My Albums Of 2014: Complete List, No100 to No1 (links to tracks included)
As the year draws to a close, it’s time for me to look back on some amazing records that have been a great soundtrack to an equally great year. So take a peek at my roundup, you might even see something you like :)
Believe it or not, this is my 4th yearly round up! I’ve always been surprised and humbled by all the feedback I receive every year, so thanks for that! Although this year I’ve kept things really simple and minimalistic. Every year I try a slightly different approach, if you look at previous posts then you’ll notice the difference. Hope you enjoy this year’s edition.
Previous “Albums Of” Lists
Albums Of 2013: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
Albums Of 2012: Part I, Part II, Part III
Albums Of 2011: Complete List
No100: The Kooks – Listen
(Standout tracks: Westside, Bad Habit)
No99: Ed Sheeran – X
(Standout tracks: Don’t, Thinking Out Loud)
No98: Foster The People – Supermodel
(Standout tracks: Coming Of Age, Pseudologia Fantastica)
No97: The Ting Tings – Super Critical
(Standout tracks: Wrong Club, Communication)
No96: Frank Turner – Polaroid Picture (EP)
(Standout tracks: Polaroid Picture, Who’s Got A Match)
No95: Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
(Standout tracks: Shades Of Cool, West Coast)
No94: The Drums – Encyclopaedia
(Standout tracks: I Can’t Pretend, I Hope Time Doesn’t Change Him)
No93: The Story So Far – Songs Of (EP)
(Standout tracks: Navy Blue, Waiting In Vain)
No92: Young The Giant - Mind Over Matter
(Standout tracks: Crystallized, In My Home)
No91: Mongol Horde – Mongol Horde
(Standout tracks: Tapeworm Uprising, Casual Threats From Weekend Hardmen)
No90: Wolf Gang – Black River (EP)
(Standout tracks: Black River, Last Bayou)
No89: Wild Beasts – Present Tense
(Standout tracks: Wanderlust, Mecca)
No88: Slow Club – Complete Surrender
(Standout tracks: Suffering You Suffering Me, Not Mine To Love)
No87: Daughter – 4AD Session (EP)
(Standout tracks: Youth, Shallows)
No86: Paws – Youth Culture Forever
(Standout tracks: Tongues, Owls Talons Clenching My Heart)
No85: Bellowhead – Revival
(Standout tracks: Let Her Run, Gosport Nancy)
No84: Jungle – Jungle
(Standout tracks: Busy Earnin’, Julia)
No83: The Jezabels – The Brink
(Standout tracks: Time To Dance, Look Of Love, All You Need)
No82: Blood Red Shoes – Blood Red Shoes
(Standout tracks: An Animal, Far Away, Cigarettes In The Dark)
No81: Interpol – El Pintor
(Standout tracks: All The Rage Back Home, Everything Is Wrong, Breaker 1)
No80: Kaiser Chiefs – Education, Education, Education & War
(Standout tracks: Coming Home, Meanwhile Up In Heaven, One More Last Song)
No79: Howler – World Of Joy
(Standout tracks: Don’t Wanna, In The Red, Here’s The Itch That Creeps Through My Skull)
No78: Metronomy – Love Letters
(Standout tracks: Monstrous, Love Letters, Reservoir)
No77: Manchester Orchestra – Cope
(Standout tracks: Top Notch, Every Stone, Indentions)
No76: Real Friends – Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing
(Standout tracks: Cover You Up, Summer, Spread Me All Over Illinois)
No75: Grant Nicholas – Yorktown Heights
(Standout tracks: Soul Mates, Good Fortune Lies Ahead, Time Stood Still)
No74: U2 – Songs Of Innocence
(Standout tracks: Every Breaking Wave, Song For Someone, Raised By Wolves)
No73: Flood Of Red – Throw
(Standout tracks: Part Truth/Part Fiction, Lashes, Whispers And Choirs)
No72: The Horrors – Luminous
(Standout tracks: So Now You Know, Falling Star, I See You)
No71: Crosses (†††) – Crosses (†††)
(Standout tracks: Telepathy, The Epilogue, Bermuda Locket)
No70: Honeyblood – Hoeyblood
(Standout tracks: Fall Forever, Bud, All Dragged Up)
No69: Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
(Standout tracks: Our Love, I Love You But I’m Lost, Every Time The Sun Comes Up)
No68: We Are Scientists – TV En Français
(Standout tracks: Make It Easy, Sprinkles, Courage)
No67: Biffy Clyro – Similarities
(Standout tracks: Watch, A Tragic World Record, Children’s Limbs)
No66: Of Mice & Men – Restoring Force
