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At the end of 2005 I was working in an office and most people had
finished for Xmas. I was pretty bored to be honest. So I decided to put
together some kind of metacritic list of the albums of the year.
I chose five publications and/or websites that had listed 50 (or more)
of their best albums of the year. Selecting the top 50 I awarded 50
points for 1st, 49 for 2nd, and so on down to 1 point for 50th. I then
crunched the numbers and made a list of the top 30 scoring.
This silly piece of time wasting proved to be quite popular so I
continued and have done every year since. I used to send the e-mails
round to a few mates who had either expressed an interest or I'm trying to
impress in some way. Now I have a blog I'm gonna use this to
disseminate the data. So, here we are, no photos, just a list of 2024's
Top 30. Incidentally, the 20th (TWENTIETH) consecutive years I've done this. Enjoy (or not)....
1.Kim Gordon - The Collective
2.Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
3.Rafael Toral - Spectral Evolution
4.Still House Plants - If I don't make it, I love u
5.Arooj Aftab - Night Reign
6.Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da
7.Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
8.Charli XCX - Brat
9.Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
10.Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
11.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
12.Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
13.Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
14.Moin - You Never End
15.MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
16.Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
17.Shellac - To All Trains
18.Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
19.Jack White - No Name
20.Fontaines D.C. - Romance
21.The Smile - Wall of Eyes
22.Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
23.Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
24.Dialect - Atlas Of Green
25.The Body & Dis Fig - Orchards Of A Futile Heaveb
26.Clairo - Charm
27.Ka - The Next Thief to Jesus
28.Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
29.English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
30.Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Loophole
sources:-
Pitchfork
The Quietus
Uncut
Mojo
The Wire
previous winners (click on to see full list):-
2022 Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale And The Big Steppers
2021 The Weather Station - Ignorance
2020 Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways
2019 Purple Mountains - Purple Mountains
2015 Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
2013 My Bloody Valentine - mbv
2012 Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2011 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2010 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
2009 Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
2008 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2007 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
2006 Joanna Newsom - Ys
2005 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
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