Neale Daniher, such a very worthy #AOTY
Neale Daniher, such a very worthy #AOTY
I made my AOTY 2024 video for anyone interested in hearing some of my favorite albums from last year. It's fairly rock/metal leaning but there's a handful of jazzier, funkier, poppier albums in it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOQLEOHwo4U
#music #albumoftheyear #aoty #2024
Sono riuscito a partorire il listone. In anticipo su me stesso, incredibilmente. È quello del 2024, nonostante abbia tentato fino all'ultimo di trasformarlo in un listone del 1971
https://acqueagitate.com/2025/01/05/il-listone-i-migliori-album-del-2024/
Il listone: i migliori album del 2024
Sto scrivendo il post di accompagnamento alla lista dei migliori album del 2024 mentre ormai sono già in viaggio verso il 1971. Ci sono finito per caso nel 1971, poi ho deciso di infilarci tutte le scarpe. Credo che ne avessi bisogno, dopo aver passato dicembre a ripercorrere i sentieri musicali degli undici mesi precedenti. Forse è il bisogno di un tempo dal quale è possibile guardare lontano, chissà. Sto divagando (può un incipit essere una divagazione?). Insomma durante questo benedetto ripassino, accompagnato dall’ascolto di una manciata di cose nuove pescate all’ultimo momento dalle liste altrui, ho capito che avevo ascoltato più dischi degli anni passati e che c’era il serio rischio di allungare troppo il brodo. Dunque ho deciso di tirare una riga e di dare al listone una veste più simile a quella di una classifica editoriale: mi fermo a 50 dischi in sostanza (sono stati 50 nel 2020, ma poi 60 nel 2021 e 53 negli ultimi due anni), che poi è anche il numero che ho scelto da tempo per le liste mai finite su RYM e, in generale, mi pare un numero giusto, una lunghezza umana.
Ma penetriamo nella carne.
Rileggendo il post dell’anno scorso e l’obiettivo che mi ero posto, posso dire che la rimozione del bianco e del maschio in eccesso sta procedendo abbastanza bene – soprattutto quella del maschio devo dire, per il bianco devo impegnarmi di più. Non me lo chiede l’Europa, nel caso aveste qualche dubbio, è che mi va di fare così.
ListenBrainz è diventato sempre di più un compagno di ascolti (è un compagno discreto, non si lamenta del rumore). Anche quest’anno mi ha fornito un riepilogo degli ascolti e un sacco di bellissime statistiche, ma soprattutto mi ha permesso di introdurre una novità. Grazie alla sua classifica dei brani più ascoltati, infatti, ho potuto compilare in modo relativamente semplice una cassettina del 2024, che potete ascoltare qui sotto (qui c’è la scaletta). È la prima volta che c’è una cassettina ad accompagnare la lista; da ora in poi ci sarà sempre (scusate se suona come una minaccia).
https://www.mixcloud.com/caosleo/cassettina-2024/
Dunque il mio 2024 ha avuto più o meno questa colonna sonora, e il suo mondo ha questa faccia:
È stato un anno di sorprese. Sono usciti dischi bellissimi di artisti navigati e amati che sinceramente non mi aspettavo: quelli delle due Kim (Gordon e Deal), ma pure quello di Ty Segall, che ero già pronto a dare per bollito, il senza nome di Jack White e il ritorno dei Jesus Lizard. Poi ci sono le scoperte e gli artisti piombati dal nulla nelle casse del mio stereo: il settetto di Patricia Brennan, Nala Sinephro, MJ Lenderman, i Being Dead, il terzetto composto da Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, gli Uragano (unico disco italiano presente nel listone), gli Hot Garbage, la chitarra di Ava Mendoza, gli Hizbut Jámm. C’è l’Africa che diventa presenza importante con Bab L’ Bluz e Mdou Moctar. Potrei scriverne per ore, discutere il listone attraversandone i generi, provare a dare un’interpretazione generale, ma credo che sarebbe noioso, oltre che incredibilmente pretenzioso.
