Michael Tatum's A Downloader's Diary: Year 2014 Index
- Calypso: Musical Poetry in the Caribbean 1955-69 (Soul Jazz) A-
- Golem: Tanz (Corason Digital) A-
- Hyperdub 10.1 (Hyperdub) A-
- Miranda Lambert: Platinum (RCA) A
- Jenny Lewis: The Voyager (Warner Bros.) B+
- Spoon: They Want My Soul (Loma Vista) A-
- Suburban Base: The History of Hardcore, Jungle, and Drum & Bass: 1991-1997 (Suburban Base) B+
- Jack White: Lazaretto (Third Man/XL Recordings) A-
- Eno/Hyde: Someday World (Warp) **
- Wye Oak: Shriek (Merge) **
- Eno/Hyde: High Life (Warp) *
- Robin Thicke: Paula (Star Tracks/Interscope) C
- Sharon van Etten: Are We There (Jagjauuwar) B-
- Morrissey: World Peace is None of Your Business (Harvest) C+
- YG: My Krazy Life (Def Jam) C+
- First Aid Kit: Stay Gold (Columbia) C+
- Aloe Blacc: Lift Your Spirit (Interscope) B+
- Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott: What Have We Become (Virgin) A
- Chrissie Hynde: Stockholm (Caroline International) A-
- Kool AD: Word OK (free download) A-
- Amy LaVere: Runaway's Diary (Archer) A-
- Bob Mould: Beauty and Ruin (Merge) A-
- Conor Oberst: Upside Down Mountain (Nonesuch) A-
- Parquet Courts: Sunbathing Animal (What's Your Rupture?) A
- The Roots: . . . And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (Def Jam) A-
- Young Thug and Bloody Jay: Black Portland (free download) A
- Young Thug & Gucci Mane: Young Thuggs Mane La Flare (free download) A-
- Lana del Rey: Ultraviolence (Interscope) ***
- Rough Guide to African Blues (World Music Network) ***
- Lykke Li: I Never Learn (Atlantic) **
- Courtney Barnett: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (Mom + Pop Music) **
- Chromeo: White Women (Big Beat) *
- Anasy Cissé: Mali Overdrive (Riverboat) *
- Lee Fields: Emma Lee (Truth and Soul) C+
- A Great Big World: Is There Anybody Out There? (Black Magnetic/Epic) C-
- Neil Young: A Letter Home (Third Man) C+
- R.E.M.: Unplugged 1991/2001: The Complete Sessions (Rhino) B-
- The Strypes: Snapshot (Virgin) B-
- Lily Allen: Sheezus (Warner Bros.) A
- Cloud Nothings: Here and Nowhere Else (Carpark) A-
- Company Freak: Le Social Disco (Opus) A-
- Deena: Rock River (Life Force) A-
- EMA: The Future's Void (Matador) A-
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: Piñata (Madlib Invazion) A-
- Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978 (Strut) A-
- Old 97's: Most Messed Up (ATO) A
- Shakira: Shakira (RCA) A-
- Wussy: Attica! (Shake It) A
- Let's Wrestle: Let's Wrestle (Fortuna Pop!) **
- Baseball Project: 3rd (Yep Roc) **
- Tune-Yards: Nikki Nack (4AD) *
- Peter Stampfel and the Brooklyn & Lower Manhattan Banjo Squadron: Better Than Expected (Don Giovanni) *
- Neneh Cherry: Blank Project (Smalltown Supersound) B
- Skrillex: Recess (Owsla/Big Beat/Atlantic) B
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Days of Abandon (Yebo) B-
- Afghan Whigs: Do to the Beast (Sub Pop) B-
- Isaiah Rashad: Cilvia Demo (Top Dawg Entertainment) B-
- Todd Terje: It's Album Time (Redeye) C+
- Bob Dylan in the '80s: Volume One (ATO) A-
- Laura Cantrell: No Way There From Here (Thrift Shop Recordings) A-
- Drive-By Truckers: English Oceans (ATO) A
- Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-95 (Strut) A-
- Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams (Razor & Tie) A-
- Kool and Kass: Coke Boys 5 (free download) A-
- The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali (Second Edition) (World Music Network) A
- Studio One Rocksteady (Soul Jazz) A-
- St. Vincent: St. Vincent (Republic) A-
- Withered Hand: New Gods (Slumberland) A+
- Eagulls: Eagulls (Partisan) **
- Pharrell Williams: GIRL (Columbia) **
- Karim Baggili: Kali City (Homerecords.be) **
- Lydia Loveless: Somewhere Else (Bloodshot) **
- Beck: Morning Phase (Capitol) C
- Sisyphus: Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty) B-
- Angel Olsen: Burn Your Fire for No Witness (Jagjaguwar) C+
- The Hotelier: Home, Like No Place Is There (Tiny Engines) C+
- Eleni Mandell: Let's Fly a Kite (Yep Roc) C
- Perfect Pussy: Say Yes to Love (Captured Tracks) C
- Against Me!: Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014, Red Distribution) A-
- Katy B: Little Red (2014, Columbia) A-
- Toni Braxton & Babyface: Love, Marriage, and Divorce (2014, Motown) A-
- Hard Working Americans: Hard Working Americans (2014, Melvin/Thirty Tigers) B+
- Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Wig Out at Jagbags (2014, Matador) A-
- Modern Baseball: You're Gonna Miss It All (2014, Run for Cover) A-
- The New Mendicants: Into the Lime (2014, Ashmont) A-
- Bruce Springsteen: High Hopes (2014, Columbia) B+
- Tinariwen: Emmaar (2014, Anti-) A-
- Lake Street Dive: Bad Self Portraits (2014, Signature Sounds) ***
- Rosanne Cash: The River & the Thread (2014, Blue Note) ***
- Jennifer Nettles: That Girl (2014, Mercury Nashville) **
- Dum Dum Girls: Too True (2014, Sub Pop) **
- Irene Kelley: Pennsylvania Coal (2014, Patio) **
- Eric Church: The Outsiders (2014, Universal) C+
- Hospitality: Trouble (2014, Merge) B-
- The Pixies: EP-2 (2014, PIAS America) B-
- Broken Bells: After the Disco (2014, Columbia) B-
- Doug Paisley: Strong Feelings (2014, No Quarter) C+
- Warpaint: Warpaint (2014, Rough Trade) C
- Actress: Ghettoville (2014, Ninja Tune) C
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