Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2024 • Page 5

Did a full write-up of my top 50 with a playlist if anyone wants to do some long form reading:

Best Albums 2024

 

Non '24 albums I fell in love with/discovered this year:
W.A. Mathieu - Available Light
Lewis - L'Amour
Chuck Johnson - Balsams
Pierre Barouh - Le Pollen
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
The Beach Boys - Surfs Up
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Helios - Domicile

 

Domicile is such a transcendent work of art. A healing balm of sound if I’ve ever heard such a thing. It’s like if sunlight itself were music. I’ve commented on Keith’s posts asking about a vinyl pressing but he stated there was no plan to, that it was never meant to go beyond digital. It seems like he is almost dismissive of the album, maybe because it’s less dynamic than his others but I honestly think it’s one of his best.

 

1. WILLOW - empathogen
2. glaive - a bit of a mad one
3. Charli xcx - BRAT
4. Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy
5. Hana Vu - Romanticism
6. Stolen Jars - I Won't Let Me Down
7. Abby Holliday - CRACK A SMILE COME ON STAY A WHILE
8. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
9. John Van Deusen - Anthem Sprinter
10. Bottom Bracket - I'm So Afraid Of Where

Honorable mentions: Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found; Flower Face - Girl Prometheus; Ugly (UK) - Twice Around the Sun; Chrissy Costanza - VII

 

1. knocked loose - you won't go before you're supposed to
2. chat pile - cool world
3. midwife - no depression in heaven
4. balance and composure - with you in spirit
5. waxahatchee - tigers blood
6. middle kids - faith crisis pt. 1
7. carly cosgrove - the cleanest of houses are empty
8. bring me the horizon - post human: nex gen
9. magdalenda bay - imaginal disk
10. idles - tangk

 

HYLI - Patrick's Best of 2024 (The Normal One)

my AOTY list

 

A song each of my top 20 albums:

25 random songs I listened to a lot that weren’t on those albums:

 

Here's my top 20 albums of 2024

1. Blood Incantation - Absolute Anywhere
2. Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
3. Linkin Park - From Zero
4. The Cure - Songs From A Lost World
5. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
6. Poppy - Negative Spaces
7. Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To
8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft
9. Charli XCX - Brat
10. Jerry Cantrell - I Want Blood
11. 311 - Full Bloom
12. Katie Gavin - What A Relief
13. Heriot - Devoured By The Mouth
14. Myles Kennedy - The Art Of Letting Go
15. Opeth - The Last Will And Testament
16. Julie Christmas - Ridiculous And Full Of Blood
17. Nails - Every Bridge Burning
18. Wintersun - Time 2
19. Fontaines D.C. - Romance
20. Kneecap - Fine Art

 

Really haven’t engaged with new albums in the same way I did even 3 years ago - done a lot more playlist listening and 10/20 year anniversary revisits than just listening to the 200+ new albums I used to. With that said, I don’t feel strongly about ordering the albums but here’s a top 25 that I’ve positively interacted with in some way

- Allie X - Girl With No Face (electropop)
- AURORA - What Happened To The Heart? (electropop)
- Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS
- Caligulia’s Horse - Charcoal Grace (progressive metal w/ clean vocals)
- Charli XCX - brat
- Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
- Dune Moss - faedom (exactly what you’d expect an album called faedom to sound like)
- Fontaines DC - Romance (specifically Starburster, but the whole thing is p good)
- girl in red - I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY
- Hailaker - Serenity Now (RIYL - Novo Amor)
- julie - my anti-aircraft friend (well produced shoegaze)
- Local Natives - But I Will Wait For You
- Maggie Rogers - Don’t Forget Me
- mehro - Trauma Lullabies (dark alt pop)
- Melt - If There’s A Heaven (pop soul, RIYL - Lake Street Dive)
- Middle Kids - Faith Crisis, Pt 1
- NewDad - MADRA (indie rock)
- Novo Amor - Collapse List (RIYL - Bon Iver)
- Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found
- Paris Paloma - Cacophany (RIYL - Maggie Rogers, that one TikTok song of hers)
- Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
- That Woman - Find Joy (side project of Josephine from Oh Wonder)
- Thomas Powers - A Tyrant Crying In Private (side project of The Naked and Famous guy)
- tiny habits - All For Something (indie folk w/ 3 part harmonies)
- Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

a couple others from favorites that had a few song of the year contenders for me but I thought otherwise stunk: Foxing, Glass Animals, Hippo Campus