Posso invece scegliere dei nomi rappresentativi, questo voglio varlo, evidenziarli a doppia mandata e scommettere su qualcosa da ricordare. Direi Chelsea Wolfe, i Thou e Mdou Moctar. Ce ne sarebbe anche un quarto, il motivo è diverso. È Steve Albini, che ci ha lasciato lo scorso maggio poco dopo aver pubblicato l’ennesimo grande disco degli Shellac. Il listone e la cassettina sono dedicati a lui.
Prima di presentare la lista ci vuole il consueto ringraziamento al fediverso; quest’anno va a @ciccillo, che mi ha consigliato il disco dei Training con Ruth Goller e mi ha spinto a dare una chance al disco di Patricia Brennan, che è addirittura finito nella parte alta del listone.
Alé!
I migliori album del 2024
Altri album molto belli
“2024年の好きな音楽アルバム・ベスト20です” / “■ - マフスのはてな” (1 user) https://pikao.hatenablog.com/entry/20250102/1735743600 #AOTY
Okay all, the group #AOTY list is up! I've boosted the toot version from @1001otheralbums.com, but footnotes look like crap on here, so it might look better on the blog. Thanks everyone for taking part, there's some great stuff on here to check out - 132 albums, to be exact!
Happy listening! And remember, keep your friends close and your records closer.
https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/01/01/albums-the-fediverse-loved-in-2024/
"I went hard on my favorite jazz albums of 2024 so this one will be a little lighter on my words. Not to worry, however – there was so much fantastic music this year that I’ve doubled this list to include twenty favorites as well. (It still might be too long for email so open in a new window if you must!) I could have made a case for slotting a handful of these on the jazz list but for one reason or another, I made my decisions and we’ll leave it at that. Genre labels are fluid and fleeting and useful for categorizing but can be a burden, too. I close every annual list intro with the following: please buy music that moves you and support artists directly. Love to everyone!"
https://motherslug.substack.com/p/021-my-favorite-albums-of-2024
Albums the Fediverse Loved in 2024
Okay all, here are 132 albums the Fediverse loved in 2024, mostly 2024 releases but also some earlier gems! Thanks so much to the 60 Fedizens who shared the albums that rocked their world – it’s nice to see some familiar faces from the 1001 Other Albums project, and some new ones! And, as always, it’s so lovely to get a glimpse into all our diverse tastes in music, and to see people trying something new solely based on a random Fedi recommendation.
Genre tags are included as tasting notes and each title is linked to its Bandcamp or Songlink (with the exception of 2 physical-only releases), so click and listen away – perhaps you’ll find a new-to-you album that gets you through 2025! Check out the footnotes to see who submitted each album, along with any extra comments they included (warning: some comments include MOAR ALBUMS).
Happy listening, and remember to keep your music close by this year, in case of emergencies. And, if you need more recommendations, you know where to find me.
Band – Title (year released, place of origin; genre)footnote
Aaron Frazer – Into the Blue (2024, US; soul)1
Antemasque – s/t (2014, US; alt rock, punk rock)2
Arcwelder – Continue (2024, US; alt rock, post-punk)3
Arooj Aftab – Night Reign (2024, Pakistan/US; Pakistani folk music, bebop jazz)4
Barenaked Ladies – Rock Spectacle (1996, Canada; alt rock, live)5
Barry Adamson – Cut to Black (2024, UK; soul, R&B, disco)6
Basement Revolver – Heavy Eyes (2018, Canada; indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze)7
Bebel Gilberto – Tanto Tempo (2000, Brazil; bossa nova, electronic)8
Bex Burch – There is Only Love and Fear (2023, UK; jazz, improvisational, experimental)9
Bhutan Balladeers – Your Face Is Like The Moon, Your Eyes Are Stars (2024, Bhutan; traditional, Zhungdra)10
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft (2024, US; alt pop, bedroom pop)11
Black Sabbath – Sabotage (1975, UK; heavy metal)12
Bloody Keep – Rats of Black Death (2024, US; black metal)13
Borknagar – Fall (2024, Norway; avantgarde/prog black metal)14
boygenius – the record (2023, US; indie rock)15
