2024 has been a strong year for house music, still riding high off of the resurgence in the wake of Beyonce’s Renaissance in 2022. Producers and DJs all over the world have been rediscovering the revolutionary power and potential of losing yourself on the dancefloor. Call it escapism, call it hedonism, call it whatever you want – revolutions without dancing are still not worth having.

2024 saw a number of outstanding debut albums from house producers, some of whom have been working in the genre for a decade or more. Others find longtime producers rediscovering the buoyant, uplifting, transcendent powers of house, as with Jamie XX’s In Waves. Many of the best house albums of 2024 featured some fascinating genre mash-ups, bringing in tasty touches of drum ‘n bass, 2-step, dub techno, electropop, even dream pop. Others deserve inclusion among the top 10 house albums of 2024 for crafting solid, well-produced house albums.

Without further ado, here are our Top 10 House Albums of 2024!

The Top 10 House Albums of 2024

10. Tourist – Memory Morning

Tourist deserve some flowers simply for creating an album of feel-good fuzzy warbles and sunshiney good vibes. Has some of the innocent vibes of early Boards Of Canada but without the behind-the-scenes disquiet. It’s just a solid album of bouncy feelgood house vibes.

9. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ – Sorcery

Bright, ebullient house music, rushing like a BMW at full bore, sleek and streamlined and glorious. A wordless expression of the nonsensical euphoria of 80s music. Detailed and layered while remaining hazy and indistinct enough to get lost in.

8. James Devane – Searching

Deep, rich, lush deep house underpinned by some broken 2-step beats and a dubby undertow. Like stepping into quicksand.

7. Seidensticker, Lowtec – Scribbled (Lowtec Extendend Mixes)

Ethereal, atmospheric outsider house, as knackered as you’d hope for but still light, fun, breezy, and bouncy enough for the dancefloor. Nice to see that remixing as an artform isn’t dead.

6. Frank & Tony – Ethos

First album from Scissor & Head labelheads Frank & Tony in 10 years is a delicious slab of dubby deep house – emphasis on deep – that makes you want to get lost in its fog over and over and over again.

5. Kelly Lee Owens – Dreamstate

Ridiculously gorgeous mixture of deep house, thumping techno, electropop, and dream pop for the maestra Kelly Lee Owens.

4. Gorgon City – Reverie

Gorgon City’s Reverie deserves to be included among the best house albums of 2024 for the sturdy beats alone, to say nothing of the heavenly vocals. One of the best house/pop crossovers in recent memory.

3. Jamie XX – In Waves

Jamie XX learned a thing or two or three when DJing big rooms and mainstream festivals, where he developed a taste for making big crowds lose their ever-lovin’ minds with big beats, big drops, and good vibes. For all of its populist aspirations, In Waves delivers plenty of subtlety, too, with deep, detailed textured production, interesting features and guest spots, and lots and lots of heart. It also featured the highest-profile house single of the year, “Baddy on the Floor,” which felt like a major event, which is nearly unheard of in the realm of dance music. The only thing preventing In Waves from being named the best house album of 2024 is it’s a little bit of everything, making it more of a generalist statement. The house bits are real, real good, though, as driving and charging as you could ever hope for in a house record!

2. Kaytranada – Timeless

There’s a little bit of everything in Kaytranada’s Timeless, from the wavey millennial progressive house he made his name on to chic disco to straightahead house bangers. Strong, sharp songwriting meets atmospheric psychedelic production to create an artifact as worthy of house dancefloors as Top 40 playlists, with some of the strongest features of the year! Timeless just gives and gives and gives.

1. The Blessed Madonna – Godspeed

“When you start thinking about money, God has left the room.”

The Blessed Madonna connects the dots from rigid, machine-like post-industrial EBM to euphoric disco house to recapture the transcendent, utopian energy of house music in an absolutely astounding, ambitious debut!

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