A Sunnyvale 2024
Here's my top 100 releases of 2024 (all formats together, whether LPs, EPs, live albums, etc). It's ranked, but mostly loosely. Sadly, I don't have the time or wherewithal to add full descriptions, but will include vague genre notes on each entry. Pretty fantastic year for music. Cheers! |
| 100 |  | Vast Pyre Vast Pyre
Electric Wizard-y Sludge/doom |
| 99 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Muuntautuja
Black Metal/Industrial/Post-Metal |
| 98 |  | Verwoed The Mother
Black metal |
| 97 |  | Alora Crucible Oak Lace Apparition
New Age/ambient |
| 96 |  | Brown Horse Reservoir
Country Rock |
| 95 |  | The Heist Revenge For Losers Craving Love
Emo/Punk/Rock concept album |
| 94 |  | Wand Vertigo
Psych Rock |
| 93 |  | The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Indie Rock/Folk |
| 92 |  | Pillow Queens Name Your Sorrow
Indie Rock |
| 91 |  | Coming Up Roses (UK) Coming Up Roses
Dream Pop/Shoegaze |
| 90 |  | Iress Sleep Now, In Reverse
Doomgaze |
| 89 |  | Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death
Black Metal |
| 88 |  | Hawkwind Stories from Time and Space
Psych/Rock |
| 87 |  | Alan Licht Havens
American Primitivism/Rock/Experimental |
| 86 |  | Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon
Black Metal |
| 85 |  | Janelane Love Letters
Indie/Dream Pop |
| 84 |  | Joana Serrat Big Wave
Indie Pop/Folk |
| 83 |  | Grace Cummings Ramona
Indie Folk |
| 82 |  | Bon Iver SABLE,
Indie Folk |
| 81 |  | Halfway Line Halfway Line
Post-Rock |
| 80 |  | Loreena McKennitt The Road Back Home
Celtic Folk |
| 79 |  | Jessica Pratt Here In the Pitch
Wispy folk |
| 78 |  | Hamferd Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Doom Metal |
| 77 |  | The Cure Songs of a Lost World
Gloomy Post-Punk/Rock |
| 76 |  | whyohwhy Bruises
Dream Pop/Folk |
| 75 |  | Craven Faults Bounds
Electronic/Experimental |
| 74 |  | Villagers That Golden Time
Indie Folk/Rock |
| 73 |  | Richard Hawley In This City They Call You Love
Folk/Rock/Blues |
| 72 |  | Francis of Delirium Lighthouse
Dreamy Indie Pop |
| 71 |  | Locktender Sage: I
Post-Metal |
| 70 |  | The Hanging Stars On A Golden Shore
Americana/Country/Folk |
| 69 |  | The War On Drugs Live Drugs Again
Indie Rock/Americana |
| 68 |  | Haley Heynderickx Seed of a Seed
Indie Folk |
| 67 |  | Father John Misty Mahashmashana
Indie Folk |
| 66 |  | One with the Riverbed Succumb
Black Metal/Post-Metal |
| 65 |  | Steve Hackett The Circus and the Nightwhale
Progressive Rock |
| 64 |  | Cave Sermon Divine Laughter
Blackened Post-Metal/Death Metal |
| 63 |  | Fleet Foxes Live On Boston Harbor
Indie Folk |
| 62 |  | Cassandra Jenkins My Light, My Destroyer
Indie Pop/Dream Pop |
| 61 |  | Respire Hiraeth
Blackened Screamo |
| 60 |  | Caligula's Horse Charcoal Grace
Progressive Rock/Metal |
| 59 |  | Dvne Voidkind
Sludge/Prog/Psych |
| 58 |  | Ihsahn Ihsahn
Orchestral Prog/Black Metal |
| 57 |  | Ben Quad Ephemera
Screamo/Emo/Punk |
| 56 |  | Big|Brave A Chaos of Flowers
Doomgaze/Drone/Folk |
| 55 |  | Young Jesus The Fool
Singer-songwriter rock/folk |
| 54 |  | Thou Umbilical
Sludge |
| 53 |  | Coffin Storm Arcana Rising
Blackened Doom/Heavy Metal |
| 52 |  | Restorations Restorations
Punk |
| 51 |  | Lupe Fiasco Samurai
Hip-Hop |
| 50 |  | Good Looks Lived Here For A While
