Fire list . Didn't like Chromakopia like that tbh

yea idk i guess a good year but i don't know if i found a decade favorite

1. Vylet Pony - Monarch of Monsters
2. Pyrrhon - Exhaust
3. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
4. Julia Holter - Something In The Room She Moves
5. JPEGMAFIA - i lay down my life for you
6. JLin - Akoma
7. Charli XCX - brat
8. Chino Amobi - eroica
9. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
10. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

11. Floral Tattoo - The Circus Egotistica; or, How I Spent Most of my Life as a Lost Cause
12. Adult Jazz So Sorry So Slow
13. Slift - Illion
14. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
15. The Smile - Cutouts
16. Kim Gordon - The Collective
17. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
18. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
19. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
20. Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips

HM: Vultures 1, Vince Staples - Dark Times, Tyler - Chromakopia, Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future, Bianca Scout - Pattern Damage, Still House Plants - If I Don't Make It I Love You, The Smile - Wall Of Eyes, The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

subject to change as soon as I listen to more albums

still surprised at how good older artists were this year tbh

FINAL Top 10 of 2024 (Ordered) + HMs

1. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
2. OsamaSon - Flex Musix (FLXTRA)
3. Cece Natalie - Miss Behaves
4. Future & Metro Boomin - WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU
5. Jamie xx - In Waves
6. Future & Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU
7. Charli xcx - BRAT
8. 2hollis - boy
9. BLACKSTARKIDS - SATURN DAYZ
10. Camila Cabello - C,XOXO

HMs:

Star Boy - CEO
Hardrock - My Gift To You
1oneam - One Death

01. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 9⭐️/10⭐️
02. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 9⭐️/10⭐️
03. Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia 8⭐️/10⭐️
04. Kali Uchis - ORQUÍDEAS 8⭐️/10⭐️
05. Charli XCX - Brat 8⭐️/10⭐️

06. JPEGMAFIA - I Lay Down My Life for You 8⭐️/10⭐️
07. Lupe Fiasco - Samurai 8⭐️/10⭐️
08. NxWorries - Why Lawd? 8⭐️/10⭐️
09. Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor 8⭐️/10⭐️
10. The Marías - Submarine 8⭐️/10⭐️

11. Future & Metro Boomin - We Don’t Trust You 8⭐️/10⭐️
12. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes 8⭐️/10⭐️
13. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft 8⭐️/10⭐️
14. Ravyn Lenae - Bird’s Eye 7⭐️/10⭐️
15. Leon Thomas - Mutt 7⭐️/10⭐️

16. Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce 7⭐️/10⭐️
17. Clairo - Charm 7⭐️/10⭐️
18. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino 7⭐️/10⭐️
19. Mustafa The Poet - Dunya 7⭐️/10⭐️
20. Don Toliver - Hardstone Psycho 7⭐️/10⭐️

21. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy 7⭐️/10⭐️
22. Tyla - TYLA+ 7⭐️/10⭐️
23. OG Keemo - Fieber 7⭐️/10⭐️
24. PARTYNEXTDOOR - PARTYNEXTDOOR 4 7⭐️/10⭐️
25. Lexa Gates - Elite Vessel 7⭐️/10⭐️

no a top 10 but

That Beth Gibbons album

Top 25:

Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
Mall Girl - Pure Love
The Barbarians of California - And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth
Jpegmafia - I Lay Down My Life for You
Nathy Peluso - Grasa
Foamboy - Eating Me Alive
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Charli XCX - Brat
Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips
Tyler, the Creator - Chromakopia
Justice - Hyperdrama
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
Poppy - Negative Spaces
Mustafa - Dunya
Cigarettes After S***- X’s
Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips
Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & the New World
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Marika Hackman - Big Sigh
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Wallows - Model
Leon Bridges - Leon
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
¥$ - Vultures 1

1. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police

2. Nxworries - Why Lawd ?

3. Mustafa - Dunya

Rest is out of order

Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1

Foushee - Pointy Heights

Pt2

BLK ODYSSY - 1-800 Fantasy

Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips

Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino

Dawuna - Naya

(no order)
Polo Perks, AyooLii, FearDorian - A Dog's Chance
Nettspend - BAFK
Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Yeat - 2093
Tyler The Creator - Chromakopia
Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye
Zukenee - BIRTH OF ST SLAY
Lil O - Leaks Tape Vol. 2
Lil Uzi Vert - Eternal Atake 2

Here is my top 25, though I listened to and ranked 178 projects. I had to add world of malice ST manually though their demo was there? weird

I need to listen to Nathy Peluso and Mustafa.

