I just think it’s weird to be in a thread where people are meant to share their favorite music of the year and make a comment about how nobody’s list is interesting. It’s like why am I even bothering then
It was more a response to someone singling another out for being different. Not a knock on others, and sorry if you took it that way. But the truth is it is more interesting when people share things that are new and unexpected. We shouldn’t be mocking others for bringing something like that to the forum
The only thing I care about when making these lists is recording what my favourites of the year are. They're more for me than anyone else because no one else is going to care as much as me. If anyone else finds my lists interesting or not isn't really a concern but if anyone does then great. I enjoy seeing people's lists, especially those who I've seen post them for over a decade now. It's fun to see what albums are universally loved on here and it's fun to see the odd poster with an entire list full of stuff I've never heard of.
Yeah we're just posting the music we most genuinely enjoyed last year, and that's what's interesting about this thread.
Funny how easy things can be misinterpreted over text online lolz. Well, in any case, no one should feel bad and everyone should feel encouraged to post their favorites - unique choices or not.
1. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 2. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 3. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God 5. Ihsahn - s/t 6. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood 7. Cursive - Devourer 8. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She 9. Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore 10. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
1) Los Campesinos - All Hell 2) Fucked Up - Someday 3) Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 4) Mount Eerie - Night Palace 5) Chat Pile - Cool World 6) MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 7) Japandroids - Fate and Alcohol 8) Mamaleek - Vida Blue 9) Inconcessus Lux Lucis - Temples Coliding in Fire 10) Jyocho - Guide and Devote Los Camp is easily #1, everything else is pretty interchangeable. Kind of a weird year for me, feel like I was less adventurous in my listening and instead going back to old familiar favorites for most of the year.
enjoy the sprawl. no order. still a lot to check out so maybe I'll be adding and editing over the next few weeks. indie / rock Fievel is Glauque (jazz-pop) Naoki Zushi (Japanese psych-rock) Wild Pink (indie/heartland rock) Wishy (emo/indie) Dummy (psych-rock/post-punk) Peel Dream Magazine (lo-fi, jazz-pop) Caxtrinho (Brazilian art-rock / tropicalia) Gulfer (emo/indie) Ceres (emo/indie) Molina (Danish art-rock) SLIM0 (Danish art-rock) Clinic Stars (shoegaze) Tristwch Y Fenywod (Welsh gothic art-rock) J.R.C.G. (experimental rock) Mdou Moctar (Tuareg psych-rock) indie-americana / singer-songwriter / alt-country Kacey Musgraves Waxahatchee Hurray for the Riff Raff Fust Ben Seretan Iron & Wine The Fever Haze Yasmin Williams (instrumental) Prairiewolf (instrumental) Gerycz Powers Rolin (instrumental) hip-hop / rap 1999 Write the Future Schoolboy Q Lupe Fiasco Kendrick Lamar Mach-Hommy NxWorries LL Cool J LaRussell and P-Lo Chief Keef Juicy J pop / r&b-adjacent 1010benja (experimental/r&b) Fabiana Palladino (r&b/pop) How to Dress Well (experimental pop) Ruthven (r&b) Mabe Fratti (Guatemalan experimental pop) MICHELLE (r&b/pop) Chanel Beads (bedroom pop) Woo (freak-folk/experimental pop) Porter Robinson (pop) Tierra Whack (pop) ambient / instrumental / electronic Memotone (fourth-world/ECM-adjacent ambient) Kyle Bobby Dunn (drone) merope (fourth-world/ECM-adjacent ambient) Ulla and Ultrafrog (electronic) YAI (ambient jazz) d’Eon (synthy chamber music with Nintendo vibes) Nala Sinephro (ambient jazz) Loidis (dub-techno) Greg Foat (jazz/ambient... dude released several things this year and they all rule) Adam Wiltzie (drone) zakè (drone) Steve Roach and Robert Rich (fourth-world/ECM-adjacent ambient) Geotic (ambient) Ghost Dubs (dub-techno) Fennesz (ambient)
