In 2014, our 15th year, we’re trying a new approach; you get one page with a big list on it. It’s still a Top 100 though, so some things don’t change.
Eligible for inclusion were albums released in 2014 for sale in the UK. No compilations, no EPs, no albums released in a year other than 2014, no reissues/remasterings/superdeluxes.
Then, some of our writers voted in their favourites. There were 214 albums nominated in this way. And then I did some numbercrunching. Which brought us down to 100.
Where links are available, click on an artist name for all we have on that artist, and on the album title for the review of the album. Where links and by extension reviews are not available, sorry.
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1. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista/Caroline International)
2. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
3. Caribou – Our Love (City Slang)
4. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
5. FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)
6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)
7. Beck – Morning Phase (Virgin EMI)
8. Future Islands – Singles (4AD)
9. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
10. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile)
12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos (Erased Tapes)
13. Strand Of Oaks – Heal (Dead Oceans)
14. Swans – To Be Kind (Mute)
15. La Roux – Trouble In Paradise (Polydor)
16. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Parlophone)
17. Nick Mulvey – First Mind (Fiction)
18. King Creosote – From Scotland, With Love (Domino)
19. Interpol – El Pintor (Soft Limit)
20. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)
21. Ben Frost – Aurora (Mute)
22. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Caroline International)
23. Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
24. Jack White – Lazaretto (XL)
25. Run The Jewels – RTJ2 (Mass Appeal)
26. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
27. Allo Darlin – We Come From The Same Place (Fortuna POP!)
28. Slow Club – Complete Surrender (Caroline International)
29. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rhythm (The Leaf Label)
30. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
32. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine/Virgin EMI)
33. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
34. The Antlers – Familiars (Transgressive)
35. TV On The Radio – Seeds (Harvest)
36. Kiasmos – Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)
37. Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)
38. Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge (Virgin EMI)
39. Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)
40. Kelis – Food (Ninja Tune)
41. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden (Profound Lore)
42. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
43. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Mute)
44. Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi)
45. Hookworms – The Hum (Weird World)
46. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love (Matador)
47. Aziza Brahim – Soutak (Glitterbeat)
48. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused (4AD)
49. Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
50. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)
52. Luke Abbott – Wysing Forest (Border Community)
53. Alex G – DSU (Lucky Number)
54. Ballet School – The Dew Lasts An Hour (Bella Union)
55. Clark – Clark (Warp)
56. DELS – Petals Have Fallen (Big Dada)
57. Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Island)
58. Dan Weiss – Fourteen (Pi)
59. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)
60. Inventions – Inventions (Temporary Residence)
61. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Polydor)
62. Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)
63. The Hotelier – Home, Like No Place There Is (Tiny Engines)
64. Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi)
64. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)
65. Ex Hex – Rips (Merge)
66. Blue-Eyed Hawk – Under The Moon (Edition)
67. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté – Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)
68. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rising Like A Bell (OWSLA)
69. Sébastien Tellier – L’Aventura (Record Makers/Because)
70. Wye Oak – Shriek (City Slang)
72. Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)
73. Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath (Recital)
74. Little Big League – Tropical Jinx (Run For Cover)
75. Tinariwen – Emmaar (PIAS)
76. Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20)
77. Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics – Jaiyede Afro (Strut)
78. Honeyblood – Honeyblood (FatCat)
79. Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
80. Kele – Trick (Lilac)
81. Mark E – Product Of Industry (Spectral Sound)
82. Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)
83. Robert Plant – Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)
84. Hospitality – Trouble (Fire)
85. Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
86. Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
87. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Columbia)
88. Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo)
89. Bis – Data Panik Etcetera (Do Yourself In)
90. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager (Warner)
92. I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)
93. Woman’s Hour – Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
94. Young Fathers – Dead (Big Dada)
95. Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Bella Union)
96. Fucked Up – Glass Boys (Matador)
97. Owen Pallett – In Conflict (Domino)
98. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Azealia Banks/Prospect Park)
99. Matthew & The Atlas – Other Rivers (Communion)
100. East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (Stolen)
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musicOMH’s Top 100 Albums Of 2014 were voted on by Andy Baber, Helen Clarke, Neil Dowden, Ben Hogwood, Michael Hubbard, Steven Johnson, Tim Lee, Amelia Maher, Jordan Mainzer, Graeme Marsh, David Meller, Christopher Monk, John Murphy, Daniel Paton, Max Raymond, Sam Shepherd, David Welsh, Chris White, Martyn Young
St Vincent MP3s or CDs
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