Here are my 40 favorite albums of 2014!

• Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
• Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Slingshot to Heaven
• The Orwells - Disgraceland
• Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland
• Jack White - Lazaretto
• The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
• Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain
• The Menzingers - Rented World
• Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
• Train - Bulletproof Picasso
• Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
• Spoon - They Want My Soul
• Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
• Axxa/Abraxas - Axxa/Abraxas
• Withered Hand - New Gods
• Sam Roberts Band - Lo-Fantasy
• The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell
• Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
• Morning Parade - Pure Adulterated Joy
• Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
• Temples - Sun Structures
• Foxy Shazam - GONZO
• Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
• Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts
• Young the Giant - Mind Over Matter
• The Verve Pipe - Overboard
• Drowners - Drowners
• Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
• Cold War Kids - Hold My Home
• Gruff Rhys - American Interior
• The Fray - Helios
• The New Mendicants - Into the Lime
• You+Me - Rose Ave.
• Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy
• Alcest - Shelter
• Perfume Genius - Too Bright
• Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
• John Frusciante - Enclosure