Americana/Indie Rock |
| 49 |  | Wussy Cincinnati Ohio
Indie Rock/Jangle Pop/Americana |
| 48 |  | Fennesz Mosaic
Ambient |
| 47 |  | Manu Delago Snow From Yesterday
Jazz/Folk/etc. |
| 46 |  | The Felice Brothers Valley of Abandoned Songs
Folk/Americana |
| 45 |  | The Airborne Toxic Event Glory
Springsteen-ish indie rock |
| 44 |  | Fake Eyes Saccharine Scream
Shoegaze/Alt-Rock/Humcore |
| 43 |  | Domestic Terminal Sanctuary
Emo/Indie Rock/folk |
| 42 |  | Beth Gibbons Lives Outgrown
Singer-songwriter folk/art pop |
| 41 |  | Aran Maahan Laskettu
Wintry black metal |
| 40 |  | Ramper Solo postres
Andalusian Folk/Slowcore/Post-Rock |
| 39 |  | Wild Pink Strawberry Eraser
Indie Rock/Americana/Shoegaze |
| 38 |  | Slift Ilion
Stoner Metal/Rock |
| 37 |  | fauxdeep Then You’ll Go Home
Shoegaze/Alt-Rock |
| 36 |  | somesurprises Perseids
Dreamy Psych/Shoegaze/Indie |
| 35 |  | Luneth Luneth
Dream Pop/Blackgaze/Neofolk |
| 34 |  | Forn Repercussions of the Self
Sludge Metal and such |
| 33 |  | Why Bonnie Wish on the Bone
Indie Rock/Americana |
| 32 |  | Trace Mountains Into the Burning Blue
Melancholic Indie Rock/folk/Americana |
| 31 |  | John Moreland Visitor
Americana/Country |
| 30 |  | Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
Death Metal/Prog Rock/Psychedelic |
| 29 |  | West of Roan Queen of Eyes
Sparse rustic folk |
| 28 |  | Aara Eiger
Mountaineering Black Metal |
| 27 |  | DIIV Frog In Boiling Water
Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Indie |
| 26 |  | Bill Ryder-Jones Iechyd Da
Melancholic indie singer-songwriter fare |
| 25 |  | Oryx Primordial Sky
Doom/Stoner/Sludge |
| 24 |  | Wild Pink Dulling the Horns
Indie Rock/Americana/Shoegaze |
| 23 |  | The Flight of Sleipnir Nature's Cadence
Doom Metal/Black Metal/Folk |
| 22 |  | Quivers Oyster Cuts
Catchy Jangle/Dream Pop/Indie |
| 21 |  | Ceres Magic Mountain (1996—2022)
Punk/Emo |
| 20 |  | Paysage d'Hiver Die Berge
Black Metal |
| 19 |  | Ahem Avoider
Power Pop/Punk/Emo |
| 18 |  | Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Folk/Country/Americana |
| 17 |  | Los Campesinos! All Hell
Emo/Indie/Alt-Rock |
| 16 |  | Dora Jar No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire
Indie Pop/Folk |
| 15 |  | Alcest Les Chants de L'Aurore
Blackgaze, etc. |
| 14 |  | Everything Everything Mountainhead
Indie Pop/Rock |
| 13 |  | Phantom Handshakes Sirens At Golden Hour
Dream Pop/Darkwave/Indie |
| 12 |  | Hail Spirit Noir Fossil Gardens
Black Metal/Prog/Psych |
| 11 |  | Frontier Ruckus On The Northline
Indie Folk/Americana |
| 10 |  | Lightning Bug No Paradise
Dream Pop/Indie/Folk |
| 9 |  | Anna Tivel Living Thing
Indie Folk |
| 8 |  | Half Waif See You at the Maypole
Art Pop |
| 7 |  | Vampire Weekend Only God Was Above Us
Indie Rock/Chamber Pop |
| 6 |  | Waxahatchee Tigers Blood
Folk/Country/Singer-Songwriter |
| 5 |  | State Faults Children of the Moon
Screamo/Post-Hardcore |
| 4 |  | Adrianne Lenker Bright Future
Indie folk/Americana |
| 3 |  | A Place For Owls how we dig in the earth
Emo/indie rock/folk |
| 2 |  | Little Kid A Million Easy Payments
Indie folk/Americana/slowcore |
| 1 |  | Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters The Ones That Stay
Country/Americana/folk |
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