Topic: The Music Thread

Best 2024 Punk and Alternative Rock Albums by JamieOretro

Below is a list of 25 new albums I've enjoyed in alphabetical order, which released in 2024 (alternative, emo, garage rock, grunge, hardcore, pop-punk, punk and street-punk).

• Alkaline Trio 'Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs' (Rise Records, 26th Jan. 2024). Classic Chicago punk.
• Bad Moves 'Wearing Out The Refrain' (Don Giovanni Records, 13th Sept. 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Pop-punk team vocals in Washington, D.C.’s Bad Moves' third full length.
• Bicurious 'Your Life is Over Now...' (Big Scary Monsters, 4th Oct. 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Bits of math-rock, with a big sound for this Dublin/Leipzig duo.
• Buffalo Tom 'Jump Rope' (Scrawny Records, 31st May 2024). Alternative rock that made me reminisce about 1993's 'Big Red Letter Day'.
• Cheekface 'It's Sorted' (Self-released, 22nd Jan. 2024). Wacky, off-the-wall indie rock from Los Angeles.
• Cloud Nothings 'Final Summer' (Pure Noise Records, 19th April 2024). Charming, Cleveland based indie rockers.
• Drug Church 'Prude' (Pure Noise Records, 4th Oct. 2024). Possibly my favourite album of 2024.
• Fontaines D.C. 'Romance' (XL Records, 23rd Aug. 2024). Irish post-punk from Dublin, growing huge in popularity.
• Four Year Strong 'Analysis Paralysis' (Pure Noise Records, 9th Aug. 2024). A swift songwriting studio turnaround for this easycore, pop-punk band's latest album.
• Gaffa Tape Sandy 'Hold My Hand, God Damn It' (Alcopop! Records, 31st May 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Pop-punky, indie rock trio from Brighton.
• Green Day 'Saviors' (Reprise Records, 19th Jan. 2024). Arguably the best Green Day album since 'American Idiot'.
• Hot Water Music 'Vows' (Equal Vision Records, 10th May 2024). Florida's finest, and Gainesville's greatest melodic hardcore band.
• Knocked Loose 'You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To' (Pure Noise Records, 10th May 2024). Hardcore hits the big time!
• Mannequin Pussy 'I Got Heaven' (Epitaph Records, 1st March 2024). Fourth album by Philadelphia punks.
• Mean Jeans 'Blasted' (Fat Wreck Chords, 9th Feb. 2024). Super fun, Fat Wreck Ramonescore.
• METZ 'Up On Gravity Hill' (Sub Pop, 12th April 2024). METZ sound so authentic to Sub Pop, it makes me yearn for the old days of the 1988 Sub Pop 200 compilation.
• Omni 'Souvenir' (Sub Pop Records, 16th Feb. 2024). Quirky Sub Pop post-punk.
• Origami Angel 'Feeling Not Found' (Counter Intuitive Records, 27th Sept. 2024). Thrillho recommended Origami Angel to me at the start of 2024 in this The Music Thread. Thank you, Thrillho!
• Pearl Jam 'Dark Matter' (Monkeywrench Records, 19th April 2024). Seattle grunge greats' twelfth album.
• Pinhead Gunpowder 'Unt' (1-2-3-4 Go! Records, 18th Oct. 2024). Consistently superb, East Bay, Californian punk, written by Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White.
• Planes Mistaken for Stars 'Do You Still Love Me?' (Deathwish Inc. Records, 1st Nov. 2024). Fifth album by post-hardcore and emo legends.
• Smashing Pumpkins 'Aghori Mhori Mei' (Thirty Tigers Records, 2nd Aug. 2024). It feels like the 1990s again with new Buffalo Tom, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins in 2024!
• Sprints 'Letter to Self' (City Slang Records, 5th Jan. 2024). Debut album by post-punk, garage grungy Dubliners.
• The Chisel 'What a Fu**ing Nightmare' (Pure Noise Records, 9th Feb. 2024). Gritty London street-punk.
• The Story So Far 'I Want to Disappear' (Pure Noise Records, 21st June 2024). Fifth album by Californian pop-punkers.

