December 20, 2014 | 10:59am
Nicki Minaj, St. Vincent and Azealia Banks made The Post's top 10 albums of 2014 list.
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Taylor Swift, Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande all ruled the Billboard Hot 100 in 2014 — but while these heavy hitters created plenty of irresistible three-minute singles, none of them could quite keep the magic going for an entire album.
Swift's 2-million-selling "1989" fell off in the last few tracks. Azalea's "The New Classic" talked the talked but didn't quite walk the walk. And Grande's "My Everything" wasn't quite as complete as the young diva would have us believe.
But if you dug beyond the top of the charts, there were plenty of front-to-back aural pleasures to be found. This is The Post's top 10 albums of 2014.
1
La Roux: "Trouble in Paradise"
A treasure trove of synth-pop brilliance.
Every track is astonishingly slick, mind-bendingly catchy and, due partly to the recent personal turmoil endured by main member Elly Jackson, emotionally arresting. What more could you want?
2
Azealia Banks: "Broke With Expensive Taste"
Just when the once-hotly tipped Harlem rapper seemed to have become a full-time Twitter troll, she finally released her long-delayed debut album — and floored with her lyrical skills and wild, genre-spanning musical imagination.
Most definitely worth the wait, and the hate.
3
Swans: "To Be Kind"
Over two hours of sometimes brutal, often beautiful noise rock, New York experimentalists Swans showed that even after 30 years, they can still stretch the limits of musical experience.
"To Be Kind" is immersive and exhausting in a way that nothing else comes close to.
4
Run the Jewels: "Run the Jewels 2"
Killer Mike and El-P bring the anger, grittiness and paranoia of the street back into hip-hop with their second album.
In a time of social upheaval, their tales and narratives feel even more relevant.
5
St. Vincent: "St. Vincent"
It's a rare album that can satisfy the chin-stroking rock nerds and also make everyone else dance like maniacs, but "St. Vincent" is a shining example.
With angular grooves, taut melodies and frenetic guitar shredding, Annie Clark subtly reinvented indie-rock in 2014.
6
Sia: "1000 Forms of Fear"
Sia is too good to simply write for the likes of Beyoncé and Rihanna.
Her jaw-dropping voice powered her own album, but it was the vulnerability of the songs that made it so gripping.
7
Parquet Courts: "Sunbathing Animal"
Brooklyn's Parquet Courts nod to a storied lineage — one that includes fellow New Yorkers the Velvet Underground, Television and the Strokes — but give it their own jittery spin, with a lyrical wit that's both literate and relatable.
8
Sharon Van Etten: "Are We There"
Breakup albums are supposed to make you sad, but thanks to her graceful indie-rock balladeering and gut-wrenching confessions, Sharon Van Etten damn near rips out your heart.
9
Ty Segall: "Manipulator"
The astoundingly prolific San Franciscan hit a peak with his latest album, fusing ferocious garage rock and delicate psychedelia with ease.
10
Nicki Minaj: "'The Pinkprint"
The cartoonish image of the Queen of Queens took a back seat for "The Pinkprint."
Booty-shaking single "Anaconda" was fun, but Minaj also showed her depth as a rapper, a lyricist and an individual.
11
Honorable Mention: Beyoncé: "Beyoncé"
It came out in the last days of 2013 — too late for most year-end lists — but Bey's fifth album defined 2014.
Not only was it a leap forward for her musically, its surprise release changed the way artists release music and even altered pop-culture phraseology. Forevermore, doing something without notice shall be referred to as "doing a Beyoncé."
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