2014 was an amazing year for music. According to Deadmau5, it might be the year that EDM died (or at least, the hype of EDM), but 2014 still gave us plenty of great new artists, new music from our current favorites, and even brought back some long lost gems. To mark the end of this wild ride we’ll label “2014”, the ListenSD crew takes a look back at our top albums of 2014, because damn, it was a good year in New Music.
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1. Chet Faker – Built On Glass
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2. Future Islands – Singles
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3. Ty Segall – Manipulator
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4. Blood Orange – Deluxe Cupid
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5. TV On The Radio – Seeds
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6. Spoon – They Want My Soul
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7. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
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8. Caribou – Our Love
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9. FKA Twigs – LP1
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10. St. Vincent – St. Vincent