Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

Top 20 Drone albums
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http://thefunyears.bandcamp.com/album/one-quarter-descent

wasn't aware of a new The Fun Years album.. thanks for the heads up

the Marissa Nadler record was beautiful

I'm surprised that the Ben Frost - A U R O R A album isn't on more of these lists. That album was flat out incredible

Cosine Marissa Nadler (though I have to say I did prefer the previous album), Alice Boman - EP II also great in a slightly less gothy vein.

musicOMH:

1. St Vincent – St Vincent (Loma Vista/Caroline International)
2. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian)
3. Caribou – Our Love (City Slang)
4. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
5. FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)
6. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde)
7. Beck – Morning Phase (Virgin EMI)
8. Future Islands – Singles (4AD)
9. Wild Beasts – Present Tense (Domino)
10. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile)
11. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time (Olsen)
12. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Atomos (Erased Tapes)
13. Strand Of Oaks – Heal (Dead Oceans)
14. Swans – To Be Kind (Mute)
15. La Roux – Trouble In Paradise (Polydor)
16. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (Parlophone)
17. Nick Mulvey – First Mind (Fiction)
18. King Creosote – From Scotland, With Love (Domino)
19. Interpol – El Pintor (Soft Limit)
20. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! (Warp)
21. Ben Frost – Aurora (Mute)
22. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World (Caroline International)
23. Neneh Cherry – Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
24. Jack White – Lazaretto (XL)
25. Run The Jewels – RTJ2 (Mass Appeal)
26. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
27. Allo Darlin – We Come From The Same Place (Fortuna POP!)
28. Slow Club – Complete Surrender (Caroline International)
29. Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rhythm (The Leaf Label)
30. The Black Keys – Turn Blue (Nonesuch)
31. The Juan Maclean – In A Dream (DFA)
32. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine/Virgin EMI)
33. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
34. The Antlers – Familiars (Transgressive)
35. TV On The Radio – Seeds (Harvest)
36. Kiasmos – Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)
37. Elbow – The Take Off And Landing Of Everything (Fiction)
38. Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge (Virgin EMI)
39. Tune-Yards – Nikki Nack (4AD)
40. Kelis – Food (Ninja Tune)
41. Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden (Profound Lore)
42. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
43. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament (Mute)
44. Hercules And Love Affair – The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi)
45. Hookworms – The Hum (Weird World)
46. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love (Matador)
47. Aziza Brahim – Soutak (Glitterbeat)
48. Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused (4AD)
49. Kasai Allstars – Beware The Fetish (Crammed Discs)
50. Real Estate – Atlas (Domino)
51. Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else (Wichita)
52. Luke Abbott – Wysing Forest (Border Community)
53. Alex G – DSU (Lucky Number)
54. Ballet School – The Dew Lasts An Hour (Bella Union)
55. Clark – Clark (Warp)
56. DELS – Petals Have Fallen (Big Dada)
57. Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Island)
58. Dan Weiss – Fourteen (Pi)
59. EMA – The Future’s Void (City Slang)
60. Inventions – Inventions (Temporary Residence)
61. Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Polydor)
62. Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather (Paradise Of Bachelors)
63. The Hotelier – Home, Like No Place There Is (Tiny Engines)
64. Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (Pi)
64. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off, Get Free, We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation)
65. Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)
66. Blue-Eyed Hawk – Under The Moon (Edition)
67. Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté – Toumani & Sidiki (World Circuit)
68. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rising Like A Bell (OWSLA)
69. Sébastien Tellier - L’Aventura (Record Makers/Because)
70. Wye Oak – Shriek (City Slang)
71. Circle Of Sound – Anti Hero (Baitak)
72. Earth – Primitive And Deadly (Southern Lord)
73. Ian William Craig – A Turn Of Breath (Recital)
74. Little Big League – Tropical Jinx (Run For Cover)
75. Tinariwen – Emmaar (PIAS)
76. Lucinda Williams – Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20)
77. Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics – Jaiyede Afro (Strut)
78. Honeyblood – Honeyblood (FatCat)
79. Gazelle Twin – Unflesh (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray)
80. Kele – Trick (Lilac)
81. Mark E – Product Of Industry (Spectral Sound)
82. Grouper – Ruins (Kranky)
83. Robert Plant – Lullaby And… The Ceaseless Roar (Nonesuch)
84. Hospitality – Trouble (Fire)
85. Shellac – Dude Incredible (Touch & Go)
86. Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (Jagjaguwar)
87. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams (Columbia)
88. Esben And The Witch – A New Nature (Nostromo)
89. Bis – Data Panik Etcetera (Do Yourself In)
90. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager (Warner)
91. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat)
92. I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro (Bella Union)
93. Woman’s Hour – Conversations (Secretly Canadian)
94. Young Fathers – Dead (Big Dada)
95. Xiu Xiu – Angel Guts: Red Classroom (Bella Union)
96. Fucked Up – Glass Boys (Matador)
97. Owen Pallett – In Conflict (Domino)
98. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Azealia Banks/Prospect Park)
99. Matthew & The Atlas – Other Rivers (Communion)
100. East India Youth – Total Strife Forever (Stolen)

