The Black Crowes‘ Happiness Bastards album has been voted the most effective of 2024 in Traditional Rock journal’s annual end-of-year writers ballot. The total countdown, that includes the 50 greatest albums of the 12 months, is featured within the new difficulty of Traditional Rock, which hits UK shops immediately.
Traditional Rock author Pat Carty’s overview of Happiness Bastards describes the album as “a rock’n’roll report that’s funkier than a tramp’s kacks, extra soulful than a gospel conference, hotter than a mom’s love and groovier than the Grand Canyon”, whereas the brand new difficulty of Traditional Rock calls it “a real return to kind in an age when many releases described as such are nothing of the type.”
“As you get older, you alter with the way you see the world basically,” Wealthy Robinson informed us earlier this 12 months. “And we’ve been on a reasonably lengthy journey. Forty years since I acquired my guitar, and we began taking part in in our basement, appears loopy to me. To think about the arc and the scope of the factor is fairly far out, but it surely’s actually all I do know.
“Chris sings like Chris. He doesn’t sound like anybody else. I play like me, and I don’t sound like anybody else. We’re each of us nonetheless curious and in love with music.”
Traditional Rock‘s Prime 10 albums of 2024 are listed beneath.
You’ll be able to learn the total 2022 Prime 50 within the newest difficulty of Traditional Rock. It is our conventional end-of-year overview, that includes interviews with most of the musicians behind our Albums Of The Yr, and in addition comes with a 2025 calendar that includes your favorite rock icons, some high-voltage rock’n’roll-themed wrapping paper for all of your festive wrapping wants, and a set of some very tidy drink coasters that includes official Scott Gorham and Skinny Lizzy paintings.
The top-of-year particular version of Traditional Rock is that can be purchased on-line.
Traditional Rock’s Prime 10 albums of 2024
1. The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
2. Judas Priest – Invincible Defend
3. David Gilmour – Luck And Unusual
4. Bruce Dickinson – The Mandrake Mission
5. Black Nation Communion – V
6. Pearl Jam – Darkish Matter
7. Ian Hunter – Defiance, Half II: Fiction
8. The Black Keys – Ohio Gamers
9. Deep Purple – =1
10. Gary Clarke Jr – JPEG Uncooked
