| 4.0 excellent |
| 16 Horsepower Sackcloth 'n' Ashes |
| 2Pac Me Against the World |
| 8Ball and MJG On Top Of The World |
| A.A. Bondy When the Devil's Loose |
| AC/DC Highway To Hell |
| Add-2 Jim Crow the Musical |
| AJJ Knife Man |
| AJJ Can't Maintain |
| Al Green Call Me |
| Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls |
| Algiers Algiers |
| Algiers The Underside of Power |
| Alice Clark Alice Clark |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Alvvays Alvvays |
| Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters The Ones That Stay |
| American Football American Football |
| Amerigo Gazaway Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One) |
| Amy Winehouse Back to Black |
| Anberlin Cities |
| Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet |
| Andy McKee Art of Motion |
| Andy McKee The Gates of Gnomeria |
| Anohni and the Johnsons My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross |
| Anohni and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now |
| Any Trouble Where Are All the Nice Girls? |
| Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Volume II |
| Arcade Fire The Suburbs |
| Armand Hammer Paraffin |
| Armand Hammer We Buy Diabetic Test Strips |
| Armand Hammer and The Alchemist Haram |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Audioslave Out of Exile |
| Avantdale Bowling Club Avantdale Bowling Club |
| AZ Doe or Die |
| Bad Books III |
| Bambara Stray |
| Barbara Keith Barbara Keith |
| Barker Utility |
| Bee Gees Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack |
| Belle and Sebastian Dear Catastrophe Waitress |
| Belle and Sebastian Tigermilk |
| Ben Howard Is It? |
| Ben Howard Noonday Dream |
| Bendrix Littleton Deep Dark South |
| Benjamin Clementine At Least For Now |
| Benjamin Clementine I Tell A Fly |
| Benjamin Clementine And I Have Been |
| Benny The Butcher The Plugs I Met |
| Benny The Butcher Burden Of Proof |
| Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous |
| Big Thief Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You |
| Billy Woods Church (feat. Messiah Musik) |
| Billy Woods Golliwog |
| Billy Woods History Will Absolve Me |
| Blu and Exile Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them |
| Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde |
| Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited |
| Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks |
| Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch A Fire |
| Bob Seger Against The Wind |
| Bohren und der Club of Gore Sunset Mission |
| Boldy James and Real Bad Man Killing Nothing |
| This might be my favorite Boldy James project. His work with The Alchemist has been great for the most part, but there's something about the beats on here that feel like they perfectly complement Boldy's style. This is the one that really hits for me. |
| Boldy James and The Alchemist The Price Of Tea In China |
| Boldy James and The Alchemist Bo Jackson |
| Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bonny Light Horseman Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free |
| Boscoe Boscoe |
| Brandi Carlile The Story |
| Brian Fallon Local Honey |
| Bruce Springsteen The Rising |
| Bruce Springsteen Magic |
| Bruce Springsteen The Promise |
| Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball |
| Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love |
| Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. |
| Buddy Rich The Roar of '74 |
| Burial Kindred |
| Burial Burial |
| Camp Lo On The Way Uptown |
| Canibus Rip The Jacker |
| Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein |
| Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled |
| Carly Rae Jepsen Emotion |
| Caroline Polachek Pang |
| Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps Little Wind |
| Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool |
| Catherine Wheel Chrome |
| Chad VanGaalen Shrink Dust |
| Chappell Roan The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess |
| Charles Bradley Changes |
| Charles Wesley Godwin How the Mighty Fall |
| Charley Crockett Music City USA |
| Charley Crockett $10 Cowboy |
| Chat Pile God's Country |
| Chris Stapleton Starting Over |
| Christian Scott Ruler Rebel |
| Cliff Martinez Drive |
| Clipse Lord Willin' |
| Cocteau Twins Heaven or Las Vegas |
