The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2024
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio Players | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 2 | Tigers Blood | Waxahatchee | Anti |
| 3 | A LA SALA | Khruangbin | Dead Oceans |
| 4 | As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again | The Decemberists | YABB |
| 5 | Bright Future | Adrianne Lenker | 4AD |
| 6 | Can We Please Have Fun | Kings of Leon | LoveTap |
| 7 | News of the Universe | La Luz | Sub Pop |
| 8 | Memoir of a Sparklemuffin | Suki Waterhouse | Sub Pop |
| 9 | Manning Fireworks | MJ Lenderman | Anti |
| 10 | One of a Kind | The Heavy Heavy | ATO |
| 11 | Romance | Fontaines D.C. | Partisan |
| 12 | Good Together | Lake Street Dive | Concord |
| 13 | Charm | Clairo | Self-Release |
| 14 | Unreal Unearth | Hozier | Columbia |
| 15 | Cartwheel | Hotline TNT | Third Man |
| 16 | Peacemaker | Vera Sola | City Slang |
| 17 | What Now | Brittany Howard | Island |
| 18 | Only God Was Above Us | Vampire Weekend | Columbia |
| 19 | Parallel Realms | STRFKR | Polyvinyl |
| 20 | Light Verse | Iron & Wine | Sub Pop |
| 21 | Hole in My Head | Laura Jane Grace | Polyvinyl |
| 22 | All Born Screaming | St. Vincent | Loma Vista |
| 23 | Back to Moon Beach | Kurt Vile | Verve |
| 24 | Songs of a Lost World | The Cure | Polydor |
| 25 | Echo the Diamond | Margaret Glaspy | ATO |
| 26 | Lucky for You | Bully | Sub Pop |
| 27 | X's | Cigarettes After Sex | Spanish Prayers |
| 28 | Dr. Dog | Dr. Dog | We Buy Gold |
| 29 | Cutouts | The Smile | Self Help |
| 30 | No Name | Jack White | Third Man |
| 31 | The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We | Mitski | Dead Oceans |
| 32 | Five Dice, All Threes | Bright Eyes | Dead Oceans |
| 33 | Dotr | LP Giobbi | Counter |
| 34 | Evergreen | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
| 35 | Spiel | Office Dog | New West |
| 36 | What Do We Do Now | J Mascis | Sub Pop |
| 37 | The 4th Album | The Record Company | Round Hill |
| 38 | Strange Burden | Font | Acrophase |
| 39 | Lagos Paris London (feat. Tony Allen) | Yannis & The Yaw | Transgressive |
| 40 | Halo | Bakar | Black Butter |
| 41 | Jenny from Thebes | The Mountain Goats | Merge |
| 42 | Wild God | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Play It Again Sam |
| 43 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador |
| 44 | Into the Blue | Aaron Frazer | Dead Oceans |
| 45 | Viva Hinds | Hinds | Lucky Number |
| 46 | Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here | Friko | ATO |
| 47 | Letter to Self | Sprints | City Slang |
| 48 | Glasgow Eyes | The Jesus And Mary Chain | Fuzz Club |
| 49 | Untame the Tiger | Mary Timony | Merge |
| 50 | Flight B741 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release |
| 51 | Everybody Needs a Hero | Orla Gartland | New Friends |
| 52 | Boeckner! | Boeckner | Sub Pop |
| 53 | Frog in Boiling Water | DIIV | Fantasy |
| 54 | Down There! | Folly Group | So Young |
| 55 | Something is Working Up Above My Head | Shovels & Rope | Dualtone |
| 56 | Ten Small Fractures | Human Drama | Bob Frank Ent |
| 57 | TANGK | IDLES | Partisan |
| 58 | Eyeball | Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers | Lunaria |
| 59 | Revelator | Phosphorescent | Verve |
| 60 | EELS | Being Dead | Bayonet |
| 61 | This Far South | Tommy Prine | Nameless Knight |
| 62 | Up on Gravity Hill | Metz | Sub Pop |
| 63 | Daniel | Real Estate | Domino |
| 64 | Dark Matter | Pearl Jam | Monkeywrench |
| 65 | Lighthouse | Francis of Delirium | Dalliance |
| 66 | Changes All the Time | James Bay | Mercury |
