#like where is los campesinos i listened to them soooo much this year

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wrapped :3

also here's my top 100 songs:

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ellie's top albums of 2024 - year of the pop girlies ?

i was waiting for one last album to come out b4 i put this year's list together (lauren mayberry's new solo album) bcos i was considering including it in the list based of the strength of the singles that had been coming out beforehand.. but i finally decided that as good as it is, and altho i could excuse putting 2 albums from 2023 in this year's list, i just didn't feel right putting an album that only came out yesterday on my ~end of year~ list 😅 but w/ that decision out the way, i can finally post this!! 😁

it's been a rly gr8 year for music, w/ 2 albums i'd been anticipating for literal Years finally coming out (los campesinos!' first album since 2017, and the cure's first album since 2008 😳) ..but i don't think anyone can deny that this year was absolutely Dominated by the pop girlies, i guess probably due to the confluence of "brat" becoming such a phenomenon, taylor swift's ongoing eras tour, And the explosions of both chappell and sabrina's careers 🤔

b4 i get into my picks proper tho, i just wanted to add that i decided to do s/t a bit different this year w/ my rankings of ~diy and the punk scene~ releases.. so if anyone's wondering where fightmilk's 3rd album or the problem patterns club remix album are, they're coming on a list later 😎

so anyways, probably time to actually get into the list 😳

billie eilish - hit me hard and soft: i already rly liked her first 2 albums, but i think this is now her best one by Far 😳 just a rly fucking phenomenal album!!

chappell roan - the rise and fall of a midwest princess: the first album in my list that's actually from last year.. but like a lot of ppl, i only discovered her this year, so i think it can be forgiven 🫣 but it's been v exciting to see her blow up, and i'm rly excited for whatever she does next 😁

charli xcx - brat / brat and it's completely different but also still brat: maybe The defining album of the year?? but i think i actually prefer the remix version tho, it's rly fascinating and cool to me how some of the remixed songs are like. in conversation w/ the original versions?? 😧 and they're all absolute bops, ofc 😌

the cure - songs of a lost world: robert smith first mentioned this album back in 2019, and after so many years of saying it was on it's way, i'd started to kind of doubt it.. but this year was the year it finally came out, and tbf i think it's good enough that it was worth the wait 😁

the linda lindas - no obligation: i'd been into the linda lindas since their first ep.. but then i'd kind of neglected listening to them since 😅 so when i saw this had come out i gave it a listen and was like "oh shit, they're actually Really good now?! 😳" and then had to go back and listen to the other stuff they'd released that i'd missed 😭

los campesinos! - all hell: i was soooo excited when this one was announced too, bcos it was my first time experiencing a new los campesinos! album as a fan, and like the cure's album it was also worth the wait!! also finally got to see them for the 2nd time, which was also another awesome experience 🥹

olivia rodrigo - guts: another album from last year.. but i got Rly into it when the spilled edition came out earlier in the year and finally realised how fucking Good it actaully was 😳 and then i felt bad for snubbing it in my 2023 list, so seeing as it's ended up one of my most played albums of this year, i don't feel too bad including it either 😝

sabrina carpenter - short n' sweet: i don't think i'd ever heard of her before this year, but i'm rly glad i got into her cos this album is sooo catchy, and it's ended up being one of my Fav favs of the year 😌

taylor swift - the tortured poets department: the anthology: despite the cure finally releasing "songs of a lost world," i think the tortured poets department still has to be my Album Of The Year 🥳 just such an interesting and ~sprawling~ album, i've listened to it So fucking much that it's the one out of all these that i rly feel has Defined my year, so much so that it's already become one of my most played albums of all time.. oops 🫣

and so there's my list!! 😌 but before i finish the post, i just wanted to shout out a few more honourable mentions..

green day - saviors: this came out p early in the year and i listened to + loved it a tonne, probably more than any new green day album since like.. uno?? 😧 but i kind of fell off listening to it as the year went on, and then a bunch of these rly gr8 albums came out too and sort of.. bumped it off the list 😅

haley heynderickx - seed of a seed: i'd been wondering for a couple of years when a new haley heynderickx album would be coming, after her first one came out in 2018, so i was v excited when i saw this had come out!! it's rly rly good too, but unfortunately it only came out last month and i haven't had a chance to listen to it as much as i'd have liked (partly bcos it came out the same day as the cure's album 🫣) 😔

lauren mayberry - vicious creatures: an album that v nrly made this list bcos it fucking rules, but i just didn't feel right including an album that only came out yesterday 😭 i'd been anticipating this one since the first couple of singles came out towards the end of 2023, and as more singles continued to come out over this year, i got even more excited for it!! so i'm so glad it's finally here, even if it just didn't quite make my list 😁

and there u have it!! this has ended up far longer than any other kind of post like this i've made before, so thank u for reading!! 🥰 and keep an eye out for my top ~diy / punk~ releases of the year too, which will hopefully be coming shortly 😉