Year-End Lists

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

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

Top 10 Albums and EPs

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

Runners-up

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