First Aid Kit // photo by Alex Crick
For the last two weeks, we’ve been sharing with you KEXP DJs’ Top Ten Albums of 2014 lists, and yesterday we also shared picks from some of the dedicated people who work behind the scenes at KEXP as staff, volunteers and interns. Below, we share Top Ten Albums of 2014 lists from more of these passionate music fans.
If you haven’t voted for your own Top Ten Albums of 2014, there’s still time. VOTE HERE by 6PM on today, December 17, and then tune in to KEXP on Friday, December 19, starting at 10AM, to hear the entire countdown of KEXP listeners’ top albums of 2014.
| Anna Alter | DJ Assistant | |
| tUnE-yArDs | Nikki Nack | 4AD |
| Temples | Sun Structures | Heavenly |
| First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | Columbia |
| Luluc | Passerby | Sub Pop |
| J. Mascis | Tied to a Star | Sub Pop |
| Jenny Lewis | The Voyager | Warner Bros. |
| Bahamas | Bahamas Is Afie | Brushfire |
| Spoon | They Want My Soul | Loma Vista |
| Interpol | El Pintor | Matador |
| Goat | Commune | Sub Pop |
| Matthew Belt | Fundraising Drive Volunteer | |
| Ben Howard | I Forget Where We Were | Republic |
| Pixies | Indie Cindy | Pixiesmusic |
| Röyksopp and Robyn | Do It Again | Dog Triumph |
| Future Islands | Singles | 4AD |
| Jungle | Jungle | XL Recordings |
| Ryan Adams | Ryan Adams | Pax AM |
| Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence | Interscope |
| Kasabian | 48:13:00 | Columbia |
| Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots | Warner Bros. |
| Blood Red Shoes | Blood Red Shoes | Jazz Life |
| Michael Brinley | DJ Assistant and Front Desk Volunteer | |
| Blake Mills | Heigh Ho | Verve |
| The War on Drugs | Lost In The Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Brian Eno and Karl Hyde | High Life | Warp |
| FKA twigs | LP1 | Young Turks |
| Swans | To Be Kind | Young God |
| Woods | With Light and With Love | Woodsist |
| Real Estate | Atlas | Domino |
| Perfume Genius | Too Bright | Matador |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| The Weather Station | What Am I Going To Do With Everything That I Know | You’ve Changed |
| Dylan Flesch | Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator | |
| Courtney Barnett | The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas | Mom + Pop Music |
| Parquet Courts | Sunbathing Animal | What’s Your Rupture? |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| Phantogram | Voices | Republic |
| The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| alt-J | This Is All Yours | Infectious Music |
| Ty Segall | Manipulator | Drag City |
| Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels 2 | Mass Appeal |
| De Lux | Voyage | Innovative Leisure |
| Levi Fuller | Blog Contributor | |
| Survival Knife | Loose Power | Glacial Pace |
| Shellac | Dude Incredible | Touch and Go |
| Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather | Paradise of Bachelors |
| Goat | Commune | Sub Pop |
| Virgin of the Birds | Winter Seeds | Abandoned Love |
| Tara Jane O’Neill | Where Shine New Lights | Kranky |
| Wye Oak | Shriek | Merge |
| Low Hums | Charm | Fin |
| Motrik | Motrik | Self-released |
| Holy Sons | The Fact Facer | Thrill Jockey |
| John Gleason | DJ Assistant | |
| De Lux | Voyage | Innovative Leasure |
| Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels II | Mass Appeal |
| Mac Demarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| Caribou | Our Love | Merge |
| Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings | Give The People What They Want | Daptone |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| The Horrors | Luminous | XL |
| Jungle | Jungle | XL |
| Tacocat | NVM | Hardly Art |
| Temples | Sun Structures | Heavenly |
FKA twigs // photo by Dave Lichterman
| Matthew Howland | DJ Assistant for The Afternoon/Midday Shows | |
