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The Best Albums of 2024 So Far!

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The year 2024 is halfway over, and there has already been a plethora of exciting, inspired and relevant new releases. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite albums of 2024 so far.

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Featured Songs:

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, "Emergence," The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, Impulse,

The Beatles, "With A Little Help (From My Friends)," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone,

Heems and Lapgan, "Accent," Lafandar, Veena Sounds,

The Anti-Queens, "Apocalypse She (feat. Brenna Red)," Disenchanted, Stomp,

Waxahatchee, "Right Back to it (feat. MJ Lenderman)," Tigers Blood, Anti-,

Pillow Queens, "Like A Lesson," Name Your Sorrow, Royal Mountain,

Jlin, "Summon," Akoma, Planet Mu, 20241. J Robbins, "Not the End," Basilisk, Dischord,

J Robbins, "Exquisite Corpse," Basilisk, Dischord,

Middle Kids, "Bootleg Firecracker," Faith Crisis Pt. 1, Lucky Number,

Middle Kids, "Bend," Faith Crisis Pt. 1, Lucky Number,

The Lemon Twigs, "A Dream is All I Know," A Dream is All We Know, Captured Tracks,

The Lemon Twigs, "If You and I Are Not Wise," A Dream is All We Know, Captured Tracks,

Ibibio Sound Machine, "Fire," Pull The Rope, Merge,

Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Buffalo," The Past Is Still Alive, Nonesuch,

Shirlette Ammons, "Spectacles," Spectacles, Self-Released,

Idles, "Roy," Tangk, Partisan,

Sprints, "Cathedral," Letter To Self, City Slang,

Mary Timony, "No Thirds," Untame The Tiger, Merge,

Prince And The Revolution, "Purple Rain," Purple Rain, Warner Bros,


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Skidoo-D-D-Dah! Scudrudrudrudrudrudrut. You're listening to sound opinions and this week we share our favorite albums in 2024 so far.

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I'm Jim De Regattis.

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And I'm Greg Cot.

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Let's jump in.

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Sound opinions is supported by Goose Island since 1988 Goose Island has been brewing beers in the spirit of Chicago.

0:45.5

You can find 3-12 Weedale, big juicy beer hug, and so many other limited releases

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at either of Goose's locations in Chicago, Goose Island

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Beer Company, Chicago's Beer.

0:58.0

Jim, you and I have got our top 20s so far, top 10s in some cases.

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So far.

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I think I got top 13.

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Yeah.

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I've got a bunch in play, but you'll see the full list on our website.

1:10.8

We're going to let some of our listeners chime in as well and you and I are going to jump

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around in our playlists. We have some overlap, some that are widely divergent.

1:19.4

Yes. I'll get us started with my number nine pick in my top ten.

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The Heems and Lappgan record, Laffender.

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Him, aren't you, Surrey?

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People may know him as one half of Das R racist, that Wesleyan University duo that came out more than a

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