Best Albums of the Years: 2014

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Original Top 40

  1. Lee Fraser – Dark Camber
  2. Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek – Lucier: Memory Space
  3. Tim Hodgkinson – Onsets
  4. The Bad Plus – The Rite of Spring
  5. iamamiwhoami – Blue
  6. David Brynjar Franzson – The Negotiation of Context
  7. V/Vm – The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback)
  8. Arlene Sierra – Game of Attrition
  9. Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Insula
  10. Monty Adkins – Rift Patterns
  11. John Cage – Works for Two Keyboards • 2 [Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo]
  12. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  13. Markus Reuter – Sultry Kissing Lounge (Crimson ProjeKCt Tour 2014)
  14. Joseph Trapanese, Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal – The Raid 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  15. John Pickard – Gaia Symphony / Eden [Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag]
  16. Senko – Dronetudes
  17. OY – No Problem Saloon
  18. irr. app. (ext.) – The Jennies Made Me Do It {1}
  19. Bass Communion – Box Set
  20. Salvatore Sciarrino – Cantare con silenzio
  21. Mica Levi – Under the Skin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  22. The Noisettes – Elegant Electronic Entrées
  23. Richard Causton – Millennium Scenes
  24. Duologue – Never Get Lost
  25. Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Alpha Piscium
  26. Sea Oleena – Shallow
  27. Aphex Twin – Syro
  28. Howard Shore – Maps to the Stars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  29. Markus Reuter – Todmorden 513
  30. Kristin Øhrn Dyrud – Coherence (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  31. Poemss – Poemss
  32. Gazelle Twin – Unflesh
  33. Paul Dolden – Who Has the Biggest Sound?
  34. Black Swan – Tone Poetry
  35. Deerhoof – La Isla Bonita
  36. Jenny Hval & Susanna – Meshes of Voice
  37. Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
  38. Weeping Willows – The Time Has Come
  39. Anna Þorvaldsdóttir – Aerial
  40. Bora Yoon – Sunken Cathedral

Revised Top 30​

  1. Brian Reitzell – Hannibal: Seasons 1 & 2 Volumes 1 & 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)
  2. Lee Fraser – Dark Camber
  3. Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Ballade for a Buck Moon
  4. Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek – Lucier: Memory Space
  5. Stefan Fraunberger – Quellgeister #1
  6. Coppice – Vantage / Cordoned
  7. Wolftöne – All That Falls
  8. Zbigniew Karkowski – Live In Lyon
  9. Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestite
  10. Tim Hodgkinson – Onsets
  11. The Bad Plus – The Rite of Spring
  12. iamamiwhoami – Blue
  13. Davíð Brynjar Franzson – The Negotiation of Context
  14. Press Charges – Press Charges
  15. V/Vm – The Death of Rave (A Partial Flashback)
  16. Supersilent – 12
  17. Erik Nyström – Morphogenèse
  18. Arlene Sierra – Vol. 2: Game of Attrition
  19. Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Insula
  20. John Cage – Works for Two Keyboards • 2 [Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo]
  21. Monty Adkins – Rift Patterns
  22. The Whalers Collective – Nantucket (I – VI)
  23. Shivers – Shivers
  24. Michael Tanner – The Sussex Workings Volume 1: Nine Of Swords
  25. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
  26. John Zorn – The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2: St. Paul’s Chapel, NYC
  27. Markus Reuter – Sultry Kissing Lounge (Crimson ProjeKCt Tour 2014)
  28. Joseph Trapanese, Aria Prayogi & Fajar Yuskemal – The Raid 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  29. John Pickard – Gaia Symphony / Eden [Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag / Hanson]
  30. Senko – Dronetudes