Our 40 Favorite Albums of 2024 So Far
Summer is here, we’re halfway through 2024, and there’s already been too much good music this year to keep track of. We narrowed down our many favorites (released between January 1 and June 30) to a list of the 40 albums that currently stand out to us the most from this year, with records ranging from the year’s brattiest rave-pop album to one of the heaviest metalcore bands around to various forms of psychedelia to rising punk bands to weirdo rappers to meditative jazz to brilliant solo records from members of Sonic Youth and Portishead, and beyond. We didn’t rank them (we’ll save that for the end of the year), but read on for the list in alphabetical order. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future 4AD We tend to expect perfection from A-list artists, especially when they’v...
