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Top 50 Albums of 2024 pt. 1

Scroll through the page to see Honorable Mentions - #26 of Calliope Music's top albums of the year!

(Not Included: EPs, Mixtapes, and Archival/Live releases without substantial new material)

Honorable Mentions

St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

#50

#50

#50

Sadness - your perfect hands and my repeated words


Genres: Shoegaze, Emo

Best Track: Lowsun Bridge

#49

#50

#50

smokedope2016 - THE COMEUP


Genres: Cloud Rap

Best Track: Foamposite Interlude

#48

#50

#48

Alcest - Les Chants de I'Aurore


Genres: Post-Metal, Shoegaze, Blackgaze

Best Track: Améthyste 

#47

#47

#48

Armand Hammer - BLK LBL


Genres: Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop

Best Track: Drowning Machine

#46

#47

#46

Chat Pile - Cool World


Genres: Noise Rock, Sludge Metal

Best Track: Masc

#45

#47

#46

Colin Stetson - The love it took to leave you


Genres: Post-Minimalism, Drone

Best Track: Strike your forge and grin

#44

#44

#44

Blind Girls - An Exit Exists


Genres: Emoviolence

Best Track: Less Than Three

#43

#44

#44

Vylet Pony - Monarch of Monsters


Genres: Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock, Noise Rock

Best Track: The Wallflower Equation

#42

#44

#42

Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus


Genres: Drumless, East Coast Hip Hop

Best Track: Bread, Wine, Body, Blood

#41

#41

#42

Brittany Howard - What Now


Genres: Psychedelic Soul, Progressive Soul

Best Track: What Now

#40

#41

#40

Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To


Genres: Metalcore

Best Track: Sit & Mourn

#39

#41

#40

2hollis - boy


Genres: Electropop, EDM

Best Track: Light

#38

#38

#38

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness


Genres: Jazz Fusion, Progressive Electronic, Space Ambient

Best Track: Continuum 6

#37

#38

#38

Prizes Roses Rosa (Panda Rosa) - To Fire Clay


Genres: Neo-Psychedelia, Post-Rock, Sound Collage, Tribal Ambient

Best Track: An Incredible Sky

#36

#38

#36

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves


Genres: Art Pop, Chamber Jazz, Ambient

Best Track: Talking to a Whisper

#35

#35

#36

Father John Misty - Mahashmashana


Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Baroque Pop, Chamber Pop

Best Track: Mahashmashana

#34

#35

#34

E L U C I D - REVELATOR


Genres: Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop

Best Track: IKEBANA

#33

#35

#34

The Smile - Wall of Eyes


Genres: Art Rock, Post-Rock

Best Track: Bending Hectic

#32

#32

#32

Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God


Genres: Dissonant Death Metal, Technical Death Metal

Best Track: To Flow Through Ashen Hearts


"Festering chasms of winding guitars and highly technical drumming usher a constantly swirling and addictive conquering of Death Metal."

#31

#32

#32

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet


Genres: Screamo, Post-Metal

Best Track: Devotion


"Violent and pure, Frail Body unleashes a monolith of cathartic release through gushing Metal breakdowns and beautifully sinister grooves."

#30

#30

#30

Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA


Genres: West Coast Hip Hop, Neo-Soul, Experimental Hip Hop

Best Track: St. Chroma


"Boisterous and unforgiving, CHROMAKOPIA is a saturated affair in its untamed and flamboyant instrumentation, yet remains a real and intimate window into the scattered personal growth of one of the world's biggest stars."

#29

#30

#30

State Faults - Children of the Moon


Genres: Screamo

Best Track: Bodega Head


"Heroic guitar work, sweeping melodies, and expansive progressions deliver an enormously epic saga of pagan yearning and technical precision."

#28

#28

#28

Ramper - Solo postres


Genres: Post-Rock, Slowcore

Best Track: Un miembro fantasma 


"Graceful acoustics, thin layers of distortion, and a canopy of sugary woodwind unveil a surreal narrative of haunting love; a beautiful take on Post-Rock, never lost in a world of phantom memories and graceful grief."

#27

#28

#28

Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future


Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Contemporary Folk

Best Track: Sadness as a Gift


"Lenker truly presents sadness as a gift on this record, pouring out a graceful vulnerability and pervasive featheriness amidst the warm soundscapes of Americana and Folk."

#26

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Combat - Stay Golden


Genres: Pop Punk, Indie Rock

Best Track: Weird Ending Explained, Pt. 1


"Frivolous beats, blasting guitar, and zany vocals assimilate swift attacks upon the ear as a youthful ardor and hammering cynicism ravish in a powerfully exciting Indie Rock project."

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