Albums of the Year 2014.

I had assumed all my Top 30 lists from 2005 to 2015 had been lost to the ravages of time. But, thanks to Tina not deleting her emails, a couple of them have reappeared. Here's the 2014 list:-

1.Swans – To Be Kind

2.FKA Twigs – LP1

3.Aphex Twin – Syro

4.The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream

5.Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused

6.St.Vincent – St.Vincent

7.Caribou – Our Love

8.Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit

9.Sharon Van Etten – Are We There

10.Grouper – Ruins

11.Sun Kil Moon – Benji

12.Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather

13.Real Estate – Atlas

14.Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2

15.The Bug – Angels & Devils

16.Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots

17.East India Youth – Total Strife Forever

18.Beck – Morning Phase

19.Future Islands – Singles

20.Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish

21.Robert Plant – Lullaby And…The Ceaseless Roar

22.Ariel Pink – Pom Pom

23.Manic Street Preachers – Futurology

24.Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness

25.Earth – Primitive And Deadly

26.Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems

27.Jack White – Lazaretto

28.Madlib/Freddie Gibbs – Pinata

29.Cooly G – Wait Til Night

30.Shabazz Palaces – Less Majesty

 

*sources

Pitchfork

The Quietus

The Wire

Mojo

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