Top 10, roughly in order Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs The Early November - The Early November Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun Pearl Jam - Dark Matter Augustana - Something Beautiful Future Islands - People Who Aren’t There Anymore Restorations - Restorations Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Dark Rainbow Green Day - Saviors Orlando Weeks - LOJA
Here's the list I submitted for the staff mid-year feature. One of those years where I've liked a high volume of stuff, but only fallen truly in love with a small handful of albums. Katie Pruitt – Mantras Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well Super American – Gangster of Love Good Looks – Lived Here for a While Green Day – Saviors Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department Hannah Ellis – That Girl Mat Kearney – Mat Kearney Madi Diaz – Weird Faith Bleachers – Bleachers Gracie Abrams – The Secret of Us Augustana – Something Beautiful Carly Pearce – Hummingbird Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism The Dangerous Summer – Gravity Snarls – With Love, Pearl Jam – Dark Matter Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers Guster – Ooh La La Conan Grey – Found Heaven Pillow Queens – Name Your Sorrow Liquid Mike – Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot Brynn Cartelli – Out of the Blue The Forecast – Good Journey Iron & Wine – Light Verse Maggie Rose – No One Gets Out Alive Will Hoge – Tenderhearted Boys Adeem the Artist – Anniversary
I feel like I'm very quickly losing track of what's being released this year, I guess being offline more means I miss out on stuff and threads posted here, which has historically how I've found lots of new music. I also think Apple Music should do a much better job of prompting me when artists I already like and listen to, release something new. They already have that data on me, surely it shouldn't be that difficult?!? Just quickly scrolling through lists here, there's a half dozen artists that I know and like where I didn't know they'd released new music this year.
If you're willing to have a separate app for this, Music Harbor does a pretty good job. You can select which artists you want updates on, so it's not flooding you with everything in your library.
Tiers are pretty strong on this, rankings within those are pretty fluid 1. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 2. Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me 3. girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! 4. Tiny Habits - All For Something 5. Charli XCX - BRAT 6. Novo Amor - Collapse List 7. Local Natives - But I’ll Wait For You 8. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism 9. Aurora - What Happened To The Heart? 10. mehro - Trauma Lullabies 11. Thomas Powers - A Tyrant Crying In Private 12. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again 13. Super American - Gangster of Love 14. Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt 1 15. Allie X - Girl With No Face H/M: Liquid Mike, Kacy Hill, Everything Everything, The Greeting Committee, The Last Dinner Party
1. Twenty One Pilots - Clancy 2. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 3. IDLES - TANGK 4. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 5. Yard Act - Where’s My Utopia? 6. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism 7. Kings of Leon - Can We Please Have Fun 8. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 9. Bleachers - Bleachers 10. Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me
Surprised not to see that Good Looks album on more lists. Feel like a lot of people around here would absolutely love it.
I don’t rank stuff until the end of the year, but the top 5-6 are definitely cream of the crop. Really, really good first half of the year for me. AOTY 2024: Caligula’s Horse - Charcoal Grace Wheel - Charismatic Leaders Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism Bilmuri - American Motor Sports The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color in the Valley of Night Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department Dvne - Voidkind Local Natives - But I’ll Wait For You Eidola - Eviscerate EP: Greyhaven - Stereo Grief Artificial Language - Distant Glow Live: Manchester Orchestra - COPE The Dear Hunter - Act II Caligula’s Horse - Audiotree Live edit: just read through some lists and realized I forgot Alcest and One Step Closer, those are definitely on here as well.
