Here is a/my list with the
most important albums, EP and singles of
2014 in alphabetical order, rated, with its genre.
A
Above & Beyond - Acoustic
7 Folk pop
Actress - Ghettoville
6 Ambient, Minimal techno
A. G. Cook Ft. Hannah Diamond - Keri Baby
[SINGLE]
Alcest - Shelter
6 Glo-fi, Indie pop
Alex Calder - Strange dreams
5 Lo-fi rock
Alex Clare - Three hearts
5+ Pop rock
Alvvays - s/t
8 Lo-fi pop
American Authors - Oh, what a life
6 Alt. Pop
Angus & Julia Stone - s/t
6 Indie folk pop
Angel Haze - Dirty Gold
8+ Hip-pop
Angel Olsen - Burn your fire for no witness
7+ Indie folk
Appletop - Brave mountains
7+ Lo-fi rock
Arca - Xen
8 Dark wave
Ariana Grande - My Everything
8 Pop
Ariel Pink - pom pom
6+ Lo-fi pop
Army Navy - The wilderness inside
7 Indie pop rock
Ásgeir - In the silence
6 Indie pop
Augustines - s/t
7+ Alt. rock
Azaelia Banks - Broke with Expensive Taste
6 Hip hop
B
Bad Things - s/t
6+ Pop rock
Badbadnotgood - III
7+ Jazz
Banks - Goddess
6+ Indie pop
Baxter Dury - It's a Pleasure
7 Indie pop
Beth Israel - Dental denial
7 Psych rock
Beyoncé - 7/11
[SINGLE]
Bleachers - Strange desire
6+ Indie pop
Blonde Ft. Melissa Steel - I Loved You
[SINGLE]
Blonde Redhead - Barragán
4 Indie pop rock
Blondfire - Young heart
7 Electro pop
Blues Pills - s/t
7+ Indie rock
Bombay Bicycle Club - So long, see you tomorrow
7+ Pop rock
Boy & Bear - Harlequin Dream
7 Folk rock
Breton - War Room Stories
7+ Indie pop
Broods - s/t [EP]
6 Chill-wave, Indie Pop
Broods - Evergreen
5 Chill-wave, Indie Pop
C
Calvin Harris - Motion
6 Electro-house
Caribou - Our Love
7+ Electro
Cashmere Cat - Wedding Bells [EP]
8 Future hip-hop
CEO - Wonderland
7+ Electro pop
Champs - Down like gold
7 Indie pop rock
Cheatahs - s/t
7 Shoegaze, Lo-fi rock
Childhood - Lacuna
6+ Lo-fi pop rock
Chris Malinchak - If U Got It
[SINGLE]
Chris Malinchak - Stranger
[SINGLE]
Chris Staples - American soft
6+ Indie folk pop
Chrissie Hynde - Stockholm
6+ Pop Rock
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Only run
7 Indie pop rock
Clark - s/t
7+ Electro
Claude Speeed - My Skeleton
7+ Ambient
Clean Bandit - New eyes
7 Electro pop
Cloud Boat - Model of you
6 Indie pop
Cloud Nothings - Here and nowhere else
8+ Lo-fi rock
Cocoanut Groove - How to build a maze
7 Psych pop
Coldplay - Ghost Stories
4 Pop rock
Craft Spells - Nausea
6+ Indie pop rock
CHVRCHES - Dead Air
[SINGLE]
Cymbals - The age of fracture
7+ Electro pop
D
D'Angelo - Black Messiah
8+ R’n’B
Damien Jurado - Brothers and sisters of the eternal son
6+ Folk rock
Damon Albarn - Everyday robots
6 Indie pop rock
Danny L Harle - In My Dreams
[SINGLE]
Disaster in The Universe - Coconut message
7 Indie pop rock
DJ Q - Ineffable
7 UK house
Drowners - s/t
7 Punk Rock
Duke Dumont - I Got You
[SINGLE
Duke Dumont - Won't Look Back
[SINGLE]
Dum Dum Girls - Too true
7 Glo-fi, Indie rock
E
Echo and The Bunnymen - Meteorites
5 Indie rock
Ed Harcourt - Time of dust
7 Folk rock
Effect & Dang. - You don’t love me and I don’t care
7+ Hip hop
Electric Youth - Innerworld
7 Electro pop
