The 2024 End of Year music lists thread

i'm sorry, i guess i'm just noticing these accent marks.

are we supposed to be saying "An-DRAY" 3000 and "Be-yon-SAY" ?

In both cases, the accent marks signal pronunciation rather than emphasis.

André is a common French name, which uses an acute accent to denote that the letter is pronounced as "ay" instead of dropped or swallowed (as in "cadre"). Because the name is so common, nobody would actually be confused if the accent mark weren't there, but it is often retained nonetheless.

Similarly, the name Beyoncé uses an accent mark to indicate that it does not rhyme with "sconce."

OK! Thanks jaymc.

Mojo EOY Albums 2024

via
https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15659

Top 80 listed

Top 10

01 Jack White : No Name
02 Nick Cave & The bad Seed : Wild God
03 Beth Gibbons : Lives Outgrow
04 Gillian Welsh & David Rawlings : Woodlands
05 Bill Ryder-Jones : Iechyd Da
06 Kim Deal : Nobody Loves you anymore
07 Fontaines DC : Romance
08 The Lemon Twigs : A dream all we know
09 Jane Weaver : Love constant Spectacle
10 Kim Gordon : The Collective

the rest of the lists consists of images, so unable to copy and paste.

correction that's top 75 not 80.

Uncut ignored it and Mojo has it pretty low so looks like the oldies don't like The Last Dinner Party

Mojo 2024 in Album of The Year Format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2292-mojos-75-best-albums-of-2024/

and current AOTY Aggregated Summary

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2024/

It always seems too early.

Bleep.com Top 10 Albums of The Year
https://bleep.com/top-10-albums-of-the-year-2024

1 Squarepusher – Dostrotime
2 Monolake – Studio
3 Iglooghost -Tidal Memory Exo
4 Still House Plants – If I don't make it, I love u
5 Jlin – Akoma
6 Kim Gordon – The Collective
7 KMRU, Kevin Richard Martin – Disconnect
8 Hainbach – Breve
9 Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
10 SOPHIE – SOPHIE

like that list

Even the electronic lists have old timers at the top.

Maybe all writers are old now

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2024/11/12/spoiler-here-are-decibels-top-40-albums-of-2024/

What is the SOPHIE album like? 6 music played a couple of tracks and they sounded a bit unadventurous, don't know if they were representative.

xpost even Decibel has Judas Priest at #4. Olds rule!

are there kids making end of year lists via tiktok or whatever? or is just that no-one under the age of like 35 has any interest in this kind of thing any more?

there's loads of under 35s on RYM. Fare more than over 35s. Swifties favour metacritic apparently (they take that score very seriously)

Dunno about anyone else though

Magdalena Bay has been #1 on RYM pretty much since it came out.

Stereogum - Best New Artists
https://www.stereogum.com/2286447/best-new-artists-2024/lists/best-new-artists/

Best New Bands” of the preceding 12 months, Stereogum has evolved. Today, it is my unique honor to present the first edition of our Best New Artists list. It is exactly the same thing as the Best New Bands lists you know and love, just with a more accurate title.

For this project, the Stereogum staff evaluated our listening histories and the news and features we published since last fall to determine who we think are the best bands, singers, producers, rappers, and musicians to have emerged this year. As always, “new” is subjective; we prioritized artists who put out their debut full-length album this year, but that’s not a hard cutoff for eligibility. Maybe the artist has been around for a while but just signed to a label this year. Maybe they have a hefty Bandcamp catalog but their most recent project was a significant level up. Either way, we’re acknowledging artists who’ve made considerable strides and earned bigger spots on our radar over the past 12 months — sometimes it really all just comes down to vibes.

If you’re an avid Stereogum reader — first of all, thank you — a lot of these names should already ring a bell. We might’ve named them a Band To Watch. They might’ve earned themselves an Album Of The Week accolade. Stereogum might’ve even presented one of their concerts this year. The Best New Bands Artists list is not a year-end list. But our 2024 In Review package is just around the corner, so you’ll probably be seeing some of these names again soon enough.

And now we present you with Stereogum’s 40 Best New Artists Of 2024, listed in alphabetical order. Below that you’ll find playlists on Spotify and Apple Music highlighting the honorees. —Abby Jones

haha I guess new bands have given up on that "make the name easy to find in the search engine" thing:

Ain't
Doubt
julie
Rocket
World News
Shower Curtain
knitting
Grumpy
Combat
Font

Brooklynvegan have provided a summary of the Mojo Top 75 Albums of 2024 list

via
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/mojos-top-75-albums-of-2024/

