Your top tracks off 2024 album releases
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Topic: Your top tracks off 2024 album releases
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Your top tracks off 2024 album releases
Date Posted: November 18 2024 at 18:54
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Because MikeEnRegalia did a https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=133899" rel="nofollow - 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 https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=132978" rel="nofollow - 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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 19 2024 at 11:48
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Sorry for double-posting. My list had a largely quite homogeneous vibe to it (atmospheric music is my forte, so post-rockish music, ones with ambient or noise qualities...), and will be interested to hear how varied or not the selected tracks are from others. I went with ones that I felt represented me at this stage in my life somehow quite well. If some is mentioning tracks (no more than one per album please), it helps to add link yo youtube or bandcamp, or Spotify.... Lots of embedded videos cause problems for people, which is reason I got into making playlists on youtube (started doing that after George started making them for Interactive Poll series topics). Hope some others will share their faves from this year, be it one, two, five, ten or 40. Most of my favourite albums from the year are from artists not in PA, some might be added later. From my list of 20 above, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Smile, Geordie Greep, Beak>, Magick Brother & Mystic Sister and Uboa are in PA. I thought that I'd find Eunuchs in. Doubt most at PA would find much utility in this exercise. But tracks have advantages as tasters for me and for honing in on specific tastes. I came to PA in my early 30s hoping to have some of that sharing music with other magic that I had with friends as a teen. Still looking for that in my later years, but I am terrible at commenting on music (I like to experience it and I generally prefer not to comment on what is not at all to my taste as I prefer attempting positivity). ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 19 2024 at 22:00
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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: Frost* - Moral and Consequence (Life In The Wires is a long way from their best album but this is a keeper) Infringement - White Lies ( a 2 track album but the second is my favourite) Versa - Artemis (by far the longest track on A Voyage a Destination Part 2 but this band deserve attention) A Swarm Of The Sun - The Pyre (so sad that this band are roundly ignored but their latest An Empire is great, I need to review it at some point) Weather Systems - Synaesthesia (track one from my favourite album of the year so far) Big Big Train - Beneath The Masts (always deliver the goods!) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 00:29
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^ 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!"  ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Starshiper
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 02:58
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Five tracks, not in any particular order. Steve Hackett – Enter the Ring, from "The Circus and the Nightwhale" Rosalie Cunningham – Heavy Pencil, from "To Shoot Another Day" Oddleaf – Ethereal Melodies, from "Where Ideal and Denial Collide" Celeste – Sottili Armonie, from "Echi di un Futuro Passato" Jupiter Fungus – Underdog, from "Garden Electric" |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 04:29
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I am curious about the responses. I put together a playlist of 20 tracks. About half the artists are on PA or should be and the rest could fit under some form of art rock. I didn't include any artists in Greg's top 20. It does include a couple tracks mentioned above, Synaesthesia by Weather Systems and Underdog by Jupiter Fungus. The first track on my playlist is by This Is the Glasshouse and there is something striking about the entire album. I stumbled on it just a couple of days ago on Bandcamp and it was released on Nov. 10. It may not classify as prog, but definitely art rock/chamber pop with elements of post-hardcore and post-rock. Reminds me a bit of the Eunuchs. This might be in Greg's wheelhouse. https://thisistheglasshouse.bandcamp.com/album/867" rel="nofollow - https://thisistheglasshouse.bandcamp.com/album/867 No particular order in my selections though I tried to sequence in my head for flow. ] I will list out the artist and track titles when I have the time. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 05:03
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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. By all means use this thread to present your manually compiled track lists, but those of you who are prepared to rate your favorite tracks at AP, please do so. The results can currently be viewed here:
https://awesomeprog.com/charts/tracks" rel="nofollow - https://awesomeprog.com/charts/tracks (no need to rate all tracks, just rate your favorites) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 07:49
