Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024

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1. Giant Beauty
   [Ahmed]
2. Spectral Evolution
   Rafael Toral
3. Solo Throat
   Elaine Mitchener
4. The Great Bailout
   Moor Mother
5. If I Don't Make It, I Love U
   Still House Plants
6. Diamond Jubilee
   Cindy Lee
7. You Never End
   Moin
8. The Collective
   Kim Gordon
9. Queda Livre
   Caxtrinho
10. There Is a Garden
    Beings
11. Broadcast Signal Intrusion
    Dhangsha
12. Orchards of a Futile Heaven
    The Body & Dis Fig
13. Wovenland 3
    Toshiya Tsunoda/Taku Unami
14. The Thief Next to Jesus
    Ka
15. In E
    Water Damage
16. Absolute Elsewhere
    Blood Incantation
17. To All Trains
    Shellac
18. Atlas of Green
    Dialect
19. The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir
    Pat Thomas
20. S.T.A.R.V.E
    Cappo
21. Untame the Tiger
    Mary Timony
22. Life Is Funny That Way
    Fay Victor & Herbie Nichols SUNG
23. High Tide
    Able Noise
24. All Life Long
    Kali Malone
25. Scream If You Don't Exist
    Richie Culver
26. Something About Shirley
    Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams
27. Love Is a Flame In the Dark
    Karl D'Silva
28. Machines I-V
    The Bug
29. Brat
    Charli XCX
30. Rong Weicknes
    Fievel Is Glauque
31. Estradas
    Nídia & Valentina
32. Singeli Ya Maajabu
    Sisso & Maiko
33. Milton + Esperanza
    Milton Nascimento and Esperanza Spalding
34. Amelia
    Laurie Anderson
35. "Not Like Us"
    Kendrick Lamar
36. Invincible Shield
    Judas Priest
37. SIHR
    Frederic D. Oberland / Grégory Dargent / Tony Elieh / Wassim Halal
38. In the Merry Month of May
    Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe
39. Telyn Wrachïod
    Rhodri Davies
40. Ghost Bros OST
    Trigger Object
41. Motor Tapes
    Sarah Hennies
42. Disconnect
    KRM & KMRU
43. Radio Archive (2014-2023)
    Neil Luck
44. I Got Heaven
    Mannequin Pussy
45. Bleed
    The Necks
46. Palm Wine
    Yatta
47. World of Work
    Clarissa Connelly
48. By The North Sea
    Robin Mackay
49. Evil Does Not Exist
    Eiko Ishibashi
50. Sentiment
    claire rousay