Top 100 Albums of 2014

  • (short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 624 releases—at time of publishing—from 2014. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ’em in sometime.)


Honorable Mention

Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso; Empire – Orphan; Skrillex – Recess; The Drums – Encyclopedia; Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2; St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Half the City; Johnny Marr – Playland; Pharrell Williams – G I R L; Patterns – Waking Lines; Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow; Mark Lanegan Band – Phantom Radio; Ray LaMontagne – Supernova; Blood Red Shoes – Blood Red Shoes; Jack White – Lazaretto; Coldplay – Ghost Stories.


Top 100

#100

Get Hurt
by
The Gaslight Anthem

#99

They Want My Soul
by
Spoon

#98

Motion
by
Calvin Harris

#97

The Joy of Motion
by
Animals as Leaders

#96

Dialects
by
Snowmine

#95

Emmaar
by
Tinariwen

#94

The Fire is Gone
by
Midnight Faces

#93

The Endless River
by
Pink Floyd

#92

Count On My Love
by
Tessanne Chin

#91

Fall for You
by
Leela James

#90

Stronger
by
Tank

#89

Warpaint
by
Warpaint

#88

Wonder Where We Land
by
SBTRKT

#87

Hungry Ghosts
by
OK Go

#86

Akeda
by
Matisyahu

#85

No One Is Lost
by
Stars

#84

IX
by
… And You Will Know Us
by the Trail of Dead

#83

The Feast of the Broken Heart
by
Hercules & Love Affair

#82

Pe’ahi
by
The Raveonettes

#81

Upside Down Mountain
by
Conor Oberst

#80

Nabuma Rubberband
by
Little Dragon

#79

Le Fou
by
Devan DuBois

#78

Emma Jean
by
Lee Fields

#77

Sheezus
by
Lily Allen

#76

This Is the Third Album
of a Band Called Adebisi Shank

by
Adebisi Shank

#75

Monuments to an Elegy
by
Smashing Pumpkins

#74

Lights Out
by
Ingrid Michaelson

#73

Brill Bruisers
by
The New Pornographers

#72

Be Impressive
by
The Griswolds

#71

St. Vincent
by
St. Vincent

#70

Seeds
by
TV on the Radio

#69

Stay Gold
by
First Aid Kit

#68

The Age of Reason
by
Gramatik

#67

Luminous
by
The Horrors

#66

White Women
by
Chromeo

#65

In Conflict
by
Owen Pallett

#64

Slow Phaser
by
Nicole Atkins

#63

New Eyes
by
Clean Bandit

#62

My Favourite Faded Fantasy
by
Damien Rice

#61

Agent Cooper
by
Russian Red

#60

Islands
by
Bear’s Den

#59

Pocketknife
by
Mr Little Jeans

#58

Silent Treatment
by
Highasakite

#57

So Long, See You Tomorrow
by
Bombay Bicycle Club

#56

Bad Self Portraits
by
Lake Street Dive

#55

Are We There
by
Sharon Van Etten

#54

Sun Structures
by
Temples

#53

Trouble In Paradise
by
La Roux

#52

Forever For Now
by
LP

#51

Funeral Sky
by
Reuben and the Dark

#50

Hold My Home
by
Cold War Kids

#49

Himalayan
by
Band of Skulls

#48

Supermodel
by
Foster the People

#47

Initiation
by
Haunted Hearts

#46

After the Disco
by
Broken Bells

#45

HEAL
by
Strand of Oaks

#44

No Mythologies to Follow
by

#43

Cope
by
Manchester Orchestra

#42

The Voyager
by
Jenny Lewis

#41

Pulses
by
Karmin

#40

Three Hearts
by
Alex Clare

#39

†††
by
††† (crosses)

#38

From the Wreckage
by
The Wind and the Wave

#37

Awake
by
Tycho

#36

Food
by
Kelis

#35

Det Stora Monstret
by
Det Stora Monstret

#34

Into the Wide
by
Delta Spirit

#33

Little Machines
by
LIGHTS

#32

El Pintor
by
Interpol

#31

Future Souls
by
Uh Huh Her

#30

HAERTS
by
HAERTS

#29

Sonic Highways
by
Foo Fighters

#28

Evergreen
by
Broods

#27

Blue Planet Eyes
by
The Preatures

#26

Turn Blue
by
The Black Keys

#25

Education, Education, Education & War
by
Kaiser Chiefs

#24

Leisure Cruise
by
Leisure Cruise

#23

Too True
by
Dum Dum Girls

#22

Shriek
by
Wye Oak

#21

Ices
by
Lia Ices

#20

Phantom
by
Madi Diaz

#19

Hozier
by
Hozier

#18

Listen
by
David Guetta

#17

ALBUM
by
Lindsey Stirling

#16

Lost in the Dream
by
The War on Drugs

#15

Voices
by
Phantogram

#14

Taiga
by
Zola Jesus

#13

Daydream Forever
by
The Chain Gang of 1974

#12

Mind Over Matter
by
Young the Giant

#11

Ultraviolence
by
Lana Del Rey

#10

Ryan Adams
by
Ryan Adams

#09

Lighght
by
Kishi Bashi

#08

Shelter
by
Alcest

#07

Moving On
by
Kan Wakan

#06

Days of Abandon
by
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

#05

Post Tropical
by
James Vincent McMorrow

#04

1000 Forms of Fear
by
Sia

#03

I Never Learn
by
Lykke Li

#02

In the Silence
by
Ásgeir

#01

Morning Phase by Beck


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