Nominees For 2014’s Best Albums From NPR Music’s All Songs Considered

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¡Aparato! ¡Aparato! The 2 Bears The Night is Young 50 Cent Animal Ambition A Sunny Day in Glasgow Sea When Absent A Winged Victory For The Sullen ATOMOS Ab-Soul These Days... Abdulla Rashim Unanimity Actress Ghettoville Adia Victoria Stuck in the South Adult Jazz Gist Is Afghan Whigs Do To The Beast Afternoons Say Yes Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues Agalloch The Serpent & The Sphere Ages and Ages Divisionary Ai Aso Lone Alcest Shelter Alejandra Ribera La Boca Alice Boman EP II Allah-Las Worship The Sun Alt-J This is All Yours Alvvays Alvvays Amason Duvan EP Amen Dunes Love Ana Tijoux Vengo Andrew Bird Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of... Andrew Jackson Jihad Christmas Island Andy Stott Faith In Strangers Angaleena Presley American Middle Class Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire For No Witness Animal Magic Tricks Sex Acts Annie Lennox Nostalgia Anonymous 4 David Lang: love fail Anthony D'Amato The Shipwreck From The Shore Antlers, The Familiars The Apache Relay The Apache Relay Aphex Twin Syro Arca Xen Archie Bronson Outfit Wild Crush Architecture In Helsinki NOW + 4EVA Ariel Pink Pom Pom Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Orchestra The Offense of the Drum Ásgeir In The Silence Ashanti BraveHeart August Alsina Testimony Augustin Hadelich Sibelius, Adès: Violin Concertos The Autumn Defense Fifth Avey Tare Enter The Slasher House Azealia Banks Broke With Expensive Taste Band Of Skulls Himalayan Banks Goddess Barbra Streisand Partners Basement Jaxx Junto Battle Trance Palace Of Wind Beach Slang Cheap Thrills on a Dead End Street Bebel Gilberto Tudo Beck Morning Phase Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn Bellows Blue Breath Ben Frost A U R O R A Benjamin Booker Benjamin Booker Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica Bill Frisell Guitar In The Space Age Bing & Ruth Tomorrow Was the Golden Age Bishop Allen Lights Out The Black Keys Turn Blue Blank Realm Grassed Inn Blonde Redhead Barragán Blondie Ghosts Of Download Bo Ningen III Bob Mould Beauty & Ruin Bob Stewart Connections - Mind The Gap Boris Noise The Both The Both The Bots Pink Palms Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band Landmarks Brian Eno & Karl Hyde High Life Brian Eno & Karl Hyde Someday World Brody Dalle Diploid Love Broken Bells After The Disco Broncho Just Enough Hip To Be Woman Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath Bruce Springsteen High Hopes Bryan Adams Tracks Of My Years Bryan Ferry Avonmore The Budos Band Burnt Offering The Bug Angels & Devils Bunji Garlin Differentology Buzzcocks The Way Calle 13 Multi Viral Cameron Carpenter If You Could Read My Mind Caribou Our Love Caroline Rose I Will Not Be Afraid Cayetana Nervous Like Me Ceci Bastida La Edad de la Violencia Chad Van Gaalen Shrink Dust Chet Faker Built On Glass Chris Brown X Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band Intensity Ghost Chris Staples American Soft Christina Vantzou No. 2 Chromeo White Women Chumped Teenage Retirement Cibo Matto Hotel Valentine Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah Only Run Cloud Nothings Here And Nowhere Else Cold Specks Neuroplasticity Cold War Kids Hold My Home Coldplay Ghost Stories Comet Gain Paperback Ghosts Common Nobody's Smiling Conor Oberst Upside Down Mountain Robert Kyr: The Cloud of Unknowing / Songs of Conspirare the Soul Counting Crows Somewhere Under Wonderland Crying Get Olde / Second Wind The Crystal Method The Crystal Method Curtis Harding Soul Power Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE Damien Jurado Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy Damon