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Top 89 of 2024: Best albums

Top 89 2024 - Best Albums
Top 89 2024 - Best AlbumsPhoto 1: Bradley J. Calder, Photo 2: Terrence O'Connor, Photo 3: Jules Moskovtchenko | Graphic: MPR

December 29, 2024

The year 2024 was filled with amazing music. The Current has compiled a list of the Best Albums that we played in the last year. Here they are — in no particular order.

  • Cage The Elephant Neon Pill 

  • beabadoobee This Is How Tomorrow Moves 

  • Charli XCX Brat 

  • The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again 

  • Maggie Rogers Don't Forget Me 

  • Leon Bridges Leon 

  • Cloud Cult Alchemy Creek 

  • Gary Clark Jr. JPEG RAW 

  • St. Vincent All Born Screaming 

  • Khruangbin A La Sala 

  • Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats South of Here 

  • Michael Kiwanuka Small Changes 

  • Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 

  • Kim Deal Nobody Loves You More 

  • Fontaines D.C. Romance 

  • Jack White No Name 

  • The Heavy Heavy One Of A Kind 

  • Hippo Campus Flood 

  • Adrianne Lenker Bright Future 

  • Father John Misty Mahashmashana 

  • The Cure Songs of a Lost World 

  • Remi Wolf Big Ideas 

  • Pearl Jam Dark Matter 

  • Green Day Saviors 

  • Waxahatchee Tigers Blood 

  • MJ Lenderman Manning Fireworks 

  • The Avett Brothers The Avett Brothers 

  • Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Woodland 

  • Sleater Kinney Little Rope 

  • Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess