I’m working on my list of the Top 10 albums of the year, and, as a necessary-ish part of that, I’ve been thinking, too, about the songs that spoke to me this year. Here’s the list. What songs called out to you in 2024?
- “All in Good Time,” Iron & Wine + Fiona Apple
- “Alone,” The Cure
- “America,” Charley Crockett
- “Angankári,” Teitur & Girls in Airports
- “Arrival,” Isaac Friend
- “Arrow,” The Head and the Heart
- “Baby Ain’t It Cold Outside,” Jeremie Albino
- “Bored,” Waxahatchee
- “Breaking the Girl,” Sticks N’ Thorns
- “Brighter Shade,” Lost Dog Street Band
- “Cicadas,” Ken Pomeroy
- “Concrete and Barbed Wire,” Bella White
- “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other,” Orville Peck & Willie Nelson
- “Dollar Bill Bar,” Sierra Ferrell
- “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” Rhiannon Giddens (feat. Silkroad Ensemble & Benmont Tench)
- “Don’t Mind the End,” Mipso
- “Episode III,” Svitlana Nianio
- “Gatlohiha (I’m Crying),” Agalisiga
- “Getting Reminders,” Efterklang (feat. Beirut)
- “God Person,” Madi Diaz
- ”The Good Life,” Joshua Burnside
- “Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan
- “Habits,” Gary Clark, Jr.
- “Here We Are,” Parker Millsap & Robert Ellis
- “I Ain’t the Man,” Benjamin Tod
- “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” Hayes & the Heathens
- “II Most Wanted,” Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus
- “Ist Ist,” Einstürzende Neubauten
- “Like a Window,” Klara Goliger (feat. Christian Kjellvander)
- “Lonely Dancers,” Conan Gray
- “Modesto,” Pedro the Lion
- “A New Bohemia (radio edit),” Pet Shop Boys
- “No Surprises,” Jeremiah Fraites (feat. Gregory Alan Isakov)
- “One Last Time,” Benjamin Tod (feat. Sierra Ferrell)
- “Piss and Vinegar,” Rachel Baiman & Caroline Spence
- “Real Love,” Willie Watson
- “Remember I Was a Dancer,” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
- “The Rocky Road to Dublin,” Lankum
- “Safer,” Tyla
- “Save It for Later,” Eddie Vedder
- “Say Goodbye to Christopher,” Jeb Loy Nichols & Jennifer Carr
- “Send in the Clowns,” PRISM Quartet & Miguel Zenón
- “Shining Like Gold,” JD McPherson
- “Si Ya Sabemos,” Gerardo Coronel & Adriana Ríos
- “Sick of Myself,” Trace Mountains
- “Silence,” Valentina Goncharova
- “Singing to the Mandolin,” Bonny Light Horseman
- “Step Into Your Power,” Ray LaMontagne
- “Sun Without the Heat,” Leyla McCalla
- “Sunshine Getaway,” JD McPherson
- “The Truth,” Wyatt Flores
- “The Vine That Ate the South,” Rachel Baiman & Nicholas Jamerson
- ”To the Doves,” JP Harris
- “Waterloo Sunset,” Ann Savoy
- “We Built This City (Live from Oakland, CA, 2022),” Ryan Adams
- “Welcome to the Plains,” Wyatt Flores
- “What’s Fair,” Blondshell
- “What’s Going on with Ordinary People,” The Reds, Pinks, and Purples
- “When Doves Cry (Live from Minneapolis, MN, 2022),” Ryan Adams
- “Worthy,” Mavis Staples
- “Your Local Neighborhood Bar,” St. Lenox
- “Your Worst Song Is Your Greatest Hit,” The Reds, Pinks, and Purples