1. State Faults – Children of the Moon 2. Kacey Musgraves – The Deeper Well 3. Het Zesde Metaal – Het Langste Jaar 4. Downhaul – How To Begin 5. Trace Mountains – Into The Burning Blue 6. Blink 182 – One More Time – Part Two 7. Timothy Infinite – Pool Day 8. Zatopeks – Loitering and Sauntering 9. Froukje – Noodzakelijk Verdriet 10. The Dangerous Summer – Gravity 11. Bayside – The Are Worse Things Than Being Alive 12. Cold Years – A different Life 13. Balance and Composure – With You In Spirit 14. Macseal – Permanent Repeat 15. Broken Glowsticks – Unimaginable Time 16. Flight Mode – The Three Times 17. Green Day – Saviours 18. The Dopamines – 80/20 19. Kanye West – Vultures 20. Sum 41 – Heaven & Hell 21. Touche Amore – Spiral in a Straight Line 22. Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair & Eyeballs 23. One Step Closer – All You Embrace 24. Pinhead Gunpowder – UNT 25. Chuck Ragan – Love & Lore 26. Katie Gavin – What A Relief 27. Frank Turner – Undefeated 28. A Place for Owls – How We Dig In The Earth 29. Floating Points – Cascade 30. Father John Misty – Mahashmashana
Top Ten 2024 (Based on Spotify plays and longevity this year) 1. the Dangerous Summer - Gravity 2. Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy 3. Hippo Campus - Flood 4. Wallows - Model 5. Vacations - No Place Like Home 6. Balance and Composure - With You In Spirit 7. Cage the Elephant - Neon Pill 8. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt. 1 9. the Story So Far - I Want to Disappear 10. Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Was stressing about trying to cut this down to 20 albums and then I realized that none of this matters so I just sent it. The top 5 are locked in as my absolute favorites, the rest are fully interchangeable. Been a really good music year for me, can't complain at all! 1. Balance and Composure - with you in spirit 2. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair And Eyeballs 3. From Indian Lakes - Head Void 4. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 5. Los Campesinos! - All Hell 6. Restorations - Restorations 7. Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line 8. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible 9. One Step Closer - All You Embrace 10. Four Year Strong - analysis paralysis 11. Drug Church - PRUDE 12. Foxing - Foxing 13. Idles - TANGK 14. Macseal - Permanent Repeat 15. Oso Oso - life till bones 16. Snarls - With Love, 17. Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses are Empty 18. Stay Inside - Ferried Away 19. Gouge Away - Deep Sage 20. SPACED - This is All We Ever Get 21. Barely Civil - I'd Say I'm Not Fine 22. Charly Bliss - Forever Also some EPs! Sweet Pill - Starchild Greyhaven - Stereo Grief Gel - Persona Ben Quad - Ephemera Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die
I listened to over 100 releases this year. Trying to narrow down a somewhat coherent list, but really good year for music IMO.
50) GLASS ANIMALS - I Love You So Fucking Much 49) THE OFFSPRING - Supercharged 48) LIAM GALLAGHER & JOHN SQUIRE - Liam Gallagher & John Squire 47) WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE - Sha La La 46) SHAED - Spinning Out 45) CASSANDRA JENKINS - My Light, My Destroyer 44) GOSSIP - Real Power 43) SUM 41 - Heaven / Hell 42) MAGDALENA BAY - Imaginal Disk 41) BEEN STELLAR - Scream From New York 40) COLDPLAY - Moon Music 39) THE LINDA LINDAS - No Obligation 38) JUSTICE - Hyperdrama 37) THE BLACK KEYS - Ohio Players 36) DUA LIPA - Radical Optimism 35) CAGE THE ELEPHANT - Neon Pill 34) THE STAVES - All Now 33) RUFUS DU SOL - Inhale / Exhale 32) JACK WHITE - No Name 31) THE SMILE - Cutouts/Wall Of Eyes 30) FOSTER THE PEOPLE - Paradise State Of Mind 29) PACO VERSAILLES - Ole Maca 28) FLO - Access All Areas 27) NEON TREES - Sink Your Teeth 26) WAXAHATCHEE - Tiger’s Blood 25) KATIE GAVIN - What A Relief 24) FATHER JOHN MASTY - Mahashmashana 23) JAMIE XX - In Waves 22) SABRINA CARPENTER - Short N’ Sweet 21) REMI WOLF - Big Ideas 20) BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN - Keep Me On Your Mind/Set You Free 19) TOWA BIRD - American Hero 18) LAUREN MAYBERRY - Vicious Creature 17) BILLIE EILISH - Hit Me Hard & Soft 16) TWENTY ONE PILOTS - Clancy 15) THE VACCINES - Pick Up Full Of Carnations 14) THE LAST DINNER PARTY - Prelude To Ecstasy 13) KACEY MUSGRAVES - Deeper Well 12) TRAVIS - LA Times 11) LONDON GRAMMAR - The Greatest Love 10) PEARL JAM - Dark Matter 09) CHARLY BLISS - Forever 08) FONTAINES DC - Romance 07) THE CURE - Songs Of A Lost World 06) VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Only God Was Above Us 05) FABIANA PALLADINO - Fabiana Palladino 04) WISHY - Triple Seven 03) MAGGIE ROGERS - Don’t Forget Me 02) GREEN DAY - Saviors 01) CHARLI XCX - Brat
