Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: My Favorite Music of 2024, where it's posted alongside singles and archival releases/reissues

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

Top 10 Albums and EPs

• Charli XCX
  Brat
• Citizen Deep
  Arcade Trilogy
• The Cure
  Songs of a Lost World
• Dj Anderson do Paraiso
  Queridão
• Kim Gordon
  The Collective
• Hamish Hawk
  A Firmer Hand
• Ka
  The Thief Next to Jesus
• Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
  Quiet in a World Full of Noise
• Mary Timony
  Untame the Tiger
• Kali Uchis
  Orquídeas

Runners-up

• Adeem the Artist
  Anniversary
• Arooj Aftab
  Night Reign
• Blood Incantation
  Absolute Elsewhere
• Eric Chenaux Trio
  Delights Of My Life
• Chrisman
  Is the Universe a Friendly Place?
• Chrisman
  Kotto
• Doechii
  Alligator Bites Never Heal
• Billie Eilish
  Hit Me Hard and Soft
• Father John Misty
  Mahashmashana
• Fat White Family
  Forgiveness Is Yours
• Amaro Freitas
  Y'Y
• Masayoshi Fujita
  Migratory
• Nubya Garcia
  Odyssey
• Geordie Greep
  The New Sound
• Mary Halvorson
  Cloudward
• Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
  Compassion
• Jlin
  Akoma
• Johnny Blue Skies
  Passage du Desir
• JPEGMAFIA
  I Lay Down My Life for You
• Kendrick Lamar
  GNX
• Magdalena Bay
  Imaginal Disk
• Victoria Monét
  Jaguar II: Deluxe
• Net Gala
  Galapaggot
• Oranssi Pazuzu
  Muuntautuja
• The Paranoid Style
  The Interrogator
• Reyna Tropical
  Malegría
• Seefeel
  Everything Squared
• Sleater-Kinney
  Little Rope
• Sote
  Ministry of Tall Tales
• Alan Sparhawk
  White Roses, My God
• Vince Staples
  Dark Times
• Still House Plants
  If I Don't Make It, I Love U
• Tomin
  A Willed and Conscious Balance
• Verraco
  Breathe... Godspeed
• Violence Gratuite
  Baleine à Boss
• Wussy
  Cincinnati Ohio
• XG
  Awe