2024 is behind us, but we're still reeling from all the great music the year gave us. We've already seen top albums from our DJs, but what about the rest of the KEXP staff? Below find lists from the behind-the-scenes crew of KEXP. And don't forget to tune in this Friday, December 20th for the Top Albums of 2024, as voted on by KEXP listeners!
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | ANTI-Records |
| Remi Wolf | Big Ideas | Island Records |
| Middle Kids | Faith Crisis Pt 1 | Lucky Number |
| Washed Out | Notes from a Quiet Life | Sub Pop |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | ANTI-Records |
| Confidence Man | 3AM (LA LA LA) | Polydor |
| Dehd | Poetry | Fat Possum Records |
| Soccer Mommy | Evergreen | Loma Vista |
| Naima Bock | Below a Massive Dark Land | Sub Pop |
| Frontier Ruckus | On The Northline | Sitcom Universe |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Liv Rion | WRLD CRY | Desert Oasis |
| A/S/L | Signs of Romance | Future Gods |
| 34 Trolley | Relaxation EP | Feel the Four |
| Nourished By Time | Catching Chickens | XL Recordings |
| Cindy | Swan Lake | Tough Love |
| TAMTAM | Ramble in the Rainbow | PPU |
| two blinks, i love you | ep 2 | Heist or Hit |
| Double Wish | Universe Sometimes | Hit the North |
| PawPaw Rod | Doobie Mouth | GODMODE |
| Space Ghost | Dream Tool | Peace World |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Fontaines D.C. | Romance | XL Recordings |
| Hana Vu | Romanticism | Ghostly International |
| Black Ends | Psychotic Spew | Youth Riot |
| Various Artists | TRAИƧA | Red Hot Org |
| Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee | self-released |
| Aaron Frazer | Into The Blue | Dead Oceans |
| Oruã | Passe | Transfusão Noise Records |
| Naima Bock | Below A Massive Dark Land | Sub Pop |
| Loma | How Will I Live Without A Body? | Sub Pop |
| Dark Chisme | Dark Chisme | self-released |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee | Realistik |
| 2 | Mdou Moctor | Funeral | Matador Records |
| 3 | Anjelica Garcia | Gemelo | Partisan Records |
| 4 | Dehd | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| 5 | Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch | Mexican Summer |
| 6 | Thee Sinseers | Sinseerly Yours | Colemine Records |
| 7 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus | Milan |
| 8 | Sault | Acts of Faith | Forever Living Originals |
| 9 | Shannon and the Clams | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Easy Eye Sound |
| 10 | Dark Chisme | Dark Chisme | self-released |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Camera Obscura | Look to the East, Look to the West | Merge |
| Charli XCX | brat | Atlantic |
| Dummy | Free Energy | Trouble in Mind |
| Empress Of | For Your Consideration | Giant Music |
| Freak Slug | I Blow Out Big Candles | Future Classic |
| Kendrick Lamar | GNX | pgLang/Interscope |
| Mount Eerie | Night Palace | P.W. Elverum & Sun |
| Mount Kimbie | The Sunset Violent | Warp |
| Tinashe | Quantum Baby | Nice Life |
| Tyler, The Creator | CHROMAKOPIA | Columbia |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beabadoobee | This Is How Tomorrow Moves | Dirty Hit |
| 2 | HYUKOH, Sunset Rollercoaster | AAA | DooRooDooRoo |
| 3 | Little Simz | Drop 7 | Forever Living Originals |
| 4 | The Marías | Submarine | Atlantic Nice Life |
| 5 | Soccer Mommy | Evergreen | Loma Vista |
| 6 | Rachel Chinouriri | What A Devastating Turn of Events | Parlophone Records |
| 7 | Doechii | Alligator Bites Never Heal | Top Dawg Entertainment |
| 8 | Kacey Musgraves | Deeper Well | MCA Nashville |
| 9 | Charli XCX | BRAT | Atlantic Records |
| 10 | GIRIBOY | GRB02 | Standard Friends |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate | dh2 |
| The Jesus and Mary Chain | Glasgow Eyes | Fuzz Club |
| Empress Of | For Your Consideration | Giant Music |
| Suki Waterhouse | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Sub Pop |
| Jamie xx | In Waves | Young |
| Goat | Goat | Rocket Recordings |
| Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull the Rope | Merge |
| Fcukers | Baggy$$ | Technicolour |
| The Cure | Songs of a Lost World | Polydor |
| Chinese American Bear | Wah!!! | Moshi Moshi |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glass beach | plastic death | Run For Cover Records |
| 2 | Medium Build | Country | Island Records |
| 3 | Blood Incantation | Absolute Elsewhere | Dark Descent Records |
| 4 | SeeYouSpaceCowboy... | Coup de Grâce | Pure Noise Records |
| 5 | Cowboy Sadness | Selected Jambient Works, Vol. 1 | People Teeth |
| 6 | Sorcerer | DEVOTION | Delivrance Records |
| 7 | Tapir! | The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain | Heavenly Recordings |
