The 2024 End of Year music lists thread

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

things that definitely happened

ha, I saw those 2024 SPIN links, and come to the conclusion they were so inadequate that it wasn't worthwhile linking to.

Now, for something more refreshing. Britain's best pop music blogger, Lee Bennett at Teases & Dares presents:

Teases & Dares 2024 Remixed – Top 100 Remixes of 2024
https://teasesanddares.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/teases-dares-2024-remixed-top-100-remixes-of-2024/

Spotify Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MrYYWOtaUnzQ9km4zez0E?si=d6bd9dd67de941ca
All the best pop, dance, synthwave and house remixes of 2024.

the one track that I expected to make the top 100, that was missing:

Pet Shop Boys - New London boy (Boy Harsher remix)

Top 100 Remixes of 2024

1: NINA & Ricky Wilde, Videotheque (Project K Remix)
Italoconnection, Alex Rossi & Bunny X, L’Hacienda (Armonics Remix)
Tiga & Hudson Mohawke, Feel The Rush (Honey Dijon Remix)
Jamiroquai, Canned Heat (Dimitri From Paris Remix)
NINA & Ricky Wilde, Lovers On A Beach (Steve Anderson Remix)
Michaela May, Crying At The Radio (Tholos & Jonny Spalding Remix)
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Murder On The Dancefloor (PNAU Remix)
ELSKA, Summer Romance Movie (MATTYMADEIT Remix)
Maya Vik, Hustlebot (Initial Talk Remix)
NINA & Ricky Wilde, Causeway (Chrisarama Remix)
TATYANA, Down Bad (Technodaddy666 & Lynks Remix)
Marie Davidson, Y.A.A.M (Soulwax Version)
Boy Harsher & Mariana Saldana, Machina (Soft Crash Remix)
Kim Wilde, Love Blonde (Project K’s Limelight Mix)
Anane, High (Two Soul Fusion Boogie Mix)
Delta Goodrem, Hearts On The Run (Initial Talk Remix)
Will Clift, Feels Like (EMEREE Remix)
Taylor Swfit, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart (Dombresky Remix)
Bronski Beat & Perfume Genius, Smalltown Boy (The Knocks Remix)
ALANA, Motherless Money (Franky Boissy & D-Stone Remix)
Moody Joody, Velvet Connection (St Lucia Remix)
Soft Crash & Marie Davidson, Your Last Everything (Soft Crash Angel 2024 Mix)
Raw Silk, Do It To The Music (Michael Gray Remix)
Daytona, Magnus & Kel, Love The Way (Dim Zach Mix)
Kylie Minogue, Lights Camera Action (Confidence Man Remix)
Tina Arena & Shouse, Chains (Shouse Version)
79.5, Our Hearts Didn’t Go That Way (JKriv Remix)
The Knocks & Sofi Tukker, One On One (Cerrone Remix)
Romy, Did I (Peaches Remix)
Kim Wilde, Water On Glass (Project K Soundtrack)
Bright Light Bright Light & Mykal Kilgore, Heartslap (Bearly Disco Mix)
VHS Celebs, Sunset In L.A (1983 Studio 54 Remix)
The Sometimes Island, Neon Summer (Fred Falke Remix)
Dance Yourself Clean, Peach Pit (Louis La Roche Remix)
Blusher, Accelerator (Lauren’s Version)
The WildViolets, Satellite (K’ Jones Remix)
Kate Hudson, Talk About Love (Party Pupils Remix)
Mariah Carey, Portrait (Hopeful Child Remix)
Shea Coulee, Divine (Initial Talk Remix)
Vanessa Williams, Legs (John “J-C” Carr & Bill Coleman 808 BEACH Mix)
