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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

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Sturgill Simpson: Life of Sin:

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

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Leonard Cohen – Did I Ever Love You

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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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Check out:

• Best albums of 2014 according to MOJO & Q Magazine

-Egil