Great Bands (new or old) you discovered last year

irrelevant wrote: Got into Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Sun City Girls (thanks Steve!), XTC - just Skylarking so far, but defs gonna check out more of their stuff. Not sure if Vaporwave was a late '13 or early '14 discovery, but it's a notable one - Infinity Frequencies, Young Muslim and Fuji Grid TV

You're welcome, buddy.

XTC rules, by the way.  A wonderful discography is waiting for you. 

And yeah, vaporwave (genre) was a big discovery this year.  Something addicting about that stuff.


Edited by HolyMoly - January 07 2015 at 17:35

Unwound (post-hardcore with elements of modern classical, post-rock, and psychedelia)
Chavez (noise-rock with brilliant songwriting)
Iceage (post-punk with touches of hardcore on their first album, hardcore with touches of post-punk on their second, and chaotic, intense, drunk, gothy, jazzy, country post-punk on their third)
Sea Oleena (ambient laced singer-songwriter stuff)
Cloud Nothings (melodic hardcore punk-ish thing produced by Steve Albini on their new album)
Real Estate (dreamy pop but not dream pop. It makes minimal use of effects and reverb, but remains distant-sounding and understated)
Blut Aus Nord (Black metal with millions of guitars)
Thantifaxath (Similar to Blut Aus Nord, but a little more riffy and melodic)
Hundred Waters (electronic pop, firmly and effortlessly rooted in indigenous folk musics)
Inter Arma (Proggy blackened sludge/doom)
Single Mothers (the angriest post-hardcore you'll ever hear)
Lush (melodic dream-pop/shoegaze)

Other than these I listened to a lot of bands I had heard of, but never heard before, but I decided not to include them because they are numerous.

Last year I went on an Amazon CD buying spree to pick up some newer music (2000 and beyond).

ahhh..  one band takes this nod as my 'discovery' of last year. Raff had seen them before and knew I'd love them once I finally got a chance to see them.  I did, she knows my tastes better than I do, and was definitely the highlight for me of the Orion 20th anni show. Hopefully they'll have a new album. I'd hate to have finally discovered them, just to catch them on the way out the door



gotta love the next generation digging the prog... how precious. 

2014 was a very interesting year for me where I stretched out beyond what I normally go for. Disco is one of those genres that has crept up on me, although we're talking the modern stuff. Folks like Todd Terje and Lindstrøm have been regular visitors in my stereo - the latter even infusing a bit of progressive electronic aus Deutschland into the mix. 

Oh, I forgot to mention Hatfield and the North. Perhaps my favourite discovery of '14.