MOJO’s Top 75 Albums of 2024
75. Field Music – Limits of Language
74. Pom Poko – Champion
73. Tindersticks – Soft Tissue
72. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flight b741
71. The Bevis Frond – Focus on Nature
70. Kelly Finnigan – A Lover Was Born
69. The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Rhapsody
68. Julia Holter – Something in the Room She Moves
67. Ghost Dubs – Damaged
66. Khruangbin – A LA SALA
65. Cassie Kinoshi’s Seed – Gratitude
64. Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand
63. Floating Points – Cascade
62. Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cósmico
61. Oisin Leech – Cold Sea
60. The Hard Quartet – The Hard Quartet
59. Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin – Ghosted II
58. Naima Bock – Below a Massive Dark Land
57. Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
56. Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
55. The Bug – Machine
54. MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
53. Public Service Broadcasting – The Last Flight
52. Richard Hawley – In This City They Call You Love
51. IDLES – TANGK
50. Lee “Scratch” Perry – Spaceship to Mars
49. Joan As Police Woman – Lemons, Limes And Orchids
48. Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
47. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes
46. The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
45. Nubya Garcia – ODYSSEY
44. Kamasi Washington – Fearless Movement
43. The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
42. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
41. Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
40. Brittany Howard – What Now
39. Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
38. Leyla McCalla – Sun Without the Heat
37. Common – The Auditorium Vol. 1
36. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
35. Adrianne Lenker – Bright Future
34. Amyl and The Sniffers – Cartoon Darkness
33. Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching
32. Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless
31. The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
30. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
29. Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
28. John Cale – POPtical Illusion
27. The The – Ensoulment
26. Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
25. St. Vincent – All Born Screaming
24. Mercury Rev – Born Horses
23. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore
22. Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice
21. Gruff Rhys – Sadness Sets Me Free
20. Lady Blackbird – Slang Spirituals
19. Peter Perrett – The Cleansing
18. David Gilmour – Luck and Strange
17. Paul Weller – 66
16. Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Loophole
15. English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
14. Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer
13. The Smile – Wall of Eyes
12. Shabaka – Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
11. John Grant – The Art of the Lie
10. Kim Gordon – The Collective
9. Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle
8. The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
7. Fontaines D.C. – Romance
6. Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
5. Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
4. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Woodland
3. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
1. Jack White – No Name

albumoftheyear has it's 2024 banner green because I suspect they expect BRAT to win AOTY but it's funny how none of the list counted so far have helped pushed it anywhere near the top 50.

From what I can gather it's going to be a fight to the top between The Cure and Charli XCX.

Charli XCX and Chapel Roan releasing the most beloved pop albums in such a stacked year for pop releases was not in my bingo card.

Wasn’t the Roan album from last year?

yeah but "year of impact"

A few ILM pop elite were definitely in on it last year and it made it to #56 on the top 77 albums list which disqualifies it from appearing this year but it would have very likely made it way higher if nommed this year. I still expect some songs to make it to the tracks poll this year.

But you're right, allow me to rephrase:

Charli XCX and Chapel Roan becoming the most beloved pop acts in such a stacked year for pop releases was not in my bingo card.

The monster this year is Short n' Sweet, especially with ILM.

Wait, really? Espresso felt huge but I haven’t really heard or read many people talking about the album.

It also has "Taste," "Please Please Please" and "Bed Chem."

The Independent- Best Songs 2024
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-songs-2024-charli-xcx-chappell-roan-b2647140.html

via: https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15685&sid=70911d331dc36f614d1268472bd2dcef

20. "How Did It End?", Taylor Swift
19. ‘Who Knows What You’ll Find?’ – Confidence Man,
18. ‘Speyside’ – Bon Iver
17. ‘Someone to Dance With’ – Robby Hecht
16. "Aquamarine", Addison Rae
15. ‘Joy’ – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
14. "Sexy to Someone", Clairo
13. "Starburned and Unkissed", Caroline Polachek
12. ‘Never Need Me’ – Rachel Chinouriri
11. ‘Crown’ – Billie Marten
10. ‘Lone Star Lake’ – Waxahatchee
09. ‘Starburster’ – Fontaines DC
08. "Bed Chem", Sabrina Carpenter
07. "Angel Of My Dreams", JADE
06. ‘Alone’ – The Cure
05. ‘Free Treasure’ – Adrianne Lenker
04. "BODYGUARD", Beyoncé
03. "Not Like Us", Kendrick Lamar
02. "Good Luck, Babe!", Chappell Roan
01. "Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde", Charli xcx & Lorde

DJ Mag Best of British awards 2024: voting is now open
https://djmag.com/news/dj-mag-best-of-british-awards-2024-voting-now-open

loads of categories, including:

Best Album

Ezra Collective ‘Dance, No One’s Watching’ [Partisan Records]
Gorgon City ‘Reverie’ [Positiva]
I.JORDAN ‘I AM JORDAN’ [Ninja Tune]
Midland ‘Fragments of Us’ [Graded]

Best Compilation

V/A ‘20 Years Of Phonica’ [Phonica Records]
V/A ‘Club Moss’ [Wisdom Teeth]
Shygirl ‘fabric presents Shygirl’ [fabric Records]
V/A ‘Obligated Records: Vol​.​1’ [Obligated Records]
V/A ‘Optimo 25’ [Above Board Projects]

Best Track

Cromby ‘House Flava’ [Big Saldo's Chunkers]
Joy Orbison ‘flight fm’ [Hinge Finger / XL Recordings]
Oppidan ‘Mr. Sandman’ [Promised Land Recordings]
Shanti Celeste ‘Ice Cream Dream Boy’ [Method 808 x Peach Discs]
TSHA ‘Girls (feat. Rose Gray)’ [Ninja Tune]
Nia Archives ‘Silence Is Loud’ [HIJINXX / Island Records]

Best Rap Album / Mixtape

Bashy ‘Being Poor is Expensive’ [Bish Bash Bosh Music]
Jawnino ‘40’ [True Panther Records]
Lex Amor ‘Forward Ever’ [Modern Oak]
Meekz ‘TRU’ [Self-released]
Nines ‘Quit While You're Ahead’ [Zino Records]

Best Rap Track

Chy Cartier ‘BOSSED UP’ [Self-released]
Cristale ‘Antisocial’ [4ZA Music / Black Butter]
K-Trap ‘Heaven or Hell’ [Thousand8 / EGA]
Pa Salieu ‘Belly’ [Warner Music UK]
SL ‘Tracey Beaker’ [Mic Cheque]

Rough Trade UK Albums of the Year - Top 100 Albums

Top 20 featured
https://blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-albums-of-the-year-2024/

Album of the Year
SOPHIE - SOPHIE
Future Classic / Transgressive

the rest you have to browse through 21-100
https://www.roughtrade.com/en-gb/collection/albums-of-the-year-2024

no convenient summary list to copy and paste.

