Great albums of 2024

mathman0806 wrote: So far, I am finding and preferring albums that I missed hearing from 2023 over albums from 2024. 2023 was quite remarkable in the number of albums I really enjoyed. I don't think any of my 2024 favorites would make my 2023 top 10.

Some 2024 albums I like.

Pond - Stung!
Bent Knee - Twenty Pills Without Water
Consider the Source - The Stare
Pollution Opera - Pollution Opera
Nolan Potter - The Perils of Being Trapped Inside a Head

Edited by Deadwing - October 03 2024 at 15:15

Alejandro Matos - Carnaval de las Victimas Big Big Train - The Likes of Us

Nine Stones Close - Diurnal
Greco Bastián - With a Little Hell from MORE Friends
The Tangent (for One) - To Follow Polaris
David Gilmour - Luck and Strange

Mirakaze wrote: At this point I don't yet feel comfortable ranking my favourites of this year so far, so here's an alphabetical list of 2024 albums from PA artists that have earned my recommendation: •    The Banach-Tarski Paradox – Contours, Vol. 1 •    Beings – There Is A Garden •    Can – Live In Paris 1973 •    Cassiber – Collaborations •    Cyano – Sarek •    Dead Space Chamber Music & Hackedepicciotto – Live Improvisation, Crypt Of St. John On The Wall •    Martín Escalante & Ryoko Ono – Martín Escalante & Ryoko Ono DUO2 •    GEN & Ryoko Ono – GEN & Ryoko Ono DUO •    Grdina Lillinger – Duo Work •    Mary Halvorson – Cloudward •    Rob Harrison – Explode My Head •    Hypnodrone Ensemble – The Problem Is In The Sender / Do Not Tamper With The Receiver •    Lost World Band – A Moment of Peace •    Música D’Repuesto – Música Para Ciudades De 15 Minutos, Vol. 1 •    Dave Newhouse – Natura Morta •    Yoshihide Otomo & Chris Pitsiokos – Uncanny Mirror •    Tom Penaguin – Tom Penaguin •    Perfect – Monkey Jockey Man and the Safari Tick Sugar •    El Pricto, Don Malfon & Vasco Trilla – Behenii (Part 1) •    The Smile – Wall Of Eyes •    Pat Smythe Quartet – New Dawn: Live 1973 •    Tantric Bile – Cursed Conception •    François Thollot – Point Of View •    Uboa – Impossible Light •    Pierre Vervloesem – Saucers

A few more:
* Jon Anderson & The Band Geeks - True
* Greco Bastián - W.A.L.H.F. More F.
* Brian Eno, Holger Czukay & J. Peter Schwalm - Sushi. Roti. Reibekuchen.
* Tigran Hamasyan - The Bird Of A Thousand Voices
* Ingurgitating Oblivion - Ontology Of Nought
* New Mexican Stargazers - Music For Swing Set
* Pond - Stung!
* Quartet Diminished - Deerand
* Risa Takeda - Parallel World

It's likely that my album of the year will be Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore. Shame that Anathema don't exist anymore but this is as close as it gets. Better than The Optimist and Distant Satellites (both are good though) it more or less continues the run of albums that started with We're Here Because We're Here. 

Edited by richardh - October 03 2024 at 23:30

I should listen to that Aquaserge. I was thinking about reviving this topic over the weekend. Not ordered much, and not all listened to properly yet, this is much of my 2024 list so far. Not all is Prog, but I don't much care to organise into Prog, Non-Prog, Prog-related, semi-prog.... And in or out of PA is not of that much personal interest to me any longer.

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
samlrc - A Lonely Sinner
The Smile - Wall of Eyes
The Smile - Cutouts
Tapir! - The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips
Enuchs - Harbour Century
Uboa - Impossible Light
Phuyu y la Fantasma - A| Tetralogía de bichos y setas
Melt-Banana - 3+5
Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She
Mabe Fratti - Sentir que no sabes
Kimbanourke 김반월키 - Binjari
Goat - Goat
Martha Skye Murphy - Um
Cosmo Sheldrake - Eye to the Ear
English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
glass beach - plastic death
MGMT - Loss of Life
Monkey3 - Welcome to the Machine
Mount Kimbie - The Sunset Violent
The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Beak> - >>>>
Prizes Roses Rosa - TO Fire Clay
The Necks - Bleed
Drew McDowall - A Thread, Silvered and Trembling
Wand - Vertigo
God Is an Astronaut - Embers
MONO - Oath
Fire! - Testament
Herhums - To Save Us ALL


Edited by Logan - October 30 2024 at 10:01

Edited by Valdez - October 30 2024 at 14:46

The new Frost* album is awesome! That and Melodies Of Atonement are currently my 2 favourites 😊

Pleroma by Orgone is one of the best, if not the best, metal album in a year with a bunch of great metal albums (the ones by Blood Incantation, Ulcerate, Oranssi Pazuzu, Pyrrhon, Convulsing...) , but it gathered very little attention here, sadly. I recommend it to everyone who likes metal. 

Present & Sleepytime Gorilla Museum still top of the heap for me.