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 - “VÄ—jula”

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.  Oruã - “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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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Less extensive list than usual this year, but the list as a whole has some pretty exceptional albums all around. Enjoy!

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1.  Ulrika Spacek - “Compact Trauma”

2.  Activity - “Spirit in the Room”

3.  Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter - “Saved!”

4.  Oneohtrix Point Never - “Again”

5.  Teresa Winter - “Proserpine” 

6.  Bar Italia - “Tracey Denim”

7.  Mars Kumari- “I Thought I Lost You”

8.  Mary Ocher - “Approaching Singularity: Music for the End of Time” 

9.  African American Sound Recordings - “Share Spirit”

10.  Dean Johnson - “Nothing for me, Please” 


11.  PJ Harvey - “I Inside the Old Year Dying”

Laurel Halo - “Atlas”

Woods - “Perennial”

Eartheater - “Powders”

Philipp Johann Thimm - “Birds Singing till the End of the World” 

Zakè & Benoît Pioulard - “Eve”

Steph Green - “Lore”

Damien Jurado - “Passing the Giraffes” 

Slowdive - “Everything Is Alive”

Jess Williamson  - “Time Ain’t Accidental”


21.  Wanderwelle - “All Hands Bury the Cliffs at Sea”

Eterna - “Wardrove”

Tim Hecker - “No Highs”

Marlene Ribeiro - “Toquei no Sol”

Nonconnah - “Unicorn Family”

La Timpa - “Pity by one All Good Treasure”

Spivak - “You Win Again”

Gruf Rhys - “The Almond & the Seahorse (OST)

Niecy Blues - “Exit Stimulation”

Young Fathers - “Heavy Heavy”


31.  Wednesday - “Rat Saw God”

Bonny Doon - “Let There Be Music”

Sparklehorse - “Bird Machine”

Everything But The Girl - “Fuse”

Holy Hive - “Celeste”

Being Dead - “When Horses Would Run”

Frankie Rose - “Love As Protection” 

Prewn - “Through the Window”

Mui Zwu - “Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century”

Gaz Coombes - “Turn the Car Around”


41.  Laurel Halo - “Atlas”

Animal Collective - “Isn’t It Now?”

Bar Italia - “Twits”

Hania Rani - “Ghosts”

White China - “Hang Up the Lights”

Sun June - “Bad Dream Jaguar” 

Flora Yin-Wong - “Cold Reading” 

Emma Tricca - “Aspirin Sun”

Mizu - “Distant Intervals”

Edless - “Editing a Dream”


51.  Yves Tumor - “Praise a Lord Who Chews but who does not Consume”

Glasser - “Crux”

Shabazz Palaces - “Robed in Rareness”

Ora Cogan - “Formless”

Ryuichi Sakamoto - “12”

Devendra Banhart - “

Modern Cosmology - “What Will You Grow Now”

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - “Datura”

Lost Girls - “Selvutsletter”

Ruby Haunt - “Between Heavens”


61.  Loscil & Lawrence English - “Colours of Air”

Mhaol - “Attachment Styles”

Jackson & the Janks - “s/t”

The Black Dog - “The Grey Album”

Mutual Benefit - “Growing at the Edges”

Nighttime - “Keeper is the Heart”

Mark McGuire - “A Pocket Full of Rain”

Young Moon - “Triggered by Sunsets”

Maria BC - “Spike Field”

Heathered Pearls - “Loyal Extras”


71.  Sex - “Textin’ Yr Exes”

Duff Thompson - “Shadow People” 

DJ Shadow- “Action Adventure”

Mary Lattimore - “Goodbye, Hotel Arkada”

FACS - “Still Life In Decay”

Danny Paul Grody - “Arc of Light”

Saloli - “Canyon”

Tirzah - “trip9love”

Samuel Organ - “Guided by Horses”

Eye - “Honolulu Saigon”


81.  Mitski - “This Land is Inhospitable & so are We”

Lusine - “Long Light”

Julie Byrne - “The Greater Wings”

De Ambassade - “The Fool”

Austra - “Swan Song (Original Score)”

Body/Negative- “Everett”

Jon Collin & Demdike Stare - “Minerals”

Katie Gately - “Fawn/Brute”

En Attendant Ara - “Principia”

V/Z & Valentine Magetti - “Sueno Assente”


91.  Wiktor Stribog - “Astroenergoteropia”

Tomasz Bednarczyk - “Catbient”

Vanishing Twin - “Afternoon X”

Shana Cleveland - “Manzanita”

Otay:onii - “Dream Hacker”

Penelope Trappes - “

The Chap - “Burger Sauce”

Meernaa - “So Far So Good”

OZmotic & Fennesz - “Senzatempo”

Damien Jurado - “Motorcycle Madness”


101.  Blush - “Supercrush” 

Croatian Amor & Scandinavian Star - “Two 

Autumns / Spring Snow”

Index for Working Musik - “Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole”

Cosmetics - “Baby” 

Luca Beatović - “In Place”

Anika - “Eat Liquid”

Yaeji - “With a Hammer”

Vinyl Williams - “Aeterna”

TALsounds - “Shift”

Ruth Mascelli - “Non-Stop Healing Frequencies”


111.  Holy Wave - “Five of Cups”

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbeck - “The Friend’s  Place”

Emil Amos - “Zone Black”



Favorite EPs:


Astral Swans & Chad Vangaalen - “split ep”

Lennie Rayen - “Believe That It’s Blue”

KMRU - “Drawing Water”

Kelly Lee Owens - “LP 8.2”

Carmen Villain - “

Color Me Blood Red - “s/t”

Alpha Maid - “spresso”