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Top 10 Irish Albums Of 2024

Top 10 Irish Albums Of 2024

Here are our picks for the top 10 Irish albums of 2024. What are yours? Let us know in the comments below.

1 Romance by Fontaines D.C. Album Cover Fontaines D.C. - Romance

Fourth in a row of outstanding albums from Fontaines. While it may not their most consistently brilliant (the second half is not as strong as the first), it does contain what may be their best song, the fabulous 'Starburster'.
Tracks
  1. Romance
  2. Starburster
  3. Here's The Thing
  4. Desire
  5. In The Modern World
  6. Bug
  7. Motorcycle Boy
  8. Horesness Is The Whatness
  9. Death Kink
  10. Favourite
2 Sprints Letter To Self Album Cover Sprints - Letter To Self

Ferocious yet catchy, this is a impactful set of powerful punky rock songs delivered with with intensity and passion. It's hard to pick a standout track because they all stand out; this truly excellent album does not falter from start to finish.
Tracks
  1. Ticking
  2. Heavy
  3. Cathedral
  4. Shaking Their Hands
  5. Adore Adore Adore
  6. Shadow of a Doubt
  7. Can't Get Enough of It
  8. Literary Mind
  9. A Wreck (A Mess)
  10. Up and Comer
  11. Letter to Self
3 A Terrible Beauty by Christy Moore Album Cove Christy Moore - A Terrible Beauty

The veteran Christy Moore has aged like a fine wine and is putting out some of his best music over half a century into his career. He delivers a commentary of our times in his unmistakable warm and soothing accented voice. He makes songs by other artists such as Brian Brannigan of A Lazarus Soul all his own. 'Palestine' by Jim Page is a stand out. This is an album with emotional impact.
Tracks
  1. Boy In The Wild
  2. Sunflower
  3. Black & Amber
  4. Lemon Sevens
  5. Broomielaw
  6. Cumann na Mná
  7. The Rock
  8. The Life and Soul
  9. Lyra McKee
  10. Darkness Before Dawn
  11. The Big Marquee
  12. Palestine
  13. Snowflakes
4 XXX Nerves - Glórach

Noise rockers Nerves from Mayo & Galway certainly make an impact with their debut Glórach, a half hour mini-album (I'm bending my own rules slightly including an EP in this list of top 'albums', but this is so good). Nerves make clever use of dynamics to maximise the explosive impact of their controlled aggression and keep it all very interesting and engaging with tension building sonics.
Tracks
  1. Iarthar
  2. Empty
  3. Leigue
  4. Thirteen
  5. Scread Mé
  6. Porcelain
  7. An Nead
  8. Enclosed
5 And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna Album Cover And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna

With Megafauna ASIWYFA have delivered a superb album of post-rock guitar driven wizzardry. This is an album of interesting and uplifiting musical journeys. Although it is instrumental music, it manages to convey a feeling of optimism.
Tracks
  1. North Coast Megafauna
  2. Do Mór
  3. Gallery of Honour
  4. Mother Belfast (Part 1)
  5. Mother Belfast (Part 2)
  6. Years Ago
  7. Any Joy
  8. Button Days
  9. Me and Dunbar
6 Ian Lynch All You Need Is Death Album Cover Ian Lynch - All You Need Is Death (OST)

Lankum's Ian Lynch delivers a haunting set of doomy atmospheric avant-folk soundscapes created as a score to a horror film of the same name. Lynch makes experimental use of traditional instruments to create primal foreboding musical passages fraught with tension and suspense. The centrepiece of the album and the movie is the song 'Old God Rising' which was translated into Old Irish by Lynch (who has a degree in the subject) and sung by Olwen Fouéré who plays one of the main characters in the film. An alternative disturbing version of the track played by extreme metallers Malthusian is also included as the final track on the album. As a standalone entity, outside of the context of the horror film, this album makes compelling listening. Scary good!
Tracks
  1. Hung by Wire
  2. The Unravelling
  3. Feed the Swarm
  4. Deceptive Transceiver
  5. The Hunt
  6. Tráthnóna Beag Aréir
  7. Severed from the Light
  8. Máirseáil Chrapchosach
  9. Day of Wrath and Doom
  10. A New Dawn, An Old Song
  11. Nestedodd Enabler
  12. The Descent
  13. Hypnagogic Transmission
  14. Old God Rising
  15. Weaxan Driblet
  16. Malthusian - Old God Rising
7 Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor Album Cover Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor

Metal heavyweights Ten Ton Slug unleash a slab of oozing slimey sludge metal. This is convincingly heavy stuff and hands down the best album cover of 2024!
Tracks
  1. The Ooze
  2. Balor
  3. Ancient Ways
  4. Brutus
  5. Mindless and Blind
  6. Ghosts of the Ooze
  7. Mallacht an tSloda
  8. Mogore the Unkind
8 XXX NewDad - MADRA

