What is your AOTY?

Evonisia

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Lily Allen - Sheezus.

Yes it's nowhere near as good as "It's Not Me, It's You", but nothing ever will be and this album lived up to the hype it spawned within me when Hard Out Here came out. "Our Time", "Sheezus", "Take My Place", "Hard Out Here" and "Insincerely Yours" all deserve their own little mention.

Plus it's pretty much the only album in the "relatively huge female pop star" category (well, Allen is by UK standards anyway) of 2014 that kept me occupied after I had already indulged in "ARTPOP", "Beyoncé" ("BEYONCÉ?") and "Pure Heroine" and was err somewhat disappointed shall we say in the other three of late 2013.

I'm not sure what my Acronym of the Year is though.

Sheezus the song is surprisingly awesome to have on when playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
 

KP Shadow

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Mine is History Repeating: Red, by The Megas.

Harder than Steel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpJRycj5Q4], GeminEYE [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjZLQR40uRs], and Melody from the Past [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC7WA8GevGs] (Their end of album rock ballads are always amazing)

And I absolutely love that Archie is taking their Mega Man comic in a similar direction to the one that The Megas took their interpetation of Mega Man in.
 

poundingmetal74

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Album of the year:
Protokult - No Beer in Heaven.

Progressive Folk Metal. So, so good. One of the best female singers I've ever heard in my life, very catchy yet incredibly well-written songs. Plus, several songs about booze. \m/
 

Nouw

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clppng by clipping for sure. I haven't fallen in love with an album on the first listen for a while.
 

razer17

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I can't even remember a good album released this year. Well, any albums that I really like, anyway. Can't really think of many 2014 albums I've listened to full stop.

A check of Wikipedia's list of album releases and my Amazon Music library would suggest that the only album of this year I've really listened to is Skrillex - Recess. And I don't think I've listened to all the songs on that album. And looking at the Wiki list there's only a couple of albums I'm even moderately interested in.

Guess I'm still stuck in 2013. There were so many fantastic albums last year.