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So it seems I've gone commercial - and not... The listing isn't written in stone. I listen to a lot of new music, but not really new "prog rock". 1. Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out (Lives Outgrown) 2. Billie Eilish - Blue (Hit Me Hard and Soft) 3. Blood Incantation - The Stargate [Tablet I] (Absolute Elsewhere) 4. Kanaan & Ævestaden - Vallåt efter C.G. Färje (Langt, Langt Vekk) 5. The Necks - Bleed (Bleed) 6. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Babys in a Thundercloud (off "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead") 7. Oren Ambarchi | Johan Berthling | Andreas Werliin - fyra (Ghosted II) 8. Colin Stetson - The Six (The Love It Took to Leave You) 9. The Cure - All I Ever Am (Songs of a Lost World) 10. Molly Lewis - Silhouette (On the Lips) 11. The Smile - Wall of Eyes (Wall of Eyes) 12. Shabaka - I‚ll Do Whatever You Want (Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace) 13. Louis Cole, Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley - A Pill in the Sea ( nothing) 14. Elephant9 - Star Cluster Detective (Mythical River) 15. Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self-Undoing (She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She) 16. Dina Ögon - Firad (Orion) 17. Clairo - Echo (Charm) 18. Antonina Nowacka - I Found You in the Cloud (Sylphine Soporifera) 19. Geordie Greep - Motorbike (The New Sound) 20. Allie X - Off With Her Tits (Girl With No Face) Deserves a mention/bubbling under: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Song Of The Lake (Wild God) Charli XCX - 365 (BRAT) The Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Talk About Suffering Here Below (SAVED! The Index) Sault - Acts of Faith (Acts of Faith) Fontaines D.C. - Starburster (Romance) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Le Rique (Flight b741) Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements - The Poppies, the Wild Mustard, the Blue-Eyed Grass… (Rain on the Road) Willow - Symptom of Life (Empathogen) AURORA - Starvation (What Happened to the Heart?) The Last Dinner Party - Caesar on a TV Screen (Prelude to Ecstasy) |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 08:13
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^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) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 11:07
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^^^^ Thanks, George. Look forward to checking out your various choices properly later. Loving the This Is the Glasshouse. ^^^ We talked at some length about the feature at your site, good idea. Hope to see your list her anon Mike if you are into making such lists yourself. ^ and ^^^ I was making playlist of your choices, Saperlipopette!, but messed up as I guess I should have done the second list (take awhile to put together and will do the other one anon). There's quite bit that's new to me there that I adore, but then my tastes seem to intersect with yours so very much and some of your choices from acts in my playlistabove (which has 35 tracks of which i listed the first 20) I am preferring to my own (not Beth Gibbons, although yours is awesome too) but your choice of Chelsea Wolfe in particular and your Gordie Greep choices is really doing it for me. After scanning though the choices, there's almost too much to mention loving from it. From your first list. anyway, i would want to check out all you mentioned. been really into Nick Cave over the last few years, by the way, such a great artist. 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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 20 2024 at 23:48
Thanks and I guess I'm not too shocked that you gravitate towards the post -rock influenced tracks on my list  |
Logan wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 21 2024 at 06:41
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^ I've been interested in post-rock since I was introduced to a Sigur Ros track in the first half of the 2000s and I quickly found that there was a lot of post-rock that I did enjoy, but it didn't really became a very major part of my date until the past five years or so. Or maybe I just started to notice it more in much of the music I love. Labels such as Post-Rock, Neo-Psych, Indie Folk/Pop/Rock, Folktronica, Art Pop and Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Pysch Folk and Chamber Folk, and Noise are common to lot of the contemporary music I have got into. I d love a building crescendo and walls of noise that is common to plenty of post-rock, but I also like the gentle and subtle. anyway, "The Pyre" is great track, imo. Thanks for sharing those. I actually had heard that Frost* already. As for George's (Mathman) list, I'v eben persuing it on and off, and there is lots I love there. I commented on This Is the Glasshouse already, but Rubber Oh and Pond were couple of other ones that I loved. I had shamefully forgotten about the album Stung! And Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is fantastic. already loved the band; need the album. So good!  These lists would remind that there is so much great music that I missed if I needed reminding.Thanks for the lists, truly your efforts are very much appreciated, and please keep them coming! Sharing is caring. This is why I can't help but love this forum even if I fall out of love now and then. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: November 22 2024 at 06:53
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. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 22 2024 at 10:30
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^ I still have not heard the full The Cure album, but I love what I have heard so far. It's right up there with their best. Great to see ones go out on a high (and better than so many who "go out" while high). My eldest (now 21) saw The Cure in concert some time back (had to travel to Seattle as I recall for it) and loved it. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |