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Top 100 Music Albums of 2014
(alphabetical order)
31Ø8 - s/t (Trouble in Mind)
Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere (Profound Lore)
Alcest - Shelter (Prophecy Productions)
Amanda X - Amnesia (Siltbreeze)
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar)
Apache Dropout - Heavy Window (Magnetic South)
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation (Profound Lore)
At the Gates - At War With Reality (Century Media)
Ausmuteants - Order of Operation (Goner)
Bassholes – Boogieman Stew (Columbus Discount Records)
Behemoth - The Satanist (Nuclear Blast)
Bob Mould - Beauty & Ruin (Merge)
Boris - Noise (Sargent House)
Broncho - Just Hip Enough to Be Woman (Dine Alone)
Charli XCX - Sucker (Atlantic)
Cheveu - Bum (Born Bad)
Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (Chimera Music)
Connections - Into Sixes (Anyway)
Corrosion of Conformity - IX (Candlelight)
Cretin Stompers - Looking Forward to Being Attacked (Hozac)
Criminal Code - No Device (Deranged)
Cynic - Kindly Bent To Free Us (Season of Mist)
Dark Blue - Pure Reality (Jade Tree)
Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Too True (Sub Pop)
Ex Hex - Rips (Merge)
Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast)
Eyehategod - s/t (Housecore)
Floor - Oblation (Season of Mist)
Glow God - House of Distractions (Play Pinball!)
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire (Avalanche)
Good Throb - Fuck Off (White Denim)
Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)
Guided By Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit/Cool Planet (GBVI)
Helms Alee - Sleepwalking Sailors (Sargent House)
Hospitality - Trouble (Merge)
House of Lightning – Lightworker (Fair Warning)
Idylls – Pray For Terrene (self-released)
Jack White – Lazaretto (Third Man)
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls (Epic/Columbia)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm In Your Mind Fuzz (Castle Face)
Kix - Rock Your Face Off (Loud and Proud)
Klaus Johann Grobe - Im Sinne der Zeit (Trouble in Mind)
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
Manatees – Sit n Spin (Pelican Pow Wow)
Marisa Nadler – July (Sacred Bones)
Mastodon - Once More 'Round the Sun (Reprise)
Medicine - Home Everywhere (Captured Tracks)
Melvins - Hold It In (Ipecac)
Mentalease - Indian Summer (self-released)
Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Best of Boiler Room Classics (Flannelgraph/Joyful Noise)
Mortals - Cursed to See the Future (Relapse)
Mount Carmel - Get Pure (Alive Naturalsound)
New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers (Matador)
Nots - We Are Nots (Goner)
NUN – s/t (Aarght)
OBN IIIs - Third Time To Harm (Tic Tac Totally)
OBNOX - Louder Space (12XU)
Overkill- White Devil Armory (eOne Music)
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden (Profound Lore)
Predator - The Complete Earth (Scavenger of Death)
Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power (Don Giovanni)
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (Hardly Art)
Psalm Zero - The Drain (Profound Lore)
PyPy – Pagan Day (Slovenly Recordings)
Reigning Sound – Shattered (Merge)
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (Mass Appeal)
Shellac - Dude Incredible (Touch and Go)
Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (BMG)
So Cow - The Long Con (Goner)
Spider Bags - Frozen Letter (Merge)
Spray Paint - Clean Blood, Regular Acid (Monofonus Press)
St. Lenox - Ten Songs About Memory And Hope (Anyway) [2014 digital release; physical release in early 2015]
St. Vincent - St. Vincent (Loma Vista)
Street Eaters: BLOOD::MUSCLES::BONES (Nervous Intent)
Sultan Bathery – Sultan Bathery (Slovenly Recordings)
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Big Machine)
Teledrome – s/t (Mammoth Cave Recording Co.)
The Ar-Kaics - s/t (Windian)
The Both - The Both (Superego)
The Cats - Relax On Everyone (Manondor)
The Coathangers - Suck My Shirt (Suicide Squeeze)
The Muffs - Whoop Dee Doo (Burger)
The Oath - The Oath (Rise Above)
The Soft Pink Truth - Why Do the Heathen Rage? (Thrill Jockey)
The Young - Chrome Cactus (Matador)
Thee Oh Sees - Drop (Castle Face)
Tilts - Cuatro Hombres (Robotic Empire)
Tombs - Savage Gold (Relapse)
Total Control - Typical System (Iron Lung)
Triptykon - Melana Chasmata (Century Media)
Ty Segall - Manipulator (Drag City)
Tyson Meade - Tomorrow In Progress (Shaking Shanghai)
Universe People - Are Coming To The Dance (Dragnet)
White Lung - Deep Fantasy (Domino)
White Mystery - Dubble Dragon (self-released)
Winger - Better Days Comin' (Frontiers)
Wrong Hole – 2012 (Pleasence)
YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot)
Young Widows - Easy Pain (Temporary Residence)
Bonus #101: GG King - Unending Darkness (Scavenger of Death)
Bonus #102: Flesh Wounds - s/t (Snot Releases)
