{"id":60,"date":"2014-09-29T07:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-11-17T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:02:54","slug":"td-post-a-first-glimpse-at-java-9-early-access-release-of-jdk9-on-openjdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/td-post-a-first-glimpse-at-java-9-early-access-release-of-jdk9-on-openjdk\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best albums of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lana Del Rey \u2013 Ultraviolence<\/h3>\n

\"lana\"<\/a>The melodies are uniformly beautiful, and they soar and swoop, the better to demonstrate Del Rey’s increased confidence in her voice. It’s all so well done that the fact that the whole album proceeds at the same, somnambulant pace scarcely matters.<\/p>\n

Wild Beasts \u2013 Present Tense<\/h3>\n

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Wild Beasts revel in their idiosyncrasies; you can hear it in the duelling vocals and choral layers, the words that shouldn’t fit, the tunes that veer off in unexpected directions.<\/p>\n

St Vincent \u2013 St Vincent<\/h3>\n

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The most striking thing about St Vincent is how confident it seems: from its title to the opening crunch of distorted drum machine to the gorgeous closing ballad, Severed Crossed Fingers.<\/p>\n

Sun Kil Moon \u2013 Benji<\/h3>\n

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Benji, roughly his 13th album, might well be this difficult artist’s most direct work, possibly the most devastating this career melancholic has ever penned.<\/p>\n

Beck – Morning Phase<\/h3>\n

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Despite the lyrical themes, the record’s sun-dappled shimmer suggests Beck sees a way out of his emotional hole. The bad news for him is that being in it seems to make for some of his best music.<\/p>\n

Damon Albarn \u2013 Everyday Robots<\/h3>\n

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The music is good enough that a lack of revelation doesn’t really seem to matter while Everyday Robots is playing. Whoever Damon Albarn is, he’s extremely good at what he does.<\/p>\n

James \u2013 La Petite Mort<\/h3>\n

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Watch James’s track-by-track commentary on the album seem to matter while Everyday Robots is playing.<\/p>\n

James Vincent McMorrow \u2013 Post Tropical<\/h3>\n

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This is an incredibly beautiful record: the Lakes swims in woozy Americana, Repeating’s celestially climatic caws are similar to fellow vessel of emotion Patrick Watson, and Cavalier’s cries of ‘I remember my first love’ produce a sensationally stirring moment.<\/p>\n

East India Youth \u2013 Total Strife Forever<\/h3>\n

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William Doyle offers up shimmering passages of systems-indebted music, like opener Glitter Recession these give way to stylishly observed club-facing workouts.<\/p>\n

The War on Drugs \u2013 Lost in the Dream<\/h3>\n

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The long, spaced-out fades of Under the Pressure and Disappearing provide dreamy interludes worthy of Tangerine Dream. The decaying guitars and analogue synthesisers create a crepuscular melancholy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lana Del Rey \u2013 Ultraviolence The melodies are uniformly beautiful, and they soar and swoop, the better to demonstrate Del Rey’s increased confidence in her voice. It’s all so well done that the fact that the whole album proceeds at the same, somnambulant pace scarcely matters. Wild Beasts \u2013 Present Tense Wild Beasts revel in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}