Year-End Critics' Polls 2014

It looks like another great issue BTW, and can be purchased digitally for just $4.99 - http://pocketmags.com/viewmagazine.aspx?catid=1037&category=Music&subcatid=230&subcategory=Rock&title=Rock-A-Rolla&titleid=768

Thank you! :D

A bunch of albums on there making my ballot, a couple of them v high up!

do we have a final version of the consensus watch?

By a more convoluted methodology, here's the consensus ranking from acclaimedmusic.net

1 The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2 FKA twigs - LP1
3 St. Vincent - St. Vincent
4 Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
5 Sun Kil Moon - Benji
6 Caribou - Our Love
7 Swans - To Be Kind
8 Aphex Twin - Syro
9 Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
10 Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
11 Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
12 Future Islands - Singles
13 Beck - Morning Phase
14 Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
15 Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
16 Spoon - They Want My Soul
17 Perfume Genius - Too Bright
18 Todd Terje - It's Album Time
19 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
20 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata
21 Wild Beasts - Present Tense
22 Taylor Swift - 1989
23 alt-J - This is All Yours
24 Ty Segall - Manipulator
25 Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
26 Real Estate - Atlas
27 Ariel Pink - pom pom
28 Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
29 Grouper - Ruins
30 Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
31 Lykke Li - I Never Learn
32 Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
33 Jack White - Lazaretto
34 Metronomy - Love Letters
35 Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
36 Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
37 The Bug - Angels & Devils
38 Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
39 Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
40 Owen Pallett - In Conflict
41 Temples - Sun Structures
42 Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
43 Arca - Xen
44 East India Youth - Total Strife Forever
45 Warpaint - Warpaint
46 Ought - More Than Any Other Day
47 First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
48 Ben Frost - A U R O R A
49 Alvvays - Alvvays
50 tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
51 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
52 La Roux - Trouble in Paradise
53 YG - My Krazy Life
54 Azealia Banks - Broke With Expensive Taste
55 The Black Keys - Turn Blue
56 Interpol - El Pintor
57 Royal Blood - Royal Blood
58 Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
59 Jungle - Jungle
60 Kate Tempest - Everybody Down
61 Jessie Ware - Tough Love
62 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems
63 Robert Plant - lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar
64 How to Dress Well - "What is This Heart?"
65 Young Fathers - Dead
66 Mogwai - The Rave Tapes
67 Actress - Ghettoville
68 Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
69 Liars - Mess
70 SBTRKT - Wonder Where We Land
71 Banks - Goddess
72 Dean Blunt - Black Metal
73 YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend
74 EMA - The Future's Void
75 Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
76 Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
77 Chet Faker - Built on Glass
78 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
79 Strand of Oaks - Heal
80 Goat - Commune
81 Ex Hex - Rips
82 Behemoth - The Satanist
83 Avi Buffalo - At Best Cuckold
84 Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right
85 Kindness - Otherness
86 Morrissey - World Peace is None of Your Business
87 Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything
88 The Antlers - Familiars
89 Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
90 Kelis - Food
91 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
92 Clark - Clark
93 S O H N - Tremors
94 TV on the Radio - Seeds
95 Merchandise - After the End
96 White Lung - Deep Fantasy
97 Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
98 D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Black Messiah
99 Shellac - Dude Incredible
100 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye

god help me, i added that singles playlist to my listening collection.

A couple more:

http://thefirenote.com/2014/12/18/the-blazing-top-50-albums-of-2014-2/
http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/uncut-editors-diary/the-154-best-albums-of-2014-a-very-personal-list

Not critics but what.cd's users poll:

1 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
2 - Aphex Twin - Syro
3 - Swans - To Be Kind
4 - St. Vincent - St. Vincent
5 - Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
6 - D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Black Messiah
7 - The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
8 - FKA Twigs - LP1
9 - Spoon - They Want My Soul
10 - Caribou - Our Love
11 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
12 - Todd Terje - It's Album Time
13 - Sun Kil Moon - Benji
14 - Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
15 - Future Islands - Singles
16 - Grouper - Ruins
17 - Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
18 - Beck - Morning Phase
19 - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
20 - Real Estate - Atlas
21 - Jack White - Lazaretto
22 - alt-J (∆) - This Is All Yours
23 - Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
24 - Ben Frost - A U R O R A
25 - Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere Else
26 - tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack
27 - Taylor Swift - 1989
28 - BADBADNOTGOOD - III
29 - Ty Segall - Manipulator
30 - Ariel Pink - pom pom
31 - The Antlers - Familiars
32 - Perfume Genius - Too Bright
33 - Iceage - Plowing Into the Field of Love
34 - Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
35 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
36 - Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams
37 - Warpaint - Warpaint
38 - Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
39 - Scott Walker & Sunn O))) - Soused
40 - Clark - Clark
41 - A Winged Victory for the Sullen - ATOMOS
42 - Death from Above 1979 - The Physical World
43 - Death Grips - niggas on the moon
44 - Kiasmos - Kiasmos
45 - Wild Beasts - Present Tense
46 - Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
47 - White Lung - Deep Fantasy
49 - Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
50 - The Black Keys - Turn Blue
51 - Clipping - CLPPNG
52 - Ought - More Than Any Other Day
53 - Behemoth - The Satanist
54 - ODESZA - In Return
55 - The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
56 - Alvvays - Alvvays
57 - A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Sea When Absent
58 - Jungle - Jungle
59 - Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun
60 - Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright in the End
61 - Ex Hex - Rips
62 - Tycho - Awake
63 - Wye Oak - Shriek
64 - Arca - Xen
65 - Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
66 - TV on the Radio - Seeds
67 - Goat - Commune
68 - Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World
69 - Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
70 - The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
71 - Trust - Joyland
72 - Phantogram - Voices
73 - Owen Pallett - In Conflict
74 - Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
75 - Fire! Orchestra - Enter
76 - Nothing - Guilty of Everything
77 - Liars - Mess
78 - La Dispute - Rooms of the House
79 - Cymbals Eat Guitars - LOSE
80 - Pink Floyd - The Endless River
81 - First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
82 - Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited
83 - RATKING - So It Goes
84 - ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron
85 - HTRK - Psychic 9-5 Club
86 - How to Dress Well - "What Is This Heart?"
87 - Sohn - Tremors
88 - Alex G - DSU
89 - Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
90 - Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
91 - Slow Magic - How to Run Away
92 - The Body - I Shall Die Here
93 - Glass Animals - Zaba
94 - Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
95 - iamamiwhoami - Blue
96 - Millie & Andrea - Drop the Vowels
97 - Objekt - Flatland
98 - Christian Löffler - Young Alaska
99 - Thou - Heathen
100 - Perfect Pussy - Say Yes to Love

that should read 'users poll', not sure what happened