Year-End Lists

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2014

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1. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
2. Lost in the Dream
   The War on Drugs
3. Benji
   Sun Kil Moon
4. Shriek
   Wye Oak
5. Burn Your Fire For No Witness
   Angel Olsen
6. Deep Fantasy
   White Lung
7. Are We There
   Sharon Van Etten
8. Nux Vomica
   Nux Vomica
9. LP1
   FKA twigs
10. After the End
    Merchandise
11. Clearing the Path to Ascend
    YOB
12. Ultraviolence
    Lana Del Rey
13. To Be Kind
    Swans
14. Transgender Dysphoria Blues
    Against Me!
15. My Krazy Life
    YG
16. The Future’s Void
    EMA
17. The Voyager
    Jenny Lewis
18. The Outsiders
    Eric Church
19. Atlas
    Real Estate
20. HEAL
    Strand of Oaks
21. Tha Tour Part 1
    Rich Gang
22. 1989
    Taylor Swift
23. Too Bright
    Perfume Genius
24. Teenage Retirement
    Chumped
25. As The Stars
    Woods of Desolation
26. Tough Love
    Jessie Ware
27. Here and Nowhere Else
    Cloud Nothings
28. Glass Boys
    Fucked Up
29. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
30. It’s Album Time
    Todd Terje
31. Manipulator
    Ty Segall
32. Singles
    Future Islands
33. Syro
    Aphex Twin
34. “What Is This Heart?”
    How to Dress Well
35. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus
36. Tomorrow’s Hits
    The Men
37. Bury Me at Makeout Creek
    Mitski
38. Ecdysis
    Horrendous
39. Our Love
    Caribou
40. Aquarius
    Tinashe
41. Hell Can Wait
    Vince Staples
42. Melana Chasmata
    Triptykon
43. Hoodwink’d
    Lvl Up
44. Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    Sturgill Simpson
45. Keep Doing What You’re Doing
    You Blew It!
46. They Want My Soul
    Spoon
47. Heathen
    Thou
48. Picture You Staring
    TOPS
49. St. Vincent
    St. Vincent
50. Sunbathing Animal
    Parquet Courts