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

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2014

[see also 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

Antiquiet: 30 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2013, 2011]

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

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

• 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

oh man

• 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

wow

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

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]

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

Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2014

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

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

Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2014

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

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

Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

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

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

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2014

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

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

Flavorwire: 30 Best Albums of 2014

[see also 2015]

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