 

There is no real order to my list, but I know I intentionally returned to RM and J-Hope over and over throughout the year

RM - Right Place, Wrong Person
J-Hope - Hope On The Street Vol. 1 EP
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
Tomorrow X Together - Minisode 3: Tomorrow
Tomorrow X Together - The Star Chapter: Sanctuary EP
Jimin - Muse
Le Sserafim - Easy EP
Le Sserafim - Crazy EP
Green Day - Saviors
Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties - In Lieu Of Flowers
Woosung - 4444
Anthony Green - Doom. Spun.
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft
The Early November - The Early November
Parannoul - Sky Hundred
Jin - Happy EP
Twenty One Pilots - Clancy

 

1. Gouge Away - Deep Sage
2. Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk
3. Charli XCX - Brat
4. Remi Wolf - Big Ideas
5. Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed
6. julie - my anti-aircraft friend
7. Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
8. Clairo - Charm
9. Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine
10. Pom Pom Squad - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me
11. Macseal - Permanent Repeat
12. Pom Poko - Champion
13. Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something
14. Meaningful Stone - Angel Interview
15. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
16. Rachel Chinouriri - What a Devastating Turn of Events
17. Amyl and the Sniffers - Cartoon Darkness
18. Crumb - AMAMA
19. Faye Webster - Underdressed at the Symphony
20. Smino - Maybe in Nirvana
21. Griff - Vertigo
22. Elucid - Revelator
23. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
24. Halsey - The Great Impersonator
25. Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism
26. All Under Heaven - What Lies Ahead of Me
27. State Faults - Children of the Moon
28. Megan Thee Stallion - Megan
29. Short Frenzy - A Driving Tour of Southern California's Backroads
30. Hey, Ily - Hey, I Loathe You
31. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
32. Tyler the Creator - Chromakopia
33. Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
34. Flo Milli - Fine Ho, Stay
35. Mavi - Shadowbox
36. Eliza McLamb - Going Through It
37. Smush - if you were here i'd be home now
38. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - Reveries
39. Sour Widows - Revival of a Friend
40. Soccer Mommy - Evergreen
41. Luna Li - When a Thought Grows Wings
42. Bnny - One Million Love Songs
43. Vince Staples - Dark Times
44. Hey Cowboy! - Off the Cob
45. Rosie Tucker - Utopia Now!
46. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well
47. Being Dead - EELS
48. Joyer - Night Songs
49. Another Michael - Pick Me Up and Turn Me Inside Out
50. New Dad - Madra

Armlock was my favorite EP

 

FAVORITE ALBUMS

1. Charli XCX - Brat
2. The Cure - Songs Of A Lost World
3. Cold Cave - Passion Depression
4. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
5. The Story So Far - I Want To Disappear
6. Woundflower - Misery
7. SiR - Heavy
8. Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
9. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
10. Starflyer 59 - Lust For Gold
11. House Of Protection - GALORE
12. Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God
13. Touche Amoré - Spiral In A Straight Line
14. That Mexican OT - Texas Technician
15. Gouge Away - Deep Sage
16. Envy - Eunoia
17. Pedro The Lion - Santa Cruz
18. Wishy - Triple Seven
19. Schoolboy Q - THank god 4 me
20. The Smile - Wall Of Eyes

FAVORITE BOOKS:

1. As I Lay Dying - Williams Faulkner
2. Sellout - Dan Ozzi
3. Someone Who Isn’t Me - Geoff Rickley
4. Swans: Sacrifice $ Transcendence - Nick Soulsby
5. Love Poems - Anne Sexton

FAVORITE SHOWS:

1. He Is Legend @ Furnace Fest
2. Swans @ Third Man
3. SiR @ Marathon Music Works
4. Slowdive/Drab Majesty @ Rabbit Rabbit
5. Wednesday/Hotline TNT @ Eastside Bowl

 

Really liking the Squint album. Glad I checked your list out.