| 8 | Lust Hag | Lust Hag | 5583903 Records DK |
| 9 | Tombstone Poetry | How Could I Be So In Debt? | I'm Into Life Records |
| 10 | The Mosaic Window | Hemasanctum | Willowtip |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese American Bear | Wah!!! | Moshi Moshi Records |
| The Cure | Songs of a Lost World | Fiction |
| deary | Aurelia EP | Sonic Cathedral |
| Deerlady [Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego] | Greatest Hits | Out Of Your Head Records |
| Lhasa de Sela and Yves Desrosiers | First Recordings | Audiogram |
| Michael Kiwanuka | Small Changes | Geffen/Interscope |
| Mount Eerie | Night Palace | P.W. Elverum & Sun |
| Peter Perrett | The Cleansing | Domino Recording Co Ltd |
| TR/ST | Performance | Dais Records |
| Trentemoller | Dreamweaver | In My Room |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Beyonce | Cowboy Carter | Parkwood Entertainment |
| Brittany Howard | What Now | Island |
| Chinese American Bear | Wah!!! | Moshi Moshi |
| Father John Misty | Mahashmashana | Sub Pop Records |
| Fcukers | Baggy$$ | Technicolour |
| IDLES | TANGK | Partisan |
| Jamie xx | In Waves | Ninja Tune |
| Remi Wolf | Big Ideas | Island |
| Salt Cathedral | Before It's Gone | Independent Co |
| Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | Anti |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph |
| Fai Baba & Armour sur Mars | fäderliecht | A Tree in a Field Records |
| Nourished by Time | Catching Chickens EP | XL |
| METZ | Up On Gravity Hill | Sub Pop |
| Nada Surf | Moon Mirror | New West |
| Naima Bock | Below a Massive Dark Land | Sub Pop |
| Afrocop | Afrocop | Wax Thematique |
| Chemtrails | The Joy of Sects | PNKSLM Recordings |
| Parlor Greens | In Green We Dream | Colemine |
| Goat | Goat | Rocket Recordings |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angélica Garcia | Gemelo | Partisan |
| 2 | Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch | Mexican Summer |
| 3 | Wand | Vertigo | Drag City |
| 4 | Porridge Radio | Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me | Secretly Canadian |
| 5 | Christopher Owens | I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair | True Panther |
| 6 | Fontaines D.C. | Romance | XL Recordings |
| 7 | Grace Cummings | Ramona | ATO |
| 8 | Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | Anti |
| 9 | Hana Vu | Romanticism | Ghostly International |
| 10 | Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Flight b471 | p(doom) records |
| The Smile | Wall Of Eyes | XL Recordings |
| Sisters Of Your Sunshine Vapor | Nocturnal Train To Mars | Little Cloud Records |
| Gum / Ambrose Kenny-Smith | Ill Times | p(doom) records |
| Osees | SORCS 80 | Castle Face |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | ANTI- |
| Jamie XX | In Waves | Ninja Tune |
| Jack White | No Name | Third Man Records |
| DEHD | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| Royel Otis | PRATTS & PAIN | Ourness Pty Ltd. |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| English Teacher | This Could Be Texas | Island |
| Cumgirl8 | The 8th Cumming | 4AD |
| Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk | Mom + Pop |
| The Weave | City Lights | Transgressive |
| St Vincent | All Born Screaming | Total Pleasure |
| The Smile | Wall of Eyes | XL |
| Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch | Mexican Summer |
| Jose James | 1978 | Rainbow Blonde |
| Cults | To the Ghosts | Imperial |
| Ana Tijoux | Vida | Altafonte |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt | Escho |
| Mount Eerie | Night Palace | P.W. Elverum & Sun |
| Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee | Realistik Studios |
| Loving | Any Light | Last Gang Records |
| Lip Critic | Hex Dealer | Partisan Records |
| Jerry Paper | INBETWEEZER | Stones Throw Records |
| Fievel Is Glauque | Rong Weicknes | Fat Possum Records |
| The Lemon Twigs | A Dream Is All We Know | Captured Tracks |
| Kali Malone | All Life Long | Ideologic Organ |
| TELEVANGEL & Milc | Extra Phish | Old Soul Music |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Bab L' Bluz | Swaken | Real World Records |
| Osees | SORCS 80 | Castle Face Records |
| Jake Xerxes Fussell | When I'm Called | Fat Possum |
| JP Harris | JP Harris Is A Trash Fire | Bloodshot Records |
| Etran de L'Air | 100% Sahara Guitar | Sahel Sounds |
| Afrocop | Afrocop | Wax Thematique |
| Mdou Moctar | Funeral For Justice | Matador Records |
| Gruff Rhys | Sadness Sets Me Free | Rough Trade Records |
| Alan Sparhawk | White Roses, My God | Sub Pop |
| Beak> | >>>> | Invada Record |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Beyonce | COWBOY CARTER | Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records |
| Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross | Challengers | Milan Records |
| Kendrick Lamar | GNX | PGLang/Interscope Records |
| Charli xcx | brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic Records |
| Vampire Weekend | Only God Was Above Us | Columbia Records |
| Khruangbin | A LA SALA | Dead Oceans |
| Father John Misty | Mahashmashana | Sub Pop |
| Dark Chisme | Dark Chisme | self-released |
| GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith | Ill Times | p(doom) records |
| Justice | Hyperdrama | EdBanger/Because |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The King Tides | Gautama | self released |
| 2 | Julia Holter | Something in the Room She Moves | domino |
| 3 | Clairo | Charm | self released |
| 4 | Cassandra Jenkins | My Light, My Destroyer | dead oceans |
| 5 | Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | ANTI |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future | 4AD |
| Ann Annie | The Wind | self-released |
| Cavalier | Different Type Time | Backwoodz Studios |
| Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee | self-released |
| Haley Heynderickx | Seed of a Seed | Mama Bird Recording Co. |
| Hiro Ama | Music for Peace and Harmony | PRAH Recordings |
| J.R.C.G. | Grim Iconic... Sadistic Mantra | Sub Pop |
| Kendrick Lamar | GNX | pgLang |
| Mk.gee | Two Star & Dream Police | R&R Digital |
| Nala Sinephro | Endlessness | Warp |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four Tet | Three | Text Records |
| 2 | Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate | dH2 |
| 3 | Afrocop | Afrocop | Wax Thematique |
| 4 | Glass Beams | Mahal | Ninja Tune |
| 5 | Common & Pete Rock | The Auditorium vol. 1 | Loma Vista Recordings |
| 6 | Jamie xx | In Waves | Young |
| 7 | Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice | Matador |
| 8 | Star Anna | Love & Sex & Fear of Death | self-released |
| 9 | Yannis and the Yaw | Lagos Paris London | Black Label Transgressive |
| 10 | Brittany Davis | Image Issues | Loosegroove Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Helado Negro | PHASOR | Private Energy under exclusive license to 4AD Ltd |
| Whitelands | Night-bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day | Sonic Cathedral |
| Dirty Art Club | b sides | Dirty Art Club |
| Common Saints | Cinema 3000 | Starsonics |
| SHOLTO | Letting Go Forever | Root Records via DeepMatter Records |
| Night Tapes | assisted memories | Nettwerk Music Group Inc. |
| Shabazz Palaces | Exotic Birds of Prey | Sub Pop Records |
| samedi.noir | Abami Eda: The Strange One | SOCIAL KAPITAL LLC |
| Lau Ro | Cabana | Far Out Recordings |
| Tyler, The Creator | CHROMAKOPIA | Columbia Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt | Escho |
| Nala Sinephro | Endlessness | Warp |
| INVT & Introspekt | TECTÓNICA | ec2a |
| Loidis | One Day | Incienso |
| Shabjdeed & Al Nather | SULTAN | BLTNM |
| Shabaka | Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace | Impulse! |
| Arooj Aftab | Night Reign | Verve |
| Vegyn | The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions | PLZ Make It Ruins |
| Clarissa Connelly | World of Work | Warp |
| Florian TM Zeisig | Planet Inc | Stroom |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Grace Cummings | Ramona | ATO Records |
| The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World | Polydor |
| English Teacher | This Could Be Texas | Island Records |
| Ganavya | Daughter of a Temple | LEITER |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" | Constellation |
| Geordie Greep | The New Sound | Rough Trade Records |
| Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph |
| The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis | The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis | Impulse! |
| Sheherazaad | Qasr | Erased Tapes |
| The The | Ensoulment | Cinéola / earMUSIC |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free | Jagjaguwar |
| 2 | Viv & Riley | Imaginary People | Free Dirt Records |
| 3 | Gum / Ambrose Kenny-Smith | Ill Times | p(doom) records |
| 4 | Laura Marling | Patterns In Repeat | Partisan Records, Chrysalis |
| 5 | Warren Dunes | Aquamarine | self-released |
| 6 | Pedro The Lion | Santa Cruz | Polyvinyl Record Company |
| 7 | Suki Waterhouse | Memoir Of A Sparklemuffin | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Steve Gunn & David Moore | Live in London | Rvng Intl. |
| 9 | Tucker Zimmerman | Dance Of Love | 4AD |
| 10 | Gillian Welch & David Rawlings | Woodland | Acony Records |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler the Creator | Chromakopia | Columbia |