Playlist, one track of each of the 100 albums:

Spotify: Rough Trade Albums of 20024
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0BHPW5s8ARSFwISvpbaJzX?si=a0160eb131194900

clarissa connelly slam dunkin' in at number um, 86

Rough Trade 2024 Albums - in AOTY format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2296-rough-trade-uks-albums-of-the-year-2024/

UK jazz music magazine Jazzwise

The 20 best new jazz albums of 2024: Jazzwise critics' poll
https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/the-20-best-new-jazz-albums-of-2024-jazzwise-critics-poll

summary via
acclaimedmusic forum
https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15692&sid=766cebe334ea8a02ee25888b4917e5e3

01 Samara Joy : Portrait
02 Charles Lloyd : The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
03 Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding : Milton + esperanza
04 Mary Halvorson : Cloudward
05 James Brandon Lewis Quartet : Transfiguration
06 David Murray Quartet : Francesca
07 Pat Metheny : Moondial
08 (ahmed) : Giant Beauty
09 Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers : Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
10 John Surman : Words Unspoken
11 Empirical : Wonder Is The Beginning
12 Aaron Parks : Little Big III
13 Ruth Goller : Skyllumina
14 Claire Martin : Almost In Your Arms
15 Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi : Altera Vita
16 Immanuel Wilkins : Blues Blood
17 Melissa Aldana : Echoes of The Inner Prophet
18 Nubya Garcia : Odyssey
19 Zara McFarlane : Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan
20 Bill Frisell : Orchestras

The best albums of 2024, according to Time Out
https://www.timeout.com/music/the-best-albums-of-2024

summary via:
https://www.acclaimedmusic.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15706

1. ‘Romance’ – Fontaines D.C.
2. ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ – Chappell Roan
3. ‘Diamond Jubilee’ – Cindy Lee
4. ‘Brat’ – Charli XCX
5. ‘Songs of a Lost World’ – The Cure
6. ‘In Waves’ – Jamie XX
7. ‘Only God Was Above Us’ – Vampire Weekend
8. ‘Britpop’ – A.G. Cook
9. ‘I Got Heaven’ – Mannequin Pussy
10. ‘Blue Lips’ – Schoolboy Q
11. ‘Absolute Elsewhere’ – Blood Incantation
12. ‘Orquídeas’ – Kali Uchis
13. ‘Cowboy Carter’ – Beyoncé
14. ‘No Name’ – Jack White
15. ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’ – The Last Dinner Party
16. ‘What a Devastating Turn of Events’ – Rachel Chinouriri
17. ‘Night Reign’ – Arooj Aftab
18. ‘Bright Future’ – Adrianne Lenker
19. ‘Running in a Dream’ – Nils Hoffman
20. ‘3AM (La La La)’ – Confidence Man
21. ‘Ten Fold’ – Yaya Bey
22. The Warriors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Various Artists
23. ‘A Stranger Desired’ – Bleachers
24. ‘CHROMAKOPIA’ – Tyler, the Creator
25. ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ – Taylor Swift

note: ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’ – Chappell Roan album was obviously 2023, so why have the Time Out laggards included it in 2024.

Celebrate Bandcamp’s Best of 2024 With a Week of Listening Parties
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/celebrate-bandcamps-best-of-2024-with-a-week-of-listening-parties

Bandcamp Best of 2024 Listening Parties
2 December – Baby Rose
2 December – Nyeusi Loe & Loman
3 December – Galliano
3 December – Lava La Rue
3 December – Mildlife
4 December – Alice Russell
5 December – Mary Timony
5 December – Nippon Acid Folk compilation, with compiler Kay Suzuki
5 December – Yasmin Williams
5 December – Zeal & Ardor
6 December – La Luz
6 December – Iglooghost
6 December – ELUCID
6 December – Rosali
6 December – Nubya Garcia
9 December – Caribou

Regarding, Nubya Garcia - the track Triumphance deserves to be very high up in the 2024 ILM Top 77 tracks poll.

brilliant dubby jazz, what a intoxicating sound production, the drums, the saxophone and vocals combine perfectly

https://nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/triumphance

Yeah, that's a good track. When I interviewed her she said it wasn't even going to be on the album at first — it's been her set closer for a year or two and she wanted to keep it special, something you could only hear at the gigs, but friends convinced her to record it.

Just heard this song for the first time (also my first time hearing the artist). Very nice!

All the early one's use to came out right after Thanksgiving, so we are a week away.

