30 Best Folk & Roots Albums of 2024

1. Christy Moore - A Terrible Beauty (Claddagh Records)

2. John Spillane – Fíoruisce – The Legend of The Lough (Own Label)

3. Susan O’Neill – Now In A Minute (Star House Collective)

4. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future (Double Infinity)

5. Altan – Donegal (Compass Records)

6. A Lazarus Soul – The Flower I Flung Into Her Grave (No Flowers Grow in Cement Gardens)
7. Oisín Leech – Cold Sea (Tremone Records)
8. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown (Domino)
9. Landless – Lúireach (Glitterbeat)
10. Henry Girls – A Time To Grow (Own Label)

11. Mohammad Syfkhan – I Am Kurdish (Nyahh Records)
12. Laura Marling – Patterns In Repeat (Chrysalis / Partisan)
13. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music (Storysound Records)
14. Cathy Jordan/Feargal Murray – Storybook: The Songs of Brendan Graham (Own Label)
15. Macdara Yeates – Traditional Singing From Dublin (Own Label)

16. Seckou Keita – Homeland (Hudson Records)
17. Mustafa The Poet – Dünya (Arts & Crafts)
18. Lemoncello – Lemoncello (Claddagh)
19. Mount Eerie – Night Palace (P.W. Elverum & Son)
20. Niamh Bury – Yellow Roses (Claddagh)

21. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore (New West Records)
22. Stick In The Wheel – A Thousand Pokes (From Here Records)
23. Paul Casey –The Long Road Back (Own Label)
24. David Murphy – Cuimhne Ghlinn: Explorations in Irish Music for Pedal Steel Guitar (Rollercoaster Records)
25. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without The Heat (Anti Records)

26. Steve Knightley – The Winter Yards (Hands On Music)
27. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland (Acony Records)
28. The Deadlians – Rid The Land Of Greedy Toads (Own Label)
29. Manu Chao – Viva Tu (Because Music)
30. Kaia Kater – Strange Medicine (Free Dirt)

Also Highly Recommended:

Afro Celt Sound System – OVA (Six Degrees Records)
Clannad – Legend Extended (BMG)
Kevin Fowley - À Feu Doux (Drift Records)
Kenny Haiti - Time To Shine (DM4L)
John Hegarty – Daydreaming (Rollercoaster Records)
Boo Hewerdine and Jenny Sturgeon – Outliers (Hudson Records)
Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive (nonsuch)
Seamas Hyland - Maidin Domhnaigh (Own Label)
Bon Iver – Sable (Jagjaguwar)
Barry McCormack – Painting Devils (Own Label)
Milkweed - Folklore 1979 (Broadside Hacke Records)
Rufous Nightjar – Songs For Three Voices (Topic)
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Songbook (BMG)
Shovel Dance Collective - The Shovel Dance (Own Label)
Twin Headed Wolf - Altarwise (Own Label)
Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley – Cuckoo Storm (One Little Independent Records)
Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (Lorna Vista)