What are everyone's favorite albums of 2014?

[Axver]

Royksopp and Robyn - Do It Again (I thought I was going to like that EP a lot more.)

"Monument" is a fucking incredible song though.

I'm glad I won't be the only one listing these.

 

[Salome]

Without worrying about the order:
Amy Lavere - Runaway Diary
Aphex Twin - Syro
Hookworms - The Hum
Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love to London
Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
Reigning Sound - Shattered
Thurston Moore - The Best Day
U2 - Songs of Innocence
Zoe Muth - World of Stranger

 

[LuckyNumber7]

This year has been a lot of EPs and singles for me, in anticipation of next year that will be a lot of albums. But here are my top three.

1. Bleachers - Strange Desire
2. U2 - Songs of Innocence
3. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

1. Low Roar - 0
2. Delay Trees - Readymade
3. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
4. Spoon - They Want My Soul
5. Swans - To Be Kind
6. Alcest - Shelter
7. Pure X - Angel
8. New Madrid - Sunswimmer
9. U2 - Songs of Innocence
10. Mac Demarco - Salad Days

Honorable mentions:
Beck - Morning Phase
The Wheel Workers - Past To Present

 

[phanan]

Always nice to see some Alcest love.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Always nice to see some Alcest love.

Thanks. Yeah, the album is awesome. If you haven't checked it out. You definitely should.

 

[phanan]

Oh, I definitely have, and it's up there for me as well. Been a fan since the first album.

 

[IWasBored]

This year has been a lot of EPs and singles for me, in anticipation of next year that will be a lot of albums. But here are my top three.

1. Bleachers - Strange Desire
2. U2 - Songs of Innocence
3. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream

Bleachers is way better than they have any right to be.

 

[u2popmofo]

Bleachers is way better than they have any right to be.

Are they math rock?

 

[IWasBored]

Are they math rock?

No, mom.

 

[bono_212]

Bleachers is way better than they have any right to be.

Why you gotta get that song stuck in my head again?

 

[Axver]

Always nice to see some Alcest love.

If I had ranked my list it would be #1. Best Alcest album since the debut.

 

[liamcool]

Some really good albums:

"Benji" - Sun Kil Moon
"More Than Any Other Day" - Ought
"In Conflict" - Owen Pallett
"Joyland" - Trust
"Singles" - Future Islands
"To Be Kind" - Swans
"Soused" - Scott Walker and Sunn O)))
"Lost In The Dream" - The War On Drugs
"Claw" - DAMA/LIBRA
"Someday World" - Brian Eno and Karl Hyde


Some albums that aren't amazing, but at least interesting:

"Overstep" - Mike Gordon
"Vacation Vinny" - Grass is Green
"Estoile Naiant" - patten
"Can't Love" - Turn To Crime
"Typical System" - Total Control

 

[Hewson]

Is it just me, or do these year-in-review threads get earlier and earlier each year?

Could be:

U2 Interference: Top Albums of 2015

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Bleachers is way better than they have any right to be.

Way better on my list, or way better than you expected it?

 

[bono_man2002]

I feel like I've forgotten something, but this will do for now.

Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes
Bruce Springsteen - High Hoes
Dan Sultan - Blackbird
Future Islands - Singles
Hozier - Hozier
Ingrid Michealson - Lights Out
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
Kate Miller-Heidke - O Vertigo!
Lana Del Ray - Ultraviolence
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream
Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
Tove Lo - Queen Of the Clouds
U2 - Songs of Innocence

 

[bono_212]

High Hoes

 

[iron yuppie]

A classic Springsteen meditation on the travails of the working class.

 

[martha]

The farming class.

 

[Jack In The Box]

Behemoth - "The Satanist"

 

[bono_man2002]

High Hoes

I only just noticed this....

 

[IWasBored]

Dammit that reminds me I still haven't obtained that album. I am a bad Bruce fan

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

I listened to some more 2014 albums and the order changed. My new 2014 list:

1. Swans - To Be Kind
2. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
3. Alcest - Shelter
4. Mac Demacro - Salad Days
5. Beck - Morning Phase
6. Spoon - They Want My Soul
7. How To Dress Well - What Is This Heart?
8. U2 - Songs of Innocence
9. Pure X - Angel
10. Low Roar - 0
11. Delay Trees - Readymade
12. New Madrid - Sunswimmer
13. Needtobreathe - Rivers in the Wasteland
14. Young the Giant - Mind Over Matter
15. The Echelon Effect - Pacific

 

[LMP]

Sorry I'll need to edit mine to be the new D'Angelo record 15 times.

 

[LemonMelon]

First listen to Black Messiah: good.

Second listen to Black Messiah: fucking incredible.

Can't imagine how high it'll be on my list by the end of the year. Is there a number above one?

 

[cobl04]

Pitchfork rated Benji as the 9th best album of 2010-2014
Pitchfork rated Benji as the 7th best album of 2014

 

[LemonMelon]

Best year of all time.

 

[bono_212]

I hate p4k so much sometimes. Lmao.

 

[cobl04]

the only thing I can think of is maybe the 10-14 list was published before his stupid War on Drugs beef started colouring people's opinions of him?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Equally weird is how highly they rated Taylor on all the year-end shit but THEY DIDN'T EVEN REVIEW THE ALBUM.

What the fuck?