Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2014 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Black Messiah
   D’Angelo and The Vanguard
2. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
3. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
4. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
5. LP1
   FKA twigs
6. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
   Sturgill Simpson
7. 1989
   Taylor Swift
8. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
   Angel Olsen
9. They Want My Soul
   Spoon
10. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
11. Rips
    Ex Hex
12. Platinum
    Miranda Lambert
13. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
14. Broke With Expensive Taste
    Azealia Banks
15. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
16. Morning Phase
    Beck
17. Syro
    Aphex Twin
18. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
19. To Be Kind
    Swans
20. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
21. Our Love
    Caribou
22. Ultraviolence
    Lana Del Rey
23. Brill Bruisers
    The New Pornographers
24. Attica!
    Wussy
25. My Krazy Life
    YG
26. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
27. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
28. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
29. Nikki Nack
    Tune-Yards
30. Singles
    Future Islands
31. Popular Problems
    Leonard Cohen
32. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
33. The River & the Thread
    Rosanne Cash
34. SUCKER
    Charli XCX
35. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
36. Under Color of Official Right
    Protomartyr
37. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
38. Somewhere Else
    Lydia Loveless
39. Seeds
    TV on the Radio
40. Ruins
    Grouper
41. The Future’s Void
    EMA
42. Atlas
    Real Estate
43. The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete
    Bob Dylan & The Band
44. Lazaretto
    Jack White
45. Tha Tour Part 1
    Rich Gang
46. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
47. The Pinkprint
    Nicki Minaj
48. Alvvays
    Alvvays
49. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
    Lucinda Williams
50. Deep Fantasy
    White Lung
51. Lese Majesty
    Shabazz Palaces
52. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
53. Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
54. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco
55. Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams
56. Foundations of Burden
    Pallbearer
57. Say Yes To Love
    Perfect Pussy
58. Soused
    Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
59. The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
    Courtney Barnett
60. Sylvan Esso
    Sylvan Esso
61. lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
    Robert Plant
62. Blank Project
    Neneh Cherry
63. Most Messed Up
    Old 97’s
64. Small Town Heroes
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
65. Turn Blue
    The Black Keys
66. Bestial Burden
    Pharmakon
67. 1000 Forms of Fear
    Sia
68. Love, Marriage & Divorce
    Toni Braxton & Babyface
69. American Middle Class
    Angaleena Presley
70. Songs of Innocence
    U2
71. Honest
    Future
72. Dark Comedy
    Open Mike Eagle
73. Aquarius
    Tinashe
74. The London Sessions
    Mary J. Blige
75. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
76. Lateness of Dancers
    Hiss Golden Messenger
77. In the Lonely Hour
    Sam Smith
78. Faith In Strangers
    Andy Stott
79. Hypnotic Eye
    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
80. Typical System
    Total Control
81. Way Out Weather
    Steve Gunn
82. Do to the Beast
    The Afghan Whigs
83. English Oceans
    Drive-By Truckers
84. Black Metal
    Dean Blunt
85. Black Portland
    Young Thug & Bloody Jay
86. Everyday Robots
    Damon Albarn
87. Clearing the Path to Ascend
    YOB
88. Food
    Kelis
89. Benjamin Booker
    Benjamin Booker
90. Warpaint
    Warpaint
91. Give the People What They Want
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
92. New Gods
    Withered Hand
93. Everything Will Be Alright In the End
    Weezer
94. Beauty & Ruin
    Bob Mould
95. The Outsiders
    Eric Church
96. Stay Gold
    First Aid Kit
97. Cilvia Demo
    Isaiah Rashad
98. GIRL
    Pharrell Williams
99. Dude Incredible
    Shellac
100. Hell Can Wait
     Vince Staples

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2014

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

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

Antiquiet: 30 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2013 • 2011]

1. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
   Against Me!
2. The Physical World
   Death from Above 1979
3. Crosses
   ††† (Crosses)
4. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
5. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
6. You’re Dead!
   Flying Lotus
7. Turn Blue
   The Black Keys
8. Fragments and Wholes, Vol.1
   Alain Johannes
9. Antemasque
   ANTEMASQUE
10. Monuments to an Elegy
    Smashing Pumpkins
11. Warpaint
    Warpaint
12. Lazaretto
    Jack White
13. Once More ‘Round the Sun
    Mastodon
14. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
15. Monuments
    Ume
16. Secret Evil
    Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas
17. In Humor and Sadness
    ’68
18. Crystalline
    Hark
19. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
20. Slow Phaser
    Nicole Atkins
21. Underworld
    Tuatara
22. Shady XV
    various artists
23. .5: The Gray Chapter
    Slipknot
24. Luminous
    The Horrors
25. Mariachi El Bronx (III)
    Mariachi El Bronx
26. Rave tapes
    Mogwai
27. Dirty Power
    Fartbarf
28. John Garcia
    John Garcia
29. Royal Blood
    Royal Blood
30. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco

Sasha Frere-Jones of The New Yorker: 50 Most Impressive Albums of 2014 (listed chronologically within three tiers)

[see also 2022 • 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

Cokemachineglow assembles a variety of ways to find some of the music their staff loved most this year. Below are the albums labeled “Unison” — representing the staff as a whole — but browse also their “Harmony” of individual voices.

[see also 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Lese Majesty
  Shabazz Palaces
• LP1
  FKA twigs
• Are We There
  Sharon Van Etten
• The Moon Rang Like a Bell
  Hundred Waters
• Run the Jewels 2
  Run the Jewels
• Thirst 48
  Boogie
• To Be Kind
  Swans
• You’re Dead!
  Flying Lotus
• Gist Is
  Adult Jazz
• A Turn Of Breath
  Ian William Craig

Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
2. My Krazy Life
   YG
3. Ultraviolence
   Lana Del Rey
4. 2014 Forest Hills Drive
   J. Cole
5. Black Messiah
   D’Angelo and The Vanguard
6. Days Before Rodeo
   Travis Scott
7. My Everything
   Ariana Grande
8. 1989
   Taylor Swift
9. Our Love
   Caribou
10. LP1
    FKA twigs
11. Where We Come From
    Popcaan
12. Tha Tour Part 1
    Rich Gang
13. Hell Can Wait
    Vince Staples
14. The Pinkprint
    Nicki Minaj
15. Broke With Expensive Taste
    Azealia Banks
16. Life After Deathrow
    Boosie Badazz
17. Trigga
    Trey Songz
18. No More
    Jeremih & Shlohmo
19. Seen It All: The Autobiography
    Jeezy
20. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
21. Underground Cassette Tap Music
    Gangsta Boo & Beatking
22. St. Vincent
    St. Vincent
23. Cadillactica
    Big K.R.I.T.
24. In the Lonely Hour
    Sam Smith
25. Oxymoron
    Schoolboy Q
26. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
27. Tough Love
    Jessie Ware
28. Cloud 19
    Kehlani
29. Sign Language
    Ty Dolla $ign
30. Cilvia Demo
    Isaiah Rashad
31. PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO
    PARTYNEXTDOOR
32. SUCKER
    Charli XCX
33. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
34. Anomaly
    Lecrae
35. X
    Ed Sheeran
36. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
37. GIRL
    Pharrell Williams
38. Cozz & Effect
    Cozz
39. Ferg Forever
    A$AP Ferg
40. Atlas
    Real Estate
41. Body High
    Lucki Eck$
42. No Label II
    Migos
43. Xen
    Arca
44. Sex Playlist
    Omarion
45. Under Pressure
    Logic
46. Tony
    King Louie
47. Shady XV
    various artists
48. Aquarius
    Tinashe
49. EP 1
    Low Pros
50. Neon Icon
    Riff Raff

Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Beyoncé
   Beyoncé
2. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
3. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
4. Benji
   Sun Kil Moon
5. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
6. LP1
   FKA twigs
7. Too Bright
   Perfume Genius
8. To Be Kind
   Swans
9. Syro
   Aphex Twin
10. Ultraviolence
    Lana Del Rey
11. Are We There
    Sharon Van Etten
12. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
13. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
14. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco
15. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
16. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
17. 1989
    Taylor Swift
18. Lese Majesty
    Shabazz Palaces
19. Plowing Into the Field of Love
    Iceage
20. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
21. Singles
    Future Islands
22. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
23. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
24. Nikki Nack
    Tune-Yards
25. Mr Twin Sister
    Mr Twin Sister
26. Familiars
    The Antlers
27. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
28. More Than Any Other Day
    Ought
29. Blank Project
    Neneh Cherry
30. Morning Phase
    Beck
31. HEAL
    Strand of Oaks
32. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
33. A U R O R A
    Ben Frost
34. “What Is This Heart?”
    How to Dress Well
35. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts
36. Ruins
    Grouper
37. Our Love
    Caribou
38. Broke With Expensive Taste
    Azealia Banks
39. III
    BADBADNOTGOOD
40. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
41. Do It Again
    Röyksopp & Robyn
42. Deep Fantasy
    White Lung
43. Atlas
    Real Estate
44. The Moon Rang Like a Bell
    Hundred Waters
45. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
    Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
46. Northtown – EP
    Shamir
47. Brill Bruisers
    The New Pornographers
48. No Mythologies to Follow
    MØ
49. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
50. 1000 Forms of Fear
    Sia
51. So It Goes
    Ratking
52. Mess
    Liars
53. My Krazy Life
    YG
54. Say Yes To Love
    Perfect Pussy
55. The Physical World
    Death from Above 1979
56. My Everything
    Ariana Grande
57. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
58. Joyland
    Trust
59. White Women
    Chromeo
60. Oxymoron
    Schoolboy Q

Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
   The Twilight Sad
2. Are We There
   Sharon Van Etten
3. 1989
   Taylor Swift
4. July
   Marissa Nadler
5. Crosses
   ††† (Crosses)
6. Alvvays
   Alvvays
7. Eagulls
   Eagulls
8. More Than Any Other Day
   Ought
9. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
10. To Be Kind
    Swans
11. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
12. Rave tapes
    Mogwai
13. El Pintor
    Interpol
14. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
15. LP1
    FKA twigs
16. Romantic Works
    Keaton Henson
17. Atomos
    A Winged Victory For The Sullen
18. The Hum
    Hookworms
19. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
20. The Future’s Void
    EMA
21. Singles
    Future Islands
22. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
23. I Never Learn
    Lykke Li
24. Ruins
    Grouper
25. Punish, Honey
    Vessel
26. Blood Red Shoes
    Blood Red Shoes
27. Art Official Age
    Prince
27. PLECTRUMELECTRUM
    Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL
28. Chiaroscuro
    I Break Horses
29. The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
    Eels
30. Blood
    Pulled Apart By Horses
31. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
32. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
33. Kiasmos
    Kiasmos
34. Futurology
    Manic Street Preachers
35. A U R O R A
    Ben Frost
36. Mess
    Liars
37. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
38. Familiars
    The Antlers
39. Strange Friend
    The Phantom Band
40. Inventions
    Invensions
41. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
42. Dead
    Young Fathers
43. Pe’ahi
    The Raveonettes
44. Angels & Devils
    The Bug
45. Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
46. IX
    …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
47. Never Hungover Again
    Joyce Manor
48. Syro
    Aphex Twin
49. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
    Thom Yorke
50. Two
    Owls