Empire of the Sun - Ice on the dune
5+ Electro Pop
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Like it never happened
8 Indie folk
EMA - The future’s void
8 Indie rock
F
Fanfarlo - Let's go extinct
5 Indie pop rock
Felix Jaehn - Shine
[SINGLE]
Fennec - Let Your Heart Break
7 Future hip-hop, Ambient
First Aid Kit - Stay gold
7 Folk pop
FKA twigs - LP1
7+ Trip hop
Flight Facilities - Down to earth
6 Electro pop
Flowers - Do what you want to, It's what you should to
7 Indie rock
Foster The People - Supermodel
5+ Indie pop rock
Fox Stevenson - Sweets Soda Pop
[SINGLE]
Foxes - Glorious
6+ Pop
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
7+ Hip-pop
Future Islands - Singles
7 Indie pop rock
G
Galantis - You
[SINGLE]
Gardens & Villa - Dunes
6+ Synth pop
Genereationals - Alix
7+ Synth pop
George Maple - Talk Talk
[SINGLE]
Glass Animals - ZABA
6 Indie pop
Goat - Commune
7 Psych rock
Gold Bears - Dalliance
7 Indie pop
Gorgon City - Sirens
7 Deep House
GRMLN - Soon Away
8 Indie rock
Gulp - Season Sun
6 Indie pop
H
HAERTS - s/t
8 Indie pop rock
Hercules & Love Affair - The feast of the broken heart
7+ House
Higherself Ft. Lauren Mason - Ghosts
[SINGLE]
Holy Wave - Relax
6+ Lo-fi rock
Honeyblood - s/t
7 Lo-fi pop
Honne - Warm on a Cold Night
[SINGLE]
Hooray For Earth - RACY
7 Indie pop
Horse Thief - Fear in bliss
7+ Indie pop rock
Hospitality - Trouble
6+ Indie pop
Hunterchild - s/t
7+ Indie pop
Huxley - Blurred
7 Electro
I
I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro
6 Glo-fi, Electro pop
Iamamiwhoami - Blue
7 Dream pop
Iggy Azalea - The New Classic
7 Hip-Pop
Illum Sphere - Ghosts of then and now
7 Future hip-hop
Ingrid Michaelson - Lights Out
6 Pop
Interpol - El Pintor
5+ Alt. rock
Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia Demo
7+ Hip hop
J
James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
5 Indie folk
Javeon - Give Up
[SINGLE]
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
7+ Indie rock
Jessie Ware - Tough Love
7+ Indie pop
JJ - V
4 Indie pop
Johnny Foreigner - You can do better
7+ Lo-fi, Garage rock
John Fullbright - Songs
7 Folk rock
Josh Record - Pillars
7 Indie folk pop
Jungle - s/t
7 Indie pop
K
Katy B - Little Red
7 UK garage, Dance
Kendrick Lamar - I
[SINGLE]
Kiesza - Sound of a woman
7+ House
Kindness - Otherness
6 Indie pop
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizards - I'm in your mind fuzz
8 Psych rock
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
7 Indie pop rock
Kitten - s/t
7 Indie pop
Klaxons - Love frequency
4 Indie pop rock
Kwamie Liv - Lost in the girl [EP]
9 Indie pop
L
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
7+ Soft pop
Lee Fields - Emma Jean
7 Soul
Leisure Cruise - s/t
7 Indie pop
Let's Wrestle - s/t
7 Indie rock
Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer in C (Robin Shulz Remix)
[SINGLE]
Linda Guilala - Xeristar
8+ Lo-fi pop
Lizzo - Lizzobangers
7+ Hip hop
Lo-Fang - Blue Film
6 Indie pop
Lost in the Trees - Past life
7 Dream pop
Luke Sital-Singh - The Fire Inside
