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Glasswerk Staff Albums of 2014

• 12th Dec 2014

It’s been a funny old year for albums really, from the Mercury Music Prize casting a spotlight on the Scottish scene to the proliferation of ultra-aesthetically polished pop. Across the board, new material from big names was a major draw; Aphex Twin rose from the shadows of the dark web to drop his first new material for yonks, Thom Yorke tried to make BitTorrent a viable platform for purchasing music (and failed miserably) and Taylor Swift seemed to hold an infectious spell over the media with the release of her 1989 album. Notably though, something was stirring in the British Isles – throughout the Glasswerk staff we’ve been swept away by the British bands launching a visceral and undeniable assault on the mainstream – impossible to ignore, 2014 will be remembered as the year rock regained it’s bite.

Jamie Otsa (Editor / writer-wrangling / grammar Nazi)

1. GoGo Penguin – V2.0
2. Marmozets – The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
3. The So So Glows – Blowout
4. Mastodon – Once More Around The Sun
5. Decade – Good Luck
6. Octave Minds – Octave Minds
7. Mina Tindle – Parades
8. Die Antwoord – Donker Mag
9. Kormac – Doorsteps
10. Architects – Lost Forever, Lost Together

Gordon Johnston (Scotland editor / eclectic tastes / caber tossing)

1. Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
2. Red Sky July – Shadowbirds
3. Ward Thomas – From Where We Stand
4. Jon Allen – Deep River
5. Gabby Young And Other Animals – One Foot In Front Of The Other
6. Fatherson – I Am An Island
7. Damn Vandals – Rocket Out Of London
8. Twin Forks – Twin Forks
9. The April Maze – The April Maze
10. Augustines – Augustines

Chris Williamson (accounts / complex calculations / office Dad)

1. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
2. Canterbury – Dark Days
3. Marmozets – The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
4. The Used – Imaginary Enemy
5. Ben Howard – I forget where we where
6. Seether – Isolate and Medicate
7. Death from above 1979 – The Physical World
8. Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Balcony
9. Lower than Atlantis – Lower than Atlantis
10. Damian Rice – My favourite faded fantasy

Chris Droney (writer / Irishman / pop punk enthusiast)

1. Moose Blood – I’ll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time
2. Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – We Don’t Have Each Other
3. Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets
4. Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
5. Gates – Bloom And Breathe
6. Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is
7. Modern Baseball – You Gonna Miss It All
8. Lower Than Atlantis – Lower Than Atlantis
9. Lonely The Brave – The Day’s War
10. Augustines – Augustines

Iqra Choudhry (writer / bookworm / moshpit warrior)

1. The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
2. La Dispute – Rooms of The House
3. Periphery – Clear EP
4. 5 Seconds of Summer – 5 Seconds of Summer
5. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
6. Lonely The Brave – The Day’s War
7. The Ghost Inside – Dear Youth
8. Architects – Lost Forever\Lost Together
9. Marmozets – The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets
10. You Me At Six – Cavalier Youth