The Independent: Best Albums of 2024

[VeniceBeach]

Link: independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-albums-2024-taylor-swift-fontaines-dc-b2653867.html



Below are The Independent critics' top 20 picks for the year's best releases. A selection of records often bearing a common thread of uplift and endurance featuring songs to help you roll into 2025, and whatever Trumpian horrors it may hold, with the deathless words of Nick Cave as succour: "We've all had too much sorrow, now is the time for joy."

20. The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
19. Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department
18. Kendrick Lamar – GNX
17. Bright Eyes – Five Dice, All Threes
16. Sabrina Carpenter – Short'n'Sweet
15. Hinds – Viva Hinds
14. Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
13. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
12. Paraorchestra – Death Songbook
11. Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter

10. The Smile – Wall of Eyes
9. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
8. The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
7. Tyler, the Creator – Chromakopia
6. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
5. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Wild God
3. Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
2. Charli XCX – Brat
1. Fontaines DC – Romance

 

[duybeeGAshantiGA]

Edit: I disagree with this list.

Edited 4 hours ago by duybeeGAshantiGA

[Antisocialites]

yes Laura Marling yes talent 

[Kern]

Another boring list with no Imaginal Disk or What Happened To The Heart

[Comedor]

I'm here for Charli winning AOTY at the Grammys. Not a big fan of the album but love her material overall, and she grinded for over a decade for this moment.

[AshleyLovescats887]

I like how every aoty list has random khias taking up most of the list and only having a few of the actual aotys on it 

[Escape]

Well, there's BRAT at least.

[Atlantis]

1 hour ago, AshleyLovescats887 said:

I like how every aoty list has random khias taking up most of the list and only having a few of the actual aotys on it 

Because they are ranking the best and not the most popular albums of the year? What a dumb take

[Thin White Duke]

 

3. Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us

 

Whew, let's celebrate that 

[makeawish]

very indie top 10, bit of a snooze tbh

[Contessa]

59 minutes ago, Atlantis said:

Because they are ranking the best and not the most popular albums of the year? What a dumb take

well lbr if they were solely basing it off of quality, taylor would be nowhere on this list. they likely take popularity into account but doesn't weight it heavily compared to other metrics

[fa77ot]

Laura Marling top10  should be #1 tho

Edited 56 minutes ago by fa77ot