Was an odd year favorite album wise for me as Jack Van Cleaf’s Fruit from the Tree was my favorite listen yet it was released in 2023. 1: Casey - How to Disappear 2: Cory Wells - Harboring the Hurt I’ve caused 3: The Wldlfe - Heaven is a Place 4: Bilmuri - American Motor Sports 5: Owen - The Falls of Sioux 6: Leave. - Longing to Believe 7: Noah Gundersen - If this is the End 8: Allt - From the New World 9: Lastelle - Exist vol 1 10: Capstan - The Mosaic
In no order: (I didn't add some albums I saw on here before my list) Broken Head - "The morning ends" + Starflyer 59 cover Entropy - "Dharmakāya" (I wish this got to more people) Watertank - "Liminal status" (Same for these guys) Squint - "Big hand" (Hopefully this one pushes them to a lot of people) Bent Blue - "So much seething" (People who prefer old militarie gun take note) Do Not Machine - "Celebrations of the end" Oh Hiroshima - "All things shining" Liquid Mike - "Paul Bunyan's slingshot" Gatecreeper - "Dark superstition" The Hope Conspiracy - "Tools of Oppression/Rule by deception" Footballhead - "Overthinking everything" Glitterer - "Rationale" Milly - "Your own becoming" Office Dog - "Spiel" High Vis - "Guided Tour" The Cure - "Songs of a lost world" Dummy - "Free energy" New Year Memorial - "Darker, Louder" Slift - "ilion" Cindy Lee- "Diamond Jubilee" (Like cold & flu season, I couldn't escape this one) Berthold City - "Where did we go wrong?" GIFT - "Illuminator" Webbed Wing - "Vol III" - Some eps/songs: Gel "Persona" ep, Filth is Eternal "Violet" (hole cover), IKHRAS "Jahanam Btistana" demo, Mogwai "God gets you back", Praise "Coming up for air" ep, Shock of being "Sordid kind of life", Nabeel - "najoom" ep
Top 5 records of the year: 1. delta sleep- blue island 2. Middle kids- faith crisis pt 1 3. Dustin kensrue- desert dreaming 4. Maxwell stern- In the good light 5. Many eyes- the light age honorable mentions: better lovers- highly irresponsible Drug church- prude Bayside- there are worse things… Waxahatchee- tigers blood Zach Bryan- great American bar scene
SMO AOTY (2024 edition). 1. Snarls - With Love, 2. DEHD - Poetry 3. Hippo Campus - Flood 4. Charli XCX - Brat 5. Bleachers - Bleachers 6. Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police 7. glass beach - plastic death 8. Foxing - Foxing 9. Bilmuri - American Motor Sports 10. Fontaines D.C. - Romance 11. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World 12. Everything Everything - Mountainhead 13. Childish Gambino - Bando Stone and The New World 14. Jack White - No Name 15. Twenty One Pilots - Clancy 16. Katie Gavin - What A Relief 17. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 18. Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA 19. Lauren Mayberry - Vicious Creature 20. Halsey - The Great Impersonator 21. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal 22. IDLES - TANGK 23. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer 24. Snow Patrol - The Forest Is The Path 25. Fred again.. - ten days 26. Joey Valence & Brae - NO HANDS 27. Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 28. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy 29. Jamie xx - In Waves 30. Medium Build - Country EPs 1. Bon Iver - SABLE, 2. PRONOUN - and it’s been raining ever since 3. Nourished By Time - Catching Chickens 4. The Band CAMINO - Bruises 5. MICHELLE - GLOW 6. Good Kid - Good Kid 4 (Check out the few tasty mixes on Spotify too!)
Let's get a quick list out before the end of the year. Order is very rough as always. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild God The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Godspeed You Black Emperor - No Title Porridge Radio - Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There For Me High Vis - Guided Tour Polinksi - Meet Me By The Panamax Barricades 65daysofstatic - Utopian Frequencies Virgin Vacation - Dapple Patterns Touche Amore - Spiral in a Straight Line Eric Cantona - Cantona Sings Eric Janelane - Love Letter Meg & Dia - Mosaic Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Chain of Light Novo Amor - Collapse List MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks Fucked Up - Another Day Cloud Nothings - Final Summer Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore Lifesick - Loved By None, Hated By All Tusks - Gold Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun The National - Rome Peggy Gou - I Hear You Planes Mistaken for Stars - Do You Still Love Me? Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol Kendrick Lamar - GNX Hippotraktor - Stasis Lauren Mayberry - Vicious Creature One With The Riverbed - Succumb Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt Solstafir - Hin Helga Kvol Bebadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves Perfume - Nebula Romance: Part 1 And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna Sleater-Kinney - Little Rope
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
This is more of a tiered collection than a strict ranking with the order of row items being quite fluid.