MADRA opens with two excellent up-tempo rocking tracks bordering on grunge and then settles into lush dream pop with a rock edge coming through especially on tracks such as Let Go and Dream of Me and the title track. MADRA is an impressive debut album.
Tracks
  1. Angel
  2. Sickly Sweet
  3. Where I Go
  4. Change My Mind
  5. In My Head
  6. Nosebleed
  7. Let Go
  8. Dream of Me
  9. Nightmares
  10. White Ribbons
  11. Madra
9 God Is An Astronaut - Embers Album Cover God Is An Astronaut - Embers

Long running instrumental post-rock outfit God Is An Astronaut's 2024 release, Embers, is an album of mesmerising and ever shifting sonic textures. The tracks alternate from spare and delicate to rich and intense.
Tracks
  1. Apparition
  2. Falling Leaves
  3. Odyssey
  4. Heart of Roots
  5. Embers
  6. Realms
  7. Oscillation
  8. Prism
  9. Hourglass
10 Sour Blood - SUAS Album Cover Sour Blood - SUAS

SUAS by Sour Blood (aka Kevin Gleeson) is something a bit different. His unique voice, instrumental sounds and pulsating rythms are captivating. SUAS is a highly original album.
Tracks
  1. Landfill
  2. Bruise
  3. Mysterious Creature
  4. Suas
  5. The Devil
  6. Neon Sign
  7. Clot
  8. Overgrowing

Have Your Say

What do you think of the Irish Rockers top ten albums of 2024? What would your picks be? Enter your comments here:
Paul McDermott wrote on 2024-12-18 00:00:00:
1. A Lazarus Soul – No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens
2. David Murphy – Cuimhne Ghlinn
3. The High Llamas – Hey Panda
4. Landless – Lúireach
5. Sprints – Letter to Self
6. Fontaines DC - Romance
7. Melts – Field Theory
8. Sack – Wake Up People!
9. John Hegarty – Daydreaming
10. Big Boy Fooish - Stall the Ball
nialler9 wrote on 2024-12-18 00:00:00:
1. Curtisy - What Was The Question
2. RÓIS - MO LÉAN
3. NewDad - Madra
4. Silverbacks - Easy Being a Winner
5. Fontaines DC - Romance
6. New Jackson - Oops Pop!
7. Sloucho - NPC
8. Olive Hatake - Boys Need Love
9. Fynch - Youngfella
10. Bricknasty - XONGZ
Lauren Murphy, RTE wrote on 2024-12-18 00:00:00:
1. Fontaines - Romance
2. Exmagician - Sit Tight
3. Sprints - Letter to Self
4. Silverbacks - Easy Being a Winner
5. Callum Orr - The Trials of Knowing
6. Niamh Bury - Yellow Roses
7. Kneecap - Fine Art
8. NewDad - Madra
9. A Lazarus Soul - No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens
10. Gurriers - Come And See
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Other Irish Albums Released in 2024

You can find a pretty comprehensive list of Irish albums released in 2024 in this Spotify playlist which contains the first track off each album. Note that the embedded player below only shows 100 but there are well over 100, so click on the the title to see the rest in Spotify.

