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Best of 2024. Rough guess at my three favorite songs from the album. L'chaim! |
| 50 |  | Kevin Coleman
Imaginary Conversations
American Primitivism
๐ฅ Imaginary Conversations on Fish Hatchery Rd.
๐ฅ Truckers to Pulaski
๐ฅ Mammut Americanum
Whoever said American Primitivism is dead is gonna have to eat their hat after this. |
| 49 |  | Adrianne Lenker
Bright Future
Singer-Songwriter / Contemporary Folk
๐ฅ Real House
๐ฅ Sadness as a Gift
๐ฅ Vampire Empire
I generally prefer the "fuller" sound of Big Thief, but there's simply no denying Adrianne's talent as a songwriter. Stunning. |
| 48 |  | Blemishes
Ambivert
Experimental / Noise Rock
๐ฅ Flood Diver
๐ฅ Torture Garden
๐ฅ Drive a Car
Impressive soundscapes, the sort of album to which you really need to devote an afternoon of listening with your eyes closed. |
| 47 |  | Polo Perks, AyooLii & Feardorian
A Dog's Chance
Lowend / Cloud Rap
๐ฅ They Love AyooLii
๐ฅ Skatepark
๐ฅ Carissaโs Weird
What the fuck is lowend, actually? Still don't really know. But I guess I like it?? |
| 46 |  | Ill Considered
Precipice
Avant-Garde Jazz
๐ฅ Vespa Crabro
๐ฅ Solenopsis
๐ฅ And Then There Were Three
Found a few of their previously releases a little pretentious, but this one really feels like their coming into their own. |
| 45 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
No Title as of 13 Feb 2024 28,340 Dead
Post-Rock / Chamber Music
๐ฅ Babys in a Thundercloud
๐ฅ Grey Rubble โ Green Shoots
๐ฅ Raindrops Cast in Lead
Great to see these guys (and gals) haven't lost their touch yet. Some absolutely beautiful excerpts here. |
| 44 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Muuntautuja
Avant-Garde Metal
๐ฅ Valotus
๐ฅ Muuntautuja
๐ฅ Voitelu
I will never NOT appreciate how outside-the-box these guys are and how willing they are to stretch the confines of whatever genre you want to try and call them. |
| 43 |  | Famous (UK)
Party Album
Art Rock / Dance-Punk
๐ฅ The Destroyer
๐ฅ Love Will Find a Way
๐ฅ What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
Pretty sure these guys recorded this album either drunk or on Xanax but I kinda dig what the zonked demeanor adds to the upbeat dance punk jams. |
| 42 |  | Morgan Garrett
Purity
Experimental / Avant-Folk
๐ฅ Tearful Life
๐ฅ Suck
๐ฅ Slow to Nothing
Feels like you're trapped in this dude's basement and he comes downstairs every night and puts on a "show" for you while you sit there shackled to the joist with shit and piss all over yourself. |
| 41 |  | Gnod
Spot Land
Psychedelic Rock / Drone
๐ฅ Dream On
๐ฅ Peace at Home
๐ฅ Pilgrimโs Progress
Never know what the next Gnod album is actually gonna sound like, but you can have confidence that it will be good. |
| 40 |  | Gurriers
Come and See
Post-Punk
๐ฅ Nausea
๐ฅ Sign of the Times
๐ฅ Close Call
Groovy post-punk with a rough English gait. You love to see (hear?) it. |
| 39 |  | Zvyozdny Khram
Zvyozdny Khram
Atmospheric Black Metal
๐ฅ II
๐ฅ III
๐ฅ I
Well yeah, gotta have at least one black metal album that was recorded with a tuna can and string on the list, innit? |
| 38 |  | Space Camp
How Could I Not Be Your Girl?