Father John Misty: Mahashmashana Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven Billie Eilish: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT The Cure: Songs From a Lost World Oso Oso: life till bones Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well Kali Uchis: ORQUÍDEAS Bleachers: Bleachers Laura Jane Grace: Hole In My Head Origami Angel: Feeling Not Found Halsey: The Great Impersonator Ariana Grande: eternal sunshine Microwave: Let's Start Degeneracy Sabrina Carpenter: Short n' Sweet Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack Omar Apollo: God Said No Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood Charli XCX: Brat Tyler, the Creator: CHROMAKOPIA Plenty of others I enjoyed too, it's been a good year.
Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Charly Bliss - Forever Cheekface - It’s Sorted Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Mk.gee - Two Star and the Dream Police Green Day - Saviors Remi Wolf - Big Ideas Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D Marianas Trench - Haven Matt Champion - Mika’s Laundry Poppy - Negative Spaces Griff - Vertigo Bleachers - Bleachers Abby Holliday - CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE
01 - Katy Kirby - Blue Raspberry 02 - Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 03 - Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive 04 - Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 05 - Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer 06 - Gracie Abrams - The Secret Of Us 07 - English Teacher - This Could Be Texas 08 - Richard Hawley - In This City They Call You Love 09 - Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair and Eyeballs 10 - Cara Beth Satalino - Little Green
Nemahsis — Verbathim Fontaines D.C. — Romance Knocked Loose — You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To oso oso — Life Till Bones MJ Lenderman — Manning Fireworks Foxing — Foxing Dua Lipa — Radical Optimism Alkaline Trio — Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Kehlani — CRASH The Chisel — What A Fucking Nightmare Adrianne Lenker — Bright Future Super American — Gangster of Love Alcest — Les Chants de l'Aurore Touché Amoré — Spiral in a Straight Line Waxahatchee — Tigers Blood Chat Pile — Cool World Carly Cosgrove — The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty Cindy Lee — Diamond Jubilee Empress Of — For Your Consideration Origami Angel — Feeling Not Found Gulfer — Third Wind DIIV — Frog in Boiling Water Magdalena Bay — Imaginal Disk Godspeed You! Black Emperor — “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” Kendrick Lamar — GNX Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope Poppy — Negative Spaces Wild Pink — Dulling The Horns Bright Eyes — Five Dice, All Threes SeeYouSpaceCowboy... — Coup de Grâce Non-album : Thursday singles, Mackelmore - Hind's Hall Pt.1 & 2, Hot Mulligan singles
There’s always that dude who posts a list of obscure metal where no recognizes a single album. Have they posted yet?
Didn’t seem bizarre or mean to me. Most lists around here are pretty similar (nothing wrong with that), but I agree it’s more interesting to find a list with something new to discover. My favorite thing about list season is finding stuff I missed through out the year.
I spent literally 10 years of making lists worried about how other people would perceive it and if it was interesting enough for the peanut gallery and hardly any of those lists are genuine reflections of my favorite music, good to know I had it right back then and doing it for me is bad and not interesting enough