(Standout tracks: Feels Like Forever, Would You Still Be There, You Make Me Sick)
No65: Blitz Kids – The Good Youth
(Standout tracks: Run For Cover, Sometimes, Roll The Dice)
No64: La Roux – Trouble In Paradise
(Standout tracks: Uptight Downtown, Sexotheque, Let Me Down Gently)
No63: Maximo Park – Too Much Information
(Standout tracks: Brain Cells, Leave This Island, Drinking Martinis)
No62: The Drowners – Drowners
(Standout tracks: Long Hair, Luv Hold Me Down, Unzip Your Harrington)
No61: Seth Lakeman – Word Of Mouth
(Standout tracks: The Wanderer, The Courier, The Saddest Crowd)
No60: Lykke-Li I Never Learn
(Standout tracks: Gunshot, Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone, Never Gonna Love Again)
No59: The Black Keys – Turn Blue
(Standout tracks: In Time, Fever, Gotta Get Away)
No58: First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
(Standout tracks: My Silver Lining, Master Pretender, The Bell)
No57: Lonely The Brave – The Day’s War
(Standout tracks: Backroads, Deserter, Victory Line)
No56: Walk The Moon – Talking Is Heard
(Standout tracks: Different Colors, Shut Up And Dance, Aquaman)
No55: Dry The River – Alarms In The Heart
(Standout tracks: Hidden Hand, It Was Love That Laid Us Low, Gethsemane)
No54: The Menzingers – Rented World
(Standout tracks: Rodent, Where Your Heartache Exists, In Remission)
No53: BANKS – Goddess
(Standout tracks: Waiting Game, Brain, Beggin For Thread)
No52: Dan Croll – Sweet Disarray
(Standout tracks: Thinkin Aboutchu, Only Ghost, Maway)
No51: The Blackout – Wolves (EP)
(Standout tracks: Wolves, Liars, Pieces)
No50: She & Him – Classics
(Standout tracks: Oh No Not My Baby, Stay Awhile, Unchained Melody)
No49: Lily Allen – Sheezus
(Standout tracks: Sheezus, Our Time, URL Badman)
No48: Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
(Standout tracks: Just Like Fire Would, This Is Your Sword, The Wall)
No47: Future Islands – Singles
(Standout tracks: Seasons (Waiting On You), Doves, A Song For Our Grandfathers)
No46: Gates – Bloom And Breathe
(Standout tracks: Bloom, Born Dead, Low, Not My Blood)
No45: Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties – We Don’t Have Each Other
(Standout tracks: Our Apartment, Divorce And The American South, You Ain’t No Saint)
No44: The Gaslight Anthem – The B-Sides
(Standout tracks: She Loves You, Songs For Teenagers, Boxer (Acoustic)
No43: Candy Hearts – All The Ways You Let Me Down
(Standout tracks: Michigan, Coffee With My Friends, Brooklyn Bridge)
No42: Sivu – Something On High
(Standout tracks: Bodies, Better Man Than Me, Miracle (Human Error)
No41: Four Year Strong – Go Down In History EP
(Standout tracks: What’s In The Box?, Living Proof Of A Stubborn Youth, Go Down In History)
No40: Tycho – Awake
(Standout tracks: Awake, Montana, Spectre)
No39: Neck Deep – Rain In July/ A History Of Bad Decisions (EP)
(Standout tracks: A Part Of Me, Tables Turned, Head To The Ground)
No38: Catfish And The Bottlemen – The Balcony
(Standout tracks: Cocoon, Pacifier, Business, Rango)
No37: JAWS – Be Slowly
(Standout tracks: Gold, Swim, Think Too Much Feel Too Little, Surround You)
No36: New Found Glory – Resurrection
(Standout tracks: Selfless, Resurrection, The Worst Person, Vicious Love)
No35: The Used – Imaginary Enemy
(Standout tracks: Cry, A Song To Stifle Imperial Progression (A Work In Progress), Generation Throwaway, Make Believe)
No34: Bear’s Den – Islands
(Standout tracks: Agape, Above The Clouds Of Pompeii, When You Break, Elysium)
No33: Coldplay – Ghost Stories
(Standout tracks: Ink, Midnight, Another’s Arms, A Sky Full Of Stars)
No32: Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
(Standout tracks: Everyday Robots, Lonely Press Play, Mr Tembo, Heavy Seas Of Love)
No31: Jack White – Lazaretto
(Standout tracks: Lazaretto, Would You Fight For My Love?, Just One Drink, That Black Bat Licorice)
No30: Frnkiero And The Cellabration – Stomachaches
(Standout tracks: She’s The Prettiest Girl At The Party And She Can Prove It With A Solid Right Hook, Joyriding, Stage 4 Fear Of Flying, Guilttripping)
No29: Taking Back Sunday – Happiness Is