Raymond, Nubya Garcia has been up to a whole lotta good since 2019, strong recommendation

BBC Radio 6 Music reveals its Albums of the Year 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/bbc-radio-6-albums-2024

Over the next five weeks, New Album Fix (which drops on BBC Sounds every Friday morning), presented by Matt Everitt, will explore each of the albums. The shows will feature voicenotes from presenters, revealing why these albums are the best of the year for them:

New Music Fix: Albums of the Year – Episode 1
On BBC Sounds from Friday 29 November

A Firmer Hand by Hamish Hawk (selected by Steve Lamacq)
Here in the Pitch by Jessica Pratt (selected by Gideon Coe)
I AM JORDAN by I. JORDAN (selected by SHERELLE)
Perak by Thee Marloes (selected by Huey Morgan)
Soft Power by Ezra Feinberg (selected by Deb Grant)
New Music Fix: Albums of the Year – Episode 2
On BBC Sounds from Monday 2 December

Below a Massive Dark Land by Naima Bock (selected by Marc Riley)
Britpop by A. G. Cook (selected by Stuart Maconie)
Humble as the Sun by Bob Vylan (selected by Craig Charles)
The Sunset Violent by Mount Kimbie (selected by Emily Pilbeam)
World of Work by Clarissa Connelly (selected by Zakia Sewell)
New Music Fix: Albums of the Year – Episode 3
On BBC Sounds from Monday 9 December

Cartoon Darkness by Amyl and the Sniffers (selected by Iggy Pop)
Baleine à Boss by Violence Gratuite (selected by Tom Ravenscroft)
Metamorphosis Complete by Infinity Song (selected by AFRODEUTSCHE)
This Could Be Texas by English Teacher (selected by Huw Stephens)
Too Cold To Hold by Warmduscher (selected by Tom Robinson)
New Music Fix: Albums of the Year – Episode 4
On BBC Sounds from Monday 16 December

BRAT by Charli xcx (selected by Nick Grimshaw, who is currently sitting in for Lauren Laverne)
Cold Sea by Oisin Leech (selected by Cerys Matthews)
Faux Ever by Faux Real (selected by Nathan Shepherd)
Pomegranate by Tess Parks (selected by Amy Lamé)
Rudeboy Design Soundtape by Shy FX & Mr. Williamz (selected by Don Letts)
New Music Fix: Albums of the Year – Episode 5
On BBC Sounds from Monday 23 December

Daughter of a Temple by Ganavya (selected by Gilles Peterson)
Filthy Underneath by Nadine Shah (selected by Guy Garvey)
Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free by Bonny Light Horseman (selected by Mark Radcliffe)
Romance by Fontaines D.C. (selected by Chris Hawkins)
The Collective by Kim Gordon (selected by Mary Anne Hobbs)
Endlessness by Nala Sinephro (selected by Jamz Supernova)

One track from each of these albums will be added to the 6 Music playlist for one week between Monday 25 November – Sunday 29 December.

ilxor Andy Kellman, has published his annual Surface Scratch playlist

2024 Surface Scratch
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3T25VVRXkkp7hnDBG3BUi8?si=442b424267a541f0
provisional

40 Tracks

The album I’ve listened to most this year is Mk.gee and I just assumed it was critically acclaimed and would appear on lists everywhere. Odd!

Gilles Peterson AOTY choice

Daughter of a Temple
by ganavya
https://ganavya.bandcamp.com/album/daughter-of-a-temple

Described by the Wall Street Journal as “one of modern music’s most compelling vocalists,” New York-born and Tamil Nadu-raised singer and multi-instrumentalist ganavya shares an ambitious new album, "Daughter of a Temple", via LEITER. The album follows her performance at SAULT’s acclaimed live debut in London in 2023, where, according to The Guardian, her “voice had a delicate emotive heft that could turn stoics into sobbing wrecks.” Her first single for LEITER, "draw something beautiful," was released earlier this year in July.

For "Daughter of a Temple", ganavya invited over 30 artists from various disciplines to a ritual gathering in Houston. Consequently, the album features numerous contributors, including renowned musicians such as esperanza spalding, Vijay Iyer, Shabaka Hutchings, Immanuel Wilkins, and Peter Sellars. The results—an innovative and deeply moving blend of spiritual jazz and South Asian devotional music—were initially recorded by Ryan Renteria and then further edited and mixed by Nils Frahm at LEITER's studio in Berlin in 2024.
credits

released November 15, 2024

ilxor Andy Kellman, has published his annual Surface Scratch playlist

2024 Surface Scratch
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3T25VVRXkkp7hnDBG3BUi8?si=442b424267a541f0
provisional

40 Tracks

― djmartian

Love this one. Thanks.

xxpost McGee possibly ruined his own rating average with his album title

2024’s best record sleeves – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/jan/10/year-best-record-sleeves-lady-gaga-fontaines-dc-hiatus-kaiyote-in-pictures

Everything Is Noise’s Top 85: The Best Albums of 2024
https://everythingisnoise.net/features/everything-is-noises-top-85-the-best-albums-of-2024/

highly recommended read lots of leftfield choices on this list including jazz, metal, hardcore, hip-hop, electronic and experimental albums.

The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
https://www.loudersound.com/features/readers-poll-best-metal-albums-of-2024

1. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament (Reigning Phoenix)

Peter Margasak, (staff writer at Chicago Reader)

jazz / experimental

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 1
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2023-part

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 2
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2024-part

My 40 Favorite Albums of 2024, part 3
https://petermargasak.substack.com/p/my-40-favorite-albums-of-2024-part-329

The Elite Extremophile’s Top 50 Prog Albums of 2024

highly recommended read, many leftfield / esoteric selections:

Best of 2024: Top 50 Prog Albums Part 1: 50-26
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/08/best-of-2024-top-50-prog-albums-part-1-50-26/

including

#45: Lowen – Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran | Progressive doom metal |

#37: Plantoid – Terrapath | Psychedelic rock, Progressive rock |

#29: Present – This Is NOT the End | RIO, Avant-prog |

Best of 2024: Top 50 Prog Albums Part 2: 25-1
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/09/best-of-2024-top-50-prog-albums-part-2-25-1/

including:

