NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2014 (alphabetical)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- alt-J — This Is All Yours
- Ana Tijoux — Vengo
- Angaleena Presley — American Middle Class
- Angel Olsen — Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- Aphex Twin — Syro
- Hanna Lintu, Autustin Hadelich & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic — Sibelius & Adès: Violin Concertos
- Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band — Landmarks
- Brownout — Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
- Ceci Bastida — La Edad de la Violencia
- FKA twigs — LP1
- Fred Hersch Trio — Floating
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Piñata
- The Gloaming — The Gloaming
- Grouper — Ruins
- Hurray for the Riff Raff — Small Town Heroes
- Isaiah Rashad — Cilvia Demo
- Jeff Ballard — Time’s Tales
- Jenny Lewis — The Voyager
- Jorge Drexler — Bailar en La Cueva
- Joyce DiDonato, Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon & Riccardo Minasi — Stella di Napoli
- Kassem Mosse — Workshop 19
- Leon Fleisher — All the Things You Are
- Los Lobos — Si Se Puede!: Los Lobos And Friends
- Luluc — Passerby
- Marc Ribot Trio — Live at the Village Vanguard
- Martha — Courting Strong
- Mary J. Blige — The London Sessions
- Miranda Lambert — Platinum
- Moodymann — Moodymann
- Noura Mint Seymali — Tzenni
- Pallbearer — Foundations of Burden
- Perfume Genius — Too Bright
- Popcaan — Where We Come From
- Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukas Vasilek & Tomáš Netopil — Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, The Eternal Gospel
- Robert Ellis — The Lights from the Chemical Plant
- Robert Plant — lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 2
- Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony Orchestra — John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 — A Long Way To the Beginning
- Spoon — They Want My Soul
- St. Vincent — St. Vincent
- Stromae — Racine carrée
- Sturgill Simpson — Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
- Sylvan Esso — Sylvan Esso
- T.I. — Paperwork
- Taylor Swift — 1989
- Teyana Taylor — VII
- Ty Dolla $ign — Sign Language
- The War on Drugs — Lost in the Dream
- YG — My Krazy Life