Noise Rock / Post-Hardcore
๐ฅ Toucan Play at That Game
๐ฅ Point of Contention
๐ฅ Day-Shapes
GOLD STAR was markedly better, more comprehensive, and headier - but this is a great follow-up with a mind of its own and an appropriately shitty attitude. |
| 37 |  | Old Saw
Dissection Maps
Ambient Americana / Drone
๐ฅ Dealt in Silver
๐ฅ Sleeps With Dice
๐ฅ Last Rings
Had no idea these guys were still making music. And really, REALLY good music, at that. Lose yourself in this droning, backwoods sphere. |
| 36 |  | twikipedia
For the Rest of Your Life
Noise Pop / Indie Rock
๐ฅ Learn Yourself
๐ฅ Cardboard Boxes
๐ฅ Room for One
All external signs point to me absolutely hating this album. Couldn't help but succumbing to its warm soundscapes and melodic grooves, though. |
| 35 |  | Unaussprechlichen Kulten
Hรคxan Sabaoth
Death Metal
๐ฅ Die Teufelsbucher
๐ฅ Lamia sucuba
๐ฅ Back to the Mother Hydra and Father Dagon
I guess they're cranking some deliciously riffy, demonic death metal out of Chile these days, eh? |
| 34 |  | Julia Holter
Something in the Room She Moves
Art Pop / Post-Minimalism
๐ฅ Spinning
๐ฅ These Morning
๐ฅ Something in the Room She Moves
Nowhere in the stratosphere of AVIARY. But then again, what is? No one can be held to that standard forever. This is good stuff. |
| 33 |  | Alora Crucible
Oak Lace Apparition
Chamber Music / Neoclassical New Age
๐ฅ Aestiform
๐ฅ Amidst Ewdendrift a Corridor
๐ฅ I Destination
Dead Can Dance for zoomers ???? I say that endearingly. |
| 32 |  | Nala Sinephro
Endlessness
Jazz Fusion / Space Ambient
๐ฅ Continuum 6
๐ฅ Continuum 1
๐ฅ Continuum 10
A beautiful soundscape, and a solid step up from her previous effort. Excited to see where Nala's career goes from here. |
| 31 |  | The Cure
Songs of a Lost World
Gothic Rock / Dream Pop
๐ฅ And Nothing Is Forever
๐ฅ All I Ever Am
๐ฅ Endsong
Remarkably...great?! Especially after the back-end of their oeuvre is littered with gothic pop travesties. Dare I say, The Cure are back?? |
| 30 |  | Blinder
Drugs of the Sun
Noise Pop / Shoegaze
๐ฅ Dose Makes the Poison
๐ฅ Empty Fists
๐ฅ Waiting Room
Lazy Sunday listening; gets the vibes going, gets the juices flowing, doesn't set off the kettle. |
| 29 |  | Ceremony Of Silence
Hรกlios
Dissonant Death Metal
๐ฅ Serpent Slayer
๐ฅ Primaeval Sacrifice
๐ฅ Perennial Incantation
People might be getting sick of this "dissonant renaissance" that's currently engulfing all genres of metal. But I am not one of those people. |
| 28 |  | Bon Iver
SABLE,
Indie Folk / Singer-Songwriter
๐ฅ Awards Season
๐ฅ Thing Behind Things Behind Things
๐ฅ S P E Y S I D E
An agonizing dick tease - after squirting out a bunch of lackluster fluff under other monikers and with unimpressive features, Vernon is BACK with three of his absolute best tracks since his double-self titled album in 2011. |
| 27 |  | Gerycz Powers Rolin
Activator
Free Folk / Ambient Americana
๐ฅ Activato
๐ฅ Entrance
๐ฅ Ivory
An album that reminds me of simpler times. It feels like it could've been made one hundred years ago, yet somehow it also sounds unequivocally contemporary. Marvelous. |
| 26 |  | Gouge Away
Deep Sage
Post-Hardcore / Noise Rock
๐ฅ Idealized
๐ฅ Maybe Blue
๐ฅ Deep Sage
Often very "in your face," but modular and tame enough at other times to make those abrasive moments even more incredible. |
| 25 |  | Adversarial
Solitude with the Eternal...
