Year-End Lists

Drowned in Sound: 51 Favourite Albums of 2014

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

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