Fuck it… Charli XCX - BRAT Nathy Peluso - GRASA Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN ØKSE - ØKSE Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus Jahari Massamba Unit - YHWH is Love Jasik - Ibowo Hiatus Kaiyote - Love Heart Cheat Code Nala Sinephro - Endlessness Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud Kendrick Lamar - GNX Lionmilk - WARP TERMINAL 555 Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal Nxworries - WHY LAWD? Otis Sandsjö - Y-OTIS TRE Flock - Flock II Kim Gordon - The Collective Action Bronson - Johann Sebastian Bachlava The Doctor Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor MJ Nebreda - Corazón Club vol. 1 The Alchemist - The Genuine Articulate Tim Reaper - In Full Effect Young Miko - att. Fievel Is Glauque - Rong Weicknes Freddie Gibbs - You Only Die 1nce Previous Industries - Service Merchandise 4am Kru - Incognito Rhythm Yaya Bey - Ten Fold O. - WeirdOs MIKE - Pinball Roc Marciano - MARCIOLOGY Gangrene - Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Korea Town Acid - In Motion BABii - Daredeviil2000 SML - Small Medium Large SHOLTO - Letting Go of Forever Carlos Niño & Friends - Placenta Carlos Niño, Idris Ackamoor, Nate Mercereau - Free, Dancing... Ezra Collective - Dance, No One's Watching E L U C I D - REVELATOR R.A.P. Ferreira - the First Fist to Make Contact When We Dap Future - We Don't Trust You/MIXTAPE PLUTO Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes Mount Eerie - Night Palace Cindy Lee - Electric Jubilee Actress - Statik YUNGMORPHEUS - WAKING UP AND CHOOSING VIOLENCE Spirit of the Beehive - YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING Jazzbois - Still Blunted Kurious - Majician phiik & Lungs - Carrot Season Clairo - Charm Anysia Kym - Truest Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Daughn Gibson - The Burgundy Daughns Common - The Auditorium Vol. 1 Bisk - FITL2: Fire, Burn, Flames Your Old Droog - Movie Blu - Los Angeles Lukah - Temple Needs Water. Village Needs Peace. Trees Speak - TimeFold Caixa Cubo - Modo Avião beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves LL Cool J - The Force Nappy Nina - NOTHING IS MY FAVORITE THING Heems - Lafandar HOMESHAKE - Horsie N. Hardem - MAL DE ALTURA Drahla - angeltape Moor Mother - The Great Bailout Church Chords - elvis, he was Schlager Cakes Da Killa - Black Sheep The Marías - Submarine OG Keemo - Fieber Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan - Scraping The Devine Rauw Alejandro - Cosa Nuestra Megan Thee Stallion - Megan Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” Cavalier & Child Actor - CINE
Alkaline Trio - Blood Hair and Eyeballs -just a really consistent album for me. Very catchy songs and good melodies throughout. Fav song - Versions of you - the bridge is great BMTH - Post Human Nex Gen - all over the place stylistically but I really like it. Assumed BMTH were crap now but then heard ‘Lost’ on radio 1 rock show, then ‘Amen’ which starts so hard I loved it straight away. Fav song - Top 10 statues that cried blood Real Friends - Blue Hour - really like the shift with this band, less whiny pop punk and a heavier edge to it now with the ex Youth Fountain vocalist. Fav song - Never has become always Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found - was a bit of a grower for me, but I love loads of the riffs on this and also some of the different styles too. Fav song - Dirty Mirror Selfie Twin Atlantic - Meltdown - another band I had written off, their last album was so fucking bad I thought they had really lost their way. This is just a good rock album though, feels like it belongs around their first couple of albums in terms of style. Fav song - Meltdown Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive - another band who can just write catchy songs consistently. The guitar work on this is so so good. Fav song - Say So Long Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To - love how fast and aggressive and