Here's a place for everyone to share their EOTY lists for 2024. The Chorus.fm website contributors are hard at work at our own lists and we plan, like we did on AP.net, to post and share these on the website in early January. Pro Tip: Use https://chorus.fm/rank for easy ranking! Hope everyone had a great musical year and I can't wait to read all everyone's lists. 2023 (Contributor List) 2022 (Contributor List) 2021 (Contributor List) 2020 (Contributor List) 2019 (Contributor List) 2018 (Contributor List) 2017 (Contributor List) 2016 (Contributor List)
in no order and corralled into sketchy groupings! things I listened to and dug the most! will likely add more as the year wraps up. metal ulcerate cutting the throat of god immortal bird sin querencia dissimulator lower form resistance volcandra the way of ancients sumac the healer devenial verdict blessing of despair inter arma new heaven big|brave a chaos of flowers cave sermon divine laughter blood incantation absolute elsewhere julie christmas ridiculous and full of blood bedsore dreaming the strife for love rock and indie rock the hard quartet the hard quartet the smile cutouts mdou moctar funeral for justice goat goat mannequin pussy I got heaven loma how will I live without a body stop.drop.rewind stop.drop.rewind corridor mimi friko where we’ve been, where we go from here punk/screamo/emo better lovers highly irresponsible no man glitter and spit foxing foxing origami angel feeling not found combat stay golden southtowne lanes take care gouge away deep sage frail body artificial bouquet couch slut you could do it tonight pissed jeans half divorced rap vince staples dark times elucid revelator jpegmafia i lay down my life for you ka the thief next to jesus roc marciano marciology boldy james/harry fraud the bricktionary previous industries service merchandise country/folk/songwriter/slowcore grandaddy blu wav 40 watt sun little weight arooj aftab night reign gillian welch/dave rawlings woodland hayley heynderickx seed of a seed johnny blue skies passage du désir the high llamas hey panda kim deal nobody loves you more ambient electronic drone etc colin stetson the love it took to leave you suss birds and beasts maya shenfeld under the sun adam wiltzie eleven fugues for sodium pentathol merope véjula fennesz mosaic
1. twenty one pilots - Clancy 2. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 3. IDLES - TANGK 4. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana 5. Foster the People - Paradise State of Mind 6. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and the New World 7. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 8. Coldplay - Moon Music 9. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 10. Glass Animals - I Love You So F***ing Much
1. Trent Reznor- Challengers score 2. The Cure- Songs of a Lost World 3. Cloud Nothings- Final Summer 4. Sleater Kinney- Little Rope
Fontaines D.C. - Romance Ayleen Valentine - Little Rainbows After Death Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 Half Waif - See You At The Maypole Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow Maude Latour - Sugar Water Various Artists - I Saw The TV Glow OST Cherym - Take It Or Leave It Sycco - Zorb Phoebe Go - Marmalade OK Cowgirl - Couldn’t Save Us From My Gut Clairo - Charm
Took some time to throw this together today. Might have forgotten something, but for now: Combat - Stay Golden Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found Charli XCX - Brat Stay Inside - Ferried Away MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Foxing - Foxing Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot Super American - Gangster of Love Carpool - My Life In Subtitles Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Macseal - Permanent Repeat Oso Oso - Life Till Bones Los Campesinos - All Hell Kendrick Lamar - GNX Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Ogbert the Nerd - What You Want Riley! - Keep Your Cool Glass Beach - Plastic Death The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - The Iliad and The Odyssey and The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Other stuff I liked a lot: Oolong - Oolong Jophus - True Crime Cloud Nothings - Final Summer Drug Church - PRUDE 2nd Grade - Scheduled Explosions Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns SPACED - This Is All We Ever Get Princess - Wishes For An Untimely Demise Southtowne Lanes - Take Care Kill Lincoln - No Normal Cheem - Fast/er Fashion EPs Parannoul - Sky Hundred
1. Leon Thomas - MUTT 2. Gallant - Zinc. 3. Omar Apollo - God Said No 4. Roc Marciano - Marciology 5. Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia 6. Blu - Los Angeles 7. Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell 8. Boldy James - Across the Tracks 9. Erika de Casier - Still 10. Mustafa - Dunya and here’s a fun graphic including other albums I enjoyed this year as well as my top 10.
