Dopo le classifiche dei migliori dischi del 2014 di Rumore, Blow Up, Il Mucchio Selvaggio, The Quietus, Mojo, NME, Norman Records, Rough Trade, Paste, Rolling Stone America, NPR, Wire, PopMatters e Dazed, vi facciamo leggere anche quella di Drowned in Sound.
Il celebre sito di critica musicale ha stilato un elenco dei 50 dischi più importanti dell’anno, in cima al quale troviamo Taylor Swift con 1989, Sharon Van Etten con Are We There e The Twilight Sad con Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave (disco dell’anno, di seguito la copertina). Completano le prime dieci posizioni Marissa Nadler con July, ††† con Crosses, Alvvays con Alvvays, Eagulls con il disco omonimo, Ought con More Than Any Other Day, The War On Drugs con Lost in the Dream e To Be Kind degli Swans.
Per la nostra classifica, in movimento fino al 31 dicembre 2014, vi rimandiamo alle pagine dedicate di redazione e staff.
01) The Twilight Sad – Nobody Wants to Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave
02) Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
03) Taylor Swift – 1989
04) Marissa Nadler – July
05) ††† – Crosses
06) Alvvays – Alvvays
07) Eagulls – Eagulls
08) Ought – More Than Any Other Day
09) The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
10) Swans – To Be Kind
11) Cloud Nothings – Here And Nowhere Else
12) Mogwai – Rave Tapes
13) Interpol – El Pintor
14) Sun Kil Moon – Benji
15) FKA twigs – LP1
16) Keaton Henson – Romantic Works
17) A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos
18) Hookworms – The Hum
19) East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
20) EMA – The Future’s Void
21) Future Islands – Singles
22) Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
23) Lykke Li – I Never Learn
24) Grouper – Ruins
25) Vessel – Punish, Honey
26) Blood Red Shoes – Blood Red Shoes
27) Prince – Art Official Age / Plectrumelectrum
28) I Break Horses – Chiaroscuro
29) Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
30) Pulled Apart by Horses – Blood
31) Owen Pallett – In Conflict
32) Wild Beasts – Present Tense
33) Kiasmos – Kiasmos
34) Manic Street Preachers – Futurology
35) Ben Frost – Aurora
36) Liars – Mess
37) Perfume Genius – Too Bright
38) The Antlers – Familiars
39) The Phantom Band – Strange Friend
40) Inventions – Inventions
41) Spoon – They Want My Soul
42) Young Fathers – DEAD
43) Raveonettes – Pe’ahi
44) The Bug – Angels & Devils
45) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Gone Girl OST
46) …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead – IX
47) Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
48) Aphex Twin – Syro
49) Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
50) Owls – II