Top 10 Albums of 2014
Each year our DJs take on the torturous task of choosing their favorite albums of the year. Here are their Top 10 picks for 2014.
Jason Bentley
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Hozier
Hozier (Rubyworks/Columbia)
Spoon
They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/ Republic)
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This Is All Yours (Atlantic/ Canvasback)
Ty Segall
Manipulator (Drag City)
Flight Facilities
Down To Earth (Glassnote)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Beck
Morning Phase (Capitol)
First Aid Kit
Stay Gold (Columbia)
Anne Litt
Ty Segall
Manipulator (Drag City)
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
The Acid
Liminal (Mute)
Elbow
The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Concord)
Beck
Morning Phase (Capitol)
The New Basement Tapes
Lost On The River (Harvest)
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
Conor Oberst
Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch)
Jose James
While You Were Sleeping (Blue Note)
Benjamin Booker
Benjamin Booker (ATO Records)
Chris Douridas
Beck
Morning Phase (Capitol)
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This is All Yours (Atlantic/ Canvasback)
Paolo Nutini
Caustic Love (Atlantic)
Leonard Cohen
Popular Problems (Columbia)
Spoon
They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/ Republic)
The War On Drugs
Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Nick Mulvey
First Mind (Fiction Records)
Flight Facilities
Down to Earth (Glassnote)
Made in Heights
(Collected singles)
RAC
Strangers (Cherry Tree/ Interscope)
Tom Schnabel
Hollie Cook
Twice (Mr Bongo)
Laura Mvula
Sing to the Moon (Sony)
Susanne Abbuehl
The Gift (ECM)
Maria Schneider
Winter Morning Walks (Artist Share)
Tinariwen
Emmaar (Anti)
Dori Caymmi
Setenta Anos (Acari)
Zara McFarlane
If You Knew Her (Brownswood)
Christian McBride
Out Here (Mack Ave)
Billy Hart Quartet
One is the Other (ECM)
Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio
Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
Garth Trinidad
Banks
Goddess (Harvest)
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband (Loma Vista/ Republic)
Meshell Ndegeocello
Comet, Come To Me (Naive)
Hollie Cook
Twice (Mr Bongo)
Electric Wire Hustle
Love Can Prevail (Okayplayer Records / Revive Music)
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
Zara McFarlane
If You Knew Her (Brownswood)
Deerhoof
La Isla Bonita (Polyvinyl)
Kele
Trick (Lilac)
Actress
Ghettoville (Ninja Tune)
Travis Holcombe
Caribou
Our Love (Merge)
De Lux
Voyage (Innovative Leisure)
Jungle
Jungle (XL Recordings)
Kate Tempest
Everybody Down (Big Dada)
Banks
Goddess (Harvest)
The Juan Maclean
In A Dream (DFA)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Glass Animals
Zaba (Harvest)
Museum Of Love
Museum Of Love (DFA)
DJ Dodger Stadium
Friend Of Mine (Body High)
Raul Campos
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Spoon
They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/ Republic)
Jungle
Jungle (XL Recordings)
The Black Keys
Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
Beck
Morning Phase (Capital)
Broken Bells
After The Disco (Columbia)
Quantic
Magnetica (Tru Thoughts)
De Lux
Voyage (Innovative Leisure)
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband (Loma Vista/ Republic)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Liza Richardson
Ty Segall
Manipulator (Drag City)
The 2 Bears
The Night is Young (Southern Fried Records)
Jack White
Lazaretto (Columbia)
Shamir
Northtown (God Mode)
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
Benjamin Booker
Benjamin Booker (ATO Records)
Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain Records)
The New Pornographers
Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Jungle
Jungle (XL Recordings)
Hollie Cook
Twice (Mr Bongo)
Mario Cotto
Aphex Twin
Syro (Warp)
Ariel Pink
Pom Pom (4AD)
Slim Twig
A Hound At The Hem (DFA Records)
Mind Fair
Mind Fair (Golf Channel)
Sons Of Magdalene
Move To Pain (Audralight)
Mark E
Product of Industry (Spectral Sound)
Principles Of Geometry
Meanstream (Tigersushi)
Torn Hawk
Let's Cry And Do Pushups At The Same Time (Mexican Summer)
Mark Barrott
Sketches from an Island (International Feel)
Simian Mobile Disco
Whorl (Anti)
Gary Calamar
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams (Blue Note / Universal)
Courtney Barnett
A Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas (Mom & Pop / Marathon)
Beck
Morning Phase (Capitol)
Damien Jurado
Brothers and Sisters of The Eternal Sun (Secretly Canadian)
Jenny Lewis
The Voyager (Warner Bros)
The New Pornographers
Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Real Estate
Atlas (Domino)
Warpaint
Warpaint (Rough Trade)
Wye Oak
Shriek (Merge)
Dan Wilcox
Mac Demarco
Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
Ty Segall
Manipulator (Drag City)
The War On Drugs
Lost In the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Sun Kil Moon
Benji (Caldo Verde)
Spoon
They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/Republic)
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
Damien Jurado
Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian)
Angel Olsen
Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
The New Pornographers
Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Temples
Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
Eric J. Lawrence
Ty Segall
Manipulator (Drag City)
Owen Pallett
In Conflict (Domino)
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
Mac Demarco
Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
Malachai
Beyond Ugly (Domino)
Landlady
Upright Behavior (Hometapes)
Maximo Park
Too Much Information (PIAS)
Teleman
Breakfast (Moshi Moshi)
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
Cold World (Daptone)
The New Pornographers
Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Anthony Valadez
Nick Hakim
Where Will We Go (Earseed)
fatima
Yellow Memories (Eglo Records)
Majid Jordan
A Place Like This (OVO Sound)
Oceaán
The Oceaan E.P. (Chess Club)
Les Sins
Michael (Company Records)
Silk Rhodes
Silk Rhodes (Stones Throw Records)
Daedelus
The Light Brigade (Brainfeeder)
Dilated Peoples
Directors Of Photography (Rhymesayers)
Clap! Clap!
