Features

NME’s best albums and tracks of 2014

St Vincent topped the album chart this year with her self titled album St Vincent

By NME

Albums Of The Year

1
St Vincent
St Vincent
2Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
3The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream
4Aphex Twin
Syro
5Caribou
Our Love
6La Roux
Trouble In Paradise
7Merchandise
The End
8Jamie T
Carry On The Grudge
9Sleaford Mods
Divide And Exit
10Ex Hex
Rips
  1. Future Islands – Singles
  2. DFA 1979 – The Physical World
  3. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
  4. Run The Jewels – RTJ2
  5. Eagulls – Eagulls
  6. Iceage – Plowing Into The Field Of Love
  7. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
  8. Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
  9. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
  10. Jack White – Lazaretto
  11. FKA Twigs – LP1
  12. Swans – To Be Kind
  13. Kasabian – 48:13
  14. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
  15. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
  16. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
  17. Jungle – Jungle
  18. Morrissey – World Peace Is None Of Your Business
  19. Alvvays – Alvvays
  20. Warpaint – Warpaint
  1. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
  2. Childhood – Lacuna
  3. Wild Beasts – Present Tense
  4. Sun Kill Moon – Benji
  5. Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
  6. Goat – Commune
  7. Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
  8. Alt-J – This Is All Yours
  9. Protomartyr – Under Color Of Official Right
  10. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
  11. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology
  12. Hookworms – The Hum
  13. Freddie Gibbs And Madlib – Pinata
  14. Perfect Pussy – Say Yes To Love
  15. Honeyblood – Honeyblood
  16. Twin Peaks – Wild Onion
  17. Gruff Rhys – American Interior
  18. Temples – Sun Structures
  19. Interpol – El Pintor
  20. Julian Casablancas + The Voidz – Tyran

Tracks Of The Year

1
Future Islands
Seasons (Waiting On You)
2Caribou
Can’t Do Without You
3Fat White Family
Touch The Leather
4War On Drugs
Red Eyes
5Run The Jewels
Blockbuster Night Pt 1
6Kasabian
Eez-eh
7St Vincent
Digital Witness
8Jamie T
Zombie
9Royal Blood
Little Monster
10Mac DeMarco
Chamber Of Reflection
  1. Lana Del Rey – West Coast
  2. Merchandise – Little Killer
  3. Jungle – Busy Earnin’
  4. Jack White – Lazaretto
  5. Kate Tempest – Marshall Law
  6. Shamir – I Know It’s A Good Thing
  7. Iceage – The Lord’s Favourite
  8. Aphex Twin – minipops 67 (source field mix)
  9. Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me
  10. Honeyblood – Super Rat
  11. Jamie T – Love Is Only A Heartbeat Away
  12. Run The Jewels – Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)
  13. Damon Albarn – The Selfish Giant
  14. St Vincent – Prince Johnny
  15. Warpaint – Dicso//Very
  16. Mac De Marco – Passing Out Pieces
  17. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
  18. Interpol – All The Rage Back Home
  19. Slaves – Where’s Your Car Debbie?
  20. Perfume Genius – Queen
  1. Cherry Glazerr – Had Ten Dollaz
  2. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
  3. Death From Above 1979 – White Is Red
  4. The War On Drugs – Under The Pressure
  5. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology
  6. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – In The Heat Of The Moment
  7. Sharon Van Etten – Every Time The Sun Comes Up
  8. Protomartyr – Scum, Rise!
  9. Sleater-Kinney – Bury Our Friends
  10. La Roux – Uptight Downtown
  11. Ex Hex – Hot And Cold
  12. SBTRKT – New Dorp New York
  13. Juce – Call You Out
  14. Sun Kill Moon – Ben’s My Friend
  15. Flying Lotus – Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
  16. Gruff Rhys – American Interior
  17. Ariel Pink – Put Your Number On My Phone
  18. David Bowie – Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
  19. Alt-J – Hunger Of The Pine
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