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#1 Charli XCX: BRAT (Best Album of 2024) At #1, I’m sorry, so obvious, but it simply HAS to be ‘Brat’ by Charli XCX #NE2024

At #1 is #Brat because #Brat is #Brat and it simply HAD to be #Brat. I really wanted to be different, but #CharliXCX is undeniable

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#1 Charli XCX: BRAT (Best Album of 2024) At #1, I'm sorry, so obvious, but it simply HAS to be 'Brat' by Charli XCX #NE2024

At #1 is #Brat because #Brat is #Brat and it simply HAD to be #Brat. I really wanted to be different, but #CharliXCX is undeniable

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#2 Tyler, The Creator: CHROMAKOPIA The #2 best album of 2024 -and BOY was it close! – is the incredible latest from Tyler, The Creator #NE2024

Aw man, ALMOST being the best album of year but ending up at #2 is the astonishing #CHROMAKOPIA by #TylerTheCreator

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#3 070 Shake: Petrichor #3 is 070 Shake, their first album that didn’t finish top. And by the way: 5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state #NE2024

#3 is #Petrichor by the always outstanding #070Shake. But let's talk about #ToufanAl-Aqsa, yeah?

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#4 Ravyn Lenae: Bird’s Eye At #4 is the simply glorious second album by Rayyn Lenae, because sometimes a high placing on this list is just about talent, quality and motherfucking CRAFT #NE2024

At #4 is #RavynLenae with their exquisite second album #BirdsEye, because sometimes you just have to Appreciate. Motherfucking. CRAFT

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#5 Prince: Around the World in a Day My annual Prince journey takes me to 1985’s bizarre, confusing, but often magic ‘Around the World in a Day’ at #5 #NE2024

Yeah, it you didn't realise, I'm also including one #Prince album a year in my year end lists, and we're up to 1985's #AroundTheWorldInADay at #5 this year

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#6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor: “NO TITLE AS OF 21 DECEMBER 2024 45,206 DEAD” At the ACTUAL #6 is Godspeed You! Black Emporer, and I hope you’ll forgive me for this entry having a lot less jokes #NE2024

At #6 is #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor with #NOTITLEASOF21DECEMBER202445206DEAD. I updated the title for them. Not many jokes on this post

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#7 Young Jesus: The Fool #7 is Young Jesus’s ‘The Fool’, which I’m big enough of a person to include so high despite it including a blatant diss track of me #NE2024

OK, OK, I'm the bigger man. #TheFool by #YoungJesus might include a bigger diss track than Not Like Us against ME specifically, but I still name it at #7

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#8 JPEGMAFIA: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU At #8 is JPEGMAFIA’s best album yet as they are – in their own words -“Blowing up like IDF” #NE2024

Tired of those fake-plug-talkin’ Tubi rappers? Let #JPEGMAFIA provide his continual alternative, with #ILayDownMyLifeForYou at #8

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#9 The Smile: Wall of Eyes At #9 is by far and a way the best music The Smile have ever produced (as The Smile, anyway…), though there’s not much time to talk about the music #NE2024

At #9 it's another band securing their hat-trick: #TheSmile with #WallOfEyes. But you all know what I'm going to talk about, don't you?

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#10 serpentwithfeet: GRIP serpentwithfeet opens the top #10 with the unashamedly passionate and undeniably brilliant ‘GRIP’ #NE2024

INTO THE TOP #10 BITCHEEEEEZ!! And who better to start it than with #serpentwithfeet, getting their hat track of #NecessaryEvil entries with #GRIP

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#12 James Blake & Lil Yachty: Bad Cameo At #12 is the unexpected cameo between James Blake at Lil Yachty that, it turns out, makes perfect sense #NE2024

At #12 with #BadCameo, #JamesBlake and #LilYachty manage to create a partnership that feels so weird and yet sounds so RIGHT

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#13 Allie X: Girl With No Face At #13, I let Allie X hit me, hit me with that super paaaaaaaaaaaaaaain #NE2024

At #13, #AllieX kicks and screams and shouts like a bee sting on #GirlWithNoFace. Hit me with that super paaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!

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#14 Les Savy Fav: OUI, LSF After last appearing on this list in 2007 (#7, by the BTW), Les Savy Fav release their first album since 2010 and make it to #14 #NE2024

14 years since their last record, and 17 years since they last made no.7 on this list (!), #LesSavyFav are back at #14 with #OuiLSF

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#15 Efficax: DESTRUCTION You really should already know by now, but I’m a pretty big fan of Efficax’s ‘Destruction’, and here it is at #15 #NE2024

I've already spoken at length about #Efficax's #15 album #Destruction, so I'm sure they won't mind me highlighting some OTHER destruction going on...

