Here are the albums that I listened to in 2014, with my personal rating.
- 5 Seconds of Summer – 5 Seconds of Summer (4.5/10)
- ’68 – In Humor and Sadness (8/10)
- Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties – We Don’t Have Each Other (8/10)
- AC/DC – Rock or Bust (7/10)
- Actress – Ghettoville (3.5/10)
- Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (8/10)
- Alcest – Shelter (7/10)
- Alt-J – This is All Yours (5.5/10)
- The Amity Affliction – Let the Ocean Take Me (3/10)
- Anberlin – Lowborn (7.5/10)
- Andrew Bird – Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… (7.5/10)
- Andy Bull – Sea of Approval (7.5/10)
- Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness (6.5/10)
- Angels & Airwaves – The Dream Walker (7.5/10)
- Angharad Yeo – Spiderstring (7.5/10)
- Angus & Julia Stone – Angus & Julia Stone (7.5/10)
- The Antlers – Familiars (8/10)
- Ariana Grande – My Everything (6.5/10)
- Arch Enemy – War Eternal (7/10)
- Architects – Lost Together // Lost Forever (6.5/10)
- Astronomy Class – Mekong Delta Sunrise (7.5/10)
- Ball Park Music – Puddinghead (7/10)
- Band of Skulls – Himalayan (6/10)
- Bare Grillz – Friends (8/10)
- Basement Jaxx – Junto (8/10)
- Bayside – Cult (6/10)
- The Beards – The Beard Album (7/10)
- Beck – Morning Phase (8/10)
- Behemoth – The Satanist (8/10)
- Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (9/10)
- The Berkshire Hunting Club – Tayar (7.5/10)
- Bertie Blackman – The Dash (8/10)
- The Birds of Satan – The Birds of Satan (6.5/10)
- The Black Keys – Turn Blue (7/10)
- Bleachers – Strange Desire (8/10)
- Bloods – Work It Out (7.5/10)
- Bonnie ‘Prince Billy – Singer’s Grave – A Sea of Tongues (6.5/10)
- The Both – The Both (7.5/10)
- Brody Dalle – Diploid Love (7.5/10)
- Broken Bells – After the Disco (7.5/10)
- Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes (6.5/10)
- Buck 65 – Laundromat Boogie (7.5/10)
- Buck 65 – Neverlove (6.5/10)
- Busdriver – Perfect Hair (7/10)
- Calling All Cars – Raise the People (6.5/10)
- Candy Hearts – All the Ways You Let Me Down (7/10)
- Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain (7/10)
- Canterbury – Dark Days (5.5/10)
- Caribou – Our Love (7.5/10)
- Caves – Leaving (8/10)
- Cayetana – Nervous Like Me (8/10)
- Cerebral Ballzy – Jaded and Faded (6.5/10)
- Ceres – I Don’t Want to Be Anywhere But Here (6/10)
- Charli XCX – Sucker (7.5/10)
- Charlie Parr – Hollandale (8/10)
- Cheap Girls – Famous Graves (8/10)
- Chet Faker – Built on Glass (7.5/10)
- CHILDBIRTH – It’s a Girl! (7.5/10)
- Chuck Ragan – Till Midnight (8/10)
- Chumped – Teenage Retirement (8/10)
- Cities Aviv – Come to Life (7/10)
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Only Run (7.5/10)
- Closure in Moscow – Pink Lemonade (2.5/10)
- Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else (8.5/10)
- Code Orange – I am King (7.5/10)
- Coldplay – Ghost Stories (7.5/10)
- Cold War Kids – Hold My Home (7/10)
- Collarbones – Return (8/10)
- Colossvs – Unholy (8/10)
- Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain (7.5/10)
- Copeland – Ixora (8/10)
- Corpus – The Sliding Scale of Morality (8/10)
- Cory Branan – The No-Hit Wonder (7.5/10)
- Cynic – Kindly Bent to Free Us (8/10)
- Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (7/10)
- Dan Sultan – Blackbird (6.5/10)
- The Datsuns – Deep Sleep (6.5/10)
- Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (8.5/10)
