Best Albums of 2014

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11.

They Want My Soul 

 Spoon

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"I was never that crazy about Spoon until I heard this album. The great synths and punchy rock songs make this album much different from their previous material. Also, I love the production especially with the drums which sound very crisp. Great energy, very catchy, this is their best album yet in...""I was never that crazy about Spoon until I heard this album. The great synths and punchy rock songs make this album much different from their previous material. Also, I love the production especially with the drums which sound very crisp. Great energy, very catchy, this is their best album yet in my opinion! Highlights: Inside Out, Do You, New York Kiss, They Want My Soul, Rainy Taxi"  [+]  Reply

- MasterWhitey | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

399 charts

Rank Score:

2,520

Rank in 2014:

11

Rank in 2010s:

100

Overall Rank:

686

Average Rating:

 79 (493 votes)

Comments:

34

12.

LP1 

 FKA Twigs

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"I'm really liking this album. Really, really liking it. It's classy, it's provocative, it's original, it's terribly sexy, and the production is impeccable. Maybe the lyrics are not brilliant, maybe there are a couple of songs that feel a little underwhelming, but it's still a very competent and o...""I'm really liking this album. Really, really liking it. It's classy, it's provocative, it's original, it's terribly sexy, and the production is impeccable. Maybe the lyrics are not brilliant, maybe there are a couple of songs that feel a little underwhelming, but it's still a very competent and overall cohesive album, at least for me. A very pleasant surprise."  [+]  Reply

- 9999 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

426 charts

Rank Score:

2,254

Rank in 2014:

12

Rank in 2010s:

112

Overall Rank:

766

Average Rating:

 76 (520 votes)

Comments:

31

13.

Syro 

 Aphex Twin

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"Richard D. James is a genius. The man has an ability that few do, the way he is able to manipulate music, to subtly change small things here and there throughout songs is incredible. Sometimes instrumental electronic music can get boring, but not here, not even for a second. Every minute you’re d...""Richard D. James is a genius. The man has an ability that few do, the way he is able to manipulate music, to subtly change small things here and there throughout songs is incredible. Sometimes instrumental electronic music can get boring, but not here, not even for a second. Every minute you’re discovering something new, like walking through a mansion, there’s another room, intricately decorated and you could spend hours just being in that room, but you move on to the hundred other rooms. It’s truly an incredible album, a beautiful album, and one well worth the wait."  [+]  Reply

- RockyRaccoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (9 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

326 charts

Rank Score:

1,931

Rank in 2014:

13

Rank in 2010s:

130

Overall Rank:

906

Average Rating:

 77 (416 votes)

Comments:

30

14.

Pom Pom 

 Ariel Pink

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"Pom Pom is absolutely one of 2014's strangest albums. I remain a little on the fence as to whether or not it's one of the year's best. In its favor I'll say it succeeds utterly in busting down any notion of musical genre, residing somewhere in the ambiguous terrain carved out by the likes of Fran...""Pom Pom is absolutely one of 2014's strangest albums. I remain a little on the fence as to whether or not it's one of the year's best. In its favor I'll say it succeeds utterly in busting down any notion of musical genre, residing somewhere in the ambiguous terrain carved out by the likes of Frank Zappa in the 1970s. At its best Pom Pom is campy, funny, bizarre, and oddly mesmerizing. Then again, it's also obnoxious at times, with a kind of smirking irony that I find generally distasteful. The fact that you're seeing it appear in my 2014 chart is indication that I've tentatively come down on the side of finding it more a valuable contribution than a detraction, but I'll also confess that five years later I'm still chewing on it but not quite able to digest it. A polarizing album that still leaves me unsure which pole I'm drawn to."  [+]  Reply

- buzzdainer | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

274 charts

Rank Score:

1,829

Rank in 2014:

14

Rank in 2010s:

136

Overall Rank:

954

Average Rating:

 78 (363 votes)

Comments:

29

15.

Royal Blood 

 Royal Blood

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"Crazy good debut album. I still remember the day I found this album, and still can't believe the sound comes only from a bass and drums."  Reply

- AwaitingAndrew | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

281 charts

Rank Score:

1,798

Rank in 2014:

15

Rank in 2010s:

138

Overall Rank:

969

Average Rating:

 76 (420 votes)

Comments:

23

16.

Morning Phase 

 Beck

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"I actually thought there were a few really gorgeous tracks here. Most notably Heart is a Drum. I don't know.. I don't think this is that much weaker than his "big" releases at all..."  Reply

- 19loveless91 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

342 charts

Rank Score:

1,714

Rank in 2014:

16

Rank in 2010s:

145

Overall Rank:

1,018

Average Rating:

 75 (547 votes)

Comments:

42

17.

You're Dead! 