#24: Five the Hierophant – Apeiron | Progressive metal |

#12: Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens | Psychedelic black metal |

#10: Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja | Psychedelic black metal |

#3: Papangu – Lampi​ã​o Rei | Progressive rock

and the number 1, completely new to me:

#1: Perilymph – Progressions Imaginaires | Progressive rock

The Elite Extremophile’s

Best of 2024: Top Prog EPs
https://theeliteextremophile.com/2025/01/07/best-of-2024-top-prog-eps/

darkfloor 50 favourite releases – 2024
https://darkfloor.co.uk/50-favourite-releases-2024/

Al Wootton – River Songs [TRULE]
esoteric rhythm dub

Allie X – Girl with No Face [Twin Music]
avant-pop bangers

Ben Frost – Scope Neglect [Mute]
loud, power ambient

Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere [Century Media]
experimental death metal meets Kosmische

Brendon Moeller – Signal [Constellation Tatsu]
dub-ambient

The Bug – Machine [Relapse Records]
industrial dub destruction par excellence

Carmen Villain – Nutrition [Smalltown Supersound]
rhythmic field recordings

Carrier – In Spectra [Carrier]
deep tech, dub n bass

Christoph de Babalon – Ach, Mensch [Midnight Shift]
mean darkside drum & bass

claire rousay – The Bloody Lady [VIERNULVIER Records]
electroacoustic dreams of an imagined score about Elisabeth Bathory

Craven Faults – Bounds [The Leaf Label]
droned travels through Northern England

Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything [Bella Union]
raw emotional beauty

DJ Scotch Bonnet – Kicking Speakers [Small But Hard Recordings]
soundsystem crunch n bass

DJ Trace & HLZ – Raptor [Metalheadz]
heavy techstep perfection

Dominik Eulberg, Hannes Kretzer – Frost [Blue Marble]
widescreen hi def ambient

Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen [Potomak]
moor-ish German industrial songs

Elkhorn – The Red Valley [VHF Records]
fuzzy ritualistic psych folk

Ellen Reid – Big Majestic [New Amsterdam]
bright modern classical sonic art

EMZYG – 52 Blue [Hummus Records]
lo-fi psych rock

Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther [Rocket Recordings]
propulsive textured minimalism

Firnis DC – Firnis der Civilisation [Felt]
diverse imaginary immersive spaces

Fjaak – FJAAK THE SYSTEM [SPANDAU20]
bass rich breakbeats, jungle, 2-step, techno

Förfallet – VE [self released]
mesmerising atmospheric black metal

Fracture – SLOW860 [Astrophonica]
an ambient drift love letter to pirate radio culture

FYEAR – FYEAR [Constellation]
unique spoken word abstract “out” jazz, captivatingly paranoid

Ghost Dubs – Damaged [Pressure]
experimental dub w/ a nod to Chain Reaction

GIFT – Illuminator [Captured Tracks]
poppy shoegaze rock

gyrofield – These Heavens [XL]
bewitching outsider drum & bass

Heriot – Devoured by the Mouth of Hell [Century Media]
intensely fierce, dark thrashing riffs

Holy Tongue & Shackleton – The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now [AD 93]
abstract, esoteric dub from contemporary British masters

Jamie xx – In Waves [Young]
vibe rich, housey mixtape that really resonated

KULK – It Gets Worse [Human Worth]
sludge n dirge doom

Les Amazones d’Afrique – Musow Danse [Real World Records Ltd.]
all-female West African supergroup serve strong

Low End Activist – Municipal Dreams [Sneaker Social Club]
narrative driven weightless bass bin flexes

Marika Hackman – Big Sigh [Chrysalis]
lyrically sharp poignant folk rock

Mildlife – Chorus [Heavenly Recordings]
late 70s space rock bought to the now

Monolake – Studio [Imbalance Computer Music]
melodically IDM infected techno precision

The Necks – Bleed [Northern Spy Records]
beautiful decay over a single 40 minute piece

Objekt – Chicken Garaage [Kapsela]
breaksteppin’ grime n UKG

Pinkcourtesyphone – Arise in Sinking Feelings [Room40]
doom riddled, feel good Lynchian ambient

Poppy – negative spaces [Sumerian Records]
metalcore slamming pop bombs

Raw Village Hall – Not Even Close [Acre Recordings]
grim breakcore infested jungle filth

SHXCXCHCXSH – ……t [Northern Electronics]
supreme level industrial techno abstractions

Skee Mask – Resort [Ilian Tape]
heady percussive ambience from the ever reliable German

Strange Boy – Love Remains [Groenland Records]
beautiful experimental pop duo deliver deeply resonating record

Sumac – The Healer [Thrill Jockey]
dank riffs from the underside of Hell

Sunroof – Electronic Music Improvisations Vol. 3 [Mute]
Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones’s modular noodling

Torn – Immortal [Samurai Music]
brooding dark resplendence over searing drum breaks