**** Edit: Whoops, I forgot to include Green Day's 2024 album, 'Saviors'! I must have been distracted by Pinhead Gunpowder. I also edited this list to add Thrillho's recommendations, taking the total to 25 albums. ****

Wishing a very most excellent 2025 to all of the music fans at Push Square!

Latest Ice Cube album.

Followed by Snoop Dogg's. Sequel to Doggystyle. Prod. by Dr. Dre.

Now just waiting for Freddie Gibbs & Madlib to release 'Montana in '25!

@Thrillho Proper great stuff, mate! When I posted my Best 2024 Punk and Alternative Rock list here I was hoping that you'd see it, and I had my fingers crossed that you'd share some recommendations, too. Result!

It's taken me a few days to reply, but that's because I wanted to give all of your 2024 music picks a decent listen.

I started with 'Wearing Out The Refrain' by Bad Moves, as it was a personalised recommendation, and I've been loving that album. Don Giovanni has Bad Moves' full 2024 album on YouTube here, so I've listened to it many times.

I listened to all of Gaffa Tape Sandy's 'Hold My Hand, God Damn It' next, and I plan to check out Bicurious' 'Your Life is Over Now...' more as my third listen, because I'm in the mood for some math rock guitar work.

I really appreciate that you posted your picks here, and especially how you personalised some of it to my tastes, Thrillho. I'm away visiting family this weekend, but I have a couple more 2024 albums to list, so I'll add your picks to my bullet point list later on.

It's become a bit of a tradition to talk about the year's best albums with you now, so I hope 2025 is a quality year for you, and I look forward to discussing the new music that's released this year, too.
Big cheers to you!

One of the best hip hop albums of 2024.

Absolutely spectacular and rousing Classical music.

I think these are both two amazing artists. Really loving both their back catalogues atm.

For something more contemporary and also very enjoyable, try this.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN hi mate, I know you've posted your music up on here before and not faced moderation. Just thought I'd check with you in case you did anything special or just posted it up to show people what youve been working on

I got an ep coming out soon and I wanted to share it with the community so they can see what I've been up to over the last couple of years and the progress I've made in my mental health and creativity etc

@ralphdibny Hi, I've seen someone else on here post their stuff on here, and I have also, and afaik we haven't faced any moderation for it, but I'm not selling my music and again afaik the other person isn't either.

i.e the stuff we've posted is free to stream/download etc.

I see the guitarist on this album as the jazz equivalent of Eddie Van Halen.

@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN thank you mate! ✌️

For a change from the jazz and hip hop music I usually share on here, here's an electronic artist, Squarepusher, brilliant album from what I've heard so far.

This is a live session? Band is Jinjer.This lead singer has alot of range in her vocals.

Ad Infinitum - Unstoppable

Amazing electronic album, even flirts with metal on a couple of tracks.

I've Been listening to Imagine Dragon's Mercury and Morgan Wallen's One Thing at a time. Found a lot of tracks on both of those that I had never heard and really liked.

I'm still listening to a combination of catching up on 2024 releases, as well as finding brand new 2025 alternative, indie, hardcore and punk albums. A few examples are below.

I'll also return to the previous Page 113 of The Music Thread to update my "Best 2024 Punk" list.

