The 25 best albums of 2024
We spent the second half of this year rebuilding our music section here at The A.V. Club, a project that will continue into 2025. Because it was such a transitional year for us, the process of putting together our best albums of the year list was necessarily collaborative: We used a ranked-choice voting system and asked our staff and regular contributors to send in ballots with their top 15 albums of the year. Any full-length album released this year was eligible for inclusion. Undeniably, this year in music belonged to the pop girlies, and you’ll see that reflected on our list. But you’ll also see an impressive swath of other genres, too, from indie to country to desert blues. In determining the final list order, we kept an eye out for exceptional albums that we didn’t see getting much love on other year-end lists and tailored something that we think is both reflective of our staff’s taste and our history as a site: smart, passionate, and a little left-of-center.
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