The best rock albums of 2024 according to the Rolling Stone Brasil critic

The journalist presents his personal top 10 with favorite albums of the year and 20 other works that attracted attention and a playlist with highlights

Igor Mirandajournalist by Rolling Stone Brazilpresents in his opinion a list of the 10 best rock albums of 2024. The investigation is limited to the musical genre mentioned only.

This is a ranking Boysdriven only by I like of whoever wrote it. It is recommended to use the article for meet different bands OR revisit albums which have gone unnoticed in recent months.

In addition to the personal top 10, there are indications of 20 other good rock albums released in 2024. A playlist on Spotify with the highlights of the year is also available below or by clicking here.

First, the top 10:

10. Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (heavy metal)

to listen to on Spotify | The kings of heavy metal are doing great, thanks. Nineteenth album released by the English band, Invincible Shield maintains the quality presented in Firepower (2018) and definitively dispels the zica of its divisive predecessors. Compared to the album from six years ago, it features longer songs on average – nothing progressive, however – and sounds a little less “traditional heavy metal”, with moments of hard rock flavor that also refer to the work of the ’70s.

9. DeWolff— Muscle banks (southern blues/rock)

to listen to on Spotify | The name is suggestive: in their new album, the Dutch psychedelic blues/rock trio make it clear that they recorded the material at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio – and the “nearby” Fame -, where they spent Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett AND Duane Allmann. The sound obtained is a perfect portrait of the influence of the artists mentioned. The psychedelia of other works was set aside to explore the more classic side of rock, with a rich flavor of southern soul.

8. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — Flight B741 (on this album, blues/country rock)

to listen to on Spotify | Extras, extras! Crisis alert! THE King Gizzard and the lizard wizard he only released an album in 2024! Jokes aside, the extremely productive and unique Australian group has proven, once again, that they are up to the task Flight B741 because it’s one of the best things in rock today. After flirting – in the last few years alone – with electropop, thrash metal, psychedelic pop/rock and jazz fusion, they simply decided to deliver a blues/country rock album. And he looked great, as usual. There is, curiously, an additional ingredient this time: it was rare for the band to sound as collective as on this album.

7. The Warning – Keep me fed (hard/alternative rock)

to listen to on Spotify | Mistake (2022) showed signs, but Keep me fed confirms it The Warning has all it takes to become the next global rock phenomenon. The Mexican trio made up of sisters Villarreal Vélez manages to merge its identity with a set of attractive compositions, developed within what is defined as “alternative hard rock”. It’s simultaneously affable and heavy (mostly due to the frontwoman’s guitar work). Daniela), contemporary and in classic format. Almost the entire tracklist has the profile of a rock radio hit. It seems that only one pure hit song is missing to make the projection made in the first sentence of this text real.

6. The black crows – Bastards of happiness (classic rock/blues)

to listen to on Spotify | Better than a family feud, just the end. Also in 2019 the Black Crows has confirmed a reunion, four years after announcing a controversial hiatus. Chris AND Rich Robinson reunited, unfortunately, without the talented drummer Steve Gorman – and toured the world on a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut Shake up your money maker. Maybe because the American blues/southern rock group has never been innovative, or because the last few years have been marked by a revisiting of the past, only the fan who expected experimentation in Bastards of happiness. The first album born from this return is a declaration of love for classic rock and everything that inspired its birth/development: blues, country, gospel and soul. For the moment I didn’t need anything else.

5. Blues pills — birthday (classic rock/blues)

to listen to on Spotify | It wasn’t an obligation, but the Blues pills failed to rise above the formidable Holy Moly! (2020) in birthday. However, the fourth studio album from the Swedish revivalist classic rock/blues band has great merit. If there is a lack of consistency in the low power output of Freddy Alexander — who recorded the band “live in the studio” —, there is a notable extravagance in the compositions, less heavy and more eclectic. If it’s not the quartet’s most engaging album, at least it’s the one with the broadest palette.

4. Pearl Jam – Dark matter (classic/alternative rock)

to listen to on Spotify | If the sound of the production Andrea Watts can lead to criticism – usually fair -, it cannot be denied that the young studio professional has the gift of helping in the choice of repertoire. More rockers, Dark matter bring the Pearl Jam devoting fonder glances to its not-always-proud roots with a complete, filler-free tracklist different from several predecessors — including Gigaton (2020). Above all, the guitars of Mike McCready AND Gossard Stonetwo of the most underused guitarists in rock history.

3. The Corey Glover Universe — Corey Glover’s universe (hard rock/heavy/groove metal)

to listen to on Spotify | Don’t judge a book by its cover, nor an album by the artwork on it: this is the case with the project’s self-titled album Corey Glover’s universe. While the creative pause of Living color lasts almost a decade, its singer continues to engage in parallel projects, almost always with above-average results. In this group Universethe singer – one of the best that rock has ever given us in its entire history – joins the guitarist Mike Orlando (former-Adrenaline Mob, At night etc) for a formidably heavy job. It’s almost “modern heavy metal”, either for Orlando’s work (which occasionally goes beyond virtuosity), or for the cuisine that doesn’t give up the groove. And as Glover sings…

2. Jack White – No names (garage/rock blues)

the singer and multi-instrumentalist with a relatively experimental solo career returns to his signature fusion of garage rock and blues, with a hint of punk that translates more into attitude (including the surprise release) than sonic elements. Irresistible rawness, which does nothing but enhance good compositions in themselves.

Source: Terra

Earl

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