Top 25 Best Albums of 2024

It's finally time to celebrate the musical year of 2024 with annual lists ranking my favorite music. Here are my top 25 favorite albums of the year along with honorable mentions.

     Now that we've brought in the new year that is 2025, here at The Peach Pitch, I'd like to look back at the year we just wrapped up and celebrate the music that this blog's founder and sole writer, myself, has loved the most. Full of impactful bangers, vengeful statements, elegant comebacks, and surprising left turns, 2024 brought a lot of eventful musical moments. Each year, I like to celebrate the end of the year by ranking my top 50 favorite songs and my top 25 favorite albums of the year, including honorable mentions. As always, it's quite the challenge coming up with what is my favorite music of the given year and 2024 was no exception. I've finally been able to compile my yearly lists and now I can take a well earned nap. See you next time, dear reader! Below you will find my top 25 favorite albums of the year along with honorable mentions. The songs list is featured in another post.

Top 25 Best Albums of 2024:

1. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

2. Charli XCX - Brat

3. MGMT - Loss of Life

4. Kendrick Lamar - GNX

5. Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter

6. Christopher Owens - I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair

7. The Smile - Wall of Eyes / Cutouts

8. Real Estate - Daniel

9. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia?

10. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

11. Jlin - Akoma

12. Geordie Greep - The New Sound

13. Creed Bratton - Tao Pop

14. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven

15. Declan McKenna - What Happened to the Beach?

16. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

17. Jack White - No Name

18. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God

19. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

20. Helado Negro - Phasor

21. Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom - A Peace of Us

22. Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire

23. Dawes - Oh Brother

24. Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love

25. Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack

Honorable Mentions:

DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead

The Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet

Heems & Lapgan - Lafander

Iron & Wine - Light Verse

Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol

Kim Gordon - The Collective

METZ - Up On Gravity Hill

Phish - Evolve

Thurston Moore - Flow Critical Lucidity