Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker: 50 Most Impressive Albums of 2014 (listed chronologically within three tiers)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Actress — Ghettoville
- Beck — Morning Phase
- Angel Olsen — Burn Your Fire For No Witness
- Evian Christ — Waterfall – EP
- Mac DeMarco — Salad Days
- Mica Levi — Under the Skin
- Sharon Van Etten — Are We There
- Sleaford Mods — Divide and Exit
- FKA twigs — LP1
- Cookies — Music for Touching
- Lee Gamble — KOCH
- Perfume Genius — Too Bright
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 2
- Grouper — Ruins
- Arca — Xen
- Fred Frith & John Butcher — The Natural Order
- D’Angelo and The Vanguard — Black Messiah
holy cats
- Moodymann — Moodymann
- Tinariwen — Emmaar
- St. Vincent — St. Vincent
- Leif — Hey
- EMA — The Future’s Void
- Ratking — So It Goes
- Lotic — Damsel in Distress
- Helado Negro — Island Universe Story Three
- Sylvan Esso — Sylvan Esso
- Gabriel Kahane — The Ambassador
- Parquet Courts — Sunbathing Animal
- M. Geddes Gengras — Ishi
- Helado Negro — Double Youth
- PC Worship — Social Rust
- Anjou — Anjou
- Tove Lo — Queen of the Clouds
- Tinashe — Aquarius
- Scott Walker & Sunn O))) — Soused
- DeJ Loaf — Sell Sole
- Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band — Intensity Ghost
- Horse Lords — Hidden Cities
- Migos — Rich Nigga Timeline
- Azealia Banks — Broke With Expensive Taste
- Anna Thorvaldsdottir — Aerial
- Andy Stott — Faith In Strangers
- ALSO — Ep01
- Og Maco — OG Maco
- Micachu — Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill
- Afrikan Sciences — Circuitous
- Shinichi Atobe — Butterfly Effect