Jamiroquai, Deeper Underground (Don Diablo Remix)
Clio, Golden Glow (Ben Renna Radio Edit)
The Vapor Caves, Sacrifice (Nicolaas Remix)
Micah McLaurin, Don’t Give Up On Love (Dan Slater Remix)
Debbie Gibson, Electric Youth (Tracy Young NEWSTALGIA Radio Mix)
Beks, Dangerous (Initial Talk Remix)
Ralphy Grey & B.O.N, I’m A Rebel (Aisle 9 Remix)
The Corrs, Breathless (Fred Falke Remix)
E.Live & Chesta Blake, Make Me Move (Boogie Version)
NINA & Ricky Wilde, Fighter (PYN Remix)
Kesha, Joyride (Revved Up Remix)
PHNTMS & April Rose Gabrielli, Lost On Your Love (Josh Dally Remix)
DJ Suzy, Digital Girl (Funk Remix)
ELSKA, Body Work (MATTYMADEIT Remix)
Jade, Angel Of My Dreams (The Blessed Madonna Remix)
Dua Lipa, Illusion (Honey Dijon remix)
Yota, Johan Agebjorn & Betamaxx (Lifelike Remix)
Chayla Hope, Love In Lo-Fi (Magic AL Remix)
Wolfclub, All We Live For (The Bad Dreamers Remix)
Micah McLaurin, Call me (Hector Fonseca & Thiago Dukky Remix)
NINA & Ricky Wilde, Causeway (Bearly Disco Remix)
ELSKA, Silver Screen (MATTYMADEIT Remix)
Alison Goldfrapp, I Wanna Be Loved (Notorious Mix)
JKriv & Phenomenal Handclap Band, Try Again (John Morales M+M Main Mix)
Perrie, You Go Your Way (Jodie Harsh Remix)
Gee Lane, Monkeys (Musclecars Remix)
Chromeo, Lost and Found (The Midnight Remix)
Kim Wilde, Take Me Tonight (Luke Mornay Profondo Giallo Mix)
Bat For Lashes, Home (Johnny Jewel Remix)
Foster The People, Lost In Space (PNAU Remix)
Sabrina Carpenter, Espresso (Mark Ronson x FNZ Working Late Remix)
Caroline Kingsbury, Take My Phone Away (Prinze George Remix)
LT, Rollercoaster (Ntrik Remix)
Make Sense, Save Me (Fred Falke Remix)
Rikky Disco & Yam Who, Shine On (Sophie Lloyd Radio Mix)
ELSKA, Golden (MATTYMADEIT Gold Coast Remix)
Jaako Eino Kalevi & Alma Jodorowsky, Palace In My Head (Fred Falke Remix)
The Magician, The Magic (Nico de Andrea Remix)
Musclecars, Hello (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Flight Facilities, Days Of The Week (VXSION Remix)
Tommy Glasses, Beautiful (Mark Lower Remix)
Elli, Race My Heartbeat (Prins Thomas Version)
Dua Lipa, Training Season (Chloe Caillet Remix)
OUI, Circle Of Love (Elado Remix)
Alice Russell, Gravity (Payfone Remix)
The Knocks & Yelle, All The Time/Tout le temps (Googly Eyes Remix)
808 BEACH & Amy Douglas, Whatever Daddy Says (John “J-C” Carr Glitter Mix)
ARTY, Save Me Tonight (Tensnake Remix)
Bonnie McKee, American Girl (Hot Blooded Oliver Remix)
Orville Peck, Diplo & Kylie Minogue, Midnight Ride (Sofi Tukker Remix)
Veronique Sanson, On m’attend la-bas (Fred Falke Remix)
T-Connection, At Midnight (Dr Packer Remix)
At 1980 & Shadowrunner, Pieces Of Me (New Arcades Remix)
Aurora Shields, Pretty Baby Boy (Prince Josh Remix)
Nation Of Language, Weak In Your Light (Classixx Remix)
Gavin Turek, Off The Wheel (James Patterson Remix)
Chloe Jane, Borderline (Stonebridge Anthem Mix)
Bananarama, Do Not Disturb (Krystal Klear Remix)
The Operator, Train, Rain, Brittany (Arnaud Rebotini Remix)
100: Daphne Guinness, Volcano (Hercules & Love Affair Club Mix)

