I wasn’t my best music loving self in 2014. I traded a good portion of my typical music listening time instead to audiobooks and podcasts. I can’t tell if I neglected music because I preferred other audio entertainments more, if I wasn’t that impressed by the years releases, or if I simply didn’t do as good a job of seeking out new music as I have in the past. In the end I think it was a combination of the three. Because I felt like my 2014 music knowledge and discovery was lacking I left a draft of my year-end favorites unpublished.
Looking back I realize not publishing my list was foolish. There’s never going to be any way for me to listen to everything, and just because I don’t have as much time to discover new music, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t still highlight music I did enjoy.
So, almost five months into 2015, I present an alphabetical list of albums I enjoyed in 2014. Feel free to listen to them all in the Spotify playlist below.
The Abigails – Tundra
Alt-J – This Is All Yours
Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Banks – Goddess
Chinawoman – Let’s Part in Style
Courtney Barnett – The Double Ep: A Sea of Split Peas
Elephant – Sky Swimming
Future Islands – Singles
The Growlers – Chinese Fountain
Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell
Kithkin – Rituals, Trances & Ecstasies for Humans In Face of the Collapse
Love Inks – Exi
Lykke Li – I Never Learn
Mac Demarco – Salad Days
Marissa Nadler – July
MØ – No Mythologies to Follow
My Brightest Diamond – This Is My Hand
Run The Jewels – RTJ2
Sea Oleena – Shallow
Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
Shovels & Rope – Swimmin’ Time
SOHN – Tremors
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
–Alex M. Anderson