http://www.musicomh.com/features/lists/musicomhs-top-100-albums-2014#CryveWLrW3urh4hU.99

DJ Mag albums not online yet, but Top 5 is:
1. Lone - Reality Testing
2. Caribou - Our Love
3. Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
4. Moodymann - Moodymann
5. Aphex Twin - Syro

Amazed that I've heard four of those.

Nice to see Steve Gunn get some love

Consensus Watch Update - number of Top 50 polls in brackets:

Caribou - Our Love (26)
FKA Twigs - LP1 (26)
The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream (25)
St Vincent - St Vincent (23)
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (21)
Future Islands - Singles (20)
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness (20)

Beck - Morning Phase (19)
Aphex Twin - Syro (19)
Swans - To Be Kind (18)
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days (18)
Perfume Genius - Too Bright (17)
Flying Lotus - You're Dead! (17)

Sun Kil Moon - Benji (16)
Jack White - Lazaretto (16)
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2 (16)
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (14)
Real Estate - Atlas (14)

Goat - Commune (13)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (13)
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib - Pinata (13)
East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13)
Wild Beasts - Present Tense (13)
Taylor Swift - 1989 (13)

Alvvays - Alvvays (12)
Todd Terje - It's Album Time (12)
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots (12)

Royal Blood - Royal Blood (11)
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (11)
Hookworms - The Hum (11)

Temples - Sun Structures (10)
First Aid Kit - Stay Gold (10)
Jenny Lewis - Voyager (10)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (10)
The Black Keys - Turn Blue (10)

Hooray for the appearances of The Juan Maclean and Sebastien Tellier in the musicOMH list.

appreciate you doing Consensus Watch, mike t-diva! i think it's interesting/useful.

next it would be amazing to have a chart that shows where all the listing publications got tipped to these records from, like the ones they have at co-ops showing which corporations own which food brands so you can try to source your food

that way the real cause of war on drugs's winning year can be sussed out

thing is with 'consensus' is that it could be 15 mentions in the lower end of lists.

there's this weighted list: http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2014/

t-swift top 10 thx to cosmo :D

as i thought. take the example of Swans. In lots of lists but not in the top 25 in that above link

i don't think a top-5 placement is 'lower end'?

Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2014 Part One: 200 – 101
http://louderthanwar.com/louder-than-war-albums-of-the-year-part-one-200-101/

Louder Than War Albums of the Year 2014 Part Two: 100 – 51
http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2014-part-two-100-51/

Eagulls, Protomartyr, St. Vincent, Woods, White Lung, Cosmic Dead, Nightingales, etc.

These are new interesting finds for me:
60. Cambodian Space Project – Whiskey Cambodia (Metal Postcard)
https://metalpostcard.bandcamp.com/album/cambodian-space-project-whiskey-cambodia
...unique mix of space rock, surf, reggae, dub, khmer surin, cambodian rock psychedelica” was easily achieved. Adrian Bloxham reviewed it for us and said: “The music on this remarkable album sounds like Carnaby Street in the sixties, psychedelic, bright and very very catchy. Which is of course the point. This isn’t about being cool, about sounding left field or alternative; it’s about taking what people had and can remember and giving it back to them. It makes you smile and dance. It feels bright and sparkles.”

67. Gold Codes – Gold Codes (Self Released)
https://goldcodes.bandcamp.com/
Gold Codes manage to marry afrobeat, alt-rock, indie and post-punk and end up with an album which sounds like something Jimmy Hendrix may have made if he’d been brought up in Derby. Their debut release was also mastered by John McBain of Monster Magnet.

Top 50: http://louderthanwar.com/albums-of-the-year-2014-part-three/

I linked a few that I was checking out.

