Year-End Lists

Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
   Christopher Owens
2. Mahashmashana
   Father John Misty
3. Frog In Boiling Water
   DIIV
4. The New Sound
   Geordie Greep
5. Imaginal Disk
   Magdalena Bay
6. Cool World
   Chat Pile
7. I Got Heaven
   Mannequin Pussy
8. Tigers Blood
   Waxahatchee
9. Romance
   Fontaines D.C.
10. Diamond Jubilee
    Cindy Lee
11. Heavy Glory
    Elias Rønnenfelt
12. My Method Actor
    Nilüfer Yanya
13. Wall of Eyes
    The Smile
14. A Dream Is All We Know
    The Lemon Twigs
15. Songs of a Lost World
    The Cure
16. Charm
    Clairo
17. Brat
    Charli XCX
18. Spiral In A Straight Line
    Touché Amoré
19. Manning Fireworks
    MJ Lenderman
20. Dance Of Love
    Tucker Zimmerman
21. All Born Screaming
    St. Vincent
22. Night Palace
    Mount Eerie
23. Box for Buddy, Box for Star
    This Is Lorelei
24. Patterns in Repeat
    Laura Marling
25. Only God Was Above Us
    Vampire Weekend
26. Fearless Movement
    Kamasi Washington
27. Here in the Pitch
    Jessica Pratt
28. Wild God
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
29. Bright Future
    Adrianne Lenker
30. Absolute Elsewhere
    Blood Incantation
31. The Collective
    Kim Gordon
32. EELS
    Being Dead
33. Heavy Metal
    Cameron Winter
34. Chromakopia
    Tyler, The Creator
35. Tangk
    Idles
36. This Could Be Texas
    English Teacher
37. Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here
    Friko
38. Two Star & The Dream Police
    Mk.gee
39. Letter to Self
    Sprints
40. Nobody Loves You More
    Kim Deal
41. Where's My Utopia?
    Yard Act
42. Lives Outgrown
    Beth Gibbons
43. My Light, My Destroyer
    Cassandra Jenkins
44. Dulling the Horns
    Wild Pink
45. Prelude to Ecstasy
    The Last Dinner Party
46. Up on Gravity Hill
    Metz
47. Night Reign
    Arooj Aftab
48. Something in the Room She Moves
    Julia Holter
49. Fate & Alcohol
    Japandroids
50. The Hard Quartet
    The Hard Quartet