heavy this is. Not sure how such loud noise can still be catchy. Fav song - Slaughterhouse 2 Bleachers - S/T - enjoyed this a lot more than his last where I think he was trying too hard to be Bruce Springsteen. It feels kind of like a somber album save for a couple of songs. Enjoyed it a lot on night walks. Fav song - Me Before You Kendrick Lamar - GNX - arrived totally out of the blue at end of November with no promotion at all. Most immediately hitting album of his since Damn in 2017 for me, just banger after banger. Which is a relief after his last album being so dense - Fav Song - Reincarnated Soft Play - Heavy Jelly - only really got into Soft Play this year. Wife liked a few songs when they were called Slaves, but saw their Glastonbury set and thought they sounded great for a 2 piece. I like their lyrics as they are funny and also relatable at times too without being serious. Fav song - Act Violently Things I will check out/revisit based on what others have posted - Carly Cosgrove Sum 41 Foxing Waxahatchee Cliffdiver Los Campesinos MJ Lenderman State Faults Gracie Abrams Microwave Poppy
to be however old he is and fully immersed in hollywood and rich person life and put out an album like that that doesn't for 1 second feel corny or forced at all is really impressive
Here's what I got. 1. Willie Watson - Willie Watson 2. Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings - Woodland 3. The Deslondes - Roll It Out 4. Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch 5. Shawn Hess - Wild Onion 6. The Lostines - Meet The Lostines 7. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 8. John Moreland - Visitor 9. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive 10. Pat Reedy - Make It Back Home 11. Jake Xerxes Fussel - When I'm Called 12. Chris Acker - Famous Lunch 13. Waxahtchee - Tigers Blood 14. Jonny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir 15. Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal 16. Jennifer Castle - Camelot 17. Yasmin Williams - Acadia 18. Jack White - No Name 19. Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus 20. Rosali - Bite Down 21. Phosphorescent - Revelator 22. JP Harris - Is A Trash Fire 23. Desiree Cannnon - Radio Heat 24. Hunter Hicks - Maple Syrup Jar 25. Red Clay Strays - Made By These Moments 26. Scott Ballew - Rio Bravo 27. Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe 28. Sentimental Family Band - Sweethearts Only 29. Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed 30. Merce Lemon - Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild 31. Amigo The Devil - Yours Until The War Is Over 32. Color Green - Fool's Parade 33. Charley Crocket - $10 Cowboy/Visions of Dallas 34. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee 35. Melissa Carper - Borned in Ya 36. Little Wings - High On The Glade 37. Karl Blau - Vultures of Love 38. Lee Bagget - Waves For A Begull 40. Nick Cave - Wild God 41. Itasca - Imitation of War 42. Simon Joyner - Coyote Butterfly 43. Laura Marling - Patterns In Repeat 44. Enumclaw - Home in Another Life 45. Idles - TANGK 46. Jamey Johnson - Midnight Gasoline 47. Steel Saddle - Steel Saddle 48. Kiki Cavazos - Early Morning Songs 49. Austin Leonard Jones - Famous Times 50. Abby Webster - Livin By The Water Favorite Live Albums Ramsay Midwood - Manchaca Eyeball Cat Clyde - Live at Rare Bird Farm Hiss Golden Messenger - Jesus is Bored and Other Favorites Hayden Pedigo - Live in Amarillo, Texas Favorite Cover Album Erin, Matt, & Paul - Jesus + More Albums from 2023 I didnt hear till this year but would have definitely been on my 2023 list if I had. Theo Lawrence - Cherie Theo Lawrence - Pickin & Singin Abe Partridge - Love in the Dark Cat Clyde - Down Rounder
