Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Mannequin Pussy
   I Got Heaven
2. Charli XCX
   Brat
3. Friko
   Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here
4. MJ Lenderman
   Manning Fireworks
5. The Last Dinner Party
   Prelude to Ecstasy
6. The Cure
   Songs of a Lost World
7. Jessica Pratt
   Here in the Pitch
8. Cindy Lee
   Diamond Jubilee
9. Sprints
   Letter to Self
10. Magdalena Bay
    Imaginal Disk
11. Ducks Ltd.
    Harm's Way
12. Adrianne Lenker
    Bright Future
13. Cassandra Jenkins
    My Light, My Destroyer
14. Heems & Lapgan
    Lafandar
15. Vampire Weekend
    Only God Was Above Us
16. Fat Dog
    WOOF.
17. Tyler, The Creator
    Chromakopia
18. Cloud Nothings
    Final Summer
19. The Umbrellas
    Fairweather Friend
20. This Is Lorelei
    Box for Buddy, Box for Star
21. Kim Gordon
    The Collective
22. Horse Jumper of Love
    Disaster Trick
23. Being Dead
    Eels
24. Mount Kimbie
    The Sunset Violent
25. Nilüfer Yanya
    My Method Actor
26. St. Vincent
    All Born Screaming
27. Good Looks
    Lived Here For a While
28. Hannah Frances
    Keeper of the Shepherd
29. The Smile
    Wall of Eyes
30. Liquid Mike
    Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
31. Gouge Away
    Deep Sage
32. Waxahatchee
    Tigers Blood
33. Nadine Shah
    Filthy Underneath
34. Laura Marling
    Patterns in Repeat
35. Merce Lemon
    Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild
36. Blood Incantation
    Absolute Elsewhere
37. Julie
    My Anti-Aircraft Friend
38. Johnny Blue Skies
    Passage du Desir
39. Chelsea Wolfe
    She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
40. Wand
    Vertigo
41. Shabaka
    Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
42. Metz
    Up on Gravity Hill
43. Hovvdy
    Hovvdy
44. Schoolboy Q
    Blue Lips
45. Christopher Owens
    I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
46. Arab Strap
    I'm Totally Fine with It Don't Give a Fuck Anymore
47. Les Amazones d’Afrique
    Musow Danse
48. Yasmin Williams
    Acadia
49. Father John Misty
    Mahashmashana
50. Elucid
    Revelator