Top 20 Albums Of 2014

2014 was a wonderful year for music...if we do say so ourselves! This year we saw the release of albums from some of our favorite artists and in addition we discovered some amazing new talents that truly blew us away. Without further ado, here are the 20 albums that either made us sing along, play air guitar, cry, reminisce about the old days, pretend our steering wheel was a drumset, ponder the meaning of life...or some combination therein.

We hope you enjoy our list and that you take the time to search out & listen to albums you aren't familiar with. You never know...you may just find your next favorite artist!

20.

Artist: Tennis

Album: Ritual In Repeat

Standout Tracks: I'm Callin, Needle And A Knife, Night Vision

RIYL: Lana Del Rey, Haerts, Slow Club, Jenny Lewis...

19.

Artist: Blacklab

Album: A Raven Has My Heart

Standout Tracks: Part Of Me, Further, Burn Out, Out Of Promises

RIYL: U2, Coldplay, Augustana, haunting melodies...

18.

Artist: BANKS

Album: Goddess

Standout Tracks: Beggin For Thread, Waiting Game, Drowning, Someone New, Brain

RIYL: Lana Del Rey, Broods, Lorde, Phantogram, Tove Lo, Zella Day...

17.

Artist: 311

Album: Stereolithic

Standout Tracks: Showdown, Boom Shanka, Make It Rough, Sand Dollars

RIYL: Beastie Boys, Shootyz Groove, Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, The Dirty Heads...

16.

Artist: Candy Hearts

Album: All The Ways You Let Me Down

Standout Tracks: I Miss You, All The Ways You Let Me Down, Fool's Gold

RIYL: We Are The In Crowd, The Muffs, Avril Lavigne, Blink 182, Rilo Kiley...

15.

Artist: Lana Del Rey

Album: Ultraviolence

Standout Tracks: West Coast, Brooklyn Baby, Ultraviolence, Old Money

RIYL: BANKS, Phantogram, Tove Lo, Meg Myers, Mazzy Star...

14.

Artist: Birdy

Album: Fire Within

Standout Tracks: Wings, Light Me Up, Strange Birds, Words As Weapons, Maybe

RIYL: Christina Perri, Gabrielle Aplin, Ingrid Michaelson, A Fine Frenzy...

13.

Artist: Misterwives

Album: Reflections EP

Standout Tracks: Reflections, Vagabond, Twisted Tongue, Kings And Queens, Coffins

RIYL: Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, Walk The Moon, Foxes, Grouplove...

12.

Artist: Sleeper Agent

Album: About Last Night

Standout Tracks: Impressed, Haunting Me, Bad News, Waves, Be Brave, Eat You Up

RIYL: Grouplove, Paramore, Blondfire, Neon Trees...

11.

Artist: Foxes

Album: Glorious

Standout Tracks: Echo, White Coats, Holding Onto Heaven, Let Go For Tonight

RIYL: Ellie Goulding, Tove Lo, Zedd, Marina & The Diamonds, Sophie Ellis-Bextor...

10.

Artist: Morning Parade

Album: Pure Adulterated Joy

Standout Tracks: Alienation, Reality Dream, Sharing Cigarettes, Culture Vulture

RIYL: Keane, A Silent Film, Oasis, Coldplay, Bastille, Travis...

9.

Artist: Haerts

Album: Haerts

Standout Tracks: Wings, Lights Out, Be The One, All The Days, Giving Up, Hemiplegia

RIYL: Broods, Stevie Nicks, Mazzy Star, Blondfire...

8.

Artist: Annie Stela

Album: Whiplash Blues

Standout Tracks: Love Me Still, Liar, Any Time Any Day, Lucky, Billy Jay, November

RIYL: Holly Williams, early Tori Amos, Sara Bareilles, Regina Spektor...

7.

Artist: PVRIS

Album: White Noise

Standout Tracks: Fire, Holy, St. Patrick, My House, White Noise, Mirrors

RIYL: Paramore, Shiny Toy Guns, Versant, Phantogram...

6.

Artist: Lights

Album: Little Machines

Standout Tracks: Same Sea, Running With The Boys, Up We Go, Meteorites, Speeding

RIYL: Chvrches, Tove Lo, Owl City, Broods...

5.

Artist: Tove Lo

Album: Queen Of The Clouds

Standout Tracks: Habits (Stay High), Not On Drugs, The Way That I Am, Like Em Young

RIYL: Sia, La Roux, Charli XCX, Chvrches, Ellie Goulding, Foxes...

4.

Artist: Ed Sheeran

Album: X

Standout Tracks: Thinking Out Loud, Don't, Tenerife Sea, Afire Love, I'm A Mess

RIYL: Matt Nathanson, Jason Mraz, Vance Joy, Hoodie Allen, Justin Timberlake...

3.

Artist: Christina Perri

Album: Head Or Heart

Standout Tracks: Human, Be My Forever, I Don't Wanna Break, I Believe, Butterfly

RIYL: Colbie Caillat, Ingrid Michaelson, Sara Bareilles, Ed Sheeran, Birdy, Lenka...

2.

Artist: Royal Blood

Album: Royal Blood

Standout Tracks: Out Of The Black, Come On Over, Figure It Out, Little Monster

RIYL: Black Keys, Local H, White Stripes, Middle Class Rut, Alice In Chains...

1.

Artist: The Gaslight Anthem

Album: Get Hurt

Standout Tracks: Stay Vicious, Selected Poems, Sweet Morphine, Rollin' And Tumblin'

RIYL: Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Social Distortion, The Hold Steady, Ryan Adams...

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