Your top tracks off 2024 album releases

Because MikeEnRegalia did a Release Poll: PA Albums of 2024 topic today (want to edit my list from AP but can't now) and Lewian did a Great albums of 2024 topic here - CLICK but both of those are in the Prog sections, I thought I might do a general albums music list here for music in an out of PA, Prog or non-Prog or anywhere in between. But then I thought, I'd rather do a tracks list topic. I hope some others will share some favourite tracks, but I ask for just one per album please (if the whole album in one track, so be it). I made a playlist earlier with over 30 tracks, but I will just focus on the first 20 in that list. List a track from as many or as few albums as you like from 2024.

While I numbered this, this is no definitive ranking per my tastes and is somewhat arbitrary. These are all off 2024 studio albums.

1. Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment (off Lives Outgrown)
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Babys in a Thundercloud (off "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead")
3. St. Vincent - All Born Screaming (off All Born Screaming)
4. The Smile - Bending Hectic (off Wall of Eyes)
5. samlrc - Storge (off A Lonely Sinner)
6. Drew McDowall - A Dream of a Cartographic Membrane Dissolves (off A Thread, Silvered and Trembling)
7. Tapir! - Mountain Song (off The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain)
8. Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves (off Something in the Room She Moves)
9. Mabe Fratti - Kravitz (off Sentir Que no Sabes)
10. Mount Kimbie - The Trail (off The Sunset Violent)
11. Geordie Greep - Blues (off The New Sound)
12. Martha Skye Murphy - Need (off Um)
13. Kimbanourke 김반월키 - Fixing My Gaze Ahead (off Binjari)
14. Beak> - Strawberry Line (off >>>>)
15. Magick Brother & Mystic Sister - The Justice (off Tarot, Part I)
16. Eunuchs - Gnome and Fortune (off Harbour Century)
17. Cosmo Sheldrake - Old Ocean (off Eye to the Ear)
18. Uboa - Impossible Light / Golden Flower (off Impossible Light)
19. And Also the Trees - This Path Through the Meadow (Mother-of-Pearl Moon)
20. English Teacher - Albatross (This Could Be Texas)

Here's a playlist with the first 20 being the same as listed above.



Love to see what some of other people's fave tracks are from 2024 album releases.

I may struggle a little with picking tracks. Some of my favourite albums of the year are very consistent in quality through out. However a few off the top of my head:

I have actually been preparing a "top tracks" feature for quite a while. It's still a bit crude, but I've made it a point to add tracklists for all 2024 releases at AP.

^underways I forgot the original task, so this is more of a favorite song from favorite albums kind of list. The songs selected would be more or less the same, but songs such as Song of the Lake, 365, Starburster and Symptom of Life would have been in the top ten-fifteen.

Edit: I messed up, didn't I... a "songcentric" list, would maybe look more like this:

1. Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out (Lives Outgrown)
2. Billie Eilish - Blue (Hit Me Hard and Soft)
3. Fontaines D.C. - Starburster (Romance)
4. Willow - Symptom of Life (Empathogen)
5. Kanaan & Ævestaden - Vallåt efter C.G. Färje (Langt, Langt Vekk)
6. The Smile. - Zero Sum (Cutouts)
7. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe (single)
8. Blood Incantation - The Stargate [Tablet I] (Absolute Elsewhere)
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Babys in a Thundercloud (off "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead")
10. Allie X - Off With Her Tits (Girl With No Face)
11. Charli XCX - 365 (BRAT)
12. The Cure - All I Ever Am (Songs of a Lost World)
13. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Le Risque (Flight b741)
14. The Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Talk About Suffering Here Below (SAVED! The Index)
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Song Of The Lake (Wild God)
16. Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self-Undoing (She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She)
17. Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley - A Pill in the Sea (nothing)
18. Geordie Greep - Motorbike (The New Sound)
19. The Smile - Wall of Eyes (Wall of Eyes)
20. Clairo - Echo (Charm)

Edited by Saperlipopette! - November 20 2024 at 09:04

Logan wrote: ^ Thanks, Richard. I created new playlist for those and others that may get mentioned to make it easier to discover/ listen to. While I did not listen to all in full, A Swarm Of The Sun's "The Pyre" and Versa's "Artemis" appealed to me the most. I especially like that heaviness in "The Pyre" which is actually very in my wheelhouse. By the way, a lot of the albums I am into are quite eclectic in nature, so while I might think that they consistently are of quality, the qualities vary and change through the albums. Often I don't have a particular favourite, but one or two that particularly resonate with me at one time. That depends on mood often. Bit of rambling as is my wont... For playlists I often consider length and creating contrasts as well as flow for the list. But my list here was not curated as well as some others I feel for a journey when taken together. While I love to listen to full albums, not only can sharing one track make it easier on others to check out, but also it can really highlight a song for me and make me love it all the more. That happened to me with my playlist here and Beak>'s Strawberry Line. I might say that hopefully when we list to our faves we can individually think, "Man, I have awesome taste in music!"

Logan wrote: I have heard it said that this year is underwhelming. Aside from considering my choices, listening to others choices here I just cannot agree. Often that just means, I have not listened to enough from the year or enough variety of styles. I really appreciate people making the time to come up with lists. So much music to get passionate about.

I know I have said that around mid-year. Part of it for me is that I think 2023 was a fantastic year for music, and I was still exploring and listening to 2023 albums. I have been finding gems in 2024 and overall the second half of the year has had stronger releases than first half.

Another part is just getting the exposure to my years. There is a lot of stuff out there. Generally, I have mostly listened to new output from known artists.These posts are helpful in that.

Even with known artists, these are good reminders. I am listening to the new Cure album and if it is their final effort, it's a great album to go out on.