Headline : The Best Albums of 2024 So Far

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Along with major releases by the likes of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Shakira, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande, this year has given us peak work from long-beloved artists like Zach Bryan, Tems, Charli XCX, Kali Uchis, Schoolboy Q, Faye Webster, and Waxahatchee, fantastic LPs from breakout innovators like Sexxy Red, Rema, Mk.gee, Brittney Spencer, and Álvaro Díaz, as well as heartening reinventions from durable icons like Kim Gordon, Gary Clark Jr., and Pearl Jam. Here is the rundown of our favorite LPs of 2024 so far, unranked and in alphabetical order.

The Peruvian artist A. Chal had gained some serious momentum around 2018, thanks to trap-tinged songs like “000000.” But as his team pushed for more hits, he started to wonder if making label-approved tracks was actually what he wanted. So instead, he decided to go off completely on his own with Espíritu, a deeply experimental, alt-leaning album that pulls from New Wave, Peruvian traditions, and Latin American punk. Songs like “Saico” and “Walk on Everything” channel the deep history of rock en español  — and show A. Chal at his most honest. —J.L.

The Big Thief singer-songwriter’s fifth solo album carries an aura of raw, one-take candidness. It’s sweet and subtle in its sound, though Adrianne Lenker’s lyricism remains characteristically brutal and brave. The tracks share a similar sparseness and uniformity in instrumentation — piano, violin, guitar, and occasional percussion — but rather than melding together, each song stands strong, poignant, and singular. It’s a body of incantations that explore reconciliation, resignation, and reverence. —L.L.

The latest from Puerto Rican artist Álvaro Díaz is a 20-song splurge that bristles with post-genre ambition and heart-on-sleeve intensity. Díaz opens the album with Blink 182-indebted post-breakup moaner “Te Vi En Mis Pesadilla,” and proceeds to swerve from reggaeton to synthy emo to hip-hop, ending it all with a rock-guitar ballad. His musical confidence recalls Bad Bunny and Tainy (who appears on the house hallucination “Fatal Fantasy”), turning his anthemic heartbreak into an artistic coming-out party. —J.D.

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