(Today we have Andy Synn‘s mammoth second article rounding up the year that was 2024)
Ok, so this is where “List Week” really gets going.
Before we get stuck in, however, a quick explanation for those of you who are new to the site at this time of year.
The following article is not a normal “Best Of…” list, nor is it intended to be treated like one – instead, think of it as a resource which rounds up all the albums I’ve heard this year (well, almost all of them, there’s a few that got cut simply because I didn’t feel strongly enough about them to include them at all) which didn’t make it onto my “Great” list (which will be published tomorrow).
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check them out, however, as there’s a lot of good stuff here (including some of my personal favourites), and the list itself runs the gamut from “it’s pretty good, you might like this” to “this is really fucking good, bordering on great, and needs to be heard”.
It’s not, of course, in any way definitive, because:
- I’ll obviously have forgotten to include some things
- there’s a few big names I just didn’t have time to get around to
- some of what isn’t here will appear on tomorrow’s “Great” list
- some bands we purposefully don’t feature/cover (for a variety of reasons)
And, obviously, there’s going to be more albums than I can count that I won’t even have been aware of… but it’s still a pretty big collection of records and releases, split up by style and sub-genre, which I hope you’ll find useful as a way of catching up on stuff you might have missed.
Feel free to drop any questions about anything you’re interested in via the comments… and, yes, I’ve provided links for every single album featured here.