| FKA twigs | LP1 | Young Turks |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| The War On Drugs | Lost in the Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Angel Olsen | Burn Your Fire for No Witness | Jagjaguwar |
| Posse | Soft Opening | BADH Records |
| Perfume Genius | Too Bright | Matador |
| Warpaint | Warpaint | Rough Trade |
| Perfect Pussy | Say Yes To Love | Captured Tracks |
| S | Cool Choices | Hardly Art |
| Sharon Van Etten | Are We There | Jagjaguwar |
| Ryan Hulsey | Fundraising Intern | |
| Ambrose Akinmusire | The Imagine Savior is Far Easier to Paint | Blue Note |
| Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 2 | Mass Appeal |
| Ariel Pink | Pom Pom | 4AD |
| St. Vincent | St. Vincent | Loma Vista |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | Warp |
| Swans | To Be Kind | Young God |
| Flying Lotus | You’re Dead | Brainfeeder |
| Mac Demarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| Alfa and Emmavie | Epoch EP | AE Music |
| FKA twigs | LP1 | Young Turks |
| Jon Joslin | DJ Assistant for Riz Rollins | |
| Home Video | Here In Weightless Fall | Home Video |
| Lamb | Backspace Unwind | Strata |
| TV On The Radio | Seeds | Harvest |
| Beacon | L1 | Ghostly |
| Davidge | Slo Light | The End |
| Little Dragon | Nabuma Rubberband | Republic |
| Kele | Trick | Kele Okereke |
| Movement | EP | Modular |
| The Faint | Doom Abuse | SQE Music |
| Coldplay | Ghost Stories | Parlophone |
| Andy Klatt | Information Specialist | |
| Spoon | They Want My Soul | Loma Vista |
| War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Conor Oberst | Upside Down Mountain | Nonesuch |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| The Black Lips | Underneath the Rainbow | Vice |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| How To Dress Well | “What is this Heart?” | Domino / Weird World |
| Schoolboy Q | Oxymoron | Top Dawg Entertainment |
| Young Fathers | Dead | Anticon / Big Dada |
| Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else | Carpark Records |
The Barr Brothers // photo by Jim Bennett
| Amber (Zbitnoff) Knecht | Photographer | ||
| St. Paul & The Broken Bones | Half the City | Single Lock Records | |
| Operators | EP1 | self-released | |
| My Goodness | Shiver + Shake | Votiv | |
| Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways | RCA | |
| The War On Drugs | Lost In The Dream | Secretly Canadian | |
| Shakey Graves | And the War Came | Dualtone | |
| The Barr Brothers | Sleeping Operator | Secret City | |
| Phantogram | Voices | Universal Republic | |
| Cataldo | Gilded Oldies | Red Pepper Records | |
| Black Pistol Fire | Hush or Howl | Rifle Bird/Modern Outsider |
| Philip LaRose | Blog Contributor | |
| Katie Kate | Nation | self-released |
| Todd Terje | It’s Album Time | Olsen |
| Vox Mod | The Great Oscillator | self-released |
| Aphex Twin | SYRO | Warp |
| Phantogram | Voices | Republic |
| Warpaint | Warpaint | Rough Trade |
| Erik Blood | Canons Vol. 1 | self-released |
| Android Amaker | Android Amaker | RodeoCorp Ltd. |
| Tara Jane ONeil | Where Shine New Lights | Kranky |
| Pure X | Angel | Fat Possum |
| Dave Lichterman | Photographer | |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| CEO | Wonderland | Modular |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| Temples | Sun Structures | Fat Possum |
| Big Ups | Eighteen Hours of Static | Dead Labour |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | III | Innovative Leisure |
| ODESZA | In Return | Counter-Records |
| Death From Above 1979 | The Physical World | Last Gang |
| Kithkin | Rituals, Trances, & Ecstasies for Humans in the Face of The Collapse | Pesanta Urfolk |
| SOHN | Tremors | 4AD |
| Bob Martin | DJ Assistant | |
| Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather | Paradise Of Bachelors |
| Hiss Golden Messenger | Lateness Of Dancers | Merge |
| Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band | Intensity Ghost | No Quarter |
