I’m just finalizing my top 100 albums for 2014. (Yes, I realize it’s now February 2015 but 1) it takes time and 2) I don’t understand how anyone can put a top list together before the year ends or even shortly thereafter: albums come out right up to the end of the year and it’s always good to give a little time to let more objectivity sink in.) In the meantime, here are the albums that didn’t make the cut. Not that these are a bad records at all – I own some of them – but they just didn’t quite rise to the level of the top 100.
- The 2 Bears, The Night Is Young
- Alvvays, self-titled
- Andrew Bird, Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of..
- Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, self-titled
- Atlas Grammar, Crowded Slum
- Augustines, self-titled
- Bear’s Den, Islands
- Blue Highway, The Game
- Brody Dalle, Diploid Love
- Broken Bells, After the Disco
- Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes
- Bryan Ferry, Avonmore
- Caribou, Our Love
- Chad VanGaalen, Shrink Dust
- Cibo Matto, Hotel Valentine
- Cloud Nothings, Here And Nowhere Else
- Copeland, ixora
- Counting Crows, Somewhere Under Wonderland
- Damien Rice, My Favorite Faded Fantasy
- Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots
- Daniel Lanois, Flesh And Machine
- Drive By Truckers, English Oceans
- Drowners, self-titled
- The Drums, Encyclopedia
- Dum Dum Girls, Too True
- Dylan Shearer, Garagearray
- Eternal Summers, No Drop Beneath
- Ex Hex, Rips
- Fenster, The Pink Caves
- Field Mouse, Hold Still Life
- First Aid Kit, Stay Gold
- Flying Lotus, You’re Dead
- Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways
- Foxygen, …And Star Power
- The Fray, Helios
- The Fresh and Onlys, House of Spirits
- Future Islands, Singles
- Gangstagrass, Broken Hearts and Stolen Money
- Gardens & Villa, Dunes
- The Gasllight Anthem, Get Hurt
- Gina Chavez, Up.Rooted
- Graham Colton, Lonely Ones
- Hamilton Leithauser, Black Hours
- Hiss Golden Messenger, Lateness Of Dancers
- Hospitality, Trouble
- Hurray for the Riff Raff, Small Town Heroes
- I Break Horses, Chiaroscuro
- Jeremy Messersmith, Heart Murmurs
- Jess Williamson, Native State
- Jessica Lea Mayfield, Make My Head Sing..
- Joe Henry, Invisible Hour
- Jolie Holland, Wine Dark Sea
- Jorge Drexler, Bailar en la cueva
- Justin Townes Earle, Single Mothers
- Karen O, Crush Songs
- The Kooks, Listen
- Krishna Das, Kirtan Wallah
- Laura Cantrell, No Way There From Here
- Lenguas Largas, Come On In
- Library Voices
- Lucinda Williams, Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
- Marissa Nadler, July
- Meatbodies, self-titled
- Medicine, Home Everywhere
- Mirel Wagner, When The Cellar Children See The Light Of Day
- Mogwai, Rave Tapes
- Musk Ox, Woodfall
- Neil Finn, Dizzy Heights
- Neil Young, A Letter Home
- Neil Young, Storytone
- Nude Beach, ’77
- Orenda Fink, Blue Dream
- Ought, More Than Any Other Day
- Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal
- Passenger, Whispers
- Perfect Pussy, Say Yes to Love
- The Phantom Band, Strange Friend
- Phox, self-titled
- The Preatures, Blue Planet Eyes
- The Raveonettes, PE’AHI
- Ray LaMontagne, Supernova
- Real Estate, Atlas
- Reuben and the Dark, Funeral Sky
- Rhonda Vincent, Only Me
- Robert Ellis, The Lights from the Chemical Plant
- Röyksopp, The Inevitable End
- The Rural Alberta Advantage, Mended with Gold
- Sam Hunt, Montevallo
- Samaris, Silkidrangar
- Sea Wolf, Song Spells, No. 1: Cedarsmoke
- The Secret Sisters, Put Your Needle Down
- Slow Club, Complete Surrender
- Sondre Lerche, Please
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Half the City
- Stars, No One Is Lost
- Sun Kil Moon, Benji
- Switchfoot, Fading West
- Teen, The Way and Color
- Thievery Corporation, Saudade
- Thumpers, Galore
- Tweedy, Sukierae
- Tycho, Awake
- Walk the Moon, Talking Is Hard
- Xiu Xiu, Angel Guts: Red Classroom
- You Me At Six, Cavalier Youth
- you+me, rose ave.
- Zee Avi, Zee Avi’s Nightlight
- Zeus, Classic Zeus
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