Brittany Davis – Image Issues (2024, US; soul, funk, hip-hop)16
Cate Brooks – Prismatics (2024, UK; electronica)17
Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023, US; pop, dance pop)18
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain is Beauty (2013, US; goth rock, psych folk)19
Chelsea Wolfe – She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (2024, US; folk, rock)20
Chromeo – Adult Contemporary (2024, Canada; electro-funk, nu disco, dance pop)21
CHVRCHES – Screen Violence (2021, Scotland; synth pop)22
Counting Hours – The Wishing Tomb (2024, Finland; dark doom metal)23
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature (2024, UK; prog rock, goth rock)24
Dark Tranquility – Endtime Signals (2024, Sweden; melodic death metal)25
delving – All Paths Diverge (2024, Germany; psych ambient prog)26
Devin Townsend – Lightwork (deluxe edition) (2022, Canada; prog metal, prog rock)27
Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will (2024, Sweden; atmospheric black metal)28
Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (2024, Netherlands; psych rock)29
Dora Jar – No Way To Relax When You Are On Fire (2024, US; indie rock)30
Dust Bolt – Sound & Fury (2024, Germany; thrash metal)31
El Parro del Mar – Big Anonymous (2024, Sweden; indie rock)32
Elysion – Bring Out Your Dead (2023, Greece; gothic metal)33
Eros Tunnel – The Ritual (2023, US; dream pop)34
Fellowship – The Skies Above Eternity (2024, UK; power metal)35
Florence + The Machine with Jules Buckley and His Orchestra – Symphony of Lungs: BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (2024, UK; orchestral reworking, live)36
Flunk – Morning Star (2004, Norway; alt pop, electronica, folktronica)37
Fluorescents – Scream It At Me! (2024, US; pop punk)38
Fold – We Do Not Forget (2024, UK; trip-hop, spoken word)39
Françoise Hardy – Le Danger (1996, France; pop rock)40
Gaerea – Coma (2024, Portugal; atmospheric [/post-]black metal)41
Genocide Organ – Death Zones (2023, Germany; power electronics, industrial)42
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” (2024, Canada; post-rock, art rock)43
Grace Petrie – Build Something Better (2024, UK; folk rock)44
Grant Green – Green is Beautiful (1970, US; jazz)45
Green Day – Saviors (2024, US; pop punk)46
GROZA – Nadir (2024, Germany; [post-]black metal)47
Hässlig – Apex Predator (2024, Spain; raw black metal, punk)48
Helicon – God Intentions (2023, Scotland; psych rock)49
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002, US; indie rock)50
Jack White – No Name (2024, US; rock)51
Jeff Parker – Slight Freedom (2016, US; jazz)52
Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch (2024, US; indie folk)53
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (2024, UK; heavy metal)54
Julia Jacklin – Crushing (2019, Australia; folk)55
Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood (2024, US; experimental [/post-]metal)56
Kayla Painter – Fractures (2024, UK; experimental, ambient)57
Kazuki Tomokawa – Going To Buy Squid (2024, Japan; folk)58
Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (2024, US; thrash metal)59
Khruangbin – A LA SALA (2024, US; psych, funk)60
Kim Janssen – Cousins (2017, Netherlands; indie pop)61
Kvelertak – Endling (2023, Norway; heavy metal)62
Laurie Anderson – Amelia (2024, US; experimental)63
Lesser Care – Heel Turn (2024, US; post-punk)64
Liminal Shroud – Visions of Collapse (2024, Canada; black metal)65
Los Campesinos! – All Hell (2024, UK; emo, indie rock)66
Lucile Boulanger – La Messagère (2024, France; viola, classical)67
Manchild – Half an Album (2024, US; punk, hardcore, noise rock)68
Mary Timony – Mountains (2000, US; indie rock)69
Maul – In the Jaws of Bereavement (2024, US; death metal)70
Mdou Moctar – Funeral for Justice (2024, Niger; desert psych)71
MEER – Wheels Within Wheels (2024, Norway; symphonic prog, rock)72
Meshell Ndegeocello – No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (2024, US; jazz, soul, spoken word)73
Mitochondrian – Vitriseptome (2024, Canada; blackened death metal)74
MONO – OATH (2024, Japan; post-rock, instrumental rock)75
MONOWHALES – Who’s There To Hear Me Out (2024, Canada; indie rock)76
Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath (2024, UK; art rock)77
Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (2023, US; synth pop)78
Nina Nesbitt – Mountain Music 2024, Scotland; folk pop)79
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (1994, US; industrial)80
NoHoN – s/t (2024, Norway; avantgarde metal)81
Oceans of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak (2024, US; prog metal, goth metal)82
Ochu – Dry Routine (2024, Sweden; experimental, noise)83
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja (2024, Finland; psych black metal)84
Parlor Greens – In Green/We Dream (2024, US; soul jazz, funk)85
Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing (1998, UK; alt rock, glam rock)86
Rainbow Girls – Haunting (2024, US; indie rock)87
Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name (2018, US; tech/prog death metal)88
Rotting Christ – Pro Xristou (2024, Greece; black metal)89
Severoth – Шляхом світла (By the Way of Light) (2024, Ukraine; atmospheric/ambient black metal)90
Shellac – To All Trains (2024, US; alt rock)91
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak) – An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021, US; R&B, soul, funk, hip hop, pop)92
Sleaford Mods – UK Grim (2023, UK; post-punk)93
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – of the Last Human Being (2024, US; experimental)94
Slift – Ilion (2024, France; psych rock)95
SNAKE OIL – The Train is White and the Moon is Strong (or Combinations of Objects and Animals) (2013, US; post-rock, psych rock)96
Stick in the Wheel – A Thousand Pokes (2024, UK; folk, folktronica)97
Sweetmelk – Play House (2024, US; punk rock, emo)98
TDJ – SPF INFINI: GENESIS (2024, Canada; electro, house, techno, trance)99
TEYA – Grandma on the Dancefloor (2024, Austria/Germany; alt pop)100
The 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere (1967, US; psych rock)101
The Body – The Crying Out of Things (2024, US; experimental metal)102
The Cure – Pornography (1982, UK; goth rock)103
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World (2024, UK; goth rock)104
The Dandy Warhols – Rockmaker (2024, US; alt rock)105
The Howl & The Hum – Same Mistake Twice (2024, UK; indie rock, indie folk)106
The Lemon Twigs – A Dream is All We Know (2024, US; rock)107
The Linda Lindas – No Obligation (2024, US; punk, garage rock)108
The Marías – Submarine (2024, US; indie pop, dream pop)109
The Warning – Keep Me Fed (2024, Mexico; rock)110
Thee More Shallows – Dad Jams (2021, US; indie pop)111
Thee Sinseers – Sinseerly Yours (2024, US; R&B, soul)112
Thou – Umbilical (2024, US; sludge metal, doom)113
tindersticks – Soft Tissue (2024, UK; alt rock, art rock)114
Transit Method – Othervoid (2024, US; prog metal)115
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God (2024, New Zealand; death metal)116
Unto Others – Never, Neverland (2024, US; goth rock, post-punk, metal)117
various – Goths For Palestine (2024, various; goth, dark wave, post-punk)118
Vera Sola – Peacemaker (2024, US/Canada; ghost folk, haunted cowboy)119
VIAL – Burnout (2024, US; indie punk)120
Vykroutas, Oleksandr Yavdyk – Я ще не там і вже не тут (2024, Ukraine; prog rock, art rock)121
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Your Community Hub (2024, UK; electronic)122
Weird Weather – Visceral Snacks (2024, UK; blackened trip-hop)123
Weval – Remember (2023, Netherlands; electronic, dance, pop)124
Whitechapel – Kin (2021, US; metal, deathcore)125
Wishy – Triple Seven (2024, US; alt rock, dream pop)126
Work Money Death – People of the Fast Flowing River (2024, UK; spiritual jazz)127
Xana – The Sex Was Good Until It Wasn’t (2024, Canada; pop)128
Xion – Between Shadows and Gods (2024, Sweden; thrash metal)129
Yannis & The Yaw (feat. Tony Allen) – Lagos Paris London (2024, UK; afrobeat)130
Zaho de Sagazan – La symphonie des éclairs (2023, France; synth pop)131
Zeal and Ardor – Greif (2024, Switzerland/US; black metal, experimental)132
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Still need to make my 2024 #AotY list but I keep remembering obscure stuff that I really like.
soon hopefully.
