The 2024 End of Year music lists thread

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

Lol

It’s also one of my favorites. There’s dozens of us! Dozens!

Will we redeem its chances on the ilm 77?

Clash, RS and p4k lists will probably have it on their eoy lists in the 20-40 range.

i don't think the mk.gee album is going to be right at the top of the eoy aggregates but it'll be on a bunch of lists. should absolutely show up on the ilm 77 (i'll be voting for it)

Yeah the live Youtube version of "Alesis" is so incredible, my track of the year

xp me too

His new track “ROCKMAN” is really good.

And I literally just now found out he performed it on SNL??

Treble - The 30 Best Metal Albums of 2024
https://www.treblezine.com/best-metal-albums-of-2024/

AOTY format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2300-trebles-30-best-metal-albums-of-2024/

some of my faves:

29. Iress – Sleep Now, In Reverse
https://weareiress.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-now-in-reverse

They’ve been compared to the likes of Emma Ruth Rundle and King Woman, artists whose music is more metal-adjacent than strictly for-the-riffs. And it’s fitting, but Iress have established a sonic identity all their own, one where a moment of delicate beauty can hit just as hard as a double-bass pummel.
doomgaze

18. Vuur & Zidje – Boezem
https://vuurenzijde.bandcamp.com/album/boezem

ethereal post punk goes atmospheric metalgaze

They’re arguably more post-punk than metal, at their most stunningly sinister bringing to mind classic 4AD releases from the likes of early Cocteau Twins and Xmal Deutschland, but when a blast beat passage breaks through, it’s seamless, elegant, driven by a gorgeous darkness as much as a beastly force of malevolence. While it’s perhaps not a 50/50 split, the group are proficient in both arenas, equally fetching in corpse paint or fishnets, velvet or ash. Either way, it’s made to soundtrack a night of debauchery and decadence.

17. Glassing – From the Other Side of the Mirror
https://glassing.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-other-side-of-the-mirror-2

It’s always impressive to hear Austin trio Glassing continue to find new territory to explore in the space between atmospheric post-metal, melodic post-hardcore and scorching black metal and screamo

6. Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
https://oranssipazuzu.bandcamp.com/album/muuntautuja
incorporating electronics and industrial into noisey sonic psychedelic distorted metal.

and
1. Chat Pile – Cool World
https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/cool-world
the track Frownland sounds very Killing Joke.

Treble list as a playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6rV7zxRITMfcjONJPnrtJf

Apple Music Editorial Staff Pics:
https://music.apple.com/us/room/6738590696

Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
Charli XCX - Brat
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
Fontaines DC - Romance
Fuerza Regida - Pero No Te Enamores
Future & Metro Boomin - We Don't Trust You
GloRilla - Glorious
Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us
Gunna - One of Wun
Ivan Cornejo - Mirada
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind
MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police
Muni Long - Revenge
Post Malone - F1-Trillion
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n Sweet
Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia

Love a "30 best metal albums" list that has mmmmmaybe 11 actual metal albums on it. If you drink every time you see the word "post-metal" in a blurb, you'll need a liver transplant by the end.

current rankings, at Metal Storm community

Metal Storm - Top 20 Albums of 2024
https://metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php?album_year=2024

1
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere
8.69 | 388

2 Iotunn Kinship
8.61 | 255

3 Thy Catafalque XII: A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek
8.43 | 138

4 Opeth The Last Will And Testament
8.42 | 261

5 Judas Priest Invincible Shield
8.42 | 571

6 Panzerfaust The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion
8.32 | 74

7 Ulcerate Cutting The Throat Of God
8.32 | 261

8 Wintersun Time II
8.23 | 473

9 Múr M​ú​r
8.22 | 23

10 Wormwood The Star
8.21 | 219

11 Gaerea Coma
8.2 | 173

12 In Vain Solemn
8.16 | 227

13 Sgàile Traverse The Bealach
8.13 | 199

14 Yoth Iria Blazing Inferno
8.1 | 120

15 Winterfylleth The Imperious Horizon
8.1 | 106
16 Anciients Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
8.09 | 161

17 Cistvaen At Light's Demise
8.08 | 144

18 Dödsrit Nocturnal Will
8.07 | 180

19 Kanonenfieber Die Urkatastrophe
8.07 | 161

20 Borknagar Fall
8.06 | 338

When could Spotify Wrapped 2024 come out?
https://metro.co.uk/2024/11/26/spotify-wrapped-2024-come-stop-counting-22064141/

When could Spotify Wrapped 2024 come out?
For the last three years, it has been on a Wednesday. Last year it was Wednesday November 29, the year before Wednesday November 30, and in 2021 it was Wednesday December 1.

Tomorrow is…. Wednesday November 27, so if they don’t break with tradition, it could be prime time for the stats to be shared.

It’s a little earlier than before, however, so next week on Wednesday December 4 could also be possible.

