Messed!Up’s Best Albums 2024

The albums of 2024 hit us hard and soft, all year long. In coming up with the best album list, each of Messed!Up’s staff music writers felt 2024 brought an embarrassment of riches from which to choose. There are pop albums that defy all expectations, indie rock records that shouldn’t work but do, metal albums that are made of everything but the shreds, surprise debuts, stunning comebacks, and shocking finales.

Here is our Top50 Album list for 2024 compiled by seven members of the Messed!Up music staff!

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1. The Cure: ”Songs Of A Lost World”
2. Sunnan: “Cinema”
3. Feeder: ”Black/Red”
4. Kite: ”VII”
5. Kim Deal: ”Nobody Loves You More”
6. Tiflis Transit: ”A Thought Is Not A Feeling”
7. The Drowns: ”Blacked Out”
8. Another Sky: ”Beach Day”
9. Nite: ”Have Mercy”
10. Thåström: ”Somliga Av Oss”
11. The Smile: ”Wall Of Eyes”
12. The Reytons: ”Ballad of a Bystander”
13. The Vaccines: ”Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations”
14. Opeth: ”The Last Will and Testament”
15. Fontaines D.C.: ”Romance”
16. Pearl Jam: ”Dark Matter”
17. Marilyn Manson: ”One Assassination Under God – Chapter One”
18. The Smashing Pumpkins: ”Aghori Mhori Mei”
19. Marc Mortimer: ”Running with Scissors”
20. Glazed Curtains: ”Claustrophobia”
21. Blood Incantation: ”Absolute Elsewhere”
22. Child: ”Sheitgeist”
23. Die Sterne: ”Grandezza”
24. Porridge Radio: ”Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me”
25. Dark Tranquility: ”Endtime Signals”
26. Príncipe Valiente: ”In this Light”
27. Miss Tati: ”Angola Yangue”
28. iedereen: ”iedereen”
29. Chubby and the Gang: “And Then There Was …”
30. The Virginmarys: ”The House Beyond The Fires”
31. The Chuck Norris Experiment: ”Twenty“
32. Joy Oladokun: ”Observations From A Crowded Room”
33. The Howlers: ”What You’ve Got To Lose To Win It All”
34. The Innocence Mission: ”Midwinter Swimmers”
35. The Chisel: ”What A Fucking Nightmare”
36. And Also The Trees: ”Mother-Of-Pearl Moon”
37. Slope: ”Freak Dreams”
38. The Jesus And Mary Chain: ”Glasgow Eyes”
39. New Model Army: ”Unbroken”
40. Chelsea Wolfe: ”She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She”
41. Ayla: ”Pussel”
42. Yard Act: ”Where’s My Utopia?”
43. Lucifer: ”Lucifer V”
44. Ja, Panik: ”Don’t Play With The Rich Kids”
45. Blackbook: ”Radio Strange”
46. Witch Club Satan: ”Witch Club Satan”
47. Rue Oberkampf: ”Essenz”
48. Upploppet: ”Road Runner”
49. The Cavemen: ”Ca$h 4 Scrap”
50. T.V. Smith: ”Handwriting”

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