Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2014

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