Albarn Everyday Robots Daniel Lanois Flesh and Machine The Danish String Quartet Wood Works David Greilsammer Scarlatti/Cage: Sonatas Dawn Golden Still Life Death Blues Ensemble Death Grips The Powers That B Death Vessel Island Intervals Deerhoof La Isla Bonita Diamond District March on Washington Diane Cluck Boneset Die Antwoord Donker Mag DJ Quik The Midnight Life Drive By Truckers English Oceans Dum Dum Girls Too True Dylan Shearer Garagearray Eagulls Eagulls Ed Sheeran x Eels The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett Elbow The Take Off And Landing Of Everything Elephant Stone The Three Poisons Eliana Cuevas Espejo Elle Varner 4 Letter Word EMA The Future's Void Eric Church The Outsiders Eternal Summers The Drop Beneath Ex Hex Rips The Family Crest Beneath The Brine Fanfarlo Let's Go Extinct Fences Lesser Oceans Fennesz Bécs Fenster The Pink Caves First Aid Kit Stay Gold FKA twigs LP1 Flake Music When You Land Here, It's Time To Return The Flaming Lips With A Little Help From My Fwends Flying Lotus You're Dead! Foo Fighters Sonic Highways Foster The People Supermodel Foxygen ...And Star Power Frankie Cosmos Zentropy The Fray Helios Frazey Ford Indian Ocean Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Piñata The Fresh & Onlys House of Spirits Fucked Up Glass Boys Future Honest Future Islands Singles Gabriel Kahane The Ambassador Gardens & Villa Dunes Gem Club In Roses The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger Midnight Sun Ghostface Killah 36 Seasons Giant Claw DARK WEB Gina Chavez Up.Rooted The Gloaming The Gloaming GOAT Commune Godflesh A World Lit Only By Fire Gordon Voidwell Bad Études The Gotobeds Poor People Are Revolting Green Day Demolicious GRMLN Soon Away Grouper Ruins Half Japanese Overjoyed Hamilton Leithauser Black Hours Hassan Hakmoun Unity Helado Negro Double Youth Hercules And Love Affair The Feast Of The Broken Heart High Spirits You Are Here Highasakite Silent Treatment Hiss Golden Messenger Lateness Of Dancers The Hold Steady Teeth Dreams The Horrors Luminous Hospitality Trouble How To Dress Well What Is This Heart? Hozier Hozier Hundred Waters The Moon Rang Like a Bell Hurray for the Riff Raff Small Town Heroes I Break Horses Chiaroscuro Iggy Azalea The New Classic Immigrant Union Anyway Imogen Heap Sparks Interpol El Pintor Isaiah Rashad Cilvia Demo J Mascis Tied To A Star Jack White Lazaretto Jackson Browne Standing In The Breach James Vincent McMorrow Post Tropical Jason Moran All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller Jason Mraz Yes! Jean Grae #5 Jeezy Seen It All: The Autobiography Jeff Ballard Trio Time's Tales Jenny Lewis The Voyager Jesca Hoop Undress Jesse Boykins III Love Apparatus Jessica Lea Mayfield Make My Head Sing... Jessie Ware Tough Love Jhene Aiko Souled Out JJ V Joe Henry Invisible Hour John Adams City Noir/Saxophone Concerto John Eliot Gardiner, et al. Beethoven: Missa Solemnis The John Lurie National Orchestra The Invention of Animals John Luther Adams Become Ocean Johnny Marr Playland Johnnyswim Diamonds Jolie Holland Wine Dark Sea Jon Hopkins Asleep Versions Jon Sebastian The Horror Single Jorge Drexler Bailar En la Cueva Joyce DiDonato Stella di Napoli Joyce Manor Never Hungover Again The Juan MacLean In A Dream Juanes Loco de Amor Julian Casablancas + The Voidz Tyranny Justin Townes Earle Single Mothers Karen O Crush Songs Karol Conka Batuk Freak Kasabian 48 : 13 Kasier Chiefs Education, Education, Education & War Kassem Mosse Workshop 19 Kat Edmonson The Big Picture Kele Trick Kelis Food Kevin Gates By Any Means Kimbra The Golden Echo Kindness Otherness King Tuff Black Moon Spell Kishi Bashi Lighght Kremerata Baltica Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg Kylie Minogue Kiss Me Once La Dame Blanche Piratas La Roux