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At #1 is #Brat because #Brat is #Brat and it simply HAD to be #Brat. I really wanted to be different, but #CharliXCX is undeniable

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#1 Charli XCX: BRAT (Best Album of 2024)
At #1, I’m sorry, so obvious, but it simply HAS to be ‘Brat’ by Charli XCX #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
January 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #1 is #Bratef="/hashtag/Brat" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Bratef="/hashtag/Brat" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Bratef="/hashtag/Brat" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Brat because #Brat is #Brat and it simply HAD to be #Brat. I really wanted to be different, but #CharliXCX is undeniable

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#1 Charli XCX: BRAT (Best Album of 2024)
At #1, I'm sorry, so obvious, but it simply HAS to be 'Brat' by Charli XCX #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:32 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
Aw man, ALMOST being the best album of year but ending up at #2 is the astonishing #CHROMAKOPIA by #TylerTheCreator

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#2 Tyler, The Creator: CHROMAKOPIA
The #2 best album of 2024 -and BOY was it close! – is the incredible latest from Tyler, The Creator #NE2024
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December 31, 2024 at 8:30 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
#3 is #Petrichor by the always outstanding #070Shake. But let's talk about #ToufanAl-Aqsa, yeah?

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#3 070 Shake: Petrichor
#3 is 070 Shake, their first album that didn’t finish top. And by the way: 5, 6, 7, 8, Israel is a terrorist state #NE2024
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December 31, 2024 at 8:29 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #4 is #RavynLenae with their exquisite second album #BirdsEye, because sometimes you just have to Appreciate. Motherfucking. CRAFT

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#4 Ravyn Lenae: Bird’s Eye
At #4 is the simply glorious second album by Rayyn Lenae, because sometimes a high placing on this list is just about talent, quality and motherfucking CRAFT #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:28 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
Yeah, it you didn't realise, I'm also including one #Prince album a year in my year end lists, and we're up to 1985's #AroundTheWorldInADay at #5 this year

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#5 Prince: Around the World in a Day
My annual Prince journey takes me to 1985’s bizarre, confusing, but often magic ‘Around the World in a Day’ at #5 #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:27 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #6 is #GodspeedYouBlackEmperor with #NOTITLEASOF21DECEMBER202445206DEAD. I updated the title for them. Not many jokes on this post

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#6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor: “NO TITLE AS OF 21 DECEMBER 2024 45,206 DEAD”
At the ACTUAL #6 is Godspeed You! Black Emporer, and I hope you’ll forgive me for this entry having a lot less jokes #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:26 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
OK, OK, I'm the bigger man. #TheFool by #YoungJesus might include a bigger diss track than Not Like Us against ME specifically, but I still name it at #7

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#7 Young Jesus: The Fool
#7 is Young Jesus’s ‘The Fool’, which I’m big enough of a person to include so high despite it including a blatant diss track of me #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:25 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
Tired of those fake-plug-talkin’ Tubi rappers? Let #JPEGMAFIA provide his continual alternative, with #ILayDownMyLifeForYou at #8

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#8 JPEGMAFIA: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU
At #8 is JPEGMAFIA’s best album yet as they are – in their own words -“Blowing up like IDF” #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:25 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #9 it's another band securing their hat-trick: #TheSmile with #WallOfEyes. But you all know what I'm going to talk about, don't you?

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#9 The Smile: Wall of Eyes
At #9 is by far and a way the best music The Smile have ever produced (as The Smile, anyway…), though there’s not much time to talk about the music #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:24 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
INTO THE TOP #10 BITCHEEEEEZ!! And who better to start it than with #serpentwithfeet, getting their hat track of #NecessaryEvil entries with #GRIP

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#10 serpentwithfeet: GRIP
serpentwithfeet opens the top #10 with the unashamedly passionate and undeniably brilliant ‘GRIP’ #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:23 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #11 it's the motherfucking #ManicStreetPreachers, son!! Their #Lifeblood20 reissue - which I wrote about at length when it was released - lands just outside the top 10

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#11 Manic Street Preachers: Lifeblood 20
#11 is the Manics’ ‘Lifeblood 20’ reissue. I wrote THOUSANDS of words on this when it was released, go and read that instead #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #12 with #BadCameo, #JamesBlake and #LilYachty manage to create a partnership that feels so weird and yet sounds so RIGHT

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#12 James Blake & Lil Yachty: Bad Cameo
At #12 is the unexpected cameo between James Blake at Lil Yachty that, it turns out, makes perfect sense #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #13, #AllieX kicks and screams and shouts like a bee sting on #GirlWithNoFace. Hit me with that super paaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!

