2024 Albums of the Year

2. Brittany Davis - Image Issues

Best New Artist

3. Mk.Gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

Freshest Sound

4. Real Estate - Daniel

5. Being Dead - Eels

Most Improved

6. Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack

Best Lyrics

7. Geordie Greep - The New Sound

Best Performance (Instruments)

8. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know

Best Songwriting

9. The Smile - Wall of Eyes

10. Adrienne Lenker - Bright Future

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

12. GIFT - Illuminator

13. Caribou - Honey

14. Brijean - Macro

15. A.G. Cook - Britpop

16. Two Shell - Two Shell

17. Dummy - Free Energy

18. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal

Breakout Artist of the Year

19. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign

Best Performance (Vocals)

20. Letitia Sadier - Rooting for Love

21. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

22. MGMT - Loss of Life

23. Kate Bollinger - Songs From A Thousand Frames of Mind

24. Odonian - Undone

25. Afrocop - Afrocop

26. The Smile - Cutouts

27. mega cat - mega cat

28. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

29. JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life For You

30. julie - my anti-aircraft friend

31. Molly Lewis - On The Lips

32. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

33. Nidia and Valentina - Estradas

34. Ganavya - Daughter of a Temple

35. Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia

36. Justice - Hyperdrama

37. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas Parte 2

38. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk

39. Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More

40. Floating Points - Cascade

41. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas

42. Rosie Tucker - Utopia Now!

43. Hovvdy - Hovvdy

44. Jamie xx - In Waves

45. Skee Mask - Resort

46. Helado Negro - Phasor

47. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - Challengers OST

48. Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power

49. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

50. Melt-Banana - 3+5

2023 Albums of the Year

2.

Amaarae - Fountain Baby

Breakout of the Year

3.

The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony

4.

Mega Bog - End of Everything

5.

PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows

6.

Andy Shauf - Norm

7.

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

8.

Clark - Sus Dog

9.

L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog

10.

John Carrol Kirby - Blowout

11.

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

12.

Knower - Knower Forever

Best Performance

13.

Dudu Tassa, Johnny Greenwood - Jarik Qaribak

14.

Blake Mills - Jelly Road

15.

Freak Heat Waves - Mondo Tempo

16.

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

17.

Altin Gün - Aşk

18.

Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

19.

Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.

Freshest Sound

20.

Danny Brown - Quaranta

21.

Anthony Naples - Orbs

22.

Jouska - Suddenly My Mind Is Blank

23.

Nathan Fake - Crystal Vision

24.

Marina Herlop - Nekkuja

25.

Heatwarmer - It's A Nightmare

26.

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

27.

Rozi Plain - Prize

28.

Aphex Twin -
Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room 7 F760 EP

Best Album Cover

29.

Cut Worms - Cut Worms

30.

K-Lone - Swells

31.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

32.

Yu Su - I Want An Earth EP

33.

Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice EP

34.

Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed

35.

Little Dragon - Slugs of Love

36.

Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, Vijay Iyer - Love In Exile

37.

ML Buch - Suntub

38.

Mandy, Indiana - I've Seen A Way

39.

Tim Hecker - No Highs

40.

Patten - Deep Blue

41.

VHS Head - Phocus

42.

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

43.

Laufey - Bewitched

44.

Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion

45.

Isola - LP1

46.

Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun

47.

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

48.

M83 - Fantasy

49.

Kaytramine - Kaytramine

50.

Nourished By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2

2022 Albums of the Year

2.

Panda Bear / Sonic Boom - Reset

3.

Marina Herlop - Pripyat

Best Performance

Best Editing

4.

Time Wharp - Spiro World

5.

Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

6.

Grace Ives - Janky Star

7.

Aldous Harding -

Warm Chris

Best Lyrics

8.

Susumu Yokota - Baroque

9.

black midi - Hellfire

10.

Beach House - Once Twice Melody

11.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith / Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon

12.

Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep

13.
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers

14.

Animal Collective - Time Skiffs

15.

Alex G - God Save the Animals

16.

Hagop Tchaparian - Bolts

17.

Bjork - Fossora

18.

The Smile -

A Light for Attracting Attention

19.

Working Men's Club - Fear Fear

Best New Artist

20.

Shygirl - Nymph

Breakout of the Year

21.

Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights

22.

DOMi & JD BECK - NOT TiGHT

23.

Tomaga - Extended Play 2

24.

Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

25.

Maral -

Ground Groove

26.

Two Shell - Icons (EP)

27.

Raw Poetic / Damu the Fudgemunk - Space Beyond The Solar System

28.

Leland Whitty - Anyhow

29.

Sam Prekop / John McEntire - Sons Of

30.

Valentina Magaletti -

A Queer Anthology of Drums

31.

Yann Tiersen -

11 5 18 2 5 18

32.

Broadcast - Maida Vale Sessions

Best Live Album

33.

John Moods - The Great Design

34.

John Carroll Kirby -

Dance Ancestral

35.

Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You

36.

TOPS - Empty Seats (EP)

37.

Eric Copeland - Spiral Stairs

38.

Beyonce - Renaissance

39.

Noda & Wolfers - Tascam Space Season

40.

Hikaru Utada - Bad Mode

41.

death's dynamic shroud - Darklife

42.

Heith - X, wheel

43.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound

44.

Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)

45.

Wet Leg -

Wet Leg

46.

Axel Boman - Quest for Fire

47.

Clark - 05-10

48.

Ruru -

Glorious Miscellanea

49.

Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity

50.

Mary Lattimore / Paul Sukeena - West Kensington

2021 Albums of the Year

2.

Yu Su -

Yellow River Blue

*Freshest Sound of the Year*

*Best Production*

3.

