18 Jan 2025
PF #105: The 2024 Pulpy Music Awards (feat. Claire)
You’ve waited. You’ve begged. You’ve cried. And now your prayers have finally been answered. This year, Rochel and Claire reflect on 2024’s music in over 20 categories, from country to jazz, from Brats to Brits, from Sabrina to femtanyl.
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Full list of nominees and winners:
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
BRAT - Charli XCX
Challengers (Original Score) - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
CHROMAKOPIA - Tyler, The Creator
The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan
Petrichor - 070 Shake
#RICHAXXHAITIAN - Mach-Hommy
Silence Is Loud - Nia Archives
Still - Erika de Casier
Sugar Water - Maude Latour
The Thief Next to Jesus - Ka
SONG OF THE YEAR
Crowded Roomz - Nia Archives
Disease - Lady Gaga
Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde - Charli XCX, Lorde
Holy, Holy - Geordie Greep
meet the grahams - Kendrick Lamar
My guy (Corporate Shuffle) - Underscores
Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar
SIN MIEDO - JPEGMAFIA
Starburned and Unkissed - Caroline Polachek
BEST NEW ARTIST
Anycia
Baby Kia
LustSickPuppy
POLO PERKS PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Easyfun (“Just Like That”, “SO TRU”, BRAT)
FearDorian (“Hoodrat”, A DOG’S CHANCE, Triple Digits [112])
Mustard (“Not Like Us”, “TV Off”, Faith of a Mustard Seed)
Michael Uzowuru (“Black&Blue”, LANA, The Great Impersonator)
Zhone (“Talk Talk featuring Troye Sivan”, “JOYRIDE”, Sugar Water)
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Navy Blue
Zach Bryan
A.G. Cook
Geordie Greep
SZA
BEST POP SONG
Disease - Lady Gaga
Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter
Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde - Charli XCX, Lorde
Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan
Leash - Sky Ferreira
WYA? - Leah Kate, 24kGoldn
BEST POP ALBUM
Big Ideas - Remi Wolf
BRAT - Charli XCX
Girl with No Face - Allie X
Imaginal Disk - Magdalena Bay
Sugar Water - Maude Latour
BEST HIP HOP SONG
Black&Blue - Vince Staples
HISS - Megan Thee Stallion
I Killed You - Tyler, The Creator
meet the grahams - Kendrick Lamar
Not Like Us - Kendrick Lamar
BEST HIP HOP ALBUM
Alligator Bites Never Heal - Doechii
CHROMAKOPIA - Tyler, The Creator
Personification - Maxo Kream
#RICHAXXHAITIAN - Mach-Hommy
The Thief Next to Jesus - Ka
BEST ROCK SONG
Anybody - Porridge Radio
Audacious - Franz Ferdinand
FIRE4FUN - Jhariah
Jerkin’ - Amyl and the Sniffers
Over Each Other - Linkin Park
BEST ROCK ALBUM
Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me - Porridge Radio
Forever - Charly Bliss
There Goes the Neighbourhood - Kid Kapichi
TRUST CEREMONY - Jhariah
What a Devastating Turn of Events - Rachel Chinouriri
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC SONG
Compress / Repress - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Crowded Roomz - Nia Archives
Eusexua - FKA twigs
M3 N MIN3 - femtanyl, Danny Brown
My Girl - Coco & Clair Clair
Spring Breakers - Charli XCX
BEST DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUM
BRAT - Charli XCX
Challengers (Original Score) - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Diva of the People - Gavin Turek
Gramarye - TAAHLIAH
Silence Is Loud - Nia Archives
BEST COUNTRY SONG/ALBUM
ALBUM: The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan
SONG: Texas Hold ‘Em - Beyoncé
BEST JAZZ ALBUM
Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington
The Great Bailout - Moor Mother
No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin - Meshell Ndegeocello
Odyssey - Nubya Garcia
Rong Weicknes - Fievel Is Glauque
BEST R&B SONG
30 for 30 - SZA, Kendrick Lamar
Hell of a Ride - Nourished by Time
MUTT - Leon Thomas
Nasty - Tinashe
Young Lion - Sade
BEST R&B ALBUM
A Kid From Toronto - Kalisway
Algorithm - Lucky Daye
Bird’s Eye - Ravyn Lenae
CRYBABY - Rae Khalil
Still - Erika de Casier
BEST ALTERNATIVE SONG
Floating on a Moment - Beth Gibbons
Holy, Holy - Geordie Greep
Mahashmashana - Father John Misty
My guy (Corporate Shuffle) - underscores
SIN MIEDO - JPEGMAFIA
Starburned and Unkissed - Caroline Polachek
BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
Amelia - Laurie Anderson
empathogen - WILLOW
The New Sound - Geordie Greep
Petrichor - 070 Shake
Pointy Heights - Fousheé
BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Death & Romance - Magdalena Bay (Amanda Kramer)
Perfect Stranger - FKA twigs (Jordan Hemingway)
Run It - clipping. (Lawrence Klein)
Von dutch - Charli XCX (TORSO)
Young Lion - Sade (Sophie Muller)
BEST COVER
Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl - yeule
Burning Down the House - Paramore
Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other - Orville Peck, Willie Nelson
Murder on the Dancefloor - New Radicals
Slap That Bass | Get Happy | What the World Needs Now Is Love - Nick Cave
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us - The Last Dinner Party
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