Best Albums of 2024
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
GNXThe one where he stops explaining himself and just raps, and it is the most fun he has ever been.Read the review
ChromakopiaA masked man in army green working through his mother's voice, the idea of fatherhood, and a life spent performing.
CharmWarm seventies soul played by a live band, and the first of her records that is a genuine pleasure to have on.
We Don't Trust YouGreat beats, real menace, and one verse that swallowed the album and the year around it.
Short n' SweetThirty six minutes of jokes delivered with perfect timing, and a pop record built on comic nerve.
Hardstone PsychoRock guitars, real risk and the first album of his with an actual shape.
Mixtape PlutoA short, hungry solo record made by someone who remembered he is good at this.
Memoir of a SparklemuffinEighteen tracks and a much wider stylistic net, and the length is what sinks it.
MissionaryThe reunion everyone wanted, made thirty years too late by two men with nothing left to say to each other.
One of WunThe tension is gone and so is the interest. Back to twenty tracks of very expensive nothing.