1.) Beyoncé - COWBOY CARTER 2.) Poppy - Negative Spaces 3.) Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet 4.) Charli XCX - Brat 5.) Halsey - The Great Impersonator 6.) Stand Atlantic - WAS HERE 7.) Pale Waves - Smitten 8.) Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 9.) Sydney Sprague - someone in hell loves you (Deluxe) 10.) Soccer Mommy - Evergreen 11.) The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World 12.) Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 13.) Lauren Mayberry - Vicious Creature 14.) Charli XCX - Brat and it’s completely different but it’s still brat 15.) mewithoutYou - Live, Vol. One
1. Charli xcx - BRAT 2. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven 3. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 4. DIIV - Frog in Boiling Water 5. Charly Bliss - Forever 6. Los Campesinos! - All Hell 7. Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 8. Vince Staples - Dark Times 9. Phantogram - Memory of a Day 10. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 11. Porches - Shirt 12. Kendrick Lamar - GNX 13. E L U C I D - REVELATOR 14. SOPHIE - SOPHIE 15. Cloud Nothings - Final Summer 16. Hovvdy - Hovvdy 17. Mabe Fratti - Sentir Que No Sabes 18. meg elsier - spittake 19. Gouge Away - Deep Sage 20. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino 21. Mk.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police 22. How to Dress Well - I Am Toward You 23. Tyler, the Creator - CHROMAKOPIA 24. trauma ray - Chameleon 25. MIKE and Tony Seltzer - Pinball 26. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She She Reaches Out to She 27. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks 28. Jamie xx - In Waves 29. Denzel Curry - King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2 30. NewDad - MADRA
Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot Jack White - No Name Green Day - Saviors Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair and Eyeballs Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk Townies - Of This I Am Certain Charli XCX - Brat The Cure - Songs of a Lost World The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know Cheekface - It’s Sorted The Smashing Pumpkins - Aghori Mhori Mei Laura Jane Grace - Hole in My Head The Story So Far - I Want to Disappear Friko - Where We’ve Been, Where We Go from Here Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future Pinhead Gunpowder - Unt Christopher Owens - I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair Daniel Romano - Too Hot to Sleep Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy Bring Me the Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen Footballhead - Overthinking Everything Twenty One Pilots - Clancy Super American - Gangster of Love Mean Jeans - Blasted Gen and the Degenerates - Anti-Fun Propaganda Mannequin P***y - I Got Heaven Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore Oso Oso - Life till Bones Southtowne Lanes - Take Care Dylan John Thomas - Dylan John Thomas Pearl Jam - Dark Matter State Champs - State Champs Dent May - What’s for Breakfast? Kate Hudson - Glorious Sum 41 - Heaven :x: Hell Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Cloud Nothings - Final Summer Adeem the Artist - Anniversary Bad Bad Hats - Bad Bad Hats Remi Wolf - Big Ideas Macseal - Permanent Repeat Drug Church - PRUDE Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Skinwalker Allie X - Girl with No Face Joey Valence and Brae - No Hands Carsie Blanton - After the Revolution Brigitte Calls Me Baby - The Future Is Our Way Out Clairo - Charm The Early November - The Early November The Warning - Keep Me Fed Lake Street Dive - Good Together Love Fiend - Handle with Care Neck Deep - Neck Deep Jakobs Castle - ENTER: THE CASTLE Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty FEET - Make It Up Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud Hockey Dad - Rebuild Repeat
Top 5: 05. My Epic - Loriella 04. Arooj Aftab - Night Reign 03. Andrea Marie - Fractures of a Person 02. Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us 01. Ethan Nathaniel - Sidelines Full list and write up here.
