It’s finally time: after a few delays due to the holiday season and the start of the new year, Connor Ferguson and Matthew Hadley of The New Sincerest are here to countdown their top ten favorite albums of 2024. At the midpoint of the year, it felt like a somewhat dryer year for big music releases, records that would stick in the cultural conscious for a long time to come, but the second half of 2024 really delivered, shuffling end-of-year lists in exciting and unexpected ways. Over this four hour podcast Connor and Hadley discuss why their respective ten albums came out on top, dig into the political and cultural importance of their selections, and make some resolutions for their 2025.
Connor Ferguson’s Top Ten of 2024
BRAT - Charli xcx (“Everything Is Romantic feat. Caroline Polachek”)
Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino (“Can You Look In The Mirror?”)
No Depression In Heaven - Midwife (“Killdozer”)
One Day - Loidis (“Dollarama”)
My Light, My Destroyer - Cassandra Jenkins (“Aurora, IL”)
Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee (“Diamond Jubilee”)
Still - Erika de Casier (“Lucky”)
Here In The Pitch - Jessica Pratt (“The Last Year”)
My Method Actor - Nilufer Yanya (“Made Out Of Memory”)
GNX - Kendrick Lamar (“Reincarnated”)
Matthew Hadley’s Top Ten of 2024
BRAT - Charli xcx (“365”)
Night Palace - Mount Eerie (“Non-Metaphorical Decolonization”)
Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee (“Flesh and Blood”)
GNX - Kendrick Lamar (“Squabble Up”)
I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair - Christopher Owens (“This Is My Guitar”)
Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee (“Burns Out At Midnight”)
Here In The Pitch - Jessica Pratt (“Empires Only Know”)
Two Star and the Dream Police - Mk.gee (“Alesis”)
I Got Heaven - Mannequin Pussy (“Sometimes”)
Manning Fireworks - MJ Lenderman (“Wristwatch”)
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