Here’s our list of our 50 favorite albums released in 2024. The mix plays a track from the first 25, in order. In the list, we link to our recommendation post of the album where available. Paying subscribers can access the Best of 2024 Spotify playlist via this page.

This is our last post of the year. We’ll be back on Monday, 1/6. Have a great new year.

* Total Blue - Total Blue

* Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds

* Pat Keen - I Saw a Bug

* Loidis - One Day

* Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution

* amelia courthouse - broken things

* Cephas Azaria - Joy Paradox

* Kali Malone - All Life Long

* Patricia Wolf - The Secret Lives of Birds

* Belle Chen - Ravel in the Forest

* Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

* Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1

* OMA - Bread ‘n’ Butter

* Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Ghosted II

* Kolumbo - Sandy Legs

* Ari Balouzian - Ren Faire OST

* Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus

* Kiasmos - II

* Mong Tong & Gong Gong Gong - Mongkok Duel

* MIZU - Forest Scenes

* Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers [MIXED] by Boys Noize

* Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - Rain on the Road

* Jogging House & The Lifted Index - Whisper Glyphs

* SUSS - Birds & Beasts

* Elori Saxl - Drifts and Surfaces

* KMRU - forge

* marine eyes - to belong

* Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy

* Max Richter - In a Landscape

* taylor deupree - Sti.ll

* Prairiewolf - Deep Time

* Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power

* Hayden Pedigo - Live in Amarillo, Texas

* NUG - Bong Boat

* James Devane - Searching

* J. Albert - I Want to Be Good So Bad

* Sonja Tofik - Respire

* Aphex Twin - Music From the Merch Desk (2016-2023)

* Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

* Julian Davis Reid - Beside Still Waters

* Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes

* Pan-American - Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road

* Arushi Jain - Delight

* Donato Dozzy - Magda

* Sarah Davachi - The Head as Form’d In The Crier’s Choir

* Yara Asmar - Stuttering Music

* Stuart Bogie, Sam Cohen & Josh Kaufman - Patient Music, Pt. 1

* Nico Georis - Plant Music Vol. 3 (The Golden Teachers)

* Four Tet - Three

* Seconds - Fascinating Stuff

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