| 2 | Cindy Lee | Diamond Jubilee | self-released |
| 3 | Jack White | No Name | Third Man Records |
| 4 | Keanu Nelson | Wilurarrakutu | Mississippi Records |
| 5 | Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | Anti- |
| 6 | Cunningham Bird | Cunningham Bird | Verve |
| 7 | King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard | Flight b741 | P(doom) |
| 8 | Los Campesinos! | All Hell | Heart Swells |
| 9 | José James | Amsterdam 2024 (Live at Paradiso | Rainbow Blonde Records |
| 10 | (Various Artists) | TRAИƧA | Red + Hot |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Armor | Afraid of What's to Come | 11PM Records |
| Kate Bollinger | Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind | Ghostly International |
| Container | Yacker | Alter |
| Ki Oni | A Great Blue Heron Patiently Waits In The River | Florina Cassettes |
| Locrian | End Terrain | Profound Lore |
| Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow | Extinct | Cold Spring |
| Mount Eerie | Night Palace | P.W. Elverum & Sun |
| Nala Sinephro | Endlessness | Warp Records |
| Spectral Voice | Sparagmos | Dark Descent Records |
| Spiral XP | I Wish I Was a Rat | Danger Collective Records |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | Rough Trade Records |
| 2 | Denzel Curry | King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 | Loma VIsta Recordings |
| 3 | Doechii | Alligator Bites Never Heal | Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records |
| 4 | Joey Valence & Brae | No Hands | self-released |
| 5 | L'Impératrice | Pulsar | Microqlima |
| 6 | Raveena | Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain | Moonstone Recordings / Empire |
| 7 | Channel Tres | Head Rush | RCA Records |
| 8 | EASY FREAK | Everything's Blurred But You | self-released |
| 9 | Chicano Batman | Notebook Fantasy | ATO Records |
| 10 | DEADLETTER | Hysterical Strength | SO Recordings |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | so long... partner | all cats hate closed doors | Independent Release |
| 2 | Excuse Me Who Are You? | Double Bind | Thumbs Up Records |
| 3 | Father John Misty | Mahashmashala | Sub Pop |
| 4 | Knocked Loose | You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To | Pure Noise |
| 5 | Glass Beach | Plastic Death | Run For Cover Records |
| 6 | femtanyl | REACTOR | SpikeChain |
| 7 | CharliXCX | Brat | Atlantic |
| 8 | Stomach Book | SOPHOMORE SLUMP CALLITTHUMP | Crash Blossoms |
| 9 | Black Ends | Psychotic Spew | Youth Riot Records |
| 10 | Blind Girls | An Exit Exists | A Persistent Vision |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Angelica Garcia | Gemelo | Partisan |
| Being Dead | EELS | Bayonet Records |
| Charli xcx | BRAT | Atlantic |
| Dehd | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| Empress Of | For Your Consideration | Giant Music |
| Fcukers | Baggy$$ EP | Technicolour |
| Luisa Almaguer | Weyes | self-released |
| Nilufer Yanya | My Method Actor | Ninja Tune |
| Remi Wolf | Big Ideas | Island |
| SPRINTS | Letter to Self | City Slang |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| berlioz | open this wall | berlioz |
| Kelly Moran | Moves in the Field | Warp Records |
| Lihla | Socha | A Strangely Isolated Place |
| Starflyer 59 | Lust for Gold | Velvet Blue Music |
| Nick Cave | Wild God | Bad Seeds Ltd |
| Wisp | Pandora | Music Soup / Interscope Records |
| Seefeel | Everything Squared | Warp Records |
| Lawne | Attic | Wah Wah 45s |
| Billie Eilish | Hit Me Hard And Soft | Darkroom / Interscope Records |
| Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown | Domino Recording Co. Ltd. |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Arab Strap | I'm totally fine with it 👍don't give a fuck anymore 👍 | Rock Action |
| Boyracer | Seaside Riot | Emotional Response |
| Chime School | The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel | Slumberland |
| Ducks Ltd. | Harm's Way | Carpark |
| Gracie Gray | Magnet | Hand In Hive |
| Richard Hawley | In This City They Call You Love | BMG |
| LA LOM | Los Angeles League Of Musicians | Verve |
| Lightheaded | Combustible Gems | Slumberland |
| Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch | Mexican Summer |
| Royal Headache | Live In America | What's Your Rupture? |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remi Wolf | Big Ideas | Island Records |
| 2 | Lola Young | This Wasn't Meant For You Anyway | Universal Island Records |
| 3 | Tyler, the Creator | Chromakopia | Columbia Records |
| 4 | Haitus Kaiyote | Love Heart Cheat Code | Brainfeeder |
| 5 | thrown | Excessive Guilt | Arising Empire |
| 6 | Billie Eilish | Hit Me Hard And Soft | Darkroom, Interscope |