For some reason, maybe nostalgia (used to read regularly in the 90s), I got sucked in and read all of those Spin lists.

The best albums of 2024, ranked
Bidding farewell to 2024, The Independent’s music critics Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown count down the best albums of the year
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/best-albums-2024-taylor-swift-fontaines-dc-b2653867.html

AOTY format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2306-the-independents-best-albums-of-2024/

Top 20 Albums

Lots of low hanging fruit on this list, if Q magazine was still going, they would create a similar list.

Bright, new, often female-led bands (English Teacher, The Last Dinner Party) raced from social media hype to Mercury Prize glory at a hearteningly breakneck pace. Pop queens (Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Beyoncé) continued to stretch the boundaries of mainstream structures and sonics. The revered old school (Nick Cave, The Cure, The Smile, Kim Deal) released career-high albums that reasserted their roles as restless pioneers. Rap’s leading lights, both conscious and confrontational – (Kendrick Lamar, Tyler, the Creator) kept pushing the boundaries of beat to a Drake-riling degree. And enduring alternative names (Vampire Weekend, Bright Eyes, Fontaines DC) pressed ever forward, the firing pistons of the cultural engine.

Mark Beaumont - so that's were that ex NME fool has gone.

Anyone know when the Bleep 100 (their songs list) comes out?

The Quietus list is up: https://thequietus.com/tq-charts/albums-of-the-year/albums-of-the-year-best-albums-2024-norman-records/

UK On-line Music retailer Norman Records

Norman Records - 2024's Best Albums (so far)
https://www.normanrecords.com/promos/1192

Our Album of the Year winner will be revealed on Monday 30th December.

including:

Tristwch y Fenywod - Tristwch y Fenywod
https://night-school.bandcamp.com/album/tristwch-y-fenywod

Welsh language avant-goth

listen to this track

Tristwch Y Fenywod - Ferch Gyda'r Llygaid Du
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDR355vhPc

mesmerising mysterious doomy psychedelic goth

Singing black-lit liturgies of bog bodies caked in mud, entranced by nocturnal landscapes flickering in the moon-glow and powered by queer enchantment, Tristwch y Fenywod are a Welsh-language gothic avant-rock power-coven. Exhumed from the depths of Leeds’ experimental underground, the trio consist of Gwretsien Ferch Lisbeth (Guttersnipe, The Ephemeron Loop), Leila Lygad (Hawthonn) and Sidni Sarffwraig (Slaylor Moon, The Courtneys).

Stark, striking and bewitching, Tristwch y Fenywod’s self-titled album is their debut studio recording, following just 10 gigs and a live demo. Formed in 2022, Tristwch y Fenywod ("The Sadness of Women”) record exclusively in the Welsh language, conjuring an eldritch, subterranean, alien folk music played on dual zither, electronic drums and bass guitar. With towering, siren-like vocals curling around the Welsh consonants, accompanied by stark, martial rhythms and swirling claw-plucked strings, Tristwch y Fenywod feels like an early 4AD recording dredged from the waters of an Anglesey swamp. The effect is simultaneously chilling and stirring.

The eight tracks on the record constitute what feels like a recently rediscovered, unholy grail of edgy, atmospheric, occult feminist goth emissions. Gwretsien’s dual-zither playing scatters melodic fragments and spirals of harmony around the decimated space opened up by the lugubrious bass playing and pounding, brooding drum pads. Coupled with the Welsh vocal, Tristwch y Fenywod embody a new, unique Celtic darkwave sound, equal parts Pornography-era The Cure, Svitlana Nianio’s haunted hammered string-work and the dark beauty of Dead Can Dance or This Mortal Coil. Opener Blodyn Gwyrdd feels like the last ride of Princess Ukok, with lumbering bass and 6/8 rhythms in procession to the event horizon with an entreating, impassioned vocal and surprising lyrical theme. The doomed dancing of the zither provides the mysterious melodic bedrock throughout the album, particularly on Ferch Gyda’r Llygaid Du’s heavy funereal sway and the slowly building, paroxysmal banshee breakdown of Awen: an astonishing swell of thrilling chaos.

The album was recorded and produced by Ross Halden and the band at Hohm Studio, Bradford, Summer 2023

x-post to djmartian re The Independent.

This will always, always make me laugh: https://kaptainkulk.medium.com/the-neil-kulkarni-10-point-guide-to-being-a-music-critic-3c1780b678cb

