2024 is coming to a close, which means the indundation of lists. Before the year ends I had to throw my 2 cents into the pile, thus another "Best Of" list to wind things down. Not that they needed winding down, this has been one of the most inactive years this blog has seen since it started (on my end, not you guys who continue to come back month after month despite my radio silence). Thanks to all of you for the continued support, coming back to do these final posts has been genuinely fun, and hopefully I'll be able to keep that going into next year.
As always this list isn't objective in any sense, it's based purely on my personal enjoyment. The actual rankings are also just approximatations at best; it's excruciating to try and pick one album over another so take all of this with a grain of salt. They shifted around SO MUCH that I eventually just decided to post this as is, it's meant to be fun and there's no use getting hung up on numbers, they're all great and this is meant to be for fun. In the spirit of that, there's two bands that released what are technically two separate albums, but they were both coming in so close to each other in the ranking that I'm counting them together, who cares it's my list and I didn't want to leave any more off it than I had to. We're also doing 10 honourable mentions instead of 5 this year because there were so many good, representative albums of the year to me that I wanted to mention. There are Spotify links at the bottom, with one playlist containing every album listed here and another with one song I picked from each album (not necessarily the "best" or my "favourite" track, just one that I think is serviceably representative of the album as a whole).
So as always, please let me know what you guys enjoyed most this year, I'm always very curious to hear what you've been listening to. I hope you have a good holiday and a good New Year, though I think I'll be back with one final semi-special post before the year truly ends, so keep an eye out for that. Enjoy.
Honourable Mentions:
Balance And Composure - With You In Spirit
Chrystabell & David Lynch - Cellophane Memories
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead - Tragedy As Catharsis
Nø Man - Glitter And Spit
Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
Sect - Plague Upon Plagues
Speed - Only One Mode
Terry Green - Provisional Living
The Arrival Note - ...Home Is So Far From Here
50. Envy - Eunoia
49. Owen - The Falls Of Sioux
48. The Hope Conspiracy - Tools Of Oppression/Rule By Deception
47. Full Of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
46. Blind Girls - An Exit Exists
45. Respire - Hiraeth
44. State Faults - Children Of The Moon
43. Heavenly Blue - We Have The Answer
42. Ogbert The Nerd - What You Want
41. Contention - Artilley From Heaven
40. meth. - SHAME
39. Fucked Up - Another Day / Someday
38. Thirdface - Ministerial Cafeteria
37. Crippling Alcoholism - With Love From A Padded Room
35. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft
34. One Step Closer - All You Embrace
33. Idles - Tangk
32. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
31. Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol
30. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene
29. Oso Oso - Life Till Bones
28. Candy - It's Inside You
27. Jamie xx - In Waves
26. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
25. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
24. Vince Staples - Dark Times
23. Gouge Away - Deep Sage
22. Shellac - To All Trains
21. Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
20. Nails - Every Bridge Burning
19. Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat
18. Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia
17. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes / Cutouts
16. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
15. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
11. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"
10. JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life For You
9. Porter Robinson - Smile! :D
8. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes
7. Foxing - Foxing
6. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
5. Charli xcx - Brat
4. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
3. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
2. Chat Pile - Cool World
1. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
You don't post links for these?
ReplyDeleteI don't with these lists; the way they usually go half of the albums are linked on the band's respective posts, and the other half are copyright strikes waiting to happen, so I refrain from posting links entirely here.
DeleteA lot of these can be found on the 2024 in Review... post if you want to check that out though!
Hi SophiesFB, Huh...this will take some time to check your list but i`m excited and definitly will. May you check LEIAH "Endless" Album from 2024 (Leiah were a 90's emo band, that made 20 years later another album). My favorite this year, hold on, god bless you, thx for your blog, following from the start, merry christmas! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, haven't heard of them at all so will have to give them a listen!
DeleteField Medic dropped a good record recently if you missed it and are into him. Ty for the list, Soph!
ReplyDeleteNever got into them fully, will have to sit back one day and give them a proper listen, thanks for the rec!
DeleteI love Field Music!
DeleteCool list
ReplyDeleteMerci!
Deletedamn, no The Chisel? :(
ReplyDeleteSolid album, but I didn't find myself returning to it much. Will have to give it a few more listens, I could see it growing on me for sure!
DeleteNice ! I always wait for your list to see what I missed. It seems it's time to drop an ear at the last Gouge away, Foxing and Bright eyes !
ReplyDeleteThanks, and most definitely, every one of those is certainly worth your time!
DeleteSalut, et Amyl anr the Sniffers ? Bonnes fêtes.
ReplyDeleteBonjour! Bon groupe mais ils n'ont pas encore complètement cliqué pour moi, je dois essayer leur nouvel album
DeleteYo did you like the Versera or Sinema albums that came out this year?? Surprised neither of those made the cut!
ReplyDeleteHaven't heard of either of those, thus why they're not here, haha. Will check them out though, based on name alone they sound up my alley for sure!
DeleteLove the list def downloaded some albums to check out. imaginal disk by Magdalena bay is def worth a listen for the year.
ReplyDeleteI've been putting that one off for so long because of the expectation, I haven't listened to anything by them but will have to at some point, thanks for the rec!
Deletewasnt a fan of knocked loose huh?
ReplyDeleteI knew that was going to come up, haha. I respect the hell out of them and do see the appeal in their latest album espesically, but they have yet to click for me. Glad to see them blow up the way they did this year though!
ReplyDeleteGY!BE & Shellac
ReplyDeleteMy top 5 albums from 2024:
ReplyDeleteCharli XCX - Brat
Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy
Green Day - Saviors
Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found
Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and The New World
No Fontaines, DC? SMFh
ReplyDelete