Finally here's my top 25 .22LR - .22LR Aara - Eiger Alcest - Les Chants de L'Aurore Blind Girls - An Exit Exists Charli XCX - Brat Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She Circus Trees - This Makes Me Sad, and I Miss You The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune Doris - Four Trees Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Tragedy as Catharsis Febuary - Febuary Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet Glassing - From the Other Side of the Mirror Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" Heavenly Blue - We Have The Answers Isleptonthemoon - Only the Stars Know of My Misfortune Midwife - No Depression in Heaven Parannoul - Sky Hundred Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge Sadness - Your Perfect Hands and My Repeated Words State Faults - Children of the Moon To Be Gentle - Inner Child Healing Together To The Stars - The Fragile Silence Trhä - ∫um'ad∂ejja cavvaj
MUSIC 1. Casey - How to Disappear 2. MONO - OATH 3. Boston Manor - Sundiver 4. Khruangbin - A LA SALA 5. Gleemer - End of the Nail 6. A Burial At Sea - Close to Home 7. Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me 8. Linkin Park - From Zero 9. A Sudden Burst of Colour - Galvanize 10. God Is An Astronaut - Embers I listened to roughly 57 albums / EPs 5 times or more to qualify for ranking them by how much I listened to each (thanks last.fm!). I then reordered things until I had a top 10 that reflects my feelings of what came out this year. I think I have some glaring omissions based off of other lists and there are certainly some albums I haven't given enough time to rank them properly. Casey was undoubtedly my favourite new discovery of 2024 and I also really enjoyed a deep dive in to the Movements back catalogue. VIDEO GAMES 1. Animal Well 2. Balatro 3. Shogun Showdown I didn't really keep my finger on the pulse of video games this year. I did enjoy playing some older releases such as Cult of the Lamb and Chants of Senaar though to round out the 5 games in total I played this year! MOVIES 1. Challengers 2. La Chimera 3. The Holdovers 4. Perfect Days 5. The Substance 6. Sing Sing 7. Society of the Snow 8. Monkey Man 9. Late Night with the Devil 10. Love Lies Bleeding I didn't really get to the cinema as much as I wanted to despite even having a MUBI GO subscription to tempt me to go more. It's pretty telling that my top 5 comprises of movies I got to see is thanks to that subscription though! Highly recommend that subscription to any movie lovers out there. My full 2024 stats are up here on Letterboxd: Tonerish’s 2024 in review GIGS 1. Jimmy Eat World w/ PUP at Alexandra Palace, London 2. MONO at Hackney Church, London 3. Wang Wen at Portals Festival, London 4. Sleeping At Last at Royal Festival Hall, London 5. Maggie Rogers at Hackney Empire, London 6. Strung Out at New Cross Inn, London 7. The Bronx at Signature Brew Blackhorse Rd, London 8. Shelf Lives at Moth Club, London 9. Movements at 2000 Trees, Cheltenham 10. Holding Absence w/ Casey at Chepstow Castle, Wales
Man, I’m surprised no Hippo Campus love. Has been my most played the last two months. Apple stats say TSSF wins it this year. Marianas Trench was a solid release too. Can’t wait for TSL in 2025! Buckle up, the future is here!
A small addition to mine because I make my own rules, but the expanded edition of The Gaslight Anthem's 'History Books' is so many leagues better than the original that I kinda classify it as a 2024 album. A very highly ranked one at that.
just a top 10 this year for ranked stuff: 1. Lia Kohl - Normal Sounds 2. Chat Pile - Cool World 3. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 4. Jamie xx - In Waves 5. Jlin - Akoma 6. claire rousay - Sentiment 7. Tasha - All This and So Much More 8. Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet 9. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice 10. Foxing - Foxing A bunch of honorables (in alphabetical order): Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers Adam Wilitzie - Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal Angry Blackmen - The Legend of ABM Arooj Aftab - Night Reign Arushi Jain - Delight Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer charli xcx - brat Charly Bliss - Forever envy - Eunoia Friko - Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath Jack White - No Name Lip Critic - Hex Dealer Katie Gavin - What a Relief Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet SOPHIE - SOPHIE Sour Widows - Revival of a Friend The Chisel - What A Fucking Nightmare The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Thou - Umbilical Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line Uboa - Impossible Light plus anything I put in the ambient thread lol
Wild to see superamerican listed so rarely. I thought for sure they’d be well represented. Shout out veggieco for turning me on to them!
1) Foxing-S/T 2) Mach-Hommy- #RICHAXXHAITIAN 3) Waxahatchee- Tigers’s Blood 4) One Step Closer- All You Embrace 5) Blood Incantation- Absolute Everywhere 6) Mk.gee- Two Star & The Dream Police 7) Roc Marciano- Marciology 8) Liquid Mike- Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot 9) Be Safe- Unwell 10) Trauma Ray- Chameleon 11) Denzel Curry- King of the Mischievous South v2 12) Knocked Loose- You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To 13) Chat Pile- Cool World 14) Carly Cosgrove- The Cleanest Houses Are Empty 15) DORIS- Ultimate Love Songs Collection