Sputnikmusic's Top 50 Albums of 2024

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# 1

BRAT by Charli XCX

Album • Jun 07 / 2024 Electropop Electronic Dance Music

# 2

Children Of The Moon by State Faults

Album • Jul 26 / 2024 Screamo

# 3

Songs of a Lost World by The Cure

Album • Jan 01 / 2023 Gothic Rock Alternative Rock

# 4

Endlessness by Nala Sinephro

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

# 5

Foxing by Foxing

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

# 6

Cool World by Chat Pile

Album • Oct 11 / 2024 Noise Rock Sludge Metal

# 7

The New Sound by Geordie Greep

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Jazz-Rock Progressive Rock Art Rock

# 8

Cutting the Throat of God by Ulcerate

Album • Jun 14 / 2024 Dissonant Death Metal Technical Death Metal

# 9

She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She by Chelsea Wolfe

Album • Feb 09 / 2024 Darkwave Post-Industrial

# 10

Oak Lace Apparition by Alora Crucible

Album • Aug 09 / 2024 Chamber Music Neoclassical New Age

# 11

Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation

Album • Oct 04 / 2024 Death Metal Progressive Metal

# 12

You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To by Knocked Loose

Album • May 10 / 2024 Metalcore

# 13

how we dig in the earth by A Place For Owls

Album • Nov 01 / 2024 Indie Rock

# 14

Negative Spaces by Poppy

Album • Nov 15 / 2024 Alternative Metal

# 15

Fordomdags by Örnatorpet

Album • Nov 29 / 2024

# 16

The Healer by Sumac

Album • Jun 21 / 2024 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Avant-Garde Metal

# 17

#Richaxxhaitian by Mach-Hommy

Album • May 17 / 2024 Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 18

GNX by Kendrick Lamar

Album • Nov 21 / 2024 West Coast Hip Hop

# 19

Les Chants de lAurore by Alcest

Album • Jun 21 / 2024 Post-Metal Shoegaze

# 20

Artificial Bouquet by Frail Body

Album • Mar 29 / 2024 Screamo Post-Metal

# 21

Impossible Light by Uboa

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Death Industrial Dark Ambient

# 22

Bright Future by Adrianne Lenker

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 23

I Want To Disappear by The Story So Far

Album • Jun 21 / 2024 Pop Punk

# 24

MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1996—2022) by Ceres

Album • Oct 04 / 2024

# 25

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT by Billie Eilish

Album • May 17 / 2024 Alt-Pop

# 26

Melodies Of Atonement by Leprous

Album • Aug 30 / 2024 Art Rock

# 27

Only God Was Above Us by Vampire Weekend

Album • Apr 05 / 2024 Indie Rock Chamber Pop

# 28

Moon Healer by Job for a Cowboy

Album • Feb 23 / 2024 Technical Death Metal Progressive Metal

# 29

Samurai by Lupe Fiasco

Album • Jun 28 / 2024 Jazz Rap Abstract Hip Hop Boom Bap

# 30

What Now by Brittany Howard

Album • Feb 09 / 2024 Psychedelic Soul

# 31

The Last Will And Testament by Opeth

Album • Nov 22 / 2024 Progressive Metal

# 32

Something in the Room She Moves by Julia Holter

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Art Pop

# 33

Resort by Skee Mask

Album • Jun 17 / 2024 IDM Ambient Techno

# 34

Imaginal Disk by Magdalena Bay

Album • Aug 23 / 2024 Neo-Psychedelia Synthpop

# 35

A Faint Glow of Bravery by gyrofield

Album • Jan 12 / 2024 Drum and Bass

# 36

Pinball by MIKE + Tony Seltzer

Album • Mar 06 / 2024 Trap East Coast Hip Hop

# 37

ILION by SLIFT

Album • Jan 19 / 2024 Heavy Psych Space Rock Progressive Rock

# 38

Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee

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

# 39

T.M.E by Iglooghost

Album • Jan 01 / 2023

# 40

Harbinger Of Woe by Brodequin

Album • Mar 22 / 2024 Brutal Death Metal

# 41

Night Reign by Arooj Aftab

Album • May 31 / 2024 Chamber Folk Chamber Jazz

# 42

eternal sunshine by Ariana Grande

Album • Mar 08 / 2024 Contemporary R&B Pop

# 43

Lives Outgrown by Beth Gibbons

Album • May 17 / 2024 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 44

BLUE LIPS by ScHoolboy Q

Album • Mar 01 / 2024 West Coast Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 45

Fearless Movement by Kamasi Washington

Album • May 03 / 2024 Spiritual Jazz Jazz Fusion

# 46

Cold Waves Divide Us by Midas Fall

Album • Mar 08 / 2024 Post-Rock

# 47

Sanctuary by Domestic Terminal

Album • Jun 21 / 2024

# 48

Umbilical by Thou

Album • May 31 / 2024 Sludge Metal

# 49

Compassion by Vijay Iyer + Linda May Han Oh + Tyshawn Sorey

Album • Feb 02 / 2024 Post-Bop Avant-Garde Jazz