1. The Early November – The Early November 2. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood 3. Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs 4. Soccer Mommy – Evergreen 5. Super American – Gangster of Love 6. Aaron West - In Lieu Of Flowers 7. Jessica Boudreaux – The Faster I Run 8. Origami Angel – Feeling Not Found 9. Cliffdiver – Birdwatching 10. The Calamatix – The Calamatix 11. Balance & Composure – With You In Spirit 12. Bleachers – Bleachers 13. Four Year Strong – Analysis Paralysis 14. Trash Boat – Heaven Can Wait 15. Illuminati Hotties – Power 16. Grumpster – Grumpster 17. The Dangerous Summer – Gravity 18. Charlotte Sands – Can We Start Over? 19. Kill Lincoln – No Normal 20. Mannequin Pussy- I Got Heaven 21. Taylor Acorn – Survival In Motion 22. Bloom – Maybe In Another Life 23. Beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Moves 24. Half Past Two – Talk Is Killing Me 25. Teens In Trouble – What’s Mine 26. Oso Oso – Life Till Bones 27. Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To 28. Omnigone – Feral 29. Call Me Malcom – Echoes and Ghosts 30. Glass Beach – Plastic Death
Damn, looking at my list, I listened to absurd amount of music this year for my standards. It was a very deep year for me; I really enjoyed a lot of the albums that are waaay down my list. It was a weirdly dry year for EPs that I liked though. Foxing - S/T Southtowne Lanes - Take Care Fred Thomas - Window in the Rhythm Macseal - Permanent Repeat Flight Mode - The Three Times Sinai Vessel - I SING Charli XCX - Brat State Faults - Children of the Moon Barely Civil - I'd Say I'm Not Fine Hey, ily! - Hey, I Loathe You Casey - How To Disappear Trace Mountains - Into The Burning Blue Stay Inside - Ferried Away Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven EPs Alabama Deathwalk - Trickle Hard Chiller - Heavy Cell Sweet Pill - Starchild Half Waif - Ephemeral Being PRONOUN - and it’s been raining ever since Kississippi - Damned if I Do it for You Wild Pink - Strawberry Eraser Some other albums and EPs that are honorable mentions are from My Epic, Liquid Mike, FOOTBALLHEAD, Super American, Young Jesus, Owen, Oso Oso, Waxahatchee, Twenty One Pilots, From Indian Lakes, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Half Waif, Onsloow, bedbug, One Step Closer, Snarls, Queen of Jeans, Los Campesinos!, I Love Your Lifestyle, Wishy, Topiary Creatures, Hovvdy, Parannoul, Wild Pink, Pedro The Lion, Be Safe, Good Looks, Frail Body, Head Trauma, glass beach, Infant Island, Touché Amoré, Restorations, Carpool, Farseek, Gulfer, Cloud Nothings, Shapes in the Water, Billie Eilish, Wildflower, The Fever Haze, A Place For Owls, Bent Knee, Heart to Gold, envy, Alcest, ManDancing, Armlock, Cloud District, Siddhartha Smile
Definitely do not have the expansive listening habits of a lot of the posters here but my favorite 3 albums this year were Vampire Weekend, St. Vincent and Jack White Other favorites: Both albums from The Smile Pearl Jam Smashing Pumpkins The Gaslight Anthem Kendrick Lamar Bon Iver though need more songs Also enjoyed Japandroids, Green Day, Coldplay and The Offspring releases Meh on Bright Eyes, Decemberists, and Foxing for me
1. Los Campesinos! - All Hell Had never heard them before this year, what a consistently rich and rewarding catalogue. But this is far and away their masterpiece. 2. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Every song is a gem and different moments stand out each listen. 3. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found Currently the band on top of the pop punk power rankings. Title track may be their best song yet. 4. Super American - Gangster Of Love Melodic mixture of 90s pop rock and pop punk goodness. Pitchfork may be the best song of the year. 5. Foxing - Foxing Torchbearers for dark, aggressive, proggy, experimental emo. Hell 99 and Gratitude are absolutely blistering in the best way. 6. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana The thinking man's Pure Comedy, title track and Screamland are epics. 7. Wishy - Triple 7 "Define indie rock" 8. Restorations - Restorations A great comeback from the underappreciated dad-punk stalwarts. 9. Kendrick Lamar - GNX Keeps getting better and will likely climb this list in the future. 10. Hot Water Music - VOWS Honestly their best album, 30 years in.
