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Riff: The 35 Best Albums of 2024

02 January 2025

Brat - Charli XCX

Riff Magazine: The 35 Best Albums of 2024

  1. Brat
    Charli XCX
  2. Wild God
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  3. Cowboy Carter
    Beyoncé
  4. All Born Screaming
    St. Vincent
  5. Songs of a Lost World
    The Cure
  6. Chromakopia
    Tyler, The Creator
  7. No Name
    Jack White
  8. Fearless Movement
    Kamasi Washington
  9. What Now
    Brittany Howard
  10. Only God Was Above Us
    Vampire Weekend
  11. Orquídeas
    Kali Uchis
  12. Charm
    Clairo
  13. Hit Me Hard and Soft
    Billie Eilish
  14. Blue Lips
    Schoolboy Q
  15. Girl With No Face
    Allie X
  16. Imaginal Disk
    Magdalena Bay
  17. The Collective
    Kim Gordon
  18. You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
    Knocked Loose
  19. GNX
    Kendrick Lamar
  20. Bright Future
    Adrianne Lenker
  21. Passage du Desir
    Johnny Blue Skies
  22. Britpop
    A.G. Cook
  23. Eternal Sunshine
    Ariana Grande
  24. Mahashmashana
    Father John Misty
  25. My Method Actor
    Nilüfer Yanya
  26. Bite Down
    Rosali
  27. Romance
    Fontaines D.C.
  28. Long Way Home
    Ray LaMontagne
  29. Don't Forget Me
    Maggie Rogers
  30. Alligator Bites Never Heal
    Doechii
  31. Big Ideas
    Remi Wolf
  32. Memoir of a Sparklemuffin
    Suki Waterhouse
  33. Dark Matter
    Pearl Jam
  34. Visions
    Norah Jones
  35. The Great American Bar Scene
    Zach Bryan

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