Zukenee

Likely forgetting some, but 10 that stood out this year

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo
Navy Blue - Memoirs in Armour
Mk.gee - Two Stars & The Dream Police
ELUCID - Revelator
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Mach-Hommy - RAH
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Vegyn - Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intent
Nia Archives - Silence is Loud
Nilufer Yanya - My Method Actor

If you really love music you can never lose man just another great year

I never put my full ranking of 180 albums, here it is
(the numbers messed up at the 38 mark which ends my top favorites)

1. Chat Pile - Cool World
2. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
3. Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
4. Mamaleek - vida blue
5. Brainstory - Sounds Good
6. JPEGmafia - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
7. Candy - it's inside you
8. Cage the elephant - Neon Pill
9. Georgie Greep - the new sound
10. World of Malice - World of Malice
11. Serengeti - KDIV
12. The Smile - Cutouts
13. IDLES - TANGK
14. Kai Whiston - XUL
15. Abriction - Banshee
16. SPACED - This is All We Ever Get
17. Christ Dillinger - There's Evil in This Club
18. Jame xx - waves
19. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
20. Full of hell - scraping the divine
21. Heems / Lapgan - LAFANDAR
22. Mdou Moctar - Funeral for justice
23. glass beach - plastic death
24. Dr Dog - Dr Dog
25. triflin - triflin
26. Chimp1 - Lazy Booking (Deluxe)
27. suntouch house - laugh to myself
28. Kaonashi - The 3 Faces Of Beauty: A Violent Misinterpretation of Morgan Montgomery
29. Gucci Mane - Greatest of All Trappers
30. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
31. no cure - i hope i die here
32. Knocked Loose - You Won't go Before You're Supposed To
33. Cash cobain - Play cash cobain
34. Deathtrippa - Deathtrippa season is over.
35. Boundaries - Death Is Little More
36. Eels - Eels time!
37. Bib - Biblical
38. infectious jelqing - them young wiggas
^ all albums LOVED
38. Kenny Mason - 9
39. Galimatias - Lost Cargo
40. Kendrick - GNX
41. Tyler the creator - chromepoka
42. DORIS - Utimate Love Songs Collection
43. Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code
44. Serengeti - palookaville
45. Chief Keef - Almighty So 2
46. Moses Sumney - Sophcore
47. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset Mariachi EP
48. babyfxce e - real striker music
49. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft
50. Shadow Wizard Money Gang - BASED NEGATIVE SQUAD
51. Untitled (halo) - headbanger
52. Nails - Every bridge burning
53. Decedent - Persistent Ruin
54. scumrotten - I wish to be blind (for I have seen too much)
55. Serengeti - Open I Remixes Vol. 1
56. Show me the body - Corpus ep I
57. Rezz - Can You See Me
58. Christ Dillinger/Dj Smokey - THIS ALBUM IS TERRORISM
59. Elucid - Revalator
60. peeling flesh - g code
61. Ab soul - soul burger
62. Ka - The thief next to jesus
63. Clozee & lsdream - lszee
64. dj smokey - psychological warfare
65. dj smokey - humiliation ritual
66. Still Woozy - Loveseat
67. Isoxo - 4evr
68. Going off - Die fast
69. See you next tuesday - Relapses
70. Babytron - Case Dismissed
71. S*** haus - CYE&HTM
72. Big ass truck - big ass demo
73. Vince Staples - Dark Times
74. Dogsteeth - Kerkstra 119
75. Trocar - Extremities
76. Modern Life Is War - Tribulation Worksongs
77. Levity - Levity split
78. Khruangbin - fifteen fifty-three
79. Bfb Da Packman - Forget me not
80. Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
81. Charli Xcx - Brat but its not brat
82. Wendigo/SOLSA/RXK Nephew - Tales From The Side Door
83. Big if true - dawg days
