Album Recommendations: 2024 Edition

[braindancer]

Yes! Not sure it's my AOTY but Top 10 I reckon...

 

[braindancer]

The new Mount Eerie is really very good... I see it's jumped to no. 1 on the Rate Your Music chart for the year....

 

[mwgdrwg]

Thoroughly enjoying the new one by The Cure. This one in particular...

 

[dessiato]

When Rivers Meet, "Aces Are High" is my most recent purchase. Prior to this I got Soko "I Thought I Was an Alien."

 

[Dr. Furface]

If you liked the now-defunct Black Midi - or even if you didn't (I was 50/50) - you might like the new lp by their old frontman Geordie Greep, The New Sound. It has some of their math-rockness about it but mixed with a variety of jazz styles, and some interesting ideas. Aside from a couple of tracks I generally like it more than what BM did.

 

[nogojones]

DJ Chad (son of DJ Rashad) has been pretty prolific this year. I think this is his third footwork/juke album this year

 

[zahir]

Olcay Bayir

 

[Buddy Bradley]

If you like stuff like MONO/Mogwai, check out Tides From Nebula, new album Instant Rewards is out now:

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Medusa Snare have an album out on 9th December. Might appeal to Fontaines DC fans.

 

[redsquirrel]

If there are any Go-Betweens fans Domino have just released the third volumet of G stands for Go-Betweens

Go-Betweens' Final Boxset 'G Stands For Go-Betweens: Volume 3' Announced | News | Domino

Out December 13

www.dominomusic.com

Not cheap - £200 - but the other two volumes are lovely. The editions that come with a book from Grant McLennan's library have already sold out

 

[stavros]

If you'd like three hours of lovely drone try the new Sarah Davachi (with Dicky Bahto):

 

[ska invita]

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness ...Warp Records
21ST century alice coltrane right here ... caught me in the right mood (knackered) but this is properly groundbreaking music .... Cant think the last time I heard something and thought that... and its deep and beautiful to boot...and probably already posted on the thread

 

[stavros]

RZA does classical, which is certainly interesting.

 

[ska invita]

RZA does classical, which is certainly interesting.

seems their website has crashed!

this came out at the end of 2023 but hopefully not been flagged....really sweet low key nu soul album with well produced beats and instrumentation...very unflashy singing......like a warm blanket, lovely for this time of year
Terrace Martin and Alex Isley - “I left my heart in Ladera”
title track

single was a really nice cover of Sade's Paradise

 

[stavros]

New Windy & Carl. Two pieces, eachnearly an hour long. One's very good, and the other's a bit meh on the first listen.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Kim Deal's solo album is out today.

 

[braindancer]

Who doesn't love Kim Deal? Sounds very nice.... will give it a proper listen later.

 

[Lotte]

I love Kim. Hope it'll be good.

Nadine Shah's Filthy Underneath is my album of the year, and Poppy's album was a step up from Zig. She does overdo it on the screaming but New Way Out is more the kind of thing I expect from her.

 

[braindancer]

Year-end lists are starting to emerge.

Here's the list from Bleep. I can vouch for Nala Sinephro and Monolake - I reckon they will both be on my list.

I'm currently listening to the KMRU and KRM (i.e. Kevin Martin - aka the Bug) - sounding pretty swell - dark brooding ambient....

 

[May Kasahara]

Surprise Kendrick!

 

[May Kasahara]

And it's fucking great. My son has already designated it AOTY <3

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Surprise Kendrick!

Was just coming here to post that - not listened yet but there's already a lot of buzz.

 

[braindancer]

All the Ks this weekends. Kim Deal, Kendrick and Michalel Kiwanaka - all great.... me and the kids had fun trying to combine them into one - I won the comp with Kimdrick Lamanaka

 

[hitmouse]

I'd been thinking about how some of my favourite late-2024 albums are from Drug Church, Porridge Radio and Chat Pile, three names while you can pretty much mix-and-match to give more or less equally meaningless combinations. (I know a chat pile is an actual thing, don't think the others are though.)

 

[braindancer]

Got tix for Pozza and Chat Pile but never listened to Drug Church so maybe I should....

 

[stavros]

New Actress, a single 54 minute track that evolves slowly.

 

[ska invita]

faithful and that touch more accessible (a v good thing) grooving afrospiritualjazz
Afro Futuristic Dreams by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
spot on

 

[hitmouse]

New Chubby & the Gang:


Also, recent Vincent Van Sloth:

 

[Buddy Bradley]

The annual "I haven't heard of any of these!" list is out:

The Quietus Albums of the Year 2024 (In Association with Norman Records)

There was a week in mid-October when The Quietus’ release schedule spreadsheet was overflowing with bounteous goodness, with over ten albums by artists we’re partial to out on the same day. This was a fantastic problem to have – we reviewed some out of release week and squeezed out extra budget...

thequietus.com

 

[stavros]

Only an EP, but it asks some interesting questions, and is worth listening to: