As our 2024 World Tour of music continues, we're in Australia to capture the best albums released there in the first half of 2024. It's an impressive output, with more than 40 artists featured.
Classy albums came from a few "household-names" - Peter Garrett, Crowded House and Jessica Mauboy - each incrementally refreshing their familiar brands. But the standouts, the most challenging and interesting new releases, came from less famous acts - Hiatus Kaiyote, The Dirty Three, Emma Vollard, Audrey Powne, Max König, Mildlife, Maddison Carter and Yirinda. All these albums are likely to make it onto our end-of-year lists.
But these are the cream of a very rich mix. So check out our full list - there's fabulous music throughout. Here's a few ways to do so:
Read extracts from reviews of each album and link to the original source
All albums are included in full. Play the entire album or set Spotify to "shuffle"
One track from each album, with a video or audio subject to availability.
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