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Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

29 December 2014

Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

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  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
  28. PLECTRUMELECTRUM
    Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL
  29. Chiaroscuro
    I Break Horses
  30. The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
    Eels
  31. Blood
    Pulled Apart By Horses
  32. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
  33. Present Tense
    Wild Beasts
  34. Kiasmos
    Kiasmos
  35. Futurology
    Manic Street Preachers
  36. A U R O R A
    Ben Frost
  37. Mess
    Liars
  38. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
  39. Familiars
    The Antlers
  40. Strange Friend
    The Phantom Band
  41. Inventions
    Invensions
  42. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
  43. Dead
    Young Fathers
  44. Pe’ahi
    The Raveonettes
  45. Angels & Devils
    The Bug
  46. Gone Girl (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
  47. IX
    …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
  48. Never Hungover Again
    Joyce Manor
  49. Syro
    Aphex Twin
  50. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
    Thom Yorke
  51. Two
    Owls

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