You know what to do. But in case you don't, here are "The Rules":
The 2014 new music checks: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
The Spotify list
The 2013 list
The 2012 list
***EDIT-1/7/2015***
Given the lack of entries, I went ahead and took every album posted here. What you get is a list of 101 albums from 2014 worth listening to (as opposed to a true top 10). Multiple votes getters designated by parenthesis.
- To correct for late releases that may have been missed for lack of longevity, eligible albums must be released after 12/1/2013. I'm not going to sweat the last month of 2014 this time around. If you like it enough to call it a top album, that's good enough for me.
- Try to limit your list to three albums, but no more than five. If you list more than five, I'll take the first five listed and omit the rest.
- For the sake of making editing easier, try and list your picks as Artist - Album. If it's a self-titled album, just list the name of the band again. This will help me to curate the list later on.
The 2014 new music checks: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4
The Spotify list
The 2013 list
The 2012 list
***EDIT-1/7/2015***
Given the lack of entries, I went ahead and took every album posted here. What you get is a list of 101 albums from 2014 worth listening to (as opposed to a true top 10). Multiple votes getters designated by parenthesis.
- Amaranthe - Massive Addictive
- Anberlin - Lowborn
- Aphex Twin - Syro
- Atmosphere - southsiders
- Bahamas Bahamad is Afie
- Banks - Goddess
- Beck - MorningPhase
- Ben Howard - I Forgot Where We Were
- Bleachers -Strange Desire
- Broods - Evergreen
- Brownout - Brown Sabbath
- Caribou - Our Love (2)
- Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
- Circa Survive - Descensus
- Circulatory System's bi-decade album
- Clean Bandit - New Eyes
- Cloud Nothings - Here and Nowhere
- D' Angelo - BlackMessiah
- Dan Croll Sweet Disarray
- Desert Noises - 27 Ways
- Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath
- Ex Cops - Daggers
- Flying Colors - Second Nature
- Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
- Foxygen - ...and Star Power
- Future Islands - Singles
- Generationals - Alix
- Glass Animals - ZABA
- Gruff Rhys - ST
- Guardians of the Galaxy- Awesome Mixtape Vol. 1 (2)
- Hans Zimmer - Interstellar
- Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers
- Hotelier - Home, Like No Place is There
- Hozier - Hozier (2)
- Hundred Waters -The Moon Rang Like a Bell
- J. Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive
- Jack White - Lazaretto
- Jessie Ware - Tough Love
- Jungle - Jungle
- Justin Townes Earle - Single Mothers
- Kelis - Food
- Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
- Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
- Lights - Little Machines
- Lindsey Sterling - Shatter Me
- Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband
- Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets theBone
- Mac Demarco -Salad Days
- Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives - SaturdayNight/Sunday Morning
- Migos - No Label 2
- Milky Chance - Sadnecessary
- Mr Little Jeans - Pocketknife
- Nothing More - ST (2)
- Opeth "Pale Communion"
- Parquet Courts - sunbathing animal
- Phantogram - Voices (5)
- Pharrell - G I R L
- Posse Soft Opening
- Real Estate - Atlas (2)
- Reigning Sound -Shattered
- RTJ - 2
- Run the Jewels - 2 (4)
- RX Bandits - Gemini, Her Majesty
- Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
- Sara Jackson-Holman - River Queen
- Schoolboy Q - Voices
- Shakey Graves - And The War Came (2)
- Sinkane Mean Love
- Sir Sly - You Haunt Me
- Spoon - TheyWant My Soul
- St Vincent - ST (4)
- St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City
- Starset - Transmissions
- Strand of Oaks - Heal
- Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In CountryMusic (2)
- sun kil moon- benji.
- Sylvan Esso -Sylvan Esso
- SZA - Suburban Lager
- Taylor Swift - 1989 (2)
- Temples - Sun Structures
- The Antlers - Familiars
- The Bots - Pink Palms
- The Donkeys Ride The Black Wave
- The History of Apple Pie - Feel Something
- The Kooks - Listen
- The Mastersons - Good Luck Charm
- The New Basement Tapes Lost On The River
- The Orwells - Disgraceland
- The War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream (2)
- Tove Lo - Queen Of The Clouds
- Transatlantic - Kaleidoscope
- TV On the Radio - Seeds
- Wake Owl The Private World of Paradise
- Walk The Moon - Talking Is Hard
- Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End (2)
- Wild Beasts - Present Tense
- Wild Cub - Youth
- Will Champlin - Borrowing Trouble
- Within Temptation - Hydra
- YG
- You+Me - rose ave.