| 7 | Kingdom of Giants | Bleeding Star | SharpTone |
| 8 | Claire Brooks | I Will Outlive You | Claire Brooks |
| 9 | ERRA | Cure | UNFD |
| 10 | Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk | Mom + Pop |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Spectral Wound | Songs of Blood and Mire | Profound Lore |
| Judas Priest | Invincible Shield | Columbia |
| Sprints | Letter to Self | City Slang |
| Upon Stone | Dead Mother Moon | Century Media |
| Kólga | Black Tides | Otitis Media |
| Keygen Church | Nel Nome Del Codice | Metal Blade |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor | NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD | Constellation |
| Shooting Daggers | Love & Rage | New Heavy Sounds |
| Veriteras | The Dark Horizon | Independent |
| Thou | Umbilical | Sacred Bones |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Jessica Pratt | Here in the Pitch | Mexican Summer |
| Briana Marela | Teardrop Star | self-released |
| somesurprises | Perseids | Doom Trip Records |
| Chastity Belt | Live Laugh love | Suicide Squeeze Records |
| New Issue | Diminished & Transmitting | Anything Bagel |
| The Softies | The Bed I Made | Father/Daughter Records |
| Angelica Garcia | Gemelo | Partisan Records |
| Dummy | Free Energy | Trouble in Mind Records |
| Aluminum | Fully Beat | Felte |
| Charli XCX | BRAT / Brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Jack White | No Name | Third Man Records |
| Angelica Garcia | Gemelo | Partisan Records |
| Kendrick Lamar | GMX | PGLang and Interscope Records |
| Freak Slug | I Blow Out Big Candles | Future Classic |
| Mount Kimbie | The Sunset Violent | Warp Records |
| Angela Munoz | Descanso | Stone Throw Records |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | Anti- and Epitaph Records |
| Xavi | Next | Interscope |
| Schoolboy Q | Blue Lips | Top Dawg Entertainment and Interscope Records |
| Doechii | Alligator Bites Never Heal | Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Briana Marela | Teardrop Star | Briana Marela |
| Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento | Milton + esperanza | Concord Records |
| Mong Tong | Epigraphy | Guruguru Brain |
| Seera | Al Mojallad Al Awal | Seera Music |
| The Secret Sisters | Mind, Man, Medicine | New West Records |
| QWANQWA | QWANQWA Live | Wuzzawazee Industries |
| Timo Andres, Metropolis Ensemble, Andrew Cyr, Inbal Segev | Timo Andres: The Blind Banister | Nonesuch Records |
| Goat | Goat | Rocket Recordings |
| Shards | Byrd Song | Erased Tapes |
| Hurray for the Riff Raff | The Past is Still Alive | Nonesuch Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Spectral Wound | Songs of Blood and Mire | Profound Lore Records |
| Cantique Lepreux | Le Bannissement | Eisenwald |
| Tzompantli | Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force | 20 Buck Spin |
| Invunche | Atavismo | Nuclear War Now Productions |
| Spite | The Third Temple | Invictus Productions |
| I Am The Intimidator | I Am The Intimidator | Miserable Pyre |
| Seth | La France des maudits | Season of Mist |
| Candy | It's Inside You | Relapse Records |
| Ante-Inferno | Death's Soliloquy | Vendetta Records |
| Necrot | Lifeless Birth | Tankcrimes |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amyl and the Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | B2B Records |
| 2 | Blue Hawaii | Diamond Shovel | Helix Records |
| 3 | Hildegard | Jour 1596 | Chivi Chivi |
| 4 | Sego | Tandang | self-released |
| 5 | Faye Webster | Undressed at the Symphony | Secretly Canadian |
| 6 | Mount Kimbie | The Sunset Violent | Warp Records |
| 7 | Jaime XX | In Waves | Young |
| 8 | Dora Jar | No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire | Island Records |
| 9 | Juana Molina | Exhalo | Sonamos |
| 10 | The Army, The Navy | Fruit For Flies | New Gold Medal |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Charly Bliss | Forever | Lucky Number |
| Chastity Belt | Live Laugh Love | Suicide Squeeze |
| Fazerdaze | Soft Power | section1 |
| Good Morning | Good Morning Seven | Polyvinyl |
| GRLwood | BLOOD | self-released |
| Los Campesinos! | All Hell | Heart Swells |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | Anti |
| smiling broadly | for a moment i saw myself as inexorably beautiful | self-released |
| Water From Your Eyes | MP3 Player 1 | Matador |
| Various Artists | I Saw The TV Glow (The Original Soundtrack) | A24 Music |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Kimbie | The Sunset Violent | Warp |
| 2 | Peel Dream Magazine | Rose Main Reading Room | Topshelf |
| 3 | LNRDCROY | Contact-E EP | Clone |
| 4 | MGMT | Loss of Life | Mom+Pop |