Trouble In Paradise Lake Street Drive Bad Self Portraits Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence Ledisi The Truth Lee Ann Womack The Way I'm Livin' Lenny Kravitz Strut Leon Fleisher All the Things You Are Leon Vynehall Music for the Uninvited Leonard Cohen Popular Problems Les Sins Michael Lia Ices Ices Liars Mess Lily & Madeleine Fumes Lily Allen Sheezus Linkin Park The Hunting Party Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband Llyr Williams Wagner Without Words Los Lobos Si Se Puede!: Los Lobos And Friends Lost in the Trees Past Life Lowell We Loved Her Dearly LP Forever For Now Lucinda Williams Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone Luluc Passerby Lykke Li I Never Learn Mac DeMarco Salad Days Magos & Limón Dawn Majid Bekkas Al Qantara Mapei Hey Hey Maria Callas The Complete Studio Recorings, 1949-1969 Mariah Carey Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse Marianne Faithfull Give My Love To London Maroon 5 V Martha Courting Strong Mary J. Blige The London Sessions Mary Lambert Heart On My Sleeve Matisyahu Akeda Matt Kivel Days of Being Wild Meatbodies Meatbodies Medicine Home Everywhere Merchandise After The End Meridian Brothers Salvadora Robot Metronomy Love Letters Michael Jackson Xscape Mick Jenkins The Water[s] Mimicking Birds EONS Mina Tindle Parades Mirah Changing Light Miranda Lambert Platinum Mirel Wagner When The Cellar Children See The Light of Day Mobb Deep The Infamous Mobb Deep Mogwai Rave Tapes Moodymann Moodymann Moon Hooch This Is Cave Music Morrissey World Peace Is None Of Your Business mr. Gnome The Heart of a Dark Star Museum of Love Museum of Love My Brightest Diamond This Is My Hand Natalie Merchant Natalie Merchant Neil Finn Dizzy Heights Neil Young Storytone The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers New York Philharmonic Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 Niagara Don't Take It Personally Nickel Creek A Dotted Line Nico Vega Lead to Light Nicole Atkins Slow Phaser NO El Prado Nothing Guilty Of Everything Noura Mint Seymali Tzenni OK Go Hungry Ghosts Oliver the 2nd The Kill Off EP Ólöf Arnalds Palme Opeth Pale Communion Orenda Fink Blue Dream Ought More Than Any Other Day Owen Pallett In Conflict The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Days Of Abandon Pallbearer Foundations of Burden Papercuts Life Among the Savages Parker Millsap Parker Millsap Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXTDOOR 2 Pasatono Orquesta Pasatono Orquesta Passenger Whispers Pattern Is Movement Pattern Is Movement People Get Ready Physiques Perfect Pussy Say Yes to Love Perfume Genius Too Bright Peter Matthew Bauer Liberation! Phantogram Voices Pharmakon Bestial Burden Pharoahe Monch PTSD Pharrell Williams G I R L Philip Selway Weatherhouse Phish Fuego PHOX PHOX Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal Songs of Time Lost Pink Floyd The Endless River Pitbull Globalization Pixies Indie Cindy Popcaan Where We Come From Porter Robinson Worlds Prague Philharmonic Choir & Prague RSO Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, etc. The Pretty Reckless Going To Hell Primus Primus & The Chocolate Factory Prince Art Official Age Protomartyr Under Colour of Official Right Pure X Angel Quilt Held in Splendor Radiator Hospital Torch Song Rapsody Beauty & The Beast Ratking So It Goes Raveonettes PE'AHI Ray LaMontagne Supernova Real Estate Atlas The Rentals Lost In Alphaville Restorations LP3 RIAS Chamber Choir CPE Bach: Magnificat, etc. Rich Gang Rich Gang: Tha Tour, Part 1 Richard Reed Parry Music For Heart And Breath Rick Ross Mastermind Rick Ross Hood Billionaire Robert Ellis The Lights from the Chemical Plant Robert Plant lullaby...and the ceaseless roar Robert Wyatt Different Every Time Rochelle Jordan 1021 Rodrigo