Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2024

Published: December 18, 2024 05:45 Source

# 2

BRAT by Charli XCX

Album • Jun 07 / 2024 Electropop Electronic Dance Music

# 3

Bright Future by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 4

Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt

Album • May 03 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 5

Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Alt-Country Singer-Songwriter

# 6

Songs of a Lost World by The Cure

Album • Jan 01 / 2023 Gothic Rock Alternative Rock

# 7

I Got Heaven by Mannequin Pussy

Album • Mar 01 / 2024 Indie Rock

# 8

The Past Is Still Alive by Hurray for the Riff Raff

Album • Feb 23 / 2024 Alt-Country Singer-Songwriter

# 9

My Light, My Destroyer by Cassandra Jenkins

Album • Jul 12 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Sophisti-Pop Indie Rock

# 10

My Method Actor by Nilüfer Yanya

Album • Sep 13 / 2024 Indie Rock

# 11

Cool World by Chat Pile

Album • Oct 11 / 2024 Noise Rock Sludge Metal

# 12

COWBOY CARTER by Beyoncé

Album • Mar 29 / 2024 Country Pop

# 13

See You at the Maypole by Half Waif

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Art Pop

# 14

GNX by Kendrick Lamar

Album • Nov 21 / 2024 West Coast Hip Hop

# 15

The Collective by Kim Gordon

Album • Mar 08 / 2024 Industrial Hip Hop Experimental Rock Noise Rock

# 16

Endlessness by Nala Sinephro

Album • Sep 06 / 2024 Jazz Fusion Space Ambient Progressive Electronic

# 17

Night Palace by Mount Eerie

Album • Nov 01 / 2024 Slacker Rock Avant-Folk Post-Rock

# 18

Night Reign by Arooj Aftab

Album • May 31 / 2024 Chamber Folk Chamber Jazz

# 19

The Thief Next to Jesus by KA

Album • Sep 19 / 2024 Drumless East Coast Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop

# 20

Sentir Que No Sabes by Mabe Fratti

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Avant-Folk Art Pop

# 21

Romance by Fontaines D.C.

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Indie Rock Alternative Rock

# 22

This Could Be Texas by English Teacher

Album • Apr 12 / 2024 Indie Rock Art Rock

# 23

All Hell by Los Campesinos!

Album • Jul 19 / 2024 Indie Rock

# 24

Foxing by Foxing

Album • Sep 13 / 2024 Indie Rock Art Rock Noise Rock

# 25

Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons

Album • May 17 / 2024 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 26

Something in the Room She Moves by Julia Holter

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Art Pop

# 27

Charm by Clairo

Album • Jul 12 / 2024 Soft Rock Sophisti-Pop

# 28

All Born Screaming by St. Vincent

Album • Apr 26 / 2024 Art Rock Neo-Psychedelia

# 29

Manning Fireworks by MJ Lenderman

Album • Sep 06 / 2024 Alt-Country Slacker Rock

# 30

Obsidian Wreath by Infant Island

Album • Jan 12 / 2024 Screamo Post-Metal

# 31

Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend

Album • Apr 05 / 2024 Indie Rock Chamber Pop

# 32

Mahashmashana by Father John Misty

Album • Nov 22 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Baroque Pop Chamber Pop

# 33

Critterland by Willi Carlisle

Album • Jan 26 / 2024 Progressive Country Singer-Songwriter Americana

# 34

Patterns in Repeat by Laura Marling

Album • Oct 25 / 2024 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 35

Dark Times by Vince Staples

Album • May 24 / 2024 West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 36

SHAME by meth.

Album • Feb 02 / 2024 Sludge Metal Avant-Garde Metal Noise Rock

# 37

NA by NAYEON

EP • Jun 14 / 2024 K-Pop Contemporary R&B

# 38

Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Neo-Psychedelia Synthpop

# 39

American Standard by Uniform

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Sludge Metal Noise Rock Industrial Metal

# 40

sleep paralysis by bbymutha

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Southern Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop Trap

# 41

tragedy as catharsis by drive your plow over the bones of the dead

Album • Nov 05 / 2024 Emoviolence

# 42

Your Day Will Come by Chanel Beads

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Dream Pop Hypnagogic Pop

# 43

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish

Album • May 17 / 2024 Alt-Pop

# 44

“NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” by Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Post-Rock

# 45

Woodland by Gillian Welch + David Rawlings

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Americana Contemporary Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 46

Two Star & The Dream Police by Mk.gee

Album • Feb 09 / 2024 Alternative R&B Neo-Psychedelia Hypnagogic Pop

# 47

Romanticism by Hana Vu

Album • May 03 / 2024 Indie Rock Indie Pop

# 48

Cutouts by The Smile

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Art Rock

# 49

For Your Consideration by Empress Of

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Alt-Pop Dance-Pop

# 50

You Could Do It Tonight by Couch Slut

Album • Apr 19 / 2024 Noise Rock Sludge Metal