| 5 | Cults | To The Ghosts | IMPERIAL |
| 6 | Washed Out | Notes From A Quiet Life | Sub Pop |
| 7 | Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk | Mom+Pop |
| 8 | Justice | Hyperdrama | Ed Banger |
| 9 | Dr. Dog | Dr. Dog | We Buy Gold |
| 10 | Charli XCX | BRAT | Atlantic |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ka | The Thief Next to Jesus | Iron Works |
| 2 | Feeling Figures | Everything Around You | K/Perennial |
| 3 | La Luz | News of the Universe | Sub Pop |
| 4 | Itchy & the Nits | The Worst of Itchy & the Nits | Total Punk |
| 5 | Alien Nosejob | Turns the Colour of Bad Shit | Total Punk |
| 6 | J.R.C.G. | Grim Iconic... (Sadistic Mantra) | Sub Pop |
| 7 | The Spatulas | Beehive Mind | PPM |
| 8 | ELUCID | Revelator | Fat Possum |
| 9 | Ty Segall | Three Bells | Drag City |
| 10 | Previous Industries | Service Merchandise | Merge |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Wishy | Triple Seven | Winspear |
| Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | Anti |
| Hana Vu | Romanticism | Ghostly International |
| Charli xcx | BRAT / Brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic |
| Nilüfer Yanya | My Method Actor | Ninja Tune |
| DIIV | Frog In Boiling Water | Fantasy |
| Mediocre | Growth Eater | Dangerbird Records |
| Daudi Matsiko | The King of Misery | Really Good |
| Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk | Mom+Pop |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| The Smile | Wall of eyes and cutouts | XL recordings |
| Suki Waterhouse | Memoirs of a sparklemuffin | Sub pop records |
| Angélica Garcia | Gemolo | Partisan records |
| Aaron frazer | Into the blue | Dead oceans |
| Jack white | No name | Third man records |
| Sam Evian | Plunge | Flying cloud recordings |
| Aurora | What happened to the heart? | Glassnote entertainment group llc |
| Bat for lashes | The dream of Delphi | Bat for lashes |
| Bombay bicycle club | Fantasies | Mmm...records ltd to AWAL recordings |
| Bright eyes | Five dice all threes | Dead oceans |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charli XCX | Brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not | Atlantic Records |
| 2 | Charli XCX | Brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic Records |
| 3 | A.G. Cook | Britpop | New Alias |
| 4 | Charli XCX | Brat | Atlantic Records |
| 5 | Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | Challengers (Original Score) | Milan Records |
| 6 | Shygirl | Club Shy | Because Music |
| 7 | Beyonce | Cowboy Carter | Parkwood Entertainment, Columbia Records |
| 8 | Jamie xx | In Waves | Young |
| 9 | Tinashe | Quantum Baby | Tinashe Music, Nice Life |
| 10 | Erika de Casier | Still | 4AD |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World | Fiction/Capitol |
| Caribou | Honey | Merge |
| Christian Löffler | A Life | Ki Records |
| Four Tet | Three | Text |
| Jamie xx | In Waves | Young |
| Justice | Hyperdrama | EdBanger/Because |
| Kelly Lee Owens | Dreamstate | dh2 |
| Kiasmos | II | Erased Tapes |
| SPRINTS | Letter To Self | City Slang |
| Underworld | Strawberry Hotel | Smith Hyde Productions |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geordie Greep | The New Sound | Rough Trade Records |
| 2 | IDLES | TANGK | Partisan Recorss |
| 3 | Brittany Howard | What Now | Island Records |
| 4 | Khruangbin | A LA SALA | Dead Oceans |
| 5 | Fontaines D.C. | Romance | XL Recordings |
| 6 | The Smile | Cutouts | XL Recordings |
| 7 | WILLOW | empathogen | Three Zero Six recordings |
| 8 | Beth Gibbons | Lives Outgrown | Domino Recording Company |
| 9 | Karate Boogaloo | Hold Your Horses | Colemine Records |
| 10 | Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disk | Mom + Pop Music |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Charli XCX | Brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic Records |
| Katie Gavin | What A Relief | Saddest Factory Records |
| Adrianne Lenker | Bright Future | 4AD |
| Sierra Ferrell | Trail of Flowers | Rounder Records |
| Sabrina Carpenter | Short n' Sweet | Island Records |
| Doechii | Alligator Bites Never Heal | Capitol Records |
| Dora Jar | No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire | Island Records |
| Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | ANTI- Records |
| Merce Lemon | Watch me Drive Them Dogs Wild | Darling Records |
| 22° Halo | Lily of the Valley | Tiny Library Records |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Decemberists | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | YABB Records |
| 2 | The Cure | Songs Of A Lost World | Polydor |
| 3 | Waxahatchee | Tigers Blood | Anti- |
