Top 50 Albums of 2014

These lists are everywhere, so you’ll be excused if you just roll your eyes and skip on. But, that being said, we always seem to be way off the mark when it comes to our Top 50 Albums of the Year.  Sure, we have some of the sure fire hits on this list like Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten, but don’t even read on if you’re look ing to see where Run the Jewels made it…they’re not there. Sorry not sorry.  So, if you’re into arbitrary lists by people who like to push their own agenda, then this list is for you!

1. Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Days of Abandon
2. The Coathangers – Suck My Shirt
3. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire For No Witness
4. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
5. The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
6. Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
7. Dylan Shearer – Garagearray
8. Greg Ashley – Another Generation of Slaves
9. Spoon – They Want My Soul
10. Literature – Chorus
11. St. Vincent – Digital Witness
12.  Mac Demarco – Salad Days
13.  Sea Pinks – Dreaming Tracks
14.  Kevin Morby – Still Life
15.  Ty Segall – Manipulator
16.  Protomartyr – Under Color of Official Right
17.  Eternal Summers – The Drop Beneath
18.  Ought – More Than Any Other Day
19.  Allo Darlin’ – We Come From the Same Place
20.  The Twilght Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
21.  Real Estate – Atlas
22.  Sun Kil Moon – Benji
23.  Fresh & Onlys – House of Spirits
24.  Withered Hand – New Gods
25.  Gold Bears – Dalliance
26.  Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
27.  Liam Betson – The Cover of Hunter
28.  Quilt – Held in Splendor
29.  Woods – With Light and With Love
30.  Pale Lights – Before There Were Pictures
31.  Future Islands –Singles
32.  Comet Gain – Paperback Ghosts
33.  Alvvays – s/t
34.  Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
35.  The Dead Space – Faker
36.  Amen Dunes – Love
37.  Warm Soda – Young Reckless Hearts
38.  Purling Hiss – Weirdon
39.  Jesse Marchant – s/t
40.  Hamilton Leithauser – Black Hours
41.  Angelo de Augustine – Spirals of Silence
42.  Andrew St. James – The Shakes
43.  Lost in the Trees – Past Life
44.  Snowmine – Dialects
45.  Foxes in Fiction – Ontario Gothic
46.  The Rentals – Lost in Alphaville
47.  Avi Buffalo – At Best Cuckoo
48.  Flesh Lights – Free Yourself
49.  Liars – Mess
50.  Dead Stars – Slumber

For those that love the bleeps and bloops, be ready for an ATH IT Department list and jams for year holiday party shens. Sincerely, bgray