Best Albums of 2014: 7. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything - Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra (Constellation)

In a fine year for Canadian music in general, this band set an early standard with one of a couple of albums (the other is coming to this list soon) that lit up the early part of 2014 before the year really got into its stride later on.  Few bands can bring together the varied influences and styles this band do and not only get away with it but pull it together into an exhilarating whole.  On this, their seventh album, they took this process to even greater heights.

Top Albums of 2014: 10. Rag Face - Hag Face

Dunno whether seven songs clocking in at less than twenty minutes is a bit short to make this an album, but my end of year list would have felt naked without it.  A caustic, howling monster of a release from this all-female band from Calgary in Canada who make many of the original riot grrrl bands sound like the Singing Nun.  Don't press your face too close to whatever you play it on: it'll have your eye out.

More than worth two dollars of anyone's money from https://hagface.bandcamp.com/album/rag-face