Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2014

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2014

Listing for 208 records from 2014 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Wussy: *Attica!* [Shake It]
A	Azealia Banks: *Broke With Expensive Taste* [Prospect Park] Beyoncé: *Beyoncé (Platinum Edition)* [Columbia] The Boswell Sisters: *Shout, Sister, Shout!* [Retrospective] John Coltrane: *"Live" at the Village Vanguard* [Hallmark] Jason Derulo: *Talk Dirty* [Warner Bros.] Drive-By Truckers: *English Oceans* [ATO] Kool A.D.: *Word O.K.* [Bandcamp download] Miranda Lambert: *Platinum* [RCA] Jerry Lee Lewis: *The Knox Phillips Sessions: The Unreleased Recordings* [Ace] Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie: *December Day* [Legacy] Old 97's: *Most Messed Up* [ATO] Angaleena Presley: *American Middle Class* [Slate Creek] Kate Tempest: *Everybody Down* [Big Dada] Withered Hand: *New Gods* [Slumberland] Young Thug & Bloody Jay: *Black Portland* [self-released download] *Bring It On Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke* [Ace]
A-	Lily Allen: *Sheezus* [Warner Bros.] Allo Darlin': *We Come From the Same Place* [Slumberland] Asylum Street Spankers: *The Last Laugh* [Yellow Dog] Atmosphere: *Southsiders* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] Iggy Azalea: *The New Classic* [Def Jam] Aram Bajakian: *There Were Flowers Also in Hell* [Sanasar] Boozoo Bajou: 4 [Apollo] The Baseball Project: *3rd* [Yep Roc] Mary J. Blige: *The London Sessions* [Capitol] James Booker: *Gonzo* [RockBeat] Toni Braxton & Babyface: *Love, Marriage & Divorce* [Motown] Bushwick Gospel Singers: *Songs of Worship Vol. 2* [self-released] Laura Cantrell: *No Way There From Here* [Thrift Shop] Chromeo: *White Women* [Atlantic/Big Beat] Chumped: *Teenage Retirement* [Anchorless] The Close Readers: *The Lines Are Open* [Austin] The Coathangers: *Suck My Shirt* [Suicide Squeeze] Company Freak: *Le Disco Social* [OpusLabel/Superlatude] Cracker: *Berkeley to Bakersfield* [429] Mestre Cupijó e Seu Ritmo: *Siriá* [Analog Africa] D'Angelo and the Vanguard: *Black Messiah* [RCA] Aby Ngana Diop: *Liital* [Awesome Tapes From Africa] Diplo: *Random White Dude Be Everywhere* [Mad Decent] Ex Hex: *Rips* [Merge] The Flaming Lips: *With a Little Help From My Fwends* [Warner Bros.] Fokn Bois: *Coz of Moni 2 (Fokn Revenge)* [Pidgen Music] Aretha Franklin: *Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics* [RCA] Golem: *Tanz* [Corason Digital] Hassan Hakmoun: *Unity* [Healing] Hamell on Trial: *The Happiest Man in the World* [New West] Heartsrevolution: *Ride or Die* [Owsla] Jimi Hendrix: *Rainbow Bridge* [Experience Hendrix/Legacy] Millie Jackson: *On the Soul Country Side* [Kent] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Always With Us (Uyohlale Unathi)* [CDBaby] Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: *Here Be Monsters* [In De Goot] Amy LaVere: *Runaway's Diary* [Archer] Jenny Lewis: *The Voyager* [Warner Bros.] DeJ Loaf: *Sell Sole* [self-released] Bette Midler: *It's the Girls!* [Warner Bros.] Nicki Minaj: *The Pinkprint (Deluxe Edition)* [Cash Money/Republic] Roy Nathanson's Sotto Voce: *Complicated Day* [Enja/Yellowbird] The New Pornographers: *Brill Bruisers* [Matador] Parkay Quarts: *Content Nausea* [What's Your Rupture? EP] Parquet Courts: *Sunbathing Animal* [What's Your Rupture?] Populous: *Night Safari* [Bad Panda/Folk Wisdom] Steve Reich: *Radio Rewrite* [Nonesuch] The Roots: *. . . And Then You Shoot Your Cousin* [Def Jam] Homeboy Sandman: *Hallways* [Stones Throw] Shakira: *Shakira* [RCA] Billy Joe Shaver: *Long in the Tooth* [Lightning Rod] Shopping: *Consumer