The Best Albums of 2024

This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their highly-anticipated “Best Albums” of 2024. Plus, they’ll also hear selections from production staff.

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Best Albums of 2024

Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot count down their favorite albums released in 2024. The show’s production staff joins in and shares their favorites as well, resulting in a broad cross section of musical styles being represented including subversive pop, controversial country, post-punk, desert blues and progressive rock. Artists discussed include Beyoncé, IDLES, Sabrina Carpenter, Finom, Sprints, Chelsea Wolfe and Mary Timony.

Greg:

  1. Sprints, “Letter to Self”
  2. Mary Timony, “Untame the Tiger”
  3. Redd Kross, “Redd Kross”
  4. Elucid, “Revelator”
  5. Finom, “Not God”
  6. Shirlette Ammons, “Spectacles”
  7. Mdou Moctar, “Funeral for Justice”
  8. Tyler the Creator, “Chromakopia”
  9. Wussy, “Cincinnati, Ohio”
  10. Dehd, “Poetry”
  11. Ibibio Sound Machine, “Pull the Rope”
  12. Michael Kiwanuka, “Small Changes”
  13. The Jesus Lizard, “Rack”
  14. Waxahatchee, “Tigers Blood”
  15. English Teacher, “This Could be Texas”
  16. Hurray for the Riff Raff, “The Past is Still Alive”
  17. The Cure, “Songs of a Lost World”
  18. Brittany Howard, “Prove it to You”
  19. Angelica Garcia, “Color de Dolor”
  20. Shellac, “To All Trains”

Jim:

  1. Mary Timony, “Untame the Tiger”
  2. Sprints, “Letter to Self”
  3. Hurray for the Riff Raff, “The Past is Still Alive”
  4. Amyl and the Sniffers, “Cartoon Darkness”
  5. Redd Kross, “Redd Kross”
  6. Finom, “Not God”
  7. Idles, “Tangk”
  8. English Teacher, “This Could Be Texas”
  9. Shellac, “To All Trains”
  10. Tyler, the Creator, “Chromakopia”
  11. Beyonce, “Cowboy Carter”
  12. Mdou Moctar, “Funeral for Justice”
  13. Pillow Queens, “Suffer”
  14. Grandaddy, “Blu Wav”
  15. The Anti-Queens, “Doomed Again”
  16. Jack White, “No Name”
  17. Goat Girl, “Below the Waste”
  18. Waxahatchee, “Tigers Blood”
  19. X, “Smoke & Fiction”
  20. Peter Gabriel, “I/O”

Production Staff:

  • Max: Chelsea Wolfe, "She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She"
  • Andrew: Pedro the Lion, "Santa Cruz"
  • Alex: Sabrina Carpenter, "Short n' Sweet"

 

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