Johnny Foreigner - How to Be Hopeful Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D Snow Patrol - The Forest is the Path Overhead, the Albatross - I Leave You This glass beach - plastic death Everything Everything - Mountainhead Slash Fiction - We’ll Hold This Line Until Hell Freezes Over Kendrick Lamar - GNX 95corolla - LONG TIME LISTENER/FIRST TIME CALLER of Montreal - Lady on the Cusp IDLES - TANGK Fontaines D.C. - Romance God is an Astronaut - Embers Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive A Place for Owls - how we dig in the earth And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna Foxing - S/T CHERYM - Take It Or Leave It Glass Animals - I Love You So Fucking Much Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found salute - TRUE MAGIC SPRINTS - Letter to Self Crack Cloud - Red Mile New Ghost - A Dagger in Every Tide Villagers - That Golden Time Los Campesinos! - All Hell Paark - Stonelands Planes Mistaken For Stars - Do You Still Love Me? acloudyskye - There Must Be Something Here sleepmakeswaves - It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It A Burial at Sea - Close to Home Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore Barely Civil - I’d Say I’m Not Fine A Sudden Burst of Colour - Galvanize Soccer Mommy - Evergreen Jon Hopkins - RITUAL Balance and Composure - with you in spirit Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow Bonkers good year.
Will post mine sometime after Christmas. I still have a fairly long list of stuff to check out from this year.
I’ll almost certainly be coming back to this as I still have listening to do, but here’s where I’m at now. Alphabetical within tiers. Tier 1 (1-10) Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Chat Pile - Cool World MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Foxing - Foxing Leprous - Melodies of Atonement Opeth - The Last Will and Testament VOLA - Friend of a Phantom Wishy - Triple Seven Tier 2 (11-25) Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses are Empty The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Devin Townsend - PowerNerd Frost* - Life in the Wires Geordie Greep - The New Sound Glass Beach - plastic death Illuminati Hotties - POWER Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Microwave - Let’s Start Degeneracy Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found Oso Oso - life till bones SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace Trauma Ray - Chameleon Wheel - Charismatic Leaders Zeal & Ardor - Greif Tier 3 (26-50) Balance and Composure - With You in Spirit Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS Boston Manor - Sundiver Broken Glowsticks - Unimaginable Time Chastity - Chastity Combat - Stay Golden Downhaul - How To Begin Dvne - Voidkind Family Dinner - God Looks Out for Fools Fit For an Autopsy - The Nothing That Is Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis Glitterer - Rationale Huntsmen - The Dry Land Japandroids - Fate and Alcohol King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 Lupe Fiasco - Samurai Macseal - Permanent Repeat Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive The Pineapple Thief - It Leads to This Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced Poppy - Negative Spaces Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up to Consciousness Super American - Gangster of Love Top EPs Ben Quad - Epherma Counterparts - Heaven Let them Die Greyhaven - Stereo Grief Hot Mulligan - Warmer Weather House of Protection - GALORE Footballhead - Before I Die Kaonashi - The Three Faces of Beauty/A Second Chance at Forever (combined as a LP, would make top 10) The Pineapple Thief - Last to Run Sweet Pill - Starchild Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Midnight at the Castle Moorlands
Finally finished it up. Don't think anything else is gonna be added for mine. 1. Los Campesinos! - All Hell 2. Chat Pile - Cool World 3. State Faults - Children of the Moon 4. GIVER - The Future Holds Nothing But Confrontation 5. Knocked Loose- You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To 6. Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet 7. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath 8. Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line 9. Mount Eerie - Night Palace 10. Combat - Stay Golden Honorable mentions: Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible February - February One Step Closer - All You Embrace Sounding - You Can't Eat Your Cake and Have It Too Thou - Umbilical Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss Nails - Every Bridge Burning Bloom Dream - It Didn't Have to be This Way
Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is Hovvdy - Hovvdy Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer One Step Closer - All You Embrace Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Thou - Umbilical Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Foxing - Foxing SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die EP Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere Father John Misty - Mahashmishana Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D Diiv - Frog In Boiling Water From Indian Lakes - Head Void Floating Points - Cascade Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition How To Dress Well - I Am Toward You Greyhaven - Stereo Grief EP other stuff I enjoyed: tyler the creator umbra vitae sumac full of hell geordie greep nails touché amore undeath mj lenderman ben quad chat pile frail body bayside oso oso freddie gibbs carly cosgrove 200 stab wounds the story so far schoolboy q kendrick lamar godspeed you! black emperor charly bliss charli xcx stay inside the early november state faults the smile witch vomit nicolas jaar one with the riverbed civerous cloud nothings mach-hommy bright eyes chief keef vince staples jamie xx fucked up the amount of music I heard this year that really moved me is kinda nuts, my entire top 20 albums are those I really spent good time with and felt something special from. so much good shit. was really easy to hash out my top 5 though, just because all those albums are phenomenal life affirming works that reminded me why I love music so much. felt way more connected this year than I have in a long while. also some years I do a separate EP list but the two EPs I put up in the top here felt as substantial to my listening than most other albums did
My top 5 is pretty locked in but I have a lot that I love and need to return to. Plus a million things to check out
I think Gleemer is the only thing left on my radar for the year, barring any surprises. Will probably try to make a list in a couple weeks. Definitely a weird year where there’s a lot that I loved but don’t necessarily feel compelled to put something in my top. Feel like this was a particularly weak year for hip hop too