Music Chart - April 2014

New albums this month from loser/hipster Mac Demarco - back with the endearing Salad Days, the sublime ethereal jangly-guitar pop of Atlas from Real Estate, and Brooklyn's ferocious Lucius and their album Wildewoman. This month we can also hear the return of Kaiser Chiefs and Education, Education, Education & War - an album which has its moments, both good and bad. In complete contrast EMA fuses passion and technology into an eclectic mix of rough and smooth on The Future's Void, Paul Thomas Saunders satisfies with Beautiful Desolation and Smoke Fairies follow-up their difficult second album with a much more accomplished set of beautiful vocals and solid songwriting. Last but not least, Eels release yet another album of self-deprecation, heartbreak and mournful songs with The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett.

The War On Drugs hold the top spot...

1. Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
2. Augustines by Augustines
3. Rave Tapes by Mogwai
4. Morning Phase by Beck 
5. Gach Sgeul (Every Story) by Julie Fowlis 
6. The Gloaming by The Gloaming
7. Smoke Fairies by Smoke Fairies
8. Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles by Suzanne Vega
9. You Chose These Woes by Model Village
10. Beautiful Desolation by Paul Thomas Saunders
11. The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett by Eels
12. Teeth Dreams by The Hold Steady
13. Burn Your Fire For No Witness by Angel Olsen
14. The Take Off And Landing of Everything by Elbow
15. Word Of Mouth by Seth Lakeman 
16. So Long, See You Tomorrow by Bombay Bicycle Club
17. Into The Lime by New Mendicants
18. In The Silence by Asgeir
19. Salad Days by Mac Demarco
20. Blood Red Shoes by Blood Red Shoes 
21. The Future's Void by EMA
22. Echoes by Emily Smith 
23. Atlas by Real Estate
24. Croz by David Crosby
25. Benji by Sun Kil Moon 
26. St. Vincent by St. Vincent
27. Cursing The Sea by September Girls
28. Wildewoman by Lucius
29. High Hopes by Bruce Springsteen
30. Songs About This And That by Karin Krog & John Surman
31. Waking Lines by Patterns
32. Here And Nowhere Else by Cloud Nothings
33. Wig Out At Jagbags by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
34. Total Strife Forever by East India Youth
35. Too Much Information by Maximo Park
36. Warpaint by Warpaint
37. Eagulls by Eagulls 
38. Education, Education, Education & War by Kaiser Chiefs
39. The Crystal Method by The Crystal Method
40. Kid Face by Samantha Crain
41. None The Wiser by The Rifles
42. Oh My Sexy Lord by Marijuana Deathsquads