| Coil The Ape Of Naples |
| Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges |
| Colin Stetson When We Were That What Wept for the Sea |
| Conor Oberst Ruminations |
| Conway the Machine God Don't Make Mistakes |
| Cormega The Realness |
| Craig Finn Always Been |
| Crippling Alcoholism With Love from a Padded Room |
| Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Deja Vu |
| Crowded House Crowded House |
| Cult Favorite For Madmen Only |
| CunninLynguists Oneirology |
| CunninLynguists Rose Azura Njano |
| CunninLynguists Dirty Acres |
| CunninLynguists A Piece Of Strange |
| Curtis Mayfield Superfly |
| D'Angelo Voodoo |
| Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy |
| Danger Mouse and Black Thought Cheat Codes |
| Danny Brown Old |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Darrell Banks Here to Stay |
| David Bowie Let's Dance |
| David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency |
| Def Leppard Hysteria |
| Demon Fuzz Afreaka! |
| Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies |
| Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! |
| DeVotchKa How It Ends |
| DeYarmond Edison Silent Signs |
| Digable Planets Blowout Comb |
| Dire Straits Brothers In Arms |
| Dirty Three Horse Stories |
| Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing |
| DJ Seinfeld Mirrors |
| Donald Byrd Places and Spaces |
| Donny Hathaway Donny Hathaway |
| Donny Hathaway Extension of a Man |
| Drab Majesty The Demonstration |
| Eagles Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) |
| Eddie Henderson Sunburst |
| Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record |
| Elliott Smith Either/Or |
| Elliott Smith Elliott Smith |
| Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road |
| Eluvium Nightmare Ending |
| Eluvium Talk Amongst the Trees |
| Elvis Costello Trust |
| Elvis Costello Get Happy!! |
| Elvis Costello Armed Forces |
| Elzhi The Preface |
| Elzhi and Georgia Anne Muldrow Zhigeist |
| One of my favorites of the year. I feel like I can just throw this album on at any time of day in different contexts and just coast along, love its versatility. |
| Emile Mosseri Minari (OST) |
| Emitt Rhodes Emitt Rhodes |
| Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball |
| England Dan and John Ford Coley Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive |
| Ethel Cain Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You |
| Etta James At Last! |
| Felt (UK) Forever Breathes The Lonely Word |
| First Aid Kit The Lion's Roar |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD |
| Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues |
| Fleet Foxes Crack-Up |
| Fleetwood Mac Rumours |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The LSO Promises |
| For Those I Love For Those I Love |
| Frank Ocean channel ORANGE |
| Frank Sinatra Watertown |
| Frank Turner Tape Deck Heart |
| Frank Turner Sleep Is For The Week |
| Frank Zappa Hot Rats |
| Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Pinata |
| Freedy Johnston This Perfect World |
| Friendzone DX |
| Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse |
| Frightened Rabbit The Winter of Mixed Drinks |
| Friko Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here |
| Gang Starr Moment of Truth |
| Gary Stewart Out of Hand |
| Gavin Clark Beautiful Skeletons |
| Geese 3D Country |
| Geese Getting Killed |
| Gene Vincent Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps |
| Genesis Owusu Struggler |
| Gillian Welch The Harrow And The Harvest |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞ |
| Graham Parker Up Escalator |
| Gram Parsons Grievous Angel |
| Gravediggaz 6 Feet Deep |
| Gregory Alan Isakov ...with the Colorado Symphony |
| Gregory Alan Isakov Appaloosa Bones |
| Gregory Alan Isakov The Weatherman |
| Grouper Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill |
| Grover Washington, Jr. Mister Magic |
| GZA Liquid Swords |
| Hans Zimmer Inception |
| Hans Zimmer The Dark Knight Rises |
| Harold Budd and Brian Eno The Pearl |
| Her's Songs of Her’s |
| Hieroglyphics 3rd Eye Vision |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| How to Dress Well Total Loss |
| Husker Du Zen Arcade |
| Ian Noe River Fools and Mountain Saints |
| INXS Kick |
| Irma Thomas Wish Someone Would Care |
| IV and The Strange Band Southern Circus |
