To compliment this trio, Leonard Cohen - now a feisty 80 years old - brings us one of his best albums, well, since the last one. Wonderful song writing and a stilted, yet charming, delivery makes Popular Problems an engaging and compelling listen. Then, another stalwart of the music industry: Aphex Twin returns with a list of incomprehensible and unpronounceable songs on the brilliant Syro - a masterclass of electronic genius. And lastly the sublime, weird and often wonderful Alt-J return with an album that is arguably better than their award winning début.
A late entry to the 2014 chart is Coldplay's Ghost Stories... while clearly a shadow of their former selves, Chris Martin and the boys deliver a beautiful heartfelt and inoffensive collection of love songs - the band's best for a very long time. And in total contrast, Pulled Apart By Horses continue to thrash things up while Lonely The Brave have a long way to go before they can claim Biffy Clyro's crown.
Nothing challenges the mighty War On Drugs who hold the top spot.
- Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs
- Augustines by Augustines
- Syro by Aphex Twin
- Rave Tapes by Mogwai
- Morning Phase by Beck
- Gach Sgeul (Every Story) by Julie Fowlis
- Somewhere Under Wonderland by Counting Crows
- Forgetting The Present by Remember Remember
- Built For Storms by Nigel Stonier
- While 1 is less than 2 by Deadmau5
- The Fire Inside by Luke Sital-Singh
- Royal Blood by Royal Blood
- Beauty & Ruin by Bob Mould
- Smoke Fairies by Smoke Fairies
- The Gloaming by The Gloaming
- Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles by Suzanne Vega
- Ryan Adams by Ryan Adams
- You Chose These Woes by Model Village
- Beautiful Desolation by Paul Thomas Saunders
- This Is All Yours by Alt-J
- Alarms In The Heart by Dry The River
- Popular Problems by Leonard Cohen
- Owl John by Owl John
- Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic
- 48:13 by Kasabian
- Indie Cindy by The Pixies
- Ghost Stories by Coldplay
- Running With Scissors by Janet Devlin
- The Voyager by Jenny Lewis
- The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett by Eels
- Pe'ahi by The Raveonettes
- Grinning Streak by Barenaked Ladies
- Upside Down Mountain by Conor Oberst
- Teeth Dreams by The Hold Steady
- Burn Your Fire For No Witness by Angel Olsen
- The Take Off And Landing of Everything by Elbow
- Lazaretto by Jack White
- Get Hurt by The Gaslight Anthem
- Word Of Mouth by Seth Lakeman
- So Long, See You Tomorrow by Bombay Bicycle Club
- 1984 by Ryan Adams
- Heartstrings by Howling Bells
- Honeyblood by Honeyblood
- Futurology by Manic Street Preachers
- IX by Corrosion Of Conformity
- Pale Communion by Opeth
- Into The Lime by New Mendicants
- The Day's War by Lonely The Brave
- 9 Dead Alive by Rodrigo y Gabriela
- A Letter Home By Neil Young
- In The Silence by Asgeir
- Held In Splendor by Quilt
- Blood by Pulled Apart By Horses
- Wilderness of Mirrors by Lawrence English
- Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey
- Salad Days by Mac Demarco
- Blood Red Shoes by Blood Red Shoes
- Alvvays by Alvvays
- Supernova by Ray LaMontagne
- Echoes by Emily Smith
- Everyday Robots by Damon Albarn
- Atlas by Real Estate
- Croz by David Crosby
- Benji by Sun Kil Moon
- St. Vincent by St. Vincent
- Cursing The Sea by September Girls
- Wildewoman by Lucius
- Luminous by The Horrors
- High Hopes by Bruce Springsteen
- Songs About This And That by Karin Krog & John Surman
- Waking Lines by Patterns
- Unrepentant Geraldines by Tori Amos
- Complete Surrender by Slow Club
- The Future's Void by EMA
- Here And Nowhere Else by Cloud Nothings
- Wig Out At Jagbags by Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
- Total Strife Forever by East India Youth
- Too Much Information by Maximo Park
- Warpaint by Warpaint
- Are We There by Sharon Van Etten
- To Be Kind by Swans
- Eagulls by Eagulls
- Education, Education, Education & War by Kaiser Chiefs
- The Crystal Method by The Crystal Method
- Kid Face by Samantha Crain
- None The Wiser by The Rifles
- Oh My Sexy Lord by Marijuana Deathsquads
