Best Albums of 2024

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1.

Imaginal Disk 

 Magdalena Bay

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"This is one of the most amazing things to come out of synth pop in a while; the hooks and production are just sublime."  Reply

- Cargusbralem | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

302 charts

Rank Score:

3,189

Rank in 2024:

1

Rank in 2020s:

8

Overall Rank:

544

Average Rating:

 83 (265 votes)

Comments:

20

2.

Brat 

 Charli XCX

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"Charlie is truly a talent, but it cannot be overstated, she has a guaranteed high place in the middle class and it will not be possible to reach the top, but what she is doing deserves honorable recognition"  Reply

- StreakyNuno | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (5 helpful | 3 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

345 charts

Rank Score:

2,849

Rank in 2024:

2

Rank in 2020s:

11

Overall Rank:

591

Average Rating:

 77 (320 votes)

Comments:

26

3.

Only God Was Above Us 

 Vampire Weekend

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"When Vampire Weekend reformed and released Father of the Bride in 2019 I was just glad that my favourite band in my teenage years could still produce fun and exciting music, even if the output was a bit less consistent in quality than the stuff I'd grown to love years earlier. Only God Was Above ...""When Vampire Weekend reformed and released Father of the Bride in 2019 I was just glad that my favourite band in my teenage years could still produce fun and exciting music, even if the output was a bit less consistent in quality than the stuff I'd grown to love years earlier. Only God Was Above Us is a different prospect altogether, we're back to a shorter 10 track structure with each of these brimming with ideas and none having the throwaway quality of some of FotB's worse tracks. There's something else though, I've always found something very warm and reassuring in the band's earliest records and I'm finding it here as well, the baroque pop of Capricorn or Connect feels like the natural next step from Don't Lie and Everlasting Arms. It's a tough quality to completely describe but there's an effortless feel to these tracks, as though they simply grew from the emotions of the band members and the city setting. Maybe losing the pressure of delivering for a big comeback album has helped the band out or maybe they've just fully adjusted to Rostam's departure, either way they really feel back to their full powers here. Through their early records, the improvements in the lyrics really charted the band's overall progress. The self-titled's sometimes anxious commentary on campus life gave way to something more emotionally resonant on Contra, before Modern Vampires of the City took the elaborate lyricism that the band were known for and twisted it into something strangely evocative and profound. Only God Was Above Us comes in at a similar level, there's lots of lines that I couldn't totally explain to you, but I could tell you how they made me feel. It's strong musically as well, the quirks in each of the tracks still hold close to the overall feel of a track and never feel like they were thrown in to try to make a song more interesting. None of the tracks stand out quite as much as Classical, where the multiple tracks of percussion, warm keys and wilder guitars & brass blend in this beautiful way. Ezra's vocals, reaching that mournful but not hopeless place he's so good at getting to, really wrap it all up as one of the band's best ever songs. There's no stand-out bad or even lacklustre tracks across the rest of the record, but it doesn't reach this level again. I'm also not always 100% sure about some of the more dissonant elements on some of these tracks, the final moments of Capricorn are especially guilty of this, as one of the better songs here starts to fall apart under the weight of the sound. Still, these are pretty minor points to make about an indie band which has had to adapt to so many changes in the musical landscape while either on hiatus or between albums. As a teenage Vampire Weekend obsessive I think I built myself up for the release of Modern Vampires of the City more than I have for any album before or since, I got a pleasant surprise with these subsequent two releases where I held much less of an interest in what was coming prior to their release, but with this I've really taken notice again and will be glad to be back on the VW hype train when it next rolls into the station."  [+]  Reply

- JamesMowbray | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

325 charts

Rank Score:

2,295

Rank in 2024:

3

Rank in 2020s:

14

Overall Rank:

751

Average Rating:

 80 (305 votes)

Comments:

15

4.

Songs Of A Lost World 

 The Cure

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"A triumphant return for arguably the best band of their era. Yet, spending 16 years waiting for the right songs to come to them has been good for The Cure. Here, they are as refined and full of purpose as ever. Songs of a Lost World hearkens back to The Cure in their prime without being a carbon ...""A triumphant return for arguably the best band of their era. Yet, spending 16 years waiting for the right songs to come to them has been good for The Cure. Here, they are as refined and full of purpose as ever. Songs of a Lost World hearkens back to The Cure in their prime without being a carbon copy. Their familiar melancholy bolstered by robust production makes one wonder what this would have sounded like produced 35 or 40 years ago, but then it wouldn't have as much power. This is a singular entry in The Cure's catalog. Their best sine Wish and the only record of theirs since Disintegration without a single skip. Where most late period works remind us that artists are past their prime and often tarnish a strong legacy, Songs of a Lost World finds The Cure staking their claim. No one could do it and no one will do it better. "  [+]  Reply

- HoldenM | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (2 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

351 charts

Rank Score:

2,235

Rank in 2024:

4

Rank in 2020s:

15

Overall Rank:

768

Average Rating:

 81 (292 votes)

Comments:

14

5.

