Mid-Year 2024 User Lists (Best Of 2024 So Far)

Let’s do this…?!

My list:

01. Fabiana Palladino - Fabiana Palladino
02. Manillio - Daheim Daheim
03. Jyocho - Guide And Devote EP
04. Green Day - Saviors
05. Luke Combs - Fathers & Sons
06. Adje - Authentic
07. Ele A - Acqua
08. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
09. Rapsody - Please Don’t Cry
10. Benny The Butcher - Everybody Can’t Go

Discovery: Momma - Household Name (2022)

 

Subbing. This year started strong for me and then fell off a bit.

 

I need to listen to a lot more the rest of this year. Here's my favorites so far.

Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
February - February
Knocked Loose- You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
One Step Closer - All You Embrace

 

I always feel like I'm missing so much great stuff and yet I have listened to plenty

Cold Years - A Different Life
Future & Metro Boomin - WE DON'T TRUST YOU/WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU
DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water
Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers
Super American - Gangster of Love
Justice - Hyperdrama
Green Day - Saviors
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Yeat - 2093
Mach-Hommy - #RICHXXXHAITAN
The Early November - The Early November
Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher, John Squire
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Day In Time

 

My faves so far.

Full list and the contributor combined list: The Best Albums of 2024 (So Far)

 

No order:

Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
Middle Kids - Faith Crisis Pt. 1
Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Madi Diaz - Weird Faith
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Kind of a slow year for me so far.

 

865?!? Haha, amazing.

 

New Fastball is pretty good! I was pleasantly surprised.

 

It does count something like a "single" as an album. Or like 3 plays of a song on an album gets counted. So, it's more "865 unique albums have had at least one song played from it so far."

 

1. Hurray for the Riff Raff- The Past is Still Alive
2. Yard Act- Where's My Utopia?
3. Restorations- Restorations
4. Phosphorescent- Revelator
5. Ride- Interplay
6. Sierra Ferrell- Trail of Flowers
7. The Forecast- Good Journey
8. Pokey Lafarge- Rhumba Country
9. John Moreland- Visitor
10. Waxahatchee- Tigers Blood

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Brittany Howard- What Now
Alkaline Trio- Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs
Old 97's- American Primitive
The Vaccines- Pick-Up Full of Carnations
The Decemberists- As it Ever Was, So it Will Be Again
Orville Peck- Stampede: Volume I
Camera Obscura- Look to the East, Look to the West
The Early November- The Early November

 

Here's my most listened to of the past 6 months.

Hovvdy is definitely my favorite of the year by a pretty large margin.
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Waxahatchee
Goalie's Anxiety,
John Moreland
Wyatt C. Louis
all pretty high as well.

 

1. Kacey Musgraves - The Deeper Well
2. Het Zesde Metaal - Het Langste Jaar
3. Froukje - Noodzakelijk Verdriet
4. The Dangerous Summer - Gravity
5. Green Day - Saviors
6. One Step Closer - All You Embrace
7. Cold Years - A Different Life
8. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair and Eyeballs
9. Sum 41 - Heaven x Hell
10. Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive

 

I'm at a total of 97 albums/EPs for 2024 releases. I only have a few big highlights so far this year with a lot of stuff that I find to be good but not great. My backlog queue for the year is still pretty hefty. Also have lots to look forward to in the 2nd half of this year between B&C, Webbed Wing, Trauma Ray, Oso Oso, Greet Death, Muted Color, Modern Color, and a bunch more that I'm hoping gets announced. Expecting a very different list December:

Albums:

• From Indian Lakes - Head Void
• DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water
• Another Michael - Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down
• Hovvdy - Hovvdy
• Mister Goblin - Frog Poems
• Flesh Tape - Flesh Tape
• The Fever Haze - Moonbow
• PUSH - Where You Are
• Candy - It's Inside You
• Liquid Mike - Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
• Autumn Rhythm - Nothing Gold
• MILLY - Your Own Becoming
• All Under Heaven - What Lies Ahead of Me
• Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty
• One Step Closer - All You Embrace
  
