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2014 Music

Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014

15 December 2014

The Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. St. Vincent
    St. Vincent
  2. Lost in the Dream
    The War on Drugs
  3. LP1
    FKA twigs
  4. Syro
    Aphex Twin
  5. Our Love
    Caribou
  6. Trouble in Paradise
    La Roux
  7. Run the Jewels 2
    Run the Jewels
  8. Morning Phase
    Beck
  9. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
  10. Divide and Exit
    Sleaford Mods
  11. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco
  12. 1989
    Taylor Swift
  13. Everybody Down
    Kate Tempest
  14. Singles
    Future Islands
  15. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
  16. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
  17. Dead
    Young Fathers
  18. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
  19. Souled Out
    Jhené Aiko
  20. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
  21. So It Goes
    Ratking
  22. After the End
    Merchandise
  23. Small Town Heroes
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
  24. Goddess
    Banks
  25. Ghettoville
    Actress
  26. Aquarius
    Tinashe
  27. Otherness
    Kindness
  28. Everyday Robots
    Damon Albarn
  29. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
  30. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
  31. Popular Problems
    Leonard Cohen
  32. Lese Majesty
    Shabazz Palaces
  33. Soused
    Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
  34. Carry On the Grudge
    Jamie T
  35. Everything Changes
    Peggy Seeger
  36. Rips
    Ex Hex
  37. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
  38. Toumani & Sidiki
    Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
  39. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
  40. Adrian Thaws
    Tricky

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