Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2024

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2024

Listing for 106 records from 2024 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Louis Armstrong: *Louis in London* [Verve] Beyoncé: *Cowboy Carter* [Parkwood/Columbia] Charly Bliss: *Forever* [Lucky Number] Billie Eilish: *Hit Me Hard and Soft* [Darkroom/Interscope] Eminem: *The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)* [Aftermath/Interscope] Adrianne Lenker: *Bright Future* [4AD] The Paranoid Style: *The Paranoid Style Presents: The Interrogator* [Bar/None] Carly Pearce: *Hummingbird* [Big Machine] Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers: *Izigqinamba* [Nyege Nyege Tapes] Previous Industries: *Service Merchandise* [Merge] Sonny Rollins: *Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings* [Resonance] Unholy Modal Rounders: *Unholier Than Thou 7/7/77* [Don Giovanni] Wussy: *Cincinnati Ohio* [Shake It] Tucker Zimmerman & Friends: *Tucker Zimmerman & Friends Play Dance of Love* [4AD] *Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola* [Strut]
A-	África Negra: *Antologia Vol. 2* [Bongo Joe] Amadou & Mariam: *La Vie Est Belle* [Because] Laurie Anderson: *Amelia* [Nonesuch] Thomas Anderson: *Hello, I'm From the Future* [Out There] Bad Moves: *Wearing Out the Refrain* [Don Giovanni] Towa Bird: *American Hero* [Interscope] Zach Bryan: *The Great American Bar Scene* [Warner] Sabrina Carpenter: *Short 'N' Sweet* [Island] Manu Chao: *Viva Tu* [Because] Guy Davis: *The Legend of Sugarbelly* [M.C.] Doechii: *Alligator Bites Never Heal* [TDE/Capitol] Swamp Dogg: *Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street* [Oh Boy] Jeff Evans Porkestra: *Willow Pillow* [self-released] Fake Fruit: *Mucho Mistrust* [Carpark] Fox Green: *Light Over Darkness* [self-released] Fred Again..: *10 Days* [Atlantic] Funkrust Brass Band: *Make a Little Spark* [self-released] GloRilla: *Glorious* [CMG/Interscope] Kim Gordon: *The Collective* [Matador] Heems/Lapgan: *Lafandar* [Veena Sounds] Hinds: *Viva Hinds* [Lucky175] Hurray for the Riff Raff: *The Past Is Still Alive* [Nonesuch] Jax: *Dear Joe,* [Atlantic] Kendrick Lamar: *GNX* [PGLang/Interscope] Miranda Lambert: *Postcards From Texas* [Republic/Big Loud/Vanner] M.J. Lenderman: *Manning Fireworks* [Anti-] Les Amazones d'Afrique: *Musow Danse* [RealWorld] L.L. Cool J: *The Force* [Def Jam/Virgin Music Group/LL Cool J] MC5: *Heavy Lifting* [Ear Music] Mdou Moctar: *Funeral for Justice* [Matador] Megan Moroney: *Am I Okay?* [Columbia Nashville] David Murray: *Francesca* [Intakt] Old 97's: *American Primitive* [ATO] The Rail Band: *Buffet Hotel de la Gare* [Mississippi] Rosali: *Bite Down* [Merge] Serengeti: *KDIV* [Othar] Chris Smither: *All About the Bones* [Signature Sounds] Sonic Youth: *Walls Have Ears* [Goofin'] Rosie Tucker: *Utopia Now!* [Sentimental] Vampire Weekend: *Only God Was Above Us* [Columbia] Morgan Wade: *Obsessed* [RCA] Waxahatchee: *Tigers Blood* [Anti-] Tierra Whack: *World Wide Whack* [Interscope] Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand: *Willson Williams* [One Little Independent] Wussy Duo: *Cellar Door EP* [Shake It EP] Yard Act: *Where's My Utopia?* [Island]
B+	Amyl and the Sniffers: *Cartoon Darkness* [ATO] Bright Eyes: *Five Dice All Threes* [Dead Oceans] Joe Fahey: *Andrea's Exile* [Rough Fish] Ciara Grace: *Write It Down* [self-released] Illuminati Hotties: *Power* [Hopeless] The Linda Lindas: *No Obligation* [Epitaph] Gurf Morlix: *In Love at Zero Degrees* [Rootball] Sleater-Kinney: *Little Rope* [Loma Vista] Peter Stampfel/Eli Smith/Walker Shepard: *Wildernauts* [Don Giovanni] Wussy: *The Great Divide* [Shake It EP] Charli XCX: *Brat* [Atlantic]
*******	Africatown, AL: *Ancestor Sounds* [Free Dirt/PM Press] R.A.P. Ferreira & Fumitake Tamura: *The First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap* [Ruby Yacht] Lupe Fiasco: *Samurai* [Thirty Tigers] Adekunle Gold: *Tequila Ever After* [Def Jam] Jim Kweskin: *Never Too Late: Duets With My Friends* [Storysound] Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners: *Where It Really Starts* [Norman] Thurston Moore: *Flow Critical Lucidity* [Daydream Library] Kate Nash: *Nine Sad Symphonies* [Kill Rock Stars] Willie Nelson: *The Border* [Columbia] Madeleine Peyroux: *Let's Walk* [Just One/Thirty Tigers] Amy Rigby: *Hang in There With Me* [Tapete] Linda Thompson: *Proxy Music* [Storysound] Lucinda Williams: *Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road* [Highway 20/Thirty Tigers]
**	BKtherula: *LVL5 P2* [Warner] Kim Deal: *Nobody Loves You More* [4AD] Ekko Astral: *Pink Balloons* [Topshelf] Four Tet: *Three* [Text] Georgia Sea Island Singers: *The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert* [Smithsonian/Folkways] Claudia Gibson: *The Fields of Chazy* [self-released] The Gringo Pistoleros: *The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien* [self-released] Inert: *2Inert* [self-released] The Libertines: *All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade* [EMI] The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis: *The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis* [Impulse] Willie Nelson: *Last Leaf on the Tree* [Legacy] Todd Snider: *Aimless Records Presents: Viva Satellite (Purple Version)* [Aimless] Tyler, the Creator: *Chromakopia* [Columbia]
*	The Dare: *What's Wrong With New York?* [Republic] Future & Metro Boomin': *We Don't Trust You* [Republic] Idles: *Tangk* [Partisan] Mannequin Pussy: *I Got Heaven* [Epitaph] Pylon Reenactment Society: *Magnet Factory* [Strolling Bones] Taylor Swift: *The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology* [Taylor Swift/Republic] Wavy Bagels With Driveby: *A Carfull* [Break All Records] Jack White: *No Name* [Third Man]

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