Amarante Cavalo The Roots ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Rosanne Cash The River and the Thread Royal Scottish National Orchestra Hosokawa: Orchestral Works Vol. 1 Röyksopp The Inevitable End Rubblebucket Survival Sounds Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 Rural Alberta Advantage Mended With Gold Ryan Adams Ryan Adams Saint Saviour In the Seams Saintseneca Dark Arc Sam Amidon Lily-O Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour Samaris Silkidrangar Sango Da Rocinha 2 Sarah Jaffe Don't Disconnect Sarah McLachlan Shine On Schoolboy Q Oxymoron Scott Walker + Sunn O))) Soused Sean Rowe Madman sElf Subliminal Plastic Motives Sergio Mendoza y la Orkesta Mambo Mexicano! Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 A Long Way to the Beginning Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty Sharon Van Etten Are We There She & Him Classics Sheer Mag 7" Shovels & Rope Swimmin' Time Shy Glizzy Young Jefe Sia 1000 Forms Of Fear Sílvia Pérez Cruz/Raul Fernandez Miró Granada Simian Mobile Disco Whorl Sinead O'Connor I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss Sinkane Mean Love Sisyphus Sisyphus Skrillex Recess Skyzoo & Torae Barrel Brothers Sleaford Mods Divide and Exit Slow Club Complete Surrender Solvents Ghetto Moon Sondre Lerche Please Souls of Mischief There Is Only Now Spider Bags Frozen Letter Spoon They Want My Soul St. Paul & the Broken Bones Half the City St. Vincent St. Vincent Stalley Ohio Stars No One Is Lost Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks Wig Out At Jagbags Stephen Steinbrink Arranged Waves Strand Of Oaks HEAL Stromae Racine Carrée Sturgill Simpson Metamodern Sounds In Country Music Sun Kil Moon Benji Swans To Be Kind Sylvan Esso Sylvan Esso SZA Z T.I. Paperwork Takuya Kuroda Rising Son Tank Stronger Taylor Swift 1989 Temples Sun Structures Tennis Ritual in Repeat Teyana Taylor VII Thom Yorke Tomorrow's Modern Boxes Thompson Family Thou Heathen Thumpers Galore Tiffany Gouche Fantasy EP Tim McGraw Sundown Heaven Town Timber Timbre Hot Dreams Tinashe Aquarius Tiny Ruins Brightly Painted Ones Todd Terje It's Album Time Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Hypnotic Eye Tom Vek Luck Toni Braxton & Babyface Love, Marriage & Divorce Tori Amos Unrepentant Geraldines Toumani & Sidiki Diabate Toumani & Sidiki Tove Lo Queen of the Clouds Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Gone Girl (OST) Trey Songz Trigga Tricky Adrian Thaws Triptykon Melana Chasmata tUnE-yArDs Nikki Nack TV On The Radio Seeds Tweedy Sukierae Two Inch Astronaut Foulbrood Ty Dolla $ign Beach House Ty Dolla $ign Sign Language Ty Segall Manipulator U2 Songs Of Innocence Umphrey's McGee Similar Skin The Underachievers Cellar Door Untold Black Light Spiral Various Artists Shady XV Various Artists Rolê: New Sounds of Brazil Various Artists The New Basement Tapes Vermont Vermont Vince Staples Hell Can Wait Walter Martin We're All Young Together The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream Warpaint Warpaint Wax Fang The Astronaut We Were Promised Jetpacks Unravelling Weezer Everything Will Be Alright In The End Weird Al Yankovic Mandatory Fun Wen Signals Whirr Sway White Fence For The Recently Found Innocent White Lung Deep Fantasy Wild Beasts Present Tense Wiz Khalifa Blacc Hollywood Wu-Tang Clan A Better Tomorrow Wussy Attica! Wye Oak Shriek Wytches, The Annabel Dream Reader Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom Yann Tiersen Infinity YG My Krazy Life Yob Clearing The Path To Ascend York Factory Complaint Lost In The Spectacle You+Me rose ave. Young Fathers Dead Young The Giant Mind Over Matter Young Thug & Bloody Jay Black Portland Your Old Droog Your Old Droog Yusuf/Cat Stevens Tell 'Em I'm Gone Zammuto Anchor Zola Jesus Taiga