1. Rewind - Rosali
Bite Down (Merge, 2024)
2. White Lies, White Jesus and You - Katie Pruitt
Mantras (Rounder, 2024)
3. Fish - Angie McMahon
Light, Dark, Light Again (Gracie Music, 2023)
4. I'm Not Crying, You're Crying - English Teacher
This Could Be Texas (Island, 2024)
5. It Was Coming All Along - Maggie Rogers
Don't Forget Me (Debay Sounds / Capitol, 2024)
6. The Hurtin' Kind - Orville Peck (feat. Midland)
Stampede (Warner, 2024)
7. Clams Casino - Cassandra Jenkins
My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans, 2024)
8. Empires Never Know - Jessica Pratt
Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer, 2024)
9. Floating on a Moment - Beth Gibbons
Lives Outgrown (Domino, 2024)
10. Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
single (Island, 2024)
11. North Country - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Woodland (Acony, 2024)
12. Run - Miranda Lambert
Postcards from Texas (Republic / Big Loud, 2024)
13. Right Back to It - Waxahatchee (feat. MJ Lenderman)
Tigers Blood (Anti-, 2024)
A lot of great songs this year, though no albums that I really took to heart - closest was Lives Outgrown. "It Was Coming All Along" is a pretty perfect rock-pop song that calls back to the late 90s / early 2000s golden age for that genre; "Fish" runs deep and for me is thoroughly associated with a certain stream of Australian music / lit / experience that includes the likes of Holly Throsby and Jennifer Down. Katie Pruitt was back with another crisply longing collection and Cassandra Jenkins with a rockier, catchier one; I continue to mostly only like rather than love Waxahatchee's take on Americana but "Right Back to It" kept on calling to me across the year.
