Mid-Year 2024 User Lists (Best Of 2024 So Far) • Page 3

My favourites from the first half of the year - Glass Beach probably still overall AOTY, at least for another three weeks or so...

95corolla - Long Time Listener/First Time Caller
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers
Barely Civil - I'd Say I'm Not Fine
A Burial at Sea - Close to Home
Charli XCX - BRAT
Cheekface - It's Sorted
CHERYM - Take It or Leave It
Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS
Everything Everything - Mountainhead
Footballhead - Overthinking Everything
Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
Glass Beach - plastic death
IDLES - TANGK
of Montreal - Lady on the Cusp
One Step Closer - All You Embrace
Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow
Slash Ficton - We'll Hold This Line Until Hell Freezes Over
sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I Have No Names For It
Sprints - Letter to Self
A Sudden Burst of Colour - Galvanize

 

No order.

The Lostines - Meet the Lostines
Shawn Hess - Wild Onion
Phosphorescent - Revelator
Lost Dog Street Band - Survived
Charley Crocket - 10$ Cowboy
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
Scott Ballew - Rio Bravo
Pat Reedy - Make it Back Home
Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive
Pernice Brothers - When Will You Believe
John Moreland - Visitor
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Charlie Parr - Little Sun
Rosali - Bite Down
Hunter Hicks - Maple Syrup Jar
Minor Moon - Light Up Waltz
Sierra Ferrel - Trail of Flowers
Kaitlin Butts - Roadrunner
Felice Brothers - Vallet of Abandoned Songs
Mr Sam and the People People - Again Again
Little Wings - High on the Glade
Desiree Cannon - Radio Heat

 

1. MGMT - Loss of Life
2. Charli XCX - BRAT
3. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
4. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
5. Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
6. Brittany Howard - What Now
7. IDLES - TANGK
8. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
9. St Vincent - All Born Screaming
10. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
11. The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstacy
12. Allie X - Girl With No Face
13. Gesaffelstein - Gamma
14. Vince Staples - Dark Times
15. Justice - Hyperdrama
16. Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
17. Bleachers - Bleachers
18. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
19. Tyla - Tyla
20. ILLIT - SUPER REAL ME

something like that

 

Top 10 So Far (no order except Boundaries is my #1)

1. Boundaries - Death is Little More
2. Katie Pruitt - Mantras
3. Lizzy McAlpine - Older
4. Madi Diaz - Weird Faith
5. Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
6. Sasha Alex Sloan - Me Again
7. Medium Build - Country
8. Stephanie Lambring - Hypocrite
9. Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu of Flowers
10. Bess Atwell - Light Sleeper

 

the only ones that have really stayed with me so far:
1. Charli XCX - brat
2. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Coup de Grace
3. The Early November - s/t
4. Bayside - There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive
5. Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest of Houses Are Empty

Porter Robinson will probably be on here soon too

 

Some really good stuff to my ears so far but the Southtowne lanes album is by far and away my favourite.

Southtowne lanes - take care
Shapes in the water - reinvent the sun
Be safe - unwell
The requiem - a cure to poison the world
Casey - how to disappear
Glass beach - plastic death
Barely civil - I’d say I’m not fine
Carly cosgrove - the cleanest of houses are empty
Riley! - keep your cool
Mentah - empty
The goalies anxiety at the penalty kick - the lliad and the odyssey….
Stay inside - ferried away
Laika songs - slowly spiralling towards the light
Annabel - worldviews
Seeyouspacecowboy - coup de grace


EPs
Sweet pill - starchild
Slow joy - mi amigo slow joy
A place for owls - part 2
Elliott green - kintsugi
Winter boyfriend - dandelion

Also got to mention that Thursday released my favourite song “application for release from the dream” - its everything I could have wanted from a 2024 Thursday song and more.

 

My top 20 of the year so far

1. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
2. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous and Full of Blood
3. Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
4. Mick Mars - The Other Side Of Mars
5. Thou - Umbilical
6. Umbra Vitae - Light Of Death
7. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards
8. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
9. Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me
10. Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Self Titled
11. Kittie - Fire
12. Ihsahn - Self Titled
13. Green Day - Saviors
14. Deicide - Banished By Sin
15. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
16. Bon Jovi - Forever
17. Scott Stapp - Higher Power
18. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft
19. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
20. Creeper - Sanguivore (Speical Edition)

 

Didn't rank but here is everything I've enjoyed thus far (including a few being released tomorrow):

BAT FOR LASHES - The Dream Of Delphi
BETH GIBBONS - Lives Outgrown
BILLIE EILISH - Hit Me Harder
THE BLACK KEYS - Ohio Players
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN - Keep Me On Your Mind / Set You Free
BRITTANY HOWARD - What Now
CAGE THE ELEPHANT - Neon Pill
CASSANDRA JENKINS - My Light, My Destroyer
CHARLI XCX - Brat
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX - X’s
CLOUD NOTHINGS - Final Summer
THE DECEMBERISTS - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
DUA LIPA - Radical Optimism
EMPRESS OF - For Your Consideration
FABIANA PALLADINO - Fabiana Palladino
FLETCHER - In Search Of
GIRL IN RED - I’m Doing It Again, Baby
GOSSIP - Real Power
GREEN DAY - Saviors
HOVVDY - Hovvdy
JOYWAVE - Permanent Pleasure
KASEY MUSGRAVES - Deeper Well
KASABIAN - Happenings
THE LAST DINNER PARTY - Prelude To Ecstasy
LIAM GALLAGHER & JOHN SQUIRE - Liam Gallagher & John Squire
MAGGIE ROGERS - Don’t Forget Me
THE MARIAS - Submarine
NOVO AMOR - Collapse List
PEARL JAM - Dark Matter
REAL ESTATE - Daniel
REMI WOLF - Big Ideas
SHAED - Spinning Out
THE SMILE - Wall Of Eyes
THE STAVES - All Now
STILL CORNERS - Dream Talk
SUM 41 - Heaven X Hell
TRAVIS - L.A. Times
TWENTY ONE PILOTS - Clancy
THE VACCINES - Pick-Up Full Of Carnations
VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Only God Was ABove Us
WAXAHATCHEE - Tigers Blood
WILLOW - Emphathogen
WINNEKTA BOWLING LEAGUE - Sha La La

 

Candy - It’s Inside You
Burning Lord - Arcane Demolition
Charli XCX - Brat
Skee Mask - Resort
Glitterer - Rationale
Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch
Vegyn - The Road To Hell
Public Acid - Daily Struggle
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

Mostly catching up on older classics but not a ton that I’ve been moved by this year

 

Glad to see someone else showing that Glitterer record some love! I've revisted it a ton

 

GRIFF - Vertigo. And it dropped this morning.

 

Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu Of Flowers
Anna Tivel - Living Thing
Bleachers - Bleachers
Carly Cosgrove - The Cleanest Of Houses Are Empty
Fletcher - In Search Of The Antidote
From Indian Lakes - Head Void
Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Joywave - Permanent Pleasure
Lucy Rose - This Ain't The Way You Go Out
Madi Diaz - Weird Faith
Maggie Rogers - Don't Forget Me
Medium Build - Country
Novo Amor - Collapse List
St. Vincent - All Born Screaming
Twenty One Pilots - Clancy