Popular With Us 2014: Buzz Bands LA’s favorite Los Angeles EPs of the year

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EPs can be funny little beasts. They often serve as kind of a hi-how-ya-doin’ introduction rather than a broad artist’s statement – a handful of songs, a particular single, maybe a remix or three, a taste of what is to come. They vary so much in breadth they are difficult to review. So the Buzz Bands LA team has chosen 40 2014 EPs from Los Angeles artists that ought to be on your radar. Below, a playlist featuring one song from each of the EPs, along with a listing (in no particular order):

||| Also: Our favorite L.A. albums of the year.

  1. From BORNS (“Candy”)
  2. From Sego (“Wicket Youth”)
  3. From Babes (“Babes”)
  4. From Beat Club, (“Faces”)
  5. From Avid Dancer, (“I Want to See You Dance”)
  6. From Henry Pope, (“Waiting”)
  7. From Roses, (“Dreamlover”)
  8. From Archer Black (“Let It Burn”)
  9. From Jessica Childress (“Don’t Forget My Name”)
  10. From Fever the Ghost (“Crab In Honey”)
  11. From Meg Myers (“Make a Shadow”)
  12. From Banta (“Banta”)
  13. From Wartime Recitals (“Wartime Recitals”)
  14. From Washing Machines (“Quick Fix”)
  15. From Moses Sumney (“Mid-City Island”)
  16. From Cassorla (“Amigos”)
  17. From Daniel Ahearn (“The End of Romance”)
  18. From Dark Waves (“Dark Waves”)
  19. From Zella Day (“Zella Day”)
  20. From Jez Dior (“The Funeral”)
  21. From Dirt Dress (“Revelations”)
  22. From DWNTWN (“DWNTWN”)
  23. From Girlpool (“Girlpool”)
  24. From Heaps n Heaps (“Like No One’s Around”)
  25. From James Supercave (“The Afternoon”)
  26. From Mean Dream (“Mean Dream”)
  27. From The Legendary House Cats (“First Light”)
  28. From Mirror Days (“Solstice”)
  29. From Parade of Lights (“Golden”)
  30. From The Peach Kings (“Mojo Thunder”)
  31. From Princess Reason (“Stark City”)
  32. From Raw Fabrics (“Gold Handcuffs”)
  33. From Scavenger Hunt (“Scavenger Hunt”)
  34. From Vince Staples (“Hell Can Wait”)
  35. From Thurz (“Designer”)
  36. From Tiny Hearts (“Stay”)
  37. From Torches (“Endlessly Repeating”)
  38. From WAZ (“Lights Go Down”)
  39. From Y LUV (“I Don’t Get Infinity”)
  40. From Paw City (“Paw City”)