Twittering Machines Favorite Albums of 2024

“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