vying for my top spot!!
And the Oobie's go to:
POP Song of the Year:  Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
Indie POP Song of the Year:  The Smittens - Love Record Breaker
Best iamamiwhoami Song of the Year - Chasing Kites

Now, in two parts, I present the Ooberus Oblivious...
Best Tracks of the Year 2014!!





And here are the lists typed out...for when you make your awesome mix-tapes:
Part 1.
1. Kid Moxie - Lacuna
2. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
3. Kleerup (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Let Me In
4. Rebeka - Breath
5. Sleep Thieves - Sparks
6. Marina and the Diamonds - Froot
7. Hercules & Love Affair (feat. John Grant) - I Try to Talk to You
8. Lily Allen - Insincerely Yours
9. The Dø - Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy
10. Eternal Death - Cry
11. GusGus - Crossfade
12. iamamiwhoami - vista
13. iamamiwhoami - hunting for pearls
14. iamamiwhoami - chasing kites
15. The Irrepressibles - Edge of Now
16. Ronika (feat Charles Washington) - Clock
17. La Roux - Silent Partner
18. iamamiwhoami - tap your glass

Part 2.
1. Owen Pallett - The Secret Seven 
2. Elephant - Elusive Youth
3. The Smittens - Love Record Breaker
4. James - Moving On
5. Blessa - Unfurl
6. Faded Paper Figures - Spare Me
7. Amason - Duvan
8. Asha Ali - Stop Talking
9. Moto Boy - Too Young to Know
10. Marc Almond - Worship Me Now
11. Perfume Genius - Grid
12. Owen Pallett - Song for Five & Six
13. Furniteur - Modern Love
14. Woman's Hour - Darkest Place
15. Mr Twin Sister - Blush
16. The Golden Filter - Black Monday (demo)
17. Brothers of End (feat. Nina Persson) - Heat
18. Weeping Willows - (We're In) Different Places
19. Ice Cream Cathedral - The Swans
20. iamamiwhoami - the last dancer
21. iamamiwhoami - shadowshow

Carried by Currents - Come Alive

Friends of Ooberus Oblivious Carried by Currents are back with another new track of synth-loveliness. Much like their excellent track "Surrounded", their new single "Come Alive" starts off slowly and builds to a beautiful synth climax and it sounds so good!  Keep it coming guys, I look very forward to your 2015!!

Legends of Country - It's a Long Way Back From a Dream

Jof from The Boy Least Likely To has a new side-project called Legends of Country and this is their latest single...

iamamiwhoami - shadowshow

The final chapter in what has been a most beautiful and transformative era for this amazing band!

Shaye St. John - Holiday Shaye

I know I've shared this video before, but it's been a couple years and it is Christmas and nothing puts me in the holiday mood more than Shaye St. John!  Enjoy, and remember...JINGLE ALL THE WAY GIRLS!!!

Best of 2014 - Movies

If I could go to the cinema every day, I would.  I love watching movies at the theatre.  Even in this modern age, where you can see so many movies in the comfort of your home when they're just being released in theatres, I still prefer the old fashioned way.  So many great movies this year, including the beautiful & poetic (and often hilarious) The Dance of Reality, one of the best coming of age/coming out movies I've ever seen in The Way He Looks, and what I would now call my favorite vampire movie of all time, Only Lovers Left Alive.
My top movies of 2014, in order...

1. La danza de la realidad [The Dance of Reality]

2. Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho [The Way He Looks]

3. Only Lovers Left Alive

4. Frank 

5. Snowpiercer

6. Boyhood 

7. Whiplash

8. Nightcrawler

9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

10. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

11. Guardians of the Galaxy

12. The Babadook

13 / 14. Nymphomaniac Vol 1 & 2

15. Gloria 

Best of 2014 - Videos

Here are my favorite videos of 2014!  James really made a powerhouse video out of something so simple and because of that, "Moving On" is my Video of the Year!

James - Moving On

iamamiwhoami - hunting for pearls

Perfume Genius - Queen

Perfume Genius - Grid

Ice Cream Cathedral - The Swans

Austra - Habitat

Best of 2014 - EPs

There are a lot of EPs from this year that I love, so that's great news!  I definitely didn't listen to as much music as I'd like, which is very sad.  That can be a resolution for next year...MORE MUSIC!!
Today, I present...MY FAVORITE EPs of 2014!!!!!   (Note:  This is a very loose ordering system)

 1. Get Well Soon - Henry - The Infinite Desire of Heinrich Zeppelin Alfred von Nullmeyer

2. Pastel Ghost - Shadows

3. Moto Boy - Black Lillies 

4. The Golden Filter - Unselected Works Volume III

5. X priest X - Samurai

6. The Irrepressibles - NUDE : Forbidden

7. Empathy Test - Throwing Stones

8. Yumi Zouma - Yumi Zouma 

9. Furniteur - Furniteur 

10. Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

11. Empathy Test - Losing Touch 

 12. Róisín Murphy - Mi senti

13. Molly Nilsson - Sólo Paraíso – The Summer Songs EP 

14. Lia Pamina - How Come I

15. Lucid Dream - Nonsense

16. Blessa - Love Is an Evol Word

17. Marc Almond - Tasmanian Tiger 

18. Little Boots - Business Pleasure 

19. Linda Guilala - Xeristar 

20. Soft as Snow - Glass Body