2024 Spotify Wrapped looks likely to be delivered tomorrow, just had a Spotify app pop-up to look back at your 2023 and 2022 Top Songs.

popmatters - The 20 Best Metal Albums of 2024
https://www.popmatters.com/best-metal-albums-of-2024

highlighted recommended album release is not metal, rather a great electronic rock release from Haunted Plasma

I checked with the metal detection police at metal-archives
https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=haunted+plasma&type=band_name
no results

15. Haunted Plasma – I (Svart)
https://hauntedplasma.bandcamp.com/album/i

Haunted Plasma, powerhouse of futuristic synth in symbiosis with the super violence of kosmische black metal, release their debut album in May 2024

The phenomenal three-piece band includes members of Oranssi Pazuzu, K-X-P, Grave Pleasures and Aavikko

Svart Records is proud to release the debut album, I, from Haunted Plasma, a powerhouse of futuristic synth in symbiosis with the super violent atmospherics of kosmische Black Metal. Haunted Plasma is “man meets machine” in a cybernetic wasteland, set to a conceptual backdrop of William Gibson and Phillip K. Dick style mind-melt. The highly evolved creatives at the heart of Haunted Plasma’s sound, cite Terry Riley, Massive Attack, a contemporary take on Krautrock hypnosis, psychedelic Black Metal and 90s Techno, resulting in an orgy of mutant sound.

The phantoms at the beating nucleus of this unearthly machine are Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures), Timo Kaukolampi (K-X-P, Op:l Bastards) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, Aavikko, K-X-P), transmitting a music form evolved from a life of redefining sonic boundaries in their respective projects. Also featuring guest vocals from Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Carpenter Brut, Grave Pleasures/Beastmilk), Pauliina Lindell (Vuono, Dust Mountain) and Ringa Manner (Ruusut, The Hearing). Haunted Plasma promises an extraterrestrial experience from some of the foremost contemporary musicians at the heart of the Finnish heavy and avant-garde musical underworld.

Haunted Plasma reveals:

“We are liberated futurists, embracing free-form and natural composition, mirroring the merciless forces of cosmic creation. We have a motto to stay true to our feelings, to spawn a sound that’s never been heard before. Servants of music. Energizing, radical and pure”

The first single from Haunted Plasma’s cascading debut, Reverse Engineer, is a creepy, slowly erupting, synthetic nightmare, of a downloaded being waking up in the wrong future. Ghostly vocals demand the listener to “give us what we want” in an Orwellian glimpse into the current dystopia we live in, where information is controlled, and thoughts are bought and sold. As McNerney intones the words “technology of power” he describes the threat of a malevolent and omnipresent artificial intelligence, as much as describing the oppressive and electromagnetic sonar pulse of Haunted Plasma’s sound itself. Psychedelic guitar hypnosis from Vanhanen snakes around Kaukolampi’s molten and morphing synths, while Leppänen’s uncanny man/machine rhythms pull our strings and animate their other-worldly mechanisms. Have a look at the official visualiser of "Reverse Engineer" on the Svart YouTube channel here

Culminating in the full-blown fast Krautrock of the final self-titled track, oozing with blistering noise elements and enigmatic vocals from Ringa Manner, the album's journey reaches its zenith, taking you to unknown territories on a Kubrikian space trip. I is a rare record of talented musicians coming together to create a completely new sound, which is entirely their own, boldly glowing, where no light has shone before. From the dreamy psychedelia of Echoes to the discombobulated Spectral Embrace, Haunted Plasma is a willful force of deliberate sound contortion.

Whether you want to give in to Haunted Plasma’s sound or not, you are being watched, you are being recorded and your every move is monitored. Haunted Plasma will enter your system on the 31st of May 2024. Turn on your phantom circuits and be prepared for an interdimensional excursion into Haunted Plasma’s alien dreams.

The debut album from Haunted Plasma will be packaged in a beautiful tip-on sleeve, swirling fog artwork, complete with 12” booklet and pressed on 3 exclusive vinyl colours: 300 copies on Standard Black Wax, 200 copies in Amber + Black Smoke and 500 copies of Svart exclusive Turquoise/Black Marble. The album will also be available on CD and digital platforms.
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released May 31, 2024

Canada's Exclaim music website

Exclaim - 50 Best Albums of 2024
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaim-50-best-albums-of-2024

1: Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

AOTY Format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2303-exclaims-50-best-albums-of-2024/

naima bock mentioned 🙌

CBC - The 15 best Canadian albums of 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/music/best-canadian-albums-2024-1.7393865

UK based Loud And Quiet Albums of the Year 2024
https://loudandquiet.substack.com/p/loud-and-quiet-albums-of-the-year-2024

Our top 20 records from what might prove to be the last year on earth, as voted for by our contributors

AOTY format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2304-loud-and-quiets-albums-of-the-year-2024/

some highlights:

16.
Moin – You Never End (AD 93)
https://m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com/album/you-never-end

12.
Clarissa Connelly – World of Work (Warp)
https://clarissaconnelly.bandcamp.com/track/give-it-back

04.
Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther (Rocket)
https://exeasterislandhead.bandcamp.com/album/norther

and Number 1

01.
Cassandra Jenkins – My Light, My Destroyer (Dead Oceans)

half decent list that

That Mustafa album (#1 on CBC) is really, really brilliant

yeh great list that

https://www.spin.com/2024/11/2024-albums-of-the-year/

https://www.spin.com/2024/11/2024-songs-of-the-year/

these might honestly be the most baffling

I don’t really get Geordie Greep but yeah that loudandquiet list is the best so far.

it's jazz rock that's so good that even having the most obnoxious lyrical schtick of the year can't manage to ruin it

that spin songs list…. especially the waxahatchee blurb… lmao

Yeah that SPIN songs list… you would have gotten a better selection and blurbs if you had asked AI to do it.

Why did I even click those links

It’s hard to believe that for a few years I was voting and writing some of those blurbs

These lists are from alternate universe or something

they also brought back "10 albums you didn't hear" but in a scolding way of course

https://www.spin.com/2024/11/2024-year-of-the-cd/

I collected vinyl as a teenager and offloaded 10,000 or so records for a song in my early 20s

what