50. The Bug – Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
49. Dubkasm – Dubkasm Ft. Lidj Xylon (Peng Sound)
48. Sheepy – Sleepy (Blang)
47. The Skull Defekts – Dances In The Dreams Of The Known Unknown (Thrill Jockey)
46. Ekoplekz – Unfidelity (Planet Mu Records)
45. Afghan Whigs – Do The Beast (Sub Pop)
44. The Body – I Shall Die Here (RVGL Intl)
43. Alvvays – Alvvays (Transgressive Records)
42. The Furrow Collective – At Our Next Meeting (Cadiz)
41. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste (Prospect Park)
40. Echo & The Bunnymen – Meteorites (Caroline International)
39. Christina Vantzou – No.2 (Kranky)
38. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
37. Ruts DC – Live On Stage
36. Perc – The Power And The Glory (Perc Trax)
35. Voices – London (Candlelight Records)
34. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (Stones Throw)
32. Allo Darlin’ – We Come From the Same Place (Fortuna POP!)
31. Acollective – Pangaea (Alcopop!)
30. Popcaan – Where We Come From (Mixpak)
29. Get The Blessing – Lope and Antilope (Naim Label)
28. Perfume Genius – Too Bright (Turnstile Records)
27. Mica Levi – Under the Skin (Warners)
26. Noura Mint Seymali – Tzenni (Glitterbeat Records)
25. Richard Dawson – Nothing Important (Weird World/Domino)
24. The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
23. Lakefield – Swan Songs (Self-Released)
22. Zombina & The Skeletones – Charnel House Rock (Ectoplastic Records)
21. Mogwai – Rave Tapes (Rock Action/Sub Pop)
20. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine Label Group)
19. Let’s Wrestle – Let’s Wrestle (Fortuna POP!)
18. Ibibio Sound Machine – Ibibio Sound Machine
17. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes to Love (Soundly Records)
16. Ty Segall – Manipulator
15. Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
14. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology
13. Aphex Twin – Syro (Warp)
12. FKA Twigs – LP1
11. Sun Kil Moon – Benji (Caldo Verde Records)
10. Vamos – More Songs About Circles (Antipop Records)
9. Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
8. Morrissey – World Peace Is None Of Your Business
7. Temples – Sun Structures
6. Simone Felice – Strangers
5. Winterfylleth – Divination of Antiquity
4. Sleaford Mods – Divide And Exit
3. Swans – To Be Kind
2. Shellac – Dude Incredible
1. Einstürzende Neubauten – Lament

I guess never count out legacy industrial acts whose most famous member is more famous for being in another band, huh.

not that that's a rip on einsturdzende even, I love industrial

DeRo's Top 10

1. Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues
2. Ex Hex, Rips
3. Le Butcherettes, Cry is for the Flies
4. Aphex Twin, Syro
5. Shellac, Dude Incredible
6. The Gotobeds, Poor People Are Revolting
7. F*cked Up, Glass Boys
8. Kelis, Food
9. Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
10. Spoon, They Want My Soul

there's this weighted list: http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2014/

t-swift top 10 thx to cosmo :D

ah, weighted by position on list, cool

i worried for a sec that it meant "entire list weighted by how similar list is to already-established consensus" which is the profoundly stupid thing that 'acclaimedmusic' does

not to worry, she'll be kicked out of the Top 10 soon enough.

I don't even like 1989 that much and still think the scientology replicant that is calling itself beck or jack "real music & integrity & wite blues stewardship" white should get booted from the top 10 before tswift

p happy with most other things on that consensus measurement AOTY thing tho

consensus list is the worst, makes even the albums I like seem boring

ya it's rill dreadful when other people like the same music as you amirite

But... my precious individuality!

Naw but context can drag stuff down sometimes

Shocked at the ubiquity of that Beck record (note I have not actually listened to it, just assumed it was hella boring)

Just when I started to think I was an interesting person I see an album I enjoyed on the Urban Outfitters top sellers list. Guess I've got to force feed myself some purposefully "difficult" albums instead.

Same here, Simon.

Shocked at the ubiquity of that Beck record (note I have not actually listened to it, just assumed it was hella boring)
--Simon H.