 Flying Lotus

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"Genres exist because it’s human nature to want to categorize things. We want to put everything, people, art, everything that exists, into little categories with certain attributes so that we don’t have to spend all of our time examining each individual thing to observe its unique properties. It’s...""Genres exist because it’s human nature to want to categorize things. We want to put everything, people, art, everything that exists, into little categories with certain attributes so that we don’t have to spend all of our time examining each individual thing to observe its unique properties. It’s just easier that way, it’s easier to see something and say “I now know what this thing is” because of how it has been categorized, either by us or someone else. This can be problematic though, especially in the world of music genres. If any one album fits perfectly into the hole of one genre, then chances are, that album is not particularly interesting (though this is not necessarily true). The best albums, the best music, transcends genres, they look genres in the face and directly defy them. The best music is the music that, when your friends ask about it, you say “It’s kind of a mix between….well it’s kind of like….. you know what just listen to it.” That’s what “You’re Dead!” is. There are so many different genres shoved into this 38-minute, 15-second album that it’ll make your head spin. This is one of the most all-over-the-place, neurotic, chaotic albums that I’ve ever heard. It’s really hard to pin it down in words, and that’s the beauty of it. Listening to this album is like being on a roller coaster with a loose lap-bar. The whole album deals with life and death, it feels like this album is about the futility of life, the futility of what you do with your life. It’s an album that absolutely requires, and will take by force, your whole attention, and needs multiple listenings, and even then, you might not even fully grasp what has just happened, as if you just witnessed a man resurrected from the dead, this album will be swirling around in your head and you may even question whether or not it actually happened, but be assured, it happened, and you loved every glorious, frantic second of it."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

337 charts

Rank Score:

1,623

Rank in 2014:

17

Rank in 2010s:

155

Overall Rank:

1,079

Average Rating:

 79 (455 votes)

Comments:

25

18.

1989 

 Taylor Swift

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"As most mainstream pop albums, it's fairly inconsistent. There's a lot of filler (How you get the girl, This love, I know places), but the songs that do work are pretty good, I must admit. I think that the run of "Blank space", "Style", "Out of the woods" and "All you had to do was stay" is great...""As most mainstream pop albums, it's fairly inconsistent. There's a lot of filler (How you get the girl, This love, I know places), but the songs that do work are pretty good, I must admit. I think that the run of "Blank space", "Style", "Out of the woods" and "All you had to do was stay" is great, and those four are the best tracks on the album by a mile. The second half, though, is a little lackluster, but then again, I don't think "1989" was ever designed to be more than a collection of singles. Some of them are great, yes, but the album as a whole doesn't hold for too long. It's not incredibly original either, since "Welcome to New York" rips off the piano riff from "Baba O'Riley", "Wildest dreams" seems like a cover of a Lana del Rey song, "Shake it off"'s beat is heavily reminiscent of Pharrell Williams's "Happy", "Clean" sounds a lot like Lorde and "How you get the girl" is so Katy Perry. The worst thing about these influences is that they're blatantly displayed but Taylor doesn't try to do anything unique with them on the aforementioned tracks. On the other hand, the lyrics are not incredibly mature, but they often manage to sound relatable and nuanced enough, and like I said, the tracks that work are really good, especially "Style", which I think it's her best song to date without a doubt. So to sum up, I would say "1989" is an alright diversion with a couple of gems, but it's far from being a memorable album."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

275 charts

Rank Score:

1,556

Rank in 2014:

18

Rank in 2010s:

163

Overall Rank:

1,121

Average Rating:

 66 (468 votes)

Comments:

44

19.

This Is All Yours 

 alt-J

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"Now, at last, an indie sensibility is turning into a movement. This (not the repetitive "An Awesome Wave") is the document. Featuring warm foothills, female rebels, and duels. Above all, "love is the warmest color""  Reply

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

269 charts

Rank Score:

1,415

Rank in 2014:

19

Rank in 2010s:

178

Overall Rank:

1,228

Average Rating:

 73 (520 votes)

Comments:

29

20.

Are We There 

 Sharon Van Etten

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"Sharon Van Etten sits on the singer-songwriter spectrum somewhere near Chan Marshall and Will Oldham. This particular album is mostly understated. Another reviewer might have called it "maddeningly slow" and "boring." I have called it a "slow burner." Your call."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2014

Appears in:

279 charts

Rank Score:

1,384

Rank in 2014:

20

Rank in 2010s:

186

Overall Rank:

1,259

Average Rating:

 79 (291 votes)

Comments:

20

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Best Albums of 2014 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	7	1%
Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv	3	0%
Neil Diamond	2	0%
King Crimson	2	0%
Manchester Orchestra	2	0%
Bucketheadland	2	0%
Mono	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	474	47%
	193	19%
	49	5%
	44	4%
	35	3%
	25	2%
	24	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	973	97%
Yes	28	3%

Live?	Albums	%
No	970	97%
Yes	31	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	996	100%
Yes	5	0%