Year-End Lists

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]

holy cats

• Ghettoville
  Actress
• Morning Phase
  Beck
• Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  Angel Olsen
• Waterfall – EP
  Evian Christ
• Salad Days
  Mac DeMarco
• Under the Skin
  Mica Levi
• Are We There
  Sharon Van Etten
• Divide and Exit
  Sleaford Mods
• LP1
  FKA twigs
• Music for Touching
  Cookies
• KOCH
  Lee Gamble
• Too Bright
  Perfume Genius
• Run the Jewels 2
  Run the Jewels
• Ruins
  Grouper
• Xen
  Arca
• The Natural Order
  Fred Frith & John Butcher
• Black Messiah
  D’Angelo and The Vanguard

oh man

• Moodymann
  Moodymann
• Emmaar
  Tinariwen
• St. Vincent
  St. Vincent
• Hey
  Leif
• The Future’s Void
  EMA
• So It Goes
  Ratking
• Damsel in Distress
  Lotic
• Island Universe Story Three
  Helado Negro
• Sylvan Esso
  Sylvan Esso
• The Ambassador
  Gabriel Kahane
• Sunbathing Animal
  Parquet Courts
• Ishi
  M. Geddes Gengras
• Double Youth
  Helado Negro
• Social Rust
  PC Worship
• Anjou
  Anjou
• Queen of the Clouds
  Tove Lo
• Aquarius
  Tinashe
• Soused
  Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
• Sell Sole
  DeJ Loaf
• Intensity Ghost
  Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
• Hidden Cities
  Horse Lords
• Rich Nigga Timeline
  Migos
• Broke With Expensive Taste
  Azealia Banks
• Aerial
  Anna Thorvaldsdottir
• Faith In Strangers
  Andy Stott
• Ep01
  ALSO
• OG Maco
  Og Maco
• Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling Ill
  Micachu
• Circuitous
  Afrikan Sciences
• Butterfly Effect
  Shinichi Atobe

wow

• Sun Structures
  Temples
• Preternaturals
  Grumbling Fur
• Young Hot Ebony
  Father