Our Favourite Albums of 2014

Scout Tafoya
Floor - Oblation
Hands - The Soul Is Quick
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
Wye Oak - Shriek
Temples - Sun Structure
Dirty Beaches - Stateless
Cheatahs - Cheatahs
Eagulls - Eagulls
Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - West of Memphis
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Ty Segall - Manipulator 
Ghostface - 36 Seasons
Interpol - El Pintor
Electric Youth - Innerworld
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Golden Retriever - Seer 
Chad Vangaalen - Shrink Dust

Eli Ianacone
1. Menzingers - Rented World
2. Crosses - Crosses 
3. Electric Wizard - Time to Die
4. Floor - Oblation
5. Death From Above 1979 - Physical World
6. Single Mothers - Negative Quality
7. Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
8. Budos Band - Burnt Offering
9. In Utero - Tribute Album
10. “Weird Al” Yankovic - Mandatory Fun

Kyle McDonald
Clap! Clap! - Tayi Bebba
Fatima - Yellow Memories
Photay - Photay
Teleman - Breakfast
CEO - Wonderland
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
Ricky Eat Acid - Three Love Songs
Kyle Bobby Dunn - Kyle Bobby Dunn & The Infinite Sadness
Beaty Heart - Mixed Blessings
Bradford Cox - Teenage (Original Soundtrack)
D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
Mica Levi - Under the Skin (Original Soundtrack)
Nick Hakim - Where Will We Go (Parts I & II)
Lullatone - While Winter Whispers


Cooper McKim
Taylor McFerrin - Early Riser
Hiatus Kaiyote - By Fire
Mac Demarco - Salad Days Demos
Matthew Sheens - Untranslatable
Roger Seller - Primitives
Posse - Soft Opening
Wye Oak - Shriek
Statik Selektah - What Goes Around
Gramatik - Beatz & Pieces Vol. 1
Bad and Blue - Bad and Blue


Chloe Stewart
Empty Hearts - Empty Hearts
Robyn Hitchock - Love From London
Vibrators - Punk Mania: Back to the Roots
Real Kids - Shake…Outta Controls
Buzzcocks - The Way

Paul Duane

Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music 
Sunn O))) & Scott Walker - Soused

Brettney Young

Alt-J - This Is All Yours
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Beck - Morning Phase
Kendrick Lamar - "I"
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
And the so-insane-it'- good award goes to What if there was an imp who knew your insecurities by Clean Sadness


Marissa D'Elia

Soul Glo - ""
Radiator Hospital - Torch Song
Clique - Clique
The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There
Hightide Hotel - Naturally
Drake - Singles
Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek

Tim Earle
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
The Belle Brigade - Just Because
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
Porter Robinson - Worlds
Masked Intruder - MI
The Both - The Both
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See you Tomorrow
FKA Twigs - LP1



Tucker Johnson 
Jungle – Jungle
Future Islands – Singles
Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend
Gary Clark Jr. - Live
Interpol – El Pintor
Jack White – Lazaretto
Tom Petty – Hypnotic Eye
Weezer – Eveyrthing Will Be Alright in the End
Beck – Morning Phase
New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
Pink Floyd – The Endless River
Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World

Ashley Tryba


1. Grouper - Ruins
2. Angel Olsen- Burn Your Fire For No Witness
3. Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold 
4. Swans - To Be Kind 
5. Ty Segall – Manipulator
6. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
7. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There 
8. Spirit of the Beehive – Spirit of the Beehive
9. Alvvays- Alvvays
10. Goat – Commune 



Daniel Khan
1. Aphex Twin - Syro
2. Death From Above 1979 - The Physical World
3. St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4. Sam Roberts Band - Lo-Fantasy
5. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
6. Caribou - Our Love
7. Ty Segall - Manipulator
8. Real Estate - Atlas
9. Swans - To Be Kind
10. Flying Lotus - You’re Dead
11. The War On Drugs - Lost in the Dream
12. Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
13. The Men - Tomorrow’s Hits
14. Beck - Morning Phase
15. Liars - Mess
16. TV On the Radio - Seeds
17. Sondre Lerche - Please
18. Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
19. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
20. Owen Pallett - In Conflict
21. Goat - Commune
22. Jack White - Lazaretto
23. Echo & The Bunnymen - Meteorites
24. D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah

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