#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

#These 2024 albums master the art of transgression

skaiwater’s #gigi, Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, and DJ Anderson do Paraíso’s Queridão couldn’t be more different, but each flaunts convention in its own way. Design by Cady Siregar.   Every project on our 50 Best Albums of 2024 list strained against one social more or another, from Charli XCX’s unapologetically hyper-charged late-millennial pop, with its…

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#The 50 best albums of 2024

#The 50 best albums of 2024

The 50 best albums of 2024 From Brat to Bird’s Eye and Cold Visions to Queridão, these are the albums we couldn’t ignore this year. By Alex Robert Ross, Cady Siregar, Jordan Darville, Raphael Helfand, Steffanee Wang, Wale Oloworekende, Shaad D’Souza, Lucas Villa, Colin Joyce, Emma Madden, Vivian Medithi, David Renshaw, Walden Green Every album…

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#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

#What was NOISE?: UNSOUND, wrapped

At UNSOUND 2024, a stacked lineup of far-flung artists gathered in Krakow to present their diverse interpretations of this year’s theme, NOISE. UNSOUND’s logo projected onto the wall of Kamienna 12. Photo by Michal Murawski.   Before Krakow’s annual UNSOUND festival kicked off on September 29, I sent its featured artists a deceptively simple question:…

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