1. Chat Pile - Cool World 2. Foxing - S/t 3. Jesus Lizard - Rack 4. Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line 5. Cursive - Devourer 6. Crumb - AMAMA 7. Gouge Away - Deep Sage 8. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes 9. Knocked Loose - You Wont Go Before Youre Supposed To 10. Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal 11. Overhead, the Albatross - I Leave You This 12. Hovvdy - S/t 13. Vince Staples - Dark Times 14. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition 15. Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHATIAN 16. Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Side/Set You Free 17. BADBADNOTGOOD - Mid Spiral 18. State Faults - Children Of The Moon 19. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY2024 28, 340 DEAD 20. Burning Lord - Arcane Demolition 21. Brooks Neilsen - A Ride I'm Waiting For 22. Samlrc - A Lonely Sinner 23. The Smile - Wall of Eyes / Cutouts 24. Man Man - Carrot On Strings 25. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 26. Metz - Up On Gravity Hill 27. Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore 28. Pissed Jeans - Half Divorced 29. And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna 30. Niclas Knudsen, Johnthan Bremer, Felix Ewert - Bushbabies 31. Cryptic Brood - Necrotic Flesh Bacteria 32. Tyler, The Creator - Chromakopia 33. Adrianna Lenker - Bright Future 34. The Names of Our Friends - Should We Know Better Than To Wonder? 35. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer 36. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 37. Spiter - Enter The Gates of Fucking Hell 38. Floating Points - Cascade 39. The Fever Haze - Moonbow 40. Glassing - From The Other Side Of The Mirror 41. Flo Milli - Fine Ho, Stay 42. Uzlaga - Depthdweller 43. Ba'al - Soft Eyes 44. Lip Critic - Hex Dealer 45. serpentwithfeet - GRIP 46. Don't Thank Me, Spank Me - S/t 47. Flourish - Deepest Wellsprings of Being 48. Exxasens - Infinitum 49. Babel Map - Teeth 50. Sorcerer - Devotion 51. Molder - Catastrophic Reconfiguration 52. Hospital Bomber - S/t 53. Bloom Dream - It Didn't Have to be This Way 54. Trauma Ray - Chameleon 55. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flight b741 56. Tzompantli - Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force 57. Thou - Umbilical 58. Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come 59. Recidivist - Madness Maleformed 60. The Spirit OF The Beehive - You'll Have To Loose Something 61. Candy - It's Inside You 62. Pnemuna Hagion - From Beyond 63. Glacier - A Distant, Violent Shudder 64. The Collect Pond - Lightbreaker 65. Contention - Artillery From Heaven 66. Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence 67. Magon - Wedding Song 68. Provoker - Demon Compass (Deluxe) 69. Crypt Crawler - The Immortal Realm 70. PACKS - Melt The Honey 71. Slimelord - Chrytidiomycosis Relinquished 72. Mr. Gnome - A Sliver Of Space 73. Enabling Behavior - Gilt! 74. 65daysofstatic - Under the Summs 75. Westside Gunn - Still Praying 76. From Indian Lakes - Head Void 77. Stiriah - Portal 78. The Black Dahlia Murder- Servitude 79. 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures 80. Necropanther - Oblivion Jones 81. Spaced - This Is All We Ever Get 82. Color Green - Fool's Parade 83. Real Farmer - Compare What’s There 84. Koreless - Deceltica 85. Maxo Kream - Personification 86. Mickey Diamond - Super Shredder 87. Chuck Strangers - A Forsaken Lover's Plea 88. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 89. Gurriers - Come And See 90. Bloody Keep - Rats of Black Death 91. Locrian - End Terrain 92. Weeping - Spiritual Barbarism 93. Dog Park - Festina Lente 94. Lunar Isles - Parasol 95. Passage - Crystal 96. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity 97. trentemoller, DiSa - Dreamweaver 98. DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water 99. Necrot - Lifeless Birth 100. Thandii - Dream With You 101. Opeth - The Last Will and Testament 102. A Rose Dying In The Rain - eternal sunset 103. Fabiana Palladino - S/t 104. Gaerea - Coma 105. Mathew Logan Vasquez - Frank's Full Moon Saloon 106. Exorbitiant Prices Must Diminish - For A Limited Time 107. Black Pegasus - Midnight Room 108. Recidivist - Madness Malformed 109. Philty Rich - King Of Oakland (Deluxe) 110. Astrel K - The Foreign Department 111. Action Bronson - Johann Sebastian Bachlava The Doctor 112. Hammock - From The Void 113. Mamaleek - Vida Blue 114. Thee Oh Sees - SORCS80 115. Health - Rat Wars Ultra Edition 116. Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore 117. Olhava - Sacrifice 118. Bad Beat - LP 2004 119. Undeath - More Insane 120. Iron Front - Hooked 121. Porcupine - All Is Vapor 122. Darkest Hour - Prepetual Terminal 123. Hemotoxin - When Time Becomes Loss 124. Cowboy Sadness - Selected Jambient Works vol. 1 125. Blushing - Sugarcoat
