We hope you’re enjoying our weeklong countdown of the best of 2014 in music. If you’re just joining us, make sure to check out our Honorable Mentions, #25 – #16, and #15 – #6.
Later today, we will be unveiling our top five albums of the year, but before we do that, let’s take a look at our contributor’s personal and extremely diverse top five albums of the year:
We hope you’re enjoying our weeklong countdown of the best of 2014 in music. If you’re just joining us, make sure to check out our Honorable Mentions, #25 – #16, and #15 – #6.
Later today, we will be unveiling our top five albums of the year, but before we do that, let’s take a look at our contributor’s personal and extremely diverse top five albums of the year:
Laura Bittner
1. Sundials – Kick
2. FKA Twigs – LP1
3. Beck – Morning Phase
4. Frameworks – Loom
5. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace is There
Black Liquid
1. Atmosphere – Southsiders
2. Gucci Mane – Trap God 3
3. 2 Chainz – Freebase
4. Future – Monster
5. Rick Ross – Hood Billionaire
Shannon Cleary
1. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
2. Ex Hex – Rips
3. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
4. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
5. Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right
Andrew Cothern
1. The Pierces – Creation
2. Michael Jackson – Xscape
3. Passenger – Whispers
4. Tiny Victories – Haunts
5. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Alex Criqui
1. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
2. Ty Segall – Manipulator
3. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
4. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love
5. Future Islands – Singles
Cody Endres
1. Beck – Morning Phase
2. Aphex Twin – Syro
3. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Piñata
4. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
5. Kool A.D. – Not O.K.
Davy Jones
1. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
2. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
3. Sleepwalkers – Greenwood Shade
4. Landlady – Upright Behavior
5. Blake Mills – Heigh Ho
Matt Klimas
1. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
2. Wye Oak – Shriek
3. The Lees Of Memory – Sisyphus Says
4. The Rentals – Lost in Alphaville
5. Blonde Redhead – Barragán
Stephen Lecky
1. PHOX – PHOX
2. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
3. Sleepwalkers – Greenwood Shade
4. Shovels And Rope – Swimming Time
5. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
Andrew Necci
1. Posture & The Grizzly – Busch Hymns
2. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace Is There
3. Lydia Lovelace – Somewhere Else
4. Good Throb – Fuck Off
5. Issues – Issues
Doug Nunnally
1. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
2. White Lung – Deep Fantasy
3. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
4. Dum Dum Girls – Too True
5. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace is There
John Reinhold
1. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
2. Mr. Carmack – DIMEBAG
3. Machinedrum – Vapor City Archives
4. Apex Twin – Syro
5. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
Graham Scala
1. Awaas – It’s Great Dying
2. Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
3. Mujahideen – Dead Language
4. Yob – Clearing The Path To Ascend
5. Battle Ruins – Battle Ruins
Kyle Shearin
1. Lykke Li – I Never Learn
2. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
3. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
4. Spoon – They Want My Soul
5. Real Estate – Talking Backwards
Tyler Spindle
1. FKA Twigs – LP1
2. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
3. Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
4. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
5. Mr Twin Sister – Mr Twin Sister
Chris Suarez
1. Mac Demarco – Salad Days
2. Real Estate – Atlas
3. Tawny Peaks – In Silver River
4. Clique – Clique
5. Sundials – Kick
Joshua Tucker
1. Sleepwalkers – Greenwood Shade
2. Avers – Empty Light
3. Long Arms – Constant Comment
4. White Laces – Trance
5. Butcher Brown – All Purpose Music
Emilie Von Unwerth
1. Nots – We Are Nots
2. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
3. Swans – To Be Kind
4. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
5. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden
Daniel White
1. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
2. The Hotelier – Home, Like Noplace is There
3. Real Estate – Atlas
4. The Mary Onettes – Portico
5. Caribou – Our Love
We will unveil our Top 5 Albums Of The Year later today, so stay tuned!
