Paste & RollingStone: Best albums of 2014

Best Albums 2014 paste mag

 

Earlier Best albums 2014 posts:

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2014

  1. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
  2. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  3. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
  4. King Tuff – Black Moon Spell
  5. Alvvays – Alvvays
  6. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
  7. Beck – Morning Phase
  8. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
  9. First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
  10. Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
  11. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  12. Spoon – They Want My Soul
  13. Real Estate – Atlas
  14. Ty Segall – Manipulator
  15. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
  16. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
  17. The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
  18. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
  19. Allah-Lahs – Worship the Sun
  20. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
  21. St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Half the City
  22. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
  23. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
  24. Lykke Li – I Never Learn
  25. Future Islands – Singles
  26. Caribou – Our Love
  27. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes
  28. Ages and Ages – Divisionary
  29. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Give the People What They Want
  30. Phantogram – Voices
  31. Tweedy – Sukierae
  32. Foxygen – …And Star Power
  33. Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right
  34. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
  35. FKA Twigs – LP1
  36. Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans
  37. Reigning Sound – Shattered
  38. Shabazz Palaces – Lese Majesty
  39. Strand of Oaks – HEAL
  40. Jack White – Lazaretto
  41. Robert Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant
  42. Dum Dum Girls – Too True
  43. Total Control – Typical System
  44. Temples – Sun Structures
  45. Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
  46. Rosanne Cash – The River & the Thread
  47. Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
  48. Justin Townes Earle – Single Mothers
  49. La Dispute – Rooms of the House
  50. Hospitality – Trouble

The War on Drugs – “Red Eyes” (Official Video):

St.Vincent – Digital Witness

U2 – Every Breaking Wave:

Bruce Springsteen, “Frankie Fell in Love”:

rollingstone best albums 2014

 

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2014

  1. U2 – Songs Of Innocence
  2. Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
  3. The Black Keys – Turn Blue
  4. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  5. Miranda Lambert – Platinum
  6. Charli XCX – SUCKER
  7. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
  8. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
  9. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
  10. Taylor Swift – 1989
  11. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
  12. Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways
  13. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
  14. Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In the End
  15. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
  16. FKA Twigs – LP1
  17. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
  18. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
  19. Jackson Browne – Standing In the Breach
  20. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
  21. Eric Church – The Outsiders
  22. Skrillex – Recess
  23. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
  24. Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
  25. YG – My Krazy Life
  26. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
  27. alt-J – This Is All Yours
  28. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
  29. Spoon – They Want My Soul
  30. Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
  31. Young Thug & Bloody Jay – Black Portland
  32. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
  33. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger – Midnight Sun
  34. Prince – Art Official Age
  35. Lenny Kravitz – Strut
  36. Alvvays – Alvvays
  37. Benjamin Booker – Benjamin Booker
  38. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Small Town Heroes
  39. Caribou – Our Love
  40. Jack White – Lazaretto
  41. Aphex Twin – Syro
  42. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
  43. Future – Honest
  44. Interpol – El Pintor
  45. EMA – The Future’s Void
  46. Tweedy – Sukierae
  47. Gary Clark Jr. – Gary Clark Jr. Live
  48. Coldplay – Ghost Stories
  49. Tinariwen – Emmaar
  50. YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend

-Egil