Uniform – American Standard [Sacred Bones Records]
uneasy intense ferocity

The Obelisk - The Best of 2024 Year-End Poll — RESULTS!
https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2025/01/08/the-best-of-2024-year-end-poll-results/

readers poll

Top 20 of 2024 — Weighted Results
1. Slomosa, Tundra Rock (404 points)
2. Greenleaf, The Head and the Habit (360)
3. Lowrider & Elephant Tree, The Long Forever (350)
4. Fu Manchu, The Return of Tomorrow (263)
5. Psychlona, Warped Vision (256)
6. Slift, Ilion (244)
7. High on Fire, Cometh the Storm (241)
8. Blue Heron, Everything Fades (208)
9. Rezn, Burden (195)
10. Blood Incantation, Absolute Elsewhere (194)
11. High Desert Queen, Palm Reader (190)
12. 1000mods, Cheat Death (169)
13. Gnome, Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome (167)
14. Sergeant Thunderhoof, The Ghost of Badon Hill (159)
15. Orange Goblin, Science, Not Fiction (137)
16. Valley of the Sun, Quintessence (136)
17. Black Pyramid, The Paths of Time Are Vast (126)
18. Monkey3, Welcome to the Machine (117)
18. Sundrifter, An Earlier Time (117)
19. Heavy Temple, Garden of Heathens (114)
20. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Nell’ Ora Blu (103)

Honorable Mention:

The next 10, in order: Abrams, Sacri Monti, Chat Pile, Delving, The Obsessed, Opeth, Brant Bjork Trio, Lord Buffalo, Mammoth Volume, Thou and Free Ride. That’s more than 10, but there was a tie.

Under the Radar presents 100 Albums of 2024 Playlist

The Best Songs from the Best Albums of the Last Year
https://www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/listen_to_under_the_radars_epic_10_hour_top_100_albums_of_2024_playlist

We have put together a Spotify playlist for our Top 100 Albums of 2024 list and it’s 10 hours long. It features at least one song from each of our Top 100 in the order the albums appear on the list, from our #1 album to our #100. Some albums are represented by multiple songs filtered throughout the list, especially albums from our Top 10, and there are also a few songs from some of the honorable mentions, 2024 albums some of our writers liked that didn’t quite make the Top 100.

Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6lISFgT7f8cBVXIX01DNnz?si=UIw7HGSATYm0KaJx6wwuGQ

The Prog Mind - Top EPs 2024
https://theprogmind.com/2025/01/07/tpm-top-eps-2024/

10. Argovia – Who We Are

9. Sol Levita – Prevalece

8. Manes – Pathei Mathos

7. Johan Niemann – Anhedonia

6. Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand

5. Revis – Bottles of Lightning

4. Persefone – Lingua Ignota: Part I

3. The Radicant – We Ascend

2. Remina – Erebus

1. The Exies – Closure

many many xps
thanks for posting Eddy's and Kogan's top tens. so many intriguing choices. I would love to read those guys writing about that stuff somewhere. sigh

Atwood Magazine 2024’s Best Albums of the Year
https://atwoodmagazine.com/2024-albums-of-the-year/

albums from these artists:

Abby Holliday Amanda Bergman Ariana Grande Being Dead Beyoncé Billie Eilish Blind Pilot BLK ODYSSY Brigitte Calls Me Baby Camila Cabello Cementation Anxiety Chandler Leighton Charli XCX Childish Gambino Clairo COIN daysormay Doechii Dua Lipa Faye Webster Fie Eike Fontaines DC Geordie Greep Glass Animals Hakushi Hasegawa Halsey Hovvdy Jessica Pratt Jodie Nicholson KAGAMI Smile Kamasi Washington Kelsea Ballerini Kendrick Lamar Laci Kaye Booth Lainey Wilson Laura Marling Leif Vollebekk Lola Young Magdelena Bay Mannequin Pussy Matt Champion Medium Build MJ Lenderman Mk.gee Pillow Queens Sabrina Carpenter Sam Barber Samara Cyn Sheer Mag Sly Jr. St. Vincent State Faults Suki Waterhouse The Last Dinner Party The Marías The Smile The Staves The Warning total tommy Valley Vampire Weekend wave to earth Wilderado Wishy

Atwood Magazine The 25 Best EPs of 2024
https://atwoodmagazine.com/2024-eps-of-the-year/

eps from these artists:

Alex Banin, ANT ENOCH, Caroline Kingsbury, deary, DIME, Gel, Girl Scout, Gore., Hans Williams, Her New Knife, Isaac Dunbar, Kaitlyn Olson, Lee Lewis, mary in the junkyard, Medium Build, Moody Joody, Nathan Ball, Night Tapes, NOEL, sacha , Stevie Bill, Talia Raye, TEE, The Brook & The Bluff, The Volunteers

Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2024
https://chorus.fm/features/articles/chorus-fms-top-30-albums-of-2024/

AOTY - format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2450-chorusfms-top-30-albums-of-2024/

1. Kelsea Ballerini – Patterns

Choice Music Prize 2024 – here are the 10 nominated Irish albums
https://nialler9.com/choice-music-prize-albums-2024-shortlist/

RTÉ Choice Music Prize

The 10 nominees for the 20th RTÉ Choice Music Prize

The 10 albums selected by a panel of 12 judges (including myself) to go forward to the live show at Vicar Street on Thursday March 6th, where a winner will be announced for this main prize of the Choice are:

A Lazarus Soul – No Flowers Grow In Cement Gardens
Curtisy – What Was The Question?
Fontaines D.C. – Romance
Orla Gartland – Everybody Needs A Hero
Kneecap – Fine Art
NewDad – MADRA
Niamh Regan – Come As You Are
Róis – Mo Léan
Silverbacks – Easy Being A Winner
Sprints – Letter To Self

TEETH OF THE DIVINE - STAFF PICKS FOR 2024
https://www.teethofthedivine.com/featured/teeth-of-the-divine-staff-picks-for-2024/

metal, various lists

https://bradluen.substack.com/p/the-14th-annual-expert-witness-poll-66f

A lot of words on the year in country music, with best-of lists of 40 albums and 40 singles.

