We've rounded up all of our top recommendations from 2024 into one playlist to highlight FRXDAY's best new albums of the year. The playlist is sorted alphabetically into both Brennan and Sabrina's individual Top 4, and then alphabetically by genre. Playlist is available at the bottom of the post.
Brennan's Top 4
Artist: Enumclaw
Album: Home In Another Life
Listen to First: "Change"
Artist: The K's
Album: I Wonder If The World Knows? (Deluxe Edition)
Listen to First: "Sarajevo"
Artist: sister swimmer
Album: The Horizon Line Swallowed Us Whole EP
Listen to First: "No : Body"
Artist: Strawberry Launch
Album: Bad Luck EP
Listen to First: "Ready Yet"
Sabrina's Top 4
Artist: Essence Martins
Album: Deer in the Headlights EP
Listen to First: "Pending Status"
Artist: Hailey Knox
Album: For the Best EP
Listen to First: "11th Hour"
Artist: Loyal Lobos
Album: Loba Vol. 2
Listen to First: "Limón"
Artist: Nemahsis
Album: Verbathim
Listen to First: "you wore it better"
Alternative
Artist: bby
Album: 1
Listen to First: "hotline"
Artist: Chicano Batman
Album: Notebook Fantasy
Listen to First: "Era Primavera"
Artist: Gina Volpe (of Lunachicks)
Album: Delete the World
Listen to First: "Drink Me"
Artist: Gloom Girl MFG
Album: Polycrisis EP
Listen to First: "Crimes"
Artist: Japandroids
Album: Fate & Alcohol
Listen to First: "Upon Sober Reflection"
Artist: Jhariah
Album: TRUST CEREMONY
Listen to First: "RISK, RISK, RISK!"
Artist: Kishi Bashi
Album: Kantos
Listen to First: "Colorful State"
Artist: Microwave
Album: Let’s Start Degeneracy
Listen to First: "Circling the Drain"
Artist: Pale Waves
Album: Smitten
Listen to First: "Perfume"
Artist: Pegg
Album: Pegg
Listen to First: "Geronimo"
Artist: Pink Milk
Album: Night on Earth
Listen to First: "You Will Follow Me to Hell (Night on Earth)"
Artist: Remo Drive
Album: Mercy
Listen to First: "No, There's No Hope For You"
Artist: Saloon Dion
Album: Where You’ll Find Me EP
Listen to First: "Struck"
Artist: Tei Shi
Album: Valerie
Listen to First: "MONA LISA"
Artist: The KVB
Album: Tremors
Listen to First: "Tremors"
Artist: W.H. Lung
Album: Every Inch of Earth Pulsates
Listen to First: "The Painting of the Bay"
Artist: Xiu Xiu
Album: 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
Listen to First: "Common Loon"
Americana
Artist: Goldie Boutilier
Album: The Actress
Listen to First: "The Actress"
Artist: Skylar Gudasz
Album: COUNTRY
Listen to First: "Mother's Daughter"
Artist: Tish Melton
Album: When We’re Older EP
Listen to First: "Michelle"
Artist: Willow Avalon
Album: Stranger EP
Listen to First: "Drivin"
Country
Artist: Fancy Hagood
Album: American Spirit
Listen to First: "Good Grief"
Dance & Electronic
Artist: Dar Disku & Yacine El Khaldi
Album: Dar Disku
Listen to First: "Dbayli"
Artist: Olof Dreijer (of The Knife)
Album: Coral EP
Listen to First: "Coral"
Artist: Vegyn
Album: The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
Listen to First: "Turn Me Inside" ft. Léa Sen
Artist: VHOOR
Album: Resenha
Listen to First: "Flash"
Emo
Artist: Stay Inside
Album: Ferried Away
Listen to First: "A Backyard"
Experimental
Artist: mui zyu
Album: nothing or something to die for
Listen to First: "everything to die for"
Folk
Artist: Babehoven
Album: Water’s Here In You
Listen to First: "Birdseye"
Artist: Donovan Woods
Album: Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now
Listen to First: "Rosemary"
Artist: Kyle Andrews
Album: The Whims of a Manic Moon
Listen to First: "Unfocus Your Eyes"
Artist: Lutalo
Album: The Academy
Listen to First: "Ocean Swallows Him Whole"
Artist: Tiny Habits
Album: All For Something
Listen to First: "I Don't Have The Heart"
Artist: two blinks, i love you
Album: ep 2
Listen to First: "my girl"
Hip-Hop & Rap
Artist: AG Club
Album: Brodie World
Listen to First: "Barry"
Artist: Elsy Wameyo
Album: Saint Sinner
Listen to First: "Umva"
Artist: John Glacier
Album: Like a Ribbon EP
Listen to First: "Tripsteady"
Artist: LUCI
Album: They Say They Love You
Listen to First: "11:11"
Indie
Artist: Anna Tivel
Album: Living Thing
Listen to First: "Disposable Camera"
Artist: Bad Bad Hats
Album: Bad Bad Hats
Listen to First: "My Heart Your Heart"
Artist: Black Polish
Album: Forest
Listen to First: "Tears Are Falling"
Artist: Bottlemoth
Album: Even Us Ghosts
Listen to First: "Tattoo"
Artist: Dreamer Boy
Album: Lonestar
Listen to First: "Suckerpunch"
Artist: Du Blonde
Album: Sniff More Gritty
Listen to First: "TV Star"
Artist: Ducks Ltd.