Complaints* [Milk] Sam Smith: *In the Lonely Hour* [Capitol] Vince Staples: *Hell Can Wait* [Def Jam] Sunny Sweeney: *Provoked* [Thirty Tigers] Taylor Swift: *1989* [Big Machine] Tacocat: *NVM* [Hardly Art] tUnE-yArDs: *Nikki Nack* [4AD] TV on the Radio: *Seeds* [Harvest] Loudon Wainwright III: *Haven't Got the Blues (Yet)* [429] Wormburner: *Pleasant Living in Planned Communities* [Dive] Wu-Tang Clan: *A Better Tomorrow* [Warner Bros.] Young Fathers: *Dead* [Anticon] Tom Zé: *Vira Lata na Via Láctea* [self-released] *Angola Soundtrack 2* [Analog Africa] *Bob Dylan in the 80s: Volume One* [ATO] *Link of Chain: A Songwriters Tribute to Chris Smither* [Signature Sounds] *The Rough Guide to the Music of the Sahara* [World Music Network]
B+	Alvvays: *Alvvays* [Polyvinyl] Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: *Cheek to Cheek* [Streamline/Columbia/Interscope] Chris Butler: *Easy Life* [Future Fossil] Johnny Cash: *Out Among the Stars* [Columbia/Legacy] Leonard Cohen: *Popular Problems* [Columbia] JJ Doom: *Bookhead EP* [Lex EP] Mike Doughty: *Stellar Motel* [Snack Bar/Megaforce] Emperor X: *The Orlando Sentinel* [self-released] Future: *Monster* [mixtape download] Khun Narin Electric Phin Band: *Khun Narin Electric Phin Band* [Innovative Leisure] Robert Randolph and the Family Band: *Lickety Split* [Blue Note] Noura Mint Seymali: *Tzenni* [Glitterbeat] Sturgill Simpson: *Metamodern Sounds in Country Music* [High Top/Thirty Tigers] Sisyphus: *Sisyphus* [Asthmatic Kitty] Spoon: *They Want My Soul* [Loma Vista/Republic] Sun Kil Moon: *Benji* [Caldo Verde] Tinariwen: *Emmaar* [Anti-] Lucinda Williams: *Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone* [Highway 20] *Cracking the Cosimo Code: 60s New Orleans R&B and Soul* [Ace] *Get On Up: The James Brown Story* [Polydor]
*******	Katy B: *Little Red* [Columbia] Big Lazy: *Don't Cross Myrtle* [Tasankee] Buck 65: *Neverlove* [Warner Music Canada] Cloud Nothings: *Here and Nowhere Else* [Carpark] The Delines: *Colfax* [El Cortez] Lana Del Rey: *Ultraviolence* [Polydor/Interscope] DJ Rashad: *Double Cup* [Hyperdub] David Greenberger & Dozens: *Near the Edge of the Penny Jar Spill* [Pel Pel] Half Japanese: *Overjoyed* [Joyful Noise] Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott: *What We Have Become* [Virgin EMI] Imarhan Timbuktu: *Akal Warled* [Clermont Music] The Knife: *Shaken-Up Versions* [Brille/Mute] Oumar Konaté: *Addoh* [Clermont Music] Lecrae: *Anomaly* [Reach] Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako: *Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako* [Sterns Africa] Tove Lo: *Queen of the Clouds* [Island] Blake Mills: *Heigh Ho* [Verve] Milo: *A Toothpaste Suburb* [Ruby Yacht] Willie Nelson: *Band of Brothers* [Legacy] Shilpa Ray: *It's All Self-Fellatio* [Bad Seeds, Ltd.] Jonathan Richman: *No Me Quiejo De Mi Estrella* [Vapor/Munster] Jenny Scheinman: *The Littlest Prisoner* [Sony Masterworks] Sleaford Mods: *Chubbed Up +* [Ipecac] Tinashe: *Aquarius* [RCA] Tricky: *Adrian Thaws* [False Idols] Typefighter: *The End of Everything* [Huge Witch] Verckys et l'Orchestre Vévé: *Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978* [Analog Africa] Pharrell Williams: *Girl* [Columbia] *The Rough Guide to Arabic Café* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to the Best African Music You've Never Heard* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to the Music of Mali* [World Music Network]
**	Akrobatik: *Built to Last* [Playaktion] Arca: *Xen* [Mute] Cherub: *Year of the Caprese* [Columbia] Keyshia Cole: *Point of No Return* [Interscope] Common: *Nobody's Smiling* [Def Jam/Artium] D.R.A.M.: *#1EpicSummer* [self-released] Open Mike Eagle: *Dark Comedy* [Fat Beats] Far East Movement: *KTown Riot* [Cherrytree] Flying Lotus: *You're Dead!