Top Albums of 2014 – Contributors’ Lists

Before QRO lists our own top album of 2014, we give all of our contributors a chance to make their voices heard: Ted Chase 1 Spoon, They Want My...
Top Albums of 2014 - Contributors' Lists

Top Albums of 2014 - Contributors' Lists

Before QRO lists our own top album of 2014, we give all of our contributors a chance to make their voices heard:

Spoon : They Want My SoulTed Chase
1 Spoon, They Want My Soul
2 Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots
3 Death From Above 1979, The Physical World
4 Hamilton Leithauser, Black Hours
5 Elbow, The Take Off and Landing of Everything
6 Bear Hands, Distraction
7 Eels, The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
8 Split Single, Fragmented World
9 St. Vincent, St. Vincent
10 Kevin Drew, Darlings
Death From Above 1979 : The Physical World11 The New Pornographers, Brill Bruisers
12 Chromeo, White Women
13 Bob Mould, Beauty & Ruin
14 Hooray For Earth, Racy
15 The Felice Brothers, Favorite Waitress
16 Fanfarlo, Let’s Go Extinct
17 Weezer, Everything Will Be Alright In the End
18 Camper Van Beethoven, El Camino Real
19 Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere Else
20 The Mary Onettes, Portico

Jack White : LazarettoMike Condon
1 Jack White, Lazaretto
2 alt-J, This Is All Yours
3 Hozier, Hozier
4 Ben Howard, I Forget Where We Were
5 John Butler Trio, Flesh & Blood

The Mary Onettes : PorticoLloyd Epperly
1 The Church, Further/Deeper
2 NTNT, And Then the Moon
3 The New Division, Together We Shine
4 The Mary Onettes, Portico
5 Kye Kye, Fantasize
6 Alcest, Shelter
7 Ghost Beach, Blonde
8 Jaws, Be Slowly
9 The Chain Gang of 1974, Daydream Forever
10 U2, Songs of Innocence

Jenny Lewis : The VoyagerRachel Fox
1 Shovels & Rope, Swimmin’ Time
2 The Apache Relay, The Apache Relay
3 Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
4 Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
5 Conor Oberst, Upside Down Mountain
6 First Aid Kit, Stay Gold
7 Nickel Creek, A Dotted Line
8 The Secret Sisters, Put Your Needle Down
9 Trampled By Turtles, Wild Animals
10 Delta Spirit, In the Wide
Conor Oberst : Upside Down Mountain11 Sean Watkins, All I Do Is Lie
12 The New Basement Tapes, Lost On the River
13 Blake Mills, Heigh Ho
14 Cold War Kids, Hold My Home
15 Robert Ellis, The Lights From the Chemical Plant
16 The Belle Brigade, Just Because
17 Willie Watson, Folk Singer Vol. 1
18 NEEDTOBREATHE, Rivers In the Wasteland
19 Henry Wolfe, Encino EP
20 The Felice Brothers, Favorite Waitress

Young the Giant : Mind over MatterMichaela Fulton
1 Royal Blood, Royal Blood
2 Slash, World On Fire
3 Theory of a Deadman, Savages
4 Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways
5 Young the Giant, Mind over Matter

Damon Albarn : Everyday RobotsKen Grand-Pierre
1 Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots
2 Paolo Nutini, Caustic Love
3 Elbow, The Take Off and Landing of Everything
4 Manic Street Preachers, Futurology
5 Foster the People, Supermodel
6 Bombay Bicycle Club, So Long See You Tomorrow
7 Metronomy, Love Letters
8 Jessie Ware, Tough Love
9 Liam Bailey, Definitely Now
10 Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Balcony

Pixies : Indy CindyDarren Hodgkinson
1 Afghan Whigs, Do the Beast
2 The War On Drugs, Lost In the Dream
3 The Twilight Sad, No One Wants To Be Here and No One Wants To Leave
4 Swans, To Be Kind
5 Young Team, Fade Into the Night
6 Shellac, Dude Incredible
7 Royal Blood, Royal Blood
8 Pixies, Indie Cindy
9 Northern Star, Live Revolution
10 Interpol, El Pintor

St. Vincent : St. VincentRick Kern
1 Run the Jewels, Run the Jewels 2
2 St. Vincent, St. Vincent
3 Warpaint, Warpaint
4 Sylvan Esso, Sylvan Esso
5 The War On Drugs, Lost In the Dream
6 Phantogram, Voices
7 Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear
8 Spoon, They Want My Soul
9 Jenny Lewis, The Voyager
10 Lykke Li, I Never Learn
11 Angus & Julia Stone, Angus & Julia Stone
12 Future Islands, Singles

NEEDTOBREATHE : Rivers In the WastelandKelsey Kufner
1 NEEDTOBREATHE, Rivers In the Wasteland
2 Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
3 Jack White, Lazaretto
4 Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
5 Trampled By Turtles, Wild Animals

Tycho : AwakeGloria Lee
1 Tycho, Awake
2 Clark, Clark
3 Odesza, In Return
4 Aphex Twin, Syro
5 Porter Robinson, Worlds
6 Hudson Mohawk, Chimes
7 Iceage, Plowing Into the Field of Love
8 Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!
9 Todd Terje, It’s Album Time
10 Bassnectar, Noise vs. Beauty

The Horrors : LuminousEster Segretto
Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots
Bear’s Dean, Islands
Catfish & The Bottlemen, The Balcony
Fear of Men, Loom
FKA Twigs, LP1
The Horrors, Luminous
Royal Blood, Royal Blood
Thee Oh Sees, Drop
Twin Peaks, Wild Onion
VANIISH, Memory Work
Warpaint, Warpaint
The Wytches, Annabel Dream Reader

Sharon Van Etten : Are We ThereSteven Trotman
1 Knife Party, Abandon Ship
2 Porter Robinson, Worlds
3 Hard Nips, Uncommon Animal
4 We Were Promised Jetpacks, Unravelling
5 OK Go, Hungry Ghosts
6 Sharon Van Etten, Are We There

Maryanne Ventrice
1 Augustines, Augustines
2 Swans, To Be Kind
3 Marissa Nadler, July
Wye Oak : Shriek4 Wye Oak, Shriek
5 St. Vincent, St. Vincent
6 Perfume Genius, Too Bright
7 Lydia Ainsworth, Right From Real
8 Wild Beasts, Present Tense
9 Future Islands, Singles
10 Sondre Lerche, Please

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