The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2024

summary

1: Ex-Easter Island Head – Norther
Tristwch Y Fenywod – Tristwch Y Fenywod
Moin – You Never End
Xiu Xiu – 13″ Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips
Mohammad Syfkhan – I Am Kurdish
Still House Plants – If I don’t make it, I love u
Rafael Toral – Spectral Evolution
Shovel Dance Collective – The Shovel Dance
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
Shellac – To All Trains
Fat White Family – Forgiveness Is Yours
Dialect – Atlas Of Green
Jacken Elswyth – At Fargrounds
Charli xcx – Brat
Tashi Wada – What Is Not Strange?
Clairo – Charm
Nonpareils – Rhetoric & Terror
Gnod – Spot Land
Sealionwoman – Nothing Will Grow In The Soil
The Body & Dis Fig – Orchards Of A Futile Heaven
Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
William Doyle – Springs Eternal
Róis – Mo Léan
Einstürzende Neubauten – Rampen (apm: alien pop music)
Naemi – Dust Devil
Milkweed – Folklore 1979
Elijah Minnelli – Perpetual Musket
Eros – Your Truth Is A Lie
Xylitol – Anemones
Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
Eric Chenaux Trio – Delights Of My Life
Roc Marciano – Marciology
Lorenzo Abattoir – Mess (Akt. IV)
Wu-Lu – Learning To Swim On Empty
Chrystabell & David Lynch – Cellophane Memories
Water Damage – In E
Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle
Senyawa – Vajranala
Mary Halvorson – Cloudward
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson – Stífluhringurinn
Hamish Hawk – A Firmer Hand
Kendrick Lamar – GNX
Holy Tongue Meets Shackleton – The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now
Saagara – 3
Harry Gorski-Brown – Durt Dronemaker After Dreamboats
Fievel Is Glauque – Rong Weicknes
British Murder Boys – Active Agents & House Boys
Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Kim Gordon – The Collective
Schoolboy Q – Blue Lips
DJ Anderson do Paraíso – Queridão
Persher – Sleep Well
Erika Angell – The Obsession With Her Voice
Wendy Eisenberg – Viewfinder
Laura Cannell – The Rituals Of Hildegard Reimagined
Big Brave – A Chaos Of Flowers
Mach-Hommy – #RICHAXXHAITIAN
Cower – Celestial Devastation
MIKE & Tony Seltzer – Pinball
Uniform – American Standard
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Martha Skye Murphy – UM
Underworld – Strawberry Hotel
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Caveira – Ficar Vivo
Bòsc – Bòsc
Dengie Hundred With Gemma Blackshaw – Who Will You Love
Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
Rosso Polare – Campo Amaro
Skee Mask – ISS010
Alan Sparhawk – White Roses My God
TOMO – Vielle Electronica
Sahra Halgan – Hiddo Dhawr
Helado Negro – Phasor
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of The Last Human Being
Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver – The Blacksmiths, The Flowers
Thou – Umbilical
Geordie Greep – The New Sound
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
Traüme – Wrzask
HI! CAPYBARAS – A/M/Y/G/D/A/L/A EP
Ka – The Thief Next To Jesus
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld – Christian & Mauro
Brama – Brama
D’En Haut – D’En Haut
Vanishing – Shelter Of The Opaque
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
MAVI – Shadowbox
Bianca Scout – Pattern Damage
Peace Talks – Progress
Daast – SS24
Sex Swing – Golden Triangle
Five Green Moons – Moon 1.
Christoph de Babalon – Ach, Mensch
Thurston Moore – Flow Critical Lucidity
Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
Faune – Des Fantômes
Able Noise – High Tide
100: Fergus Jones – Ephemera

wow

Number 2

2.
Tristwch y Fenywod
Tristwch y Fenywod
Night School

Question for John Doran at The Quietus how did you discover this brilliant band? (by booking them for your music festival in the Spring in Wiltshire before they released any records)

I first discovered them on Adam Walton's on his weekly show

BBC introducing show
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079gnt

The best in new Welsh music, exclusive sessions, interviews and demos.

and even Adam was is an expert on new music from Welsh artists, didn't know anything about them initially.

THE NME published their 50 Best Songs of 2024, it's showing up on my Feedly RSS reader, I can read the whole 50 tracks with blurbs. Put it has been pulled from their website.

https://www.nme.com/lists/end-of-year/the-50-best-songs-of-2024-3817596

404 this page can't be found.

I have checked they haven't republished the list with a new URL at 13.30pm, at least yet.

this was the published: I will only summarize the top 20

Number 1 goes to Chappell Roan

1. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

2. Kendrick Lamar – ‘Not Like Us’

3. Fontaines D.C. – ‘Starburster’

4. Charli XCX – ‘Girl, So Confusing’ remix (with Lorde)

5. JADE – ‘Angel Of My Dreams’

6. English Teacher – ‘Albert Road’

7. Mk.gee – ‘Alesis’

8. Beyoncé – ‘16 Carriages’

9. Aespa – ‘Supernova’

10. Megan Thee Stallion – ‘Hiss’

11. Charli XCX – ‘365’

12. Billie Eilish – ‘Birds Of A Feather’

13. Tyla – ‘Jump’ (feat. Gunna & Skillibeng)

14. Rosé & Bruno Mars – ‘APT.’

15. MJ Lenderman – ‘She’s Leaving You’

16. Tems – ‘Love Me JeJe’

17. Knocked Loose – ‘Suffocate’ (feat. Poppy)

18. Nilüfer Yanya – ‘Like I Say (I Runaway)’

19. The Cure – ‘Alone’

20. Rachel Chinouriri – ‘Never Need Me’

it's now up:

