The end of the year is upon us, and it's time to reflect on your favorite music of 2024! Here are Reed Fischer’s favorite music picks of the year. Once you've made your own list, vote in The Current's Top 89 poll by December 19, and we'll count down your Top 89 of 2024 at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31, and at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1.

Top 10 Minnesota Albums

Bad Bad Hats – Bad Bad Hats
Bizhiki – Unbound
The Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About You
Nat Harvie – New Virginity
Heart to Gold – Free Help
Humbird – Right On
Mati – Berhane’s Son
Papa Mbye – Parcelles 16
Alan Sparhawk – White Roses, My God
True Green – My Lost Decade

Top 20 Albums

Being Dead – Eels
DEHD – Poetry
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Friko – Where we’ve been, Where we go from here
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD”
Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Cindy Lee – Diamond Jubilee
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Mannequin P***y - I Got Heaven
NxWorries – Why Lawd?
Charlie Overman – Charlie Overman
Sheer Mag – Playing Favorites
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Various Artists – Transa
Various Artists – Even the Forest Hums: Ukranian Sonic Archives 1971-1996
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor

Top 20 Songs (not found on the albums above)

BADBADNOTGOOD – “Take What’s Given”
Charley Crockett – “$10 Cowboy”
The Cure – “A Fragile Thing”
FKA Twigs – “Eusexua”
Beth Gibbons – “Floating On a Moment”
Good Morning – “Just In Time”
Kim Gordon – “BYE BYE”
King Hannah – “Big Swimmer”
The Hard Quartet – “Rio’s Song”
Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”
Ravyn Lenae – “Love Me Not”
Porridge Radio – “God of Everything Else”
Chappell Roan – “Good Luck, Babe!”
Dua Saleh – “want”
serpentwithfeet – “Safe Word”
SPRINTS – “Heavy”
Tems – “Burning”
Remi Wolf – “Cinderella”
Charli XCX – “Sympathy is a Knife”
Jamie xx – “All You Children” feat. The Avalanches