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#13 Allie X: Girl With No Face
At #13, I let Allie X hit me, hit me with that super paaaaaaaaaaaaaaain #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:20 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
14 years since their last record, and 17 years since they last made no.7 on this list (!), #LesSavyFav are back at #14 with #OuiLSF

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#14 Les Savy Fav: OUI, LSF
After last appearing on this list in 2007 (#7, by the BTW), Les Savy Fav release their first album since 2010 and make it to #14 #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:19 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
I've already spoken at length about #Efficax's #15 album #Destruction, so I'm sure they won't mind me highlighting some OTHER destruction going on...

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#15 Efficax: DESTRUCTION
You really should already know by now, but I’m a pretty big fan of Efficax’s ‘Destruction’, and here it is at #15 #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:18 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
#MagdalenaBay have been awesome for a long time, but with the tight but expansive concept album of #ImaginalDisk at #16 they're finally getting their flowers

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#16 Magdalena Bay: Imaginal Disk
At #16 Magdalena Bay manage to expand on their already brilliant debut by crafting one of the most satisfying concept albums of recent times #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:17 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
#17 is the incredible debut album by #LavaLaRue. #Starface is a little all over the place at times, but the sheer breadth and excess of creativity is thrilling

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#17 Lava La Rue: Starface
At #17 is the incredible debut album by Lava La Rur, with a galaxy spanning concept that doesn’t QUITE hold together, but a genre spanning explosion of creativity that absolutely does #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:16 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
#18 is #WildGod, another brilliant #NickCaveAndTheBadSeed record, but we have to talk about how gross #NickCave is when it comes to #Israel

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#18 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Wild God
At #18 is the latest and understandably fantastic album by Nick Cave and the Band Seeds, but we gotta talk about Israel, don’t we? #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:15 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #19 is #elbow - one of Britain's most important bands of the 21st century - with #AudioVertigo. A chance, obviously, to talk about the Six Day War and the #Ba’athist regime in #Syria

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#19 elbow: AUDIO VERTIGO
At #19 is the criminally undervalued elbow, which obviously means I have to write 2000 words on the fall of the Al-Assad regime in Syria #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:14 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
Into the top motherfucking #20, son! And #Tapir! with #ThePilgrimTheirGodAndTheKingOfMyDecrepitMountain aaaaaaaaand that's my wordcount

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#20 Tapir!: The Pilgrim, Their God and The King Of My Decrepit Mountain
Into the top motherfucking #20 with Tapir!, with an extraordinarily singular debut that manages to be both absolute nonsense and the most important thing you’ll ever hear #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:13 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
Mosh pit smelling like Chanel; Microsoft they're excel; nine, ten, eleven, fuck 12, #TierraWhack is #21 with #WorldWideWhack

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#21 Tierra Whack: WORLD WIDE WHACK
At #21, Tierra Whack shocks with some incredibly introspective suicidal ideations. And also songs about washing her bum #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:11 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
At #22 #ZealAndArdor trouble your spellcheckers with #Greif. The band are still struggling to find their new voice, but at least this time the confusion is utterly compelling

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#22 Zeal and Ardor: Greif
At #22 is Zeal and Ardor, whom I’ve long sais will one day release an HISTORICALLY great album. ‘Greif’ absolutely isn’t that, but its broad lunacy has reawakened my love of…
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:10 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
#BellaTechnika, man, they may have made the #23rd best album of the year with #SolidState, but I only know exactly 14 things about them.
Here they all are

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#23 Bella Technika: Solid State
Bella Technika are at #23 and by far and away of of the greatest electronic acts working today. Yet I know next to nothing about them. Here’s everything. #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:09 PM
lexleeson.bsky.social
We all agree that people in their 40s should neither be seen nor heard, but at #24 #DannyBrown earns the right to tell us about his Mexican homie named Chinese Mike on #Quaranta

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#24 Danny Brown: Quaranta
Eeeeew, did you hear that Danny Brown is in his FORTIES now?? That’s so gross, but he tries his best to deal with it at #24 #NE2024
necessaryevil.blog
December 31, 2024 at 8:08 PM