* [Warp] Funkadelic: *First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate* [The C Kunspyruhzy] Future: *Honest* [Epic] Girlpool: *Girlpool* [Wichita Recordings] Moody Good: *Moody Good* [Owsla] Hard Working Americans: *The First Waltz* [Melvin] Hard Working Americans: *Hard Working Americans* [Melvin] John Hiatt: *Terms of My Surrender* [New West] The Hold Steady: *Teeth Dreams* [Razor & Tie] Kasai Allstars: *Congotronics 5: Beware the Fetish* [Crammed Discs] Kool & Kass Are . . . Peaceful Solutions: *Coke Boys 5* [Bandcamp download] Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: *A Long Way to the Beginning* [Knitting Factory] Simo Lagnawi: *The Gnawa Berber* [Riverboat] Nikki Lane: *All or Nothin'* [New West] Lori McKenna: *Numbered Doors* [Liz Rose Music] Modern Baseball: *You're Gonna Miss It All* [Run for Cover] Thurston Moore: *The Best Day* [Matador] Oceaán: *The Grip EP* [Rough Trade EP] Grand Peeples and the Peeples Republik: *Punishing the Myth* [Gatorbone] Rapsody: *Beauty and the Beast* [Jamla/Culture Over Everything EP] Run the Jewels: *Run the Jewels 2* [Mass Appeal] St. Vincent: *St. Vincent* [4AD] Skrillex: *Recess* [Atlantic] Sonido Gallo Negro: *Sendero Mistico* [Glitterbeat] Son Palenque: *Afro-Colombian Sound Modernizers* [Vampi Soul] Spider Bags: *Frozen Letter* [Merge] Stick Against Stone: *The Oregon Bootleg Tapes--Live* [Media Groove] Carrie Underwood: *Greatest Hits: Decade #1* [Arista Nashville] Chuck E. Weiss: *Red Beans & Weiss* [Anti-] White Lung: *Deep Fantasy* [Sub Pop] Lee Ann Womack: *The Way I'm Livin'* [Sugar Hill] *All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs and Voice of Gregg Allman* [Rounder] *Haiti Direct: Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds, 1960-1978* [Strut] *1970's Algerian Folk and Pop* [Sublime Frequencies] *The Rough Guide to African Blues* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to the Music of Palestine* [World Music Network]
*	Ab-Soul: *These Days* [Top Dawg] Anderson .Paak: *Venice* [Steel Wool/OBE] Elvin Bishop: *Can't Even Do Wrong Right* [Alligator] Oscar Brown Jr. & Maggie Brown: *We're Live* [ESP-Disk'] Rosanne Cash: *The River and the Thread* [Blue Note] Neneh Cherry: *Blank Project* [Smalltown Supersound] J Cole: *2014 Forest Hills Drive* [Roc Nation/Columbia] Duck Sauce: *Quack* [Fool's Gold] The Esoteric Circle: *George Russell Presents the Esoteric Circle* [Flying Dutchman] Fofoulah: *Fofoulah* [Glitterbeat] Ghostface Killah: *36 Seasons* [Salvation/Tommy Boy] Freddie Gibbs and Madlib: *Piñata* [Madlib Invazion] Gucci Mane Featuring Young Thug: *Purple Album: People Usually Ridicule the Powerful Lead by Example* [1017 12-inch] Sam Hunt: *Montevallo* [MCA Nashville] Corb Lund: *Counterfeit Blues* [New West] Charlie McCoy: *Jackson Stomp: The Charlie McCoy Story* [Nehi] Tim McGraw: *Sundown Heaven Town* [Big Machine] Migos: *Rich Nigga Timeline* [mixtape download] Brad Paisley: *Moonshine in the Trunk* [Arista Nashville] Prince: *Art Official Age* [Warner Bros./NPG] Homeboy Sandman: *White Sands* [Stones Throw] Derek Senn: *The Technological Breakthrough* [dereksenn.com] Serengeti: *Kenny Dennis III* [Joyful Noise] Sam Shalabi: *Music for Arabs* [Majmua Music] Sia: *1000 Forms of Fear* [Puzzle/RCA] Bruce Springsteen: *High Hopes* [Columbia] T.I.: *Paperwork* [Grand Hustle/Columbia] Young Thug, Birdman, Rich Homie Quan: *Birdman Presents Rich Gang: The Tour* [self-released download] *Glitterbeat: Dubs and Versions* [Glitterbeat]

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