Did a full write-up of my top 50 with a playlist if anyone wants to do some long form reading: Best Albums 2024
Non '24 albums I fell in love with/discovered this year: W.A. Mathieu - Available Light Lewis - L'Amour Chuck Johnson - Balsams Pierre Barouh - Le Pollen Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue The Beach Boys - Surfs Up Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love Helios - Domicile
Domicile is such a transcendent work of art. A healing balm of sound if I’ve ever heard such a thing. It’s like if sunlight itself were music. I’ve commented on Keith’s posts asking about a vinyl pressing but he stated there was no plan to, that it was never meant to go beyond digital. It seems like he is almost dismissive of the album, maybe because it’s less dynamic than his others but I honestly think it’s one of his best.
WILLOW - empathogen glaive - a bit of a mad one Charli xcx - BRAT Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy Hana Vu - Romanticism Stolen Jars - I Won't Let Me Down Abby Holliday - CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me John Van Deusen - Anthem Sprinter Bottom Bracket - I'm So Afraid Of Where Honorable mentions: Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found; Flower Face - Girl Prometheus; Ugly (UK) - Twice Around the Sun; Chrissy Costanza - VII
1. knocked loose - you won't go before you're supposed to 2. chat pile - cool world 3. midwife - no depression in heaven 4. balance and composure - with you in spirit 5. waxahatchee - tigers blood 6. middle kids - faith crisis pt. 1 7. carly cosgrove - the cleanest of houses are empty 8. bring me the horizon - post human: nex gen 9. magdalenda bay - imaginal disk 10. idles - tangk
Here's my top 20 albums of 2024 1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Anywhere 2. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 3. Linkin Park - From Zero 4. The Cure - Songs From A Lost World 5. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 6. Poppy - Negative Spaces 7. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To 8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft 9. Charli XCX - Brat 10. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood 11. 311 - Full Bloom 12. Katie Gavin - What A Relief 13. Heriot - Devoured By The Mouth 14. Myles Kennedy - The Art Of Letting Go 15. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament 16. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood 17. Nails - Every Bridge Burning 18. Wintersun - Time 2 19. Fontaines D.C. - Romance 20. Kneecap - Fine Art
Really haven’t engaged with new albums in the same way I did even 3 years ago - done a lot more playlist listening and 10/20 year anniversary revisits than just listening to the 200+ new albums I used to. With that said, I don’t feel strongly about ordering the albums but here’s a top 25 that I’ve positively interacted with in some way - Allie X - Girl With No Face (electropop) - AURORA - What Happened To The Heart? (electropop) - Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS - Caligulia’s Horse - Charcoal Grace (progressive metal w/ clean vocals) - Charli XCX - brat - Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism - Dune Moss - faedom (exactly what you’d expect an album called faedom to sound like) - Fontaines DC - Romance (specifically Starburster, but the whole thing is p good) - girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY - Hailaker - Serenity Now (RIYL - Novo Amor) - julie - my anti-aircraft friend (well produced shoegaze) - Local Natives - But I Will Wait For You - Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me - mehro - Trauma Lullabies (dark alt pop) - Melt - If There’s A Heaven (pop soul, RIYL - Lake Street Dive) - Middle Kids - Faith Crisis, Pt 1 - NewDad - MADRA (indie rock) - Novo Amor - Collapse List (RIYL - Bon Iver) - Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found - Paris Paloma - Cacophany (RIYL - Maggie Rogers, that one TikTok song of hers) - Remi Wolf - Big Ideas - That Woman - Find Joy (side project of Josephine from Oh Wonder) - Thomas Powers - A Tyrant Crying In Private (side project of The Naked and Famous guy) - tiny habits - All For Something (indie folk w/ 3 part harmonies) - Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us a couple others from favorites that had a few song of the year contenders for me but I thought otherwise stunk: Foxing, Glass Animals, Hippo Campus
There is no real order to my list, but I know I intentionally returned to RM and J-Hope over and over throughout the year RM - Right Place, Wrong Person J-Hope - Hope On The Street Vol. 1 EP Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department Tomorrow X Together - Minisode 3: Tomorrow Tomorrow X Together - The Star Chapter: Sanctuary EP Jimin - Muse Le Sserafim - Easy EP Le Sserafim - Crazy EP Green Day - Saviors Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu Of Flowers Woosung - 4444 Anthony Green - Doom. Spun. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft The Early November - The Early November Parannoul - Sky Hundred Jin - Happy EP Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
