These releases are all worth your time. Any random 20 albums from this list alone would have comprised a pretty good year-end list.
Alex G - DSU (Orchid Tapes)
Alvvays - S/T (Polyvinyl)
Baked - Debt (Exploding in Sound)
Beck - Morning Phase (Capitol)
Black Lips - Underneath the Rainbow (Vice)
Benjamin Booker - S/T (ATO)
The Both - S/T (SuperEgo)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation (A Records)
Broncho - Just Enough Hip To Be Woman (Dine Alone)
Camper Van Beethoven - El Camino Real (429 Records)
Chain & The Gang - Minimum Rock 'N' Roll (Dischord)
Cloud Nothings - Here And Nowhere Else (Carpark)
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lose (Barsuk)
The Echo-Friendly - Love Panic (YEBO Music)
EMA - The Future's Void (Matador)
Eternal Summers - The Drop Beneath (Kanine)
Fucked Up - Glass Boys (Matador)
The Gotobeds - Poor People Are Revolting (12XU)
GRMLN - Soon Away (Carpark)
Hiss Golden Messenger - Lateness of Dancers (Merge)
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (Hardly Art)
Nikki Lane - All or Nothin' (IAMSOUND)
Jenny Lewis - The Voyager (Warner Bros.)
Little Big League - Tropical Jinx (Run For Cover)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Days of Abandon (YEBO Music)
The Preatures - Blue Planet Eyes (Universal)
Prince & 3rdeyegirl - PLECTRUMELECTRUM (NPG/Warner Bros.)
The Proper Ornaments - Wooden Head (Slumberland)
Rat Columns - Leaf (RIP Society)
The Reigning Sound - Shattered (Merge)
Shark Tape - Marathon (self-released)
Sneeze - Wilt (Glory Kid Limited)
Split Single - Fragmented World (Inside Outside)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (Merge)
St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Half the City (Single Lock Records)
St. Vincent - S/T (Loma Vista/Republic)
Strand of Oaks - Heal (Dead Oceans)
TacocaT - NVM (Hardly Art)
Team Spirit - Killing Time (Vice)
Tigers Jaw - Charmer (Run For Cover)
Two Inch Astronaut - Foulbrood (Exploding in Sound)
Ultimate Painting - Ultimate Painting (Trouble in Mind)
Vertical Scratchers - Daughters of Everything (Merge)
White Fence - For the Recently Found Innocent (Drag City)
Lucinda Williams - Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20 Records)
Wye Oak - Shriek (Merge)
Best EPs, Singles, and One-offs
Alvvays - "Underneath Us" (single) (Polyvinyl)
Beach Slang - Cheap Thrills on a Dead End Street (EP) (Tiny Engines)
Beach Slang - Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? (EP) (Dead Broke Rekerds)
Bleached - For the Feel (EP) (Dead Oceans)
Bully - "Milkman" (single) (Chicken Ranch Records)
Ceremony - Birds (EP) (Emerald and Doreen)
Diarrhea Planet - Aliens in the Outfield (EP) (Infinity Cat)
Flesh Wounds - "Bitter Boy" (Single) (Merge)
The Fratellis - The Soul Crush (EP) (BMG)
Krill - Steve Hears Pile in Maiden And Bursts Into Tears (EP) (Exploding in Sound)
Lucius - "Genevieve" (single) (Mom + Pop Records)
Lydia Loveless - "Mile High" (single) (Bloodshot)
Martyr Privates - Split (EP) (Tenth Court)
Outside World - "Wasting Time" (single) (self-released)
Palehound - "Kitchen" (single) (Exploding in Sound)
The Preatures - "Better Than It Ever Could Be" (single) (Universal)
Roomrunner - Separate (EP) (Accidental Guest Recordings)
Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends (single) (Sub Pop)
Speedy Ortiz - Real Hair (EP) (Carpark). If I were doing a combined EP and LP list, this would definitely be in my top 10.
Bruce Springsteen - American Beauty (EP) (Columbia)
Sunny Day Real Estate/Circa Survive - Split (single) (self-released)
Superchunk - "Good Morning" (single) (Merge)
Thigh Master - "Head of the Witch" (single) (Tenth Court)
Thigh Master - Split (EP) (Tenth Court)
Twerps - "Back To You" (single) (Merge)
Twerps - Underlay (EP) (Merge)
Veruca Salt - MMXIV (EP) (Minty Fresh)
Wolf Alice - Creature Songs (EP) (Dirty Hit Records)
Woods - "Tambourine Light/Tomorrow's Only Yesterday" (single) (Woodsist)
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