• Ride - Interplay
• Gouge Away - Deep Sage
• HEAVYHEX - True to You
• Spaced - This Is All We Ever Get

EPs/Demos:

• Big Blue World - Worth A Try EP
• Hard Chiller - Hard Chiller EP
• Clever Hour - Demo '24
• Demo Division - Sunken Skin EP
• Garage Sale - Stars Fall 2
• Big Hug - A Living You'll Never Know EP
• Dime - Dime EP

 

Haven’t loved a lot this year and still have a lot to listen to but DIIV and Cloud Nothings are my top two so far. Really enjoy the new Decemberists too.

 

i've been spending this year filling in gaps and checking out older stuff i've previously missed, so my list of 2024 albums is small so far.

1. waxahatchee - tigers blood
2. hurray for the riff raff - the past is still alive
3. knocked loose - you won't go before you're supposed to

 

The Early November - The Early November
Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
Twenty One Pilots - Clancy
Lupe Fiasco - Samurai
Green Day - Saviors
Sum 41 - Heaven :X: Hell
Hey, Nothing - Maine EP
Cheekface - It’s Sorted
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books - Short Stories EP

 

Been enjoying this year. Finding it a bit hard to keep up honestly. Mannequin Pussy is my runaway favorite though.

1. Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven
2. Billie Eilish: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
3. Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well
4. Laura Jane Grace: Hole In My Head
5. Bleachers: Bleachers
6. Kali Uchis: ORQUÍDEAS
7. Ariana Grande: eternal sunshine
8. Microwave: Let's Start Degeneracy
9. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties: In Lieu of Flowers
10. Charli XCX: Brat
11. Bad Bad Hats: Bad Bad Hats
12. Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department
13. Dua Lipa: Radical Optimism
14. Beyonce: act ii COWBOY CARTER
15. Brittany Howard: What Now

 

Everything so far minus EPs

 

1. Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
2. Charli xcx – BRAT
3. Helado Negro – PHASOR
4. Cloud Nothings – Final Summer
5. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs

 

1. Waxahatchee
2. Hovvdy
3. Friko
4. Jessica Pratt
5. Charli

honorable mention for Wooll - Unwind. new Providence, RI band I think a lot here would dig, 90s by way of more modern guitar parts:

 

1. Crush++ - Power Pleasure
2. Shedfromthebody - Amare
3. Say Anything - …Is Committed
4. A Sudden Burst of Colour - Galvanize
5. Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex of the Worlds
6. Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 2
7. Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
8. Lindsey Stirling - Duality
9. Hand of Kalliach - Corryvreckan
10. Makari - Wave Machine
11. Infinity Shred - Sanctuary 2023
12. Nordic Giants - Origins
13. Olhava - Sacrifice
14. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
15. A Burial at Sea - Close to Home

 

Great list so far, and even better avatar!

 

There isn’t really any order to this but I’d say the top 4 are all in contention for album of the year. Don’t really feel the need to settle on just one yet anyway. But these 15 albums are the ones I’ve been spinning beyond just the initial release week. There are many more I’ve heard and liked but simply haven’t returned to enough.


thou - umbilical

knocked loose - you won’t go before you’re supposed to

diiv - frog in boiling water

one step closer - all you embrace

vampire weekend - only god was above us

job for a cowboy - moon healer

hovvdy - hovvdy

chief keef - almighty so 2

from indian lakes - head void

seeyouspacecowboy - coup de grace

gatecreeper - dark superstition

charli xcx - brat

the story so far - i want to disappear

umbra vitae - light of death

how to dress well - i am toward you

 

1 Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore (impossibly beautiful music that's somehow even more gorgeous than its cover art)
2 Charli XCX - Brat (^ditto)
3 Ben Frost - Scope Neglect
4 The Smile - Wall of Eyes
5 Normani - Dopamine
6 Peggy Gou - I Hear You
7 Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
8 Jlin - Akoma
9 Kaytranada - Timeless
10 ScHoolboy Q - Blue Lips