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Top 89 Albums of 2014

Top 89 of 2014
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December 30, 2014

You voted, we heard you. Listen to The Current starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 30, as we count down your top 10 albums of 2014 by featuring a new album at the top of each hour until 5 p.m.

And stay tuned to The Current this week, because starting at 4 p.m. on New Year's Eve, we'll count down the Top 89 songs of the year.

Here are the Top 89 albums of 2014, according to The Current's listeners.

A new result appears at the top of each hour on Tuesday, Dec. 30; reload the page to see the countdown. We'll reveal albums 11 to 89 at 5:30 p.m.


The Black Keys - Turn Blue
Broken Bells - After the Disco
Jake Bugg - Shangri-La
The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers
Robert Plant - lullaby and ... The Ceaseless Roar
Trampled By Turtles - Wild Animals
TV On The Radio - Seeds
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager
tUne-yArDs - Nikki Nack
Haley Bonar - Last War
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There
Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour
Ray LaMontagne - Supernova
The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Hippo Campus - Bashful Creatures EP
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker
Bob Mould - Beauty and Ruin
Phox - Phox
Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams
St. Paul and the Broken Bones - Half the City
FKA Twigs - LP1
Atmosphere - Southsiders
Future Islands - Singles
Temples - Sun Structures
Chet Faker - Built on Glass
Jungle - Jungle
U2 - Songs of Innocence
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Mended With Gold
Cloud Cult - Unplug
Glass Animals - Zaba
Prince - ART OFFICIAL AGE
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give the People What They Want
Coldplay - Ghost Stories
Conor Obert - Upside Down Mountain
Dan Wilson - Love Without Fear
Interpol - El Pintor
The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams
Warpaint - Warpaint
Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
Mac DeMarco - Salad Days
Caribou - Our Love
Damien Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy
Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
John Mark Nelson - Sings the Moon
Cold War Kids - All This Could Be Yours
Run the Jewels - RTJ2
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye
Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL - PLECTRUMELECTRUM
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Chris Koza - In Real Time
OK Go - Hungry Ghosts
The Strypes - Snapshot
Tweedy - Sukierae
Asgeir - In The Silence
James Vincent McMorrow - Post Tropical
Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Sims - Field Notes
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
Wye Oak - Shriek
Andrew Bird - Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…
Old 97's - Most Messed Up
Shakey Graves - And the War Came
Stars - No One Is Lost
King Tuff - Black Moon Spell
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness
BANKS - Goddess
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else
Eels - The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
Foster The People - Supermodel
Mike Mictlan - HELLA FRREAL
She and Him - Classics
The Neighbourhood - I Love You
Tycho - Awake