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Why look back further than this? What new music have you loved in 2024?
If you can't do that, then it can be older music that you first heard in 2024.
I need to think about it... And do the washing up...
Bill Ryder Jones - Iechyd Da
Beak >>>>
Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer
This is the kit. Nothing new but saw them and it was good.
Slift. Nothing new but **** me they rock live.
It's hard to pick 5 to be honest, there is so much stuff nowadays
Beak> - >>>>
Blockhead - Luminous Rubble
Broadcast - Distant Call (Collected Demos)
Cerys Hafana - The Bitter
Seefeel - Everything Squared
Theis Thaws - Fifteen Days
The first albums in alphabetical order that sprang to mind. All recommended!
There ya go.
Landmvrks - Creature
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Bleed From Within - In Place of Your Halo
Spiritbox - Soft Spine
Post Malone - I Had Some Help
I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All - Father John Misty.
It's Rough on Rats (If You're Asking) - Jack White.
365 - Waxahatchee.
Hind's Hall - Macklemore.
Jupiter's Faerie - Sturgill Simpson.
A lot of great albums were released this year. Narrowing it down to five songs is tricky. It will be different by this time tomorrow.
Right back to it - Waxahatchee
Growing Story - Pom Poko
New Bad Feeling - Personal Trainer
Release Myself - Bess Atwell
World’s Biggest Paving Slab - English Teacher
Idles- Dancer
St Vincent - Broken Man
Falling In Reverse - Prequel
Bronx Slang - Harlem
Pearl Jam- Dark Matter
The beginning of the year, but the Adrianne Lenker stuff is pretty lovely…
It is indeed, as is what she does with Big Thief.
As far as stuff from 2024 is concerned, I’ll have to give it some thought, there’s a lot of new stuff I’ve heard, but I haven’t really got enough distance to pick out a favourite yet.
I missed ‘Floating on a Moment’ by Beth Gibbons
Personal Trainer sent to the subs bench
Oh, off the top of my head... if I think too much it'll end up being 25 instead of 5
clipping. - Keep Pushing (or maybe Run It)
Bicep - Chroma 004 Rola
FKA Twigs - Eusexua
Iceboy Violet & Nueen - Closer
Nadine Shah - Greatest Dancer
According to Replay its:
Shh… IU (featuring Hyein & Joe Won Sun)
My World - Illit
Pocket Locket - Alaina Castillo (but not released in 2024)
Love Lee - AKMU (as above)
New Woman - Lisa (featuring Rosalía)
And that is accurate so what can I say I am UAENA (until I die!) and a blink…
In my defence, after IU the most played was Sonic Youth & Feist, so not just a k-popper these days 😀
If they need to be from 2024 only then the other 2 would be:
Blink - Coucou Chloe
The Wolves - Waxahatchee
Oh, APT - Rosé is played a lot atm…
I don't know about favourites, but here's five of the quirkier tracks I first heard in 2024.
Ride - Joe Unknown
THIS HERE AIN'T WATER - BIG SPECIAL
Not Enough Bonobo - Funke and the Two Tone Baby
Enough is Never Enough - The Clockworks
Death From Above - The Skinner Brothers, Sylla
And a couple of more mellower numbers
Cosmic Eraser - Ceramic Animal
Racing to a Red Light - Early James
Joe Nelson - An Old Piano
Tallulah Guard - All The People I've Been
Aerynn - Lighthouse in the Dark
Sam Leyden - I Practice Writing Suicide Notes
Tragicomics - Dinosaur
Some new, some new to me
New
Wunderhorse - Midas (track, but album too)
Fontaines DC - Favourite
New to me
Ural Thomas and the Pain - Time
CATQ - Full of Life (not even new to me - was on the Paranoia, Angels, True Love album / performance piece, but I saw a video of it as part of the Paris Olympic concert and was just - 'wow!') - so 'renewed to me' The rich harmonies still make me teary
and in a similar vein - LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends. Knew it vaguely, didn't really get LCDSS as a recordings band....and then saw their Glastonbury set and was blown away.