I can assure you it's hella boring, albeit very pretty

aka pretty hella boring

http://i.imgur.com/aSZO907.png

weird looking fedora

DeRo's full 40
http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2014-12/reasons-living-2014-111177

I keep forgetting about that Mould record. It's really good.

weird looking fedora
--Evan

that's a top hat man

Beck album is fine but it's mostly just Sea Change 2014: I Am Feeling Marginally Better
I'm a little swayed by the fact that I saw him live this year and it was a great show

Crack Magazine: http://crackmagazine.net/albums-of-the-year-2014/

1. Dean Blunt: Black Metal (Rough Trade)
2. The Bug: Angels & Devils (Ninja Tune)
3. Iceage: Plowing Into the Field of Love (Matador)
4. Wild Beasts: Present Tense (Domino)
5. Scott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused (4AD)
6. Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt 1 (Cash Money)
7. FKA Twigs: LP1 (Young Turks)
8. Todd Terje: It's Album Time (Olsen)
9. Ought: More Than Any Other Day (Constellation)
10. Lana Del Rey: Ultraviolence (UMG)
11. Run the Jewels: Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
12. Swans: To Be Kind (Mute)
13. Pharmakon: Bestian Burden (Sacred Bones)
14. Kassem Mosse: Workshop 19 (Worksho)
15. Popcaan: Where We Come From (Mixpak)
16. Untold: Black Light Spiral (Hemlock)
17. Sharon Van Etten: Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
18. Ratking: So It Goes (HXC)
19. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)
20. Wildest Dreams: Wildest Dreams (Smalltown Supersound)
21. Andy Stott: Faith in Strangers (Modern Love)
22. Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
23. Eagulls: Eagulls (Partisan)
24. Roman Flugel: Happiness Is Happening (Dial)
25. Sleaford Mods: Divide and Exit (Harbinger Sound)
26. Behemoth: The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
27. Sd Laika: That's Harakiri! (Tri Angle)
28. Actress: Ghettoville (Ninja Tune)
29. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Pinata (Madlib Invazion)
30. Future Islands: Singles (4AD)
31. Perc: The Power and the Glory (Perc Trax)
32. Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else (Carpark)
33. Traxman: Da Mind of Traxman Vol 2 (Planet Mu)
34. YG: My Krazy Life (CTE World/Def Jam)
35. Theo Parrish: American Intelligence (Sound Signature)
36. Alex G: DSU (Lucky Number)
37. Millie & Andrea: Drop the Vowels (Modern Love)
38. Eno + Hyde: High Life (Warp)
39. Sun Kil Moon: Benji (Caldo Verde)
40. Fatima Al Qadiri: Asiatisch (Hyperdub)
41. Ben Frost: Aurora (Mute)
42. Goat: Commune (Sub Pop)
43. Torn Hawk: Through Force of Will (Not Not Fun)
44. Lust for Youth: International (Sacred Bones)
45. Gesloten Cirkel: Submit X (Murder Capital)
46. Perfect Pussy: Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks)
47. Tinashe: Aquarius (RCA)
48. Caribou: Our Love (City Slang)
49. Moodymann: Moodymann (KDJ)
50. Aphex Twin: Syro (Warp)
51. The Antlers: Familiars (Anti-/Transgressive)
52. J Mascis: Tied to a Star (Sub Pop)
53. Young Marco: Biology (ESP Institute)
54. Tom Vek: Luck (Moshi Moshi)
55. The Wytches: Annabel Dream Reader (Heavenly)
56. Lower: Seek Warmer Clilmes (Matador)
57. Objekt: Flatland (Pan)
58. Greys: If Anything (Carpark)
59. Mac DeMarco: Salad Days (Captured Tracks)
60. Metronomy: Love Letters (Because Music)
61. Hookworms: The Hum (Weird World)
62. Flying Lotus: You're Dead! (Warp)
63. Schoolboy Q: Oxymoron (Top Dawg Entertainment)
64. Session Victim: See You When You Get There (Delusions of Grandeur)
65. Little Dragon: Nabuma Rubberband (Because Music)
66. The War on Drugs: Lost in the Dream (Secretly Canadian)
67. Fatima: Yellow Memories (Eglo)
68. Liars: Mess (Mute)
69. Richard Dawson: Nothing Important (Weird World)
70. Real Estate: Atlas (Domino)
71. St Vincent: St Vincent (Loma Vista/Republic)
72. Mykki Blanco: Gay Dog Food (Uno NYC)
73. East India Youth: Total Strife Forever (Stolen)
74. Shellac: Dude, Incredible (Touch and Go)
75. Arca: Xen (Mute)
76. Wiley: Snakes & Ladders (Big Dada)
77. Lil Herb: Welcome to Fazoland (self-released)
78. Wolves in the Throne Room: Celestite (Artemesia)
79. Neneh Cherry: Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound)
80. White Fang: Full Time Freaks (Metal Postcard)
81. Mogwai: Rave Tapes (Rock Action)
82. White Lung: Deep Fantasy (Domino)
83. Joey Anderson: After Forever (Dekmantel)
84. Warpaint: Warpaint (Rough Trade)
85. Manic Street Preachers: Futurology (Columbia)
86. Philipp Gorbachev: The Silver Album (Comeme)
87. HTRK: Psychic 9-5 Club (Ghostly International)
88. Merchandise: After the End (4AD)
89. Oliver Wilde: Red Tide Opal in the Loose End Womb (Howling Owl)
90. Interpol: El Pintor (PIAS)
91. Death Grips: Niggas on the Moon (Harvest/Third Worlds)
92. Lee Bannon: Alternate/Endings (Ninja Tune)
93. Tops: Picture You Staring (Arbitus)
94. Nehruviandoom: NehruvianDOOM (Lex)
95. Max Greaf: Rivers of the Red Planet (Tartelet)
96. The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Revelation (A)
97. Brody Dalle: Diploid Love (Queen of Hearts/Caroline)
98. Kiasmos: Kiasmos (Erased Tapes)
99. Spooky Black: Black Silk (self-released)
100. Mariah Carey: Me. I Am Mariah . . . the Elusive Chanteuse (Def Jam)

