The Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014
[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- St. Vincent — St. Vincent
- The War on Drugs — Lost in the Dream
- FKA twigs — LP1
- Aphex Twin — Syro
- Caribou — Our Love
- La Roux — Trouble in Paradise
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 2
- Beck — Morning Phase
- Flying Lotus — You’re Dead!
- Sleaford Mods — Divide and Exit
- Mac DeMarco — Salad Days
- Taylor Swift — 1989
- Kate Tempest — Everybody Down
- Future Islands — Singles
- Angel Olsen — Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- Wild Beasts — Present Tense
- Young Fathers — Dead
- Jenny Lewis — The Voyager
- Jhené Aiko — Souled Out
- Owen Pallett — In Conflict
- Ratking — So It Goes
- Merchandise — After the End
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — Small Town Heroes
- Banks — Goddess
- Actress — Ghettoville
- Tinashe — Aquarius
- Kindness — Otherness
- Damon Albarn — Everyday Robots
- Ariel Pink — Pom Pom
- East India Youth — Total Strife Forever
- Leonard Cohen — Popular Problems
- Shabazz Palaces — Lese Majesty
- Scott Walker & Sunn O))) — Soused
- Jamie T — Carry On the Grudge
- Peggy Seeger — Everything Changes
- Ex Hex — Rips
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Piñata
- Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté — Toumani & Sidiki
- Sharon Van Etten — Are We There
- Tricky — Adrian Thaws