Death Metal
๐ฅ Death Is an Advisor in the Woods of the Devil
๐ฅ Merging With the Destroyer
๐ฅ Beware the Howling Darkness on Thine Left Shoulder
Quintessential straight up death metal album of the year - nothing particularly fancy about this record, other than the fact that it never makes a single misstep. |
| 24 |  | Basque
Pain Without Hope of Healing
Emoviolence
๐ฅ Stillness
๐ฅ Perks
๐ฅ Funeral for a Mouse
I am generally very allergic to emoviolence but SOMETHING about this just presses all the right buttons. Comes and goes without overstaying its welcome and puts a pit in my chest. |
| 23 |  | julie
my anti-aircraft friend
Slacker Rock / Noise Pop
๐ฅ Clairbourne Practice
๐ฅ Piano Instrumental
๐ฅ Catalogue
Soppy slacker rock that leans into some poppy tendencies every now 'n' again and is all the better for it,. |
| 22 |  | Mitochondrion
Vitriseptome
Death Metal / War Metal
๐ฅ Flail, Faexregfem!
๐ฅ Increatum vox
๐ฅ Antitonement
The technicality of death mixed with the noisy barrage of war metal. Crushing and debilitating in the best way. |
| 21 |  | Robber Robber
Wild Guess
Indie Rock / Post-Punk
๐ฅ Dial Tone
๐ฅ Until
๐ฅ Sea or War
Very no-frills, very straightforward, but very, very good. |
| 20 |  | Chaser (US-NY)
Planned Obsolescence
Noise Rock / No Wave
๐ฅ Sparrow
๐ฅ No One Sees
๐ฅ Deadbeat Debtor
No wave is apparently alive and fucking well in 2024. |
| 19 |  | Xiu Xiu
13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto...
Neo-Psychedelia / Experimental Rock
๐ฅ Common Loon
๐ฅ Veneficium
๐ฅ Arp Omni
How can a band be both so fucking weird and so fucking...catchy?! Incredible stuff. |
| 18 |  | Armand Hammer
Blk Lbl
Abstract Hip Hop
๐ฅ Girl Dinner
๐ฅ Drowning Machine
๐ฅ Which Way Is Up
People look at me sideways when I say this is the duo's best since PARAFFIN, but I stand by that statement. |
| 17 |  | Gigan
Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Dissonant Tech Death Metal
๐ฅ Square Wave Subversion
๐ฅ Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror
๐ฅ Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis
This was my introduction to Gigan, and I immediately went back and explored their entire discog, and they pretty much instantly skyrocketed up among my very favorite death metal bands. That about sums it up. The drummer is INSAAAAAANE. |
| 16 |  | Vampire Weekend
Only God Was Above Us
Indie Rock / Chamber Pop
๐ฅ Mary Boone
๐ฅ Capricorn
๐ฅ Prep-School Gangsters
A miraculous "return to form" (cringe, but it's true) after the disappointing FATHER OF THE BRIDE. Indeed, 'Mary Boone' and 'Capricorn' join the pantheon of the band's very best tracks. |
| 15 |  | meth.
Shame
Sludge Metal / Noise Rock
๐ฅ Doubt
๐ฅ Give In
๐ฅ Cruelty
A relentless onslaught of noise and yelling. This is like if Swans were to transition into a straight-up metal band in the eighties. |
| 14 |  | Maruja
The Vault
Post-Rock / Jam Band
๐ฅ Breaking Inertia
๐ฅ Dagda
๐ฅ Solstice
Really dig the pseudo-live, "jam band" style of music the group tends toward here. |
| 13 |  | Shiroishi, Prymek, Nguyen
Eventually the River Rises Here Too...
