Best albums of 2014 according to Uncut Magazine & American Songwriter

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Two more end-year lists.

Uncut & American Songwriter are my two favorite music magazines & their 2014 lists are good.

Alldylan.com will post our end-year lists sometime in December.

Top 50 Albums of 2014 – American Songwriter Magazine

  1. Sturgill Simpson: Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
  2. The War On Drugs: Lost In The Dream
  3. Strand Of Oaks: Heal
  4. Taylor Swift: 1989
  5. Ryan Adams: Ryan Adams
  6. Hurray For The Riff Raff: Small Town Heroes
  7. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  8. Hiss Golden Messenger: Lateness Of Dancers
  9. John Fullbright: Songs
  10. First Aid Kit: Stay Gold
  11. Marianne Faithfull: Give My Love To London
  12. Ty Segall: Manipulator
  13. Robert Ellis: The Lights From The Chemical Plant
  14. Lera Lynn: The Avenues
  15. Conor Oberst: Upside Down Mountain
  16. Perfume Genius: Too Bright
  17. The Felice Brothers: Favorite Waitress
  18. Lee Ann Womack: The Way I’m Livin’
  19. Mac DeMarco: Salad Days
  20. Against Me!: Transgender Dysphoria Blues
  21. St. Vincent: St. Vincent
  22. Ex Hex: Rips
  23. Matthew Ryan: Boxers
  24. Leonard Cohen: Popular Problems
  25. Jenny Lewis: The Voyager
  26. Rosanna Cash: The River & The Thread
  27. Tweedy: Sukierae
  28. Stephen Malmus & The Jicks: Wig Out At Jagbags
  29. Justin Townes Earle: Single Mothers
  30. Angaleena Presley: American Middle Class
  31. Spoon: They Want My Soul
  32. Miranda Lambert: Platinum
  33. Jack White: Lazaretto
  34. Adam Faucett: Blind Water Finds Blind Water
  35. Eric Church: The Outsiders
  36. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Hypnotic Eye
  37. Bahamas: Bahamas Is Afie
  38. Old 97s: Most Messed Up
  39. Warpaint: Warpaint
  40. Hozier: Hozier
  41. Doug Paisley: Strong Feelings
  42. Real Estate: Atlas
  43. Old Crow Medicine Show: Remedy
  44. Rodney Crowell: Tarpaper Sky
  45. Jesse Winchester: A Reasonable Amount Of Trouble
  46. Beck: Morning Phase
  47. The New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers
  48. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Make My Head Sing
  49. Drive By Truckers: English Oceans
  50. Sharon Van Etten: Are We There

Sturgill Simpson: Life of Sin:

The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream (2014) (Full Album):

Leonard Cohen – Did I Ever Love You

Uncut’s Top 75 Albums of 2014

  1. THE WAR ON DRUGS : Lost In The Dream
  2. LEONARD COHEN : Popular Problems
  3. APHEX TWIN : Syro
  4. FKA TWIGS : LP1
  5. SHARON VAN ETTEN : Are We There
  6. ROBERT PLANT : lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
  7. HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER : Lateness Of Dancers
  8. DAMON ALBARN : Everyday Robots
  9. ST VINCENT : St Vincent
  10. SUN KIL MOON : Benji
  11. TOUMANI DIABATÉ & SIDIKI DIABATÉ : Toumani & Sidiki
  12. CARIBOU : Our Love
  13. TY SEGALL : Manipulator
  14. REAL ESTATE : Atlas
  15. ROSANNE CASH : The River & The Thread
  16. GRUFF RHYS : American Interior
  17. LUCINDA WILLIAMS : Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
  18. SWANS : To Be Kind
  19. HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF : Small Town Heroes
  20. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS : Wig Out At Jagbags
  21. EARTH : Primitive And Deadly
  22. BECK : Morning Phase
  23. ARIEL PINK : Pom Pom
  24. TWEEDY : Sukierae
  25. SLEAFORD MODS : Divide And Exit
  26. STEVE GUNN : Way Out Weather
  27. BEN WATT : Hendra
  28. THE BLACK KEYS : Turn Blue
  29. JACK WHITE : Lazaretto
  30. SPOON : They Want My Soul
  31. TUNE-YARDS : Nikki Nack
  32. MERCHANDISE : After The End
  33. STURGILL SIMPSON : Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
  34. CHRIS FORSYTH & THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND : Intensity Ghost
  35. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS : English Oceans
  36. LA ROUX : Trouble In Paradise
  37. WILLIE NELSON : Band Of Brothers
  38. FENNESZ : Bécs
  39. FUTURE ISLANDS : Singles
  40. LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES : Dereconstructed
  41. MARK LANEGAN BAND : Phantom Radio
  42. MOGWAI : Rave Tapes
  43. EAST INDIA YOUTH : Total Strife Forever
  44. THOM YORKE : Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
  45. KATE TEMPEST : Everybody Down
  46. WILLIE WATSON : Folk Singer, Vol. 1
  47. ALLAH-LAS : Worship The Sun
  48. MORRISSEY : World Peace Is None Of Your Business
  49. ROBYN HITCHCOCK : The Man Upstairs
  50. WILD BEASTS : Present Tense
  51. JENNY LEWIS : The Voyager
  52. LIARS : Mess
  53. GOAT : Commune
  54. TOM PETTY : Hypnotic Eye
  55. SCOTT WALKER AND SUNN O))) : Soused
  56. ANGEL OLSEN : Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  57. THE DELINES : Colfax
  58. JAMIE T : Carry On The Grudge
  59. RODDY FRAME : Seven Dials
  60. FRAZEY FORD : Indian Ocean
  61. AFGHAN WHIGS : Do To The Beast
  62. PAOLO NUTINI : Caustic Love
  63. GAZELLE TWIN : Unflesh
  64. KING CREOSOTE : From Scotland With Love
  65. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS : Brill Bruisers
  66. THURSTON MOORE : The Best Day
  67. PERFUME GENIUS : Too Bright
  68. LYDIA LOVELESS : Somewhere Else
  69. GULP : Season Sun
  70. FIRST AID KIT : Stay Gold
  71. BOB MOULD : Beauty & Ruin
  72. DAN MICHAELSON : Distance
  73. DAVE & PHIL ALVIN : Common Ground
  74. TEMPLES : Sun Structures
  75. RICHARD THOMPSON : Acoustic Classics

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-Egil