Here’s where I indulge myself in listing my thirty-two favourite albums of the last year. Usual provisos. Has to have come out in 2014 and be primarily new material (Bruce Springsteen, therefore, is allowed in. Richard Thompson isn’t). Some highly placed albums didn’t feature on the best of year CD below because either they came out too late (D’Angelo, a soul classic, with strong strains of Sly & The Family Stone), I couldn’t make them fit (Natalie Merchant) or I just damn forgot to put them on (Rosanne Cash).<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
\n2=\u00a0 Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
\n2=\u00a0 D’Angelo – Black Messiah
\n4.\u00a0 Young Fathers – Dead
\n5.\u00a0 Beck – Morning Phase
\n6.\u00a0 Rosanne Cash – The River & the Thread
\n7.\u00a0 Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems
\n8.\u00a0 Adam Cohen – Going Home
\n9.\u00a0 Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
\n10.\u00a0 Mary J Blige – London Sessions
\n11. The Delines – Colfax
\n12. Natalie Merchant
\n13. Gruff Rhys – American Interior
\n14. Prince – Art Official Age
\n15. Spoon – They Want My Soul
\n16. Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
\n17. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
\n18. Toumani & Sidiki Diabate – Toumani & Sidiki
\n19. Ronika – Selectadisc
\n20. James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical
\n21. Future Islands – Singles
\n22. The Both
\n23. FKA Twigs – LP1
\n24. Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans
\n25. Simone Felice – Strangers
\n26. Lucinda Williams – Where The Spirit Meets The Bone
\n27. Caribou – Our Love
\n28. LaRoux – Trouble In Paradise
\n29. Bridie Jackson & The Arbour – New Skin
\n30= Rumer – Into Colour
\n30= Sun O))) & Scott Walker – Soused
\n30= J Mascis – Tied To A Star<\/p>\n
D’Angelo and The Vanguard – The Charade<\/a><\/p>\n