| White Fence | For The a Recently Found Innocent | Drag City |
| The War On Drugs | Lost In The Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Ty Segall | Manipulator | Drag City |
| Blake Mills | Height Ho | Verve |
| Damien Jurado | Brothers And Sisters of The Eternal Sun | Secretly Canadian |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| Amen Dunes | Love | Sacred Bones |
| Vince Mayo | Development Assistant for Major Giving | ||
| First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | Columbia | |
| Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music | Loose Music | |
| Augustines | Augustines | Votiv | |
| ODESZA | In Return | Counter records | |
| Phantogram | Voices | Barsuk | |
| Temples | Sun Structures | Heavenly Recordings | |
| Noah Gunderson | Ledges | Independent | |
| Dum Dum Girls | Too True | Sub Pop | |
| Grieves | Winter and the Wolves | Rhymesayers Entertainment | |
| Strand of Oaks | Heal | Dead Oceans |
Little Dragon // photo by Morgen Schuler
| Anna McClain | Blog Contributor | |
| Wye Oak | Shriek | Merge |
| Girlpool | Girlpool EP | Wichita |
| Little Dragon | Nabuma Rubberband | Because Music |
| Ex Hex | Rips | Merge |
| Parquet Courts | Sunbathing Animal | What’s Your Rupture? |
| Wampire | Bazaar | Polyvinyl |
| Foxygen | …And Star Power | Jagjaguwar |
| Tennis | Ritual in Repeat | Communion |
| Cherry Glazerr | Haxel Princess | Burger Records |
| Sinkane | Mean Love | DFA |
| Riese Meyers | DJ Assistant for Afternoon Show | |
| Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | Captured Tracks |
| Aaron Freeman | FREEMAN | Partisan |
| MF Doom and Bishop Nehru | NehruvianDOOM | Lex |
| Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots | Parlophone |
| Laima & Def III | WeenA2 | Tontrager Records |
| Gruff Rhys | American Interior | Turnstile |
| Little Dragon | Nabuma Rubberband | Because, Loma Vista |
| All You Can Do | Watsky | Steel Wool Media |
| They Might Be Giants | First Album Live | Idlewild Records |
| Various | Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 | Hollywood Records |
| Jake Mountjoy | DJ Assistant | |
| Odesza | In Return | Counter Records |
| Röyksopp | The Inevitable End | Dog Triumph |
| Sylvan Esso | Sylvan Esso | Partisan |
| The Juan McLean | In A Dream | DFA |
| Phantogram | Nothing But Trouble | Barsuk |
| Tycho | Awake | Ghostly International |
| BANKS | Goddess | Harvest |
| Chet Faker | Built On Glass | Future Classic |
| Sharon Van Etten | Are We There | Jagjaguwar |
| alt-J | This Is All Yours | Infectious Music |
| Dagmar Sieglinde Patterson | Photographer | |
| Itch | Deep End | Red Bull Records |
| Nick & Knight | Nick & Knight | BMG |
| Magic Man | Before the Waves | Columbia |
| Together Pangea | Badillac (Ex) | Harvest |
| ODESZA | In Return | Counter |
| The Acid | Liminal | Mute |
| alt-J | This Is All Yours | Infectious Music |
| Johnny Marr | Playland | New Voodoo |
| Graig Markel and the 88th St. Band | Graig Markel and the 88th St. Band | In Spades Music |
| Chromeo | White Women | Big Beat/WEA |
| Krissi Pearson | Photographer | |
| tUnE-yArDs | Nikki Nack | 4AD |
| alt-J | This Is All Yours | Infectious Music |
| Augustines | Augustines | Votiv |
| Dum Dum Girls | Too True | Sub Pop |
| First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | Columbia |
| Kishi Bashi | Lighght | Joyful Noise |
| Lykke Li | I Never Learn | Atlantic |
| Spoon | They Want My Soul | Loma Vista/Republic |
| Lyla Foy | Mirrors The Sky | Sub Pop |
| OK Go | Hungry Ghosts | BMG |
Shabazz Palaces // photo by Dave Lichterman
| Wolfgang E Ratzlaff | DJ Assistant for Troy Nelson | |
| Future | Honest | Epic |
| Flying Lotus | You’re Dead! | Warp |
| Aphex Twin | SYRO | Warp |
| Perfect Pussy | Say Yes To Love | Captured Tracks |
| Ben Frost | A U R O R A | Bedroom Commubity |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 2 | Mass Appeal |
