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Best albums of 2014

The Guardian's top albums of 2014, as voted for by its music writers
  • top 10 classical cds of 2014 : Andriessen: La Commedia | McFadden/Zavalloni/Willems/Beckman/Asko/Schönberg Ensembles/De Leeuw ; Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem | BBC Singers/Nash Ensemble/Kok ; Schumann: Symphonies 1-4 | Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Ticciati ; Mozart: Desperate Heroines | Sandrine Piau ;  Ferneyhough: Complete String Quartets | Arditti Quartet ; Bruckner: Symphony No 9 | Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Abbado

    The best classical CDs of 2014

    Andrew Clements selects his 10 favourite recordings of the year
  • Readers album of 2014 cmp

    The best albums of 2014 – readers' picks

    Hundreds of votes but just one top pick: the readers’s choice albums of 2014
  • The Guardian’s albums of 2014: (Clockwise from top left) La Roux’s Trouble In Paradise; FKA twigs’s LP1; St Vincent’s St Vincent; Sleaford Mods’s Divide and Exit; Aphex Twin’s Syro; Run The Jewels’s Run The Jewels 2

    The best albums of 2014: how our writers voted

    You’ve seen our end of year list ... now it’s time to look behind the scenes at what each Guardian music critic voted for
  • Future Islands Perform At Shepherds Bush Empire In London

    The best track of 2014: Seasons (Waiting on You) by Future Islands

    Lacking the protective sheen of recent pop hits, Seasons (Waiting on You) gave us the soulful sound of a man laying himself on the line
  • St Vincent portrait

    Best albums of 2014: No 1 - St Vincent by St Vincent

    St Vincent’s fourth album had a certain swagger about it, and rightly so – it seemed to have come from a more intriguing world than most rock music in 2014
  • Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs

    Best albums of 2014: No 2 – Lost in the Dream by the War on Drugs

    Following tour burnout and a bad breakup, Adam Granduciel transformed his wounded headspace into a wonderfully cathartic rock record full of depth and emotion
  • FKA Twigs, AKA Tahliah Barnett

    Best albums of 2014: No 3 - LP1 by FKA twigs

    FKA twigs was the year’s most promising pop star, and her debut album was a modern mess of interesting sounds and ideas
  • Aphex Twin

    Best albums of 2014: No 4 – Syro by Aphex Twin

    If Syro wasn’t about Aphex the innovator, then we got something just as good – Aphex the virtuoso
  • Caribou

    Best albums of 2014: No 5 - Our Love by Caribou

    Our Love ran far deeper than most dance records, exploring the complexities of adult relationships: new fatherhood, friends’ divorces and even death
  • La Roux

    Best albums of 2014: No 6 – Trouble in Paradise by La Roux

    While much pop music this year felt drearily uniform, Trouble in Paradise stood out as a classy affair that allowed its songs time and space to breathe
  • Run the Jewels

    Best albums of 2014: No 7 – Run the Jewels 2 by Run the Jewels

    Frustrated by the lack of lyricism in hip-hop, El-P and Killer Mike returned – ahead of schedule – with an album that was as brutal as it was inventive
  • Beck Hansen

    Best albums of 2014: No 8 – Morning Phase by Beck

    Beck had seemed in danger of becoming creatively bankrupt, yet his twelfth album is a thoughtful and considered record that stands out amidst the year’s digital dystopia
  • Flying Lotus

    Best albums of 2014: No 9 - You're Dead! by Flying Lotus

    Steven Ellison’s fifth album saw him finally embrace his aunt Alice Coltrane’s passion for jazz, but with a twist that explored the genre’s intersection with hip-hop
  • Sleaford Mods

    Best albums of 2014: No 10 - Divide and Exit by Sleaford Mods

    Why did the vituperative lyrics of Sleaford Mods suddenly start to resonate in 2014? Maybe because their dark comedy taps into a rising anger within us all
  • St Vincent aka Annie Clark, winner of the Guardian's best album of 2014

    The best albums of 2014

    Here’s the Guardian music critics’ favourite albums of 2014, topped by St Vincent and her dazzling fourth album
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