2024 Honorable Album Mentions
It is that time of the year again, our favorite time actually, as we look back on the year in music and select the 10 best albums of the year.
10) High Vis - Guided Tour
8) Gossip - Real Power
7) St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
6) Kendrick Lamar - GNX
5) Beyonce - Renaissance II: Cowboy Carter
4) Idles - Tangk
3) Fontaines D.C. - Romance
2) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God
1) The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
As said in previous years, this award started long before the site was even a thought, in one publication, radio show or another. Since 2000, I have handed out a "League of Their Own" Award to an album that is made by an artist who is the most forward thinking, open minded, revolutionary musician out there today. Their accomplishments in the past 12 months have either resurrected a sound, broke down walls and created new frontiers or have totally reinvented a genre all together. The choices for "League of Their Own" have become more than just the best album of the year but the most important record to be released at that time.
In the past winners have included:
2000 - Radiohead - Kid A
2001 - The Strokes - Is This It?
2002 - NERD - In Search of...
2003 - The White Stripes - Elephant
2004 - The Killers - Hot Fuss
2005 - The Mars Volta - Francis the Mute
2006 - TV On The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
2007 - Kanye West - Graduation
2008 - Santigold
2009 - Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2010 - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
2011 - Bjork - Biophilia
2012 - Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
2013 - Arcade Fire - Reflektor
2014 - Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
2015 - Kamasi Washington - The Epic
2016 - David Bowie - Blackstar
2017 - Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
2018 - Richard Russell - Everything is Recorded
2019 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Infest the Rats Nest
2020 - Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2021 - St. Vincent - Daddy's Home
2022 - Black Midi - Hellfire
2023 - Algiers - Shook
The 2024 winner of League of Their Own is..
Tyler, The Creator - Chrommakopia
In keeping with our Thanksgiving weekend tradition, we are coming out of hiatus to post our year-end music lists for the year. Here is the first of three lists dedicated to our favorites of the calendar.
Here is our first list -- Honorable Mentions -- records, in no particular order, that were good but not strong enough to crack our top 10.
Brigette Calls Me Baby - The Future is Our Way Out
Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand
The Libertines - All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade
Sprints - Letter to Self
Primal Scream - Come Ahead