Parquet Courts - Sympathy for Life

4.

Clark - Playground In A Lake

5.

Anthony Shauf - Wilds

*Songwriter of the Year*

6.

L'Rain - Fatigue

7.

Bo Burnham - Inside

8.

Brijean - Feelings

9.

Cass McCombs - Tip of the Sphere

10.

Men I Trust - Untourable Album

11.

Liars -
The Apple Drop

12.

black midi - Cavalcade

13.

Genesis Owusu - Smiling with No Teeth

14.

Dawn Richard - Second Line

15.

PinkPantheress - to hell with it

*Harry Nilsson Brevity Award Winner*

16.

Tyler, The Creator -
Call Me If You Get Lost

17.

Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

18.

Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

19.

Tirzah - Colourgrade

20.

Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

*Vocalist of the Year*

21.

Lorde -
Solar Power

22.

Flying Lotus - Yasuke

23.

Sleeping -
The Turning Wheel

24.

Remi Wolf - Juno

25.

Jungle -
Loving In Stereo

26.

Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme

*Lyricist of the Year*

27.

Arca - KicK iii

28.

Faye Webster -
I Know I'm Funny haha

29.

James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart

30.

JPEGMAFIA - LP!

31.

Ovlov - Buds

32.

Moin - Moot!

*Album Cover of the Year*

33.

Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou

34.

Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

35.

Lil Nas X - MONTERO

36.

Tinashe - 333

37.

Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams

38.

Low - HEY WHAT

*Overrated Album of the Year (That I Still Like)*

39.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Emile Mosseri -
I Could Be Your Dog (Prequel)

40.

Black Country, New Road -
For the First Time

41.

Halsey -
If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

42.

Laura Mvula - Pink Noise

43.

Lost Girls - Menneskekollek-tivet

44.

Emile Mosseri - Minari (OST)

*Soundtrack of the Year*

45.

Blawan -
Soft Waahls EP

46.

Mas Aya - Mascaras

47.

Clairo - Sling

48.

Sega Bodega - Romeo

49.

Parris - Soaked In Indigo Moonlight

50.

Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future

2020 Albums of the Year

2.

Christopher Icasiano - Provinces

3.

Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters

4.

Real Estate - The Main Thing

5.

Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

6.

Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

7.

Fleet Foxes - Shore

8.

Sam Prekop - Comma

9.

Caribou - Suddenly

10.

Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

11.

Grimes -

Miss Anthropocene

12.

Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans

13.

Moses Boyd - Dark Matter

14.

Yves Jarvis - Sundry Rock Songs Stock

15.

Moses Sumney - græ

16.

Nathan Fake - Blizzards

17.

Perfume Genius - Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

18.

Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound

19.

Kate NV - Room For The Moon

20.

070 Shake - Modus Vivendi

21.

Ric Wilson, Terra

ce Martin - They Call Me Disco

22.

Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore

23.

TOPS - I Feel Alive

24.

Arca - KiCk i

25.

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas

26.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

27.

Lyra Pramuk - Fountain

28.

Flaming Lips - American Head

29.

Tkay Maidza - Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2

30.

Patricia - Maxyboy

31.

SAULT - Untitled (Black Is)

32.

Adrianne Lenker - songs

33.

Faten Kanaan - A Mythology of Circles

34.

Moodymann - Taken Away

35.

Car Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open

36.

Childish Gambino - 3.15.20

37.

Thurston Moore - By The Fire

38.

Run the Jewels - RTJ4

39.

Ben Lukas Boysen - Mirage

40.

King Krule - Man Alive!

41.

Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders

42.

Thundercat - It Is What It Is

43.

Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle

44.

Shygirl - Alias

45.

Khruangbin - Mordechai

46.

Siti Muharam - Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution on Zanzibar)

47.

Sea Oleena - Weaving A Basket

48.

Lido Pimienta - Miss Colombia

49.

Sad13 - Haunted Painting

50.

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

51. Ela Minus - acts of rebellion

52. My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II

53. Terrance Martin, Robert Glasper, 9th Wonder - Dinner Party

54. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight to Eternity

55. Animal Collective - Bridge to Quiet

56. CeeLo Green - CeeLo Green is Thomas Callaway

57. Beatrice Dillon - Workaround

58. Stephen Malkmus - Traditional Techniques

59. Roisin Murphy - Roisin Machine

60. Aofie Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction

61. Nubya Garcia - SOURCE

62. Laurel Halo - Possessed (OST)

63. Bullion - Heaven Is Over

64. The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public

65. Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower

66. Skee Mask - Iss006

67. No Joy - Motherhood

68. Little Simz - Drop 6

69. Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists

70. BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff

71. North Americans - Roped In

72. Les Amazones d'Afrique - Amazones Power

73. JPEGMAFIA - EP!

74. Tomo Nakayama - Melonday

75. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic of Transformation

76. Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour

77. Westerman - Your Hero Is Not Dead

78. Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind

79. clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned

80. Yaeji - WHAT WE DREW

81. Gia Margaret - Mia Gargaret

82. Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King

83. Eric Copeland - Dumb It Down

84. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown

85. Nick Hakim - WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

86. Pink Siifu - NEGRO

87. Alle - Alletiders

88. Loma - Don't Shy Away

89. Bartees Strange - Live Forever

90. James Blake - Before

91. Bill Callahan - Gold Record

92. Kareem Ali - Within Your Self

93. Kassa Overall - I Think I'm Good

94. Shinichi Atobe - Yes

95. Discovery Zone - Remote Control

96. AceMoma - EP3

97. Duval Timothy - Help

98. Fred Again.. - Actual Life

99. Maria Jose Llergo - Sanacion

100. Perry Porter, Oldmilk - Grey