Year-End Lists

NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2014 (alphabetical)

• 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