What are your favorite albums of the year?
2024's not as strong as 2023 was in my opnion, but there were a bunch of good albums this years as well.
The chart was made with Topsters 3 and is in arbitrary order. My favorite album this year is probably Imaginal Disk though.
I haven't listened to much new music this year but
In Waves - Jamie XX
Brat - Charli
Imaginal Disk - Mag Bay
Alligator - Doechii
13" Bison Horn Grips - Xiu Xiu
I mostly listen to hardcore, metalcore and a bit of electronic stuff
My favorite album this year was probably SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace. Just a masterpiece of that 00s hardcore sound.
Honorable mentions: Poppy - Negative Spaces (pop), Boundaries - Death is Little More (metalcore), Make Them Suffer - Make Them Suffer (deathcore), Nothing More - Carnal Nature (hard rock), Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen (alt metal)
Beat my personal record of minute listened this year and logged 144,561 minutes.
I don't tend to listen to music when it comes out but here are some albums I listened to and liked:
Brat
I lay down my life for you
GNX
Chromakopia
Blood incantation - absolute elsewhere. This album is just pure gold.
I really like progressive electronic music. They managed to somehow tie that in with quality metal.
It's Fat Dog's woof. and it's not remotely close. Kneecap's Fine Art is a fairly safe second place, but Fat Dog are absolutely in a league of their own.
Zoomers accidentally reverse-engineered the post-punk -> synth punk -> EBM sound from the early 80s, and it sounds just as good as something like DAF, Front 242 or Cabaret Voltaire would make. It's also one of my favorites from this year.
I got a ticket to see them live here in Germany next year for a grand total of 19€. Should be fun.
GNX is unbelievable. I physically can’t listen to other music lol, I’ve just been spinning it over and over at least once a day.
MUSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRD
States fault - children of the moon.
Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked
Finally got to see them on tour this year as well, definitely the best show I've ever seen
And Thomas Bergersen hasn't really released anything this year either.
I think the 1 that stand out for me this year was Knocked Loose's and Worm Shepherd's new albums.
Knocked Loose is just solid throwback 00s hardcore for me and Worm Shepherd got a new singer and just recently dropped an absolute banger of a deathcore album. I had their previous album on repeat along with Paleface last year and it jacked up my Spotify Wrapped lol.
Really dig that they have a Poppy feature on the new record hah
Suffocate fucking slaps yo.
I loved the new PIG album Red Room and the new EP Feast of Agony.
I'm a Charli and MagBay fan but sadly I only liked but didn't love the new records... Glad to see both get more recognition though, 2024 was certainly Year of the Brat imo! Other that just missed out were the new albums from Perc, Dax J and Knocked Loose. Sandwell District is a compilation but I had to get Silent Servant on there in some guise, on the biggest musical losses this year along with Luiz Vasquez/The Soft Moon ;_;
Nightwish Yesterwynde. Not a lot of good music is being made today.
The New Sound, I Lay Down My Life For You, and the GYBE album all were great. But I admit I heard almost no new music this year.