| 4 | Dehd | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| 5 | Future Islands | People Who Aren't There Anymore | 4AD |
| 6 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | The Past Is Still Alive | nonsuch |
| 7 | Fontaines D.C. | Romance | XL Recordings |
| 8 | TR/ST | Performance | Dais Records |
| 9 | Phantogram | Memory of a Day | Neon Gold Records |
| 10 | Clairo | Charm | self-released |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English Teacher | This Could BeTexas | Island |
| 2 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Pull The Rope | Merge Records |
| 3 | Fontanes DC | Romance | XL |
| 4 | St Vincent | All Born Screaming | Total Pleasure |
| 5 | Salt Cathedral | Before It's Gone | Ultra |
| 6 | Pearl Jam | Dark Matter | Monkeywrench |
| 7 | Washed Out | Notes from A Quiet Life | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Chinese American Bear | WAH | Moshi Moshi |
| 9 | Bab L'Bluz | Swaken | Real World |
| 10 | DIIV | Frog In Boiling Water | Fantasy |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Vampire Weekend | Only God Was Above Us | Columbia |
| Georgie Greep | The New Sound | Rough Trade |
| UMAY | Letters to a Future Palestine | label baba |
| Tyla | TYLA+ | Epic Records |
| Charli XCX | Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat | Atlantic |
| Father John Misty | Mahashmashana | Sub Pop / Bella Union |
| Sabrina Carpenter | Short n' Sweet | Island |
| Laura Marling | Patterns in Repeat | Chrysalis Records |
| Cassandra Lewis | Lost in a Dream | Low Country Sound/Elektra Records |
| Tyler, The Creator | Chromakopia | Columbia |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Nada Surf | Moon Mirror | New West |
| Elephant Stone | Back Into the Dream | Elephants on Parade |
| Charli XCX- | Brat brat and it's completely different but also still brat | Atlantic |
| Tyler, the Creator | CHROMAKOPIA | Columbia |
| Kendrick Lamar | GNX | pgLang/Interscope |
| The Cure | Songs of a Lost World | Fiction/Capitol |
| St. Vincent | All Born Screaming | Virgin |
| Billie Eilish | Hit Me Hard and Soft | Darkroom/Interscope |
| Kacey Musgraves | Deeper Well | MCA Nashville/Interscope |
| Ana Tijoux | Vida | Victoria Producciones |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | B2B Records |
| Baby Schillaci | The Soundtrack | self-released |
| Bug Club | On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System | Sub Pop |
| Class | A Healthy Alternative | Feel It Records |
| Fake Fruit | Mucho Mistrust | Carpark Records |
| Gen and the Degenerates | Anti-Fun Propaganda | Marshall Records |
| Gustaf | Package Pt. 2 | Royal Mountain Records |
| Gut Health | Stiletto | Highly Contagious |
| Sprints | Letter to Self | City Slang |
| Wine Lips | Super Mega Ultra | Stomp Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Anthers | Pedigree Pig | Den Tapes |
| Apples With Moya | A Heave of Lightness on the Ground | Den Tapes |
| Black Ends | Psychotic Spew | Youth Riot Records |
| Day Soul Exquisite | Sanguine & Cardamom | Den Tapes |
| Hi Crime | Spirit & Candor | self-released |
| Oblé Reed | RETROVISION EP | self-released |
| somesurprises | Perseids | Doom Trip Records |
| Spiral XP | I Wish I Was a Rat | Danger Collective Records |
| TeZATalks | Black Girl American Horror Story | self-released |
| Zookraught | VIDA VIOLET | Den Tapes (cassette) / Moon Ruins (vinyl) |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| DIIV | Frog in Boiling Water | Fantasy Records |
| Trace Mountains | Into the Burning Blue | Lame-O Records |
| DEHD | Poetry | Fat Possum |
| The Bures Band | Fool Circle | Love Police Records & Tapes |
| Confidence Man | 3 AM (LA LA LA) | Polydor |
| Been Stellar | Scream From New York, NY | Dirty Hit |
| MJ Lenderman | Manning Fireworks | Anti-Records |
| Rui Gabriel | Compassion | Carpark Records |
| Trauma Ray | Chameleon | Dais Records |
| Starflyer 59 | Lust for Gold | Velvet Blue Music |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| And So I Watch You From Afar | Megafauna | Velocity Records |
| Mt. Fog | Ultraviolet Heart Machine | Ghost Mountain Records |
| Michael A. Muller | Mirror Music | Deutsche Grammophon |
| Evan Chapman | Reveries | Better Company Records |
| Dreamage | Dreamage | self-released |
| OK Ikumi | Mountain Shadows | Hel Audio |
| MONO | OATH | Temporary Residence Limited |
| Lilacs and Champagne | Fantasy World | Temporary Residence Limited |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | Mid Spiral: Order | XL Recordings |
| Caribou | Honey | Merge Records |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kendrick Lamar | GNX | Interscope Records, pgLang |
| 2 | Beyonce | Cowboy Carter | Columbia Record |
| 3 | Common and Pete Rock | The Auditorium Vol. 1 | Loma Vista Recordings |