| J.D. Crowe & the New South J.D. Crowe & the New South |
| Jackson C. Frank Jackson C. Frank |
| James McMurtry The Horses and the Hounds |
| Jason Isbell Reunions |
| Jay Rock 90059 |
| Jay-Z The Blueprint |
| Jeru the Damaja The Sun Rises in the East |
| Jim Ford Harlan County |
| Jimi Hendrix First Rays of the New Rising Sun |
| Jimi Hendrix Valleys Of Neptune |
| Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsys |
| Joe Jackson Look Sharp! |
| Joe Jackson I'm The Man |
| John Carpenter Halloween |
| John Coltrane Ballads |
| John Coltrane Olé Coltrane |
| John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman |
| John Frusciante Shadows Collide with People |
| John K. Samson Provincial |
| John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band |
| John Martyn Solid Air |
| John Moreland In The Throes |
| John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat |
| John Stewart California Bloodlines |
| Joni Mitchell Blue |
| Joni Mitchell Hejira |
| Joshua Burnside Into the Depths of Hell |
| JPEGMAFIA LP! |
| Judee Sill Heart Food |
| Juggaknots Re:Release |
| Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience |
| Ka Descendants of Cain |
| Ka Languish Arts |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference |
| Kate and Anna McGarrigle Kate and Anna McGarrigle |
| Katie Pruitt Expectations |
| Kevin Morby Still Life |
| King Creosote I DES |
| King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine |
| King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Infest the Rats' Nest |
| Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| Lambchop Is a Woman |
| Late Night Cardigan Life Is Bleak and It's My Cheat Day |
| Laura Mvula The Dreaming Room |
| Laura Mvula Pink Noise |
| Laura Stevenson Sit Resist |
| Laura Stevenson Wheel |
| Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin |
| Led Zeppelin Houses Of The Holy |
| Leon III Antlers in Velvet |
| Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker |
| Leroy Hutson The Man! |
| Little Simz No Thank You |
| Logan Ledger Golden State |
| Lord Huron Lonesome Dreams |
| Low Hey What |
| Lucy Rose This Ain't the Way You Go Out |
| Lupe Fiasco Drill Music in Zion |
| Lydia Illuminate |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd |
| M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Magnolia Electric Co Magnolia Electric Co |
| Manchester Orchestra Simple Math |
| Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw |
| Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On |
| Marvin Gaye I Want You |
| Masta Ace Slaughtahouse |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Matt Berninger Get Sunk |
| Matt Champion Mika's Laundry |
| Max Richter The Blue Notebooks |
| Max Richter From Sleep |
| McKinley Dixon For My Mama And Anyone Who Look Like Her |
| Merle Haggard Mama Tried |
| Metallica ...And Justice For All |
| Metallica Master Of Puppets |
| Meursault Something For The Weakened |
| Meursault All Creatures Will Make Merry |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| mewithoutYou Brother, Sister |
| Mickey Newbury Looks Like Rain |
| Middle Brother Middle Brother |
| Midnight Choir Amsterdam Stranded |
| Miles Davis Kind of Blue |
| Miles Davis Jack Johnson |
| Mimicking Birds EONS |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Missy Higgins The Second Act |
| Mobb Deep Hell on Earth |
| Moor Mother and Billy Woods Brass |
| Morrissey Vauxhall and I |
| Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone |
| Muddy Waters The Anthology, 1947 - 1972 |
| Musk Ox Inheritance |
| Mutemath Odd Soul |
| Nas Illmatic |
| Nas King's Disease III |
| Nas Magic 3 |
| Natti Still Motion |
| Neil Young Harvest Moon |
| Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere |
| Neil Young After the Gold Rush |
| Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea |
| New Order Technique |
| Nic Jones Penguin Eggs |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds The Good Son |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Carnage |
| Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The Assasination of Jesse James |
| Nick Drake Pink Moon |
| Night Flowers Fortune Teller |
| Nina Simone Nina Simone at Town Hall |
| Nina Simone Wild is the Wind |
| Nina Simone I Put a Spell on You |
| Nine Inch Nails Ghosts V: Together |
