Yılın sonuna doğru yaklaşırken listeler de patır kütür
gelmeye başladı. Her ne kadar yılın en iyiler listesi olmasa da ona yol
gösterecek olan bir liste yayınlandı NME tarafından. Yılın en yüksek oylarını
alan 50 albüm:
1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
3. The Julie Ruin - Run Fast
4. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
5. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
6. Kanye West - Yeezus
7. Jagwar Ma - Howlin
8. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
9. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
10. The Child of Lov - The Child of Lov
11. Peace - In Love
12. Merchandise - Totale Nite
13. Iceage - You're Nothing
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
15. Foals - Holy Fire
16. Night Beds - Country Sleep
17. Torres - Torres
18. Toy - Join the Dots
19. Various Artists - Purple Snow: Forecasting the
Minneapolis Sound
20. Destroyer - Five Spanish Songs
21. Logos - Cold Mission
22. Josephine Foster - I'm A Dreamer
23. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum
24. M.I.A. - Matangi
25. Swearin' - Surfing Strange
26. Empty Pools - Saturn Reruns
27. Young Knives - Sick Octave
28. Los Campesinos! - No Blues
29. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
30. Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish
31. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade
32. Gesaffelstein - Aleph
33. Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
34. DJ Rashad - Double Cup
35. Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt Trips
36. Future of the Left - How To Stop Your Brain In An
Accident
37. Euros Childs - Situation Comedy
38. MØ - Bikini Daze
39. Cults - Static
40. Tim Hecker - Virgins
41. Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: The Sea of Split
Peas
42. Fanfarlo - The Sea
43. Luke Temple - Good Mood Fool
44. Danny Brown - OLD
45. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
46. Anna Calvi - One Breath
47. Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
48. Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You
Broke
49. Various Artists - Red Hot + Fela
50. Glasser - Interiors