ALBUMS 1. The Last Picture Show - Prelude To Ecstasy 2. Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible 3. Missing Link - Watch Me Bleed 4. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 5. Cosmic Joke - Cosmic Joke 6. Speed - Only One Mode 7. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet 8. 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures 9. Undeath - More Insane 10. Bad Beat - LP 2024 11. Haywire - Conditioned For Demolition 12. Charli XCX - BRAT 13. Vomit Forth - Terrified of God 14. Saidan - Visual Kill: The Blossoming of Psychotic Depravity 15. Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss 16. The Chisel - What A Fucking Nightmare 17. Glitterer - Rationale 18. Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon 19. Bloom - Maybe In Another Life 20. Fulci - Duck Face Killings 21. Greenwitch - Forced Out of Existence 22. Joanna Wang - Hotel La Rut 23. Splitknuckle - Breathing Through The Wound 24. Rejoice - All of Heaven's Luck 25. Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found 26. Fit For An Autopsy - The Nothing That Is 27. Apparition - Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State 28. Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Haxan Saboath 29. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition 30. Extinguish - One Less Enemy 31. Four Year Strong - Analysis Paralysis 32. Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line 33. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & The New World 34. Bloody Keep - Rats of Black Death 35. Allie X - Girl With No Face 36. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 37. Torena - No Control 38. Wristmeetrazor - Degeneration 39. SPACED - This Is All We Ever Get 40. The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear 41. PeelingFlesh - The G Code 42. Nails - Every Bridge Burning 43. Regional Justice Center - Freedom Sweet Freedom 44. Candy - It's Inside You 45. Bulletsbetweentongues - The Lights Never Lie 46. Mutilation Barbecue - Amalgamations of Gore 47. Aborted - Vault of Horrors 48. Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS 49. Poppy - Negative Spaces 50. Charlotte Sands - can we start over? HONORABLE MENTIONS: - Twitching Tongues - TwitchFits Vol. 2 - Ghost - Rite Here, Rite Now - Wicked (2024) Soundtrack EPs & Such: 1. Holy Blade - Holy Blade 2. Restrictor Plate - SLAMTONA 500 3. Gigan - CRIME SCENE PHOTOS 4. Final Resting Place - Prelude To Extinction 5. Deadbody / Tribal Gaze - Split 6. KRUELTY - Profane Usurpation 7. Pest Control - Year of The Pest 8. Balmora / Since My Beloved - Six Pacts Etched In Blood 9. Hold My Own - Da Trifecta 10. BIG ASS TRUCK - BIG ASS DEMO 11. Crush Your Soul - Crush Your Soul 12. Gun To God's Head - I Have A Loaded Gun Aimed At God's Head 13. XclocktowerX - Greatest Hits: Vol 2 14. fallingwithscissors - the death & birth of an angel 15. Mutually Assured Destruction - Hexer
HYLI - Andy's Best of 2024 (The Metal One) all metal AOTY list from the guy I do the newsletter with. if you like metal at all, I have to imagine there's something you haven't heard and will enjoy here
In no order because I refuse to rank The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World Father John Misty - Mahashmashana MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism Hovvdy - Hovvdy Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Friko - Where we’ve been, Where we go from here Good Looks - Lived Here For a While Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police Kendrick Lamar - GNX Vince Staples - Dark Times Los Campesinos! - All Hell