| No Doubt Tragic Kingdom |
| Novo Amor Birthplace |
| Oasis Definitely Maybe |
| Oddisee The Iceberg |
| Oddisee Tangible Dream |
| Oddisee The Good Fight |
| Of Monsters and Men My Head is an Animal |
| Old Canes Early Morning Hymns |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy |
| Orange Juice Rip It Up |
| Otis Clay Trying To Live My Life Without You |
| Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul |
| Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay |
| Otis Redding Pain in My Heart |
| Otis Redding The Immortal Otis Redding |
| Otis Spann Otis Spann Is the Blues |
| Outlaws Hurry Sundown |
| Oxbow Thin Black Duke |
| Paddy Hanna Imagine I'm Hoping |
| Pantera Cowboys from Hell |
| Passion Pit Manners |
| Paul Baribeau Unbearable |
| Paul Travis Braille |
| Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It |
| Perry Blake California |
| Peter Gabriel So |
| Pharoahe Monch Internal Affairs |
| Phoebe Go Marmalade |
| Phonte Charity Starts at Home |
| Pinegrove Cardinal |
| Pinegrove Marigold |
| Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here |
| Pixies Doolittle |
| Polaris (USA) Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete |
| Pop. 1280 Paradise |
| Prefab Sprout Crimson/Red |
| Prince Dirty Mind |
| Prince Controversy |
| Prince Sign o' the Times |
| Prolapse Pointless Walks To Dismal Places |
| Now where has this album been my whole life? This is looking like my favorite non-2023 album that I?ve discovered this year. This will probably bump up to a 4.5 quickly. |
| Public Enemy It Takes A Nation (...) To Hold Us Back |
| Pusha T DAYTONA |
| Rab Noakes Demos and Rarities Vol. 2 |
| Radio Birdman Radios Appear |
| Radiohead Amnesiac |
| Radiohead Kid A |
| Radiohead OK Computer |
| Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Ramones Ramones Mania |
| Randy Travis You and You Alone |
| Rapt Until The Light Takes Us |
| Ray Charles The Genius of Ray Charles |
| Ray LaMontagne Trouble |
| Real Estate Days |
| Real Lies Lad Ash |
| Regina Spektor Live in London |
| Regina Spektor Remember Us To Life |
| Remi Wolf Big Ideas |
| Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights |
| Richard Hawley Coles Corner |
| Richard Hawley Truelove's Gutter |
| Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation |
| Richmond Fontaine You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back To |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings |
| Roberta Flack First Take |
| Rory Gallagher Irish Tour '74 |
| Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 2 |
| Run the Jewels RTJ4 |
| Saintseneca Last |
| Saintseneca Such Things |
| Sam Fender People Watching |
| SBTRKT SBTRKT |
| Shannen Moser The Sun Still Seems to Move |
| Sigur Ros ( ) |
| Siv Jakobsen A Temporary Soothing |
| Sleepingdog Polar Life |
| Slift Ummon |
| Somi Petite Afrique |
| Somos Temple of Plenty |
| Songs: Ohia Ghost Tropic |
| Listening to this album felt like I was walking to the gallows. |
| Souls of Mischief 93 'til Infinity |
| Soundtrack (Disney) Beauty and the Beast |
| Soundtrack (Film) High Fidelity |
| Spangle call Lilli line PURPLE |
| St. Vincent Strange Mercy |
| Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto |
| Steve Earle I Feel Alright |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Soul to Soul |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldn't Stand the Weather |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan In Step |
| Stevie Wonder Talking Book |
| Still Corners Creatures of an Hour |
| Stumbleine Spiderwebbed |
| Sufjan Stevens Carrie and Lowell |
| Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway |
| Swamp Dogg Total Destruction to Your Mind |
| Swarms Black Chapel Sun |
| Sweet Trip You Will Never Know Why |
| Sylvan LaCue Searching Sylvan |
| Ta-Ku 50 Days for Dilla, Vol. 1 |
| Taj Mahal Taj Mahal |
| Talking Heads Fear of Music |
| Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues |
| Teenage Fanclub Grand Prix |
| Temple of the Dog Temple of the Dog |
| Terrace Martin Velvet Portraits |
| The Afghan Whigs Gentlemen |
| The Allman Brothers Band A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 |
| The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East |
| The Allman Brothers Band Eat a Peach |
| The American Dollar The Technicolour Sleep |
| The Animals The Best of the Animals |
