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