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Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
There’s a reason this site is called The Alternative. Our goal has always been, first and foremost, to shine a light on music we love. It doesn’t matter if a band doesn’t have a well-funded PR team behind them or even if we’re the only people covering them—all that matters is that we believe in the music. In that spirit, we present to you our 50 favorite releases of 2024. There are some you albums on here you’ve probably seen on a few other lists, and I guarantee there are a bunch you won’t find anywhere else. There’s a whole range of genres covered here, from emo to rap to hardcore to shoegaze. There’s a couple releases on here, I’m sure, that’ll you won’t like, and a few more that you won’t like are missing, and that’s fine too. But more than anything else I think these are 50 albums that only our staff would ever put on the same list together, and that’s something we’re proud of.
2024 began with the news of Pitchfork’s acquisition by GQ, with a flood of people lamenting the death of music journalism. Obviously, that hasn’t happened, but it gets harder every day, and we can’t keep running The Alt without your help. If you appreciate what we do, please consider supporting us via our Patreon. But if you can’t afford it, we appreciate you sharing, following, just reading what we do. We also created our our coffee with Rootless Coffee this year which is awesome and you can buy some on our Bandcamp along with Alt tee shirts from past years. Additionally, if you have the means, we encourage a donation to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. As we head into a second Trump term, it’s more important than ever to take care of each other. We hope, for our part, you can find some music here at The Alt to help carry you through the days.
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Now to begin our list. This first page is filled with our 50th to 26th favorite releases of the year, as decided by staff vote. We wish we had the time, funding, etc., to put together writeups for this entire list, but we wanted to focus on doing the best we could with our Top 25. That said, all of these records are also incredible, and it would pain us too much to leave them out. So, to begin our list, here are 25 awesome records that the story of 2024 wouldn’t be complete without:
50. Kneecap – Fine Art
49. Skandal – Melodi
48. Starflyer 59 – Lust for Gold
47. Lia Kohl – Normal Sounds
46. Counterparts – Heaven Let Them Die
45. Riley! – Keep Your Cool
44. red sun – best buds 🙂
43. Been Stellar – Scream from New York, New York
42. Make Them Suffer – Make Them Suffer
41. Crack Cloud – Red Mile
40. Charly Bliss – Forever
39. Onsloow – Full Speed Anywhere Else
38. Latto – Sugar Honey Iced Tea
37. Wildflower – Green World
36. Allie X – Girl With No Face
35. $suicideboy$ – New World Depression
34. Kai Tak – Designed in Heaven, Made in Hong Kong
33. your arms are my cocoon – death of a rabbit
32. Bleachers – Bleachers
31. One Step Closer – All You Embrace
30. Middle Kids – Faith Crisis, Pt. 1
29. Foxing– Foxing
28. The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – The Iliad and the Odyssey and the Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
27. Megan Thee Stallion – Megan
26. Amyl and the Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness
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