Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2024. The full list of 87 albums is available to his newsletter subscribers.

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Passage du Desir
   Johnny Blue Skies
2. $10 Cowboy
   Charley Crockett
2. Visions of Dallas
   Charley Crockett
3. The Hard Quartet
   The Hard Quartet
4. Tigers Blood
   Waxahatchee
5. Nobody Loves You More
   Kim Deal
6. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
   The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
7. Indoor Safari
   Nick Lowe
8. No Name
   Jack White
9. Songs of a Lost World
   The Cure
10. Manning Fireworks
    MJ Lenderman
11. Sadness Sets Me Free
    Gruff Rhys
12. The Interrogator
    The Paranoid Style
13. Stellar Evolution
    Aaron Lee Tasjan
14. Every Time I Think About You
    The Cactus Blossoms
15. Here in the Pitch
    Jessica Pratt
16. Luck and Strange
    David Gilmour
17. Mahashmashana
    Father John Misty
18. Woodland
    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
19. Only God Was Above Us
    Vampire Weekend
20. Liam Gallagher & John Squire
    Liam Gallagher & John Squire
21. Smoke & Fiction
    X
22. Untame the Tiger
    Mary Timony
23. Nite Owls
    JD McPherson
24. Brighter Days
    Dwight Yoakam
25. The Past Is Still Alive
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
26. A Dream Is All We Know
    The Lemon Twigs
27. Power
    illuminati hotties
28. Highway Prayers
    Billy Strings
28. Live Vol. 1
    Billy Strings
29. Nonetheless
    Pet Shop Boys
30. Technically Acceptable
    Ethan Iverson
31. Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St
    Swamp Dogg
32. Postcards from Texas
    Miranda Lambert
33. The Coward Brothers
    The Coward Brothers
34. The FORCE
    LL Cool J
35. The Bed I Made
    The Softies
36. Brat
    Charli XCX
37. Cunningham Bird
    Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
38. Evergreen
    Soccer Mommy
39. Underdressed at the Symphony
    Faye Webster
40. Silverada
    Silverada