Australian Radio Station - Triple J's annual listeners "Hottest 100" poll

Chappell Roan’s Good Luck, Babe! wins Triple J’s Hottest 100
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/25/chappell-roans-good-luck-babe-wins-triple-j-hottest-100

Billie Eilish and Charli XCX dominate 2024 countdown as Royel Otis’s cover of Murder on the Dancefloor comes in second

Full List 1-100
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100/1-100

including:

1: Good Luck, Babe!
Chappell Roan

20: Apple
Charli xcx

26: The girl, so confusing version with lorde
Charli xcx & Lorde

35: 360
Charli XCX

36: Von dutch
Charli xcx

67: A Little Closer
Diffrent

99: iluv
Effy & Mall Grab

Something for the Weekend presents:
That was the year that was : Our all-in-one guide to the 21 albums recommended by this site in 2024
https://weekendprog.blogspot.com/2025/01/that-was-year-that-was-our-all-in-one.html

covering progressive rock / progressive metal

QUANTUM - Down the Mountainside

UNIVERSE EFFECTS - The Distance

WASAYA - Curtain Falls

THE CYBERIAM - Unobtainium

MADDER MORTEM - Old Eyes, New Heart

BALANCE OF POWER - Fresh From The Abyss

VOLA - Friend of a Phantom

QUINTANA - The Traveler

ANUBIS - The Unforgivable

KALANDRA - A Frame Of Mind

THE ECHO VEILS - The Calm Beneath The Noise

MOTHER OF MILLIONS - Magna Mater

SUNBURST - Manifesto

WITHERFALL - Sounds of the Forgotten

GHOST ON MARS - Out of Time and Space

TURBULENCE - Binary Dream

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM - Of The Last Human Being

TERAMAZE - Eli : A Wonderful Fall From Grace

MYRATH - Karma

RENDEZVOUS POINT - Dream Chaser

HOURGLASS - Voids and Visions

Heavy Blog is Heavy present Heavy Blog's Superlatives List For 2024
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/21/heavy-blogs-superlatives-list-for-2024/

Well hello there! As has become our wont, we will kick off our Album of the Year of 2024 posting with our Superlatives List!

reminder of the aggregated top 50 albums and singles ranking at AOTY

AOTY 2024 Music Year End List Aggregate: Albums
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2024/

These numbers are obtained from the 121 lists found at the end of this page.

1: BRAT
Charli xcx

The Best Songs of 2024 Aggregate
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/songs/best/2024/

including the top 5:

1: Kendrick Lamar
Not Like Us

2: Chappell Roan
Good Luck, Babe!

3: Lorde, Charli xcx
Girl, so confusing featuring lorde

4: Sabrina Carpenter
Espresso

5: Waxahatchee
Right Back to It
feat. MJ Lenderman

Acclaimed Music Forum aggregated Top 100 Songs of 2024

updated: Fri Jan 24

List of sources added in this update:
USA & Canada: Spectrum Culture, Atwood Magazine, Fader, Entertainment Weekly, La canal auditif, TheNeedleDrop, Complex, Albumism, PopMatters, Coup de Main Mag
UK & Ireland: Hot Press, Rock Sound, DJ Mag, Mixmag, The Times, Complex, Dork, Clash, The Irish Times
Rest of the World: Jenesaispop, Conteo Reactor 105.7, Laut, Zündfunk, Muzikalia, Indiestyle, Revista O Grito, Radionica, 1Live, Rockdelux, Mindies, Mowno, Plattentests, Les Inrockuptibles, Aftonbladet
National Lists: Rolling Stone en Espanol, Rockdelux (Natl), CBC Music (Natl), The Irish Times (Natl), APCA (Natl)