84. DORIS - SIDE NIGGA
85. Heems - Veena
86. Jean Dawson - Glimmer of God
87. Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips
88. ScottBrowderNOW - BEginning NOW
89. Low end activist - airdrop
90. THE VOICES IN MY HEAD SLAM - EP
91. Fcukers - Baggy$$
92. Yuh Tyler - Mr. Skii
93. adrianne lenker - bright future
94. Wifigawd - Block Music 2
95. MIKE - Pinball
96. Brittany Howard - What Now
97. Cherrri - Transgender Magical Girl Love Death Guns Explosions and Gore Galore
98. doris - four trees
99. English Teacher - This could be texas
100. Kublai Khan TX - exhibition of prowess
101. Action Bronson - Johann Sebastian Bachlava the Doctor
102. Killer Mike - songs & sinners for saints
103. Lupe fiasco - samurai
104. Ysr Gramz/Enrgy Beats - So Much Enrgy & Sav
105. BigXthaPlug - MEET THE 6IXERS
106. NASCAR valoe - speed
107. Bruiser wolf - my stories got stories
108. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
109. RxkNephew / GetYouKilledRecords - Sunday Blessings
110. BAAZLVAAT - RIDICULED BY THE COMMON SOLDIERY
111. Piss Leech - Vehicular Manslaughter
112. Future - Mixtape pluto
113. Post NC - box combo, no slaw, extra sauce
114. Rapsody - please don't cry
115. Phantogram - Memory of a Day
116. Charli Xcx - Brat
117. RxkNephew / GetYouKilledRecords - 7200 Nights
118. J Cole - Might Delete Later
119. Father John mitsy - mahashashana
120. Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
121. Demo Division - SUNKEN SKIN
122. Smashing Pumpkins - aghori mhori mei
123. Scene Queen - Hot singles in your area
124. Babytron & Certified Trapper - Mario & Luigi
125. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
126. James Blake & Lil Yachty - Bad cameo
127. Yard acrt - Where's my utopia?
128. PIGLIACCI - Clowns in a man's world
129. Fourtet - three
130. Kaonashi - A second chance at forever: the brilliant lies from casey diamond
131. Nickelus F - MMCHT
132. RxkNephew / GetYouKilledRecords - 223s & 442s
133. Chnnl - colors of green and blue
134. LeeV - Shadow Demon
135. BabyDrill - ScoreGod
136. Metro cooking / future - we don't trust you
137. Juicy J - Mental Trillness 2
138. No Refuge - At the end of one's rope
139. Charli.xcx - BRAT
140. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene
141. RxkNephew - Mind Yo F***ing Business
142. Glass animals - I love you so f***ing much
143. Concuss - Act Like It Is
144. the sissy boys - we want to fight
145. candy - flipping
146. Antwon - end of earth
147. Vegyn - The Road To Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
148. Gl4 spaz - slaughter house recordz
149. bob vylan - humble as the sun
150. Snowblunt - not all pleasures are guilty
151. wraithlord - phantasmal warfare
152. Galantis - Rx
153. popmonst3r - #basedthanfuck
154. Gunna - one of wun
155. Joanne / Dean Blunt - backstage raver
156. Childish Gambino - Bando stone and the new world
157. MGMT - Loss Of Life
158. 21 Savage - American Dream
159. Hyperufo - Nowhere
160. PartyNextDoor - P4
161. Juicy j - Memphis zoo
162. Mustard - Faith of a mustard seed
163. Kid Cudi - Insano
164. Mr Bill - mechanoric
165. Rakim - G.O.Ds Network - REB7RTH
166. Bring me to the horizon - post human: nex gen
167. Gesaffelstein - gamma
168. Shadow money wizard gang - incantations from the dark grimoire (2022-2024)
169. Bimb0nic plague - bimbo torture
170. Joeyy - Try
171. Ice spice - y2k!
172. Blp kosher - scarecrow
173. Kanye / Ty Dolla - Vultures
174. Nourished in time - Counting Chickens ep
175. Lil D***y - Penith
176. Lyrical Lemonade - All Is Yellow
177. Since99/WhatUpNolan - 99 Jump Street 2
178. Porter Robinson - SMILE!:D
179. Various Artists - Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense

u loved brat so much u put it on here 3 times 💚