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For the last two weeks, we've been sharing with you KEXP DJs' Top Ten Albums of 2014 lists, and yesterday we also shared picks from some of the dedicated people who work behind the scenes at KEXP as staff, volunteers and interns. Below, we share Top Ten Albums of 2014 lists from more of these passionate music fans.
If you haven't voted for your own Top Ten Albums of 2014, there's still time. VOTE HERE by 6PM on today, December 17, and then tune in to KEXP on Friday, December 19, starting at 10AM, to hear the entire countdown of KEXP listeners' top albums of 2014.
Anna Alter
DJ Assistant
tUnE-yArDs
Nikki Nack
4AD
Temples
Sun Structures
Heavenly
First Aid Kit
Stay Gold
Columbia
Luluc
Passerby
Sub Pop
J. Mascis
Tied to a Star
Sub Pop
Jenny Lewis
The Voyager
Warner Bros.
Bahamas
Bahamas Is Afie
Brushfire
Spoon
They Want My Soul
Loma Vista
Interpol
El Pintor
Matador
Goat
Commune
Sub Pop
Matthew Belt
Fundraising Drive Volunteer
Ben Howard
I Forget Where We Were
Republic
Pixies
Indie Cindy
Pixiesmusic
Röyksopp and Robyn
Do It Again
Dog Triumph
Future Islands
Singles
4AD
Jungle
Jungle
XL Recordings
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams
Pax AM
Lana Del Rey
Ultraviolence
Interscope
Kasabian
48:13:00
Columbia
Damon Albarn
Everyday Robots
Warner Bros.
Blood Red Shoes
Blood Red Shoes
Jazz Life
Michael Brinley
DJ Assistant and Front Desk Volunteer
Blake Mills
Heigh Ho
Verve
The War on Drugs
Lost In The Dream
Secretly Canadian
Brian Eno and Karl Hyde
High Life
Warp
FKA twigs
LP1
Young Turks
Swans
To Be Kind
Young God
Woods
With Light and With Love
Woodsist
Real Estate
Atlas
Domino
Perfume Genius
Too Bright
Matador
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
The Weather Station
What Am I Going To Do With Everything That I Know
You've Changed
Dylan Flesch
Licensing & Podcasting Coordinator
Courtney Barnett
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Mom + Pop Music
Parquet Courts
Sunbathing Animal
What's Your Rupture?
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
Phantogram
Voices
Republic
The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
Secretly Canadian
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
alt-J
This Is All Yours
Infectious Music
Ty Segall
Manipulator
Drag City
Run The Jewels
Run The Jewels 2
Mass Appeal
De Lux
Voyage
Innovative Leisure
Levi Fuller
Blog Contributor
Survival Knife
Loose Power
Glacial Pace
Shellac
Dude Incredible
Touch and Go
Steve Gunn
Way Out Weather
Paradise of Bachelors
Goat
Commune
Sub Pop
Virgin of the Birds
Winter Seeds
Abandoned Love
Tara Jane O'Neill
Where Shine New Lights
Kranky
Wye Oak
Shriek
Merge
Low Hums
Charm
Fin
Motrik
Motrik
Self-released
Holy Sons
The Fact Facer
Thrill Jockey
John Gleason
DJ Assistant
De Lux
Voyage
Innovative Leasure
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels II
Mass Appeal
Mac Demarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
Caribou
Our Love
Merge
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
Give The People What They Want
Daptone
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
The Horrors
Luminous
XL
Jungle
Jungle
XL
Tacocat
NVM
Hardly Art
Temples
Sun Structures
Heavenly
FKA twigs // photo by Dave Lichterman
Matthew Howland
DJ Assistant for The Afternoon/Midday Shows
FKA twigs
LP1
Young Turks
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
The War On Drugs
Lost in the Dream
Secretly Canadian
Angel Olsen
Burn Your Fire for No Witness
Jagjaguwar
Posse
Soft Opening
BADH Records
Perfume Genius
Too Bright
Matador
Warpaint
Warpaint
Rough Trade
Perfect Pussy
Say Yes To Love
Captured Tracks
S
Cool Choices
Hardly Art
Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
Jagjaguwar
Ryan Hulsey
Fundraising Intern
Ambrose Akinmusire
The Imagine Savior is Far Easier to Paint
Blue Note
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
Mass Appeal
Ariel Pink
Pom Pom
4AD
St. Vincent
St. Vincent
Loma Vista
Aphex Twin
Syro
Warp
Swans
To Be Kind
Young God
Flying Lotus
You're Dead
Brainfeeder
Mac Demarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
Alfa and Emmavie
Epoch EP
AE Music
FKA twigs
LP1
Young Turks
Jon Joslin
DJ Assistant for Riz Rollins
Home Video
Here In Weightless Fall
Home Video
Lamb
Backspace Unwind
Strata
TV On The Radio
Seeds
Harvest
Beacon
L1
Ghostly
Davidge
Slo Light
The End
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband
Republic
Kele
Trick
Kele Okereke
Movement
EP
Modular
The Faint
Doom Abuse
SQE Music
Coldplay
Ghost Stories
Parlophone
Andy Klatt
Information Specialist
Spoon
They Want My Soul
Loma Vista
War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
Secretly Canadian
Conor Oberst
Upside Down Mountain
Nonesuch
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
The Black Lips
Underneath the Rainbow
Vice
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
How To Dress Well
"What is this Heart?"