| FKA twigs | LP1 | Young Turks |
| Gucci Mane & Young Thug | Young Thugga Mane La Flare | N/A |
| Total Control | Typical System | Iron Lung |
| Kurt B Reighley | Development Communications Manager | |
| Perfume Genius | Too Bright | Matador |
| Neneh Cherry | Blank Project | Smalltown Supersound |
| Owen Pallett | In Conflict | Domino |
| Warpaint | Warpaint | Rough Trade |
| Chimurenga Renaissance | riZe vadZimu riZe | Brick Lane |
| Budos Band | Burnt Offering | Daptone |
| King Tuff | Black Moon Spell | Sub Pop |
| Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather | Paradise of Bachelors |
| Aphex Twin | Syro | Warp |
| Zola Jesus | Taiga | Mute |
| Rana San | DJ Assistant for Chilly | ||
| Warpaint | Warpaint | Rough Trade | |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop | |
| FKA twigs | LPI | Young Turks | |
| Ana Tijoux | Vengo | Nacional | |
| Quantic | Magnetica | Tru Thoughts | |
| Silver Jackson | Starry Skies Opened Eyes | Home Skillet | |
| Movement | EP | Modular | |
| Benjamin Verdoes | The Evil Eye | Brick Lane | |
| Wild Balbina | Sisters Before Misters | Elefant Records | |
| alt-J | This Is All Yours | Infectious Music |
| Dashel Schueler | Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations Manager | |
| The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| Tacocat | NVM | Hardly Art |
| Taylor Swift | 1989 | Big Machine |
| Jenny Lewis | Voyager | Warner |
| S | Cool Choices | Hardly Art |
| Chris Staples | American Soft | Barsuk |
| Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else | Carpark |
| Run the Jewels | Run the Jewels 2 | Mass Appeal |
| First Aid Kit | Stay Gold | Columbia |
| Protomartyr | Under the Color of Official Right | Hardly Art |
Ty Segall // photo by Kristina Moravec
| Kari Stark | Gift Processor | |
| PUP | PUP | SideOneDummy |
| Big Ups | Eighteen Hours of Static | Tough Love/Dead Labour |
| Parquet Courts | Sunbathing Animal | What’s Your Rupture? |
| Kithkin | Rituals, Trances, Ecstacies for Humans in the Face of the Collapse | Pesanta Urfolk |
| Ty Segall | Manipulator | Drag City |
| Sondre Lerche | Please | Yep Roc |
| tUnE-yArDs | Nikki Nack | 4AD |
| The Black Lips | Underneath The Rainbow | Vice |
| The Hotelier | Home, Like Noplace Is There | Tiny Engines |
| My Goodness | Shiver + Shake | Votiv |
| Greg Stonebraker | Photographer | |
| Dreamsalon | Soft Stab | Sweet Rot Records |
| Meatbodies | Meatbodies | In the Red |
| Ty Segall | Manipulator | Drag City |
| The Icarus Line | Avowed Slavery | Agitated Records |
| Sam Lachow | Huckleberry | self-released |
| Unwound | No Energy | Numero Group |
| The Murder City Devils | The White Ghost has Blood on its Hands Again | self-released |
| TBASA | The Hyper Bully | self-released |
| Dangerfield Newby | Muisc In Our Heads | Jingoistic Records |
| The Loveless Building | Perfect Where I Am | self-released |
| Jacob Webb | Blog Writer | |
| Sharon Van Etten | Are We There | Jagjaguwar |
| Against Me! | Transgender Dysphoria Blues | True Treble |
| Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels 2 | Mass Effect |
| Wye Oak | Shriek | Merge |
| Lydia Loveless | Somewhere Else | Bloodshot |
| The War On Drugs | Lost In The Dream | Secretly Canadian |
| A Sunny Day In Glasgow | Sea When Absent | Lefse |
| Bombay Bicycle Club | So Long, See You Tomorrow | Vagrant |
| Ben Howard | I Forget Where We Were | Republic |
| White Lung | Deep Fantasy | Domino |
| Sam Wolk | DJ Assistant | |
| Young Thug | Y Lifestyle | self-released |
| Young Thug | I Came From Nothing 2 | self-released |
| Ned Doheny | Seperate Oceans | Numero Group |
| Caribou | Our Love | Merge |
| Shabazz Palaces | Lese Majesty | Sub Pop |
| Perfect Pussy | Say Yes To Love | Captured Tracks |
| White Lung | Deep Fantasy | Domino |
| St. Vincent | St. Vincent | Loma Vista/Republic |
| Arca | Xen | Mute |
| Todd Terje | It’s Album Time | Olsen |
