Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2014

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Gazelle Twin — Unflesh
2. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) — Soused
3. Swans — To Be Kind
4. East India Youth — Total Strife Forever
5. The Bug — Angels & Devils
6. Grumbling Fur — Preternaturals
7. Katie Gately — Pipes
8. Manic Street Preachers — Futurology
9. Perc — The Power and the Glory
10. Jenny Hval & Susanna — Meshes of Voice
11. FKA twigs — LP1
12. Zamilska — Untune
13. Innercity Ensemble — Black/White
14. Cooly G — Wait ’til Night
15. Blacknecks — Blacknecks 006
16. English Heretic — The Underworld Service
17. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Piñata
18. OAKE — Auferstehung
19. Grouper — Ruins
20. Kemper Norton — Loor
21. Maurice Louca — Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Salute the Parrot)
22. Andy Stott — Faith In Strangers
23. EEK — Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute
24. Jane Weaver — The Silver Globe
25. Daniel Patrick Quinn — Acting The Rubber Pig
26. The Body — I Shall Die Here
27. Chrononautz — Public Domain Fuckover Series #1-6
28. Pharmakon — Bestial Burden
29. Tweedy — Sukierae
30. Objekt — Flatland
31. Jar Moff — Financial Glam
32. Willie the Kid & Bronze Nazareth — The Living Daylights
33. Lorenzo Senni — Superimpositions
34. Electric Wizard — Time To Die
35. Klara Lewis — Ett
36. Kassem Mosse — Workshop 19
37. Extreme Precautions — Precaution One
38. Kasai All Stars — Beware The Fetish
39. Årabrot — I Modi
40. Einstürzende Neubauten — Lament
41. The Inward Circles — Nimrod
42. Bohren & Der Club of Gore — Piano Nights
43. Future Islands — Singles
44. Consumer Electronics — Estuary English
45. Bong — Stoner Rock
46. Nisennenmondai — N
47. Wild Beasts — Present Tense
48. Olga Bell — Krai
49. Cut Hands — Festival of the Dead
50. Xiu Xiu — Angel Guts: Red Classroom
51. Actress — Ghettoville
52. YOB — Clearing the Path to Ascend
53. Owen Pallett — In Conflict
54. Puce Mary — Persona
55. DonChristian — Renzo Piano
56. Ibibio Sound Machine — Ibibio Sound Machine
57. Lee Gamble — KOCH
58. Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm — The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback)
59. Laibach — Spectre
60. Shellac — Dude Incredible
61. Heterotic — Weird Drift
62. Liars — Mess
63. Stein Urheim — Stein Urheim
64. Ekoplekz — Unfidelity
65. St. Vincent — St. Vincent
66. Sunn O))) & Ulver — Terrestrials
67. Russell Haswell — 37 Minute Work Out
68. Noura Mint Seymali — Tzenni
69. Ambarchi / O’Malley / Dunn — Shade Themes from Kairos
70. Apollo Brown & Ras Kass — Blasphemy
71. The Budos Band — Burnt Offering
72. Anat Ben-David — Melech
73. YVETTE — Process
74. Milo — A Toothpaste Suburb
75. Merkabah — Moloch
76. Wrangler — L.A. Spark
77. Ronika — Selectadisc
78. Bing & Ruth — Tomorrow Was the Golden Age
79. Azealia Banks — Broke With Expensive Taste
80. DJ Q — Ineffable
81. The Soft Pink Truth — Why Do the Heathen Rage?
82. Vince Staples — Hell Can Wait
83. Tinariwen — Emmaar
84. The Juan MacLean — In a Dream
85. Aphex Twin — Syro
86. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté — Toumani & Sidiki
87. Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies — Earth Air Spirit Water Fire
88. Behemoth — The Satanist
89. Wrekmeister Harmonies — Then It All Came Down
90. Fumaça Preta — Fumaça Preta
91. Merzbow, Scott Miller & Lee Camfield — No Closure
92. Black Rain — Dark Pool
93. Anthroprophh — Outside the Circle
94. Adult Jazz — Gist Is
95. Godflesh — A World Lit Only by Fire
96. Obake — Mutations
97. Clark — Clark
98. Joseph Curwen — Shunned House
99. Echoes Of Yul — Tether
100. Good Throb — Fuck Off