Free Improvisation
๐ฅ Eventually the River Rises Here Too
๐ฅ Same As It Always Has
๐ฅ n/a
Has Patrick Shiroishi ever disappointed? The answer is no. No, he has not. |
| 12 |  | Cameron Winter
Heavy Metal
Singer-Songwriter / Contemporary Folk
๐ฅ Nina + Field of Cops
๐ฅ Love Takes Miles
๐ฅ Nausicaa (Love Will Be Revealed)
Don't look now, but 'Nina + Field of Cops' is most likely my song of the year. Incredible stuff. |
| 11 |  | Ogbert the Nerd
What You Want
Emo / Post-Hardcore
๐ฅ Raspberries
๐ฅ Just Like Always
๐ฅ For Posterity
Midwest emo revival with a side of whiny, post-hardcore vocals - I am totally here for it. The best of its ilk since... Dogleg's "Melee", maybe? |
| 10 |  | Hammok
Look How Long Lasting Everything Is Moving Forward
Post-Hardcore / Noise Rock
๐ฅ Terror (Forever Lasting)
๐ฅ Nothingโs Never Better
๐ฅ Wannabe (Billboard No. 1)
Rip-roarin' post hardcore that borders on screamo at times but retains an assertively "rock forward" framework. Took me by surprise. |
| 9 |  | Pyrrhon
Exhaust
Dissonant Death Metal / Noise Rock
๐ฅ The Greatest City on Earth
๐ฅ Not Going to Mars
๐ฅ Strange Pains
Still waiting for these guys to release a bad album. Hell, even a mediocre one. Quite simply one of the best modern acts death metal has to offer. |
| 8 |  | Scarcity
The Promise of Rain
Avant-Garde Metal / Dissonant Black Metal
๐ฅ Scorched Vision
๐ฅ In the Basin of Alkaline Grief
๐ฅ Venom & Cadmium
Pleb filter. Not as good as their debut, assuredly, but excitingly different while still retaining the microtonal, asymmetric weirdness that made them, them. |
| 7 |  | Flesh Tape
Flesh Tape
Indie Rock / Shoegaze
๐ฅ Horizon Pt. 2
๐ฅ Landlords
๐ฅ Gargoyle
Reminiscent of...a "softer" version of Have a Nice Life in many ways. Loftier, more "gazey", and even a bit more poppy. But every bit as downtrodden and oddly depressing. |
| 6 |  | i.o
not all prophecies
Free Improvisation / Experimental Rock
๐ฅ paper chord
๐ฅ lanced wings
๐ฅ not all prophecies
Sometimes you just gotta fuckin' hit your instruments and something it sounds really fuckin' awesome when you do it. |
| 5 |  | Beth Gibbons
Lives Outgrown
Chamber Folk / Art Rock
๐ฅ Rewind
๐ฅ Beyond the Sun
๐ฅ Oceans
A/k/a Portishead - "Fourth". I say that neither as a slight to Beth nor a complaint that the album isn't "varied" enough. It's incredible and it's everything I could've hoped for. |
| 4 |  | Fashion Tips
I Wish You Every Success
Dance Punk / Sass
๐ฅ Lunched Out
๐ฅ Radio Song
๐ฅ Steve Lamacq
Dance (post-) punk bands with female singers are my kryptonite and this album embodies precisely everything I love about that extremely specific subgenre. |
| 3 |  | Friko
Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here
Indie Rock / Noise Pop
๐ฅ Get Numb to It!
๐ฅ Crimson to Chrom
๐ฅ Statues
Unabashed indie rock darling of the year for me - not quite my #1, but easily my most listened to album of 2024 in terms of pure scrobbles. |
| 2 |  | SUMAC
The Healer
Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post-Metal
๐ฅ Yellow Dawn
๐ฅ New Rites
๐ฅ World of Light
The single THICCEST album to come out of 2024. And probably of the past decade or so, if we're being honest. (Cult of Luna fucking WISHES they were this dense.) |
| 1 |  | Mount Eerie
Night Palace
Avant-Folk / Post-Rock
๐ฅ I Heard Whales (I Think)
๐ฅ I Spoke With a Fish
๐ฅ Night Palace
Possibly Phil Elverum's single best piece of art. I laughed. I cried. I felt things. Metaphysical. An "instant classic" in my book. An album we'll be talking about 10, 15, 20 years from now. |
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