Album: Harm’s Way
Listen to First: "Train Full of Gasoline"
Artist: Eliza McLamb
Album: Going Through It
Listen to First: "Mythologize Me"
Artist: Flat Party
Album: Flat Party EP
Listen to First: "Glances In The Dark"
Artist: Friko
Album: Where we’ve been, Where we go
Listen to First: "Crimson to Chrome"
Artist: Hana Vu
Album: Romanticism
Listen to First: "Care"
Artist: Hildegard (Ouri and Helena Deland)
Album: Jour 1596
Listen to First: "Pour Your Heart Out"
Artist: Julien Chang
Album: Home For the Moment EP
Listen to First: "Imago"
Artist: King Hannah
Album: Big Swimmer
Listen to First: "Davey Says"
Artist: Kississippi
Album: damned if i do it for you EP
Listen to First: "Last Time"
Artist: Mall Girl
Album: Pure Love
Listen to First: "All I Should Have Said"
Artist: Milo Korbenski
Album: When You Gonna Tell ’Em the Truth, Aaron?
Listen to First: "Booksmart Hunny"
Artist: Nick Ward
Album: House with the Blue Door
Listen to First: "Shooting Star"
Artist: OK Cowgirl
Album: Couldn’t Save Us From My Gut
Listen to First: "Little Splinters"
Artist: piglet
Album: for frank forever EP
Listen to First: "for frank forever"
Artist: rakey
Album: Apple Core
Listen to First: "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
Artist: renforshort
Album: clean hands dirty water
Listen to First: "hurt like it should"
Artist: Reyna Tropical
Album: Malegría
Listen to First: "Conocerla"
Artist: Sunday Cruise
Album: Art of Losing My Reflection
Listen to First: "Pretty Girl"
Artist: Tendertwin
Album: Ship Argo EP
Listen to First: "Tidal Insomniac"
Latin
Artist: KINKY
Album: 5 Disparos EP
Listen to First: "Fuentes de Ortiz"
Artist: La Lom
Album: The Los Angeles League of Musicians
Listen to First: "La Maravilla"
Pop
Artist: Alemeda
Album: FK IT EP
Listen to First: "Gonna Bleach My Eyebrows"
Artist: Haleluya Hailu
Album: eternally, yours EP
Listen to First: "MANIC PIXIE PACIFIST"
Artist: TAAHLIAH
Album: Gramarye
Listen to First: "2018"
Punk
Artist: Cloud Nothings
Album: Final Summer
Listen to First: "Running Through The Campus"
Artist: Grieving
Album: Everything Goes Right, All At Once
Listen to First: "My Friend, the Ghost"
R&B
Artist: Elliot Moss
Album: How I Fell
Listen to First: "Altitude"
Rock
Artist: Flight Mode
Album: The Three Times EP
Listen to First: "Sixteen"
Artist: gglum
Album: The Garden Dream
Listen to First: "SPLAT!"
Singer-Songwriter
Artist: Richard Hawley
Album: In This City They Call You Love
Listen to First: "Heavy Rain"
Soul
Artist: anaiis and Grupo Cosmo
Album: anaiis & Grupo Cosmo
Listen to First: "Honeydew"
Artist: Jake Isaac
Album: Benjamin
Listen to First: "GOOD MAN"
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