Some records dominating the ears. Already a strong year for music and look forward to the coming months (no particular order). 1. Knocked Loose - You Wont Go Before You're Supposed To 2. Contention - Artillery From Heaven 3. Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition 4. Cory Wells - Harboring the Hurt I've Caused 5. Medium Build - Country 6. Bring Me The Horizon - POST HUMAN: NeX GEn 7. Bilmuri - American Motorsports 8. Wyatt Flores - Half Life 9. Hovvdy - Hovvdy 10. Gracie Abrams - Gracie Abrams
favs so far in no order 1999 WRITE THE FUTURE - hella (˃̣̣̥╭╮˂̣̣̥) ✧ ♡ ‧º·˚ Fabiana Palladino - S/T How to Dress Well - I Am Toward You The American Analog Set - New Drifters (compilation) Chief Keef - Almighty So 2 Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice Gulfer - Third Wind Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips Tierra Whack - World Wide Whack 1010 Benja - Ten Total Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN NxWorries (Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge) - Why Lawd? Lupe Fiasco - Samurai Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well Hovvdy - S/T Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Fust - Songs of the Rail The Fever Haze - Moonbow Iron and Wine - Light Verse Cloud Nothings - Final Summer Vince Staples - Dark Times ambient/instrumental/experimental/etc: Greg Foat and Gigi Masin - The Fish Factory Sessions Gerycz / Powers / Rolin - Activator d’Eon - Leviathan Steve Roach and Robert Rich - Waves of Now Felbm - cycli infiniti Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal Geotic - The Anchorite zakè - Lapis Skee Mask - Resort
In no order, but have been listening to j-hope and RM the most by far 1ST Vows - Feel In The Blanks Green Day - Saviors Le Sserafim - Easy EP Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine Hot Water Music - Vows j-hope - Hope On The Street Vol. 1 EP Tomorrow x Together - minisode 3: Tomorrow Conan Gray - Found Heaven Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department Luke Hemmings - boy Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft Bleachers - Bleachers RM - Right Place, Wrong Person Twenty One Pilots - Clancy The Early November - The Early November
Top 3 rn is definitely 1. Charli xcx - BRAT 2. DIIV - Frog in Boling Water 3. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven and then these round out the top 20 in no specific order because I'm lazy Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She She Reaches Out to She MK.gee - Two Star & the Dream Police ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips Gouge Away - Deep Sage Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood Empress Of - For Your Consideration The Fever Haze - Moonbow Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us Cloud Nothings - Final Summer Hovvdy - Hovvdy Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN Vince Staples - Dark Times How to Dress Well - I Am Toward You NxWorries - Why Lawd? Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us Boldy James & Conductor Williams - Across the Tracks
a shame it got little to no traction. I think fans of Japanese Breakfast or Chvrches would find something to like, as much as fans of Janet Jackson and Brandy-type stuff
In alphabetical order besides the top 2 - stuff I've enjoyed so far this year: Fave Albums of 2024 – So Far Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX Gen Bilmuri – AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs Alien Ant Farm – ~mAntras~ Alpha Wolf – Half Living Things The Black Keys – Ohio Players Blanket – Ceremonia Bleachers – Bleachers Cage The Elephant – Neon Pill Casey – How To Disappear Cloud Nothings – Final Summer Dead Poet Society – Fission ERRA – CURE The Ghost Inside – Searching For Solace Glass Beach – plastic death Green Day – Saviors Hot Water Music – VOWS IDLES – TANGK Incubus – Morning View XXIII Kings Of Leon – Can We Please Have Fun? Knocked Loose – You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Liam Gallagher & John Squire Local Natives – Local Natives Microwave – Let’s Start Degeneracy Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – South Of Here Neck Deep – Neck Deep Normandie – Dopamine One Step Closer – All You Embrace Pearl Jam – Dark Matter P.O.D. – VERITAS Royal Tusk – Altruistic The Smile – Wall Of Eyes The Story So Far – I Want To Disappear Sum 41 – Heaven :x: Hell Super American – Gangster Of Love Twenty One Pilots – Clancy Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us Wage War – STIGMA Wallows – Model While She Sleeps – SELF HELL
Shit I didn't hate from this year so far in no particular order: Divine Right - Salvation Ends Burning Lord - Arcane Demolition Dirt Sucker - At The Landfill Contaminated - Celebratory Beheading Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss Upon Stone - Dead Mother Moon Ivy Creep - Demo 24 Dodsrit - Nocturnal Will Conservative Military Image - No Squares in Our Circle Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites MK Ultras - Secret Tape Sinister Feeling - s/t Balmora/Since My Beloved - Six Pacts Etched In Blood Restrictor Plate - Slamtona 500 Spectral Voice - Sparagmos Stand Still - Steps Ascending Severe Torture - Torn From The Jaws of Death Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance of Eternal Fire Prize Horse - Under Sound
Charli, Vince Staples, Billie Eilish, both Future x Metro albums, everything else has been singles, mainly Kendrick’s stuff and the two from Balance and Composure
Album of the Year so far for me = CAPSTAN - THE MOSAIC Other releases I've enjoyed: Belmont - Liminal Cory Wells - Harboring the Hurt I've Caused 408 - Hot Mess L0L0 - Falling for Robots & Wishing I Was One The Used - Meds Dangerous Summer - Gravity The Early November- The Early November One Step Closer - All You Embrace Gracie Abrams- The Secret of Us Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets Department
the vaccines - pick-up full of pink carnations green day - saviors the oderants - love songs never die the speakeasy - the speakeasy hot water music - vow super american - gangster of love
Most played so far. Surprised Contention isn’t in there. Others include Stand Still, Candy, HEAVYHEX, and Aaron West. EPs include Malinois, Bayway, and Big Ass Truck.
These are really cool lists, and good recs to catch up on! Here's mine: 1. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 2. SPRINTS - Letter To Self 3. Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers 4. Nia Archives - Silence Is Loud 5. The Chisel - What a Fucking Nightmare 6. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To 7. Beyonce - COWBOY CARTER 8. Bob Vylan - Humble as the Sun 9. Katy Kirby - Blue Raspberry 10. Everything Everything - Mountainhead Also Unpeople and Lil Simz have dropped really good EPs/Mixtapes, and I am fucking psyched for the new Los Camp! Fun year.
I guess I need to listen to Knocked Loose? EDIT: I just did. This is not the vibe I am on at all currently, sorry guys