Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2014

1. The War on Drugs
   Lost in the Dream
2. St. Vincent
   St. Vincent
3. Run the Jewels
   Run the Jewels 2
4. King Tuff
   Black Moon Spell
5. Alvvays
   Alvvays
6. Sylvan Esso
   Sylvan Esso
7. Beck
   Morning Phase
8. Sharon Van Etten
   Are We There
9. First Aid Kit
   Stay Gold
10. Courtney Barnett
    The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
11. Angel Olsen
    Burn Your Fire For No Witness
12. Spoon
    They Want My Soul
13. Real Estate
    Atlas
14. Ty Segall
    Manipulator
15. Sturgill Simpson
    Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
16. Jenny Lewis
    The Voyager
17. The New Pornographers
    Brill Bruisers
18. Mac DeMarco
    Salad Days
19. Allah-Lahs
    Worship the Sun
20. Perfume Genius
    Too Bright
21. St. Paul & The Broken Bones
    Half the City
22. Flying Lotus
    You’re Dead!
23. Sun Kil Moon
    Benji
24. Lykke Li
    I Never Learn
25. Future Islands
    Singles
26. Caribou
    Our Love
27. Hurray for the Riff Raff
    Small Town Heroes
28. Ages and Ages
    Divisionary
29. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
    Give the People What They Want
30. Phantogram
    Voices
31. Tweedy
    Sukierae
32. Foxygen
    …And Star Power
33. Protomartyr
    Under Color of Official Right
34. Ryan Adams
    Ryan Adams
35. FKA twigs
    LP1
36. Drive-By Truckers
    English Oceans
37. Reigning Sound
    Shattered
38. Shabazz Palaces
    Lese Majesty
39. Strand of Oaks
    HEAL
40. Jack White
    Lazaretto
41. Robert Ellis
    The Lights from the Chemical Plant
42. Dum Dum Girls
    Too True
43. Total Control
    Typical System
44. Temples
    Sun Structures
45. Damien Rice
    My Favourite Faded Fantasy
46. Rosanne Cash
    The River & the Thread
47. Cloud Nothings
    Here and Nowhere Else
48. Justin Townes Earle
    Single Mothers
49. La Dispute
    Rooms of the House
50. Hospitality
    Trouble