Top 50 Albums of 2014
As 2014 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at all of the great music released with our year-end list of the top fifty albums of the year. This year in music was highlighted by several notable efforts, including reunion acts (Nickel Creek), surprise releases (Thom Yorke, Aphex Twin, D’Angelo) and studio stalwarts like Ryan Adams, Umphrey’s McGee and many more, all of whom made it on our final list. Scroll through all fifty albums below.
50. Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways
49. Nicole Atkins | Slow Phaser
48. G. Love & Special Sauce | Sugar
47. Courtney Barnett Double EP | A Sea of Split Peas
46. The Black Keys | Turn Blue
45. Thom Yorke | Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
44. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Wig Out at Jagbags
43. Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Phosphorescent Harvest
42. Caribou | Our Love
41. St. Paul & the Broken Bones | Half the City
40. Jenny Lewis | The Voyager
39. Interpol | El Pintor
38. Lake Street Dive | Bad Self Portraits
37. The Infamous Stringdusters | Let It Go
36. John Butler Trio | Flesh & Blood
35. St. Vincent | St. Vincent
34. First Aid Kit | Stay Gold
33. D’Angelo | Black Messiah
32. Budos Band | Burnt Offering
31. Spoon | They Want My Soul
30. Nickel Creek | A Dotted Line
29. Snarky Puppy | We Like It Here
28. Railroad Earth | Last of the Outlaws
27. Future Islands | Singles
26. Aphex Twin | Syro
25. TV On the Radio | Seeds
24. Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather
23. Greensky Bluegrass | If Sorrows Swim
22. Ty Segall | Manipulator
21. Mike Gordon | Overstep
20. Shovels & Rope | Swimmin’ Time
19. Jack White | Lazaretto
18. Mac DeMarco | Salad Days
17. The String Cheese Incident | Song In My Head
16. Woods | With Light and With Love
15. Hurray for the Riff Raff | Small Town Heroes
14. Rubblebucket | Survival Sounds
13. Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
12. Phish | Fuego
11. Tycho | Awake
10. Robert Plant | lullaby…and The Ceaseless Roar
9. Umphrey’s McGee | Similar Skin
8. Warpaint | Warpaint
7. Medeski, Martin and Wood + Nels Cline | Woodstock Sessions
6. Ryan Adams | Ryan Adams
5. Temples | Sun Structures
4. Real Estate | Atlas
3. Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else
2. The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream
1. Beck | Morning Phase