Records of the year 2024
Here's our favourite records of the year. Yes, there's loads of them - why not, eh? They're not in any order, because who are we to say that one album is the 14th best of the year, and another the 39th? Art's not a competition etc etc. Hopefully you'll find something in amongst these lists that you missed, but will love as much as we do.
There's two lists - new releases up first, followed by our favourite reissues and compilations. No doubt we've forgotten loads.
You can find most of these on this website. Treat yourself, you deserve it
And, here, is a huge Spotify playlist of them (if you have a spare few days to kill):
Records of the year 2024 Playlist
Reissues and compilations of the year 2024 Playlist
Records of the year 2024
Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
Trees Speak - TimeFold
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Badbadnotgood – Mid Spiral
Goat - Goat
Memorials – Memorial Waterslides
Naoki Zushi - IV
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity
The Reds Pinks & Purples – Still Clouds At Noon
Mountain Movers – Walking After Dark
Beachwood Sparks – Across The River of Stars
Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
Rich Ruth – Water Still Flows
Shellac – To All Trains
Arab Strap – I’m totally fine with it, I don’t give a fuck anymore
Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
Vampire Weekend – Only God Was Above Us
Four Tet - Three
Astrel K – The Foreign Department
Real Estate - Daniel
William Doyle – Springs Eternal
Bill Ryder Jones – lechyd Da
Gruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me Free
Fabiano do Nascrimento & Sam Gendel – The Room
Kali Malone – All Life Long
Itasca – Imitation of War
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Alison Cotton - Engelchen
Khruangbin – A La Sala
Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle
Jessica Pratt – Here In The Pitch
Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
Christopher Owens – I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair
Prairiewolf – Deep Time
The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
Cindy lee – Diamond Jubilee
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
Basic – This Is Basic
Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
Still House Plants – If I don’t make it I love u
Klaus Johann Grobe – Io Tu il Loro
The Sorcerers – I Too Am A Stranger
Ezra Feinberg – Soft Power
Adrianne lenker – Bright Future
SiP – Leos Ultras
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate
Reissues and compilations of the year:
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Soundscape 1: Surround
Girls - Album
Robert Forster – Warm Nights
Sonic Youth – Walls Have Ears
Ghetto Brothers – Power-Fuerza
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Souvenirs
Joe Henderson – Power To The People
Various Artists - Congo Funk: Sound Madness From The Shores Of The Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982)
Broadcast – Distant Call: Collected Demos 2000-2006
The Cat’s Miaow – Skipping Stones: The Cassette Years ’92-‘93
Wendy & Bonnie - Genesis
Heron – Twice As Nice And Half The Price
Cocteau twins & Harold Budd – The Moon And The Melodies
The American Analog Set – The Golden Band
Parsley Sound – Parsley Sounds
Tom Verlaine – Songs And Other Things
Gastr del sol – We Have Dozens of Titles
Alice Coltrane – The Carnegie Hall Concert
Lou Reed – Hudson River Wind Meditations
Can – Live In Paris 1973
Various Artists – Cosmic American Music: Motel California
Dorothy Carter - Troubadour
Lijadu Sisters – Horizon Unlimited
Bill Fay – Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow
Galaxie 500 – Uncollected Noise New York ’88-‘90
Cass Mccombs – Seed Cake On Leap Year
Nico – Desertshore
The Penguin Café Orchestra – The Penguin Café Orchestra
The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us
Various Artists – Bliss Out: For Days
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson - Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs
John Cale - Paris 1919