Possibly too late for #AOTY because I procrastinated, but my three top music albums of 2024:
Shellac - To All Trains
Arcwelder - Continue
Wishy - Triple Seven
Tomorrow I'll probably post about why, though that sort of thing does tend to be boring when i write about it (sorry)
OK, there was one new compilation album released this year that I enjoy as a full album. Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!
https://lesdisquesbongojoe.bandcamp.com/album/merengue-tipico-nueva-generacion
My Favorite albums of 2024:
Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis - self titled
Work Money Death - People of the Fast Flowing River
The Smile - Cutouts
Other notable albums:
Jeff Parker - The Way Out of Easy
Doechii- Alligator Bites Never Heal
King Hannah - Big Swimmer
Vijay Iyer - Compassion
Kim Gordon - The Collective
John Cragie - Pagan Church
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
The Deslondes - Roll It Out
Resharing my review of my favorite album of the year!
Bilmuri “American Motor Sports (420CC Edition)” Mini Review - The Shrediverse
https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/bilmuri-american-motor-sports-420cc-edition-mini-review
Resharing this at the official end of the year! What were your favorite albums/songs of 2024?
My Favorite Albums of 2024 - The Shrediverse
https://blog.shrediverse.net/posts/my-favorite-albums-of-2024
Last call for anyone wanting to add the album that kept them going this year to our Fediverse #AOTY list! Can be from any year, max 3 picks per person. I'll be posting the full list tomorrow on @1001otheralbums.com including streaming links and genre tags for each if I can. Reply here, DM, or email (johnmastodon@1001otheralbums.com) if you want your picks included!
Now we get down to BIDNIZ.
The bronze league. These are albums #30-50, all in my top 5-7% and have been in my regular rotation from the moment I first heard them.
If you missed any of these, simply don't.
#metaltoots #AOTY #BlackMetal #DeathMetal #Music #Metal #HeavyMetal #Thrash https://metalhead.club/@mucholucho/113729697097778549
“今年一番聴いた音楽(交信【今年〇〇だった△△2024】に送らなかったほうのテキスト) - 別冊Offshore / 山本佳奈子のblog” (1 user) https://yamamotokanako.hatenablog.com/entry/2024/12/30/193127 #AOTY
"Like every year, 2024 was a great year for music, for anyone willing to look and listen. There are more people releasing more music than ever before, and I could feel despair over the fact that I’ll never have the time to hear all the incredible music that I might love. But I think it’s a good problem to have. I’m exposed to so much magic so frequently that I have to share the best of it just to keep track. That’s why I’m here, and why I’m always posting on twitter and now bluesky too. Algorithms have been nice for finding stuff that’s similar to what you already like, but lately they seem as broken as everything else that seemed so futuristically convenient a decade ago. All these services we’ve begun to rely on have eroded, often in line with mass layoffs at the companies that provide them. The human element is leaking entirely out of the corporate music infrastructure. So I think it’s more important than ever that regular people who are tuned in spread the word about the best new (and old) music they encounter.
So, here I am with the annual big album list. I couldn’t settle on just fifty again, or even sixty, so I’m dropping eighty great albums made in 2024 that I think you should really hear. Twenty of them are singled out at the end as the best of the best – especially masterful, poignant, mindbending pieces of music that touched me deeper than anything else I heard this year. Every album is listed with its record label and a link to check it out."
https://optimisticunderground.com/2024/12/09/80-best-albums-of-2024/
しかしこれだけ #AOTY が揃ってくるとワーストアルバムも読んでみたいけど、どこもやらないな。ネット上でやるにはリスクしか無いのだろうか “ドーチー、mkgee、MJレンダマン、マネキンプッシー、マグダレーナ・ベイ、イングリッシュ・ティーチャー、” / “2020年代前半のベストアルバム50を作成してみて|THE MAINSTREAM(沢田太陽)” (1 user) https://note.com/themainstream/n/na4031facb10b #2020s
Okay - earlier there was an error with the link, so here it is - a playlist of my albums of the year. As you might imagine, all over the place. https://bndcmpr.co/e4dd8978 #AOTY