Top 35 Music Albums of 2024
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DommeDamian 
- Chart updated: 10/23/2025 19:15
- (Created: 03/05/2024 16:17).
- Chart size: 35 albums.
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If you asked me to pick a musician to hold the title for most artistically pristine of the last 10 years, a good choice of mine would be Julia Holter. My favorite album of hers, Aviary, is wanna the greatest, most explosively creative albums of the 2010s, possibly of the century. This is the follow-up to the album, so obviously it's gonna be a tough act to follow, even though we shouldn't really compare as Julia's philosophy is how each piece stands on its own. The album kicks off with Sun Girl, a tremendous meditation on dreamcore-esque lounge music. The repetitive nature of the song makes it even further hypnotic in the back of my mind. Superb song all around. These Morning is even more easy-going, however, it borders on dreamy new age that, at best, is indescribable. The title track, although pleasant, can seem a bit more tedious in its idealistic approach to flanger-guitar, as well as underdeveloped minimalism. It's a fine song, but a huge step-down compared to the first 2. Then Materia picks it up a little bit, but just a little bit as it sounds like a lost ballad underneath the sonic disguise as an ambient dream pop song; my biggest gripe is that it drives by pretty quickly despite its slow tempo. Then it gets to Meyou which is a 6-minute acapella Lied. Although it could be more atmospheric, I still thoroughly enjoy it with no remorse. Around the 2-minute mark, it starts to sound humorous, a different approach to this kind of music that's quite something. Spinning comes in with a sloppy rhythm that is played through the whole song, and honestly gets annoying, tacky, and distracting. The pop song surrounding it is not that good either, by far the weakest song on the album (who knows what she was doing here). Thankfully, Ocean with its Spirit-of-Eden-inspired synth and organs helps it back up to good status. Actually great status. Instrumental piece that gets a bit more sore and unsettling but then very naturally dives back into peacefulness, I have not a piece with quite this build-up before, and in Holterland it's a tradition to be taken by surprise like that. Definitely a highlight. It goes to even another warm place on Evening Mood, a semi-psychedelic art pop tune that has created its own flow and tempo, and Holter is the captain of the unknown landscape that is both unfamiliar and super welcoming. When this marvellous piece of music slided that guitar in, I knew this as arguably the masterpiece of 2024. The very odd-but-it-works art pop song Talking To The Whisper has a drum pattern that is still a bit confusing, but because of the instrumentation around it, becomes a bit floaty and almost trippy; those being flutes and organs that are just pure jazzy goodies. Though Holter's vocal melodies here are the weak link of the song, it's still largely forgivable. Its eventful ending with the clashing of musicianship makes it transcendent. The closer Who Brings Me is very very very eerie, especially with the organ swimming around Holter's voice. It's engineered in a way that makes it engaging and make you wanna listen to it all the way simultaneously. She sings almost like a sleepwalker, it's a fitting way to end an album that is almost as polarisingly diverse in sound as its sprawling predecessor. Contemporary musical artistry have another example in the bag. [First added to this chart: 06/30/2024]
If you asked me to pick a musician to hold the title for most artistically pristine of the last 10 years, a good choice of mine would be Julia Holter. My favorite album of hers, Aviary, is wanna the greatest, most explosively creative albums of the 2010s, possibly of the century. This is the follow-up to the album, so obviously it's gonna be a tough act to follow, even though we shouldn't really compare as Julia's philosophy is how each piece stands on its own. The album kicks off with Sun Girl, a tremendous meditation on dreamcore-esque lounge music. The repetitive nature of the song makes it even further hypnotic in the back of my mind. Superb song all around. These Morning is even more easy-going, however, it borders on dreamy new age that, at best, is indescribable. The title track, although pleasant, can seem a bit more tedious in its idealistic approach to flanger-guitar, as well as underdeveloped minimalism. It's a fine song, but a huge step-down compared to the first 2. Then Materia picks it up a little bit, but just a little bit as it sounds like a lost ballad underneath the sonic disguise as an ambient dream pop song; my biggest gripe is that it drives by pretty quickly despite its slow tempo. Then it gets to Meyou which is a 6-minute acapella Lied. Although it could be more atmospheric, I still thoroughly enjoy it with no remorse. Around the 2-minute mark, it starts to sound humorous, a different approach to this kind of music that's quite something. Spinning comes in with a sloppy rhythm that is played through the whole song, and honestly gets annoying, tacky, and distracting. The pop song surrounding it is not that good either, by far the weakest song on the album (who knows what she was doing here). Thankfully, Ocean with its Spirit-of-Eden-inspired synth and organs helps it back up to good status. Actually great status. Instrumental piece that gets a bit more sore and unsettling but then very naturally dives back into peacefulness, I have not a piece with quite this build-up before, and in Holterland it's a tradition to be taken by surprise like that. Definitely a highlight. It goes to even another warm place on Evening Mood, a semi-psychedelic art pop tune that has created its own flow and tempo, and Holter is the captain of the unknown landscape that is both unfamiliar and super welcoming. When this marvellous piece of music slided that guitar in, I knew this as arguably the masterpiece of 2024. The very odd-but-it-works art pop song Talking To The Whisper has a drum pattern that is still a bit confusing, but because of the instrumentation around it, becomes a bit floaty and almost trippy; those being flutes and organs that are just pure jazzy goodies. Though Holter's vocal melodies here are the weak link of the song, it's still largely forgivable. Its eventful ending with the clashing of musicianship makes it transcendent. The closer Who Brings Me is very very very eerie, especially with the organ swimming around Holter's voice. It's engineered in a way that makes it engaging and make you wanna listen to it all the way simultaneously. She sings almost like a sleepwalker, it's a fitting way to end an album that is almost as polarisingly diverse in sound as its sprawling predecessor. Contemporary musical artistry have another example in the bag. [First added to this chart: 06/30/2024]
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Top 35 Music Albums of 2024 composition
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| Nala Sinephro | 1 | 3% | |
| Home / Sweet | 1 | 3% | |
| Katie Gavin | 1 | 3% | |
| The Cure | 1 | 3% | |
| Pocket Land | 1 | 3% | |
| Micah Dailey-White | 1 | 3% | |
| Quadeca | 1 | 3% | |
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20 | 57% | |
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6 | 17% | |
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2 | 6% | |
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1 | 3% | |
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1 | 3% | |
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Top 35 Music Albums of 2024 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 36th to 35thGet To The Point! by Dr. Deceptive |
| Up 1 from 35th to 34thOdyssey by Nubya Garcia |
| Up 1 from 34th to 33rdThe Great American Bar Scene by Zach Bryan |
| Leavers |
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| Les Chants De L'aurore by Alcest |
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