TOP MUSIC 2014

TOP 10 ALBUMS of the YEAR

The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream

Bleachers
Strange Desire

Caribou
Our Love

Taylor Swift
1989

Colony House
When I Was Younger

Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams

Spoon
They Want My Soul

Blake Mills
Heigh Ho

Copeland
Ixora

Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Foster The People
Supermodel

Warpaint
Warpaint

Beck
Morning Phase

Sohn
Tremors

Chromeo
White Women

Brooke Fraser
Brutal Romantic

Temples
Sun Structures

Electric Youth
Innerworld

Jenny Lewis
The Voyager

Young Summer
Siren

Madi Diaz
Phantom

Tycho
Awake

CHVRCHES
Recover (Alucard Sessions) EP

Field Report
Marigolden

Real Estate
Atlas

 

TOP SONGS of the YEAR

Bleachers - “Rollercoaster” & "Shadow"
Blood Orange - “You’re Not Good Enough”
Caribou - “Second Chance” & "Back Home"
Spoon - “Do You”
Taylor Swift - “Style” & "Out Of The Woods"
The War On Drugs - “Under The Pressure” & "Red Eyes"
Blake Mills - “Don’t Tell Our Friends About Me”
Say Lou Lou - “Games For Girls”
MADE IN HEIGHTS - “Panther”
Sylvan Esso - “Coffee”
Asgeir - “King And Cross”
Birdy - “White Winter Hymnal"
Buscabulla - "Temporal"
Charli XCX - "Boom Clap"
Chelsea Lankes - “Secret”
CHVRCHES - “Gun (Alucard Sessions)”
Coldplay - “Magic”
Colony House - "Won't Give Up"
Copeland - “Disjointed"
Kiesza - “Hideaway"
Kindness - “World Restart” & "This Is Not About Us"
Lana Del Rey - “West Coast”
Little Dragon - “Paris”
Mikky Ekko - “Smile"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
PWNDTIAC - “Hey Girl”
SOHN - “Artifice”
Susanne Sundfor - “Fade Away”
Thom Yorke - “Truth Ray"
Tycho - “Awake”
Young Summer - “Fever Dream”

 

TOP ALBUMS (non-2014)

Blood Orange
Cupid Deluxe

Telekinesis
12 Desperate Straight Lines

St. Lucia
When The Night

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Cold Roses

Michael Jackson
Thriller

JT Daly
Memory

Kindness
World, You Need A Change Of Mind

Holy Ghost
Holy Ghost

Echosmith
Talking Dreams

Chris Walla
Field Manual

Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music For Airports

Bombay Bicycle Club
A Different Kind Of Fix

Atoms For Peace
Amok

Boards Of Canada
Tomorrow's Harvest

Shane Carruth
Upstream Color (Original Motion Picture Score)

 

TOP SONGS (non-2014)

Big Data - "Dangerous (feat Joywave)"
Bill Withers - "Lovely Day"
Blood Orange - "Chamakay", "You're Not Good Enough", "No Right Thing", "Chosen"
Blossom Dearie - "Figure Eight"
Bombay Bicycle Club - "Lights Out, Words Gone"
Brian Eno - "1/1"
The Cranberries - "Dreams"
Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"
Echosmith - "Cool Kids"
Elliott Smith - Figure 8"
Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F"
Kindness - "Gee Up"
Phil Collins - "Another Day In Paradise"
Phoenix - "Everything Is Everything"
Sky Ferreira - "Everything Is Embarrassing"
The Smiths - "This Charming Man"
Solange Knowles - "Losing You"
Stevie Nicks - "Stand Back"
Whitney Houston - "How Will I Know", "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"