- Death Grips and Björk – niggas on the moon (the powers that b disc 1) (8/10)
- Death Mountain – Volcanic Panic (7.5/10)
- Destrage – Are You Kidding Me? No. (6/10)
- Die Antwoord – Donker Mag (7/10)
- Die! Die! Die! – S W I M (8.5/10)
- Dune Rats – Dune Rats (7.5/10)
- DZ Deathrays – Black Rat (8/10)
- Ed Sheeran – x (7/10)
- Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (7.5/10)
- Electric Wizard – Time to Die (6.5/10)
- Ella Hooper – In Tongues (7.5/10)
- Emarosa – Versus (7/10)
- Enabler – La Fin Absolue du Monde (8/10)
- Erland Øye – Legao (7.5/10)
- Every Time I Die – From Parts Unknown (8/10)
- Ex Cops – Daggers (8/10)
- Firekites – Closing Forever Sky (7.5/10)
- Fireworks – Oh, Common Life (7.5/10)
- First Aid Kit – Stay Gold (6/10)
- Fishing – Shy Glow (8/10)
- FKA twigs – LP1 (7.5/10)
- The Flaming Lips – With a Little Help From My Fwends (6.5/10)
- Flying Colors – Second Nature (4.5/10)
- Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways (5.5/10)
- Frnkiero andthe Cellabration – Stomachaches (7/10)
- Freak Wave – Don’t Let Me Down (6.5/10)
- Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – Piñata (7/10)
- Fucked Up – Glass Boys (8/10)
- Future Islands – Singles (8/10)
- Gameface – Now is What Matters Now (4.5/10)
- The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt (8.5/10)
- Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien (7.5/10)
- The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger – Midnight Sun (7/10)
- The Gifthorse – Give My Body to This Town (7.5/10)
- The Grates – Dream Team (7.5/10)
- GRMLN – Soon Away (7.5/10)
- H A N N A H B A N D – Retirement (8/10)
- Harmony – Carpetbombing (8/10)
- HEARTSREVOLUTION – Ride or Die (7/10)
- Hey Rosetta! – Second Sight (7.5/10)
- Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars (8/10)
- The Hold Steady – Teeth Dreams (7/10)
- The Hotelier – Home, Like NoPlace is There (7.5/10)
- I am the Avalanche – Wolverines (7.5/10)
- IDYLLS – Prayer for Terrene (8/10)
- Imogen Heap – Sparks (7.5/10)
- Indian – From All Purity (8/10)
- Initials – Leave Expired (6.5/10)
- Inside the Whale – Manifest (7.5/10)
- Interpol – El Pintor (7/10)
- Issues – Issues (4.5/10)
- J Mascis – Tied to a Star (8/10)
- Jack Carty – Esk (5/10)
- Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders – Playmates (7.5/10)
- Jack White – Lazaretto (5/10)
- Jackson Browne – Standing in the Breach (7/10)
- James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical (8/10)
- Jamie T – Carry On the Grudge (6/10)
- Jane Tyrrell – Echoes in the Aviary (8/10)
- Jenny Lewis – The Voyager (7.5/10)
- Jess Williamson – Native State (6.5/10)
- Jimi Goodwin – Odludek (7/10)
- Joan as Police Woman – The Classic (5.5/10)
- Jonathan Boulet – Gubba (8/10)
- Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again (7/10)
- joyride! – bodies of water (7.5/10)
- Julian Casablancas + The Voidz – Tyranny (7/10)
- Karen O – Crush Songs (6/10)
- Kate Miller-Heidke – O Vertigo! (7.5/10)
- Keaton Henson – Romantic Works (4/10)
- Kele – Trick (7.5/10)
- Kelis – Food (7.5/10)
- Kevin Devine – Bubblegum (7.5/10)
- Kevin Devine – Bulldozer (7.5/10)
- Kiesza – Sound of a Woman (7/10)
- Killer Be Killed – Killer Be Killed (8/10)
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Oddments (7/10)
- Kishi Bashi – Lighght (8/10)
- Kool A.D. – Word OK (7/10)
- Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Pikapika Fantajin (7.5/10)
- Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once (5.5/10)
- L-Fresh the Lion – One (8/10)
- La Dispute – Rooms of the House (8.5/10)
- La Roux – Trouble in Paradise (8/10)
- Lanie Lane – Night Shade (8/10)
- Lea Michele – Louder (7/10)
- Lee Fields and the Expressions – Emma Jean (7/10)
- Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems (3.5/10)
- Liam Finn – The Nihilist (7.5/10)
- Linkin Park – The Hunting Party (6/10)
- Little Bastard – Little Bastard (7/10)
- Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband (7.5/10)
- Loudon Wainwright III – Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet) (8/10)
- The Love Junkies – Blowing on the Devil’s Strumpet (7.5/10)
- Luca Brasi – By a Thread (8/10)
- Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (7/10)
- The Magic Numbers – Alias (8/10)
- Manchester Orchestra – Cope (8/10)
- Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx (2014) (8/10)
- Marmozets – The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets (7.5/10)
- Maroon 5 – V (4/10)
- Mary Lambert – Heart on My Sleeve (8/10)
- Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun (8/10)
- Matisyahu – Akeda (4.5/10)
- Maxïmo Park – Too Much Information (7.5/10)
- Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare (7.5/10)
- Megan Washington – There There (8/10)
- Mere Women – Your Town (8/10)
- Mia Dyson – Idyllwild (7.5/10)
- Michael Cera – true that (6.5/10)
- Miranda Lambert – Platinum (8/10)
- The Mission in Motion – The Mission in Motion (7/10)
- Missy Higgins – Oz (8/10)
- Modern Baseball – You’re Gonna Miss It All (8/10)
- Möngöl Hörde – Möngöl Hörde (7.5/10)
- Moon Hooch – This is Cave Music (8.5/10)
- Morrissey – World Peace is None of Your Business (6/10)
- Neil Cicierega – Mouth Silence (8/10)
- Neil Young – A Letter Home (7.5/10)
- Neil Young – Storytone (5/10)
- New Found Glory – Resurrection (7/10)
- The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers (8/10)
- Nicki Minaj – The Pinkprint (8/10)
- Nina Nesbitt – Peroxide (7.5/10)
- Nina Persson – Animal Heart (6/10)
- nouns – still bummed (6/10)
- OFF! – Wasted Years (8/10)
- OKGO – Hungry Ghosts (7/10)
- One Day – Mainline (7/10)
- One Direction – Four (7.5/10)
- The Orwells – Disgraceland (7/10)
- Outright – Avalanche (8/10)
- Owen – Other People’s Songs (7.5/10)
- Owen Pallett – In Conflict (8/10)
- Panopticon – Roads to the North (8/10)
- Papa vs Pretty – White Deer Park (6/10)
- Passenger – Whispers (7/10)
- Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love (8/10)
- Pharrell Williams – G I R L (8/10)
- Pianos Become the Teeth – Keep You (9.5/10)
- Pinch Hitter – When Friends Die in Accidents (8.5/10)
- Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (7/10)
- Pisces – Pisces (7.5/10)
- Pixies – Indie Cindy (7.5/10)
- Postal – Postal (7/10)
- Postblue – I Hope They’re Praying for Me (7.5/10)
- Primus with the Fungi Ensemble – Primus and the Chocolate Factory (7/10)
- PUP – PUP (7/10)
- Radiator Hospital – Torch Song (7.5/10)
- Ray LaMontagne – Supernova (7.5/10)
- Real Friends – Maybe This Place is the Same and We’re Just Changing (7.5/10)
- Richard in Your Mind – Ponderosa (4.5/10)
- Rise Against – The Black Market (7/10)
- Rodeo – All Things Must End (7.5/10)
- The Roots – …and then you shoot your cousin (8/10)
- Royal Blood – Royal Blood (7.5/10)
- Röyksopp – The Inevitable End (7.5/10)
- Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 (8/10)
- Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (7.5/10)
- Sage Francis – Copper Gone (6.5/10)
- Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour (7.5/10)
- Save the Clock Tower – Wasteland (5.5/10)
- ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron (7/10)
- Scott Spark – Muscle Memory (7.5/10)
- The Secret Sisters – Put Your Needle Down (7/10)
- Seether – Isolate and Medicate (7.5/10)
- Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (7/10)
- Shellac – Dude Incredible (8/10)
- Shihad – FVEY (5.5/10)
- Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear (8.5/10)
- sietta – The Invisible River (7.5/10)
- Slaves – Through Art We Are All Equals (4/10)
- Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit (10/10)
- sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography (8/10)
- Sleepwave – Broken Compass (6.5/10)
- Slipknot – .5: The Gray Chapter (8/10)
- Sloan – Commonwealth (7/10)
- The Smith Street Band – Throw Me in the River (8/10)
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Wanderlust (8/10)
- Sounds Like Sunset – We Could Leave Tonight (7/10)
- Spoon – They Want My Soul (8/10)
- St. Vincent – St. Vincent (8/10)
- Stars – No One is Lost (7.5/10)
- Step-Panther – Strange But Nice (6.5/10)
- Steve Smyth – Exits (6.5/10)
- Straight Arrows – Rising (7.5/10)
- Street Eaters – BLOOD::MUSCLE:BONES (8/10)
- Stu Larsen – Vagabond (6/10)
- Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (8/10)
- Suburban Haze – New Coliseum (7/10)
- Such Gold – The New Sidewalk (7.5/10)
- Sun Kil Moon – Benji (9/10)
- Swans – To Be Kind (8/10)
- Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso (7.5/10)
- Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is (4/10)
- Taylor Swift – 1989 (7/10)
- Ted Danson with Wolves – WWTDWWD? (8/10)
- TEEN – The Way and Color (7.5/10)
- This Will Destroy You – Another Language (7.5/10)
- Tigers Jaw – Charmer (7.5/10)
- Tiny Ruins – Brightly Painted One (8/10)
- Todd Terje – It’s Album Time (7.5/10)
- Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – Cheek to Cheek (5/10)
- Trash Talk – No Peace (7.5/10)
- Trophy Eyes – Mend, Move On (5.5/10)
- tUnE-yArDs – Nikki Nack (7.5/10)
- TV on the Radio – Seeds (8/10)
- Tweedy – Sukierae (6/10)
- Tweens – Tweens (7.5/10)
- Twilight – III: Beneath Trident’s Tomb (8/10)
- Twin Atlantic – Great Divide (5.5/10)
- Twin Forks – Twin Forks (6.5/10)
- Ty Segall – Manipulator (7.5/10)
- U2 – Songs of Innocence (6.5/10)
- The Used – Imaginary Enemy (3/10)
- Vales – Wilt & Rise (8/10)
- Vices – We’ll Make It Through This (6/10)
- The Vines – Wicked Nature (7/10)
- Warpaint – Warpaint (6.5/10)
- We Are Scientists – TV En Francais (5.5/10)
- We Are the In Crowd – Weird Kids (7.5/10)
- We Were Promised Jetpacks – Unravelling (8/10)
- Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright in the End (8/10)
- “Weird Al” Yankovic – Mandatory Fun (7.5/10)
- Willis Earl Beal – Experiments in Time (8.5/10)
- Wolfmother – New Crown (5/10)
- Woods of Desolation – As the Stars (8/10)
- Xerxes – Collision Blonde (8/10)
- XO – Heart (7/10)
- XTRMST – XTRMST (7.5/10)
- You + Me – Rose Ave. (5/10)
- You Beauty – Jersey Flegg (8/10)
- You Blew It! – Keep Doing What You’re Doing (7/10)
- You Me at Six – Cavalier Youth (6.5/10)
- Young Fathers – Dead (8.5/10)
- Young the Giant – Mind Over Matter (7/10)