NME: The 50 best songs of 2024
https://www.nme.com/lists/end-of-year/best-songs-2024

thank god

Consequence of Sound 50 Best Albums of the Year
https://consequence.net/list/best-albums-of-2024-annual-report/

Number 1:
Charli xcx - BRAT

AOTY Format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2307-consequences-50-best-albums-of-2024/

Paste - The 100 Best Albums of 2024
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/the-100-best-albums-of-2024

1. Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch

AOTY Format
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2308-pastes-100-best-albums-of-2024/

Pitchfork top 100 songs is out

#justice4xaviersobased

Thanks djmartian for keeping this thread updated

That p4k list looks good tbh

glad p4k has jane remover in their top 10 but they went with the wrong erika de casier song! "bikini" is nice and all but "lucky" is all time

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g-s1-34684/best-albums-2024 npr

Bandcamp Daily's Best Albums of 2024, A-F:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024/the-best-albums-of-2024-a-f

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-2024-1235031987/

Charli XCX at 1

Tyla at 6
Rema at 11

love each of the quietus top 3

another

Stereogum - Best Albums of 2024
https://www.stereogum.com/2288841/best-albums-2024/lists/album-list/

Charli XCX at 1

AOTY
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2312-stereogums-50-best-albums-of-2024/

Drake adding eoy lists to his lawsuits.

Let's be careful guys

Is the Beyonce album showing up on lists?

#2 on rolling stone

I just want to say the Pitchfork website is absolute clown shoes of the same usability as the 2022 AV Club website; janky loading that causes jump scrolling to random pages of the list combined with sudden crashes that wipe out the entire page you’re trying to read.

its currently 12th on

AOTY - 2024 Albums Aggregated List
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2024/

as calculated by their scores system

These numbers are obtained from the 19 lists found at the end of this page.

Thanks!

Nice to see Hard Quartet’s “Hey” up on the Pitchfork songs list.

Treble The 100 Best Songs of 2024
https://www.treblezine.com/the-100-best-songs-of-2024/

finalizing our list of the best songs of 2024—much as it is every year—took a bit of finessing. We nominated our favorites, made playlists, pitched our cases, debated and set arbitrary limits on artists and albums we knew would dominate the conversation (and maybe loosened one or two, for that matter). But one thing isn’t up for debate: This year was simply loaded with not just great songs, but ones that went harder than usual. There’s a lot about this year that we’d probably like to forget, but our 100 favorite songs of the year, at least, are worthy of the record books.

Written by Adam Blyweiss (AB), Adam P. Newton (APN), Casey Burke (CB), Colin Dempsey (CD), Elliot Burr (EB), Emily Reily (ER), Greg Hyde (GH), Jeff Terich (JT), Jeff Yerger (JY), Konstantin Rega (KR), Liam Green (LG), Langdon Hickman (LH), Noah Sparkes (NS), Patrick Pilch (PP), Tyler Dunston (TD), Tom Morgan (TM), Virginia Croft (VC) and Wil Lewellyn (WL)

1. Kendrick Lamar – “Not Like Us”

Spotify Playlist:

Treble - The 100 Best Songs of 2024
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xdJvX5lhQfBIKCk8DxJfc?si=549e84f2bde9477c

I keep seeing “starburster” in several lists and just listened to it and I don’t get it. It sounds like Kasabian.

I don’t hate it and the inhaling through the chorus is a cool touch, I’m just a bit suprised this sort of sound is critically approved by consensus now.

nah it’s lame as hell

It sounds like Kasabian.

lol otm, like at least they could have the decency to sound like primal scream?

The Quietus - AOTY format - The Quietus Albums of the Year 2024
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2314-the-quietus-albums-of-the-year-2024/

RA - the Best Records of 2024
https://ra.co/features/4404

I need to explore this later in the day.

These are the albums, EPs and compilations that made our year—from bright amapiano and complex sound design through bratty pop and studies in dub techno.

Number 1:

Loidis - One Day
West Mineral

Good to see Polygonia right up there in the RA list

Pitchfork top 50 albums

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2024/