Headline : The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of 2024

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Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock. Legends like Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Kim Gordon, the Softies, Nada Surf, Sleater-Kinney, and Mary Timony were back with must-hear new music. MJ Lenderman, Illuminati Hotties, Mannequin Pussy and more made breakthrough LPs, and the sonic options stretched from Claire Rousay’s emo ambient to This Is Lorelei’s automatic bedroom-pop to Being Dead’s deranged rock & roll pastiche.

Speaking of legends, RIP Steve Albini, whose final album with Shellac appears here. He helped build this whole genre from the ground up and the world is an even more irredeemably compromised place without him.

Wussy, the Cincinnati, Ohio band led by singer-guitarists Chuck Pearson and Lisa Walker, have been putting out great records for years, starting with 2005 wonderful Funeral Dress. Cincinnati Ohio is the first Wussy album since the death of guitarist John Erhardt in 2020, and songs like the haunting  opener “The Great Divide,” “The Ghosts Keep Me Alive,” and “Disaster About You” have a tough, tender melancholic beauty. Wussy seem to draw power not from trying to find light in a dark moment, but leaning into absence and loss for the everyday stuff that it is. They have pain to share, and they play through it.–Jon Dolan 

The Los Angeles songwriter digs deep on her third album, culling tales from her family history and present-day romances and friendships to weave a gorgeous web of intricate, dreamy folk music. From the gripping opener “I’m the Same” to the easygoing, porch-swinging rocker “Swinging Doors,” the nine tracks offer a glimpse into Allen’s mind, where the mythology of the North Star and the music of her hero, Joanna Newsom, reign supreme. “Music is definitely a burden as well as a calling,” she told us in the spring. “And I sometimes wish that I was just a normie who worked at Google, but I’ve just never been like that and had to come to terms with that.” We’re glad she did.–Angie Martoccio

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