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Earlier Best albums 2014 posts:

• Best albums of 2014 according to Uncut Magazine & American Songwriter
• Best albums of 2014 according to MOJO & Q Magazine

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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

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

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St.Vincent – Digital Witness

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U2 – Every Breaking Wave:

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Bruce Springsteen, “Frankie Fell in Love”:

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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

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-Egil