Metacritic Features and Reports: Music

The return of Music Monday features a guide to this week's album releases as well as the week's top new music videos from artists like Modest Mouse, Interpol, Ariel Pink, Charlie XCX, and more.

We preview some of the year's most noteworthy upcoming albums, including new (or potential) albums from Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Björk, Drake, Radiohead, The Wrens, Death Cab for Cutie, James Blake, Deafheaven, and many more.

The results are in! Find out which video games, movies, TV shows, albums, and songs were the favorites among Metacritic users in 2014.

We reveal our final official list of 2014's highest-scoring albums.

Make your picks for the best movies, albums, songs, video games, and TV shows of 2014. We'll tally the results to come up with a Metacritic user consensus in early January.

Our guide to this week's album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Gwen Stefani, Perfume Genius, Charli XCX, Run the Jewels, and more.

We rank the year's best-reviewed debut albums, including releases from FKA twigs, Ex Hex, East India Youth, Arca, Ought, and more.

Over the next month, we'll be collecting year-end top 10 album lists from over 130 music critics, publications, record stores, and other sources. Find individual lists and this year's cumulative rankings inside.