Romance 

 Fontaines D.C.

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"Love this album, their most commercial yet, and probably their best."  Reply

- bryatk | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

272 charts

Rank Score:

1,636

Rank in 2024:

5

Rank in 2020s:

35

Overall Rank:

1,076

Average Rating:

 78 (219 votes)

Comments:

4

6.

Wall Of Eyes 

 The Smile

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"I can't help but enjoy it when Jonny and Thom stretch their creative legs and release new music. Good record which shows the vast majority of acts performing today what you can do if you understand sound and are willing to do something that has more than three chords."  Reply

- meltchett | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

291 charts

Rank Score:

1,411

Rank in 2024:

6

Rank in 2020s:

44

Overall Rank:

1,232

Average Rating:

 78 (318 votes)

Comments:

13

7.

GNX 

 Kendrick Lamar

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"Pretty easily Kendrick’s most fun and intentionally “messy” project. The common thought at the moment (a day after release) is it feels like a mixtape with the possibility of another, more conceptual album yet to come. Regardless of if that’s true, this does feel like a mixtape, especially given ...""Pretty easily Kendrick’s most fun and intentionally “messy” project. The common thought at the moment (a day after release) is it feels like a mixtape with the possibility of another, more conceptual album yet to come. Regardless of if that’s true, this does feel like a mixtape, especially given the catalog of music GNX finds itself in. But just like Untitled Unmastered, Kenny’s first “victory lap” project, GNX is a more than worthy addition. Kendrick is able to feel free, be loose and experiment with all of the different tools in his verbal arsenal. As great of an artist as Kendrick is, it’s taken him (by my estimation) a couple of project cycles to properly explore the more loose, fun, and pop-rap side of his artistry and of the rap game at large. I think he finally nails that pocket on this release (worth noting, the first on his own independent label). And that should terrify every other rapper in the business. "  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

236 charts

Rank Score:

1,325

Rank in 2024:

7

Rank in 2020s:

50

Overall Rank:

1,300

Average Rating:

 77 (230 votes)

Comments:

15

8.

Prelude To Ecstasy 

 The Last Dinner Party

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"This was an incredible first listen. Operatic glam rock that tackles love and gender with nuance, vivid imagery and heart. A fantastic record"  Reply

- LebowskiRams | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (5 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

238 charts

Rank Score:

1,312

Rank in 2024:

8

Rank in 2020s:

52

Overall Rank:

1,310

Average Rating:

 76 (231 votes)

Comments:

10

9.

The New Sound 

 Geordie Greep

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"This might actually be a strong contender for AOTY."  Reply

- Veel | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

189 charts

Rank Score:

1,297

Rank in 2024:

9

Rank in 2020s:

55

Overall Rank:

1,331

Average Rating:

 80 (180 votes)

Comments:

11

10.

Hit Me Hard And Soft 

 Billie Eilish

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"Initially, and unduly I influenced by the publicity I was so demeaning about Eilish and this album. It is full of really good, well-written and ably-performed tracks and deserves it's place here among the too 2,000 albums of all time. Birds of a Feather is superb and hits hard. What follows does ...""Initially, and unduly I influenced by the publicity I was so demeaning about Eilish and this album. It is full of really good, well-written and ably-performed tracks and deserves it's place here among the too 2,000 albums of all time. Birds of a Feather is superb and hits hard. What follows does not let off the power of the musical punch."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2024

Appears in:

212 charts

Rank Score:

1,088

Rank in 2024:

10

Rank in 2020s:

70

Overall Rank:

1,586

Average Rating:

 76 (212 votes)

Comments:

14

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Best Albums of 2024 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Ryan Adams	3	0%
Blue Öyster Cult	3	0%
Various Artists	2	0%
The Cure	2	0%
Dua Lipa	2	0%
The Smile	2	0%
Charli XCX	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	451	45%
	223	22%
	47	5%
	39	4%
	38	4%
	27	3%
	16	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	995	100%
Yes	5	1%

Live?	Albums	%
No	970	97%
Yes	30	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	993	99%
Yes	7	1%