Gigslutz Top 5 Albums of 2014

Because the world is crying out for another 2014 best of list, we present the top five albums of 2014 according to the Gigslutz editorial team…

Listen to our Best of 2014 Playlist here

Dan Bull, Reviews Editor
1. The Jezabels – The Brink
2. U2 – Songs of Innocence
3. Temples – Sun Structures
4. Future Islands – Singles
5. Lykke Li – I’ll Never Learn

Ella Scott, Editorial Assistant
1. Metronomy – Love Letters
2. The Orwells – Disgraceland
3. Tom Vek – Luck
4. Taylor Swift – 1989
5. East India Youth – Total Strife Forever

Elliott Homer, Features Editor
1. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
2. Ariel Pink – Pom Pom
3. Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright in the End
4. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
5. Death From Above 1979 – The Physical World

Mari Lane, Assistant Editor/Unsigned Artists Editor
1. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
2. Mark Lanegan – Phantom Radio
3. Alvvays – Alvvays
4. Royal Blood – Royal Blood
5. Lizzo – Lizzobangers

Matt Tarr, Urban Music Editor
1. Yungen – Project Black & Red
2. Wiley – Snakes & Ladders
3. Young Fathers – DEAD
4. DELS – Petals Have Fallen
5. Ghetts – Rebel With A Cause 

Paul Sng, Editor-at-Large
1. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit 
2. Tom Hickox – War, Peace and Diplomacy
3. The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
4. La Roux – Trouble in Paradise
5. Manic Street Preachers – Futurology

Pete Cary, Associate Editor
1. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit 
2. Future Islands – Singles
3. Aphex Twin – Syro
4. The Growlers – Chinese Fountain
5. Johnny Marr – Playland

Steve Aston, Editor
1. The War On Drugs – Lost in the Dream
2. Azealia Banks – Broke With Expensive Taste
3. Sleaford Mods – Divide and Exit
4. Inspiral Carpets – Inspiral Carpets
5. Lykke Li – I’ll Never Learn

Paul Sng

Paul Sng

Editor-at-large, Brighton. Likes: Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood songs and Lee Hazlewood's moustache Dislikes: Celery, crap nostalgia and people who raise their voice when speaking as if they're asking a question?