| 67 | I Got Heaven | Mannequin Pussy | Epitaph |
| 68 | Final Summer | Cloud Nothings | Pure Noise |
| 69 | Searching for Strawberries: the Story of Jongo Bongo | Rare Americans | Crooked City |
| 70 | Ill Times | GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith | p(doom) |
| 71 | Where’s My Utopia? | Yard Act | Island |
| 72 | Souvenir | Omni | Sub Pop |
| 73 | Mimi | Corridor | Sub Pop |
| 74 | EELS TIME! | Eels | Play It Again Sam |
| 75 | Desert Pavement | Ismay | Self-Release |
| 76 | Strut of Kings | Guided By Voices | GBV Inc |
| 77 | My Method Actor | Nilufer Yanya | Ninja Tune |
| 78 | What's Wrong with New York? | The Dare | UMG |
| 79 | Horror | Bartees Strange | 4AD |
| 80 | Shopping Cart | Carter Brady | Self-Release |
| 81 | Half Divorced | Pissed Jeans | Sub Pop |
| 82 | The Collective | Kim Gordon | Matador |
| 83 | The Moon is in the Wrong Place | Shannon & The Clams | Easy Eye Sound |
| 84 | Yard | Slow Pulp | Anti |
| 85 | Everything is Alive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans |
| 86 | Patterns in Repeat | Laura Marling | Chrysalis |
| 87 | Wall of Eyes | The Smile | XL Recordings |
| 88 | Head of Pomegranate | Flamingods | The Liquid Label |
| 89 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 90 | Zuma 85 | Allah-Las | Innovative Leisure |
| 91 | God Games | The Kills | Domino |
| 92 | Expensive Air | Oneida | Joyful Noise |
| 93 | Underwater over There | Unwed Sailor | Current Taste |
| 94 | Lapse | Idaho | Arts & Crafts |
| 95 | 1 | bby | Glassnote |
| 96 | Bite Down | Rosali | Merge |
| 97 | The Future is Our Way out | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO |
| 98 | Poetry | Dehd | Fat Possum |
| 99 | Little Rope (Deluxe) | Sleater-Kinney | Loma Vista |
| 100 | What Occurs | Islands | Elf |
| 101 | Interplay | Ride | Wichita |
| 102 | Good Time | DAIISTAR | Fuzz Club |
| 103 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE |
| 104 | 1-800 FANTASY | Blk Odyssy | EARTHCHILD |
| 105 | This House is Made of Corners | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO |
| 106 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious |
| 107 | The Breaks | Suuns | Joyful Noise |
| 108 | SORCS 80 | Thee Oh Sees | Castle Face |
| 109 | OUI, LSF | Les Savy Fav | Frenchkiss |
| 110 | Voices | Phantogram | Republic |
| 111 | Plunge | Sam Evian | Flying Cloud |
| 112 | Rockmaker | The Dandy Warhols | Sunset Blvd Records / Beat The |
| 113 | New Lost Ages | Tyler Ramsey | Soundly |
| 114 | Glimmer of God | Jean Dawson | P+ |
| 115 | My Light, My Destroyer | Cassandra Jenkins | Dead Oceans |
| 116 | 66 | Paul Weller | Universal |
| 117 | Fully Beat | Aluminum | felte |
| 118 | Faith Crisis Pt 1 | Middle Kids | Lucky Number |
| 119 | Name Your Sorrow | Pillow Queens | Royal Mountain |
| 120 | Not God | Finom | Joyful Noise |
| 121 | AMAMA | Crumb | Self-Release |
| 122 | Grog | Frog | Tape Wormies |
| 123 | Sugarcoat | Blushing | Kanine |
| 124 | I Am Not There Anymore | The Clientele | Merge |
| 125 | H.E.A.R.T. | Katrina Ford | Chrysalis |
| 126 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny |
| 127 | Commander Trainwreck | Skinner | Faction |
| 128 | Fate & Alcohol | Japandroids | Anti |
| 129 | Make It Right | Steve Wynn | Fire |
| 130 | Quilt Floor | Mama Zu | Cosmic Twin |
| 131 | Hovvdy | Hovvdy | Arts & Crafts |
| 132 | But I'll Wait for You | Local Natives | Loma Vista |
| 133 | In the End It Always Does | The Japanese House | Dirty Hit |
| 134 | No Obligation | The Linda Lindas | Epitaph |
| 135 | Blurred Wires | Upright Forms | SKiN GRAFT |
| 136 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG |
| 137 | Redd Kross | Redd Kross | In The Red |
| 138 | Pleasure Beast | Haiku Hands | Spinning Top |
| 139 | FEVER / SKY | Wilder Woods | Dualtone |
| 140 | Three Bells | Ty Segall | Drag City |
| 141 | Power | illuminati hotties | Snack Shack Tracks |
| 142 | Before It's Gone | Salt Cathedral | Self-Release |
| 143 | Illuminator | Gift | Captured Tracks |
| 144 | ILION | SLIFT | Sub Pop |
| 145 | Playing Favorites | Sheer Mag | Third Man |
| 146 | Two Star & the Dream Police | Mk.gee | Two Star & The Dream Police |
| 147 | Bananasugarfire | Golden Apples | Lame-O |
| 148 | Cristal Medium Blue | Lewis OfMan | Profil de Face |
| 149 | Loss of Life | MGMT | Mom+Pop |
| 150 | Your Day Will Come | Chanel Beads | Jagjaguwar |
| 151 | Regular Nature | Sunglaciers | Mothland |
| 152 | Walking After Dark | The Mountain Movers | Trouble In Mind |
| 153 | East My Love | Current Joys | Secretly Canadian |
| 154 | Walk Thru Me | The Folk Implosion | Joyful Noise |
| 155 | Come and See | Gurriers | No Filter |
| 156 | Iechyd Da | Bill Ryder-Jones | Domino |
| 157 | The Silver Cord | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release |
| 158 | The Cleansing | Peter Perrett | Domino |
| 159 | I Blow out Big Candles | Freak Slug | Future Classic |
| 160 | Paradise Pop. 10 (Deluxe) | Christian Lee Hutson | Anti |
| 161 | Ain't It Tragic | Dead Sara | Atlantic |
| 162 | First Two Pages of Frankenstein | The National | 4AD |
| 163 | I Don't Want You Anymore | Cherry Glazerr | Secretly Canadian |
| 164 | A Chaos of Flowers | Big Brave | Thrill Jockey |
| 165 | Diagnosis | Sen Morimoto | City Slang |
| 166 | Year of the Banana | Rubblebucket | EggHunt |
| 167 | Elude the Torch | The Drin | Feel It |
| 168 | Valebol (feat. V.V. Lightbody & Daniel Villarreal) | Valebol | Otherly Love |
| 169 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra |
| 170 | Mucho Mistrust | Fake Fruit | Carpark |
| 171 | Call a Doctor | Girl and Girl | Sub Pop |
| 172 | Teething | Porij | Play It Again Sam |
| 173 | What an Enormous Room | Torres | Merge |
| 174 | Phasor | Helado Negro | 4AD |
| 175 | Package, Pt. 2 | Gustaf | Royal Mountain |
| 176 | Bird Machine | Sparklehorse | Anti |
| 177 | Sleeping Soldiers of Love | Johnny Irion | Blackwing |
| 178 | Hadsel | Beirut | Pompeii |
| 179 | Of the Last Human Being | Sleepytime Gorilla Museum | AVANT NIGHT |
| 180 | Dream Backwards | C-Clamp | Numero Group |
| 181 | Big Sigh | Marika Hackman | Chrysalis |
| 182 | Half Eaten by Dogs | The Serfs | Trouble In Mind |
| 183 | Laff It off | Pony Girl | Paper Bag |
| 184 | Careful! | Deeper | Sub Pop |
| 185 | Prelude to Ecstasy | The Last Dinner Party | Island |
| 186 | Cardinals | Cardinals | So Young |
| 187 | Head Body Connector | Psymon Spine | Northern Spy |
| 188 | Dream Noise | Spun Out | Shuga |
| 189 | Five Mile Point | Unlettered | Self-Release |
| 190 | #1 Zookeeper (of the San Diego Zoo) | Abby Hamilton | Blue Gown |
| 191 | Strawberry Seed | Big Bill | Spaceflight |
| 192 | Live Laugh Love | Chastity Belt | Suicide Squeeze |
| 193 | Benzene | French Cassettes | Tender Loving Empire |
| 194 | Accessible Beauty | Walker Lukens | Lucky Hound |
| 195 | I'm Totally Fine with It Don't Give a F**k Anymore | Arab Strap | Rock Action |
| 196 | Carrot on Strings | Man Man | Sub Pop |
| 197 | Speech Free: Recorded Music for Film, Radio, Internet and Television | Negativland | Seeland |
| 198 | All Channels Clear | Ibex Clone | Goner |
| 199 | Suntub | ML Buch | 15 love |
| 200 | Again | Oneohtrix Point Never | Warp |
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