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2014

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1. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
2. Popular Problems
   Leonard Cohen
3. Syro
   Aphex Twin
4. LP1
   FKA twigs
5. Are We There
   Sharon Van Etten
6. lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
   Robert Plant
7. Lateness of Dancers
   Hiss Golden Messenger
8. Everyday Robots
   Damon Albarn
9. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
10. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
11. Toumani & Sidiki
    Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
12. Our Love
    Caribou
13. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
14. Atlas
    Real Estate
15. The River & the Thread
    Rosanne Cash
16. American Interior
    Gruff Rhys
17. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
    Lucinda Williams
18. To Be Kind
    Swans
19. Small Town Heroes
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
20. Wig Out At Jagbags
    Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
21. Primitive and Deadly
    Earth
22. Morning Phase
    Beck
23. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
24. Sukierae
    Tweedy
25. Divide and Exit
    Sleaford Mods
26. Way Out Weather
    Steve Gunn
27. Hendra
    Ben Watt
28. Turn Blue
    The Black Keys
29. Lazaretto
    Jack White
30. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
31. Nikki Nack
    Tune-Yards
32. After the End
    Merchandise
33. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
34. Intensity Ghost
    Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
35. English Oceans
    Drive-By Truckers
36. Trouble in Paradise
    La Roux
37. Band of Brothers
    Willie Nelson
38. Bécs
    Fennesz
39. Singles
    Future Islands
40. Dereconstructed
    Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires
41. Phantom Radio
    Mark Lanegan Band
42. Rave tapes
    Mogwai
43. Total Strife Forever
    East India Youth
44. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
    Thom Yorke
45. Everybody Down
    Kate Tempest
46. Folk Singer, Vol. 1
    Willie Watson
47. Worship the Sun
    Allah-Lahs
48. World Peace Is None Of Your Business
    Morrissey
49. The Man Upstairs
    Robyn Hitchcock
50. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
51. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
52. Mess
    Liars
53. Commune
    Goat
54. Hypnotic Eye
    Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
55. Soused
    Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
56. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
    Angel Olsen
57. Colfax
    The Delines
58. Carry On the Grudge
    Jamie T
59. Seven Dials
    Roddy Frame
60. Indian Ocean
    Frazey Ford
61. Do to the Beast
    The Afghan Whigs
62. Caustic Love
    Paolo Nutini
63. Unflesh
    Gazelle Twin
64. From Scotland With Love
    King Creosote
65. Brill Bruisers
    The New Pornographers
66. The Best Day
    Thurston Moore
67. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
68. Somewhere Else
    Lydia Loveless
69. Season Sun
    Gulp
70. Stay Gold
    First Aid Kit
71. Beauty & Ruin
    Bob Mould
72. Distance
    Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards
73. Common Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy
    Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin
74. Sun Structures
    Temples
75. Acoustic Classics
    Richard Thompson

Flavorwire: 30 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2018 • 2015]

1. Too Bright
   Perfume Genius
2. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
   Angel Olsen
3. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
4. The Future’s Void
   EMA
5. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
6. Ruins
   Grouper
7. Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
   Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
8. Xen
   Arca
9. SUCKER
   Charli XCX
10. American Middle Class
    Angaleena Presley
11. The Pinkprint
    Nicki Minaj
12. Black Messiah
    D’Angelo and The Vanguard
13. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
14. Salad Days
    Mac DeMarco
15. Benji
    Sun Kil Moon
16. Broke With Expensive Taste
    Azealia Banks
17. Heigh Ho
    Blake Mills
18. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
19. Typical System
    Total Control
20. Bécs
    Fennesz
21. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
22. The London Sessions
    Mary J. Blige
23. July
    Marissa Nadler
24. Black Portland
    Young Thug & Bloody Jay
25. Home, Like Noplace Is There
    The Hotelier
26. Lese Majesty
    Shabazz Palaces
27. In Cold Blood
    White Sea
28. My Everything
    Ariana Grande
29. Mess
    Liars
30. Northtown – EP
    Shamir