Albums of 2024

[Farmer John]

I'm really enjoying this Kim Deal album. Some of the songs really sound like Aldous Harding (or maybe Aldous Harding sounds like her?)

Big Ben Beat is a hell of a song

[VinylGuy]

Kinda feels this will be my best of 2024

1.Jack White No Name
2.Kim Deal Nobody Loves You More
3.Pearl Jam Dark Matter
4.Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard and Soft
5.Jerry Cantrell I Want Blood
6.The Smile Wall Of Eyes
7.Vince Staples Dark Times
8.Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Challengers OST
9.Pixies The Night the Zombies Came
10.Kendrick Lamar GNX

I still need to jump into a few new ones i havent listened yet and might appear in this list, specially Jeff Parker's thats coming out next week. The Smile's Cutout also might appear.

Thats my list and ill add:

Jeff Parker The Way Our Of Easy, wonderful live album really, super tight and yet loose, very chill and cool

The Smile´s Cutouts another fucking great collection of songs from this guys

Queer the new soundtrack of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, damn gorgeous really. I love the textures and how evocative it is

Childish Gambino´s both Atavista and Bando Stone

And my main disappointments were:

SK - Little Rope
St Vincent - All Born Screaming

Both albums i like a lot, but they failed to reach more attention form me after their initial two weeks or a litte more released span. Im sure ill go back to them eventually, and the St Vicent songs are awesome live, but i guess i was expecting more maybe. not sure.

[epilogue]

Julien Baker and TORRES???? Please and thank you!

[i got bugs]

Jack White - no name
PJ - dark matter
Zach Bryan - the great American bar scene
Vampire Weekend - only God was above us
Sturgill/Johnny blue eyes - passage du desir
Billy Strings - highway prayers
Black Crowes - happiness bastards
Kendrick Lamar - gnx
Kings of Leon - can we please have fun
David Gilmour - luck and strange
MJ Lenderman- manning fireworks

Just finally getting into fontaines, the smile, and wunderhorse

[VinylGuy]

I was also surprised Nick Cave´s last one didnt make any list but i need way more time with it, basically because Cave´s music to me is very vibe-y and i need to be in the right kind of mood. Its a very interesting album for sure.

[zeb]

I was also surprised Nick Cave´s last one didnt make any list but i need way more time with it, basically because Cave´s music to me is very vibe-y and i need to be in the right kind of mood. Its a very interesting album for sure.

It had plenty of good moments but was not as good overall as I'd hoped.

[VinylGuy]

I was also surprised Nick Cave´s last one didnt make any list but i need way more time with it, basically because Cave´s music to me is very vibe-y and i need to be in the right kind of mood. Its a very interesting album for sure.

It had plenty of good moments but was not as good overall as I'd hoped.

yeah it didnt stick with me after a while, but some of his albums need time. Some are instant classics. Well see.

[epilogue]

There are still many records I need to listen to from 2024. But overall I think this has been one of the strongest years for music in a long, long time... like decades. This list is a little early, but I feel pretty good about the top 25 as it stands. So, fwiw, here is my preliminary top 25 of the year.

Cowboy Carter - Beyonce
GNX - Kendrick Lamar
All Born Screaming - St. Vincent
Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee
what an enormous room - TORRES
No Name - Jack White
What Now - Brittany Howard
Prelude To Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party
empathogen - willow
Real Deal - Honeyglaze

As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again - The Decemberists
Audio Vertigo - Elbow
Little Rope - Sleater-Kinney
Hit Me Hard and Soft - Billie Eilish
Dark Matter - Pearl Jam
Stampede - Orville Peck
Radical Optimism - Dua Lipa
Light Verse + Iron & Wine
Nobody Loves You More - Kim Deal
Big Ideas - Remi Wolf

My Prophet - Oded Tzur
Deeper Well - Kacey Musgraves
LUXURY - Emilee South
Romance - Fontaines DC
Where I'm Going, Isn't Where I've Been - Shaboozey

And here is 26-74, ranked:

Spoiler: show

Five Dice, All Threes - Bright Eyes
I’m Doing It Again, Baby! - girl in red
Dulling The Horns - Wild Pink
Only God Was Above Us - Vampire Weekend
Songs of a Lost World - The Cure

Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me - Porridge Radio
With A Lighting Strike - Genevieve Stokes
Dream Talk - Still Corners
Lived Here For A While - Good Looks
Passage Du Desir - Sturgill Simpson
The Great American Bar Scene - Zach Bryan
Unaired EP - Hozier
Unheard EP - Hozier
South of Here - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
People Who Aren't There Anymore - Future Islands

Live Laugh Love - Chastity Belt
Short n’ Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter
Chorus of Doubt - Broken Chanter
Don't Forget Me - Maggie Rogers
The Night The Zombies Came - Pixies
Brat - Charli XCX
Natural Magic - Kula Shaker
Mahashmashana - Father John Misty
Good Game Baby - Bats
The Tortured Poets Department: Anthology - Taylor Swift

The Tortured Poets Department - Taylor Swift
Cunningham Bird - Andrew Bird, Madison Cunningham
Melt the Honey - PACKS
Warriors - Lin-Manuel Miranda & Eisa Davis
Bando Stone and the New World - Childish Gambino
Paradise Pop. 10 - Christian Lee Hutson
TANGK - Idles
What A Devastating Turn Of Events - Rachel Chinouriri
Backside of 30 - Cody Jinks
Born in the Wild - Tems

Something Is Working Up Above My Head - Shovels & Rope
Patterns In Repeat - Laura Marling
Charm - Clairo
Here In The Pitch - Jessica Pratt
Atavista - Childish Gambino
Bright Future - Adrianne Lenker
Eternal Sunshine - Ariana Grande
Letter To Self - SPRINTS
Manning Fireworks - MJ Lederman
Silence is Loud - Nia Archives

Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Wall of Eyes - The Smile
Underdressed At The Symphony - Faye Webster
Still Kids - New Kids On The Block

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Ello Sailor]

However, Wall of Eyes being one of the worst albums you heard this year does not spark joy.

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

both of The Smile´s album were so good they give me joy.

I need Cutouts in vinyl

[epilogue]

they just sound so bored

thank you!

[Farmer John]

Congratulations Shaboozey for cracking Joe's top 25

[epilogue]

Congratulations Shaboozey for cracking Joe's top 25

[LetMeSleep]

Idles - Tangk
Fontaines DC - Romance
Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
West Thebarton - Mongrel Australia
The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
Wunderhorse - Midas

No order but these would be the top 8.

[Ello Sailor]

Forgot about High on Fire. Also IDLES as previously mentioned.

My list is a sham. How embarrassing.

[zeb]

Will also post this in the Albums of 1970 thread.

[Higgs]

I posted ages ago about Israeli artist Noga Erez who had a very cool track on the Heart of Stone soundtrack (called 'Quiet').

She's now released her 3rd LP and its pretty damn enjoyable. I have no frame of reference by which to compare her works, but the album is a great listen start to end with very high production values.

Here's "SAD GENERATION, HAPPY PICTURES" from it:

[epilogue]

I posted ages ago about Israeli artist Noga Erez who had a very cool track on the Heart of Stone soundtrack (called 'Quiet').

She's now released her 3rd LP and its pretty damn enjoyable. I have no frame of reference by which to compare her works, but the album is a great listen start to end with very high production values.

Here's "SAD GENERATION, HAPPY PICTURES" from it:

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