  1. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
  2. SPRINTS - Letter to Self
  3. Christy Moore - A Terrible Beauty
  4. Nerves - Glórach
  5. And So I Watch You from Afar - Megafauna
  6. Ian Lynch - All You Need Is Death (Original Soundtrack)
  7. Ten Ton Slug - Colossal Oppressor
  8. NewDad - MADRA
  9. God Is An Astronaut - Embers
  10. Sour Blood - SUAS
  11. Temair - Engineers of Transgression
  12. Twin Headed Wolf - Altarwise
  13. Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow
  14. Gurriers - Come And See
  15. Virgins - nothing hurt and everything was beautiful
  16. Partholón - The Ocean Pours In
  17. Exmagician - Sit Tight
  18. Coroza - As Within
  19. James Vincent McMorrow - Wide open, horses
  20. Silverbacks - Easy Being A Winner
  21. His Father's Voice - Black Poison Morning
  22. A Lazarus Soul - No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens
  23. Niamh Regan - Come As You Are
  24. Melts - Field Theory
  25. Sack - Wake Up People!
  26. Damien Dempsey - Hold Your Joy
  27. Conchúr White - Swirling Violets
  28. Fionn Regan - O AVALANCHE
  29. Fohn - Seanteach
  30. The High Llamas - Hey Panda
  31. Queen Grace - From The North Country
  32. HAVVK - To Fall Asleep
  33. Mark Geary - In the Time of Locusts
  34. Callum Orr - The Trials of Knowing
  35. David Hedderman - Pulling At The Briars
  36. The Devlins - All The Days
  37. Thee U.F.O - Beaming A Moments Reflection
  38. Def Nettle - DN001
  39. Mary and the Pigeons - Like Water
  40. Laurie Shaw - Dove from Above
  41. Gavin Friday - Ecce Homo (Deluxe Edition)
  42. Danny Carroll - I Am The Cheese
  43. Gemma Hayes - Blind Faith
  44. The Deadlians - Rid the Land of Greedy Toads
  45. The Dundalk Dolls - The Waves Have Eyes
  46. Gravity Well - Negative Space
  47. The 4 Of Us - Crescent Nights
  48. Driven Snow - A Kind Of Dreaming
  49. Lock Horns - Red Room
  50. RÓIS - MO LÉAN
  51. Uragh - Maelstrom
  52. KNEECAP - Fine Art
  53. Idle Discourse - Volume Two
  54. Saint Slaughter - The Secret Speech
  55. Crimson Butchery - Violence By Design
  56. Hasturian Vigil - Unveiling the Brac'thal
  57. Enshroud - MORTAL
  58. Jet Fuel Chemistry - BURNOUT BIBLE
  59. Ren Marabou and the Berserkers - Helgafjell
  60. Blue Whale - Last Immediate Images
  61. Fears - affinity
  62. Bring Your Own Hammer - My Grief On The Sea
  63. Rufous Nightjar - Songs for Three Voices
  64. The Henry Girls - A Time To Grow
  65. The Swedish Railway Orchestra - Once Upon a Time...
  66. Roger Doyle - Babel (Temple Music)
  67. Villagers - That Golden Time
  68. Niamh Bury - Yellow Roses
  69. Oh Boland - Western Leisure
  70. Stomptown Brass - It Did Went Down
  71. SLOUCHO - NPC
  72. Elephant - Keeping Well
  73. Bobsled Team - All the Flowers Bloom
  74. Ro Yourell - Commencer
  75. The Script - Satellites
  76. Papa Romeo - Late Night Load Out
  77. Charlie Moon - Charlie Moon Sings & Plays
  78. Landless - Lúireach
  79. MathMan - SK83 (The Prequel)
  80. Love Command0 - Integration
  81. Seamus O'Muineachain - Liminality
  82. New Jackson - Oops!... Pop
  83. Sauce Gang Collective - Mustard Melodies
  84. Pa Sheehy - Maybe It Was All For This
  85. David Murphy - Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar
  86. James J. Clarke - Hard Work
  87. Tim Chadwick - Pulverise
  88. Sun Mahshene - A Place We've Never Been
  89. Henry Earnest - Big Blue
  90. Julie Dawson - Bottom of The Pool
  91. Macdara Yeates - Traditional Singing from Dublin
  92. jarjarjr - Catch the Dusk
  93. Bedrooms - Perfectly Still
  94. K3lu - Vol.II Cortis
  95. Or:la - Trusting Theta
  96. Susan O'Neill - Now in a Minute
  97. The Fully Automatic Model - Flow States
  98. Bantum - Bantum
  99. Curtisy - WHAT WAS THE QUESTION
  100. Niwel Tsumbu - Milimo
  101. Bicurious - Your Life is Over Now...
  102. Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies - KEEP ON RAVING IN THE FIRST WORLD
  103. Olive Hatake - Boys Need Love
  104. M Stevens & The Ghasts - Sycamore Helicopters
  105. Dylan Flynn and the Dead Poets - caught up in delusion
  106. Proper Micro NV - Microsaurus
  107. shiv - the defiance of a sadgirl
  108. Mary Coughlan - Repeat Rewind
  109. The Coronas - Thoughts & Observations
  110. HousePlants, Paul Noonan, Daithí - Half Known Things
  111. Yenkee - Night Golf
  112. Sister Ghost - Beyond The Water
  113. Anderson - Some Rain Must Fall
  114. Orla Gartland - Everybody Needs a Hero
  115. Voids - Swoon
  116. Dunny - Schtum
  117. Long Island Sound - HYDRA
  118. Ciaran Lavery - Light Entertainment
  119. Ordnance Survey - Biofeedback Suite
  120. FOZSA - fabric
  121. Cormorant Tree Oh - Moonish
  122. Jæd - I Loved The Gauntlet And There Was No Other Way
  123. Bálordabreen - Fódhla
  124. Leonard Barry - Littoral
  125. Chequerboard - Souvenir
  126. Fynch - Youngfella
  127. Sal Dulu - Nafuchsia in Fantasy
  128. Brian Deady - Welcome To Big Wow
  129. Eoin Dolan - The Most Important Thing Is Peace Within Yourself
  130. Jerry Fish - Dreaming Of Daniel
  131. Súil Amháin, Bantum - athPhORT
  132. WASPS vs HUMANS - Scratchcard Empires
  133. Andy White - Good Luck I Hope You Make It
  134. 1000 Beasts - Burning Flower
  135. AiK HiFi - How to Re-Enter A Dream
  136. NAHreally, The Expert - BLIP
  137. Aengus Hackett Trio - Aengus Hackett Trio
  138. LYRA - LYRA
  139. Travy, Elzzz - DOGHOUSE
  140. Willhouse - The Vault : Volume Two