Various Artists - 14

 

As indie fans, you are well aware of how difficult it can be to find the best of the working artists. As people highly paid to find new music, we feel your pain. And that's why we owe a boatload of thanks (and perhaps a record purchase) to Prefect Records. The Hartlepool, UK label has collected 14 gems from among the best indie projects and bundled them into the appropriately titled 14. While some of the bands were known to us, many of them were new. All of the songs are excellent.

As always, we wanted to give you our favorite tracks without embedding the whole album. But as we played through the list we realized that we were marking every track. Yes, every single track. So don't take the list as a 'best of', take it as 'oh my God, there is more of this'. Then dive in.

14 is out now in digital and limited vinyl formats.

Bandcamp for 14