
“You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
The thing about lists of favorite records is they are reductive which runs counter to my enjoyment and experience of them. The more the merrier, I say. That aside but still in mind, here are 24 of my favorite records from 2024, a small sampling of all of the music I loved throughout the year, all guaranteed to make your stereocilia dance (with glee).
Adrianne Lenker: Bright Future
Astrid Sonne: Great Doubt
Beings: There Is A Garden
Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker : WEBO
Cindy Lee: Diamond Jubilee
claire rousay: sentiment
Fontaines D.C.: Romance
Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Past is Still Alive
J Spaceman & John Coxon: Music for William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton
Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch
Kali Malone: All Life Long
Keeley Forsyth: The Hollow
Kim Gordon: The Collective
KRM:KRMU: Disconnect
Laura Cannell: The Rituals of Hildegard Reimagined
Mabe Fratti: Sentir que no sabes
Magic Tuber Stringband: Needlefall
Mannequin Pussy: I Got Heaven
Maurizio & Daniele Pollini: Schubert
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God
Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me
Still House Plants: If I don’t make it, I love u
the body: The Crying Out of Things
Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood
Bonus: Favorite Song of 2024
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and S.G. Goodman: “Nature’s Child” from Cardinals at the Window