Flow State Best of 2024

Here’s our list of our 50 favorite albums released in 2024. The mix plays a track from the first 25, in order. In the list, we link to our recommendation post of the album where available. Paying subscribers can access the Best of 2024 Spotify playlist via this page.

This is our last post of the year. We’ll be back on Monday, 1/6. Have a great new year.

1. Total Blue - Total Blue

2. Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds

3. Pat Keen - I Saw a Bug

4. Loidis - One Day

5. Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution

6. amelia courthouse - broken things

7. Cephas Azaria - Joy Paradox

8. Kali Malone - All Life Long

9. Patricia Wolf - The Secret Lives of Birds

10. Belle Chen - Ravel in the Forest

11. Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

12. Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1

13. OMA - Bread ‘n’ Butter

14. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin - Ghosted II

15. Kolumbo - Sandy Legs

16. Ari Balouzian - Ren Faire OST

17. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus

18. Kiasmos - II

19. Mong Tong & Gong Gong Gong - Mongkok Duel

20. MIZU - Forest Scenes

21. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers [MIXED] by Boys Noize

22. Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - Rain on the Road

23. Jogging House & The Lifted Index - Whisper Glyphs

24. SUSS - Birds & Beasts

25. Elori Saxl - Drifts and Surfaces

26. KMRU - forge

27. marine eyes
    - to belong

28. Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy

29. Max Richter - In a Landscape

30. taylor deupree
    - Sti.ll

31. Prairiewolf - Deep Time

32. Ezra Feinberg - Soft Power

33. Hayden Pedigo - Live in Amarillo, Texas

34. NUG - Bong Boat

35. James Devane - Searching

36. J. Albert - I Want to Be Good So Bad

37. Sonja Tofik - Respire

38. Aphex Twin - Music From the Merch Desk (2016-2023)

39. Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

40. Julian Davis Reid
    - Beside Still Waters

41. Raphael Roginski - Plays John Coltrane and Langston Hughes

42. Pan-American - Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road

43. Arushi Jain - Delight

44. Donato Dozzy - Magda

45. Sarah Davachi - The Head as Form’d In The Crier’s Choir

46. Yara Asmar - Stuttering Music

47. Stuart Bogie, Sam Cohen & Josh Kaufman - Patient Music, Pt. 1

48. Nico Georis - Plant Music Vol. 3 (The Golden Teachers)

49. Four Tet - Three

50. Seconds - Fascinating Stuff