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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 …

Voted on by over nine Messed!Up music writers, we celebrate the year’s best tracks from The Cure to The Reytons and beyond. ********** The Cure: ”All I Ever Am” The Drowns: ”Ketamine & Cola” Sunnan: ”My Love For You” Creepy Nuts: ”Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” King Hannah : ”New York, Let’s Do Nothing” Another Sky: “The Pain” Amyl And The Sniffers: ”Big Dreams” …

I came across Sprints the first time during the pandemic when I finally had time to listen to new music and found a copy of their debut EP Manifesto in a pile of records I received as promotion copies over the year – and it was love at first listen! The garage sound, the punk influences, and their edginess were …

I remember it like yesterday. It was 1985, I was eleven years old and got up early to switch on the telly to watch Live Aid at Wembley Arena in London, and three performances still stick out from that day: Queen (of course, there’s only one Freddie Mercury), David Bowie, and Nik Kershaw, the latter fresh in the scene after …

Take the best songs off Daft Punk’s epic album Random Access Memory and add even more funk plus an overdose of spacepop and you get French six-piece L’imperatrice. The nu-disco/spacepop band have caused a stir after the pandemic, and after an epic Coachella show in 2022, they’ve played full houses wherever they pop up. And they put on a show …

Sheffield’s metalcore giants While She Sleeps haven’t been on my radar for long. In fact, it’s one of many great bands I discovered while being in lockdown during the pandemic when there was nothing else to do but listen to music. It all started with the You Are We and Sleeps Society albums, and when Self Hell was released earlier …