 

thank you!

 

wild pink mentioned

 

retroactively adding jessica pratt and mk.gee to my list

 

Mk.gee should be on every list

 

Yes and Jessica Pratt

 

Favorite albums in no particular order:

• Human Trophy - Primary Instinct
• Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
• Excess Blood - ST
• Sanctuary of Praise - Solace
• Public Acid - Deadly Struggle
• DBR - ST
• Human Needs - Concrete//Generic
• 1186 - Histeria
• Nag - Fear
• Σκοτοδίνη - Εδώ Παραμένω
• Obnoxious Youth - Burning Savage
• The Dark - Sinking Into Madness
• Mulch - Nuance Maximum
• Fuera De Sektor - Juegos Prohibidos
• Yankee Bastard - Fucking USA
• DJ Anderson Do Paraiso - Paraiso Sombrio / Queridão
• The Living Rainbow - The Dusty Clock
• New Skeletal Faces - Until the Night
• Dream World - Demo
• Giulio Erasmus - Second Attempt
• Abhorration - Demonolatry
• Bad Breeding - Contempt
• Wet Specimens - Dying in a Dream
• Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation
• Invertebrates - Sick to Survive
• Life / Destruct - To Stop the Conflict
• The Losers - Land of Opportunity
• Ike Yard - 1982
• Reek Minds - Malignant Existence
• Cryptal Echoes - ST
• Sanctuarium - Melted and Decomposed
• Black Button - Internal Life
• Lexan - Demo II
• Mayhemic - Toba
• Deadform - Entrenched in Hell
• Cicada - Wicked Dream
• Masaka Masaka - Barely Making Much
• Total Vacation - TV
• Church Andrews & Matt Davies - Yucca
• Fórnea - Obscura Primal
• Terminal Filth - Traces Towards Oblivion
• Trollcave - Rotted Remnants Dripping Into the Void
• Concrete Winds - ST
• Mirage - Legato Alla Rovina
• Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance
• Savage Pleasure - ST
• Coins Parallèles - Alter Ego Club
• The Troops - Your Funeral
• eX-Tradition - The Holy Pervert
• Crawl Space - My God… What've I Done?
• Poison Ruin - Confrere
• Moisturizer - Dumb and Burnt Out Already?
• Nuevo Cuerpo - ST
• Z-Pak - 15 Minutes with Z-Pak
• Primitive Warfare - Extinction Protocol
• Catastrophe - Dead on Arrival
• Sedimentum - Derrière les Portes d'une Arcane Transcendante
• Fried Reality - Dissolved Mind

Favorite songs in no particular order:

https://youtu.be/8FFtYf-4_HM?si=UpMJlJWhqGAvJh_8
https://youtu.be/i5XP88rkqhU?si=T29u9W9GpaLvqtGq

 

One of these years, man. One of these years I will know even just one album on your list. How you manage to do this every year is beyond me but I’m excited to hear what you’ve been listening to

 

Only one I know is the DJ Anderson Do Paraiso and that one is great. Looking forward to checking the others!

 

In all fairness, I haven't heard the overwhelming majority of the albums on the other lists in this thread either lol. I'm going to take a few days to listen to some of the recurring names I'm seeing too.

 

You should start with this band called “The Cure”

 

Would probably be on my list if I'd spent more time with it, just haven't done so yet. Love them and lots of stuff on my list is pretty heavily influenced by them.

 

Adding new discoveries Jessica Pratt and Magdalena Bay to my list wow