1. Los Campesinos! - All Hell 2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 3. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 4. State Faults - Children of the Moon 5. Fontaines DC - Romance 6. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers 7. SPRINTS - Letter To Self 8. Foxing - Foxing 9. Geordie Greep - The New Sound 10. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
1. Foxing - Foxing 2. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 3. Fontaines DC - Romance 4. Charli XCX - brat 5. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 7. Combat - Stay Golden 8. Future x Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU 9. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 10. Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers The rest blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME...PART-2 JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU Jack White - No Name Tyler, the Creator - CHROMAKOPIA Cold Years - A Different Life Four Year Strong - analysis paralysis Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line Hippo Campus - Flood Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Green Day - Saviors Los Campesinos! - All Hell Mach-Hommy - #RICHXXHAITIAN Jamie xx - In Waves Joey Valence & Brae - NO HANDS Gum & Ambrose Kenny-Smith - III Times Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across the Tracks The Early November - The Early November Oso Oso - life till bones 21 Savage - american dream Khruangbin - A LA SALA Justice - Hyperdrama Yeat - 2093 Future - MIXTAPE PLUTO Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water Soccer Mommy - Evergreen Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South
1. Southtowne Lanes - Take Care 2. IDLES - TANGK 3. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 4. Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan's Slingshot 5. Fontaines DC - Romance EP Bike Routes - Rush of Energy
Here's a tentative top ten. Don't see anything I discover/revisit topping any of these, which all got a lot of play from me throughout the year. Hovvdy - Hovvdy The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns German Error Message - German Error Message Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene Los Campesinos! - All Hell Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Phantasy and Reality Nala Sinephro - Endlessness Here are other albums I've liked so far this year: MIKE x Tony Seltzer - Pinball Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler Nala Sinephro - Endlessness Waxahatchee - Tiger’s Blood John Moreland - Visitor Boldy James x Conductor Williams - Across the Tracks Chuck Johnson - Sun Glories DORIS - Ultimate Love Songs Collection Fabiana Palladino - ST Friko - Where We’ve Been Hailaker - Serenity Now How to Dress Well - I Am Toward You Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch Chuquimamani-Condori - DJ E Kendrick - gnx MachHommy - richaxxhatian Mount Eerie - Night Palace Navy Blue - Memoirs in Armour Novo Amour - Collapse List Oolong - Oolong Oso Oso - Life Til Bones Parannoul - Sky Hundred A Place For Owls - how we dig in the earth Rod Wave - Last Lap Sam Gendel - The Room Super American - Gangster of Love SUSS - Birds and Beasts Tashi Wada - What is not Strange? Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Dept This is Lorelei - box for buddy box for star 3AM - Home’s Here 1010 benja - Ten Total Joanne Robertson x Dean Blunt - Backstage Raver If I discover anything new and great, I'll talk about it in here I guess.
