No pre-amble necessary. Here are my favorite albums of 2024.
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1. Merce Lemon – Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild
2. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
3. Touche Amore – Spiral in a Straight Line
4. Riley! – Keep Your Cool
5. Kendrick Lamar – GNX
6. Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
7. Danielle Durack – Escape Artist
8. Los Campesinos! – All Hell
9. Poppy – Negative Spaces
10. Eliza McLamb – Going Through It
11. Combat – Stay Golden
12. Madi Diaz – Weird Faith
13. beabadobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves
14. Magdalena Bay – Imaginal Disk
15. Julie Christmas – Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
16. Onsloow – Full Speed Anywhere Else
17. Seafarers – Another State
18. Clairo – Charm
19. Ellis – No Place That Feels Like
20. Flower Face – Girl Prometheus
21. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
22. Tyler, The Creator – CHROMAKOPIA
23. Charly Bliss – Forever
24. Oso Oso – life till bones
25. Soccer Mommy – Evergreen
26. Ogbert the Nerd – What You Want
27. The OBGMs – SORRY, IT’S OVER
28. Hinds – VIVA HINDS
29. Doechii – Alligator Bites Never Heal
30. SeeYouSpaceCowboy – Coup de Grace
31. Halsey – The Great Impersonator
32. Sasha Alex Sloan – Me Again
33. MICHELLE – Songs About You Specifically
34. Queen of Jeans – All Again
35. Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
36. Katie Gavin – What A Relief
37. Gracie Abrams – The Secret of Us
38. Allegra Krieger – Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine
39. Drusky – Cake & Absinthe
40. Maude Latour – Sugar Water
41. Origami Angel – Feeling Not Found
42. Bilmuri – AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS
43. Hana Vu – Romanticism
44. Amy Shark – Sunday Sadness
45. Lauren Mayberry – Vicious Creature
46. TORRES – What an Enormous Room
47. Wishy – Triple Seven
48. Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
49. Chelsea King – I’ll Meet You in Dreams
50. Katy Kirby – Blue Raspberry
Honorable Mention (51-100, in alphabetical order)
Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Allie X – Girl With No Face
ANORAK! – Self-actualization and the ignorance and hesitation towards it
Beyonce – Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
Bloom Dream – It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
Cadence Weapon – Rollercoaster
Cece Coakley – Happy Adjacent
Charli XCX – Brat
Chastity – Chastity
Cindy Lee – Kingdom Come (not on spotify)
Denzel Curry – King of the Mischievous Soutj, Vol. 2
Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism
Fake Shark – Afterglow
Faye Webster – Underdressed at the Symphony
Freddie Gibbs – You Only Die 1nce
glass beach – plastic death
Goth Babe – Lola
Gouge Away – Deep Sage
Hannah Connolly – Shadowboxing
Hemlock – 444
illuminati hotties – POWER
Japandroids – Fate & Alcohol
Joyner Lucas – Not Now I’m Busy
julie – my anti-aircraft friend
Liquid Mike – Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot
Lunar Vacation – Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire
Macseal – Permanent Repeat
Mannequin Pussy – I Got Heaven
Megan Moroney – Am I Okay?
Microwave – Let’s Start Degeneracy
Middle Kids – Faith Crisis Pt 1
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
Mustafa – Dunya
Nat Lefkoff – There You Are
Neck Deep – Neck Deep
Nilufer Yanya – My Method Actor
Oceanator – Everything is Love and Death
Pom Pom Squad – Mirror Stars Moving Without Me
Real Friends – Blue Hour
Schoolboy Q – Blue Lips
Skye Wallace – The Act of Living
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Red Future
Taylor Swift – THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT
Teens in Trouble – What’s Mine
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The Veronicas – Gothic Summer
Towa Bird – American Hero
Townies – Of This I Am Certain
Vince Staples – Dark Times
Warm Human – Hamartia
Honorable Mention (EPs)
Abby Holliday – Couch Comrade
Ben Quad – Ephemera
Bliss Fields – Bliss Fields
bonus – was a dog
Girl Scout – Headache
glaive – a bit of a mad one
Holly Humberstone – Work in Progress
Jade Bird – Burn The Hard Drive
Kerosene Heights – LEAVING
Kississippi – damned if i do it for you
Leah Jane – Notthingham Drive
Maren Morris – Intermission
Militarie Gun – Life Under the Sun
MONOWHALES – Who’s There to Hear Me Out
PRONOUN – and it’s been raining ever since
red sun – best buds 🙂
Shit Present – Acting Tough
Softcult – Heaven
Sweet Pill – Starchild
My favorite live performances of 2024
Waxahatchee
alexisonfire
Slipknot
Jeff Rosenstock
Knocked Loose
Taylor Swift
Gracie Abrams
Los Campesinos!
Dizzy
Kacey Musgraves
PUP
blink-182
Eliza McLamb
Alan Doyle
The Beaches
Blair Lee
Fake Shark
Hotel Mira
Valley
Blake Murphy Sports Writing 