Here are my favorite albums of 2014:

1. Chris Staples – American Soft
2. Wye Oak – Shriek
3. Phantogram – Voices
4. Big Scary – Not Art
5. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
6. Beck – Morning Phase
7. The War on Drugs – Lost In The Dream
8. Spoon – They Want My Soul
9. Tennis – Ritual in Repeat
10. Real Estate – Atlas
11. Kishi Bashi – Lighght
12. Mac Demarco – Salad Days
13. Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
14. Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack
15. Future Islands – Singles
16. Delta Spirit – Into the Wide
17. Cold War Kids – Hold My Home
18. Trampled By Turtles – Wild Animals
19. Damien Rice – My Favourite Faded Fantasy
20. Young the Giant – Mind Over Matter
21. Tweedy – Sukierae
22. Sego – Kitsune: Wicket Youth
23. Vacationer – Relief
24. Owen Pallett – In Conflict
25. Conor Oberst – Upside Down Mountain

Honorable Mentions

• Pixies – Indie Cindy
• Lana Del Ray – Ultraviolence
• Andrew Bird – Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…
• Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
• Various Artists – Beck Song Reader
• Dum Dum Girls – Too True
• Lykke Li – I Never Learn
• Nels Cline Singers – Marcoscope