The best time of the year! Woo hoo! No particular order 'cept for #1. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Contention - Artillery From Heaven Bilmuri - American Motorsports Medium Build - Country Bring Me the Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn Hovvdy - Hovvdy Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us Cory Wells - Harboring the Hurt I've Caused Many Eyes - The Light Age Kublai Khan TX - Exhibition of Prowess Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico A Place for Owls - How We Dig in the Earth Sasha Alex Sloan - Me Again Los Campesinos - All Hell Donovan Woods - Things Were Never Good If They're Not Good Now
FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2024 (Absolutely Loved) 1. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes 2. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 3. Melt Banana - 3+5 4. The Smile - Cutouts (Really Really Enjoyed) 5. Charli XCX - Brat 6. Hans Zimmer - Dune: Part Two (Original Score) 7. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch 8. Cursive - Devourer 9. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers (Original Score) 10. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 11. Charli XCX - Brat and it's completely different but also still brat 12. Eminem - The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) (Really Liked) 13. Green Day - Saviors 14. Blink 182 - One More Time... Part-2 15. 311 - Full Bloom 16. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs 17. The Jesus Lizard - Rack (Liked) 18. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft 19. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World 20. Coldplay - Moon Music 21. Beyonce - Cowboy Carter 22. Poppy - Negative Spaces 23. Kali Uchis - Orquídeas 24. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 25. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Queer (Original Score) 26. The Black Keys - Ohio Players 27. Halsey - The Great Impersonator 28. Amyl and The Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness 29. Snoop Dogg - Missionary 30. Shygirl - Club Shy (EP) 31. LVL1 - Hardcore World (EP) (Mostly Liked) 32. Fred again.. - ten days 33. Glass Beach - Plastic Death 34. Four Tet - Three edit: updated :)
Albums of the Year 2024: Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk Charli xcx - BRAT Chat Pile - Cool World The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Jamie xx - In Waves Kim Gordon - The Collective THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING Future & Metro Boomin - WE DON’T TRUST YOU Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 Kendrick Lamar - GNX Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY2024 28, 340 DEAD Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Snow Strippers - Night Killaz Vol. 2 Fontaines D.C. - Romance Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN Fat Dog - WOOF. The Hellp - LL Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips Future - Mixtape Pluto 070 Shake - Petrichor The Jesus Lizard - Rack Four Tet - Three + Skee Mask - Resort EPs: The Armed - Everlasting Gaze Rezzett - Puddings SHXCXCHCXSH - Do al dente - Multiform Verraco - Breathe…Godspeed JIALING - FREAKY HORNS Koreless - Deceitics Honorable mentions: Violence Gratuite - Baleine á Boss Mas Aya - Coming and Going Big Brave - A Chaos of Flowers Uboa - Impossible Light Ski Mask the Slump God - 11th Dimension Chief Keef - Almighty So 2 SML - Small Medium Large Unchained - Gabbeh Jim Stoten - 22 St. Vincent - All Born Screaming Real Farmer - Compare What’s There CVN - Xeno Les Savy Fav - OUI, LSF Loula Yorke - Volta Allie X - Girl with No Face As for the Future - As for the Future Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol PlayThatBoiZay - VIP Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of the Last Human Being Matmos - Return to Archive Fire-Toolz - Breeze Nonkeen - All good? Moin - You Never End
Top 10 Albums Of The Year: 1. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino 2. Manillio - Daheim Daheim (Swiss) 3. Curse - Unzerstörbarer Sommer (German) 4. Common & Peter Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 5. Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt 6. Jyocho - Guide And Devote EP 7. Adje - Authentic (Dutch) 8. Green Day - Saviors 9. Blu & Exile - Love (The) Ominous World 10. Luke Combs - Fathers & Sons HM: LL Cool J - The Force Old Albums Of The Year: Momma - Household Name (2022) P.S. Eliot - Zadie (2011) Ryo Fukui - Ryo Fukui in New York (1999) Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby (1961)
Probably just a top ten for me this year: Wild Pink - Dulling the Horns MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Foxing - Foxing Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Los Campesinos! - All Hell Oso Oso - Life Till Bones Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
Favorite song is either MJ Lenderman - Wristwatch or Foxing - Gratitude and favorite show I saw was Sturgill Simpson/Johnnie Blue Skies (his record would be my #11)
I have liked LC! since like 2009 and have yet to meet a fellow enjoyer in person yet they’re on almost every list in here. Love that
