AMG Best of 2014

AllMusic Best of 2014 2014 is winding down and new releases are scarce, so we're excited to bring you a taste of what our editors have put together for the Best of 2014. This overall collection of albums spans the myriad genres featured in our end of the year coverage. We're rolling out more genre-specific lists every day, including our rap and hip-hop, electronic, folk, indie and jazz lists, with R&B, rock, pop and country still to come, so be sure to check back in for more of the Best of 2014.

Alvvays Alvvays Rocky Mountain Records Indie Pop Aphex Twin Syro Warp Experimental Techno Arca Xen Mute Left-Field Hip-Hop Jesse Boykins III Love Apparatus Empire / Nomadic Music Alternative R&B Otis Brown III The Thought of You Decca (Umo) Modern Jazz The Bug Angels & Devils Ninja Tune Ambient Dub Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else Carpark Records / Mom + Pop Music Alternative/Indie Rock Theo Croker AfroPhysicist Masterworks / OKeh Records Electric Jazz Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence Interscope / Polydor Adult Alternative Pop/Rock Mac DeMarco Salad Days Captured Tracks Indie Rock Sidiki Diabaté Toumani & Sidiki Nonesuch / World Circuit African Folk Gustavo Dudamel Mahler: Symphony No. 7 DG Deutsche Grammophon Symphony EMA The Future's Void Matador Neo-Psychedelia Mahan Esfahani Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin Hyperion Keyboard Ex Hex Rips Merge Indie Rock FKA Twigs LP1 Young Turks Alternative R&B Flying Lotus You're Dead! Warp Experimental Electronic Aaron Freeman Freeman Partisan / PTKF Indie Rock Ben Frost A U R O R A Bedroom Community / Mute Experimental Electronic Future Islands Singles 4AD Indie Rock Thomas Hampson Notturno: Songs by Richard… DG Deutsche Grammophon Vocal Music Craig Handy Craig Handy & 2nd… OKeh Records / Sony Music Soul Jazz Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again Epitaph Alternative/Indie Rock K. Michelle Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? Atlantic / Atlantic Urban Contemporary R&B Kelis Food Ninja Tune Alternative R&B Kimbra The Golden Echo Warner Bros. Pop Takuya Kuroda Rising Son Blue Note / Universal Contemporary Jazz Miranda Lambert Platinum RCA / Sony Music Country-Folk Jenny Lewis The Voyager Warner Bros. Indie Rock Liars Mess Mute / Mute Artists Indie Rock Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband Republic Synth Pop Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Wig Out at Jagbags Matador Alternative Pop/Rock Nothing Guilty of Everything Relapse Records Alternative/Indie Rock Perfume Genius Too Bright Turnstile Alternative Singer/Songwriter Robert Plant lullaby and... The Ceaseless… Nonesuch Americana Angaleena Presley American Middle Class Slate Creek Records Contemporary Country Protomartyr Under Color of Official… Hardly Art Noise-Rock Real Estate Atlas Domino Indie Rock El-P Run the Jewels 2 Mass Appeal Hardcore Rap St. Vincent St. Vincent Loma Vista Recordings / Republic / Universal Alternative Singer/Songwriter Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty Sub Pop Left-Field Hip-Hop Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds in Country… High Top Mountain / Thirty Tigers Contemporary Country Sleaford Mods Divide and Exit Harbinger Sound Alternative/Indie Rock Teyana Taylor VII GOOD Contemporary R&B Temples Sun Structures Fat Possum Alternative/Indie Rock Ana Tijoux Vengo Nacional Records Latin Rap tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack 4AD Indie Rock Moreno Veloso Coisa Boa Luaka Bop MPB The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream Secretly Canadian Indie Rock Lee Ann Womack The Way I'm Livin' Sugar Hill Contemporary Country