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#16 Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk At #16 Magdalena Bay manage to expand on their already brilliant debut by crafting one of the most satisfying concept albums of recent times #NE2024

#MagdalenaBay have been awesome for a long time, but with the tight but expansive concept album of #ImaginalDisk at #16 they're finally getting their flowers

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#17 Lava La Rue: Starface At #17 is the incredible debut album by Lava La Rur, with a galaxy spanning concept that doesn’t QUITE hold together, but a genre spanning explosion of creativity that absolutely does #NE2024

#17 is the incredible debut album by #LavaLaRue. #Starface is a little all over the place at times, but the sheer breadth and excess of creativity is thrilling

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#18 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God At #18 is the latest and understandably fantastic album by Nick Cave and the Band Seeds, but we gotta talk about Israel, don’t we? #NE2024

#18 is #WildGod, another brilliant #NickCaveAndTheBadSeed record, but we have to talk about how gross #NickCave is when it comes to #Israel

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#19 elbow: AUDIO VERTIGO At #19 is the criminally undervalued elbow, which obviously means I have to write 2000 words on the fall of the Al-Assad regime in Syria #NE2024

At #19 is #elbow - one of Britain's most important bands of the 21st century - with #AudioVertigo. A chance, obviously, to talk about the Six Day War and the #Ba’athist regime in #Syria

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#20 Tapir!: The Pilgrim, Their God and The King Of My Decrepit Mountain Into the top motherfucking #20 with Tapir!, with an extraordinarily singular debut that manages to be both absolute nonsense and the most important thing you’ll ever hear #NE2024

Into the top motherfucking #20, son! And #Tapir! with #ThePilgrimTheirGodAndTheKingOfMyDecrepitMountain aaaaaaaaand that's my wordcount

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#21 Tierra Whack: WORLD WIDE WHACK At #21, Tierra Whack shocks with some incredibly introspective suicidal ideations. And also songs about washing her bum #NE2024

Mosh pit smelling like Chanel; Microsoft they're excel; nine, ten, eleven, fuck 12, #TierraWhack is #21 with #WorldWideWhack

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#22 Zeal and Ardor: Greif At #22 is Zeal and Ardor, whom I’ve long sais will one day release an HISTORICALLY great album. ‘Greif’ absolutely isn’t that, but its broad lunacy has reawakened my love of…

At #22 #ZealAndArdor trouble your spellcheckers with #Greif. The band are still struggling to find their new voice, but at least this time the confusion is utterly compelling

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#23 Bella Technika: Solid State Bella Technika are at #23 and by far and away of of the greatest electronic acts working today. Yet I know next to nothing about them. Here’s everything. #NE2024

#BellaTechnika, man, they may have made the #23rd best album of the year with #SolidState, but I only know exactly 14 things about them.
Here they all are

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#24 Danny Brown: Quaranta Eeeeew, did you hear that Danny Brown is in his FORTIES now?? That’s so gross, but he tries his best to deal with it at #24 #NE2024

We all agree that people in their 40s should neither be seen nor heard, but at #24 #DannyBrown earns the right to tell us about his Mexican homie named Chinese Mike on #Quaranta

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#25 John Grant: The Art of the Lie At #25, while other artists may think experimentation is their ally, but they merely adopt experimentation, but John Grant was born in this, they were moulded by it. Grant didn’t see a power …

At #25, I basically explain how #JohnGrant shits all over David Bowie on his new album #TheArtOfTheLie

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#26 Moor Mother: The Great Bailout At #26, Moor Mother’s astonishing latest record might not always be fun to listen to, but it’s an astonishing experience #NE2024

At #26 is #TheGreatBailout by #MoorMother, an absolutely essential dissection of the UK's role in the slave trade and one of the year's most incredible artistic statements

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#27 Hinds: Viva Hinds #27 sees Hinds managing to sound more complete than ever despite losing half the band #NE2024

You thought #Hinds were done?? Fool! You can't kill #Hinds!! NOBODY CAN BEAT #HINDS !!!
(they're at #27)

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#28 Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God At #28, we all expected Alan Sparhawk to create the new ‘A Crow Looked at Me’, but they instead created the new ‘808s and Heartbreak’ #NE2024

At #28, #AlanSparhawk faces their grief with an admirable and musically audacious left turn

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#29 Future Islands: People Who Aren’t There Anymore #29 is a re-entry from Future Islands, a decade after they last made the list, and all I can talk about is Bluesky #NE2024

At #29 we go a bit Meta, as I somehow use #FutureIsland's first entry for a decade as an excuse to talk about #Bluesky

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#30 The Bronzed Chorus: Aki Into the top #30 with The Bronzed Chorus, a band I know next to nothing about yet who create such enchanting wails #NE2024

Entering the top #30 with #TheBronzedChorus, a band I know next to nothing about who make music I care about a great deal

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