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My favorite albums of 2014 in order from most favorite.

1. Future Islands – Singles
2. Ariel Pink – pom pom
3. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
4. A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos
5. Planningtorock – All Love’s Legal
6. Ex Hex – Rips
7. Owen Pallett – In Conflict
8. Dum Dum Girls – Too True
9. Peaking Lights – Cosmic Logic
10. D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah
11. FKA twigs – LP1
12. Caribou – Our Love
13. Flying Lotus – You’re Dead
14. Beck – Morning Phase
15. jj – V
16. Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams
17. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
18. Swans – To Be Kind
19. Broken Bells – After the Disco
20. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Hang On to Each Other
21. Metronomy – Love Letters
22. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
23. Grouper – Ruins
24. The Knife – Shaken-Up Versions
25. Laetitia Sadier – Something Shines
26. Goat – Commune
27. Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
28. Mark McGuire – Along the Way
29. Arca – Xen
30. Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell
31. The KVB – Out of Body
32. Actress– Ghettoville
33. Warpaint – Warpaint
34. The Bug – Angels & Devils
35. The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers
36. Dirty Beaches – Stateless
37. Andy Stott – Faith in Strangers
38. Ben Frost – A U R O R A
39. How to Dress Well – What is This Heart?
40. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything
41. Millie & Andrea – Drop the Vowels
42. Alt-J – This Is All Yours
43. Mogwai – Rave Tapes
44. Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow
45. Fennesz – Bécs
46. Sunn O))) – Terrestrials
47. Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Enter the Slasher House
48. Amen Dunes – Love
49. Current 93 – I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell
50. Austra – Habitat

My favorite albums of 2013 in order from most favorite.

1. Kanye West – Yeezus
2. Forest Swords – Engravings
3. Darkside – Psychic
4. Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love Is The Devil
5. Oneohtrix Point Never – R Plus Seven
6. Tim Hecker – Virgins
7. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
9. Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
10. Savages – Silence Yourself
11. Holy Ghost! – Dynamics
12. David Lynch – The Big Dream
13. Majical Cloudz – Impersonator
14. Austra – Olympia
15. Katie Gately – Katie Gately
16. Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus
17. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol 3: See More Light
18. Deafheaven – Sunbather
19. Zomby – With Love
20. Burial – Rival Dealer
21. Haim – Days Are Gone
22. The Haxan Cloak – Excavation
23. Four Tet – Beautiful Rewind
24. Gesaffelstein – Aleph
25. Kavinsky – Outrun
26. James Blake – Overgrown
27. Autechre – Exai
28. London Grammar – If You Wait
29. Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds
30. William Basinski – Nocturnes
31. M.I.A. – Matangi
32. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
33. The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
34. Factory Floor – Factory Floor
35. Jon Hopkins – Immunity
36. The Field – Cupid’s Head
37. Matt Elliott – Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart
38. Suuns – Images Du Futur
39. Foetus – Soak
40. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
41. oOoOO – Without Your Love
42. Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals
43. Phosphorescent – Muchacho
44. Charli XCX – True Romance
45. Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums
46. Grouper – The Man Who Died in His Boat
47. Lorde – Pure Heroine
48. Adult. – The Way Things Fall
49. Atoms for Peace – Amok
50. Depeche Mode – Delta Machine

This year was more difficult than in year past and it hurt me to leave out a lot of great albums. With that being said here’s my personal favorite albums of 2012.

1. Beach House – Bloom
2. A Place to Bury Strangers – Worship
3. Goat – World Music
4. Santigold – Master of My Make-Believe
5. The Soft Moon – Zeros
6. Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
7. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
8. Lower Dens – Nootropics
9. Crystal Castles – (III)
10. Emeralds – Just To Feel Anything
11. Shackleton – The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
12. Memory Tapes – Grace/Confusion
13. Mi Ami – Decade
14. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
15. The xx – Coexist
16. Swans – The Seer
17. Dan Deacon – America
18. Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
19. Teeel – University Heights
20. Skeleton Lipstick – Glows Then Melts
21. Merchandise – Children of Desire
22. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
23. Grizzly Bear – Shields
24. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
25. Om – Advaitic Songs
26. oOoOO – Our Loving Is Hurting Us
27. Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
28. Panabrite – The Baroque Album
29. Chromatics – Kill For Love
30. Nite Jewel – One Second of Love
31. Soil Creep – Small Death
32. jj – High Summer
33. Purity Ring – Shrines
34. Alexander Tucker – Third Mouth
35. Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Explusion
36. Holy Other – Held
37. Lorn – Ask The Dust
38. Yeasayer – Fragrant World
39. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
40. How to Dress Well – Total Loss
41. Raime – Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
42. Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
43. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
44. Jessie Ware – Devotion
45. Grimes – Visions
46. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist
47. Cat Power – Sun
48. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
49. Demdike Stare – Elemental
50. X-TG – Desertshore/The Final Report