Honourable mention - Paul Heaton and Rianne Downey - Welcome to Heatongrad; saw them at Hammersmith a couple of weeks back and fantastic live. I know it's not her on the recorded version, but she was mesmerising for one so young.
Never got round to answering my own question.... Think the reason is I bought quite a bit, but a lot of it was my usual staple fairly-outside-mainstream electronic music which 'yeah i could listen to that to blot out the radio while at work'. A lot of which I haven't listened to enough to have a favourite, and scanning through it, some that come to mind as favourites aren't from this year. So here's five I that aren't that, trying to pretend I have taste!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8e2fgGMRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxov4IpEJ0
Okay here's one electronic based peice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm7W_qe4MWk
Another vote for Favourite by Fontaines DC
And a nod to LCD Soundsytem as also mentioned.
Saw them both at Glastonbury (at the very front for LCD).
But, equal first with Fontaines is the entirety of the new The Cure album.
One particular album does stand out so far, it really appeals to my long time love of classic Prog, and it’s Jon Anderson’s new album ‘True’ which he recorded with The Band Geeks, a group of musicians who’ve recorded with various bands like The Grateful Dead over the years. It’s a great piece of work, it’s like hearing Yes c1971/72 all over again, the writing is great, the musicianship is outstanding, and Anderson’s voice is astonishing, especially considering his age, and he literally came close to dying in his wife’s arms a few years ago. Also the recording and production is superb as well.
Don't know about 5 but this year I discovered heilung, workmate told me to watch the Glastonbury set they done. First time in years I was genuinely 'WTF is this?...' First 5 mins totally lost, First 10 mins bit less wtf, half an hour in and I was loving it.
One particular album does stand out
I think there was another thread for album(s)
This was the clear standout
Cool song, not what I expected going by the YT thumbnail 🙂
My list is probably all over the place too and bringing it down to five is really hard
Bending Hectic - The Smile
Dream State - Kamasi Washington
Ouroboros - Goat
L'effet domino - Golden Bug
Coast - Kim Deal (probably the one track I listened to more than any other last year)
5 tracks is tough...my 'annual' playlist ended up at 64 tracks this year.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4g1fC1zhKFmgpDRuQxWCjs?si=4c3fb4b10d794ffd
5 fairly random things off there -
Big Special - Black Dog / White Horse. I saw Nick Cave this year and have been pretty obsessed with his Wild God album since. Every time I play it on Spotify it plays this next. https://open.spotify.com/track/2wIPD1HU5Rw1I0H4WEyc3Y?si=5935d165b0d84c93
King Booo! - Tunes since '89. From a friends end of year playlist. Just a great piece of old school piano house and the sample/interview is perfect. https://open.spotify.com/track/2Xzgc9BFT2oONrZcD4EW1Y?si=d4f49575d7aa47a9
Anna Erhard - Botanical Garden. 2/5 stars. the peacocks look depressed. and he thought they'd be more majestic.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7bx7MDIg8p098HHmsJebzl?si=474e66659c9a43c8
Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen. Political ideology explained. https://open.spotify.com/track/46RISRIJYtpue6ulWtmpN3?si=eb299cea658c4825
Undo the Blue (Beyond the wizards sleeve reanimation) Iriana Mancini. Erol Alkan sprinkles a little magic on this and turns it into something special. https://open.spotify.com/track/1SsEUXlbuq0qxMC7d8b1Sg?si=adf3fc72e19744e0
And discovery of the year, Lankum. Blew me away live and I've had days when I've listened to nothing else. the live album came out this year - https://open.spotify.com/album/4ybTiI274S6JVoECRA4QxJ?si=2Rd1ACrsRCOSG6wkgYcFjA
I imagined I was being a bit more generous/realistic saying five tracks from one year as opposed to one album from a whole decade!
If you want to say more, I have no problem with that!