7+ Indie folk
Lust for Youth - International
6+ Indie pop
Lykke Li - I never learn
6+ Indie folk pop
M
Mac Demarco - Salad days
8 Lo-fi pop
Mapei - Don't Wait
[SINGLE]
Marissa Nadler - July
7 Indie Folk
Maximo Park - Too much information
4 Pop rock
Me and the Bees - Mundo fatal
6+ Indie pop rock
Meg Myers - Make a shadow [EP]
6 Alt. rock
Metronomy - Love letter
6+ Psych pop
MØ - No mythologies to follow
7 Indie pop
Mode Moderne - Occult Delight
6 Lo-fi rock
Mogwai - RAVE TAPES
2 Post-rock
Mogwai - Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1 [EP]
7 Post-rock
Moko - Gold [EP]
9 Trip-hop
Morrissey - World peace is none of your business
7+ Pop
Music Go Music - Impressions
7+ Disco pop
Mystique - Brand New
[SINGLE]
N
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens - Cold War
7 Soul
Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint
7 Pop
Nina Persson - Animal heart
5 Pop rock
Nonono - We are only what we feel
5+ Pop
Nothing - Guilty of everything
7+ Lo-fi rock
Nude Beach - 77
7 Lo-fi rock
O
Odesza - In Return
6+ Indie pop
Oh Land - Earth Sick
6 Electro pop
Oliver $ & Jimi Jules - Pushing On
[SINGLE]
P
Paolo Nutini - Caustic love
7 Pop rock
Parra For Cuva Ft. Anna Naklab - Wicked Games
[SINGLE]
Painted Palms - Forever
7 Indie pop
Panda Bear - Mr Noah
[SINGLE]
Pegase - s/t
6+ Glo-fi, Dream pop
Peggy Seeger - Everything changes
7+ Country folk
Peter Matthew Bauer - Liberation!
8 Alt. rock
Phantogram - Voices
7 Indie pop
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
5 Rock
Posse - Soft opening
7+ Lo-fi, Indie rock
Pure X - Angel
6 Indie folk pop
PRhyme - s/t
7 Hip hop
Protomartyr - Under color of official right
7 Lo-fi, Indie rock
Pvris - White Noise
6 Indie rock
Q
Quantic - Magnetica
6+ Big beat
QT - Hey QT
[SINGLE]
R
RAC - Strangers
6+ Indie pop
Real Estate - Atlas
7 Psych pop
Roc Marciano - Marci Beaucoup
6 Hip-hop
Ronika - Selectadisc
6 Pop
Royksopp & Robyn - Do it again [EP]
7 Electro pop
Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
6 Electro pop
Rüfüs - Atlas
6+ Electro pop
Run The Jewels - 2
8+ Hip hop
Russian Red - Agent Cooper
7+ Indie Folk
S
Sailor & I - Turn Around
[SINGLE]
Saint Motel - My Type [EP]
8 Indie pop rock
Sauvage - Jadis [EP]
7 Indie pop
Sbtrkt - Wonder where we land
8 Indie electro pop
School '94 - Like You [EP]
7+ Lo-fi, Indie pop rock
Schoolboy Q - Oxymoron
8+ Hip-hop
Sean Nicholas Savage - Bermuda waterfall
8 Lo-fi, Indie pop
September Girls - Cursing the sea
7 Lo-fi, Garage rock
Sharon Van Etten - Are we there
6+ Indie folk rock
Shit Robot - We got a love
5 Disco pop
Sia - 1000 forms of fear
5 Pop
Sigma - Nobody To Love
[SINGLE]
Simian Ghost - The Veil
6 Lo-fi pop
Simian mobile Disco - Whorl
5 Electro
Sir Sly - You Haunt Me
6+ Indie pop
Slow Club - Complete surrender
7+ Indie pop
Soak - Blud
[SINGLE]
SOHN - Tremors
6 Electro pop
SOJA - Amid the noise and haste
6 Reggae pop
Springtime Carnivore - Springtime Carnivore
7 Indie folk rock
St. Vincent - St. Vincent
6+ Indie Pop
Statik Selektah - What Goes Around
6+ Hip-hop
