Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Best Albums of 2024

 

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1.  Cindy Lee - “Diamond Jubilee” 

2.  SOPHIE - “SOPHIE”

3.  Mount Eerie - “Night Palace”

4.  Being Dead - “Eels”

5.  Adelyn Strei - “Original Spring”

6.  Beak> - “>>>>”

7.  Bina. - “Chaos Is Her Name”

8.  Kim Gordon - “The Collective”

9.  Muzi - “Forest Scenes”

10.  Claire Rousay - “sentiment”


11.  Akini Jing - “Villain”

12.  Beth Gibbons - “Floating on a Moment”

13.  The Smile - “Wall of Eyes” 

14.  Lexx Sequoia - “s/t” 

15.  chad vangaalen "full moon bummer 2"

16.  Kendrick Lamar - “GNX”

17.  Mizu - “4 | 2 | 3”

18.  Atelier - “Light towards the Exit”

19.  Mach-Hommy - “#Richaxxhaitian”

20.  The Cure - “Songs of a Lost World”


21.  Ylayali - “Birdhouse in Conduit”

22.  samlrc - “A Lonely Sinner”

23.  R Beny - “Discerned in the Fugue of Streams”

24.  Mope Grooves - “Box of Dark Grooves”

25.  Hannah Mohan - “Time is a Walnut”

26.  Diode - “2” 

27.  Kelly Lee Owens - “Dreamstate”

28.  Whitney Johnson - “Hav”

29.  Spill Gold - “Zaza”  

30.  Hana Vu - “Romanticism”


31.  Tweaks - “Home★Stretch”

32.  The Drin - “Elude the Torch”

33.  BABii - “DareDeviil2000”

34.  Nighttime - “Lone Star”

35.  Anna McClellan - “Electric Bouquet” 

36.  Body Meat - “Starchris”

37.  Helado Negro - “Phasor”

38.  Waxahatchee - “Tiger’s Blood”

39.  Shabazz Palaces - “Exotic Birds of Prey”

40.  Alan Sparhawk - “White Roses, My God”


41.  Carolyn Kendrick - “Each Machine”

42.  The Black Dog - “Sleep Deprivation”

43.  Wand - “Vertigo”

44.  Jamie XX - “In Waves”

45.  Robber Robber - “Wild Guess”

46.  Pale Jay - “Low End Love Songs” 

47.  Vanessa Bedoret - “Eyes”

48.  Porridge Radio - “Clouds in the Sky They will Always be There for Me”

49.  Windy & Carl - “Heavy Early & the Creation of Venus”

50.  Sharp Veins - “People Pleaser”


51.  Russian Baths - “Mirror”

52.  Bnny- “One Million Love Songs”

53.  Arushi Jain - “Delight”

54.  Fontaines DC - “Romance”

55.  Skaiwater- “#gigi“

56.  Sun Cousto - “Imaginary Girls”

57.  Adrienne Lenker - “Bright Future” 

58.  girl_irl - “(re) introduction”

59.  Anastasia Coope - “Darning Woman” 

60.  Xiu Xiu - “Stiletto w’ Bison Horn Grips”


61.  Lex Amor - “Forward Ever”

62.  Kim Deal - “Nobody Loves You More”

63.  Tasha - “All This and so Much More”

64.  Sega Bodega - “Dennis”

65.  Rick Farin - “Wretched”

66.  Tyler, The Creator - “Chromakopia”

67.  Habibi - “Dreamachine”

68.  Thurston Moore - “Flow Critical Lucidity”

69.  Alex Banin - “Since Winona”

70.  Loma - “How Will I Live Without a Body?”


71.  Benoit Pioulard & offtheksy - “Sunder”

72.  White China - “Vavy”

73.  Rubber Oh - “Soil”

74.  Chanel Beads - “Your Day will Come”

75.  DIIV - “Frog in Boiling Water”

76.  Hildegard - “Jour 1596”

77.  Giirls - “Time of Glass”

78.  Dummy - “Free Energy”

79.  Tara Jane O’Neill - “Cool Cloud of Okayness”

80.  Moon Diagrams - “Mountain Radio”


81.  The Submissives - “Live at Value Sound Studios”

82.  Naima Bock - “Below a Massive Dark Land”

83.  Lilacs & Champagne - “Fantasy World”

84.  Aili - “Nandakke?”

85.  Fennesz - “Mosaic”

86.  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - “Woodland”