Tayi Bebba (Black Acre Records)
Meshell Ndegeocello
Comet Come To Me (Naive)
Jason Kramer
Sivu
Something on High (Warner)
Fink
Looking Too Closely (Ninja Tune)
MacY Gray
The Way (Kobalt)
Liam Bailey
Definitely NOW (Sony)
The War On Drugs
Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Ben Howard
I Forget Where We Were (Universal)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Only Run (CYHSY, Inc)
TV On The Radio
Seeds (Harvest)
Clean Bandit
New Eyes (Atlantic)
Broods
Evergreen (Capitol)
Jeremy Sole
Clap! Clap!
Tayi Bebba (Black Acre)
The Souljazz Orchestra
Inner Fire (Strut)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen Records)
Taggy Matcher
Singasong (Stix)
Sunny War
Acoustic Sessions I
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Jaiyede Afro (Strut)
Moses Sumney
Mid-City Island
Sonzeira
Bam Bam Bam (Brownswood)
C.W. Stoneking
Gon' Boogaloo (King Hokum)
The Stepkids
Wanderers (Stones Throw)
Aaron Byrd
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband (Loma Vista/ Republic)
SBTRKT
Wonder Where We Land (Young Turks Recordings Ltd)
Nick Mulvey
First Mind (Fiction Records)
Run The Jewels
Run the Jewels 2 (Productomart)
Electric Wire Hustle
Love Can Prevail (Okayplayer Records / Revive Music)
FKA twigs
LP1 (XL Recordings)
Clap! Clap!
Tayi Bebba (Black Acre Records)
Glass Animals
Zaba (Harvest)
Flying Lotus
You're Dead! (Warp Records)
fatima
Yellow Memories (Eglo Records)
Mathieu Schreyer
Willie West
Lost Soul (Timmion)
Baxter Dury
It's a Pleasure (Pias)
Goat
Commune (4d)
Helado Negro
Double Youth (Asthmatic Kitty)
Mac Demarco
Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
SBTRKT
Wonder Where We Land (Young Turks Recordings Ltd)
Taylor McFerrin
Early Riser (Brainfeeder)
Tumi Mogorosi
Project Elo (Jazzman)
Wildest Dreams
Wildest Dreams (Smalltown Supertown)
Amabis
Trabalhos Carnivoros (Mais Um Discos)
Bo Leibowitz
Cyrille Aimée
It's a Good Day (Mack Avenue)
Billy Childs
Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony)
John Coltrane
Offering (Impulse)
Chick Corea Trio
Trilogy (Concord)
Charlie Haden & Jim Hall
Charlie Haden - Jim Hall (Impulse)
Fred Hersch Trio
Floating (Palmetto)
Stacey Kent
The Changing Lights (Warner Bros.)
Myriad3
The Where (Alma Records)
Ben Webster Oscar Peterson
During This Time (Art of Groove)
Libby York
Memoir (Libby York Music)
Valida
The War On Drugs
Lost In A Dream (Secretly Canadian)
Beck
Morning Phase (Capital)
The Preatures
Blue Planet Eyes (Universal Music, Australia)
Jenny Lewis
The Voyager (Warner Brothers)
The New Basement Tapes
Lost on the River (Harvest)
Hozier
Take Me To Church (Rubyworks/Columbia)
The Juan Maclean
In a Dream (DFA)
Badbadnotgood
III (Innovative Leisure)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Mr Little Jeans
Pocketknife (Sony Music, Australia)
Marion Hodges
Caribou
Our Love (Merge)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Sea When Absent (Lefse)
The New Pornographers
Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Literature
Chorus (Slumberland)
The Horrors
Luminous (XL)
De Lux
Voyage (Innovative Leisure)
Real Estate
Atlas (Domino)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Captain Planet
Esperanto Slang (Bastard Jazz)
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty (Sub Pop)
Chris Muckley
Ray LaMontagne
Supernova (RCA)
Teleman
Breakfast (Moshi Moshi)
Spoon
They Want My Soul (Loma Vista/ Republic)
Todd Terje
It's Album Time (Olsen)
Tom Vek
Luck (Moshi Moshi)
Cymbals
The Age Of Fracture (Tough Love)
Joseph Arthur
Lou (Vanguard)
The New Basement Tapes
Lost On The River (Harvest)
Temples
Sun Structures (Fat Possum)
Khun Narin
Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band (Innovative Leisure)
Chuck P
Curtis Harding
Soul Power (Burger Records)
Dalhous
Will To Be Well (Blackest Ever Black)
Ed Motta
AOR (Tummy Touch)
Grouper
Ruins (kranky)
I IM EYE MY
7 Transmissions (Not Not Fun)
Kishi Bashi
Lighght (Joyful Noise)
Perfect Pussy
Say Yes To Love (Captured Tracks)
Sleaford Mods
Divide & Exit (Harbinger Sound)
Total Control
Typical Systems (Iron Lung)
Vessel
Punish, Honey (Mute)
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