Step Brothers - Lord Steppington
7+ Hip-hop
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Wig out at jagbags
6 Indie rock
T
Teebs - E s t a r a
6 Electro, Future hip-hop
Tei Shi - Basically
[SINGLE]
Temples - Sun structures
7+ Psych rock
Tennis - Small Sound
7 Indie pop rock
The 2 Bears - The night is young
4 Electro pop
The Afghan Whigs - Do the beast
7+ Alt. Rock
The Antlers - Familiars
7 Indie folk pop
The Autumn Defense - Fifth
6 Indie Folk Pop
The Budos Band - Burnt Offering
6+ Funky beats
The Hidden Cameras - AGE
5 Indie Rock
The Hosts - Softly, soflty
7+ Alt. rock
The Hypnotic Eye - The Optical Sound of the Hypnotic Eye
6+ Garage rock
The Jezabels - The brink
7 Pop Rock
The Men - Tomorrow’s hits
7 Indie rock
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
6 Indie rock
The Notwist - Close to the glass
6 Indietronica
The Pains of Beig Pure at Heart - Days of abandon
6 Indie pop rock
The Piccadilly Teardrops - My Family of Ghosts [EP]
6 Dream pop
The Pierces - Creation
8+ Folk Pop
The Raveonettes - Pe'ahi
7+ Lo-fi pop
The Skygreen Leopards - Family crimes
8 Lo-fi folk pop
The Soundcarriers - Entropicalia
6+ Indie pop rock
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy
3 Alt. Rock
The Spectors - s/t
7 Lo-fi pop
The Twang - Neontwang
6+ Indie pop rock
The Twilight Sad - Nobody Wants to be Here…
4 Indie rock
The War on Drugs - Lost in the dream
7+ Folk rock
The/Das - Freezer
7 Electro pop
Thee Oh Sees - Drop
6 Indie rock
Theophilus London - Vibes
6 Hip-hop
Thievery Corporation - Saudade
5+ Trip-hop
Thomas Azier - Hylas
5 Electro pop
T.I. - Paperwork
7+ Hip hop
Tim Wheeler - Lost Domain
7+ Indie folk rock
Timber Timber - Hot dreams
7 Indie folk pop
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
7 Electro
Tom Vek - Luck
6 Indie pop
Tomas Barfod - Love me
7+ Electronica
TOPS - Picture you staring
6 Lo-fi pop
Tove Lo - Queen of the Clouds
7 Pop
Tove Styrke - Borderline
[SINGLE]
Tinashe - Aquarius
7+ R&B
Trust - Joyland
7+ Electro pop
TV Girl - French exit
8 Indie pop
TV on the Radio - Seeds
6 Indie rock
Typhoon - Lobi da Basi
6+ Hip pop
U
U2 - Songs of Innocense
4 Pop rock
V
Vaadat Charigim - The world is well lost 6+
Lo-fi rock
Vic Mensa - Down on my Luck
[SINGLE]
Vulkano - Live wild die free
5 Indie rock
W
Warpaint - s/t
7 Glo-fi, Indie pop
Wake Owl - The private world of paradise
9 Indie folk rock
Water Liars - Water Liars
7+ Indie rock
Watermät - Bullit
[SINGLE]
Watsky - All you can do
7 Hipster-hop
Weyes Blood - Innocents
6+ Indie folk pop
What So Not - Jaguar
[SINGLE]
White Hex - Gold nights
7+ Dream pop
WhoMadeWho - Dreams
4 Electro pop
Wildest Dreams - s/t
6 Indie rock
Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood
5 Hip-hop
Woods - With light and with love
7 Indie pop folk
Y
Yawn - Love Childs
6+ Indie pop rock
Years & Years - Take Shelter
[SINGLE]
Yelle - Complètement Fou
6+ Electro pop
Young Fathers - DEAD
5 Hipster-hop
Z
Zeds Dead Ft. Twin Shadow & D'angelo Lacy- Lost You
[SINGLE]
Ziggy Marley - Fly Rasta
7 Reggae
Zola Jesus - Taiga
5 Indie pop