Cambridge Dictionary’s word of 2024 is Manifest – “to imagine achieving something you want, in the belief doing so will make it more likely to happen”, and what better example of this than writing a song called Pop Star then spending most of the year touring the UK, then Europe then the US, and having your album go top twenty along the way?

7 : Lime Garden / Pop Star

8 : Thomas Ducout / Feminina
9 : Jamie Broughton / The Sound
10 : David Best / Terms & Conditions
11 : Welly / Shopping
12 : Ellis D / Shakedown
13 : Ladylike / Horse’s Mouth
14 : AK/DK / Nobody Shouts
15 : The New Eves / Astrolabe
16 : Projector / Tastes Like Sarah
17 : Penelope Trappes / Sleep
18 : Lambrini Girls / Big Dick Energy
19 : Holiday Ghosts / Sublime Disconnect
20 : Plantoid / Modulator