ah, a rare sighting of the elusive chanteuse herself

that eno.hyde hasn't shown up much either. kind of a jerry-built feel to the whole thing, but if you can deal with the u2-ish opener (which I actually quite like), it's pretty good

The Twilight Sad win best Scottish album of 2014
http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/the-twilight-sad-win-best-scottish-album-of-2014-1-3627430

A BAND famed for their dark and gothic lyrics have won the accolade of best Scottish album of 2014, as rated by the world’s top music critics.

The Twilight Sad have emerged as the most-lauded act in the survey, which was based on review ratings in newspapers, magazines and online internationally over the past 12 months.

top music critics online internationally

PopCrush - 10 Best Albums of 2014
http://popcrush.com/best-albums-2014/

10 'Ultraviolence,' Lana Del Rey
9 'Talk Dirty,' Jason Derulo
8 'The New Classic,' Iggy Azalea
7 'X,' Ed Sheeran
6 'Meet the Vamps,' The Vamps
5 'Nick Jonas,' Nick Jonas
4 'My Everything,' Ariana Grande
3 '5 Seconds of Summer,' 5 Seconds of Summer
2 'Four,' One Direction
1 '1989,' Taylor Swift

Somehow I can't imagine anything called 'The Twilight Sad' being any good.

i really like the marissa nadler album that came out this year, but one beautiful, beautiful record that everybody should hear which is kind of in the same vague ballpark is melanie de biasio' 'no deal', a gorgeous, spacious jazz album which has had reviewers invoking both billie holiday and talk talk

Both of these sound like the sort of thing I've been missing all year.

De Biasio album is good but it was 2013.

On Louder Than War's page, I asked what happened to Joe Whyte’s “album of the year contender” The Sea Kings – Woke In The Devil’s Arms Their review is what turned me on to the album, and it’s amazing, will make my top 10, and I thought it would at least make their top 50 let alone 200.

I was dismissive of The Twilight Sad too, despite enjoying their first album years back, but this one is their best, and has a bit more post-punk feel. It's grown on me.

De Biasio album is good but it was 2013

oh shit, it is as well. thinking it might only have got a push in the anglophone world this year though, cos all the reviews I found were from april.

as i thought. take the example of Swans. In lots of lists but not in the top 25 in that above link

Those Swans poll placings in full: 3/3/4/4/5/8/11/12/13/13/14/18/22/31/36/42, plus two unranked lists.

Time Out New York: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/the-20-best-albums-of-2014

20. Alvvays - 'Alvvays'
19. Clark - 'Clark'
18. Nude Beach - '77'
17. Schoolboy Q - 'Oxymoron'
16. Mark McGuire - 'Along the Way'
15. Antemasque - 'Antemasque'
14. Sia - '1,000 Forms of Fear'
13. Future - 'Honest'
12. TV on the Radio - 'Seeds'
11. Mac DeMarco - 'Salad Days'
10. Spoon - 'They Want My Soul'
9. St. Vincent - 'St. Vincent'
8. FKA Twigs - 'LP1'
7. Run the Jewels - 'Run the Jewels 2'
6. Caribou - 'Our Love'
5. Cloud Nothings 'Here and Nowhere Else'
4. Future Islands - 'Singles'
3. Angel Olsen - 'Burn Your Fire for No Witness'
2. Beck - 'Morning Phase'
1. Todd Terje - 'It's Album Time'