1. Gouge Away - Deep Sage 2. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 3. Charli XCX - Brat 4. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas 5. Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed 6. julie - my anti-aircraft friend 7. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet 8. Clairo - Charm 9. Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 10. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me 11. Macseal - Permanent Repeat 12. Pom Poko - Champion 13. Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something 14. Meaningful Stone - Angel Interview 15. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal 16. Rachel Chinouriri - What a Devastating Turn of Events 17. Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness 18. Crumb - AMAMA 19. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony 20. Smino - Maybe in Nirvana 21. Griff - Vertigo 22. Elucid - Revelator 23. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 24. Halsey - The Great Impersonator 25. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism 26. All Under Heaven - What Lies Ahead of Me 27. State Faults - Children of the Moon 28. Megan Thee Stallion - Megan 29. Short Frenzy - A Driving Tour of Southern California's Backroads 30. Hey, Ily - Hey, I Loathe You 31. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 32. Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia 33. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 34. Flo Milli - Fine Ho, Stay 35. Mavi - Shadowbox 36. Eliza McLamb - Going Through It 37. Smush - if you were here i'd be home now 38. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Reveries 39. Sour Widows - Revival of a Friend 40. Soccer Mommy - Evergreen 41. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings 42. Bnny - One Million Love Songs 43. Vince Staples - Dark Times 44. Hey Cowboy! - Off the Cob 45. Rosie Tucker - Utopia Now! 46. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 47. Being Dead - EELS 48. Joyer - Night Songs 49. Another Michael - Pick Me Up and Turn Me Inside Out 50. New Dad - Madra Armlock was my favorite EP
FAVORITE ALBUMS Charli XCX - Brat The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World Cold Cave - Passion Depression Kendrick Lamar - GNX The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear Woundflower - Misery SiR - Heavy Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Starflyer 59 - Lust For Gold House Of Protection - GALORE Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God Touche Amoré - Spiral In A Straight Line That Mexican OT - Texas Technician Gouge Away - Deep Sage Envy - Eunoia Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz Wishy - Triple Seven Schoolboy Q - THank god 4 me The Smile - Wall Of Eyes FAVORITE BOOKS: As I Lay Dying - Williams Faulkner Sellout - Dan Ozzi Someone Who Isn’t Me - Geoff Rickley Swans: Sacrifice $ Transcendence - Nick Soulsby Love Poems - Anne Sexton FAVORITE SHOWS: He Is Legend @ Furnace Fest Swans @ Third Man SiR @ Marathon Music Works Slowdive/Drab Majesty @ Rabbit Rabbit Wednesday/Hotline TNT @ Eastside Bowl
Favorite albums in no particular order: Human Trophy - Primary Instinct Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Excess Blood - ST Sanctuary of Praise - Solace Public Acid - Deadly Struggle DBR - ST Human Needs - Concrete//Generic 1186 - Histeria Nag - Fear Σκοτοδίνη - Εδώ Παραμένω Obnoxious Youth - Burning Savage The Dark - Sinking Into Madness Mulch - Nuance Maximum Fuera De Sektor - Juegos Prohibidos Yankee Bastard - Fucking USA DJ Anderson Do Paraiso - Paraiso Sombrio / Queridão The Living Rainbow - The Dusty Clock New Skeletal Faces - Until the Night Dream World - Demo Giulio Erasmus - Second Attempt Abhorration - Demonolatry Bad Breeding - Contempt Wet Specimens - Dying in a Dream Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation Invertebrates - Sick to Survive Life / Destruct - To Stop the Conflict The Losers - Land of Opportunity Ike Yard - 1982 Reek Minds - Malignant Existence Cryptal Echoes - ST Sanctuarium - Melted and Decomposed Black Button - Internal Life Lexan - Demo II Mayhemic - Toba Deadform - Entrenched in Hell Cicada - Wicked Dream Masaka Masaka - Barely Making Much Total Vacation - TV Church Andrews & Matt Davies - Yucca Fórnea - Obscura Primal Terminal Filth - Traces Towards Oblivion Trollcave - Rotted Remnants Dripping Into the Void Concrete Winds - ST Mirage - Legato Alla Rovina Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance Savage Pleasure - ST Coins Parallèles - Alter Ego Club The Troops - Your Funeral eX-Tradition - The Holy Pervert Crawl Space - My God… What've I Done? Poison Ruin - Confrere Moisturizer - Dumb and Burnt Out Already? Nuevo Cuerpo - ST Z-Pak - 15 Minutes with Z-Pak Primitive Warfare - Extinction Protocol Catastrophe - Dead on Arrival Sedimentum - Derrière les Portes d'une Arcane Transcendante Fried Reality - Dissolved Mind Favorite songs in no particular order: https://youtu.be/8FFtYf-4_HM?si=UpMJlJWhqGAvJh_8 https://youtu.be/i5XP88rkqhU?si=T29u9W9GpaLvqtGq
One of these years, man. One of these years I will know even just one album on your list. How you manage to do this every year is beyond me but I’m excited to hear what you’ve been listening to
Only one I know is the DJ Anderson Do Paraiso and that one is great. Looking forward to checking the others!
In all fairness, I haven't heard the overwhelming majority of the albums on the other lists in this thread either lol. I'm going to take a few days to listen to some of the recurring names I'm seeing too.
Would probably be on my list if I'd spent more time with it, just haven't done so yet. Love them and lots of stuff on my list is pretty heavily influenced by them.