Domino / Weird World
Schoolboy Q
Oxymoron
Top Dawg Entertainment
Young Fathers
Dead
Anticon / Big Dada
Cloud Nothings
Here and Nowhere Else
Carpark Records
The Barr Brothers // photo by Jim Bennett
Amber (Zbitnoff) Knecht
Photographer
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Half the City
Single Lock Records
Operators
EP1
self-released
My Goodness
Shiver + Shake
Votiv
Foo Fighters
Sonic Highways
RCA
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream
Secretly Canadian
Shakey Graves
And the War Came
Dualtone
The Barr Brothers
Sleeping Operator
Secret City
Phantogram
Voices
Universal Republic
Cataldo
Gilded Oldies
Red Pepper Records
Black Pistol Fire
Hush or Howl
Rifle Bird/Modern Outsider
Philip LaRose
Blog Contributor
Katie Kate
Nation
self-released
Todd Terje
It's Album Time
Olsen
Vox Mod
The Great Oscillator
self-released
Aphex Twin
SYRO
Warp
Phantogram
Voices
Republic
Warpaint
Warpaint
Rough Trade
Erik Blood
Canons Vol. 1
self-released
Android Amaker
Android Amaker
RodeoCorp Ltd.
Tara Jane ONeil
Where Shine New Lights
Kranky
Pure X
Angel
Fat Possum
Dave Lichterman
Photographer
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
CEO
Wonderland
Modular
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
Temples
Sun Structures
Fat Possum
Big Ups
Eighteen Hours of Static
Dead Labour
BADBADNOTGOOD
III
Innovative Leisure
ODESZA
In Return
Counter-Records
Death From Above 1979
The Physical World
Last Gang
Kithkin
Rituals, Trances, & Ecstasies for Humans in the Face of The Collapse
Pesanta Urfolk
SOHN
Tremors
4AD
Bob Martin
DJ Assistant
Steve Gunn
Way Out Weather
Paradise Of Bachelors
Hiss Golden Messenger
Lateness Of Dancers
Merge
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band
Intensity Ghost
No Quarter
White Fence
For The a Recently Found Innocent
Drag City
The War On Drugs
Lost In The Dream
Secretly Canadian
Ty Segall
Manipulator
Drag City
Blake Mills
Height Ho
Verve
Damien Jurado
Brothers And Sisters of The Eternal Sun
Secretly Canadian
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
Amen Dunes
Love
Sacred Bones
Vince Mayo
Development Assistant for Major Giving
First Aid Kit
Stay Gold
Columbia
Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Loose Music
Augustines
Augustines
Votiv
ODESZA
In Return
Counter records
Phantogram
Voices
Barsuk
Temples
Sun Structures
Heavenly Recordings
Noah Gunderson
Ledges
Independent
Dum Dum Girls
Too True
Sub Pop
Grieves
Winter and the Wolves
Rhymesayers Entertainment
Strand of Oaks
Heal
Dead Oceans
Little Dragon // photo by Morgen Schuler
Anna McClain
Blog Contributor
Wye Oak
Shriek
Merge
Girlpool
Girlpool EP
Wichita
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband
Because Music
Ex Hex
Rips
Merge
Parquet Courts
Sunbathing Animal
What's Your Rupture?