Top 40 Albums of 2024 1. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department 2. Geordie Greep - The New Sound 3. Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: NeX GEn 4. Poppy - Negative Spaces 5. Halsey - The Great Impersonator 6. Say Anything - ...Is Committed 7. Pale Waves - Smitten 8. Ankor - Shoganai 9. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 10. Bilmuri - American Motor Sports 11. Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 12. Allie X - Girl With No Face 13. Katie Pruitt - Mantras 14. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet 15. Charli XCX - Brat 16. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism 17. The Requiem - A Cure to Poison the World 18. Us in Motion - The Noble Rot 19. Maggie Lindemann - HEADSPLIT 20. Charly Bliss - Forever 21. Like Moths to Flames - The Cycles of Trying to Cope 22. House of Protection - Galore 23. Yours Truly - Toxic 24. Katie Gavin - What a Relief 25. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 26. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 27. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de grâce 28. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine 29. Stand Atlantic - Was Here 30. Future Palace - Distortion 31. Linkin Park - From Zero 32. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers 33. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 34. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood 35. State Faults - Children of the Moon 36. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 37. Dvne - Voidkind 38. Zach Bryan - The Great American Bar Scene 39. The Early November - The Early November 40. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Top 30 Songs of 2024 1. Taylor Swift - loml 2. Bring Me the Horizon - Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd 3. Poppy - They’re All Around Us 4. Porter Robinson - Cheerleader 5. House of Protection - Being One 6. Geordie Greep - Through a War 7. Charli XCX - Sympathy Is a Knife 8. Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem 9. Dua Lipa - Happy for You 10. Say Anything - Psyche! 11. Ankor - Prisoner 12. Allie X - Off With Her Tits 13. Bilmuri - 2016 Caveliers (Ohio) 14. Pale Waves - Imagination 15. Halsey - Hurt Feelings 16. Katie Gavin - Sweet Abby Girl 17. The Requiem - Kill the Lights 18. Stand Atlantic - 17 // Reprize [One Take] 19. Kacey Musgraves - Sway 20. Origami Angel - Dirty Mirror Selfie 21. Northlane - Dante 22. Katie Pruitt - White Lies, White Jesus and You 23. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 24. Maggie Lindemann - Die For 25. Like Moths to Flames - Kintsugi 26. Charly Bliss - Back There Now 27. Yours Truly - All That I'm Not 28. Ariana Grande - We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love) 29. Us in Motion - In Heaven 30. Knocked Loose - Suffocate
1. Charli XCX - brat 2. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 3. NAILS - Every Bridge Burning 4. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 5. Speed - Only One Mode 6. Chat Pile - Cool World 7. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft 9. Northbound - Juniper 10. State Champs - S/T 11. The Hope Conspiracy - Tools of Oppression/Rule by Deception 12. Cheekface - It's Sorted 13. Touche Amore - Spiral in a Straight Line 14. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible 15. MGMT - Loss of Life
Great year for me. Thursday finally releasing new stuff would have been enough but we also got Touche's best album. FYS got me back into the band after being mostly out since EOTW. I wasn't sure Ceres would ever do a 3rd album. 14. Aaron West - In Lieu of Flowers 13. Stay Inside - Ferried Away 12. Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy 11. Ceres - MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1996 - 2022) 10. Four Year Strong - analysis paralysis 9. Combat - Stay Golden 8. Drug Church - PRUDE 7. Common Sage - Closer To; 6. One Step Closer - All You Embrace 5. Foxing - Foxing 4. State Faults - Children of the Moon 3. Balance and Composure - with you in spirit 2. Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line 1. Thursday - Application For Release From The Dream/White Bikes
Cheekface album us great, my 5 year old loves Popular 2 and Don't Stop Believing which are both in my 20 or so fav songs of the year.
Dangerous Summer record is hit or miss but I'd still count it as a return to form. Hoping it is like the self titled where it is a good record with some classics that precedes the actual classic album.
Was combing this this page and re-read this for the fifth time and I'm like ya know what, I'm vibing already, let's check out this Dummy band real quick This is....crazy good, holy shit
I love to see it. I've seen them on like 1 user list on r/indieheads and that's it, which is crazy because Ive had it on repeat since it came out.
My Top 15 Boundaries - Death is Little More Sasha Alex Sloan - Me Again Madi Diaz - Weird Faith Kelsea Ballerini - Patterns Maggie Antone - Rhinestoned Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Medium Build - Country Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet Katie Pruitt - Mantras Donovan Woods - Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now Lizzy McAlpine - Older Megan Moroney - Am I Okay? 156/Silence - People Watching Stephanie Lambring - Hypocrite Bess Atwell - Light Sleeper