KEXP’s Top Albums of 2014: A Massive Video Roundup!

2014 Countdown
12/29/2014
Jim Beckmann
Spoon // photo by Dave Lichterman

As 2014 comes to a close, we thought we'd take one last look albums that KEXP listeners chose for their top albums of 2014 and present to you the mother of all video roundups, featuring 91 videos -- 53 of which were filmed by KEXP's own video crew -- covering the Top 90.3 albums as chosen by KEXP listeners. You can watch each video below or together as a playlist here.

Rank Artist Album Label
1 The War on Drugs Lost in The Dream Secretly Canadian
2 alt-J This Is All Yours Canvasback
3 Spoon They Want My Soul Loma Vista/ Republic
4 Beck Morning Phase Capitol
5 First Aid Kit Stay Gold Columbia
6 Phantogram Voices Republic
7 St. Vincent St. Vincent Loma Vista
8 Ty Segall Manipulator Drag City
9 TV on the Radio Seeds Harvest
10 Future Islands Singles 4AD
Rank Artist Album Label
11 Jack White Lazaretto Third Man/XL/Columbia
12 The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers Matador
13 Strand of Oaks Heal Dead Oceans
14 Caribou Our Love Merge
15 Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal What's Your Rupture
16 Mac DeMarco Salad Days Captured Tracks
17 Sharon Van Etten Are We There Jagjaguwar
18 Real Estate Atlas Domino
19 Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 2 Mass Appeal
20 Temples Sun Structures Fat Possum
Rank Artist Album Label
21 Perfume Genius Too Bright Matador
22 FKA twigs LPI Young Turks
23 Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness Jagjaguwar
24 Elbow The Take Off and Landing of Everything Fiction/Concord
25 Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son Secretly Canadian
26 Cloud Nothings Here and Nowhere Else Carpark
27 The Black Keys Turn Blue Nonesuch
28 Lykke Li I Never Learn LL
29 ODESZA In Return Counter-Records
30 Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso Partisan
Rank Artist Album Label
31 Sun Kil Moon Benji Caldo Verde
32 Broken Bells After the Disco Columbia
33 Flying Lotus You're Dead! Warp
34 Warpaint Warpaint Rough Trade
35 Jenny Lewis The Voyager Warner Bros
36 Aphex Twin Syro Warp
37 Bombay Bicycle Club So Long, See You Tomorrow Vagrant
38 The Afghan Whigs Do the Beast Sub Pop
39 Ex Hex Rips Merge
40 tUnE-YArDs Nikki Nack 4AD
Rank Artist Album Label
41 Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty Sub Pop
42 Bob Mould Beauty & Ruin Merge
43 Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Pax-AM
44 Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music High Top Mountain
45 Interpol El Pintor Matador
46 Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes self-released
47 Shovels & Rope Swimmin' Time Dualtone
48 Augustines Augustines Votiv
49 Jungle Jungle XL
50 King Tuff Black Moon Spell Sub Pop
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Rank Artist Album Label
51 Benjamin Booker Benjamin Booker ATO
52 Tacocat NVM Hardly Art
53 Tycho Awake Ghostly International
54 Alvvays Alvvays Polyvinyl
55 J Mascis Tied to a Star Sub Pop
56 Lana Del Ray Ultraviolence Interscope
57 Swans To Be Kind Young God/Mute
58 The Horrors Luminous XL
59 The Antlers Familiars Anti-
60 Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain Nonesuch
Rank Artist Album Label
61 The Raveonettes Pe'ahi self-released
62 Cymbals Eat Guitars Lose Barsuk
63 Shakey Graves And the War Came Dualtone
64 Chet Faker Built On Glass Future Classic/Fontana
65 Damon Albarn Everyday Robots Warner Bros
66 Thurston Moore The Best Day Matador
67 Foxygen ....And Star Power Jagjaguwar
68 Ray LaMontagne Supernova RCA
69 Tweedy Sukierae dBpm/Anti-
70 S Cool Choices Hardly Art
Rank Artist Album Label
71 Wussy Attica! Shake It
72 Dum Dum Girls Too True Sub Pop
73 Glass Animals ZABA Harvest
74 Kishi Bashi Lighght Joyful Noise
75 Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband Loma Vista
76 Mark Lanegan Band Phantom Radio Flooded Soil/ Vagrant
77 Allah-Las Worship The Sun Innovative Leisure
78 Broncho Just Enough Hip To Be Woman Dine Alone
79 Wye Oak Shriek Merge
80 Todd Terje It's Album Time Olsen
Rank Artist Album Label
81 The Orwells Disgraceland Canvasback/Atlantic
82 Woods With Light and With Love Woodsist
83 Kurt Vile It's a Big World Out There (And I Am Scared) Matador
84 The Barr Brothers Sleeping Operator Secret City
85 Mogwai Rave Tapes Sub Pop
86 St. Paul & The Broken Bones Half The City Single Lock
87 Band of Horses Acoustic at the Ryman Brown
88 The Budos Band Burnt Offering Daptone
89 Israel Nash Israel Nashe's Rain Plains Continental
90 Thee Oh Sees Drop Castleface
90.3 Katie Kate Nation self-released
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