My Favorite Albums of 2014

1.       Ty Segall – Manipulator

2.       St. Vincent – St. Vincent

3.       D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah

4.       Parquet Courts --  Sunbathing Animal

5.       TV on the Radio – Seeds

6.       Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness

7.       Bass Drum of Death – Rip this

8.       Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit

9.       Parkay Quarts – Content Nausea

10.   The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
11. Guided by Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit

12.   Meatbodies – Meatbodies

13.   Morgan Delt – Morgan Delt

14.   Protomartyr – Under of Color of Official Right

15.   Sturgill Simpson --  Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

16.   Blank Realm – Grassed Inn

Honorable Mention (in no particular order):

Dean Wareham – Dean Wareham

Sweet Apple – The Golden Age of Glitter

Sharon Van Etten – Are We There

J Mascis – Tied to a Star

Passenger Peru – Passenger Peru

Iceage – Plowing into the Field of Love

White Fence – For the Recently Found Innocent

Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems

Drive-by Truckers – English Oceans

Scott Walker & Sunn O))) – Soused

Reigning Sound -- Shattered

Billy Joe Shaver – Long in the Tooth

Guided by Voices – Cool Planet

King Tuff – Black Moon Spell

Robert Ellis – The Lights from the Chemical Plant

The Bad Plus – Inevitable Western

Lucinda Williams – Down Where the Sprit Meets the Bone

Gruff Rhys – American Interior

Thee Oh Sees -- Drop

Hookworms -- The Hum

Black Lips – Underneath the Rainbow

J Masics – Tied to a Star

Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin

Ex Hex -- Rips

Kelly Willis & Keith Robison – Our Year

Lydia Loveless -- Somewhere Else

Tony Molina -- Dissed and Dismissed

Shellac – Dude Incredible