| The Antlers Hospice |
| The Apartments No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal |
| The Apartments In and Out of the Light |
| The Avett Brothers Emotionalism |
| The Bamboos Night Time People |
| The Band Music from Big Pink |
| The Band The Band |
| The Band Northern Lights - Southern Cross |
| The Beatles Revolver |
| The Beatles Please Please Me |
| The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| The Beatles Abbey Road |
| The Blue Nile Peace at Last |
| The Cactus Blossoms You're Dreaming |
| The Clash London Calling |
| The Clash The Clash (US version) |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Doors The Doors |
| The Felice Brothers From Dreams to Dust |
| The Flying Burrito Brothers The Gilded Palace of Sin |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten |
| The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Isley Brothers Go For Your Guns |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands |
| The Jezabels Prisoner |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced |
| The La's The La's |
| The Lone Bellow The Lone Bellow |
| The Louvin Brothers My Baby's Gone |
| The Menzingers Chamberlain Waits |
| The Menzingers Hello Exile |
| The Microphones The Glow Pt. 2 |
| The Mountain Goats Tallahassee |
| The Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree |
| The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth |
| The National Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers |
| The National Cherry Tree |
| The National Laugh Track |
| The Radio Dept. Clinging to a Scheme |
| The Red Clay Strays Made By These Moments |
| The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed |
| The Rolling Stones Shine a Light |
| The Smile A Light for Attracting Attention |
| The Smith Street Band Don't Waste Your Anger |
| The Smith Street Band Once I Was Wild |
| The Stooges The Stooges |
| The Stooges Fun House |
| The Story So Far Proper Dose |
| The Story So Far I Want to Disappear |
| The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus |
| The Swell Season Strict Joy |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Dark Bird Is Home |
| The Tallest Man on Earth Henry St. |
| The Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro |
| The Toms The Toms |
| The Veils The Runaway Found |
| The Veils Total Depravity |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The War On Drugs Slave Ambient |
| The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream |
| The Waterboys A Pagan Place |
| The Waterboys This Is the Sea |
| The Wrens The Meadowlands |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| There Will Be Fireworks Summer Moon |
| Tigers on Trains Grandfather |
| Tigers on Trains Antarctica In Color |
| Tindersticks Tindersticks |
| Tom Petty Full Moon Fever |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Damn The Torpedoes |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers The Live Anthology |
| Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Hard Promises |
| Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore |
| Tom Waits The Early Years, Vol. 2 |
| Tom Waits Blue Valentine |
| Tony Rice Church Street Blues |
| Two People Second Body |
| Tyler, the Creator Call Me If You Get Lost |
| Typhoon (USA-OR) Offerings |
| U2 The Joshua Tree |
| UGK Ridin' Dirty |
| Ulver Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler |
| Ulver Kveldssanger |
| Van Duren Are You Serious? |
| Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview |
| Vancouver Sleep Clinic Winter |
| Violent Femmes Violent Femmes |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Warning Watching from a Distance |
| Warren Zevon Excitable Boy |
| Waxahatchee American Weekend |
| Waylon Jennings Lonesome, On'ry & Mean |
| Wil Wagner Laika |
| Wilco Being There |
| Willie Nelson Phases and Stages |
| Wunderhorse Midas |
| Great albums are tough to come by in 2024, by Midas hits the mark pretty emphatically. Aeroplane inserts itself into the Song of the Year conversation. |
| XTC Black Sea |
| XTC English Settlement |
| Yellow Magic Orchestra Solid State Survivor |
| Yellowcard When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes |
| Yola Walk Through Fire |
| Yola Stand For Myself |
| Yuck Yuck |
| Yves Tumor Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume... |