87.  My Telephone Number - “Album #01”

88.  Route 500 - “Island Perimeter”

89.  Martha Sky Murphy - “Um”

90.  Temir Alcy - “s/t”


91.  Okokon - “Offering”

92.  Tess Parks - “Pomegranate” 

93.  Night Beds - “Mountain Radio”

94.  Princ€ss - “s/t”

95.  Chelsea Wolfe - “She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She”

96.  Skylar Gudaaz - “Country”

97.  Ridgy - “Back to Earth”

98.  The Black Dog - “Other Like Me”

99.  Cuneiform Tabs - “s/t”

100.  Pan-American & Kramer - “Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic”


101.  The KVB - “Tremors”

102.  Dehd - “Poetry”

103.  Winged Wheel - “Big Hotel”

104.  Nailah Hunter - “Lovegaze”

105.  Old Saw - “Dissection Maps”

106.  Marika Hackman - “Big Sigh”

107.  Mary Ochre - “Your Guide to Revolution”

108.  Bobby Would - “Relics of Our Life”

109.  Astrel K - “The Foreign Department”

110.  Laetitia Sadler - “Rooting for Love”


111.  Tristan Arp - “A Pool, A Portal”

112.  April Magazine - “Wesley’s Convertible Tape”

113.  Fitkinwall - “Uist”

114.  Peter Perrett - “The Cleansing” 

115.  Hot Garbage - “Precious Dream”

116.  TR/ST - “Performance”

117.  Dreams of Delvaux - “Shade Mystique”

118.  Mars Kumari - “Daybreak”

119.  Laura Jane Wilkie - “Vent”

120.  The Smile - “Cutouts”


121.  Arooj Aftab - “Night Reign”

122.  Filther - “s/t”

123.  Blood Estate - “Forever”

124.  Amyl & the Sniffers - “Cartoon Darkness”

125.  Quintelium - “Dream & Reality”

126.  Ekin Fil - “Sleepwalkers”

127.  The Spatulas - “Beehive Mind”

128.  Soccer Mommy - “Evergreen”

129.  Jack White - “No Name”

130.  Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - “Rain on the Road”


131.  Chenayder - “Maybe in Another Life”

132.  Shadow Show - “Fantasy Now!”

133.  More Eaze - “Lacuna and Parlor”

134.  Unlettered - “Five Mile Point”

135.  Amie Blu - “How We Lose”

136.  West of Roan - “Queen of Eyes”

137.  Golden Bug - “Piscolabis II”

138.  Childish Gambino - “Bando Stone and the New World”

139.  The Marias - “Submarine”

140.  Cass McCombs - “Seed Cake on Leap Year”


141.  Roro - “2 Heaven”

142.  Nala Sinephro - “Endlessness” 

143.  Matchess - “Stena”

144.  Beige Banquet - “Ornamental Hermit”

145.  Vegyn - “The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions”

146.  Ganavya -“Like the Sky I’ve been too Quiet” 

147.  Michael A. Muller - “Mirror Music”

148.  Omni - “Souvenir”

149.  Military Genius - “Scarred for Life”

150.  Tinashe - “Quantum Baby”


151.  Hainbach - “Breve”

152.  Yayoba - “A Maze of Glass”

153.  Daisy Rickman - “Howl”

154.  The Dharma Chain - “Nowhere” 

155.  Shady Cove - “Part II”

156.  James Blackshaw - “Unraveling in your Hands”

157.  Laura Marling - “Patterns in Repeat”

158.  Conchis - “Chapters”

159.  Arutani - “Who We Used To Be”

160.  Quiet Commotion - “Red Grasshoppers”


161.  Hovvdy - “s/t”

162.  Shady Cove - “s/t”

163.  Hurray for the Riff Raff - “The Past is Still Alive”

164.  Squarepusher - “Dostrotime”

165.  Fergus Jones - “Ephemera”

166.  Angie Willcut - “Entries from Earth”

167.  Ibukun Sunday - “Harmony / Balance”

168.  Babehoven - “Water’s Here in You”

169.  Orion Sun - “Orion”

170.  White Poppy - “Ataraxia”


171.  Leifur James - “Magic Seeds”

172.  Workers Comp - “s/t”

173.  Nemahsis - “Verbathim”

174.  Swimming Bell - “Charlie”

175.  Julia-Sophie - “Forgive Too Slow” 

176.  Clarence - “Smudge”

177.  Jlin - “Akoma”

178.  ROD - “Concrete Jungle”

179.  Rose Droll - “With Strangers”

180.  Verity Den - “s/t”


181.  MGMT - “Loss of Life”

182.  Cowboy Sadness - “Selected Jambient Works, vol. 1”

183.  Jane Weaver - “Love in Constant Spectacle”

184.  Sour Widows - “Revival of a Friend”

185.  La Luz - “News of the Universe”

186.  Cry Cry Horses - “Hold Me Please”

187.  Kamixio -“Deathwork” 

188.  Kino Motel - “Visions”

189.  Goat Girl - “Below the Waist”

190.  Vera Sola - “Peacemaker”


191.  Merope - “Vėjula”

192.  Corto - “Sees00000”

193.  Jenina MacGillivray - “Perseids”

194.  Scott McMicken & the Ever-Expanding - “When It’s Happening”

195.  Smoke Below - “Structurally Sound”

196.  Jean Du Voyage - “Ritual” 

197.  Artificial Go - “Hopscotch Fever”

198.  Velvet Sunset - “Only Lovers Left Alive”

199.  Julia Holter - “Something in the Room she Moves”

200.  Aluminum - “Fully Beat”


201.  cumgirl8 - “the 8th cumming”

202.  Crack Cloud - “Red Mile”

203.  Eve Adams - “In Hell”

204.  OruĆ£ - “Passe”

205.  Woebegone. - “You Look Like the Chair”



BEST EPs:


tg.blk - “ITS NOT THAT DEEP” (sic)

samlrc - “untitled” 

Leya - “I Forget Everything”

Speckle - “Speckle Forever” 

John Glacier - “Like a Ribbon”

Ninze - “Porzellan”

Winter - “… and she’s still listening”

Tanukichan - “Circles” 

Funkenschleuder - “Indian Poppy”

Francine Thirteen - “Psalm of Tiamat”

Power Strip - “Nothing Yet”

Ebbb - “All At Once”

Salem & the Stellar Cats - “Salem!”

Flowerstream - “Flower Dream”

something in the lake - “listener”

Heith - “The Liars Tell…”

Julien Chang - “Home for the Moment”

Strum - “Picture That”

Kulku - “Reset To Be” 

Red Pants - “Pale Shadows”

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