Wampire
Bazaar
Polyvinyl
Foxygen
...And Star Power
Jagjaguwar
Tennis
Ritual in Repeat
Communion
Cherry Glazerr
Haxel Princess
Burger Records
Sinkane
Mean Love
DFA
Riese Meyers
DJ Assistant for Afternoon Show
Mac DeMarco
Salad Days
Captured Tracks
Aaron Freeman
FREEMAN
Partisan
MF Doom and Bishop Nehru
NehruvianDOOM
Lex
Damon Albarn
Everyday Robots
Parlophone
Laima & Def III
WeenA2
Tontrager Records
Gruff Rhys
American Interior
Turnstile
Little Dragon
Nabuma Rubberband
Because, Loma Vista
All You Can Do
Watsky
Steel Wool Media
They Might Be Giants
First Album Live
Idlewild Records
Various
Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1
Hollywood Records
Jake Mountjoy
DJ Assistant
Odesza
In Return
Counter Records
Röyksopp
The Inevitable End
Dog Triumph
Sylvan Esso
Sylvan Esso
Partisan
The Juan McLean
In A Dream
DFA
Phantogram
Nothing But Trouble
Barsuk
Tycho
Awake
Ghostly International
BANKS
Goddess
Harvest
Chet Faker
Built On Glass
Future Classic
Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
Jagjaguwar
alt-J
This Is All Yours
Infectious Music
Dagmar Sieglinde Patterson
Photographer
Itch
Deep End
Red Bull Records
Nick & Knight
Nick & Knight
BMG
Magic Man
Before the Waves
Columbia
Together Pangea
Badillac (Ex)
Harvest
ODESZA
In Return
Counter
The Acid
Liminal
Mute
alt-J
This Is All Yours
Infectious Music
Johnny Marr
Playland
New Voodoo
Graig Markel and the 88th St. Band
Graig Markel and the 88th St. Band
In Spades Music
Chromeo
White Women
Big Beat/WEA
Krissi Pearson
Photographer
tUnE-yArDs
Nikki Nack
4AD
alt-J
This Is All Yours
Infectious Music
Augustines
Augustines
Votiv
Dum Dum Girls
Too True
Sub Pop
First Aid Kit
Stay Gold
Columbia
Kishi Bashi
Lighght
Joyful Noise
Lykke Li
I Never Learn
Atlantic
Spoon
They Want My Soul
Loma Vista/Republic
Lyla Foy
Mirrors The Sky
Sub Pop
OK Go
Hungry Ghosts
BMG
Shabazz Palaces // photo by Dave Lichterman
Wolfgang E Ratzlaff
DJ Assistant for Troy Nelson
Future
Honest
Epic
Flying Lotus
You're Dead!
Warp
Aphex Twin
SYRO
Warp
Perfect Pussy
Say Yes To Love
Captured Tracks
Ben Frost
A U R O R A
Bedroom Commubity
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
Mass Appeal
FKA twigs
LP1
Young Turks
Gucci Mane & Young Thug
Young Thugga Mane La Flare
N/A
Total Control
Typical System
Iron Lung
Kurt B Reighley
Development Communications Manager
Perfume Genius
Too Bright
Matador
Neneh Cherry
Blank Project
Smalltown Supersound
Owen Pallett
In Conflict
Domino
Warpaint
Warpaint
Rough Trade
Chimurenga Renaissance
riZe vadZimu riZe
Brick Lane
Budos Band
Burnt Offering
Daptone
King Tuff
Black Moon Spell
Sub Pop
Steve Gunn
Way Out Weather
Paradise of Bachelors
Aphex Twin
Syro
Warp
Zola Jesus
Taiga
Mute
Rana San
DJ Assistant for Chilly
Warpaint
Warpaint
Rough Trade
Shabazz Palaces
Lese Majesty
Sub Pop
FKA twigs
LPI
Young Turks
Ana Tijoux
Vengo
Nacional
Quantic
Magnetica
Tru Thoughts
Silver Jackson
Starry Skies Opened Eyes
Home Skillet
Movement
EP
Modular
Benjamin Verdoes
The Evil Eye
Brick Lane
Wild Balbina
Sisters Before Misters
Elefant Records
alt-J
This Is All Yours
Infectious Music
Dashel Schueler
Corporate, Foundation and Government Relations Manager
The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream
Secretly Canadian
Tacocat
NVM
Hardly Art
Taylor Swift
1989
Big Machine
Jenny Lewis
Voyager
Warner
S
Cool Choices
Hardly Art
Chris Staples
American Soft
Barsuk
Cloud Nothings
Here and Nowhere Else
Carpark
Run the Jewels
Run the Jewels 2
Mass Appeal
First Aid Kit
Stay Gold
Columbia
Protomartyr
Under the Color of Official Right
Hardly Art
Ty Segall // photo by Kristina Moravec
Kari Stark
Gift Processor
PUP
PUP
SideOneDummy
Big Ups
Eighteen Hours of Static
Tough Love/Dead Labour
Parquet Courts
Sunbathing Animal
What's Your Rupture?
Kithkin
Rituals, Trances, Ecstacies for Humans in the Face of the Collapse
For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2014, leading up to our 2014 90.3 Top Album Countdown! Voting ends TODAY, Tuesday, December 16th at 6:00 PM PT, so let us know your favorites now, and tune in on Friday, December 19th to hear if your picks made the list!
