Hawk Tuah. A general election. Euros. War. Dune 2. Hurricanes. A CEO assassination. The Eras Tour. An American election. The Olympics. Gary Barlow’s son. Aurora borealis. Riots. Co-op Live. A global IT outage. Births. Marriages. Deaths. A Scottish Oompa-Loompa… If it seems like 2024 has been a whirlwind of stuff you can’t believe only happened in the past 12 months, it’s a feeling only doubled when you look back at the albums released. Anyone else feel like there were thousands more than usual? We saw already-heroic bands making the record of their careers, and newbies making grand starts on their own. There were unexpected comebacks. There were mad things. There were high flyers. There were misfires where there should have been gold, but there were also unexp...