Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 140 Albums of 2014 (in which they list 100 albums)

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1. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
2. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
3. Singles
   Future Islands
4. Atlas
   Real Estate
5. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
   Angel Olsen
6. Our Love
   Caribou
7. They Want My Soul
   Spoon
8. Are We There
   Sharon Van Etten
9. Shriek
   Wye Oak
10. This Is All Yours
    alt-J
11. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco
12. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
13. LP1
    FKA twigs
14. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
15. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
16. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
17. Syro
    Aphex Twin
18. Brill Bruisers
    The New Pornographers
19. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
20. The Future’s Void
    EMA
21. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
22. To Be Kind
    Swans
23. Alvvays
    Alvvays
24. Stay Gold
    First Aid Kit
25. Complete Surrender
    Slow Club
26. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
27. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
28. Wonder Where We Land
    SBTRKT
29. Racy
    Hooray for Earth
30. More Than Any Other Day
    Ought
31. “What Is This Heart?”
    How to Dress Well
32. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
33. Ruins
    Grouper
34. Gist Is
    Adult Jazz
35. Too True
    Dum Dum Girls
36. Loom
    Fear of Men
37. Lose
    Cymbals Eat Guitars
38. The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
    Elbow
39. Love Letters
    Metronomy
40. Luminous
    The Horrors
41. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
42. Morning Phase
    Beck
43. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
44. La Isla Bonita
    Deerhoof
45. Time Is Over One Day Old
    Bear In Heaven
46. Nikki Nack
    Tune-Yards
47. Sand + Silence
    The Rosebuds
48. Nausea
    Craft Spells
49. The Shadow of Heaven
    Money
50. Zaba
    Glass Animals
51. Ices
    Lia Ices
52. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
53. Tough Love
    Jessie Ware
54. Plowing Into the Field of Love
    Iceage
55. The Hum
    Hookworms
56. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
57. Days of Abandon
    The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
58. Typical System
    Total Control
59. The Moon Rang Like a Bell
    Hundred Waters
60. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
61. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
62. Clark
    Clark
63. Neuroplasticity
    Cold Specks
64. Chiaroscuro
    I Break Horses
65. Lazaretto
    Jack White
66. Not Art
    Big Scary
67. HEAL
    Strand of Oaks
68. Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams
69. Wig Out At Jagbags
    Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
70. Sun Structures
    Temples
71. Conversations
    Woman's Hour
72. Breakfast
    Teleman
73. Sea When Absent
    A Sunny Day In Glasgow
74. Portico
    The Mary Onettes
75. American Interior
    Gruff Rhys
76. Galore
    Thumpers
77. El Pintor
    Interpol
78. This Is My Hand
    My Brightest Diamond
79. Everyday Robots
    Damon Albarn
80. The Dew Lasts An Hour
    Ballet School
81. Seeds
    TV on the Radio
82. Mandatory Fun
    "Weird Al" Yankovic
83. Arcadia
    Ramona Lisa
84. Sukierae
    Tweedy
85. Jungle
    Jungle
86. Encyclopedia
    The Drums
87. Hell Can Wait
    Vince Staples
88. Warpaint
    Warpaint
89. Soft Friday
    Coves
90. Mess
    Liars
91. …And Star Power
    Foxygen
92. Sylvan Esso
    Sylvan Esso
93. Sound Mirror
    Syd Arthur
94. Futurology
    Manic Street Preachers
95. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
    Morrissey
96. Rave tapes
    Mogwai
97. Honeyblood
    Honeyblood
98. Wild Onion
    Twin Peaks
99. Lacuna
    Childhood
100. Cheatahs
     Cheatahs