We look overseas for the top ten albums of the year not in English. We may not understand the lyrics, but these musicians dazzled us with brilliant records in 2014

As you might have noticed by the drop-down menu above, Time Out has outposts around the globe. With branches everywhere from Accra to Zagreb, we like to remind you that it's a big, big world. Thanks to YouTube and online streaming, there's no reason to limit your music consumption to the shores of American and British pop music. Besides, take a look at the charts. Acts like Tove Lo and Milky Chance are scoring spots in Billboard. Norwegian duo Nico & Vinz were the stars at our recent Magnificent Mile Lights Festival. More and more acts at Lollapalooza are coming from abroad. It might be time to admit the era of American pop dominance is over.

In 2014, some of the best albums we heard were in French, Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish. So we wanted to call attention to these great records that might otherwise go unnoticed in more English-centric lists. Dig into funk, folk, hip-hop, rock and and pop from overseas with our top ten foreign language albums of 2014.