As 2014 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at all of the great music released with our year-end list of the top fifty albums of the year. This year in music was highlighted by several notable efforts, including reunion acts (Nickel Creek), surprise releases (Thom Yorke, Aphex Twin, D’Angelo) and studio stalwarts like Ryan Adams, Umphrey’s McGee and many more, all of whom made it on our final list. Scroll through all fifty albums below.

50. Foo Fighters | Sonic Highways

49. Nicole Atkins | Slow Phaser

48. G. Love & Special Sauce | Sugar

47. Courtney Barnett Double EP | A Sea of Split Peas

46. The Black Keys | Turn Blue

45. Thom Yorke | Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

44. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Wig Out at Jagbags

43. Chris Robinson Brotherhood | Phosphorescent Harvest

42. Caribou | Our Love

41. St. Paul & the Broken Bones | Half the City

40. Jenny Lewis | The Voyager

39. Interpol | El Pintor

38. Lake Street Dive | Bad Self Portraits

37. The Infamous Stringdusters | Let It Go

36. John Butler Trio | Flesh & Blood

35. St. Vincent | St. Vincent

34. First Aid Kit | Stay Gold

33. D’Angelo | Black Messiah

32. Budos Band | Burnt Offering

31. Spoon | They Want My Soul

30. Nickel Creek | A Dotted Line

29. Snarky Puppy | We Like It Here

28. Railroad Earth | Last of the Outlaws

27. Future Islands | Singles

26. Aphex Twin | Syro

25. TV On the Radio | Seeds

24. Steve Gunn | Way Out Weather

23. Greensky Bluegrass | If Sorrows Swim

22. Ty Segall | Manipulator

21. Mike Gordon | Overstep

20. Shovels & Rope | Swimmin’ Time

19. Jack White | Lazaretto

18. Mac DeMarco | Salad Days

17. The String Cheese Incident | Song In My Head

16. Woods | With Light and With Love

15. Hurray for the Riff Raff | Small Town Heroes

14. Rubblebucket | Survival Sounds

13. Sturgill Simpson | Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

12. Phish | Fuego

11. Tycho | Awake

10. Robert Plant | lullaby…and The Ceaseless Roar

9. Umphrey’s McGee | Similar Skin

8. Warpaint | Warpaint

7. Medeski, Martin and Wood + Nels Cline | Woodstock Sessions

6. Ryan Adams | Ryan Adams

5. Temples | Sun Structures

4. Real Estate | Atlas

3. Cloud Nothings | Here and Nowhere Else

2. The War on Drugs | Lost in the Dream

1. Beck | Morning Phase