Top 100 Songs:
1 | Chappell Roan | Good Luck, Babe!
2 | Kendrick Lamar | Not Like Us
3 | Charli XCX feat. Lorde | The Girl, So Confusing Version With Lorde
4 | Fontaines D.C. | Starburster
5 | Waxahatchee feat. MJ Lenderman | Right Back to It
6 | Sabrina Carpenter | Espresso
7 | Billie Eilish | Birds of a Feather
8 | The Cure | Alone
9 | Adrianne Lenker | Sadness as a Gift
10 | Kim Gordon | Bye Bye
11 | Nilüfer Yanya | Like I Say (I Runaway)
12 | Tinashe | Nasty
13 | Fontaines D.C. | Favourite
14 | FKA twigs | Eusexua
15 | JADE | Angel of My Dreams
16 | Geordie Greep | Holy, Holy
17 | Addison Rae | Diet Pepsi
18 | MJ Lenderman | She’s Leaving You
19 | Beth Gibbons | Floating on a Moment
20 | Charli XCX | 360
21 | MJ Lenderman | Wristwatch
22 | Clairo | Sexy to Someone
23 | Beyoncé | Texas Hold ‘Em
24 | Nick León & Erika de Casier | Bikini
25 | Charli XCX | Von Dutch
26 | Jamie xx feat. Honey Dijon | Baddy on the Floor
27 | Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish | Guess
28 | Nourished by Time | Hell of a Ride
29 | Sabrina Carpenter | Please Please Please
30 | Knocked Loose feat. Poppy | Suffocate
31 | Jessica Pratt | Life Is
32 | Shaboozey | A Bar Song (Tipsy)
33 | Magdalena Bay | Image
34 | Ariana Grande | we can’t be friends (wait for your love)
35 | Mk.gee | Alesis
36 | SZA | Saturn
37 | Magdalena Bay | Death & Romance
38 | Amyl and the Sniffers | U Should Not Be Doing That
39 | Charli XCX | 365
40 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Wild God
41 | Billie Eilish | LUNCH
42 | Bon Iver | S P E Y S I D E
43 | St. Vincent | Broken Man
44 | Joy Orbison | Flight FM
45 | Jack White | That’s How I’m Feeling
46 | Cash Cobain with Bay Swag | Fisherrr
47 | ROSÉ & Bruno Mars | APT.
48 | Mannequin Pussy | Loud Bark
49 | Hozier | Too Sweet
50 | Megan Thee Stallion | Hiss
51 | GloRilla | TGIF
52 | Doechii | Nissan Altima
53 | Tems | Love Me JeJe
54 | Tommy Richman | MILLION DOLLAR BABY
55 | Clairo | Juna
56 | Karol G | Si antes te hubiera conocido
57 | Kali Uchis feat. Peso Pluma | Igual Que un Ángel
58 | Charli XCX | Apple
59 | Doechii | Denial Is a River
60 | Yard Act | We Make Hits
61 | Beyoncé | BODYGUARD
62 | Blondshell feat. Bully | Docket
63 | Olivia Rodrigo | Obsessed
64 | The Last Dinner Party | Nothing Matters
65 | IDLES | Gift Horse
66 | Future & Metro Boomin feat. Kendrick Lamar | Like That
67 | Remi Wolf | Cinderella
68 | Kendrick Lamar | Euphoria
69 | Nia Archives | Crowded Roomz
70 | Vampire Weekend | Classical
71 | Vampire Weekend | Capricorn
72 | Sexyy Red | Get It Sexyy
73 | The Last Dinner Party | The Feminine Urge
74 | Fontaines D.C. | In the Modern World
75 | Pearl Jam | Dark Matter
76 | Zach Bryan | Pink Skies
77 | Charli XCX | Sympathy Is a Knife
78 | Sabrina Carpenter | Taste
79 | Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen | I Had Some Help
80 | Tyler, the Creator feat. GloRilla, Sexyy Red & Lil Wayne | Sticky
81 | HiTech | SPANK!
82 | Kacey Musgraves | Deeper Well
83 | This Is Lorelei | I'm All Fucked Up
84 | Khruangbin | May Ninth
85 | Kendrick Lamar | reincarnated
86 | Willi Carlisle | Higher Lonesome
87 | Beyoncé | 16 Carriages
88 | Kassie Krut | Reckless
89 | Little Simz | Mood Swings
90 | The Lemon Twigs | My Golden Years
91 | Dua Lipa | Training Season
92 | Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars | Die With A Smile
93 | Still House Plants | M M M
94 | Jordan Adetunji | Kehlani
95 | Magdalena Bay | Cry for Me
96 | Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone | Fortnight
97 | Alizzz & María Arnal | Despertar
98 | Mica Levi | slob air
99 | Brittany Howard | Prove It to You
100 | St. Vincent | Big Time Nothing

If you're curious, I played with that AOTY aggregate data a little, and put it up in a form where you can poke at it yourself. Blog post with a link at the end:

https://www.furia.com/log/503

https://uproxx.com/critic-polls/uproxx-music-critics-poll-2024-albums/

Expert Witness is in, and Brad seems happy:

While the results aren’t statistically representative of the opinions of anybody other than the people who voted in it, once you scroll down a bit they do give a sense of the breadth of good music in the world: South African gqom or is it 3-step; K-pop from the margins and right down the middle; all manner of sacred and profane Brazilian music; Nordijazz weird and weirder; and Slut SZN. The one clear weakness relative to American consumption is the lack of Spanish-language music (Hinds notwithstanding); I’ll think about what gerrymandering I can do to remedy this (let a year of Bzrp Sessions count as an EP maybe.)

Maybe the most surprising fact about this year’s top ten albums was not that they were by acts led by women or non-binary artists, it’s that I didn’t notice this until voter Boris Palameta pointed it out to me...Okay, one more reason this poll is good. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess being near or at the top of a bumper crop of albums by pop women (depending on how you split credit between Charli and her marketing team) was one of the stories of the music year. (Others: folkies are back and some of them are good; you can often make out the lyrics of songs again, and some people are even listening to them...

https://bradluen.substack.com/p/the-14th-annual-expert-witness-poll-66f

folkies are back and some of them are good; you can often make out the lyrics of songs again, and some people are even listening to them...

*full-body shudder*

todd in the shadows does his top ten songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXpvScL94Q

tl;dr- he likes kendrick, sabrina, and chappell.

https://brazilbeatblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/12/favorite-albums-of-2024/

Best of 2024 Brazil albums just posted

https://www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2024/11/28/50-songs-2023-fs5c2

Jonathan Bogart just posted his 2024 best recently. Caribbean and tropical dance music and more largely chosen via Youtube

Not a fan myself, but Teddy Swims "Los Control" was a huge hit in 2024 in US and UK (mentioned above in Top 20 Songs on Apple Music UK)

Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” becomes the first song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to spend triple-digit weeks on the chart, as it adds its milestone 100th frame on the ranking (dated July 26, 2025).

Now Billboard has changed its rules -

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/g-s1-94489/billboard-hot-100-chart-changes-songs

good fuck that song

I was hoping for a top ten of songs that were released more than a year ago--just to prove that time has slowed down.