• Anxious 'Bambi' (Run For Cover Records, 21st Feb. 2025). Out today, there's no need to feel Anxious in 2025, because there's no sophomore slump for this emo, pop-punk Fairfield, Connecticut five-piece.
• Bad Moves 'Wearing Out The Refrain' (Don Giovanni Records, 13th Sept. 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Pop-punk team vocals in Washington, D.C.’s Bad Moves' third full length.
• Bicurious 'Your Life is Over Now...' (Big Scary Monsters, 4th Oct. 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Bits of math-rock, with a big sound for this Dublin/Leipzig duo.
• Gaffa Tape Sandy 'Hold My Hand, God Damn It' (Alcopop! Records, 31st May 2024). Recommended by Thrillho. Pop-punky, indie rock trio from Brighton.
• Hot Water Music 'Vows' (Equal Vision Records, 10th May 2024). Florida's finest, and Gainesville's greatest melodic hardcore band.
• METZ 'Up On Gravity Hill' (Sub Pop, 12th April 2024). METZ sound so authentic to Sub Pop, it makes me yearn for the old days of the 1988 Sub Pop 200 compilation.
• Redshift 'Chaos As Planned' (Alternative Tentacles, 20th January 2025). New 2025 gruff melodic hardcore, with a hint of surf guitar.
• Shutdown 'By Your Side' (Equal Vision Records, 17th January 2025). A punchy and catchy 2025 six-song EP by New York hardcore legends.
• Stick To Your Guns 'Keep Planting Flowers' (SharpTone Records, 10th January 2025). A brilliant set of ten tracks by hardcore quintet from Southern California.

I think my main special mention is regarding Anxious' release of 'Bambi', where Run For Cover Records' YouTube channel has the Anxious - Bambi (Full Album Stream) uploaded for the release today (Friday 21st February, 2025). I've already listened to Anxious' 'Bambi' album four times, and I know that I'm going to love it.

It's also worth noting that the Anxious song Head & Spine currently has 456K views on YouTube, which is massive for a band like Anxious.

@Jimmer-jammer It's cool that you got to see Sum 41 during the final farewell tour in January 2025, mate.

I'd actually forgotten about 'Heaven :x: Hell' releasing in 2024, even though I listened to the songs Landmines and Waiting on a Twist of Fate when these tracks first released last year.

You probably know this already, but Sum 41's previous drummer from over ten years ago, Steve Jocz, has a YouTube channel called Stevo32Drums.

Just a couple of weeks ago he made a YouTube video called EVERY Sum 41 album (that I played on) RANKED!!, which might interest you.

Also, if you like Green Day as well as Sum 41, then Stevo32Drums discussed Tré Cool's drumming style, and Stevo plays drums along to Burnout from 1994's 'Dookie'. Here's the link to What I REALLY think of Green Day's TRÉ COOL by Stevo32Drums.

@JamieO Sorry I never replied to your previous post as I agree it's been fun comparing lists for the last couple of years and I'm honoured that the three recommendations all made your list in the end

If you enjoyed the Gaffa Tape Sandy album, definitely check out the Mammals EP by them which is also great fun.

For late additions to my 2024 list I would certainly be adding The Cure - Songs of a Lost World. I don't really know much of their backlog at all outside of the bigger singles (Boys Don't Cry, Friday I'm in Love etc) but Daniel P. Carter on the Radio 1 Rock Show had it as his album of the year and a whole show dedicated to it. I love hearing artists talking about the creation of their work and it's mad that a band that have been going for nearly FIFTY YEARS can make such a hauntingly beautiful album. It's slow, dark, and certainly not for everyone (especially with tracks like the final one which is over 10 minutes long and has no vocals for over 6 minutes!) but it's absolutely gripped me.

I love this track as it's one of the few more euphoric moments on the album, especially after the brooding opening track Alone.

Funny you should mention the Anxious album though as it seems I've had it wish listed on my bandcamp account so posting that video has been a good reminder I need to go and pick it up!

And my early recommendations for you of the year would be LS Dunes (a real emo/hardcore supergroup) and Winona Fighter (an excellent pop punk sound with heavy noughties era vibes).

@Jimmer-jammer Thanks right back at you, because reading about you going to the Sum 41 gig triggered my memory to listen to the band's new 2024 album today.

As well as Landmines and Waiting On A Twist Of Fate, I already knew Dopamine and Rise Up, because these songs must have appeared in my YouTube feed last year, so I was slightly familiar with Heaven :x: Hell ahead of today's listen.

Heaven :x: Hell injected a nice bit of energy into my weekend, so good on you!

Your Shinobi: Art of Vengeance avatar is great choice too, after seeing Lizardcube's wonderful art direction carry over into another classic SEGA IP, it was a real highlight of the February 2025 State of Play — based upon my gaming tastes.

Enjoy your weekend!