| 4 | Childish Gambino | Bando Stone & the New World | RCA |
| 5 | IDLES | TANGK | Partisan Records |
| 6 | NxWorries | Why Lawd | Stones Throw |
| 7 | Thee Sacred Souls | Got A Story To Tell | Daptone Records |
| 8 | Denzel Curry | King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2 | PH Recordings and Loma Vista |
| 9 | Day Soul Exquisite | Sanguine and Cardamom | La Fem Records |
| 10 | Ezra Collective | Dance, No One's Watching | Partisan Records |
| rank | artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halo 2: Soundtrack | Halo 2, vol.1 | Microsoft corporation |
| 2 | Lou Barlow | Emoh | Merge Records |
| 3 | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | The Island Def Jam Music Group |
| 4 | ThunderPussy | West | Trash Casual |
| 5 | Top Gun | Top Gun Soundtrack | Sony Music Entertainment |
| 6 | Dire Straits | Brothers In Arms | Warner Records |
| 7 | The Power Station | The Power Station | Warner Music Group |
| 8 | Brad | Interiors | Brad LLC |
| 9 | Clint Mansell | Requiem for a Dream | Nonesuch Records |
| 10 | Fontaines DC. | Romance | XL Recordings |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Charli XCX | Brat | Atlantic Records |
| Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph Records |
| This is Lorelei | Box for Buddy, Box for Star | Double Double Whammy |
| Erika de Casier | Still | 4AD |
| Astrid Sonne | Great Doubt | Escho |
| Clairo | Charm | Clairo |
| Blue Bendy | So Medieval | The state51 Conspiracy |
| Yaya Bey | Ten Fold | Big Dada |
| A. G. Cook | Britpop | New Alias |
| Nala Sinephro | Endlessness | Warp Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | Rough Trade |
| Odie Leigh | Carrier Pigeon | Mom + Pop |
| Circles Around The Sun | After Sunrise | Kill Rock Stars |
| Rosali | Bite Down | Merge |
| Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free | Jagjaguwar |
| Emily Nenni | Drive & Cry | New West |
| Bella White | Five For Silver | Rounder |
| Suki Waterhouse | Memoirs of a Sparklemuffin | Sub Pop |
| Devin Champlin | Lonesome Splendor in the Circus Tent | self-released |
| Grateful Dead | From the Mars Hotel: The Angel's Share | Warner |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| The Mystery Lights | Purgatory | Wick Records |
| Arushi Jane | Delight | Leaving Records |
| Jon Hopkins | Ritual | Domino |
| Grace Cummings | Ramona | ATO |
| Manatee Commune | Simultaneity | Bastard Jazz Recordings |
| Goat | Goat | Rocket Recordings |
| WhoMadeWho | Kiss & Forget | The Moment |
| Indus | Negra | ZZK Records |
| Fling II | 2 | Content Depot |
| Mdou Moctar | Funeral for Justice | Matador |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Boeckner | Boeckner! | Sub Pop Records |
| Sunset Rubdown | Always Happy to Explode | Pronounced Kroog |
| Middle Kids | Faith Crisis Pt 1 | Middle Kids |
| Phantogram | Memory of a Day | Neon Gold Records |
| Suki Waterhouse | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Sub Pop Records |
| The Decemberists | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | YABB Records |
| The The | Ensoulment | Cineola Limited |
| Bonny Light Horseman | Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free | Jagjaguwar |
| Jess Cornelius | Care/Taking | Tender Loving Empire |
| Quivers | Oyster Cuts | Merge Records |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Glass Animals | I Love You So F***cking Much | Universal Music Operations Limited |
| Beyoncé | Cowboy Carter | Parkwood Entertainment LLC/Columbia |
| Thunderpussy | West | Trash Casual |
| Hana Vu | Romanticism | Ghostly International |
| Boeckner | Boeckner! | Sub Pop Records |
| Aurora | What Happened to the Heart? | Glassnote Entertainment Group |
| Rainbow Kitten Surprise | Love Hate Music Box | RKS Recording/Elektra Entertainment |
| Phantogram | Memory of a Day | Neon Gold Records/Avenue A Records |
| Orville Peck | Stampede | Warner Records Inc |
| Freak Slug | I Blow Out Big Candles | Future Classic |
| artist | album | label |
|---|---|---|
| Mannequin Pussy | I Got Heaven | Epitaph Records |
| Amyl and The Sniffers | Cartoon Darkness | Rough Trade Records |
| Charli xcx | Brat | Atlantic Records |
| Doechii | Alligator Bites Never Heal | Top Dawg Entertainment / Capitol Records |
| Magdalena Bay | Imaginal Disc | Mom + Pop Music |
| Dehd | Poetry | Fat Possom Records |
| La Luz | News of the Universe | Sub Pop |
| Kim Gordon | The Collective | Matador Records |
| Naked Giants | Shine Away | DevilDuck Records |
| The Cure | Songs of a Lost World | Lost Music, Universal, Polydor, Capitol Records |
2024 is coming to a close, and it's time for the KEXP DJs to share their Top Albums of the year.