(Standout tracks: Flicker Fade, Stood A Chance, Better Homes And Gardens, Like You Do)
No28: Klaxons – Love Frequency
(Standout tracks: There Is No Other Time, Out Of The Dark, Children Of The Sun, Rhythm Of Life)
No27: George Ezra – Wanted On Voyage
(Standout tracks: Barcelona, Listen To The Man, Did You Hear The Rain?, Over The Creek)
No26: Gerard Way – Hesitant Alien
(Standout tracks: Action Cat, No Shows, Brother, Millions)
No25: The Xcerts – There Is Only You
(Standout tracks: Live Like This, I Don’t Care, Pop Song, She)
No24: Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were
(Standout tracks: I Forget Where We Were, She Treats Me Well, End Of The Affair, Conrad)
No23: We Are The In Crowd – Weird Kids
(Standout tracks: The Best Thing (That Never Happened), Come Back Home, Attention, Windows In Heaven)
No22: Passenger – Whispers
(Standout tracks: 27, Heart’s On Fire, Bullets, Rolling Stone)
No21: Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
(Standout tracks: It’s Alight Now, Home By Now, Whenever Wherever, Luna)
No20: Charlie Simpson – Long Road Home
(Standout tracks: Long Road Home, Comets, Winter Hymns, Haunted, Blood)
No19: The Courteeners – Concrete Love
(Standout tracks: How Good It Was, Has He Told You That He Loves You Yet, Next Time You Call, Summer, Beautiful Head)
No18: Royal Blood – Royal Blood
(Standout tracks: Out Of The Black, Come On Over, Little Monster, Ten Tonne Skeleton)
No17: Rise Against – The Black Market
(Standout tracks: I Don’t Want To be Here Anymore, Tragedy + Time, The Black Market, A Beautiful Indifference, People Live Here)
No16: Angels & Airwaves – The Dream Walker
(Standout tracks: Paralyzed, The Wolfpack, Tunnels, Kiss With A Spell, Bullets In The Wind)
No15: Alt-J – This Is All Yours
(Standout tracks: Nara, Every Other Freckle, Left Hand Free, Hunger Of The Pine, Bloodflood PtII)
No14: Kasabian – 48:13
(Standout tracks: Bumblebee, Doomsday, Treat, Eez-Eh, Bow)
No13: Vance Joy – Dream Your Life Away
(Standout tracks: Mess Is Mine, Riptide, From Afar, Red Eye)
No12: Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
(Standout tracks: Back To The Shack, The British Are Coming, Da Vinci, Go Away Ft Bethany Cosentino, Cleopatra)
No11: Jamie T – Carry On The Grudge
(Standout tracks: Turn On The Light, Zombie, Rabbit Hole, Love Is Only A Heartbeat Away)
No10: Electric Youth – Innerworld
(Standout tracks: Runaway, The Best Thing, Tomorrow, A Real Hero Ft College)
No9: Lower Than Atlantis – Lower Than Atlantis
(Standout tracks: Here We Go, Ain’t No Friend, English Kids In America, Words Don’t Come So Easily, Just What You Need)
No8: Twin Atlantic – Great Divide
(Standout tracks: Heart And Soul, Hold On, Fall Into The Party, Rest In Pieces, It’s Not Dead)
No7: The Family Rain – Under The Volcano
(Standout tracks: Binocular, On My Back, Pushing It, Together, All The Best)
No6: Mallory Knox – Asymmetry
(Standout tracks: Ghost In The Mirror, Getaway, Dying To Survive, Shout At The Moon, Fire, Heart & Desire)
No5: Yellowcard – Lift A Sail
(Standout tracks: Transmission Home, One Bedroom, Illuminate, The Deepest Well, Lift A Sail, MSK)
No4: Neck Deep – Wishful Thinking
(Standout tracks: Losing Teeth, Crushing Grief (No Remedy), Staircase Wit, Damsel In Distress, Zoltar Speaks, Growing Pains)
No3: Modern Baseball – You-re Gonna Miss It All
(Standout tracks: Fine Great, Broken Cash Machine, Rock Bottom, Apartment, Charlie Black, Your Graduation)
No2: The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
(Standout tracks: 1000 Years, Get Hurt, Stray Paper, Rollin’ And Tumblin’, Selected Poems, Break Your Heart, Dark Places)
No1: You Me At Six – Cavalier Youth
(Standout tracks: Too Young To Feel This Old, Lived A Lie, Forgive And Forget, Cold Night, Be Who You Are, Carpe Diem, Wild Ones)
So there we go, and well done for reaching the end! Thanks to everyone who has made 2014 a very fun year. I’ve had plenty of fun moments with some really great people and I really hope that carries over into 2015. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and that 2015 looks after you as well. Cheers :) x