Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014

1. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
2. The War on Drugs
   Lost in the Dream
3. FKA twigs
   LP1
4. Aphex Twin
   Syro
5. Caribou
   Our Love
6. La Roux
   Trouble in Paradise
7. Run the Jewels
   Run the Jewels 2
8. Beck
   Morning Phase
9. Flying Lotus
   You’re Dead!
10. Sleaford Mods
    Divide and Exit
11. Mac DeMarco
    Salad Days
12. Taylor Swift
    1989
13. Kae Tempest
    Everybody Down
14. Future Islands
    Singles
15. Angel Olsen
    Burn Your Fire For No Witness
16. Wild Beasts
    Present Tense
17. Young Fathers
    Dead
18. Jenny Lewis
    The Voyager
19. Jhené Aiko
    Souled Out
20. Owen Pallett
    In Conflict
21. Ratking
    So It Goes
22. Merchandise
    After the End
23. Hurray for the Riff Raff
    Small Town Heroes
24. Banks
    Goddess
25. Actress
    Ghettoville
26. Tinashe
    Aquarius
27. Kindness
    Otherness
28. Damon Albarn
    Everyday Robots
29. Ariel Pink
    Pom Pom
30. East India Youth
    Total Strife Forever
31. Leonard Cohen
    Popular Problems
32. Shabazz Palaces
    Lese Majesty
33. Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
    Soused
34. Jamie T
    Carry On the Grudge
35. Peggy Seeger
    Everything Changes
36. Ex Hex
    Rips
37. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
    Piñata
38. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté
    Toumani & Sidiki
39. Sharon Van Etten
    Are We There
40. Tricky
    Adrian Thaws